Project Manager – Calypso Implementation recruitment
This should include support and/or implementation of Front and/or Middle and/or Back Office Systems and for Derivatives in one or more of FX, Interest Rates, Credit or Equity.
Responsibilities
- In-depth, hands-on involvement directly implementing Calypso.
- Take the business requirements, and work with project/systems team to implement those requirements. Follow up with the users to test the implementation, achieve signoff, and continue to move the system toward go-live.
- Work hands on with the system to configure it and test it to ensure that it meets the business requirements. This will include areas such as setup of market data, including zero curves, probability curves, correlation matrices, dividend curves, etc., and the underlying financial instruments that drive the generation of those curves. This will also include the setup of pricing parameters and trade capture options that drive the valuation of trades based on the market data. And it will also include the configuration of rules-based scenarios for capturing market and credit risk, general multi-factor sensitivity analyses, and PnL.
- Assist in identifying functional gaps in the core front or back office product, and to create detailed functional specifications for the gaps.
- During the development of enhancements, you test enhancements to ensure they will meet business requirements. Manage issues and track timeline of development deliverables, and stakeholders informed of progress. Additionally, you will lead with the development of the project plan, including identification of key setup and configuration tasks, scope considerations, timeline and scheduling, and resource requirements.
Skills Requirements:
- c10 years working in systems or business analysis, preferably in the capital markets industry and specifically doing Calypso.
- Back Office: Detailed hands-on knowledge about industry-standard back office processing functional areas, including settlements (SWIFT, ACH, FedWire), documentation (confirmation, advices, reset advices, etc.) and accounting (general ledger, PnL accounting, etc.). Functional experience should encompass any or all of the following asset classes: credit derivatives, interest rate derivatives, equity derivatives, fixed income, or FX.
- Strong technical skills – even though this is a business position, you should must be very “tech savvy” and technically self-sufficient – ability to read code will be highly valued, and experience designing/building front office systems will be especially valuable. Some knowledge of Java or C++ will be very useful.
- Strong ability to map conceptual financial and business elements to practical system capabilities. Should be able to translate front office business requirements into actual system configuration.
August 19, 2012
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