Liquidity & Treasury Project Specialist

12-month fixed term opportunity
- Join a fast paced and growing team with a global reach. Flexible and inclusive work environment for all

At AustralianSuper, we truly care about our colleagues. We know work and life are intertwined. That’s why we support the diverse needs of everyone and have policies that enable us all to thrive and be truly flexible. We ensure diversity is celebrated for the opportunity it provides us all to learn and grow and deliver better outcomes for members.

**Your new role**

This role is part of the Business Analysis
- Investment Group. The role of the Liquidity & Treasury Project Specialist is designed to support the delivery of a strategic global program of the Fund, the Liquidity & Treasury Management System (LTMS) program. This will mean engaging with internal business SMEs, system vendor and other key partners to assist on-board new business solutions and/or enhancing existing business solutions, to evolve the Group’s’ platforms, services & capabilities that underpin the broader operating model.

The Liquidity & Treasury Management System (LTMS) program will deliver an integrated platform to enable a coordinated approach to managing cash and capital and support enhanced liquidity and treasury management at whole of fund level. The program is a multi-phase and multi-year global program leveraging many technologies, data sources and internal and external partners.

Some key responsibilities but not limited to;
- Identify best practice through critical analysis of the Liquidity & Treasury Management Operating Model. Ensure the delivery team is driving business readiness, globally, across Operations, Treasury, Portfolio and Compliance teams.
- Translate front, middle and back-office business requirements into Calypso functional requirements. Identify the business need, determine the solution approach and define solution scope (incl. translation of workplan and functional specifications into JIRA ticket items and associated documentation)
- Work with business stakeholders to plan, build, test and implement multiple releases across various financial instruments (fixed income, money market) and currencies (incl AUD. USD, GBP, EUR/ other FX)
- Ensure fit for purpose mapping of product lifecycle events from trade capture through to settlement (process, controls, procedures, etc.) are documented and converted by the project team to requirements for configuration/ code changes to platform, including impact to business capabilities
- Ensure the operational capabilities required for the system’s deployment to be successful are widely known and in place to deliver to schedule
- Support Change team by providing impacts to people capabilities in readiness to enable full adoption of the new ways of working to maximise system’s capabilities (e.g. reduce operational risk and increase investment returns for members)
- Challenge our vendors and strategic partners using your extensive domain expertise within the platform to get the best outcomes for the business and ultimately for our members.
- Share knowledge with the delivery team of how to best use the vendor’s product to ensure compliance to Treasury mandates, Liquidity/Risk and regulatory reporting requirements
- Develop and mentor internal staff to reduce vendor reliance in configuration (workflows, integration, reporting etc) and ongoing in BAU
- Contribute to all facets of the project delivery lifecycle from design, build, test, deployment, production support and transition to operations.
- Contribute to any necessary governance packs, as required by the program / business.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops to support requirements elicitation, issue identification, solution design (incl usage Calypso options for the business), decision making Support successful delivery of defined project outcomes

**What you’ll need**
- The ability to translate front, middle and back-office business requirements into Calypso functional requirements. Identifying the business need, determining the solution approach, and maintaining solution scope
- 5+ years of hands on experience working as a business and/ or risk & compliance analyst in Capital markets, specifically implementation and ongoing maintenance of Calypso
- Ability and experience in E2E requirements management lifecycle
- Proven ability to synthesize detailed information and confidently present to senior stakeholders
- Considerable product knowledge including the following financial instruments:

- MM Money Markets, (FI) Fixed Interest & (IR) Interest Rate, FX, Futures, Derivatives (Options & Swaps), OTC & Structured Products, Bonds & REPO's, CFD's, Asset Backed Securities
- Operational experience in one or more the following disciplines: Front Office, Collateral management, Middle Office, Trade Support / Bookings, Corporate Actions, Settlements & Confirmations, Payments, Reconciliations, Regulatory Reporting, Performance & Attribution.
- Ability to influence internal and externa