Role on behalf of Luxoft Financial Services UK Limited Australia Branch
Project Description
- An opportunity is available for a Fixed Income Integration Business Analyst to join our client, a leading Australian financial institute, as a key contributor to the implementation and configuration of Bond and Repo products. This role involves integrating trade flow from upstream interfaces, security static data setup, and managing end-to-end fixed income settlements. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of business and technology, ensuring seamless trade lifecycle management from execution through to settlement.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Business Analyst for Fixed Income Integration workstreams, covering Bond and Repo product setup, trade lifecycle, and settlement on the client's clearing/risk platform.
- Configure and validate Bond static data setup sourced from external agencies like Blomberg, Refinitiv
- Manage integration of Bloomberg TOMS and VCON trade flows into the trading platform defining trade capture requirements, message mapping, FIX/API specifications, and exception handling.
- Define and document requirements for Bloomberg Data License (DL) feeds — security reference data, pricing, corporate actions, yield curves — and their consumption by downstream risk and settlement systems.
- Support the full Bond and Repo trade lifecycle from trade capture, validation, enrichment, position management, through to netting and settlement instruction generation.
- Work with externa custodians to setup account, end to end integration of Security settlements.
- Define and validate SWIFT settlement messaging requirements covering Secuirty, Cash settlements
- Perform gap analysis between current-state and target-state for fixed income trade processing, static data management, and settlement workflows.
- Facilitate workshops with Front office, Operations, and Technology teams to elicit requirements and validate integration designs.
- Support UAT and end-to-end testing of trade flows, static data loads, and settlement message generation.
Mandatory Skills Description
- 5+ years of experience in Capital Markets with a strong focus on Fixed Income (Bonds and Repos).
- Understanding of various bond products like Fixed / Floating Rate, T-Bills, Zero Coupon and Asset Backed.
- Understanding of Repo-specific processing open vs term repos, repo rate conventions, haircuts, close leg generation, substitution.
- Excellent knowledge of the Bond and Repo trade lifecycle pricing, trade capture, confirmation and settlement.
- Hands-on experience with Bond static/security master setup from interfaces like Blomberg / Refinitiv, reference data sourcing.
- Hands-on experience with Trade Life Cycles, workflows, Settlements, FIX, JSON and XML messaging integration.
- Good understanding of security settlement models, netting, and CSD/custodian interactions
- Strong understanding of SWIFT MT 540–548 settlement messages, message structure, matching rules, and settlement status workflows.
- Experience with integration design defining interface specifications, data mapping, FIX protocol, API connectivity, and file-based feeds between front-office and post-trade systems.
- Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS and/or Bloomberg VCON for trade order management and trade capture in fixed income.
- Demonstrated experience in business analysis requirements elicitation, User story preparation, data flow documentation, and stakeholder facilitation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to data quality and reconciliation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal capabilities for effective collaboration across trading desks, operations, technology, and external custodians.
- Experience working within Agile project environments.
Nice-to-Have Skills Description
- Experience with Nasdaq Calypso, Eqlipse (clearing, risk, or CSD modules), Murex or other trading platforms
- Knowledge of SWIFT ISO 20022 (MX) messaging structure, experience in MT to MX migration.
- Knowledge of SQL, XML, and integration technologies (e.g., IBM MQ, & REST APIs).
- CFA / FRM or other BA certifications are desirable
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