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Ali Chaara

Senior Business Analyst | CIB

€720/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Ali

Lead Business Analyst | Data & Risk | CIB

Mathematical Modeling Engineer (ENSEIRB-MATMECA), I have over 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst and Project Manager in demanding CIB environments: Société Générale CIB, Euronext, and Crédit Agricole CIB.
My core business: translating complex business needs into clear functional and technical specifications, within Agile/Scrum data and IT teams.

Credit Risk & Market Risk:

Implementation of Basel IV metrics, calculation flows on derivative products (Futures, Options, Swaps, FX), ESG rating
Data & SQL: modeling, feeding, and migration of databases (SQL Server, Oracle SQL, BigQuery/GCP), financial data analysis
Business Analysis: requirements gathering, writing functional and technical-functional specifications, test plans, validation, business-IT coordination
Project Management: release steering, CAPEX/OPEX budget management, stakeholder reporting, decision-making committee facilitation

Technical environment:
SQL Server · Oracle SQL · BigQuery · GCP · ActivePivot · JIRA · Python · C# · .Net
Familiar with Risk Analysts, Front Office, and Tech teams, I quickly integrate into complex regulatory and financial contexts.
Available for freelance missions in data/finance Business Analysis or IT project management in the banking and financial sector
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

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

Experience

  • Credit Agricole CIB
    Risk Business Analyst
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2024 - Today (2 years and 7 months)
    Montrouge, France
    Business Analyst in a team of 5 Business Analysts working on PRISM, an internal credit risk monitoring tool for Risk Analysts (Application developed in .Net and JavaScript for the UI part and the Activepivot Framework for data management).
    • Requirements gathering from Risk Analysts and writing functional specifications.
    • Development of test plans, execution, and validation of functionalities to ensure their compliance with requirements and optimal quality.
    • Support for Business Analysts on new Features.
    • Validation of Business Analysts' Specs and test cases.
    • Organization of Sprint Planning and Sprint Review.
    • Preparation of the RADaR 2 project for the migration of the database (SQL Server) to GCP cloud.
    Projects Completed:
    • Basel IV data implementation.
    • Implementation of flows (estimation of metrics in futures for the next 50 years) for paid risks and internal risks.
    • Implementation of FX delivery risk.
    • Implementation of several flows from different teams to receive and integrate raw data from various teams into the global database (CASA Data, Calculation Libraries Data, CCC Market Data, ...).
    • Creation from scratch of the internal ESG scores application at CACIB.
    SQL Data Analysis Atlassian JIRA Active Directory Project Management
  • EURONEXT
    Archi Business Analyst & IT Project Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    September 2022 - January 2024 (1 year and 4 months)
    Paris, France
    IT Business Analyst and IT Project Manager working on the Euronext information system architecture for the Italian Stock Exchange BITA migration project.
    • Requirements gathering from Business: Market Surveillance, Sales.
    • Writing functional specifications.
    • Writing regulatory specifications RTS24 for ESMA.
    • Validation of test scenarios.
    • Workshops and coordination between IT teams and Business teams.
    • Post-production support on various projects: BTF & Cross Orders (Euronext Legacy), Derivatives Contracts (BITA Migration).
    • Participation in phase 3 of the BITA migration.
    Projects Completed:
    • Derivatives Controls & Strategies: Implementation of various controls present on the Italian stock exchange for derivative contracts (Commodities, Futures, and Options) as well as strategies in the Euronext information system.
    • RFC Lot 2: Improvement of the RFC (Request For Cross) process, a mechanism that allows OTC transactions on Equities (Stocks, Indices, ...) and derivatives (Commodities, Futures, and Options). Over the last two years, Euronext lost its main clients using RFC, and at the request of their main client Morgan Stanley, the functionality had to be improved.
    • Matrix UI Renewal: Reconstruction of the user interface for the Matrix repository application; this project solely concerns this application and will be generalized to all Euronext UI applications.
    Atlassian JIRA Project Management Data Analysis SQL Stock Exchange
  • Société Générale
    Risk Business Analyst
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2021 - September 2022 (1 year and 8 months)
    Paris, France
    • Requirements gathering from Risk Analysts on IRIS and Prelud applications, writing technical-functional specifications on Jira, and monitoring progress and completion with the development team.
    • Implementation of risk metric calculation flows for different types of financial products (Index Forward, Commodity Forward, Currency Swap, and Commodity Swap).
    • Improvement of the internal WorkflowBuilder tool dedicated to task automation.
    • Analysis and resolution of incidents reported by the business (Risk Analysts/Margin Control).
    • Coordination between project teams and support teams in different regions (Bangalore, Paris, Chicago).
    • Training and support for new team members on various internal and external tools used within the team.
    C# Atlassian JIRA Data Analysis Project Management SQL

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Education

  • Engineering Degree
    ENSEIRB MATMECA
    2017

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