•Responsible of risk management applications: Credit Risk and Market Risk Computation.
•Requirements gathering and functional specification.
•Ensured Support and delivering projects
•Responsible of Application implementation and migration.
•Prepared and conducted Functional and users acceptance test.
•Ensured training and change management.
•Activities and tasks planning, co-ordination and follow through
•Ensured coordination and follow up with the different teams involved: R&D, Front office, Middle office, Management.
•Implemented and deployed SunGard Asset Management Platform for financial institutions including SocGen, Postbank, Raiffeisen Bank, DekaBank and CapitalGest
•Budget and resources forecast and follow through, and ensure that plan and budget objectives are met.
•Ensured application of “Wisdom” methodology normal procedure and standards including commitment to service levels.
•Enforced quality key points, norms and standards
•Ensured follow up and provided proper training to customers on the platform and specific financial products
•Clients need analysis and requirements gathering in order to translate them into functional specification, and engage internal teams (R&D, Quality assurance, Support and Product) to deliver adequate solutions.
•Functional and Gap analysis, training on new modules, Configuration, customization, integration and interface development.
•Assisted pre-sales team by providing workshop, presentation, workload estimation, demo and proof of concept.
•Implemented financial modules to handle Credit Default Swaps pricing, Asset Allocation, Compliance, performance Analysis and attribution, as well as Data gathering and Portfolio valuation.
•Analyzed and developed UnRisk and Markit interfaces for CDS pricing, FIX and Swift interfaces for orders and transactions processing between Front, Middle and Back office systems, and FIX interfaces for Staging platform (Tradeweb, Marketaxess, TradingScreen and BondVision).
•Prepared and supported UAT and Go live implementation.
•Project initiation, Implementation analysis, Technical architecture planning, Product acquisition and installation, Interface specification and development, Package parameterization, Technical procedure development, User procedure development, System testing, System acceptance, Transition, Return on experience, Project Management
•Provided financial Application and systems to support the SocGen trading floor activities and growth
•Provided support to infrastructure, managed development platform for R&D projects (UAT, TIA, Staging, Code freeze, Homologation, Production), and provided support to in-house financial applications (Rtpose, Gus, Rtparam, Value at Risk).
•Provided application status and technical support before, during and after trading hours.
•Led activities to install, configure, support, migrate and maintain application and infrastructure.
•Managed patch, delivery, releases, issues, end to end test, production update and bugs, and conducted post-mortem with the different teams.
•Coordination between the different involved teams: DBA, GLS, R&D, Architecture Operation.
•Scripts development and console for monitoring.
•Elaboration of user’s guide, checks procedures, troubleshooting and exploitation document.
•Participated to Infrastructure WE and DRP test.
•Liaised with users, project managers, systems and database administrators and R&D.
•Participated in all facets of production support, including problems investigation, systems enhancements, bug fixes, configuration setup, environments configuration management, change and releases management, monitoring of production platforms, incident management, impact assessments, team supervision, performance management and quality assurance: Non Regression and functional testing for new releases
•Provided consulting and support on financial infrastructure (Reuters 3000 XTRA, RMDS, Tibco platform) to Reuter’s clients, including BNP Paribas, Fortis, Credit Agricole, and ABN AMRO
•Liaised with market data users and technology staff and management to provide access to market data and exploitation tools in line with clients needs.
•Installation, Configuration, Support and documentation.
•Issues analysis and reproduction on test platform.
•Built up and maintained good client relations with customers, end users and internal teams.
•Resolved, suggested solutions and workaround or escalate client’s issues, collating user feedback and report it to the respective team.
•Ensured production problems, bugs, system problems, changes are documented and requests are acted upon promptly.