IRD (Interest Rate Derivatives) – IT Analyst

General information

Entity
Crédit Agricole CIB is the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the world’s n°11 bank measured by Tier One Capital (The Banker, July 2016).

The Bank offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services structured around six major divisions:

– Client Coverage & International

– Network, Global Investment Banking,

– Structured Finance,

– Global Markets,

– Debt Optimisation & Distribution,

– International Trade & Transaction Banking.

The Bank provides support to clients in large international markets through its network with a presence in major countries in Europe, America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

Reference number
2016-18643

Publication date
27/01/2017

Job description
Business type
Corporate & Investment Banking

Contract type
Permanent Contract

Job summary
Summary

To analyze, develop, implement and support systems related to IRD IT – including interfaces to other systems, the systems’ users and all aspects related to the systems’ operation.

Key Responsibilities

– Provide functional and technical solutions for user or management requests.

– Design and development of effective and efficient systems applied to specific user problems and activities.

– Conduct feasibility studies, systems design and make recommendations on the appropriate action to be taken.

– Support Front office, back office, middle office and risk users during their daily activity

– Provide input to general architecture – including hardware, network, tools, software, etc.

– Provide support for BCP activities.

– Analyze and coordinate with development IT team based in Paris.

– Gather new requirements based on business requests

– Provide application support for assigned systems and all projects related to these systems. This includes after-office support for nightly batch processes as well as miscellaneous processes or actions that can be done during non-business hours

– Follow up on special requests from management.

– Develop good relations with the business (FO, MO/Risk, BO), follow relationship with third parties, manage / assist members

Job location
Geographical area
America, United States Of America

City
NEW YORK

Candidate criteria
Academic qualification / Speciality
4-year under graduate degree in Computer Science or Finance

Experience
3 years – Experience in a corporate, investment bank or similar financial institution preferred

Required skills
– Self-starter

– Able to work independently with minimal supervision

– Communications skills

– Knowledge of Fixed Income / FX products like CDs, CPs, Bonds, Repo, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, FX Spot, FX Forwards, FX Swaps

– Knowledge of financial markets

Technical skills required
– Unix Shell scripting and knowledge of UNIX tools such as awk, sed

– SQL

– Sybase DBMS and Stored Procedures

– Microsoft Excel skills

– Knowledge of Orchestrade and Summit applications (desirable)

– Perl programming (desirable)

– Python (desirable)

– Visual Basic for Applications (desirable)