Business Analyst - Collateral Management

Project description

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 11th largest bank by total assets. Our Singapore center, Information Systems Asia Pacific (ISAP), is one of the 3 main IT hubs for worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 33 countries by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems
• Collaborating and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large-scale development projects.
• Providing premium In-house Banking applications

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications (in-house and package) used worldwide, covering Front Office (Murex, Apex, Orchestrade…), Back Office (Summit, Calypso…), Market data referential (Asset Control..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies). The Transversal Operation division works across the full value chain of Back Office and especially on the Collateral management. Within GIT and more specifically Capital Market IT, the GMD & MCR Transversal sector has launched the COMET project, aimed at building the new collateral management system:

• Receiving data from position-keeping systems
• Receiving data from the bank's repositories
• Management of collateral contracts
• Collateral management for all types of contracts and products: Calculations and issuance of margin calls and interest (collat & IM)
• Reconciliation management
• Creation and editing of user reports.

This project is managed in Agile mode and is an in-house Crédit Agricole CIB development. This role aims to develop on GLOBAL COLLAT application, in project mode as well as maintenance, and to support the “run the bank” function. It requires a deep understanding of the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The build and support team continuously works with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.

Responsibilities

1. The Business analyst is a functional specialist working with all stakeholders from his IT Division and aligned Business division to define and document Business needs and software requirements. The BA advises, reports and alerts to optimize and enhance solutions favoring the delivery of value. You will belong to Functional Community with all Business Analysts and Functional Architects. This will cover the whole cycle from requirement gathering, specifications and testing until the delivery to production including the following responsibilities:

1. Ensure business requirement analysis activities

• Analyse Business requirement based on prioritization given by PO
• Help the PO and the team in decomposing requirements into detailed stories
• Translate requirements into cases into Functional Specification documents

• Support functional knowledge of the team with the help of the PO
• Research to determine if solutions currently exist in or outside the team
• Understand technical constraints and participate in the software design

• Analyze functional change impacts on current production SLA & OLA
• Contribute to the BDD activities by providing user scenarios
• Contribute to the functional testing and functional support activities
• Contribute to deployment via functional prerequisites, post-deployment checks

• Train new joiners and team members functionally on the software
• Help team members in solving their functional issues

This position is a rare opportunity to work with technical and functional subject matter experts of the Financial Industry, be exposed to the latest technologies deployed by the bank and grow your finance and capital markets experience with Summit, a market leading packaged software.

SKILLS

Must have

• 5+ years of experience as a business analyst in a financial organization and more specifically on Market Data administration domain.
• Exposure to Collateral management (payment of Variable Margin, initial Margin, MtM)
• Relevant experience in FPML format
• Exposure to the Capital Markets with proficiency in financial instruments (FX, Bonds, Rates, Equity, etc..), trading lifecycle and specifically market data.
• Proven experience in technical proficiency with strong skills in SQL, Excel and possibility programming languages like Python or R for data manipulation and analysis. Familiarity with database management and querying
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both teammates and management
• Ability to convey clearly and concisely ideas in a concrete and coherent way.
• Proficient software development life cycle
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignment based on best practices
• Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical new domain
• Appetite to participate in communities
• Strong sense of confidentiality
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.

Nice to have

• Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members
• Experience in project management
• Experience in Back Office system (Calypso) or Front-Office or Market Risk
• Usage of tools such as MS Office / Sharepoint / Project / Visio, Jira, GIT
• Understanding of UML
• Cloud notion
• Any Object-oriented language: Java, .Net