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Description

Expert in IT project management and Business analysis with over 20 years of experience in the banking sector. Specialized in the implementation of IT solutions for Front Office and financial operations management. I manage complex projects with strong expertise in continuous improvement, offshoring, and regulatory compliance. Bilingual French-English, I bring my expertise to optimize your processes and information systems.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
German
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Puteaux (up to 50km)

Arkea Banking Services
IT Project Manager
April 2024 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
Context
Within the DPS department (Project and Support Directorate), responsible for change request projects for B2B partners such as Axa Banque, La Banque Postale, CCF for credit and GED (Electronic Document Management).

Missions
• Gathering and analyzing B2B needs
• Writing business requirements
• Organizing and leading follow-up meetings (steering committee, project, and management)
• Feasibility study
• Cost estimation and quote writing
• Conducting acceptance testing and production deployment
NATIXIS CIB
IT Business Analyst Front / Scrum Master
August 2023 - February 2024 (6 months)
Context Within the Global Market IT & Chain department, responsible for the TRAFIC application (Trading Fixed Income Console) for bond desks in Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Tokyo. Support for 350 users (including 150 traders) who use it for pricing, market making, booking, and monitoring PnL and risks for interest rate and credit products.

Missions
Business Analyst:
• Liaising with users (mainly Govies traders) to understand their needs
• Proposing solutions
• Writing functional specifications and test cases
• Following up with developers to discuss technical architecture
• Testing and validation for production deployment
• Demos and communications to users
• Post-production monitoring
• Review of the trading algorithm for MIFID declaration

Scrum Master:
• Developing the Roadmap for end of 2023
• Prioritization committees with trading and the Value Stream Owner (VSO) Credit & Rates
• Leading the daily meeting for the Cash Stream (7 people)
• Organizing agile ceremonies (3-week sprints): pricing & carving, planning, and retrospective meetings
• Ensuring team dynamics between Paris and Porto and resolving conflicts
• Improving methodology efficiency
BNP Paribas CIB
Business Analyst / PMO
July 2020 - May 2023 (2 years and 10 months)
Context
Within the TFLM (Treasury Forecasting and Liquidity Monitoring) team, responsible for offshoring the Correspondent Banking service to India (from Paris to Chennai). Managing the backward planning in coordination with the BNP Paribas Project Director (several services were relocated to Chennai and Lisbon).

Within BNP Arbitrage for the preparation of the annual SRB (Single Resolution Board) reporting in foreign currency and Euro. Report required by the ECB to prevent systemic risk.
Quarterly G-SIB (Globally Systemic Banks) reporting in collaboration with the Finance department.
Missions
Business Analyst:
• Needs gathering
• Study of the existing system, audit
• Establishment of the specifications document
• Writing functional specifications and monitoring IT team developments (workshops, minutes).
• Contribution to functional testing (writing test cases, UAT, and formalizing results).
• Implementation of KPIs
• Process improvement

Project Management:
• Transfer of the "Correspondent Banking" activity from Paris to Chennai (Budget: three FTE).
• Contribution to project management within TFLM (Treasury Forecasting and Liquidity Monitoring) with the implementation of KPIs from scratch.
• Definition of action plans to be implemented.
• Development of detailed dashboards and KPIs to monitor correspondent banking activity.
• Writing and updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in collaboration with experts and the foreign exchange team.
• Conducting in-depth reviews in interest rate management to deploy improvement strategies for the PEGA PCM application system (Payment Case Management, cross-asset tool).
• Annual reporting project to the European regulator SRB (Single Resolution Board) on Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) in foreign currencies and Euros.