Sameer - Chef de projet FERMAT

INDEPENDANT CONSULTANT : April 2014 - Présent.
Société Générale Group, Paris [June ’14 – Present] : Basel Project Management Consultant - Group
Basel-III regulatory capital computation engine custom development project.
Feasibility study of custom development, sponsor (group CRO) mandate, [June-Sept’14 ; 4 months] :

 Responsbile for TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) comparison, over a 10 year horizon, of potential project
scenarii.

 Contribution to Lot based project structure definition, with associated macro planning and workload
estimates

 Technical expertise with respect to formalization of functional process requirements - existing & targeted
Supervision of process & emission of related Request for Information (RFI), [June-Sept’14 ; 4 months]

 Definition of RFI process and content, based on business drivers and key objectives

 Coordination of stakeholders (Procurement, SMEs, IT)

 Generation of RFI content, conjointly with SMEs.

 Definition & coordination of respondent evaluation process and participation in response evaluations.

Workstream « Project Organization & Planning » Lead [Oct-Dec’14 ; 3 months]
 Definition of project organizational model, work breakdown, macro planning and workload revisions.

 Initialization of global Project management plan: governance structure (project & steering committees ;
RACI), quality management plan, project methodology (Agile), identification of dependencies and risks.

Definition and supervision of tender process & contract model (RFP), [Jan-Mar’15 ; 3 months]
 Definition of objectives and terms (Contract model, mixed on/off-shore fixed price delivery model & RACI)
 Adaptation of standard Contract model to objectives (structure and content of Contract articles / annexes)
 Coordination of actors (Procurement, internal tax specialists)
 RFP content generation, conjointly and in coordination with SMEs (business, Agile methodology, IT
architects...)

Axa Banque, Paris [April – May 2014] : Basel Regulatory Expert Consultant – Evaluation of Basel-III
compliance of the Bank’s regulatory computation and reporting tool covering Credit risk, Large
Exposures (LE), Liquidity risk, COREP / FINREP.
 Regulatory impact analysis
 Analysis of current system architecture & processes: data flow, data quality, calculation requirements,
reporting outflow.
 Gap-analysis (data, calculation) with respect to BCE CP50 reporting framework
 Definition of potential project scenarii (upgrade vs. redesign - data management and data-flow, estimated
costs, macro-planning, staffing and skills requirements).

SAS INSTITUTE France – Paris : Aug. 2012 – Nov. 2013
Pre-Sales Manager, Risk Solutions
 Management and operational supervision of a 4 consultant pre-sales team for all SAS France pre-sales
activity covering financial risk, regulatory compliance, GRC & AML in the insurance and banking sectors.
 RFI/RFP bid management; POC definition & delivery
 Presales processes definition, pipe review and resources prioritization ; Oversight of Pre-sales and
marketing collateral
 Recruitment & mentoring ; Development of team expertise
 Sales support : target accounts development, business plan and sales strategy development, Alliance and

Channel program support
MOODY’S ANALYTICS (FERMAT) – Paris : July 2009 – Aug 2012
Associate Director-Engagement Manager, EMEA Professional Services (PS)
 For a 3 consultant team. Promote & enforce operational performance standards; day-to-day business unit
operational management; mentoring; recruitment activity.

Services Pre-Sales.
 Responsible for PS qualification & bid content for RFIs-RFPs; Services contract and Statement of Work
definition, and PS business development representation.
Successful bids up to 8 M€ in License & Services (References - HSBC IB Global account; Lloyds Banking

Group UK; RBI Austria; National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia).
Project & Engagement Manager
 For assigned client / project portfolio.

Significant clients:
I. Lloyds Banking Group, UK (2012): Basel II/III Pillar I & III under FSA (UK) regulations.
 Engagement management - Services bid management; Services Contract definition;
Representation of MA at project steering instances.
 Project management of ~400K€ T&M budget : Overseeing solution compliance with functional &
technical architectural requirements.

II. Delta Lloyd Bankengroep, Amsterdam (2010) : Basel II Pillar 1 under DNB (Holland) & CBFA (Belgium)
regulations.
 Engagement management - Services & product up-selling bid management; Representation of
MA at project steering instances.
 FP Project management involving 5 person distributed site (BE, NL, FR) over 8 months, leading to
successful Go-Live.

III. Council Of Europe Bank, Paris (2009-2010) : Basel II-Pillar 1&3.
 Fixed Price project management involving 4 persons over 3 months leading to successful Go-Live;
Regulatory & product expertise.

FERMAT – Paris : April 2007 – July 2009
Senior Consultant for Fermat Basel-II/III solutions and risk processes, EMEA Professional Services (PS)
 Allied Irish Banks, Dublin : Basel II-Pillar 3 under CRD (Europe) regulations
 European Investment Bank, Luxembourg: Stress Testing under CRD (Europe) regulations.

CAPGEMINI (formerly CAP GEMINI ERNST & YOUNG) – Grenoble : Oct 2002 – April 2007
Process & Organization Consultant
 Project management.
 Requirements & process analysis, CMMi model.
 Business architecture elaboration.

Significant Clients :
I. Alcatel : Design of Alcatel's next generation corporate-wide order entry tool to replace existing legacy
applications, with primary objectives being tool portfolio rationalization and reduce 'time-to-book' by 50%.
Achievements : Project manager & senior business analyst - Requirements & business process analysis;
Validation responsibility for a 700 man-day budget module with offshore implementation.

II. Group France Telecom : Re-engineering of France Telecom's financial data information system,
conforming to state-of-the-art financial reporting practices including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
Achievements : Business analyst lead - Functional validation responsibility for a 4 person team.

III. Hewlett Packard, Personal Systems Group EMEA : Optimization of supply chain allocation process
for country business unit previsions.
Achievements : Project Manager - budgetary, delivery and organizational responsibility for a 4 person,
~150 man-day project, Requirements & business process analysis.