Role– Lead Business Analyst

Occupation – ICT Business Analyst

Entity – Coforge Technologies Pty Ltd

Location – Sydney

Duration Permanent

Experience – 8+ Years

Description

We are seeking an experienced Lead Business Analyst to support critical trading and post-trade platforms within a financial market's technology setting. This role involves hands-on business analysis across Calypso modules covering the end-to-end trade lifecycle, including Front Office trading, Middle Office risk, valuation, and collateral, and Back Office clearing, settlement, and confirmations.

The role supports asset classes such as Rates, FX, Derivatives, Repos, and Fixed Income products, with a strong emphasis on post-trade processing, regulatory compliance, and operational stability. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, architects, developers, and vendors to analyze and document functional requirements, validate system behavior, and deliver resilient, scalable solutions aligned with regulatory and market infrastructure requirements. The role operates within Agile delivery frameworks and contributes to continuous improvement across development, enhancement, and BAU support initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities

- Act as a hands-on Business Analyst across Calypso Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office modules, supporting the end-to-end trade lifecycle
- Elicit, analyze, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements for trading and post-trade processes
- Work closely with business users to understand trade capture, risk,



valuation, collateral management, clearing, settlement, and confirmations workflows
- Translate business requirements into Calypso functional specifications, configuration requirements, and system behavior
- Support asset classes including Rates, FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Repos, ensuring correct lifecycle processing and controls
- Analyze and support post-trade and regulatory processes, including confirmations, settlements, margining, reconciliations, and reporting
- Partner with architects and developers to ensure solutions align with Calypso architecture, standard product capabilities, and best practices
- Support calypso configuration and customization, including workflows, trade attributes, pricing components, and reference data
- Perform impact analysis for change requests, regulatory updates, and product upgrades
- Support testing activities, including functional testing, UAT support, test scenarios validation if needed, and defect triage
- Ensure solutions meet regulatory, risk, operational resilience, and audit requirements
- Contribute to Agile delivery ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives

Tools, Platforms & Skills Required

Primary Platform





- Calypso Trading & Risk Management Platform
- Front Office (Trade Capture, Pricing)
- Middle Office (Risk, Valuation, Collateral Management)
- Back Office (Confirmations, Settlement, Accounting integration)

- Exposure to Calypso Automated Testing Tool (CATT) for understanding automated functional test scenarios, validating business workflows, and supporting UAT/test execution activities.

Capital Markets & Domain Knowledge

- Trade lifecycle knowledge across execution, confirmation and settlement
- Asset classes: Rates, FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Repos
- Post-trade processes: clearing, margining, settlements, reconciliations
- Regulatory awareness (e.g., trade reporting, risk controls, operational resilience)

Business Analysis & Documentation Tools

- Requirements documentation tools (e.g., Confluence, SharePoint)
- Agile tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps)
- Process modelling (e.g., Visio, workflow diagrams)

Testing & Support

- Test cases validation and UAT support

Technical & Integration Awareness

- Understanding of system integrations, interfaces, and message flows
- Familiarity with market data feeds, reference data, and downstream systems
- Basic understanding of SQL for data analysis and validation (optional but preferred)

Ways of Working

- Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to operate effectively in complex, regulated financial services environments

📌 Lead Business Analyst (Sydney)
🏢 Coforge Technologies Australia Pty
📍 Sydney