Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst | Liquidity & Treasury Management System (LTMS) space

Location: Melbourne

Contract Duration: 6 months (with expectations of extension)

Implementing Calypso Treasury system

APRA Reporting – Data Remediation

Key Responsibilities:

• Elaborate business requirements for implementation of new treasury system (Calypso) used for institutional trading of financial instruments.
• Working closely with Credit risk, transaction reconciliation and stringent reporting requirements for inter-bank and institutional trades involving high value transactions and international funds settlements.
• Elaborate APRA requirements for SESCA classifications across all internal systems and design data centric strategy for mapping, system changes, process changes & remediation of multiple core banking platforms.
• Documenting all APRA solution designs and communicate across various stakeholders and compliance team & create business requirement document (BRD)
• Liaise with SMEs, OCM, product owners, traders, dealers, P&L manager, market risk manager, trade reporting manager, SAP manager, Regulatory reporting manager, Data warehousing teams (EBI) and market data feed (Reuters, Bloomberg) stakeholders to elicit requirements and desired outcomes.
• Document ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ state of data flow and process maps between all integrated systems (internal and external) using MS Visio and Signavio tools.
• Focus on reducing manual intervention and increase efficiency with automation wherever possible.
• Gather requirements for APRA, DTCC and EMIR reporting and translate business needs into technical solution for the Treasury system.
• Author and create integration requirements and tailored APRA solution document to present to steering committee for facilitating funding approvals.
• Define file transfer and API Integration requirements for ETL, SIT, UAT and PROD environments and liaise with vendors to finalise optimal solution.
• Write precise acceptance criteria, business rules and given-when-then scenarios for system integration and APRA customer classification changes.
• Liaise closely with system architect and network engineers to confirm desired outcome v/s available solutions to negotiate the most efficient solution.
• Liaise with project manager for adherence of deadlines and elaboration timelines to facilitate timely technical writing, development and testing iterations.
• Work closely with multiple vendor teams to communicate project requirements and within their scope of responsibilities.
• Use MS VISIO, JIRA, Confluence, MS Excel extensively for documenting and recording elaborated requirements.
• Work closely with Portfolio lead BA to communicate progress with respect to larger body of work carried out within transformation.
• Initiate relationships and conduct regular interviews, meetings and workshops with various business stakeholders and SMEs.
• Maintain Agile ‘Wall’ with cards in progress. Project also conducted in part using Waterfall methodology.
• Help Test Manager schedule testing tasks and design testing matrix for vendor support requirements
• Write and compile Integration test cases and guide testers with UAT test cases. Review and load them in QC in preparation of testing activities.

Kind Note: Candidates Must be based in Melbourne and must be Permanent Residents or Citizens to be considered for this role.

Please send through a copy of your latest CV to cjackson@welovesalt.com for a confidential discussion.