Job Description

Credit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Credit 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.
Credit 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.

For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.com

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Reference 2022-69737

Publication date 14/06/2022

Job description

Business type

Types of Jobs - Information systems / IT Project management

Job title

Transversal Back Office Expert Lead- Capital Market IT (CMI) IT

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Expected start date

01/08/2022

Management position

No

Job summary

Role description
The candidate will be under the responsibility of the FO/BO Product (Front-Office/Back-Office Product) head of section in ISAP for Capital Markets IT.
Candidate is expected to be a source of proposals for improving the practices of the support teams and quality management. The candidate is expected to be the subject matter expert in back-office IT support with hands-on level assignment to perform IT support activities and mentor/grown other team members.
Candidate has a business facing role by providing his expertise in business need impact analysis, solution proposal and rough estimates.

Main responsibilities as IT Back Office Expert Lead
Practices and knowledge management
Streamlining process and practices across each IT BO teams
Drafting & Reinforcing Best Practices specific to IT back-office, aligned with RCT best practices
Provide a standard skills matrix model and target level each IT BO teams. Revisit frequently the target and propose training/coaching initiatives to support the skilling up of the team, in alignment with each team leader
Propose standard of the knowledge base management for the applications and processes. Contribute with calypso expertise in the KB and ensure quality and accuracy of the KB
Create and lead a community of IT Back Office Support experts and be in charge of its animation

Expertise and support role for business users
Provide functional and technical expertise on Calypso as our main vendor for back office systems, and develop as well the expertise on the other platforms
Support business users (trader, risk manager, market risk monitoring operator, back-office and middle-office analyst, market data administrator).
Analyze and conduct impact analysis on problem and request that may lead to a project working closely with project, infrastructure and production teams
Provide requirements to build team for bug fixing and continuous improvements. Ensure quality of daily, weekly and monthly regulatory reporting for all sites, by providing expertise L3 whenever necessary.
Put in place the accurate trainings for Business to allow knowledge sharing and reduce number of daily requests from business to IT

Application monitoring responsibilities
Work on improving the tools used by the teams to ease monitoring, incident detections, etc Work with the different team leaders of the FO/BO IT Division to propose synergy and "new-way-of-working"
Supervise and monitor daily and monthly chains and handle user requests by working closely with project, infrastructure and production teams.
Process and issue daily, weekly and monthly reporting on data quality of risk chain in which the activity is usually more intense on monthly runs.
Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams)
In charge of coordinating Major Incidents impacting several teams

Position location

Geographical area

Asia, Singapore

City

Singapour

Candidate criteria

Minimal education level

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Academic qualification / Speciality

Education & Work Experience:

Bachelor's degree and above in relevant specialties (IT, finance).

Senior level experience (min. 12 years).

Level of minimal experience

11 years and more

Experience

Qualifications and Profile

The candidate should have 15+ years' experience in support activity and exposure to capital markets Front-Office/Back-Office, with at least 10 years' experience with CALYPSO as back office.

CALYPSO: Workflows - trade, transfer, message, Task Station, Accounting, Reporting and Reconciliation, Confirmations, Clearing & Settlement, Regulatory Reporting, Repo and Collateral, Cash Management.

Apex / Murex / Summit / Orchestrade and Kondor + knowledge is a plus

Control M, ITRS Geneos monitoring, SQL, UNIX

CI/CD tools

strong analytical and problem solving skills

pro-active mindset in security, incident preventive measures, improvement of the quality of service

expert of the trade lifecycle and financial products (FX, Money Market, Fixed Income, Bond, Repo, Sec Lending, etc.)

expert of post trade activities: trade management, confirmations, settlement, accounting and regulatory reporting

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Leadership

Excellent communications skills with team members across the organization