Lead Business Analyst - Calypso

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Business Requirements Elicitation and Critical Analysis –

• Functional expert, with strong knowledge of end-end business process on Calypso Application
• Expected sphere of influence and collaboration is expected to be immediate team and interfacing teams.
• Skills involving negotiation and convincing are important, but person needn't be an expert.
• Train new joiners and team members functionally on the product, Functional Specifications, User Stories, Design and Solutioning (Impact Analysis and Validations)
• Liaise with all related Business and Support Unit stakeholders, including Product Owner, to analyse and challenge business requirements,
• Leading to functional specifications and detailed user stories
• Suggest better ways of working and delivering the tasks assigned
• Present domain related topics in relevant forums and discussions
• Help to implement decisions taken during IS Strategy Opco’s of her/his conurbation
• Work out the team's deliverables as per the planning chalked out by the PO
• Make sure that all the deliverables are met as per time, cost and plan
• To help in implementing project/applications/services architecture and propose modifications
• To identify pain points and highlight the same along with some high-level solution proposal
• Research to determine if solutions currently exist within calypso or required customization
• Strengthen functional testing strategy definition and activities
• Contribute to Product functional improvement with metrics on business usage
• Validate the effectiveness and coverage of test strategy
• Propose new ways of testing in line with evolving market standards/practices in QA area. Implementation Strategy and Support

Profile Required:

• 9+ years hands on experience as a Business Analyst in Calypso
• Good exposure on Calypso Backoffice function, Message setup, workflow, settlement (SWIFTS), Accounting, Settlement instruction, BO Positions & expert in customization around Calypso
• Product Knowledge on capital markets as Securities including Corporate Actions, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Listed and OTC Derivatives
• Able to trouble shoot & out of box thinking for the solutioning & designing
• Ownership attitude & good influencing skill is expected
• Highly motivated, good communication, ability to follow the open point till the closure is expected
• Hands on writing sql for analysis & good to have Unix commands understanding & basic shell scripts
• Agile environment exposure preferred
• Must have strong analytical skills