Crédit Agricole CIB – Calypso Business Analyst

Team & Position
We are seeking a talented Business Analyst to join our dynamic Capital Market Department!
As a Business Analyst, you will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. You will work closely with stakeholders from both your IT Division and aligned Filières to define, document, and translate business requirements into actionable software specifications. You will be a key advocate for business value, ensuring that our software solutions meet the needs of our users and contribute to the overall success of our operations.
Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API’s, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.
You will join the Post Trade IT section, 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…) and serving several Filiere or Business lines.
The FX IT division works across the full value chain to sustain business activity and enable its acceleration (thru integration of new financial products, optimizing and automating front to back business processes).
This specific role aims to work on the Calypso back office package for our FX IT division, 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.

Main Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements from various stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of their needs and objectives for FX  and Money Market Business in Calypso.
• Work with the Product Owner (PO) if any on this project to prioritize requirements and decompose them into detailed user stories, ensuring a clear roadmap for development.
• Translate requirements into comprehensive functional specifications, including detailed descriptions of user interactions, data flows, and system behavior.
  Collaborate with development teams to ensure that the software design aligns with the functional specifications and meets the defined requirements.
• Provide functional expertise to the development team, ensuring they have a clear understanding of the business processes and user needs.
• Research existing solutions, both internal and external, to determine if they can be leveraged to meet the business requirements.

Experience & Education Requirements

Candidates should have at least 1-2 years experience in Business Analysis activities.
Master or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Programming & Systems Analysis/ Science (Computer Studies) faculties.

Work Experience

Knowledge of Static Data, Workflows, Confirmations, Settlements, Messages / Swift messages, Positions, Accounting, Corporate action, Filters, Reporting Framwork, Reconciliation features.
Understanding of financial assets (FX, Money Market, cash products) and trade lifecycle.
Experience with regulatory reporting (e.g. HRF, NORIA, MMSR).
Experience on Back Office systems
Experience in interfacing systems
Familiar with requirements life cycle management, analysis planning and monitoring, requirements’ analysis and design definition.
Hands-on experience as liaison function between the onshore IT business lines and offshore technical teams and as primary functional support for development team
Knowledgeable of techniques to elicit and manage requirements, as well as software development models including Agile methodologies.

Functional

Knowledge of Static Data, Workflows, Confirmations, Settlements, Messages / Swift messages, Positions, Accounting, Corporate action, Filters, Reporting Framwork, Reconciliation features.

Understanding of financial assets (FX, money market, cash) and trade lifecycle.

Nice to Have

Experience ideal on Calypso versions v14 to v17.
Knowledge in UNIX, SQL, Docker/Kurbernetes systems.

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to work under pressure.
Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management
Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.
Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player