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Temenos Configuration Specialist - Securities at Capco

Switzerland - ZurichFull-timeTech & EngineeringPosted 17 days ago
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About the Role

<p>Joining Capco means becoming part of an innovative and dynamic consultancy firm, committed to fostering an inclusive environment where you are encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We embrace individuality as a key factor in promoting diversity and inclusion, values that sit at the core of our success. We aim to attract a wide variety of talented professionals with different skills and experiences. If you require any adjustments to support your application process, please feel free to inform us at any stage.</p> <p><strong>ABOUT CAPCO</strong></p> <p>Capco is a global technology and business consultancy that is passionate about supporting clients in the financial services sector to grow and succeed in today's ever-changing world. We are:</p> <ul> <li>Experts in banking, capital markets, payments and asset and wealth management.</li> <li>Trusted advisors in core banking, securities and wealth management transformation, regulatory change, risk management and technology modernization.</li> <li>A company dedicated to continuous development and excited to welcome top talent to help us drive innovation and deliver lasting results.</li> <li>A business built on agility, collaboration, and entrepreneurial spirit.</li> </ul> <p><strong>THE ROLE</strong></p> <p>As a Temenos Configuration Specialist - Securities, you will play a key role in delivering a complex core banking and securities transformation for a leading Swiss financial institution. You will focus on the functional configuration, integration, testing, and deployment of Temenos Securities and related Temenos Core / Transact capabilities. Working across securities operations, business analysis, architecture, and technology, you will translate business requirements into robust configuration solutions supporting highly automated front-to-back trade processing, settlement, position management, custody, and asset servicing.</p> <p><strong>YOUR CAPCO DAY</strong></p> <ul> <li>Configure securities products, instrument and processing parameters, transaction rules, settlement instructions, fees and commissions, custody and position settings, exception handling, and asset-servicing parameters within Temenos Securities.</li> <li>Translate business and operational requirements into functional designs, configuration workbooks, parameter specifications, and implementation-ready solutions aligned with the target architecture and Temenos standards.</li> <li>Perform fit-gap and impact analyses, promoting configuration-first solutions and identifying where controlled extensions, interfaces, or data changes are required.</li> <li>Support end-to-end securities processing across order and trade capture, confirmation, settlement, position maintenance, custody, income events, corporate actions, and related cash movements for multiple asset classes.</li> <li>Apply strong knowledge of equities, fixed income, funds, ETFs, and structured products, together with post-trade standards and market practices including SWIFT, ISO 20022, settlement status handling, and straight-through processing.</li> <li>Collaborate with architects and integration teams on interfaces between Temenos and front-office platforms, brokers and trading venues, custodians and CSDs, market and reference data providers, payments, compliance controls, general ledger, and reconciliation platforms</li> <li>Define and review functional test scenarios and acceptance criteria, and provide hands-on support during system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and end-to-end securities lifecycle validation.</li> <li>Analyse defects and production-like issues, trace configuration, reference-data, position, and transaction-flow root causes, coordinate remediation with functional and technical teams, and validate fixes through structured retesting.</li> <li>Support configuration promotion, release preparation, migration and cutover activities, go-live readiness, hypercare, and the creation of operational runbooks and support documentation.</li> <li>Facilitate workshops with securities operations, product owners, portfolio and investment teams, business analysts, architects, developers, testers, finance, and control functions to clarify requirements and resolve design decisions.</li> <li>Coordinate closely with Temenos, implementation partners, custodians, market-data providers, and internal delivery teams, managing configuration dependencies and ensuring consistency across environments and related workstreams.</li> <li>Contribute to configuration governance, documentation standards, knowledge transfer, and capability building so that securities solutions remain maintainable after implementation.</li> </ul> <p><strong>YOUR CAPCO FIT</strong></p> <ul> <li>At least 7 years of experience in banking technology, securities operations, wealth management, or core banking transformation, including substantial hands-on responsibility for configuration and implementation activities.</li> <li>At least 4 years of practical experience with Temenos, ideally including Temenos Securities and Temenos Core / Transact, with participation in at least two implementation, upgrade, or major transformation programmes.</li> <li>Strong functional knowledge of the securities lifecycle, including trade processing, settlement, positions, custody, and asset servicing, preferably in private-banking, wealth-management, or securities-services environments.</li> <li>Proven ability to configure and troubleshoot Temenos Securities products and parameters across transaction processing, settlement, positions, custody, fees and commissions, exceptions, and asset-servicing processes.</li> <li>Strong understanding of multi-asset securities processing, corporate actions, income events, settlement and custody concepts, SWIFT and ISO 20022 messaging, static and reference data, and straight-through processing.</li> <li>Working knowledge of APIs, message and file interfaces, market and reference data integration, reconciliation, accounting integration, and batch processing; SQL or comparable data-analysis skills are an advantage.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience working in complex banking or wealth-management programmes with multiple business, technology, vendor, custodian, and implementation-partner stakeholders.</li> <li>Structured problem-solving skills and the ability to translate complex securities requirements into practical, testable, and maintainable Temenos configurations.</li> <li>Comfortable working in agile or hybrid delivery environments, taking ownership of deliverables from requirements and design through testing, release, and post-go-live stabilization.</li> <li>Professional fluency in English (C1 level or equivalent), including the ability to produce clear functional and technical documentation.</li> <li>German proficiency at B2 level or higher is strongly preferred for client-facing collaboration in Switzerland.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ready to take the Next Step&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>