Work History
Altares- Dun & Bradstreet- Project Manager and Business Analyst Consultant
Colombes, Paris, France
06/2021 - 01/2024
Altares Dun & Bradstreet is a worldwide expert leader company in B2B database structures, analysis, and data enrichment management.
The company urgently needed a consultant with expertise in compliance, business analysis, and handling several project management. I oversaw three main projects and was a business analyst in various other projects.
Project 1: Eurostar project: The development and the sale of a compliance platform," indueD," for Dun & Bradstreet to be distributed in his 19 territories.
• Participated in drafting the project specifications and supporting management during the business planning.
• Responsible for managing the 3 Streams of the project: the technical part, which aimed to develop the platform the contractual function, which deals with the legal and the skills transfer domain, which consists of knowledge competency transfer.
• Responsible for managing day-to-day activities along with tracking & monitoring project statuses in coordination with project stakeholders.
• Monitored and controlled the deliverables (Internal / External Executive Level Reports (Steering) RAID Log Program, Decision Log Program Project Closure Reports & Milestone Plan)
• Collected and prioritized requests for the development and improvement of our products from all stakeholders: Product marketing managers, Operations and infra, Architects, Data, Customer Services, and support.
• Built the training program and the customer support process.
• Developed internal capability, practices, and disciplines to support knowledge transfer and adopting sustainable practices.
• Specify the exact functional needs by organizing workshops with the interlocutors concerned.
• Designed, defined, and documented user processes from functional and non-functional requirements. (Jira tickets).
• Organized business recipes (Planned and wrote test books and ran tests).
• Managed workshops and training sessions.
• Provided regular written and verbal reports, focusing on alerts, decisions, issues, risks, timelines, costs, resources, scope, and deliverables.
• Prioritized the evolutionary and corrective maintenance backlog, monitored the progress of developments and associated tests, and communicated process release milestones to the stakeholders concerned.
Project 2: Refinitiv: integration of the Refinitiv world-check API on the indueD platform).
• Participated in drafting the project specifications and supporting management during the business planning.
• Responsible for managing the project's 2 Streams: the technical part, which consists of integrating API world-check one into the indueD platform and initiating the contractual claim.
• Responsible for managing day-to-day activities along with tracking & monitoring project statuses in coordination with project stakeholders.
• Monitored and controlled the deliverables (Internal / External Executive Level Reports (Steering) RAID Log Program, Decision Log Program Project Closure Reports & Milestone Plan)
• Specify the exact functional needs by organizing workshops with the interlocutors concerned.
• Designed, defined, and documented user processes from functional and non-functional requirements.
• Organized business recipes (Planned and wrote test books and ran tests).
• Provided regular written and verbal reports, focusing on alerts, decisions, issues, risks, timelines, costs, resources, scope, and deliverables.
Project 3: Graceful shutdown: Work with a team of developers to solve the problem of a communication lapse between the load balancer and the POD
and implement an alternative solution.
• Specify the exact functional needs by organizing workshops with the interlocutors concerned.
• Designed, defined, and documented user processes from functional and non-functional requirements.
• Organized business recipes (Planned and wrote test books and ran tests).
• Scheduled and managed all project meetings (weekly meetings with developers, daily meetings with project stakeholders, and Ad hoc meetings.
• Managed workshops and training sessions
• Explored different solutions, their risks, benefits, and impacts.
• Provided regular written and verbal reports, focusing on alerts, decisions, issues, risks, timelines, costs, resources, scope, and deliverables.
Bank Palatine - PMO Payment Analyst
Fontenay sous Bois, France
09/2019 - 04/2020
Bank Palatine Project (the bank needed a PMO analyst to work with the PMO Team and to support the Project Managers with their deliverables)
• Supported the relationship between the PMO Team and Project Managers across the Payments program.
• Conduct data analysis to assess compliance, identify gaps or deficiencies, and determine the necessary data inputs and outputs for regulatory reporting and monitoring.
• Monitored transactions to ensure all payments were duly authorized, correct, and AML-compliant.
• Processed international and national transfers ·
• Ensured that project developments were aligned with the business payment process.
• Performed monthly oversight review of new accounts for compliance with Customer Information Program/Know Your Customer (CIP/KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Beneficial Ownership requirements.
• Enforced consistency and standardized processes across the team.
• Supported Programme Management in the creation and review of executive briefings.
• Monitored areas of significant program risk in conjunction with the Steering Committees Programme Executives and Programme Managers – act as an independent advisor, reviewing reports (e.g., scope, schedule, cost, RAID Logs)
• Responsible for managing day-to-day activities along with tracking & monitoring project statuses in coordination with project managers.
• Tracked and monitored compliance to status reporting and summarised for required governance forums.
• Tracked and monitored the deliverables (Internal / External Executive Level Reports (Steering) Programme RAID Log, Programme Decision Log Project Closure Reports and milestone Plan)
• Provided regular written and verbal reports, focusing on alerts, decisions, issues, risks, timelines, costs, resources, scope, and deliverables.
Deutsche Bank AG - Compliance, AML, KYC, Regulation and Remediation Expert Analyst
Hamburg, Germany
09/2017 - 07/2019
DB set up the MERCURY compliance project to comply with regulators and the auditor's recommendations. This project aimed, among other things, to meet all the requirements for changes in global KYC to formalize and harmonize the compliance process. JP was the project manager for the shipping division.
DB Phoenix Project (worked with IT to build a comprehensive KYC shipping database and monitor it)
• PMO for the Deutsche Bank Shipping Division "Phoenix" project
• Analysis of existing architecture and ensuring validation of the IT solution
• Carry out tests and deliveries.
• Produced documentation and organized the sharing of accumulated knowledge.
• Create process maps, workflow diagrams, and documentation to illustrate current and future-state processes related to compliance and remediation activities.
• Development of VBA macros simulating the processing
• Created charts and diagrams and framing of corrections and changes.
• Ensured Functional and ergonomic improvement of the tool.
DB compliance Plan control and monitor (formalization and harmonization of the compliance process)
• Performed all the KYC duties from new client adoption (NCA), event-driven review (EDR), Product Extensions (PE), and Regular Review (RR) to the business review group (BRG)
• Supported clients in The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) thematic control.
• Assisted with ad-hoc requests from supervisory bodies or External/Internal
• Reviewed and followed up on SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports) to ensure internal SARs were reported internally and to the authorities by policy and local laws and regulations.
• Ensured client remediation cases were completed within targeted timeframes and aligned with the regulatory requirements.
• Chaired the weekly KYC meetings by preparing team and senior management status updates.
Drafting of the Key Operation Standards (KOS) and implementation of the GDPR
• PMO in preparing and putting in place Key Operating Standards (KOS) & GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
• Created, organized, and led the training of 12 Compliance Analysts.
• Established regular control to check the effectiveness of processes, procedures, and systems and provide assurance to senior management.
• Ensured that the AML Framework complies with German legislation and guidance and that issues and risk areas were escalated to senior management / Board level as appropriate.
• Project Governance and reporting for senior management in multiple jurisdictions: Germany, UK, USA, Singapore, and Hong Kong
• International Deployment (+55 countries)
• Assure our products and customer base fully comply with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), PATRIOT Act, FINSEC & FINRA requirements.
• Undertook information research via internal and external sources, gathering and analyzing KYC documentation following regulatory and Deutsche Bank Anti Money Laundering (AML) policy requirements to identify AML risks associated with the client and assess overall risk.
• Work effectively with key stakeholders using strong influencing and
negotiation skills to ensure the mutually satisfactory resolution of critical issues and that the responsibilities are understood, agreed upon, and escalated where required.
• Highlight and escalate operational, regulatory, and other risks to management or risk functions.
DB Lioness Project (sale of $1 billion non-performing ship loan portfolio and ensure compliance)
• PMO in Project Tracking, Reporting, and Support for the DB L...