Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (ISAP Singapore) Careers

Who we are

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 12th largest bank by total assets.

• Our Singapore center (“ISAP” or “Information Systems Asia Pacific”) is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris Head Office)” for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

-          Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems

-          Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.

-          Providing premium In-house Banking applications,

• This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.
• We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

The Department and Position

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market applications used by worldwide users.

The candidate will be involved with many front line IT professionals who understand the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The candidate will also be in touch with business users, infrastructure engineer and system managers.

The candidate will join the Singapore Capital Market CIBOS (Calypso as International Back-Office System) team in charge of supporting the Back Office (BO) system used for Foreign eXchange and Money Markets activities. The team is managing the interfaces with various upstream and downstream system and also of key BO tasks such as Confirmations, Payments, Regulatory Reporting, Accounting and Reconciliation reports.

The team works closely with other upstream and  downstream systems such as – Front Office applications (BLOFI, KONDOR+, OMEGA, ORCHESTRADE…), Back-Office applications (SUMMIT…), Teams managing referencial Market data (CARD, SDI, MDA Bond…) and Middle-Office Systems (RTP, GLORY, RDJ...)

Mission

As an intern, your mission is to become a valuable asset to our organization by:

• Interacting comfortably with people: Building strong collaborative relationships within the team and stakeholders.
• Interest in Bank activities: Apetite to understand the business activities of the bank on Capital Markets.
• Process automation: Appetite for continuous improvement and automation of new as well as existing process to enhance efficiency and reduce the TAT.

During your internship, you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn about Capital Market Back Office activities: interfacing with different upstream and down stream systems, handling of client confirmation and payments, accounting entries generation, transactional reporting, Regulatory requirements and purpose of reconciliation activities b/w FO & BO – opportunity to learn end-to-end investment banking workflows.
• On the job training to directly apply your learning and be impactful.
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts, including Business Analysts, Support Analysts, Developers, DevOps Engineers, etc.
• Benefit from the guidance of a dedicated mentor.
• Deliver on jobs that directly impact the banks day-to-day activities and witness the added value of your job directly from business lines.
• Learn on a one of the leader Capital Market software: CALYPSO.

Qualifications and Profile

Candidates should have:

• Understanding of Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Basic knowledge of Java, PL/SQL & Linux.

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Excellent Aptitude, Curious to learn and inquisitive.
• Autonomous, self motivated and excellent team player.
• Fluency in English - as acting in a multi-cultural environment.

The scope will be adapted depending on the situation and the progress of the trainee.