Karim - Business Analyst AIX

February 2010 to April 2012 SOCIETE GENERALE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANKING – Paris
Project Manager & Business Analyst
Business analyst on Loan/deposit, OTC option/Futures, FX spots, FX Forwards products.
Organize the rationalisation of the accounting process with BA&IT Team.
Implement new security activity (FX Spot, FX Forward, OTC Futures/Options for SG Seoul based on SOPHIS application.
Implement the Swiss escrow activity for SG Zurich.

Projects
 SG Seoul Securities:
 Business impact and quotation (1000 man-day’s) of the accounting scope for securities activities based on SOPHIS messages.
 Planning of the different sub-projects (IT team, Korean BA team, Architect team, Norm team)
 Redaction of the accounting specification for FX Spot, FX Forward, OTC Futures/Options, Listed Options
 Weekly workshops with:
o Architect team to define business messages for Loan/deposit, OTC Futures/Options, FX Spots and Forwards based on SOPHIS application
o IT team to define convention names and rules management for pre-interpretation process based on Sgibml messages
o Korean business analyst team to define the life-cycle for each product in French gaap and Korean gaap
 Specification of the Sgib map from business messages to accounting rules
 Implementation of Korean local accounting schemes:
o To recognize the settlement of the Loan at the conclusion (No off-balance sheet in Korean gap)
o To generate daily accruals on interest deposit for Options/Futures...

 Swiss escrow implementation for SG Zurich:
 Define business impact and quotation for Swiss escrow implementation in French and Swiss gap.
 Interfaces between internal teams (Middle & Back Office HORUS, BA & IT Team, Norm Team, Risk-MRP team)
 Analyse the existing accounting process for term & noticed deposit and define the gap to reach Swiss escrow
o Commission on noticed/term deposit for Swiss resident,
o Accrual on commission,
o Local account for Swiss gap...
 Functional testing on users scenarios
Technical environment: HORUS, SAI

January 2009 to February 2010 LA BANQUE POSTALE– Paris
Project Manager
Organize the implementation of Synchrony solution (Sentinel, Integrator, Accounting Integrator, EWS) based on KONDOR application for Futures/Options, IRS, CAP/Floor, FX spot.
Implementation of the accounting IFRS norms

Responsibilities
 Studies and Project Initiation
 Estimation and planning of the different sub-projects (by financial product and functionality),
 Project management and leading the project team
 Validation of the business requirements
 Manage the relations between IT team, operational team and editor team
 Validation of the compliance and internal rules

Practical Accomplishments
Writing the architecture specification
o Incorporation of Web Services repository and Integrator exchange for Counterparty, Securities and Currency Change data
o Definition of the Structure Data and rules management exchange for KTP/Integratior, SmartStream/Integrator, Frontier/Integrator
o Management of the environments (lifecycle, deployment)
o Development best practise, convention name
Writing the supervision and recycling specification
o Definition of the technical and functional supervision
o Audit trail and Dashboards
o Specification of the functional request into Sentinel
o Define the EWS mask definition for manual entries and recycling by financial product
Technical environment:KTP, Web Services, SAI, Sentinel, EWS, Isiman, Oracle

May 2007 to February 2009 FORTIS BANK – Investment and Financial Banking – Brussels
Business Analyst
Implementation of a Common General Ledger and Financial Reporting Architecture using the SAP integrated solution and Synchrony solution (SAPHIR project) based on financial data coming from Spectrum.

Responsibilities
 Feasibility studies and reports on project start-up for accounting process, supervision and recycling
 Coordination of technical operations involving project and business line teams
 Training business analyst on accounting, supervision product Sentinel and SAI

Practical Accomplishments
Writing the accounting functional specification
o Incorporation of the IAS/IFRS rules of international accountancy into the tool
o Integrated the Spectrum Inventory to detailed posting for UDC (Contract Data Repository)
o Integrated the Spectrum Events to aggregated posting at the GL Key
Reorganization of data recycling functions using EWS
Technical environment: EWS, Sentinel, Isiman, SAI, UDC, SAP-GL, ETL, Spectrum, CALYPSO

December 2007 to April 2008 NATIXIS – Investment and Financial Banking – Paris
IT Consultant
Implementation of the SDSS Project for Natexis
Responsibilities
 Writing the accounting technical specification per back office application
 Defining the best practice and convention name for development IT team
Technical environment: EWS, Sentinel, SAI, PeopleSoft-GL, PeopleSoft-EPM

April 2003 to April 2006 SOCIETE GENERALE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANKING – Paris
IT Consultant
Migration of the SGIB accounting platform
Implementation of the IAS/IFRS rules for each financial product
Responsibilities
 IT referent for SAI tool
 Drafting the functional and application architecture for the new accounting platform based on SAI
 Writing the technical specification for exchange management rule for SAI/PeopleSoftGL, SAI/Informatica, Back Office application/SAI
Technical environment: SAI, PeopleSoft-GL, Informatica, Oracle, Unix

August 2002 to January 2003 Chambre des Dépôt et de Consignation– Paris
IT Consultant
Improvement and implementation of recycling tool used by the accounting platform (CEDRE Project) of CDC

Responsibilities
 Study of the accounting information system to create and optimize the new input/output of the recycling tool.
 Facilitation of working groups.
 Drafting business line needs sheet.
 Qualification of new functions of the tool.
 Monitoring deployment of the tool.
 Arbitration of developments and corrections in relation to technical team costs and planning

November 2001 to June 2002 Various client
Training
Accounting tool SAI Training session for various clients (Credipar, LCH Casablanca, GE Marseille)

February 2000 to August 2001 KPMG – New York
Business Analyst & Training
Collaboration with KPMG New York on Synchrony Accounting Integration tool
Responsibilities
 Analysis of business requirements of various clients (Socgen New York, LCL New York, Banque National du Canada-Montréal).
 Training BA & IT Team of KPMG New York
 Support level 1 and 2
 Elaboration of a pre-sell model for the accounting tool RDJ
Technical environment: Oracle, RDJ,Unix, SQL Server EWS

January 1999 to January 2000 BARCLAYS BANK Corporate– Paris
IT Consultant
Implementation of the euro currency in the accounting platform
Practical Accomplishments
Creation of accounting pivot rules for currency in and currency out
Creation of recycling mask with Oracle and SQL Server SGBD.
Integration of workflow application.
Technical environment: Oracle, RDJ, Cobol, Unix, SQL Server, SAPBW, EWS