Barclays Capital
- Equity IT application management - Team lead
PARIS
2005 - 2013
Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides corporations, financial institutions, governments and supranational organizations with solutions to their financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital is the Derivatives house of the year 2010.
September 2005 until now - Locations HONG KONG/NEW YORK/PARIS/LONDON
Role Description
The Equity Derivatives business covers a variety of business lines, including Arbitrage, Exotics, Volatility, Funds and convertible bonds. The business relies on the Equity Derivatives Technologies group who has developed its IT architecture around the Sophis software and many house applications. Since the Lehman acquisition in 2008, many other applications have also been added to the application portfolio.
As a team leader, my responsibilities were to:
- add as much value as possible to our business by providing a gold service quality when supporting their applications
- manage a team of 9 to 21 individuals (including 2 teams of 5 and 7 people) in Europe
- onboard strategic applications with a review of their supportability, work on the retirement
- attract and recruit the best talent and adapt the procedures and guidelines to the team growth
- lead by example and show dedication to the role
- propose, manage and coordinate key initiatives to improve our service and reduce redundancy and unnecessary tasks
Key deliverables includes: building a tool for capacity management, suggest and implement global project policies including incident and problem management, event and monitoring management.
As a support analyst, my responsibilities were to:
- be single point of contact for the Equity Sophis support in location
- take ownership of Sophis and batch issues
- pro-actively improve the quality of systems and service, and increase business value
- undertake Sophis and batch projects as required, including, but not restricted to, the following areas: Sophis Year End, DR, capacity and performance management, monitoring initiatives, documentation and migration to newer technologies
- undertake focused, tactical development tasks as required
- ensure efficient and accurate processing of upstream/downstream feeds and reports from the batch environment.
- undertake out of hours support on a rota basis
Technical skills used: Sophis technology, Oracle, Visual Basic, PLSQL, C++, HTML, perl scripts, Unix, Win2k
Functional skills used: Equity Derivatives products and processes, Front and Middle processes
From January until July 2007 in NEW YORK
Role Description
The Execution and Connectivity Services team is in charge of the execution of Equity orders on all the markets over the world. The team was also looking after the booking of those trades in the downstream systems.
The support team is responsible for:
- Delivering full availability of the Exchange connectivity.
- Monitor and propose initiatives to improve the infrastructure.
- Support Barclays internal traders. (a specific team is dedicated to External clients).
As a support analyst, my responsibilities were to:
- be the unique point of contact for Equity traders from New York and London
- take ownership of all issues regarding order management, exchange connectivity and downstream booking issues
- apply all the best practices used in my previous Equity Derivative Support Role and train the team.
- be a key factor to the team mutation from a first line support to a first to third line support team.
- develop any strategic tools that could improve the efficiency of the support.
Technical skills used: XML, SQL, HTML, PERL scripts, Unix, Win2k, FIX
Functional skills used: Listed equity product, Exchange specifics
Accenture
- Consultant
Paris
2002 - 2005
As an Accenture employee, I had 2 primary projects. One with Calyon and the other one with SGCIB:
Feb 2005 to April 2005 - CALYON UK: Liquidity ratio reporting maintenance and improvement -LONDON
Role Description
CALYON UK is one of the branches of the French bank CALYON. Accenture worked on a business process reengineering program since September 2004.
The Bank of England (through the Financial Service Authority - FSA) has redefined the norms used for Liquidity ratio reporting. Calyon has asked Accenture to participate in the process of adaptation to these new norms. The mission has been archived on November 2004 and continued with a study on behavioral adjustments until April 2005.
As a member of the liquidity ratio support and enhancement team, in partnership with the head of the treasury desk, I was in charge of extracting data from front and accounting applications (through Business Object) and to identify stable activities to prepare negotiations with the Bank of England. The objective was to obtain discounts on flows counting.
My responsibilities included:
- Extracting data from front and accounting applications (Business object/SQL/Excel)
- Define and apply a method to validate the stability with the Treasury desk (Excel macros)
- Define and calculate discount asked to the FSA
- Prepare bank of England documentation to support the negotiations
Technical skills used: Excel Macros and worksheet formula development, Business Object data extraction
Functional skills used: Treasury desk needs, Liquidity Ratio norms and forms
Nov 2002 to Jan 2005 - Société Générale (SGCIB): Back Office Application Delivery & Support , Database migration - PARIS
Role Description
Société Générale is one of Europe’s largest banks and a world leader in equity derivatives. It is also a French leader in retail banking. Accenture has been a partner of Société Générale for a number of years. This partnership has given Accenture the opportunity to work in the launch of 6 year program to replace the current FO/BO/MO architecture. I participated to the BO transformation: two delivery/assembly/integration/UAT periods for derivatives products such as options and swaps.
I have been in charge of the functional specifications of trade and product life cycle events (9 months), the specification, development and the test of payment, trade and confirmation functionalities (13 months) partly.
As a member of the support team, I was in charge of maintaining applications and improving overall performance by improving product management and reporting. I had also to create some non regression test robots.
I was also in charge of an Oracle Migration of the exotic product structure (5 months) with an objective of performance and non regression.
My responsibilities were:
- Functional and Technical designs for architecture components (workflow rules, mutation events, payment and notifications)
- Development of java object classes for architecture components
- Performance review of how financial products are used by the different processes and in the Oracle database
- Helping / Teaching support team
- Unit, system testing, assembly, integration of architecture components
- Trade capture through Excel macros
- Increasing performances on accounting batches and reporting
- Creating, maintaining, upgrading and training Self Test Robots (Rational Suite) which inject trades and products and control each step of trade life cycle and back office processes
Technical skills used: Java (Calypso, Rational XDE Tester), VBA (Excel, Rational Robot), test workflow (Rational TestManager), PL/SQL (Oracle), Calypso workflow design, XML, XSLT, Excel (for automated injection of trades)
Functional skills used: Derivatives product management from middle to back office, trade, mutation, reporting, confirmation and payment back office processes.
