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Akila Kouchkar

Functional Project Manager | Banking & Finance

€800/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Akila

Freelance Business Analyst Project Manager with over 20 years of experience, I support players in corporate and investment banking (CIB) and retail banking in managing complex, regulatory, and cross-functional projects.

Specializing in front-to-back issues, I work on the complete market operations chain (trading, middle office, back office, reference data, risk management, reporting, compliance). My areas of expertise cover projects related to financial products (rates, credit, equity, derivatives), order management systems, the post-trade chain, as well as regulations (EMIR, MiFID II, SFDR, DORA).

I ensure rigorous scoping, writing functional specifications, coordination with IT teams (development, architecture, data), acceptance testing management, and change management, in agile or hybrid environments.

Methodical, proactive, and results-oriented, I am immediately available for high-stakes business or regulatory missions, working closely with front-office, finance, or risk teams.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • BP2S
    Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager OST
    September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
    ACHIEVEMENTS: Contribution to migration projects
    ✓ Functional scoping
    ✓ Definition of the strategy and roadmap for the Interfaces project, including the design and implementation of communications with the client/account reference data. Implementation of data flows between BdT and AceTP for data acquisition: subscriptions to packages including subscriptions to notifications, eligible securities positions, and transaction confirmations.
  • SGCIB
    Project Manager for digitalization of operational risk indicators – GRC / GBSU
    PRIVATE EQUITY
    September 2023 - August 2024 (11 months)
    In a drive for harmonization and optimization of risk management, GRC (Risk and Compliance Management) is launching a project to digitize the operational risk indicators used in its exchanges with GBSU managers. The objective is to ensure coherent, reliable, and centralized communication around these indicators.
    This project is part of a digital transformation dynamic for the risk function, aiming for better operational efficiency, increased indicator traceability, and finer risk management within GBSU.

    ACHIEVEMENTS:
    ✓ Define the scope of indicators to be digitized and the macro functional needs of GRC,
    ✓ Design the target organization of the GRC function within this new digital framework,
    ✓ Define the target architecture (tools, data flows, governance),
    ✓ Develop a detailed project plan for the solution deployment.
  • CACIB
    Senior Project Manager Trade Finance
    September 2020 - September 2023 (3 years)
    ACHIEVEMENTS:
    ✓ Assistance in formalizing needs and project scoping
    ✓ Writing of scoping documents
    ✓ Writing of functional and detailed specifications
    ✓ Participation in the implementation of the TDD/BDD testing strategy, Test Automation, Cucumber/Gherkin. Writing of acceptance test plans and test strategies, Functional and non-regression testing. Acceptance/Validation. Coordination of business user teams, End-to-End testing, UAT, etc.

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Education

  • Mechanical and Computer Engineering
    University Of Science And Technology Houari
    Ingénieur Mécanique et Informatique
  • USTHB
    USTHB

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