ACADEMIC DETAILS
1982-1986 Université Catholique de Louvain : Licence en Administration et Gestion (IAG)
SKILLS MATRIX
FUNCTIONAL
Payments ***
Securities trading, settlement and portfolio management ***
Treasury Department Treasury and Forex **
Interfaces ***
Accounting/Compliance/AML/Regulatory Reporting ***
Business requirements definition ***
Technical specification definition ***
User documentation **
Project Management **
Testing **
Training and Presentation ***
Data Migration ***
GLOBUS/T24
Universe/Informix/Jbase languages ***
Database maintenance and correction ***
CORE/FT/SC/DE modules ***
MM/LD/RE modules **
Customisation (version, enquiries, new applications) ***
OS AND OTHER SOFTWARE
Unix **
Microsoft Office (Word and Excel) ***
Visual basic **
Equalizer (portfolio management and modelling) *
Odyssey’s Triple A ((portfolio management) **
Swift **
Fire/Abacus (banking compliance management) **
PVCS (versioning) *
Joomla ***
Sage (Bob accounting software) **
Axway RDJ (SAI accounting integrator) ***
LANGUAGE
French (mother language) ***
English (fluent) **
Dutch **
02/2011 – Today Consultant AXWAY RDJ for finance (BGL BNP PARIBAS Luxembourg)
- Development of the accounting rules for derivatives products: (Local Accounting, IFRS, Datawarehouse and regulatory reporting)
- Testing and maintenance
05/2010 – 12/2011 Consultant BOB (Sage) Accounting Software (MSI Sàrl Luxembourg)
- Maintenance and installation
- PC and hardware Support (Network/MS Office/Internet/Printer/reporting)
07/2009 – 04/2010 Senior Business Consultant in Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunis
As leader of the Temenos T24 SC (Securities) module implementation my assignments were:
- Training on T24 SC
- Business requirements definition
- Functional specifications writing
The requirements of the Bank were highly specific and concerned local trading and tax features.
Example: the accounting has been adapted from a standard online system to a multiple stage processing system.
Example: new inward and outward Swift messages have been designed for the custodian activity that is not supported by the system.
09/2009 Pre-sales presentation on the T24 Securities module to the Central Bank of Maroc.
10/2008 – 07/2009 Developer in Commerzbank Luxembourg (T24-G12)
I was in charge of the daily support of productions and COB environments.
This mission was particularly instructive because sophisticated utilities were designed to control the system.
For example: long lasting enquiries were processed in the background instead of online and the user received the result by email.
For example: all messages or errors of background processes were logged for facilitating the support.
08/2007 – 08/2008 Business Consultant at the Financial Post Office Brussels.
This institution manages Belgium State accounts. I was responsible for defining the user requirements and writing the specifications related to customer, accounts and payment accounting.
01/2007 – 07/2007 Business Consultant in LEUMI BANK Zurich.
I was in charge of change management of the portfolio management department (Front, Middle and Back office):
- Reporting, analysing and fixing of issues found during the test of the present situation;
- Streamlining workflow processes to provide much more control of user activities;
- Changing securities trading and fiduciary operations from start to end to reduce time and costs.
12/2005 – 12/2006 Consultant in KREDIET BANK Luxembourg
I was in charge of the technical part of the support team of daily activities:
-Bug fixing and database repairing on the production environment.
Example: fixing data base corruption due to time-out problems on corporate actions.
Example: repairing data due to accounting mismatches.
-Change request design and development.
Example: design of a new management fees system based on performance.
-Maintenance and incident management of the portfolio management software Equalizer. Equalizer was interfaced with the core banking system T24 as a front office portfolio management tools. It was used as an order and a portfolio management system.
-Documentation of the accounting schemes.
2001 - 2005 TEMENOS DUBAI (subsidiary of Geneva head office)
As a technical consultant, I’ve been assigned to different missions on site:
Saudi Hollandi Bank (Riyadh March 2004- ) - G14-jBase
State Bank of Pakistan (Karachi November 2002- March 2004) - G12-Universe
Islamic Development Bank (Jeddah August 2002-October 2002)
Al Rajhi Bank (Riyadh January 2002-July 2002)
Wafa Bank (Casablanca May 2001-December 2001)
Al Saudi Al Fransi Bank (Riyadh January 2001-April 2001)
1997 - 2000 PROMOTIC (I .T. Services & Advice Co.)
Credit Lyonnais Luxembourg
I was in charge of the design of the interface between the core system and Abacus. Abacus is software providing regulatory reports for the central bank. That was a fantastic mission which allow me to gain knowledge of a bank back office and reporting business.
Ampacet Europe SA (Visual Basic development)
1990-1996 – BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DE LUXEMBOURG (Luxembourg):
As a senior Portfolio Manager, my main responsibilities include:
- Helping clients in their portfolio management and advise them in their investment vehicles (Holding, offshore company…);
- Managing discretionary portfolios;
- Participating and working in close collaboration with the Investment Committee;
- Maintaining qualitative contacts with the clients;
- Presenting and explaining the performances to the clients.
1986-1990 BANQUE NAGELMACKERS 1747 (Belgique):
I am trader in the Belgian Government Bond market, responsible for the bank own book and Mutual Funds Manager. My main duties are:
- Daily analysis of the financial markets (Interest rates, exchange rates and stock Index);
- Providing the secretariat for the Sicav management Board;
- Asset Liabilities Management : computation of asset duration and consolidation of liabilities by maturity.
- Trading of monetary and fixed income instruments.
