You're seeing this page as if you were . The main menu is still yours, though. Exit from immersion
Rida BouayadRB

Rida Bouayad

Senior Project Manager

€700/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original language

About Rida

Team Leader – Project Manager – VBA & SQL Expert

Automation | Market Finance | Risk Reporting | Cross-functional Projects

Freelancer with over 15 years of experience in market finance, I help companies automate their processes, make their reporting reliable, and accelerate their strategic projects.

👉 Technical Expertise:
• Advanced VBA / Excel / SQL Development
• Reporting Automation (Stress Tests, Risks, Liquidity, PnL, Regulatory)
• Creation of custom tools: calculations, dashboards, data cleaning, light ETL
• Database optimization and performance improvement

👉 Business Expertise:
• Market risks, liquidity, derivatives, rates, FX
• Production & industrialization of regulatory reporting
• Functional analysis & business support

👉 Project Management / Leadership:
• Management of cross-functional IT/Business projects
• Team management and expert coordination
• Budget management, planning, documentation & go-live

🎯 Goal: help my clients save time, reduce errors, improve data quality, and deliver fast, robust, and reliable solutions.

🔧 My strengths: speed of execution, autonomy, deep understanding of financial stakes, clean and industrialized deliverables.

Available for short, long, remote, or on-site missions.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • Bloc fx trading
    PMO
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    December 2024 - October 2025 (10 months)
    Dubai City, United Arab Emirates
    Management of an international digital program for the deployment of a multi-currency / crypto-fiat payment solution

    Assignments:
    • Project manager and team leader for the scoping, construction, and deployment
    of AfricaPay in Dubai, Bamako, and Kinshasa
    • Management and orchestration of multidisciplinary teams: 10 technical
    people and ~25 business people
    • Global governance: roadmap definition, risk monitoring, priority arbitration,
    steering committee facilitation
    • Cross-functional coordination between IT, Finance, and Compliance with local
    partners to ensure functional and technical consistency
    • Monitoring of post-deployment application run and support for local teams
    • Implementation of automated KPIs for monitoring performance, liquidity, and
    flow stability
    • Change management: training, documentation, and support for local teams
    • Incident monitoring, root cause analysis, SLA management
    Project Management Jira VBA SQL Microsoft Power BI
  • Cognizant
    Head of EUC (End-User Computing) Department
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    August 2019 - June 2024 (4 years and 10 months)
    Paris, France
    Management of 30 employees in a critical application scope dedicated to
    finance, risk, and reporting.

    Assignments:
    • Complete RUN management: SLA, incident management, operational performance
    • Supervision of corrective and evolutionary maintenance, release management
    • Backlog management, sprint planning, technical arbitration, and prioritization
    • Cross-functional coordination between architecture, business, production, and IT
    (France & India)
    • Implementation and facilitation of Agile ceremonies (Scrum)
    • KPI production, budget monitoring, and workload planning
    • Process and reporting automation via VBA/SQL/Power Query
    • Change management: user training, functional documentation
    • Continuous improvement of delivery with +30% quality in deliverables
    SQL Jira Team Management Budget Management backlog
  • Crédit Agricole CIB
    Senior Financial Engineer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    May 2016 - August 2019 (3 years and 3 months)
    Montrouge, France
    Context: Management of the EIS project for the Equity desk, covering the entire
    project cycle.

    Assignments:
    • Industrialization and automation of the EIS Pricer for calculating prices and
    funding of equity products
    • Incident management, user support, corrective and evolutionary maintenance
    • Complete release management: planning, testing, go-live, post-deployment
    monitoring
    • Update of KPIs and operational reporting
    • Coordination and support of technical teams developing pricers
    • Process optimization with an 80% reduction in calculation time
    VBA SQL IT Project Management Team Management

Recommendations

Be the first to recommend Rida

Help this freelancer shine by sharing your experience working together.

These freelancer profiles also match your criteria

AgathaA

Agatha Frydrych

Backend Java Software Engineer

4.7

(3)

2

BaptisteB

Baptiste Duhen

Fullstack developer

4.6

(4)

5

AmedA

Amed Hamou

Senior Lead Developer

4

(2)

7

AudreyA

Audrey Champion

Web developer

4.3

(3)

4

Skill set (14)

Categories