Calypso Lead Business Analyst PermContract Sydney

Description:

• We are seeking an experienced Calypso Lead Business Analyst to support critical trading and post-trade platforms within a financial markets technology environment.
  
• This role involves hands-on business analysis across Calypso modules covering the end-to-end trade lifecycle including Front Office trading Middle Office risk valuation and collateral and Back Office clearing settlement and confirmations.
  
• The role supports asset classes such as Rates FX Derivatives Repos and Fixed Income products with a strong emphasis on post-trade processing regulatory compliance and operational stability.
  
• The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders architects developers and vendors to analyse and document functional requirements validate system behaviour and deliver resilient scalable solutions aligned with regulatory and market infrastructure requirements.
  
• The role operates within Agile delivery frameworks and contributes to continuous improvement across development enhancement and BAU support initiatives.
  

Key Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities Calypso Lead Business Analyst

• Act as a hands-on Business Analyst across Calypso Front Office Middle Office and Back Office modules supporting the end-to-end trade lifecycle
  
• Elicit analyse and document business functional and non-functional requirements for trading and post-trade processes
  
• Work closely with business users to understand trade capture risk valuation collateral management clearing settlement and confirmations workflows
  
• Translate business requirements into Calypso functional specifications configuration requirements and system behaviour
  
• Support asset classes including Rates FX Fixed Income Derivatives and Repos ensuring correct lifecycle processing and controls
  
• Analyse and support post-trade and regulatory processes including confirmations settlements margining reconciliations and reporting
  
• Partner with architects and developers to ensure solutions align with Calypso architecture standard product capabilities and best practices
  
• Support calypso configuration and customization including workflows trade attributes pricing components and reference data
  
• Perform impact analysis for change requests regulatory updates and product upgrades
  
• Support testing activities including functional testing UAT support test scenarios validation if needed and defect triage
  
• Ensure solutions meet regulatory risk operational resilience and audit requirements
  
• Contribute to Agile delivery ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives
  

Tools Platforms & Skills Required

Primary Platform

• Calypso Trading & Risk Management Platform
  

• Front Office (Trade Capture Pricing)
  
• Middle Office (Risk Valuation Collateral Management)
  
• Back Office (Confirmations Settlement Accounting integration)
  
• Exposure to Calypso Automated Testing Tool (CATT) for understanding automated functional test scenarios validating business workflows and supporting UAT/test execution activities.
  

Capital Markets & Domain Knowledge

• Trade lifecycle knowledge across execution confirmation settlement
  
• Asset classes: Rates FX Fixed Income Derivatives Repos
  
• Post-trade processes: clearing margining settlements reconciliations
  
• Regulatory awareness (e.g. trade reporting risk controls operational resilience)
  

Business Analysis & Documentation Tools

• Requirements documentation tools (e.g. Confluence SharePoint)
  
• Agile tracking tools (e.g. JIRA Azure DevOps)
  
• Process modelling (e.g. Visio workflow diagrams)
  

Testing & Support

• Test cases validation and UAT support
  

Technical & Integration Awareness

• Understanding of system integrations interfaces and message flows
  
• Familiarity with market data feeds reference data and downstream systems
  
• Basic understanding of SQL for data analysis and validation (optional but preferred)
  

Ways of Working

• Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments
  
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  
• Ability to operate effectively in complex regulated financial services environments