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Clearstream Banking sa.
- Senior Pricing Expert
Paris
2007 - maintenant
SECURITIES’S PRICING COORDINATOR ie.
; Day-to-day work
; Looking at ways to improve pricing’s accuracy, quality & controls
; Contact point for both internal & external customers, Deal with all investigations
; Daily contact with services providers/data vendors ie.Bloomberg, IDC, Reuters & Telekurs
PROJECT MANAGER “PRICING RE-ENGINEERING” which aims to better position Clearstream in its attempt to meet markets requirements from a pricing point of view; ths taking into account the SubPrime crisis (summer 2007) and the financial crisis (Automn 2008).
- Gather information & interview the main users (Billing, dept, Collateral Management Areas & Credits Dept)
- Prepara a presentation & Build a document that aims supporting the decision of the “Pricing Steering Committee”
- Define the requirements & Write the specifications
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Clearstream Banking sa.
- Income Preparation Team
Paris
2006 - 2006
Events Set Up.
- Set up of the “1st.” occurrences for debt instruments (floaters & fixed) that never paid before;
- Set up of the next coupons for all instruments (echeancier)
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Clearstream Banking sa.
- Change Management – Users Acceptance Testing Team (UAT)
Paris
2006 - 2007
Project = Implementatio of the new reference data platform (RDF).
Has joined the UAT team to :
- Perform the tests as per test cases build the year before,
- Validate results, Raise concerns when needed
- Prepare the implementation process (Trainings &Operational Procedures)
- Participate to the post-implementation process (remaining issues)
- Take full ownership of a process across the company, the Institution’s Maintenance
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Clearstream Banking sa.
- Reference Data Management Expert
Paris
2002 - 2006
Role = Deputy Manager of the Reference Data Management team. (People + Project Coordination)
* Support the team manager in different managerial tasks (staff, meetings, reporting, procedures)
* Ensure a timely and accurate processing of post-acceptance reference data in our main systems by the different team’s members
* 1st.Project = Develop + Implement a new reference data platform (Reference Data Factory or RDF)
- Make an audit of all users needs / expectations
- Define users requirements
- Write functional specifications
- Build test cases
* 2nd Project = Business Process Optimization / Income. (Prep/Valid/Book)
- Define scenarii and options
- Prepare & build the document that will support the Management when making its decision
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Clearstream Banking sa.
- MANAGER – New issues Acceptance / Domestic Markets
Paris
2000 - 2002
As “Group Head” (13 people), the main accountabilities of this function were
- Manage people expectations and performance
- Acceptance of all types of instruments from more than 50 markets according to internal acceptance’s criteria & requests from several sources ;
- One big project (very sensitive) : Manage the integration of an important part of the Deutsche Borse securities database in CEDEL securities master files (Merge Deutsche Borse / CEDEL as from1st.Jan 2001);
- Maintain good relationships with external counterparts (depositories, customers, issuers, dealers) and other CEDEL’s departments (corporate actions, income, tax)
- Deal with services providers ie Reuters, Telekurs, Financial Times & Bloomberg
- Maintain good relationships with external counterparts (depositories, customers, issuers, dealers) and other CEDEL’s departments (corporate actions, income, tax)
- Deal with services providers ie Reuters, Telekurs, Financial Times & Bloomberg
- Coordinate and distribute the work among staff and ensure that all tasks be performed on time and with accuracy ;
- Ensure that all operational procedures be in place and kept updated
- Deal with investigations (both internal & external)
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Clearstream Banking sa.
- Reference Data Management Expert
Paris
1999 - 2000
Role = Deputy Manager of the Reference Data Management team.
- Support the team manager in different managerial tasks (staff, meetings, reporting, procedures)
- Ensure a timely and accurate processing of post-acceptance reference data in our main systems by the different team’s members;
- Implement Bloomberg as a new service provider
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Clearstream Banking sa.
- Change Management – Users Acceptance Testing Team (UAT)
Paris
1999 - 1999
Year 2000 Project. Main contribution as a member of the BAT team :
- Write test cases
- Review test results
- Coordinate testers work
- Interface between IT people & the users when raising problem/solution
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Brown Brothers Harriman Lux SA
- Funds Transfer / Depts’ Supervisor
1998 - 1999
- Coordinate and distribute the work among staff
- Manage timely and accurate processing of all foreign exchange & payment instructions
- Perform controls & investigations (both internal & external) when required
- Perform Credit Controls
- Use of the SWIFT network
- As a “Project Coordinator” produce the monthly “Management Reporting” for the Financial Dept, and update all operational procedures.
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BANK OF NEW-YORK / Global Custody Operations Center (Brussels)
- EUROCLEAR / CEDEL Funding Team
1997 - 1997
Cash Management
- Monitor the balances of all currency cash accounts held with Euroclear on one side and CEDEL/Clearstream to keep them as flat as possible
- SWIFT Network (MERVA): Payments instructions & Queries
- Payments : Booking of cash movements in our sytems
- Deadlines : Respect intra-day & tight deadlines
- Cash Reconciliations & Investigations - Assets Control
- Monitor customer’s instructions (Settlement), income payments & corporate actions proceeds
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BANK OF NEW-YORK / Global Custody Operations Center (Brussels)
- Systems Support Team
1996 - 1996
Special Project/Assignment.
Goal: repatriate different tasks performed out of London to our Brussels office.
Spend 6 months in London with local colleagues to get familiar with these new systems environments. This consisted in :
- Being able to maintain reference data master files for a system called IMMS (cash system)
- Getting familiar with roles & responsibilities part of a “System Liaison” profile
- Learning how to deal with the data security administration (grant & monitor the users accesses for a number of applications/systems
- Writing operational procedures
- Identifying enhancements requested due to the move from a location (London) to another (Brussels).
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BANK OF NEW-YORK / Global Custody Operations Center (Brussels)
- Data Security Administrator & Systems Liaison
1996 - 1996
Define/Amend policies and procedures related to corporate information protection, to ensure that the data accesses be authorised in accordance with the Bank’s policies.
- MONITOR, GRANT OR DELETE accesses for all systems used by Brussels users
As “System Liaison”, act as an interface between all Brussels based users and the IT people (NYK based) whenever systems problems are raised by the users.
- 1st.contact point when a user faces a system problem
- Collect feeback from users
- Ensure that the issue is well understood and does not result from a user misunderstanding
- Log the issue once confirmed
- Raise & Document the enhancement request so that IT people will understand it
- Make sure that the issue resolution gets the right prioritization & Follow up on progress
- Once the solution is ready, go back to the user for testing in a testing environment
- Once successfully tested, get it implemented and check again in the production environment if it works properly
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Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (Global Custody Info.Center - Brussel)
- Projects Coordination Team
Saint-Malo
1993 - 1996
As a team member, ensure best coordination & compliance with systems enhancements & projects requirements by:
- Gather information & Interview users groups potentially impacted ;
- Put together the document defining the objectives of the project & Present it to the managers ;
- Write the functional specifications ;
- Build the testing cases ;
- Responsible for the planning & the resourcing all phases of the project ;
- Provide business expertise to the systems people during all coding phases ;
- Manage the ‘User Acceptance Test’ team
- Ensure all the parts of the project be delivered on time and on budget ;
- Ensure all procedures been written by users experts
- Take care of all post-implementation issues.
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Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (Global Custody Info.Center - Brussel)
- Private Banking Dept / Master Custody
Saint-Malo
1992 - 1992
Special Project/Assignment.
Joined the Private Banking Dept to support them from an operational point of view :
- Load assets movements (settlement, corporate actions, income/redemptions) from custody system;
- Book all money market instruments, foreign exchanges & derivatives;
- Perform controls and reconciliations when required
- Produce taylor made customer reporting eg. Portfolio Evaluation, etc....
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Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (Global Custody Info.Center - Brussel)
- Securities Administration Group
Saint-Malo
1988 - 1992
Combination of People and Data Management
As “Group Head” (5 people), the main accountabilities of this function were
- Ensuring the future enhancements of the newly implemented system (SAS)
- Ensuring all staff members perform their tasks on time and with accuracy
- Reviewing all incoming customers instructions (securities / settlement);
- Setting up the reference data ie the securites (all kinds of instruments), the customers accounts & the depository accounts (Custodians)
- Pricing of all instruments (Newspapers + IDC as datavendor)
- Providing clients with appropriate reporting (Securities Statements & Portfolio Evaluations)
- Performing the invoicing of clients (calculation & booking)
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Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (Global Custody Info.Center - Brussel)
- Securities Administration System's Coordinator
Saint-Malo
1987 - 1988
Joined a project team which aimed to implement a new reference data management solution (in-house) called SAS
- Validate requirements with future users groups.
- Build / Write testing cases
- Perform testing, Validate results.
- Perform initial loads & inputs
- Write operational procedures & Deliver trainings to users
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Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (Global Custody Info.Center - Brussel)
- I.D.R. Team
Saint-Malo
1986 - 1987
Process all tasks related to Income Payments, Tax Reclaims and Corporate Actions for IDR securities (mainly US & Korean) held on behalf of customers
