Required skills
Technical
• At least 3 years functional experience in Calypso environments
• Knowledge of Tradeport and Ice.
• Functional analysis of minor change requests.
• Setup and coordinate QA tests regarding minor change requests.
• Working in Prince II environments
Business Knowledge (good knowledge in at least 4 of the following 5 items):
• Financial Markets in general
• Commodities
• Back Office.
• Finance.
• Market Risk.
Other
• Bachelor or Masters degree
• Fluent in spoken and written English (mandatory).
• Fluent in spoken and written Dutch. (preferably)
• Business-focused (mandatory).
• Highly pro-active, Energetic, driven and a high level of motivation (mandatory).
• High degree of professionalism (mandatory).
Outline
Markets Solutions offers a challenging environment in which we operate as a part of the ‘THE BANK’ Markets Business. We offer excellent functional and technical expertise and aim for a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) architecture.
We will operate as entrepreneurs which fits the character of our clients with agile and time-to-market solutions as key values.
Building on professional people who are constantly stimulated in their Personal development we offer an inspiring workplace.
As such, we are the ‘Engine Inside’.
Within Markets Solutions, the sub-domain Commodities is located.
The Commodities IT Solutions team will provide support and IT services to the business units of ‘THE BANK’ involved in the sales and trading of Energy & Carbon, Precious Metals, Agri and other Commodities. Parties involved are: Front-Office, Back-Office and others enablers such as Risk, Finance and Control, as well as internal and external regulators.
High business satisfaction will be provided based on the unique proximity and knowledge of business needs of the trading units as well as on the sound knowledge of IT.
The department of Commodities IT Solutions will:
 Act as one-stop-shop for Business for all IT related issues: “Hear the immediate, see the long term”
 Act as bridge between Business and IT: “Know the business, understand the requirements”
 Enable Markets to entirely focus on their business activities while having optimal IT support
 Coordinate and monitor all IT developments, by (1) playing a main role in helping to define developments: requirements, design, and (2) monitoring development cycles: priorities, time lines, funds, resources, quality
Systems being used by the departments are primarily Calypso, Tradeport, ICE.
Role outline
An experienced Functional Analyst who is in charge of:
• direct assistance to the Commodities business
• user support
• Functional analysis of minor change requests (by business, backoffice, risk, finance related to the Commodities business-chain)
• activities coordination
• communication with the users
• incidents monitoring.
Required skills
Technical
• At least 3 years functional experience in Calypso environments
• Knowledge of Tradeport and Ice.
• Functional analysis of minor change requests.
• Setup and coordinate QA tests regarding minor change requests.
• Working in Prince II environments
Business Knowledge (good knowledge in at least 4 of the following 5 items):
• Financial Markets in general
• Commodities
• Back Office.
• Finance.
• Market Risk.
Other
• Bachelor or Masters degree
• Fluent in spoken and written English (mandatory).
• Fluent in spoken and written Dutch. (preferably)
• Business-focused (mandatory).
• Highly pro-active, Energetic, driven and a high level of motivation (mandatory).
• High degree of professionalism (mandatory).
Additional Information
‘THE BANK’ has 10 lines of business. Global Markets is one of these and provides products to customers of other business lines, such as Commercial Banking, Public Banking, Corporate Finance & Capital Markets, Brokerage, Custody & Clearing and Corporate Banking, as well as Institutional clients and other ‘THE BANK’ entities. Typical products are FOREX, money markets, securities finance,
I am a professional banker and has worked in different banks including ABN AMRO BANK, on different positions and have indepth knowledge of financial markets and different financial products.
Hi, I have worked on Oil implementation and understand the ICE interface. Given the specific requirements, I can churn out the code quickly to implement change request besides high quality business / technical design documents.