ENSIIE

Senior Consultant

Aladdin® by BlackRock
– Day-to-day support (Front-to-Back, Risk, Performances, Accounting…), enhancements
– Decommissioning of Fusion Invest; ensuring that Aladdin® becomes the new backbone
– Set up Jira Service Management for the team

Ofi Invest Asset Management

Business Analyst

Configuration and testing of Fusion Invest 21.2 & 21.3 – REPO, Stock Lending, Loans and Forex
– Finastra had shifted its strategy towards relying more on external consultants, better familiar with client-side implementations
– Leveraged on 10+ years of installing and using Fusion Invest (prev. Sophis Value) to guide Professional Services teams
– Assisted consultants as needed: documented procedures and features, created change requests, kept track of ongoing issues

Finastra

Senior Business Consultant

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Community Tutor (French, English)

Redesigned Web-based platform to manage sovereign debt restructuring (Paris Club)
– While the activity is not new, the software previously used was growing obsolete – hence the need to modernize it
– Wrote user stories, use cases, unit and functional tests (and later ran them); designed screens and user interfaces (UI/UX)
– Kept a product backlog and worked closely with the development team; continuous integration/delivery paradigm

Banque de France

Product Owner & Business Analyst

BlackRock Aladdin's integration: non-vanilla OTCs for ETF, Indexed, Quantitative and Structured (Front/Middle Office)
– BNP Paribas AM had grown accustomed to using swap-like products that buy-side suites like Aladdin can’t quite handle
– Gathered requirements (user stories, use cases) to build a backlog/roadmap to manage these unconventional instruments
– Gained a solid understanding of Aladdin, functional and technical, while trying to design new tools and adapt processes
– Facilitated cross-team efforts (IT, Business & vendor); training and testing (including user acceptance), change management

BNP Paribas Asset Management

Proxy Product Owner & Senior Business Analyst

Robotic process automation (RPA) & rapid application development for Risk, Legal & Compliance
– Société Générale (RBDF) wanted to assess the impact of RPA using proofs of concept on simple, yet time-consuming, tasks
– Built minimum viable products (MVPs) for group functions partially using RPA (Automation Anywhere & Microsoft’s VBA)
– Optimized processes while evaluating the target solution; ultimately, coached young developers as the effort turned into RAD

Société Générale

Business Consultant & Solutions Developer

Sophis Value 3.2 to Misys FusionInvest 7.1.3, functional and technical (Toolkit, C++ and C#)
– Helped in rewriting part of the legacy C++ codebase in C# – which had, by now, become the preferred language
– Offered my expertise as to how new modules, services or features could prove useful to Boussard & Gavaudan
– Installed and customized new FusionInvest modules, servers and clients (Compliance, Nostro Accounts)

BOUSSARD & GAVAUDAN

Project Developer

Revisited anti-money laundering standards and practices, using NICE Actimize-SAM (Suspicious Activity Monitoring)
– After auditing Natixis, EY had been tasked with implementing new scenarios and drafting more rigorous AML policies
– Provided compliance officers with basic knowledge of securities, asset classes, pricing and valuation (securities vs. cash)
– Assisted both Natixis and EY in designing new scenarios, identifying relevant cash flows and exchanged amounts

Natixis

Consultant & Facilitator 

Credit risk in-house solution, issuer & counterparty risk – MBSs (TBAs, Pools and ARMs) in particular
– Trading of MBS-like products (TBAs for the most part) was expected to soar, from about 100 deals to 1,000+ deals/day
– To achieve regulatory and internal compliance, Monte Carlo simulations now had to be used (CVaR, EAD, EEPE, RWA)
– Upgraded tools and processes to handle these new products and activities (eg. data feeding/integrity and pricing)

Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB

Project Manager & Business Analyst

Misys Sophis Value (now Finastra Fusion Invest) as a backbone: FO to BO, Risk, Performance, Accounting, Reporting
– NAV reconciliation with fund accountants, record keeping and valuation (positions); adjusting models as required
– Full customization of the solution to meet “business as usual” expectations, while simultaneously launching new products
– Incident resolution, user assistance, training, delivering fixes and enhancements – working closely with the vendor
– L2/L3 support, functional and technical, for all installed modules, servers & clients; in other words, all customers

Lyxor Asset Management

Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst & Functional Architect

In-house decision making tool for Front Office & Risk: smart data warehouse, business objects, services and front-ends
– Business-critical clients were made available to fund managers and risk officers; maintenance and new features
– Enriched the platform by creating a new asset allocation component designed to manage Swiss pension funds
– Hands-on L1-L3 support and operational support: user assistance, training, incident resolution, fixes and enhancements

AXA Investment Managers

Project Manager, Business Analyst & Functional Architect at AXA Investment Managers

Loans management software (real estate, consumer credit) – full product life cycle, Sales to Back Office
– Functional testing & quality assurance, Production monitoring and L3 support, feasibility studies for new initiatives
– Designed tools and process enhancements to facilitate day-to-day activities, leveraging on the team’s expertise
– Facilitated interactions between stakeholders: conception, execution, technical testing, document management...

Quality Assurance Analyst

Inetum

LTOM implementation and operational excellence: process enhancements, ERPs, custom solutions
– Implemented a new fee model along with a much improved, reliable invoicing process – thereby regaining customer trust
– Increased productivity and overall efficiency was achieved through process fine-tuning, coaching and training
– Designed tactical solutions for Sales, Marketing & Finance to automate critical P&L-impacting tasks

Change Manager, Project Manager & Business Analyst at AXA Investment Managers

Liaison between business developers, account managers and eBooking software vendors (ASP, SaaS)
– Provided input to tailor solutions to prospects – leading to new business
– Performed quality assessment (user experience, responsiveness, usability and content)
– Handled all IT-related concerns, as part of a Sales team

American Express

Project Manager

Capgemini

Consultant

Helped developers and project/program managers with solution design, standards and guidelines; later became responsible for EMEA’s websites content (Interwoven TeamSite) along with various eMarketing and CRM platforms
– Application server administration (IIS, Apache Tomcat, iPlanet) and software deployment
– Web applications development – ASP, JSP and CGI, primarily
– Team and budget management: 4-6 direct reports, on-site and offshore; lights on: $50m, projects: $35m (per annum)
– Level 2/3 support and training, assisting users across Europe

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