AddressAn opportunity exists for a Senior Business Analyst to join our client, a leading Australian Financial institute and be an integral part of the analysis, design and development of the their OTC derivative clearing Platform upgrade. This is chance to be part of a large program of work evolving the existing Clearing Risk management solutions and driving the improvement of business process effectiveness.
- The role is responsible for assessing new concepts against current systems and procedures, analysing stakeholder needs from an end-to-end perspective, engaging internal and external clients through various facilitation techniques and mediums, and providing high quality, fit for purpose business analysis artefacts
- Be an active and vocal member of the Markets transformation team, bringing your past experience in transformation programs and adapting it to a strong client culture.
- Work with impacted stakeholders to perform deep dives and discovery on the As-Is state of Clearing Risk management systems for cash and derivatives products, allowing for effective review by project team members and impacted stakeholders.
- Liaise with assigned Product Owners and Subject Matter Experts for prioritisation, elicitation and analysis of new business requests within the program.
- Run workshops to identify requirements and evaluate solutions.
- Perform gap analysis between the As-Is state and the To-Be state.
- Write high quality user stories and acceptance criteria for functional and non-functional requirements.
- Use formal modelling techniques to assist in the representation of business requirements.
- Present and clearly articulate user stories and other business requirements to a wide audience including. developers, testers, vendors and project stakeholders.
- Senior Business analyst with experience in IRD, Future derivatives clearing platform
- Good experience on Calypso front office module in Market data configuration, Curve setup and Pricer measure validation
- Well versed with Interest rate derivative trade characteristics.
- Experienced in working with trade interface like Markitwire, Reuters and any other broker platforms
- Strong knowledge in Initial margin contract setup, calculations and margin call life cycle
- Trade life cycle management including Trade Accept, Affirm and Novation
- Good knowledge on Official PL, PL VaR and other risk metrics.
- Basic understanding of calypso settlements, confirmation setup, Workflows and Schedule task configuration
- Experience producing business analysis artefacts - including, but not limited to, business requirements, user stories with clear acceptance criteria, functional specifications, business process models, process risk assessments and interface and impact analysis documents.
- Coordinating with developers, QA on new changes, validating unit test results, analysing defects raised
