Job Description

Cr\xc3\xa9dit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Cr\xc3\xa9dit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022).
8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank\'s clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.
Cr\xc3\xa9dit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.
The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.

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Reference 2023-84511

Publication date 22/12/2023

Job description

Business type

Types of Jobs - IT, Digital et Data

Job title

Head of Post Trade IT Section (Ref 57719)

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Job summary

The Department and Position

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market applications used by worldwide users.

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The role will focus primarily on the build and delivery in-house component platform in line with the major global projects with a high value budget. You will lead and keep engage 10 to 15 team members composed by business analyst, technical lead, software developers and Application support.

Main duties details

Leadership and Strategy

• Provide strategic leadership in the development and execution of technology initiatives for post-trade activities aligned with the architecture master plan defined with the business
• Interface with effective communication with business stakeholders to align their needs and collect their feedback
• Interface with head office IT division head covered by these activities.
• Foster innovation and change management aligned with global CMI strategy.

Organization management and efficiency

• Develop a good autonomy of the team head while conducting day to day activities
• Optimize the sourcing composition (role, skills, seniority) to perform/deliver the activities under her responsibilities
• Establish and ensure an efficient governance, reporting and escalation with various stakeholders including business
• Ensure efficient collaboration with transversal team like architecture & innovation, COO office
• Manage the IT budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources for projects and ongoing operations
• Collaborate with finance team both in the region and head office to create accurate forecasts aligned with agreement with head of IT division
• Monitor budget performance and make recommendations for optimization
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and flexibility in response to changing business needs.

Team and expertise management

• Ensure operational efficiency of his/her teams in their activities of software development, production support, devops
• Guide the team to achieve the development goals set in conjunction with business objectives
• Define and manage the collective objectives of the section and the individual ones
• Organize the work/activities of the teams to ensure the stability of the production throughout the following pillars: application monitoring, incident and requests management, problem management and continuous improvement
• Ensure the good culture and mind set in term of compliance and security matters across all team members

Supplementary Information

Secondary duties

• Serving as backup person for absent ISAP/CMI Manager and her/his team members when required
• Other duties may be assigned

The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties while maintaining close communication with rest of project/support team.

Position location

Geographical area

Asia, Singapore

City

Singapour

Candidate criteria

Minimal education level

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Academic qualification / Speciality

Bachelor\'s degree in engineering

Level of minimal experience

6-10 years

Experience

• At least 10 years in Software development or DevOps team
• At least 5 years in agile
• Solid experience with business interaction
• At least 5-year experience with international investment banking domain
• Relevant experience into post trade process for several financial product (Treasury, FX, Bonds, Credit, IRD\xe2\x80\xa6)

Required skills

• Understanding of trade life cycle, financial products (Treasury, FX, Bonds, Credit, IRD\xe2\x80\xa6)
• Exposure to Capital Market FO/BO system (E.g. Calypso, Summit, Kondor+, Murex\xe2\x80\xa6)

Cr\xc3\xa9dit Agricole