Total 17 job vacancies by Luxoft Financial Services UK Limited (Australia)

• Australia based role
• Leading Bank

Luxoft is looking for an experienced and motivated Consultant who will assist the Australia team.
This role will be based in Sydney, working closely together with the account management, the services team and collaborate with the product teams in France.

You will join a team of experienced consultants and participate in the implementation and support of the application, the installation of new modules and features using:
- NeoXam DataHub: the most comprehensive, efficient and customizable solution for centralized data management available on the market. The solution acts as a hub, a central repository and a user- oriented data management tool for data used or produced by financial institutions.
- NeoXam IBOR: a uniquely independent and flexible Investment Book of Record, designed to provide Asset Managers with a single, comprehensive, and robust source of continuously up-to-date positions, valuations and forecasts, with increased quality, under multiple views.

Responsibilities:
• Participate in NeoXam DataHub and/or NeoXam IBOR implementations at some of the world's leading and most respected financial organizations
• Implement the software by carrying out NeoXam Datahub/IBOR software customization, workflow definition and optimization using NeoXam cutting edge technology platform
• Provide support in troubleshooting, and identifying and resolving any installation and implementation problems to the client's satisfaction within established time frames
• Provide best practice guidance to clients by leveraging technical expertise, NeoXam software knowledge and industry experience
• Ensure coordination and responsive follow-up to client needs and requirements, interfacing with the appropriate NeoXam departments and colleagues as needed
• Participate in client support efforts
• Provide project reports to NeoXam management and clients upon request
• Continuously keep up to date with NeoXam DataHub and/or NeoXam IBOR functional and technical features and improvements
• Identify and resolve any installation and implementation problems to the client's satisfaction within established time frames
• Manage the overall design and configuration activity by ensuring the team follows configuration / scripting/design guidelines
• Analyze the clients' needs, accompany and coach their teams and/or take charge of the product implementation, meet clients' requests, manage the client relation and coordination of the project
• Provide project management leadership under the responsibility of the Account Manager or Project Director
• Develop and conduct product training workshops for clients

Mandatory Skills Description:
• Engineering or Business school, Master's degree or equivalent
• Up to 7-8 years of experience with software implementation projects in the banking / financial industry within APAC region. Preferably those with a financial technology vendor or consulting company background.
• Hands-on coding experience in scripting language like Shell, Bash, Python, VB , Java Script. Candidate should be able to adapt to new programming language(s)
• Experience with RDBMS, Data Modeling, and SQL language
• Understanding of Enterprise Data Management and ETL techniques and processes
• Previous experience of financial data provider feeds such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, ICE and others
• Deep knowledge of financial instruments such as Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives
• Previous project experience with involvement in multiple stages of the project life cycle
• Independent, with own initiative and good interpersonal skills and are concerned about the quality of service provided
• Proactive and a real team player
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
Understanding of any treasury trading platform and trade life cycle

- Sydney based role
- Permanent or Contract position
- Extensive NodeJS skills needed

Support an iconic Australian brand as they seek to replace and modernize core trading platforms.
You will be working on the latest technologies (AWS, Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka) in a greenfield project building out new digital experiences and core trading capability for this major financial institution.

Responsibilities:
As a Back-end developer within the IT team, you will be implementation a new product system migrating away from a monolithic legacy application into a new distributed application based on micro-services supported by a Kafka back-end.
You will be expected to participate in both the solution design and execution.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent IT discipline.
• 7+ years of relevant working experience
• Experience building micro services using Node JS (5+ years of experience)
• Worked with, and delivered on, enterprise CI/CD capabilities and tools, providing guidance on best practices and helping enable major programs to deliver business value.
• Experience designing, building and testing Java applications, micro services, data streaming capabilities.
• Experience with API Swagger design
• Experience building Serverless (Lamba) functions with Node JS
• Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Architecture certifications on AWS (Preferred) or GCP incl Kubernetes
• Experience on Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka
• Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
• Good delegation and time management skills
• Problem-solving abilities
• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment
• Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers to create reliable APIs
• Collaborate across time zones via documents, and frequent videoconferences
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience in unit/integration and Non-Functional testing
• Experience with complex data structures and semi structured data (JSON, XML)


Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Experience building micro services using Java Spring Boot
• Experience logging & Monitoring tools like Open Telemetry & Cloud Observability - Lightstep
• Experience in working with React applications
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience in unit/integration testing

- Sydney or Melbourne based
- Contract or Permanent

Project Description:
A leading client in Australia is seeking to migrate the existing Murex solution to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The migration of Murex from on-premises to AWS will enable bank to automate environment provisioning, improve application performance, modernize Murex platform, and potentially reduce their total cost of ownership (TCO).
DXC has been engaged to execute Murex 3.1 migration to AWS for a regional instance and the Global instance following AWS Mobilize, Migrate & Modernize methodology.

Responsibilities:
This role will revolve around cloud implementation and tooling within the scope of a large simplification and modernization project for a key Australian financial institution.

• Cloud DevOps engineer who is highly skilled in scripting and automation of build and deployment activities with a strong focus on DevOps & SecOps.
• An eye to automate everything and promote reuse
• Responsible for environment management/monitoring in the cloud
• Plan and implement Cloud migration of applications
• Build and maintained Secure, optimised Cloud environments with a focus on reducing TCO.
• Implement branching/merge strategies.
• Apply the configuration management methodologies
• Ensuring effective defect remediation
• Contribute in creating the environment and configuration management methodologies following a DevOps operating model
• Deliver the documentation for support team so they can be independent.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Cloud deployment and systems management experience - AWS
• Building application using AWS native services using terraform, scripting (Python (mandatory), bash)
• Configuration and deployment tools experience - Terraform (mandatory), Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, or Puppet
• AWS, basics of services like EFS, EBS, Terraform state management
• Strong programming & scripting skills - Python, Ruby, Shell or similar.
• Strong domain understanding of DevOps, Cloud computing and Agile delivery methodology
• DevOps toolchain experience: JIRA, Bitbucket, Jenkins/Bamboo, Nexus/Artifactory, GIT/Bitbucket
• Self-starter, capable of working minimal direction and able to deliver projects from scratch
• Undergraduate level qualification with Bachelor in Engineering or Computer Science
• Strong English communication skills

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
- Banking
- Experience with Jenkins
- Experience with Codefresh
- Experience with AWS RapidMX
- Murex Technical or Environment Management experience
- Good working experience in BO, Processing, FO, and Financial Reporting domains
- Strong understanding of System (Murex) end-to-end functionality
- Strong understanding of Trades Life Cycle Management
- Implementations and upgrades: MXpress; FEM migrations experience
- Strong understanding on P&L concept overall and its components
- Good understanding and some experience in Market Data, Curve structure, and Trade Life Cycle
- MXplus updates and MX.3 main-branch upgrades

- All Australia locations considered
- Must have Murex to apply

Project Description:
We've been engaged by a large Australian financial institution to provide resources to their Murex program.

Joining this program, you will have the benefit of working with an established client team, fully involved in the project initiation through to project implementation.

Responsibilities:
• Technical Analysis of changes, solution design, development/configuration, and unit testing of MxML Workflows
• Technical Analysis of changes, solution design, development, and unit testing
• Participate in fixing production and test defects
• End-to-end ownership of tasks in cooperation with Business Analysts and Testing team.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• 8+ years of Murex MxML experience
• Strong product knowledge and strong solutioning experience
• Advanced MxML workflow and formulae development
• Advanced SQL
• Good general financial market understanding
• Knowledge of pre-trade framework along with MSL scripting language
• Unix

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Good Java experience, especially integrating Java code in MxML
• Pretrade experience
• DevOps on Murex experience (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, etc)
• Technical solution design experience and start-to-end solution ownership.

• MUREX EXPERIENCE IS A MUST
• Sydney based role


We've been engaged by a large Australian financial institution to provide resources to their upcoming Murex Binary Upgrade project .
This Bank is considering moving from Current Murex version 42 to latest higher version ( V56 or 58) to include changes Majorly impacting the Collateral / Market Risk / Credit Risk/ Ops and settlement functionalities and modules.
There are also some impacts in MX technical areas , Reporting and EODs.
We require an experienced Murex Collateral consultant as a part of this upgrade project



Responsibilities:
You will provide Murex Collateral Module consulting support with extensive experience of MX.3 Datamart module
The role will require a strong financial markets background across a range of asset classes (IRD, Fixed Income, Commodities) and exposure to LRB and LTS
The position will work closely with the existing Luxoft delivery team and face off to the business & client technology functions.



Mandatory Skills Description:
• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Understanding of Legal Agreements (CSA/GMRA)
• Understanding of Collateral stamping (including Murex setup)
• Experience with MLC (Murex Limits Controller) for Collateral Exposure calculation
• Back Office ?knowledge:?
• Understanding of Margin Calls/Expected Margin calls and EOD scripts
• Collateral Exchange workflow (or at minimum MxML)
• Collateral inventory and Allocation process
• Exposure to the below will be an advantage:
o working in Murex Upgrade Projects
o Interest statements
o Collateral exchange accounting
o Knowledge on LRB creation and LTS scripts
o Exposure to margining payments



Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
Techno-Functional
Ability to deal with multitude of stakeholders

Project Description:
We've been engaged by an Australian financial institution to support their Calypso asset within wide range of projects like Product, Pricing, Risk & Regulatory, Version upgrades etc. We are looking for multiple people across business analysis, development, and QA as part of this large-scale engagement.


Responsibilities:
- Work in Agile development teams to develop functionalities of the Calypso application.
- Work in providing custom fixes for any issues, Issues analysis, unit testing.
- Interact with Senior BA, QA to understand changes and provide technical solution.
- Coordinate with Adenza engineering team where required to provide logs, analyze and test new patch fixes.
- Initially work with the Calypso upgrade project to V18.


Mandatory Skills Description:
- 5+ years of Calypso Developer experience
- Good understanding of Overall Calypso Architecture
- Hands-on Calypso development and customizations, like Scheduled Tasks, Reports, Engines
- Understanding and application of Calypso APIs
- Strong Java, SQL and XML skills
- Good analytical skills, should be able to analyze and resolve production issues
- Good understanding of Calypso's message and sender frameworks
- Ability to write SQL queries and understand Calypso database tables
- Good and effective communication skills
- Understanding of Fixed Income Markets & Products


Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
- Working experience in Cloud migrations, Devops CI/CD tools like Maven, Jenkins, Gradle
- Good understanding of UNIX servers and commands
- Basic domain knowledge of Interest Rate Derivatives
- Understanding of back-office processes like Trade, Transfer workflows, message configuration, Settlements, CREs, Accounting, etc.

• Role available Australia wide
• Must have Murex to apply


Project Description:
Luxoft is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Murex Accounting and Datamart SME to be part of our core project team. You will have the opportunity to work with global banking and capital market client of ours on various development projects. You will be part of high caliber project teams comprising of analyst with deep domain experience.

Joining this program will have the benefit of working with an established client team, fully involved in the project implementation.

Responsibilities:
• Stream lead for Murex Accounting.
• SME contribution to Datamart delivery.
• Participate in various changes and projects for the stream
• Engage users to gather, capture, and document on accounting treatment for various financial products.
• Analyse requirements and assess feasibility of implementation in Murex.
• Design and configure accounting rules based on the requirements, including configuration of accounts, filters and formulas.
• Develop relevant Datamart feeders, extractions and EOD jobs.
• Reconcile expected results and actual results.
• Identify discrepancies and the possible causes.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• 4+ years of Murex Accounting experience including hands on rules configuration ideally setting up new trade types.
• 6+ years of Murex Datamart development experience
• Experience in setting up accounting rules, accounts, filters and formulas
• Experience in accounting configuration in Murex
• Experience in using basic tools (such as excel) to perform reconciliation
• Knowledge of trade life cycle & events and how they are handled in Murex for IRD, FI & Credit. Especially experience in Rates

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Hedge Accounting Module of Murex
• Functional solution design experience and start-to-end solution ownership
• DevOps on Murex experience (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA etc)

- MUST have Murex PFE or XVA to apply

We've been engaged by a large Australian financial institution to provide resources to their upcoming Murex Binary Upgrade project .
This Bank is considering moving from Current Murex version 42 to latest higher version ( V56 or 58) to include changes Majorly impacting the Collateral / Market Risk / Credit Risk/ Ops and settlement functionalities and modules.
There are also some impacts in MX technical areas , Reporting and EODs.
We require an experienced Murex XVA Functional BA as a part of this upgrade project


Responsibilities:
• Co-ordinating model validation activities for credit risk/market risk
• Has strong analytical and problem solving skills, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills for interacting with business users and the vendor
• Works closely with Risk & MO users in understanding requirements to build new CR functionality
• Often works individually in resolving issues, and in coming up with and delivering solutions that meet Risk & MO requirements
• Analyses and resolves issues related to system configuration, Credit Risk, limits management, interfaces, etc
• Escalates identified issues / risks in a timely manner to IT and Business managers
• Provides detailed information about issues to the vendor, and co-ordinates with them in testing fixes / solutions
• Acts as an intermediary between business and vendor
• Is able to assist in resolving issues around general system configuration, User Groups, Access Rights, Portfolios, etc
• Provides training to business users and assists the business in adapting to the Murex environment
• Ensures documentation and deliverables are consistent with defined standards
Has the ability to work under pressure to resolve critical issues and meet project deliverables
• PFE configuration expertise
• Availability of Real-time engine on the FO date of MX.
• Checking the syncing static data - like counterparty, currency , country, portfolio.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• Murex Knowledge and 3+ years of experience around - PFE/XVA, Credit Risk calculations
• Murex Knowledge and 3+ years of experience around - MLC ( Implementation or migration projects )
• Configuration / optimization experience of latest Murex PFE and XVA
Desired Skills:
• Working level knowledge around Unix & SQL
• Murex Knowledge around - P&L, Middle Office, Dynamic Tables, Static Data, GOM, Market Data, Market Operations

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Deeper understanding of financial markets from a non-Risk & MO perspective
• all-round knowledge of the Murex application

Domain knowledge :
• Should possess an understanding of financial markets
• Basic knowledge on financial instruments such as Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Currency Derivatives, Swaps, Futures, Options, FRA, etc.

- Sydney or Melbourne location
- Permanent position


Project Description:
We have been engaged by a prominent Australian company to collaborate on their Treasury projects. Our goal is to build an onshore team that will work closely with their existing team to drive these initiatives forward.

We are seeking experienced Business Analysts with over 6 years of relevant experience, specializing in transformation and integration projects. The ideal candidates will have strong expertise in data sourcing, mapping, ETL processes, and Treasury data, including positions, trades, settlements, and accounts. This is a high-profile engagement, offering a unique opportunity to expand our offshore footprint with this client rapidly. You will be working alongside an Architect, Project Manager, Solution Designer, Tech Lead, and Infrastructure Integration Specialist to ensure the successful delivery of project objectives.

Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and analyze business requirements.
- Facilitate transformation and integration projects between upstream and downstream systems.
- Develop and document detailed business and system requirements.
- Ensure data quality and consistency across different systems through effective data sourcing and mapping strategies.
- Design, implement, and manage ETL processes to support data integration needs.
- Work with Treasury data, ensuring accurate handling of positions, trades, settlements, accounts, etc.
- Support project delivery by liaising with the Architect, Project Manager, - Solution Designer, Tech Lead, and Infrastructure Integration Specialist.
- Conduct impact analysis and provide recommendations for process improvements.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
- Prepare and present project status reports and updates to senior management.

Mandatory Skills Description:
- 6+ years of relevant experience in business analysis with a focus on transformation and integration projects.
- Experience in financial services or banking industry.
- Proven experience in managing integration between upstream and downstream systems.
- Strong knowledge of control, data sourcing, mapping, and ETL processes.
- Hands-on experience with Treasury data, including positions, trades, settlements, accounts, etc.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to document detailed business and system requirements.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with various stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in Treasury and finance.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
- Experience with data visualization and reporting tools.
- Certification in business analysis (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA).
- Understanding of cloud-based integration solutions.

- MUST HAVE AB INITIO EXPERIENCE TO APPY
- Sydney based role


The Treasury Platform makes extensive use of AbInitio products to develop, maintain and support functionally rich Business applications. The platform supports the Bank's Treasury and ALM Risk functions. The platform operates 24/7 supporting teams in Sydney, Asia, Europe, and North America.

Responsibilities:
Seeking a strong AbInitio developer the following key areas:
- Development, testing, analysis and design applications using AbInitio software products.
- Preparation of deployment and configuration scripts within the delivery channel including Production
- Troubleshooting and second line support of Production application
- Performance tuning and code optimization
- Mentoring junior developers

Mandatory Skills Description:
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience as a Ab Initio developer in financial services industry
• Proven track record of delivery with Ab Initio software
• Proficient in using the Ab Initio development products = GDE, Express>IT, Co>Op System, EME, M-HUB, Control Centre, BRE, Query>IT
• Good level of expertise in Oracle , MS SQL and Unix/Linux
• Very good communication & analytical skills
• Good stakeholder management, coordination & collaboration skills
• Good experience working on Agile projects & familiarity with JIRA
• Creative/innovative thinker

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Understanding of Financial products is preferred

• MUST HAVE MUREX TO APPLY
• Sydney based
• Permanent

A leading Australian bank has engaged and we are seeking an experienced Murex Datamart SME with extensive financial markets exposure. Key responsibilities include providing expertise in Datamart with strong scripting and optimization skills for SEOD and batches, and acting as a tech lead to guide and mentor the bank's junior consultants and other vendor contingent staff.

This role requires strong problem-solving skills and effective collaboration with both onshore and offshore teams. If you have a proven track record in these areas and are excited about contributing to the technical infrastructure of a leading Australian bank.

Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be part of a project team extending the current application scope. Main focus will be on credit risk reporting in Murex.

- Analyze, design, and configure Murex Datamart implementation.
- Configure risk, transaction, compliance, PL, cash flow, etc. reports.
- Work on Change Request and enhancements
- Optimize reports
- Coordinate with business on requirement
- Document Functional, Technical Specifications and Test Cases for integration
- Come up with design and build documents
- Manage stakeholders from IT and business

Mandatory Skills Description:
- 12+ years of relevant experience
- Provide technical leadership, guiding and mentoring junior consultants and other vendor contingent staff.
- Possess very strong Datamart skills with expertise in scripting and optimization for SEOD (Start of Day) and batches.

Technical Skills:
- Advanced SQL skills.
- Experience with Murex Datamart, including:
- Dynamic tables
- BoF (Basis of Facts)
- BoE (Basis of Estimates)
- Scanner templates
- Expertise in configuring and optimizing reports for risk, transaction, compliance, P&L, cash flow, etc.
- Unix proficiency.
- Technical solution design experience and start-to-end solution ownership.

Additional Skills:
- MxML exposure is an added advantage.
- Good understanding of financial markets, covering different asset classes.

Preferred Qualities:
- Strong problem-solving and optimization skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with teams and lead effectively.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• DevOps on Murex experience (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA etc)
• Experience with FXCash, FX Derivatives, Commodities

• MUST HAVE CALYPSO EXPERIENCE TO APPLY
• Sydney based role


We are currently working with a well-known financial services organization in Australia who are currently using Calypso V16 as a front to back-office system for Fixed income and IR derivatives business.

You will be involved in Pricing / Risk reports validation where your Calypso FO skills on Fixed Income and IRD will be used to assist in integrating, reconciling the trades to the multiple downstream and upstream systems. This is the ideal role for Calypso resources to utilize their skills in a complex multi-year project and provide exposure to all the modules in Calypso and also supporting trading/sales desks across the globe Tokyo to New York

Responsibilities:
You will be a FO Business Analyst focusing on IRD, Money Market, and Credit Derivatives
• Responsible for doing Requirement Analysis in Front Office space for various projects (Upgrade, IBOR, Regulatory, ..)
• Be responsible for understanding the business needs, identifying business solutions, and validating the pros and cons of technical solution options
• Key liaison with Front Office user base and primary interface between Business and IT.
• Analyzing trade data and performing various life cycle actions to support downstream system requirements, identifying gaps, field level mapping between systems, and configuring reports in Calypso, supporting BAU team whenever needed.
• Working with a Testing team to review test cases, coverage and investigate any issue they encounter.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• 8+ Years of relevant experience in IRD/Fixed Income products, Trade booking and Pricing
• 4+ Years of relevant Calypso (and/or other Trading System) Front Office or Market Risk experience
• Good knowledge of Pricing / Risk analytics of IRD, Fixed Income
• Experienced in dealing with Front Office, Risk stakeholders in both Markets and Treasury divisions
• Strong hands-on knowledge of FO configuration around booking models, pricing env, pricer config, etc.
• Good knowledge Rate Index, Curve setup, market data, market conventions like Day counts, roll conventions etc.
• Excellent knowledge of pricing and pricer measures of IRS, Swaption, CDS..etc
• Basic knowledge of PLVaR and Official PL reports.
• Knowledge of organization setup and User Groups / Access Rights
• Some knowledge of Reporting
Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Any experience on other financial markets platforms (e.g Murex)
• An awareness of current and future regulatory programs impacting markets, e.g. MiFiD, Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
• Configuring different risk analysis reports such as Falsh, Portfolio, Reset risk, etc.
• Working with quants team on validation of Pricing, Valuation, etc.

Sydney or Adelaide
**Need Core Banking or similar experience
Regular Level role
Full time position



Project Description:

Project Unite is a large strategic simplification project for a major Australian bank. There are multiple streams in this project, some of which will run for 5 years.







Responsibilities:

Project Manage a stream or sub stream within the Hogan core banking space. Operate under the direction of the Program Executive.




Mandatory Skills Description:

- Preferably Core Banking or similar experience needed

- 5 - 10 years experience in Project Management in a Banking Finance Domain

- a demonstrated record of successful delivery of projects

- People and team leadership skills

- Ability to work on multiple project assignments simultaneously

- Solid knowledge of Banking and Finance industry

- Strong Leadership and verbal and written communication skills

- Disciplined and organized approach

- Eagerness to learn, good initiative and flexibility

- Eagerness to teach and to share their skills with team members




Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

Project Management in a Hogan environment

Sydney or Adelaide
** Core Banking experience Mandatory
Regular Level role
Full time position


Project Description:

Project Unite is a large strategic simplification project for a major Australian bank. There are multiple streams in this project, some of which will run for 5 years.






Responsibilities:

Work as a Business Analyst on 1 or more streams, analyzing and gathering business requirements, defining functional designs, reviewing and accepting business testing and participating in post implementation support.



Mandatory Skills Description:

- Core banking experience or similar needed

- 5 to 10 years+ experience in Business Analysis in a Banking Finance Domain

- a demonstrated record of successful delivery of projects

- Business Analysis skills

- Ability to work on multiple project assignments simultaneously

- Solid knowledge of Banking and Finance industry

- Strong Leadership and verbal and written communication skills

- Disciplined and organized approach

- Eagerness to learn, good initiative and flexibility

- Eagerness to teach and to share their skills with team members



Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

Business Analysis in a Hogan Banking Environment

- MUST have Capital Markets to apply
- Sydney based role


Project Description:
An opportunity for a senior BA to be a part of the ClearStar Program, which is a multi-year roadmap of work for the Derivatives Clearing business. Derivatives clearing operates critical financial market infrastructure to meet public interest mandates in reducing systemic risk and to meet the needs of a diverse set of market participants. The overall objective of the Program is to upgrade, modernise and re-platform critical Derivatives Clearing technology that are nearing end of life, find new growth opportunities, and pivot the business to be relevant for its customers with futureproof adaptive delivery frameworks.


Responsibilities:
The role is responsible for assessing new concepts against current systems and procedures, analysing stakeholder needs from and 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 - including, but not limited to, business requirements, user stories with clear acceptance criteria, functional specifications, business process models and interface and impact analysis documents.

Responsibilities:?
• Work with impacted stakeholders to perform deep dives and discovery on the As-Is state of derivative clearing systems, 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 ClearStar program
• Define transitions of business processes to the strategic state, with interim/tactical states where needed.
• Elicitation, preparation and generation of business requirements (including functional and non-functional) in the form of epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria and clearly articulate to a wide audience including developers, testers, vendors and project stakeholders.
• Use formal modelling techniques to assist in the representation of business requirements
• Liaise with counterparts in related internal project/domain teams to understand dependencies, constraints, associated requirements and agree upon and deliver solutions
• Review and contribute to specific test scenarios the overall Test Strategy
• Liaise with IT solution providers (internal & external) on project progress and problem resolution
• Ability to assume cross-functional responsibilities when needed, such as running project coordination, daily stand-ups, retros and backlog grooming sessions.
• Work with Release Management to ensure a smooth implementation and transition phase
• Contribution to change management activities and preparation of training artefacts that would enable impacted stakeholders to apply the changes introduced by a delivered business requirement.
• Conduct peer review of business analysis artefacts to ensure quality and alignment to framework.
• Produce high quality business analysis deliverables using relevant techniques and tools in line with the delivery framework.
• Being an active member of, the BA Community of Practice (CoP).
• Support and mentor junior members of the team

Mandatory Skills Description:
• Capital Markets Experience e.g. Financial services background with knowledge gained through industry experience in front/middle/back office operations
• 7+ years dedicated business analysis experience working on Agile, Lean and Waterfall projects
• Experience working independently on Tier 1 project across the full SDLC from early ideation to execution and embedment in BAU.
• Deep understanding of the business analysis fundamentals.
• Experience in gathering stakeholder needs and translating these to detailed requirements
• Experience in business process modelling using software such as MS Visio or other enterprise endorsed platforms.
• Experience using Atlassian tool suite (JIRA and Confluence).
• Effective communication, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills. Can collaborate with stakeholders across seniority levels.
• Demonstrated effective problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage change within a dynamic environment.
• Be comfortable working within a matrix structure.
• Experience working with Change Management and influencing user behaviour.
• Experience in helping teams transform agile ways of working at scale, quarterly planning, sprint planning
• Worked both independently and as part of a larger, cohesive team
• Managed, or assisted in managing, a small scrum team, including running Agile ceremonies
• Shown adaptability and flexibility within a very dynamic environment
• Experience in helping to build foundational project capabilities
• Experience in helping to build a strong, cohesive team.
• Degree qualified in an engineering, financial or mathematical discipline

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Proven ability to provide support for production incidents and end user queries.
• Business Analysis Certification, eg. IIBA CBAP.
• Extensive experience working with and a deep understanding of financial trading/clearing systems
• experience with futures and options contracts, both from a trading and clearing perspective
• Experience with vendor management and communications

- Must have market risk, capital markets or vendor background (trading / risk application) to be considered (eg, murex, calypso) – Any considered

- Sydney based

- Permanent position





The FRTB program encompasses both the reimplementation of the Bank's market data system for Basel 2.5 as well as the implementation of a new market data system of both FRTB SA and FRTB IMA.






Responsibilities:

The candidate will be responsible for the test management of the Basel 2.5 market risk engine implementation at the beginning and later on of the FRTB implementation.

This includes:

• Leading, guiding and monitoring the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites.

• Supervising the configuration management of test environments

• Scheduling tests for execution and then monitoring, measuring, controlling, and reporting on the test progress, the product quality status and the test results

• Adapting test plans and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions.

• Writing summary reports on test status.

• Implementing testing process excellence & expertise across our application portfolio

• Engaging with external teams on test requirements, planning and cases

• Deploying and managing resources for testing.

• Managing testing results by coaching, counselling, and providing constructive feedback.

• Implementing automated business regression testing capability

• Upskilling business knowledge in the testing team and ensuring this knowledge is applied in impact/risk assessments and test cases.

• Applying a risk-based approach to testing processes and assuring there is no degradation in our application SLA's.

• Introduce & link data controls, especially to regulatory Critical Data Elements (CDE's)



Mandatory Skills Description:

Must have market risk, capital markets or vendor background (trading / risk application) to be considered (eg, murex, calypso)

• 8+ years' relevant experience in a similar role

• Experience writing test plans and test cases in the database and data analytics spaces.

• Project delivery experience

• Hands-on SQL skills with exposure to complex joins.

• experience of integration, functional, non-functional & user acceptance testing

• Excellent presentation and planning skills - Should be familiar with Microsoft tools like PPT, Visio etc.

• Experience with MS Word, Excel, Project Management and Analytics software

• Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams

• Previous exposure to scheduling tools

• Understanding of how relational databases operate



Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Strong attention to detail.

• Driven to deliver - proven ability to deliver the best possible results for the organisation; and shows determination, resourcefulness and a sense of purpose in achieving this

Project Description:

We've been engaged by a large Australian financial institution to provide resources for a range of Murex projects.

Joining this program you will have the benefit of working with an established team working directly with onsite staff, fully involved in the project initiation through to project implementation.


Responsibilities:

The candidate will be responsible for the test management and our systems. Must know how to organise testing E2E and document a testing strategy.

Understand the business requirements and lead the test team accordingly, This includes:

• Leading, guiding and monitoring the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites.

• Supervising the configuration management of test environments

• Scheduling tests for execution and then monitoring, measuring, controlling, and reporting on the test progress, the product quality status and the test results

• Adapting test plans and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions.

• Writing summary reports on test status.

• Implementing testing process excellence & expertise across our application portfolio

• Engaging with external teams on test requirements, planning and cases

• Deploying and managing resources for testing.

• Managing testing results by coaching, counselling, and providing constructive feedback.

• Implementing automated business regression testing capability

• Upskilling business knowledge in the testing team and ensuring this knowledge is applied in impact/risk assessments and test cases.


Mandatory Skills Description:

• 8+ years' relevant experience in a similar role Murex Testing role

• Experience with MxTest

• Experience in leading large test teams

• Experience writing test plans and test cases in the database and data analytics spaces.

• Hands-on SQL skills with exposure to complex joins.

• experience in integration, functional, non-functional & user acceptance testing

• Excellent presentation and planning skills - Should be familiar with Microsoft tools like PPT, Visio etc.

• Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams

• Previous exposure to scheduling tools


Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Strong attention to detail.

• Driven to deliver - proven ability to deliver the best possible results for the organisation; and shows determination, resourcefulness and a sense of purpose in achieving this