Scrum Master for Risk & Compliance, Bitcoin Suisse

Product launch with multiple applications – 2 Core Delivery teams.

• Coaching team members and supporting PO in big-room (PI) planning, enhancing processes and testing requirements.
• As servant leader, closely supporting development teams with daily stand-ups and removal of impediments.
• Participation in Sprint planning and reviews, protecting teams and feedback gathering, identifying areas of improvement through Retrospectives.
• Jira, Board and Confluence management for proper documentation and status.
• Ensuring timely implementation for credit card payment solution involving planning and coordination across different teams and applications (scrum of scrum) such as client data, transaction data, test teams (HPQC, Polarion) and integration to core banking and other tools.

Project with Neste / IBM: Trading and Risk Management (Financial Derivative Investments, Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy) – Core team of 50 FTEs + Development. Focus on financial instrument trade processing for derivatives on energy products: Options, Swaps, Futures, Margin Calls (Specification, Implementation Support, QA and Testing).

• Requirement definition for Allegro and its integration process with SAP and Allegro based on Trade processing for Options and Futures both Exchange traded and OTC deals.
• Requirement definitions for Margin Calls (IM, VM) based on Exchange / ISDA contracts.
• Front-to-back office Trading operations, risk management and deal life-cycle processes for oil products, renewable energy and financial products.
• Credit risk and liquidity risk management implementation.
• QA and Testing: Test design / Test Plan & Test Execution (SIT, UAT, E2E), Documentation with HP QC ALM.

Project with Neste / IBM: Energy Trading and Risk Management (Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy Investments, Physical Trading) – Core team of 50 FTEs + Development. Focus on pricing for energy products (Specification, Implementation Support, Test Mgmt.).

• Requirement definition on pricing and risk specifications in the integration process with SAP and Allegro.
• Liquidity and Market risk management implementation.
• Test Management: End-to-End testing scenario definitions, Test execution, Documentation with HP QC ALM.
• Front-to-back -office investment trading operations, risk management and deal life-cycle processes for oil products, renewable energy and financial products.

Project with Credit Suisse (Global Bank, CH and all locations): FATCA/QI & US Monitor requirements Implementation, Program Management Office – Core team of 25+ FTEs and Development.

• Key support to Program manager in governance and planning; successful group-wide handover to RTB, defining milestone plan and allocate tasks accordingly to streams.
• RAID and progress tracking across the Program.
• Senior management communication and reporting to the board, executive body and internal audit; stakeholder management and preparation of steering committee meetings including progress and burn-down charts.
• Budget and resource management towards planned goals.
• Analysis on US Monitor and FINMA enforcement actions with internal audit.
• Review of entities (EnterpriseD) with local COOs to ensure compliance and adequate reporting.

Project for Sberbank (RU, AT) (01/2012 – 05/2012): Transition into a fully licensed Booking center (local entity of a Global Bank) – Core team of 10+ FTEs. As Expert leading team of lawyers, business and IT:

• Implementation of the organization plan, documentation of applications and framework including handbooks and KYC documentation for front, risk, compliance and IT units.

Project for Deutsche Bank (GE) (12/2011 – 01/2012): Audit and AML assessment (Global German Bank) – Core team of 100 and more FTEs. As Expert reviewing balance sheet and further bank internal guidelines and handbooks:

• Balance sheet Audit (capital and risk) and Assessment the operational risk framework, handbooks and guidelines to verify adequate fraud prevention measures and AML compliance including coherency checks.

Project for Western Union International Bank (US, AT) (10/2011 – 12/2011): Regulatory reporting requirements for a licensed Booking center (banking entity of Payment provider) – Core team of 15 onsite and off-site FTEs. As Test Manager - Implementation and testing of CRS and regulatory reporting requirements:

• Finalize requirement definitions for regulatory reporting requirements on liquidity, credit risk and market risk; review of company integration.
• Investment and Trading Instruments cover: Fixed income, FX spot and derivative instruments.
• Consult with stakeholder as such as CFO, Finance, Accounting, IT and software vendors.
• Developing of Test strategy and scripts for the Banking institution and its related entities.
• Test management and execution for FX products and derivatives end-to-end testing: Scenarios, Integration and information flow for FMA reporting requirements.

Project for Unicredit (09/2011 – 10/2011): FATCA Implementation roadmap – Core team of 10 FTEs. As Team lead to gather status-quo of core banking system vendors for client information reporting (FATCA):

• Software vendor screening and evaluation of the readiness for FATCA requirements of core banking software vendors.
• Tax requirements for European Banking Major, evaluation of requirements and implementation road map for FATCA implementation.

The Effects of Ownership through Insiders and Institutional Investors on Firm Value.

• Conducted a study explaining the relationship between ownership structure and firm value. In particular, it highlights the effects of ownership by insiders and institutional investors using a measure of firm performance Tobin’s Q and return on assets as an alternative measure.
• The study examined a large sample of publicly listed firms in the US for a period of 10 years.
• It confirms that managerial wealth effect on firm performance is clearly positive and the entrenchment effect has clearly a negative effect on firm performance.
• Further, ownership by institutional investors shows a distinctly positive effect on firm performance which can be addressed by their monitoring and disciplinary activities.
• The effects resulting from size, leverage and beta have also been examined for both measures.

Project: Energy Treasury and Risk Management system integration (Oil traders, globally). Clients: Litasco, PetroSA, Rompetrol, OSG, Teekay, PTT, HPCL, Essar Oil. As Scrum Master and Expert in financial products trade processing and risk management:

• Consulting and giving support on Investment, Trading and Risk Management, Value at Risk Analysis, Stress Testing, Scenario Analysis, OTC & exchange-traded instrument underlyings include commodities such as physical oil and products for various derivative instruments including for freight.
• Key link to customer business, IT and risk management and software development and support.