Capco - Senior Consultant / Principal Consultant - Capital Markets

• Capital Markets Domain Expertise • Demonstrate strong understanding of capital markets products, processes, and operating models across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives, and structured products. • Understand the trade lifecycle, including trade execution, confirmation, clearing, settlement, collateral management, and reconciliations. • Work across front-office, middle-office, and back-office functions, depending on project requirements. • Understand market infrastructure, including exchanges, central counterparties (CCPs), central securities depositories (CSDs), and custodians. • Support initiatives involving trading platforms, order management systems (OMS), execution management systems (EMS), and post-trade processing platforms. • Business Analysis and Consulting • Engage with business stakeholders to understand business needs, pain points, and operational challenges. • Conduct workshops, stakeholder interviews, process assessments, and gap analyses. • Translate business needs into business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria. • Develop current-state and future-state process maps and recommend process improvements. • Perform impact assessments for business, operational, regulatory, and technology changes. • Support solution design and ensure alignment between business objectives and technical implementation. • Project Delivery and Implementation • Drive assigned workstreams across the project lifecycle, from requirements gathering and solution design to testing, implementation, and post-go-live support. • Coordinate with business, technology, operations, risk, compliance, and vendor teams. • Support Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews, where applicable. • Manage dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables within the assigned workstream. • Prepare project documentation, status reports, presentations, and stakeholder updates. • Support change management, user training, and business readiness activities • Regulatory and Risk Initiatives • Support regulatory and market-driven transformation initiatives relevant to capital markets. • Assess the impact of regulatory changes on trading, clearing, settlement, reporting, and risk management processes. • Contribute to initiatives involving transaction reporting, trade transparency, market conduct, and regulatory compliance. • Support implementation of relevant market standards and industry initiatives, such as Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs), ISO 20022, and applicable settlement or reporting reforms. • Work with risk and compliance stakeholders to identify control gaps and support remediation activities. • Testing and Quality Assurance • Develop test scenarios, test cases, and test data based on business requirements. • Support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and end-to-end testing. • Validate trade flows, transaction data, reconciliations, and downstream system integrations. • Track defects, coordinate resolution with technology teams, and manage retesting. • Support implementation planning, cutover activities, and post-production validation. • Stakeholder and Client Management • Build effective relationships with business users, senior stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors. • Facilitate discussions to resolve business and functional issues. • Communicate complex capital markets concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. • Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure timely delivery of agreed outcomes. • Mentor junior analysts and contribute to knowledge sharing and team development.