Lead Business Analyst in Sydney

Roles & Responsibilities:

• 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 customisation, 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: 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.
• Trade lifecycle knowledge across execution, confirmation, and settlement.
• Post-trade processes: clearing, margining, settlements, reconciliations.
• Regulatory awareness (e.g., trade reporting, risk controls, operational resilience).
• Agile tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps).
• Process modelling (e.g., Visio, workflow diagrams).
• Test cases validation and UAT support.
• 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.