Achim G.
Senior Business Analyst
Experience
Senior Business Analyst
VP Bank AG
- Business analysis for the Group Controlling division (Methodology: Scrum).
- Business structure hierarchy of cash flows.
- Development of business definitions and requirements for cash flows.
- Business analysis of net new money, new loans, custody net new money, third-party banks net new money, and product turnover in Avaloq.
- Conducting regular stakeholder workshops with business specialists from the Group Controlling team.
- Functional analysis using the Avaloq core banking system.
- Avaloq test parameterization of classes/classifs at the business process, position, container, and asset levels.
- Technical workshops with Avaloq specialists.
- Data mapping with Avaloq.
- Description of business models for Group Controlling and functional models for Avaloq IT specialists.
- Obtaining and documenting business approvals.
- Documenting business requirements in SAP CALM.
- Creating test cases in SAP CALM.
- Conducting weekly Metis Business Table sessions (stakeholder engagement).
- Attending and reporting at Metis project meetings and stand-ups.
Project Manager
Bank Frick AG
- Project management of the OLYMPIC refresh concept phase (Methodology: Scrum).
- Developing and creating a concept document including a presentation and management summary, as well as a management proposal for the implementation phase to the executive board.
- Capturing, analyzing, and graphically presenting requirements and the current situation regarding the contracts and components used.
- Identifying what is possible and sensible with customizations programmed in COBOL, SQL, and RPG.
- Detailed breakdown of expected project costs and operating expenses (OPEX), as well as investments (CAPEX).
- Creating a detailed project plan.
- Defining the release process (including the number of release cycles per year) according to Bank Frick's requirements.
- Detailed design of the technical architecture for 24/7 availability and zero downtime patching.
- Planning, facilitating, and participating in workshops and meetings in Miro.
- Presenting project results regarding impacts, degradations, and improvements on the business side.
- Authorization concept (need-to-know principle), user groups, roles, and access rights in Olympic.
- Catalog of measures with options, grouped by business unit (including costs and impacts per option).
Lead Business Functional Analyst Data and Analytics CTB
Deutsche Bank
- Business analysis / data analysis services for AML (Methodology: Scrum).
- Data analysis services for EMEA data for the business areas of AML, AFC, transaction monitoring, compliance, KYC, regulatory reporting, and risk reporting.
- Analysis of fact and dimension data, as well as metadata (XML, JSON).
- Mapping of RDM DWH and CCO datamart requirements to the Avaloq core banking system data source.
- Creating test cases and defining expected results in Avaloq.
- Selecting test data with Avaloq and Oracle SQL.
- Requirements engineering for the Avaloq core banking system.
- Test documentation and defect tracking in Jira.
- Supporting the regional datamart team with monitoring and Unix installation support.
- Managing change requests and service request lifecycles in ServiceNow.
Business Analyst
BNP Paribas
- Business analysis / business testing UAT on the LHS project for Global BCM TA (Methodology: Scrum).
- Migration of SWIFT, as well as sFTP and CFT reporting from Luxembourg to Paris.
- Analysis of TA reporting processes (Temenos Multifonds, eStars), SWIFT message routing, and data flows of bulk payments.
- Workshops with BCM, application support, and IT.
- Configuration of HP ALM Quality Center.
- Creating test cases and defining expected results.
- Selecting test data with SQL and creating test data for Multifonds order processes.
- Executing tests, documenting results, and tracking defects.
- Designing and automating the daily test status reporting.
Business Analyst
NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank
- Business analysis of the SPOT data model DWH (Methodology: Scrum).
- Analyzing banking requirements in collaboration with domain experts, especially in the areas of lending, collateral, bank controlling, regulatory reporting, market data, and reporting.
- Functional analysis of all layers of the SPOT DWH and attributes of the SAP FSDP (CDM|PDM) using PowerDesigner.
- Close collaboration with DataStage developers in Scrum sprints.
- Advising on the design of test portfolios and supporting development and business testing.
- Data mapping with descriptive SQL statements.
- Analyzing MDE errors and developing solution proposals.
- Data mapping of Murex, WM DATEN, OBS, etc. to the SAP FSDP data model (market data, risk, ESG).
Business Analyst
Baader Bank AG
- Further development of the regulatory reporting tool (methodology: Scrum).
- Error analysis of transaction reporting in the regulatory reporting tool.
- Creation of an error analysis for issues occurring in the regulatory reporting tool in the existing backlog and in Jira.
- Creation of an error log for the previously analyzed errors.
- Error resolution by making adjustments to meet regulatory requirements under Article 26, Article 27, and RTS.
- Developing requirement analyses, Epics, Stories, Features, and Tasks to enhance the in-house regulatory reporting tool.
- Development of new functionalities and specifications for the regulatory reporting GUI prototype.
- Interviews with stakeholders from the regulatory reporting department.
- Creation of recommendations for handling future errors in the reporting environment based on previous error and requirement analyses (ESG).
- Code review of the in-house regulatory reporting tool for new functionalities, specifications, and compliance adjustments for MiFIR, MiFID II, FCA, SIX, OeKB, CSDR, SFTR, LCR, and CRR (BAIS) reports.
- Creation of comprehensive documentation of the changes made, including test scenario and test case development.
Business Engineer Senior
ZKB Zürcher Kantonalbank
- Regulatory projects in investment business (methodology: Scrum/Kanban/SAFe).
- Analyzing regulatory requirements for investments, custody services, transaction services, securities trading, target fund investments, accounts, and asset management products on AIA (AEOI), FATCA, and QI topics for ZKB-Connect.
- Preparation and conducting workshops to gather acceptance criteria.
- Organizing and moderating kick-off meetings with all stakeholders.
- Writing requirement and detailed specifications, Epics, User Stories, Features, and leading the acceptance process with all stakeholders.
- Designing functional and technical solutions, sketches, user interaction designs, and user flows, taking into account all relevant interfaces and IT architecture subsystems.
- Creating test cases (X-Ray) and executing them, including defect management in JIRA.
- Preparing training materials and user documentation.
Business Analyst
DekaBank S.A.
- Enhancement projects in custody business (methodology: Scrum).
- CI/CD pipeline for DWH objects, interfaces, and data marts.
- Eliciting business requirements from MiFIR, EMIR, AEOI (AIA), GDPR (DSGVO), and ESMA.
- Settlement internaliser (SI) reporting under Article 9 CSDR, transaction reporting on IBM DB2 database, defining business processes, gathering full requirements, and refining other framework business concepts.
- Project status reporting with HP ALM, product backlog management, running sprints, maintaining the project management plan, release control, stakeholder management, and updating the stakeholder list.
- Leading change management, clarifying change requests for custody service, unit-linked asset management, payments, inheritance, and complaint management; maintaining change status lists; and prioritizing requirements.
- Reporting for quality and risk management, facilitating decisions, and supporting and refining documentation of studies, business requirements, and test concepts; developing release plans.
- Daily securities transaction data delivery to Deutsche Börse Group under MiFID II/ESMA; AI reporting in XML (CSSF, BaFin) on IBM DB2; system and acceptance testing; and end-to-end implementation of the distribution chain via CETREL SOFiE and SIX Payment Services through CSSF to ESMA, including acknowledgments.
- Managing requirements and test cases internally with Micro Focus ALM Octane; controlling and communicating defect management and test status reporting for project management and external software vendors using JIRA.
- Supporting the business unit in acceptance testing of customer output through test automation with VBA SendKeys scripts to automate user input reproduction for the Java web application DOLL and the front office GUI PM1e.
Projektmanager
Europäischer Stabilitätsmechanismus
- ESM reporting solution (methodology: ITIL, CMMI).
- Acting as interface between users and developers; drafting the pre-study; commissioning and managing the initiation phase by developing project foundations and contributing to the decision for project approval.
- Developing the ESM project charter, pre-study, and AS-IS situation analysis using data sources like Murex, Bloomberg, and Access for dashboard visualization in VB Excel and PowerPoint.
- Refining system requirements and system architecture.
- Defining operational business processes and translating them into system requirements.
- Developing a cross-functional framework business concept, ensuring inclusion of specialists from front office, treasury, risk and compliance, as well as audit.
- Drafting the business concept for liquidity management and solution concept for risk management; aligning on requirements catalog approval with business process owners.
- Aligning with external user representatives and system operators; working on procurement planning, RFI documentation, and RFP vendor pre-selection.
- Drafting the project plan for solution implementation ('ESM solution analysis'): strategic reporting for the risk management committee, and a SaaS cloud solution based on SAP, Tableau, and Microsoft databases.
- Using PM2 project management methodology; organizing project meetings; creating project status reports; and administering SharePoint.
Business Analyst
HSBC INKA
- "Reporting Innovations" projects (methodology: Scrum).
- Taking over at the realization phase after phase approval; refining and detailing business requirements from the fund/KAG migration area 'Reporting Innovations'.
- Developing a migration concept for INKA e-reporting, including UX mock-ups; and writing technical documentation of XML structures and reporting components from BusinessObjects and the e-reporting GUI.
- Managing the product backlog and developing sprint backlogs.
- Developing the configuration concept for AIM-Bloomberg.
- Developing the implementation concept for organizational transition.
- Pre- and post-trade controls for the "KAGB" implementation, using SimCorp Dimension (Oracle DB) for risk management under the AIFM Act and "DerivateV" ordinance; defining the test strategy.
- Developing test concept; coordinating with stakeholders; organizing periodic stakeholder meetings; defect management using an open issues list in Excel; and creating test status reports with Cognos.
Business Analyst
DekaBank S.A.
Projects customer on-boarding and customer output (Methodology: Waterfall, ITIL).
Analysis of the migration concept for customer on-boarding LBBW Luxembourg S.A., VM Bank International S.A.
Requirements analysis for Olympic customer output, tax and year-end obligation dispatch, calculation of account balances, securities settlements for single issues.
Strategy features for FVV product line DVK business concepts, evaluation of variants and cost efficiency in document processing with the old document tool KUNO versus "New Output Tool".
Ensuring resource allocation, planning work package in line with project plan (customer output, securities settlements, year-end account statements, tax, withholding tax, exemption orders).
Technical prototype development with SQL on IBM DB2, simulating SWIFT messages for the F2E securities service with focus on trade settlement and settlement confirmations, XML data.
Project "New Output Tool" (SCRUM implementation).
Microservices, reporting tool web front end, web services, messaging bus and XML-based communication with web APIs.
Load and performance tests with VBA SendKeys to simulate simultaneous mass calls by user groups with web browsers.
Defect management and defect status reporting, workflow development with Bugzilla extract (CSV), and partial automation via VBA MS Access and Cognos reports.
Business Analyst
BNP Paribas Securities Services
- Central multi-region data warehouse project (Methodology: CMMI).
- Concept phase, ensuring documentation, correcting and clarifying business concepts.
- Ensuring status reports and project artifacts.
- Stakeholder management and coordination with vendors in English only, internal communication with project management in Luxembourg in French, with business units in Frankfurt in German, with departments in Luxembourg in Luxembourgish, with business units in Brussels in French and with business units in London in English.
- Developed central multi-region DWH (London, Brussels, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Paris) (Oracle DB) with iGates in Chennai, data basis multi-fund FA mapping, XML schema.
- Test scenario configuration, test lab setup, capturing test cases, running tests, status monitoring and test status reporting with HP Quality Center.
- Mass tests in 3-shift operation.
- Daily video conference training for outsourced developers and software testers in Chennai.
- Documentation of user manuals, multi-fund training materials, organization and delivery of multi-fund user training and software training for business units and test teams.
Business Analyst
ING Investment Management
Multi-fund business process project (Methodology: CMMI, Prince2).
Created a preliminary study for business process implementation for mortgage-backed securities, developed business concept, clarified configuration concept, created rollout concept and project management plan.
Described fallback scenarios, contingency solutions and business continuity, as well as disaster recovery.
Created dependency matrix for release planning of the application landscape Front2Back, Wallstreet FinanceKit, CharlesRiver, TMS, MultiFund FA, SimCorp Dimensions.
Defined go-live measures for activities outside regular business hours on weekends.
AS-IS vs TO-BE scenario, user training for business organization, as well as operations and maintenance organization.
Clarified change requests, maintained change status lists.
Stakeholder management for business and IT areas, IT operations, IT project management, front office, middle office, fund accounting department and corporate actions team.
Created test concept for ABS/MBS trading lifecycle.
UML modeling, use case definition, test data criteria catalog.
Refined business concepts and acceptance criteria.
Described and defined technical requirements for test environments (DEV, INT, UAT, PreLive).
Test status reporting, test scenarios, test case documentation, test execution.
Defect management with Mercury Test Director and in-house IT ticket system.
Business Analyst
UBS Fund Services S.A.
- Projects on tax reporting and regulatory reporting for funds (Methodology: ITIL).
- Developed business concepts for investor tax reporting CRS, FATCA, tax reporting for investment funds domiciled in DE, AT, CH.
- Fund letters, money market fund reporting based on GP3 Global Portfolio Sungard, Reuters and Bloomberg for financial regulators and central banks ECB, BCL, OeKB, BDI, BaFin, FMA, MFSA, FINMA, FSA, HKMA and CSSF.
- Supported business units in GP3 acceptance testing.
Business Analyst
IQ Solutions S.à.r.l.
- Employed consultant with assignments at BNP Paribas and Union Investment IT-Services GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as at BNP Securities Services and State Street Bank in Luxembourg.
- Methodology: SDLC.
- Regulatory and tax topics including Solvency Regulation, fund taxes, GroMiKV, BVI and DPG.
- Analyzed MIG21 interface changes.
- Refined business concepts and interface descriptions, created test case portfolio, documented test cases, executed tests with MultiFund FA upgrade (Oracle DB).
- Tax data mapping for GTS application (Microsoft DB).
- Developed configuration concept.
- Described test prerequisites and defined test environment requirements.
- Test execution, test status reporting and defect management with HP Quality Tester and Cooltester.
- Documented test execution using Excel, Word and Crystal Reports.
Business Analyst
Citigroup International Ltd
- Staff member in the Operation Support department.
- Writing Business Requirements Documents and conducting stakeholder meetings in English.
- Supporting release management and providing first and second level support for multi-fund TA/FA operations (Oracle DB), SDLC methodology.
- Developed a prototype of an investment restrictions database (Access VBA) following the company-wide SDLC framework.
- Data mapping (MFFA, Bloomberg API, MSCI Index, benchmarks, rating tables).
- System migration MIG21, data mapping MFFA (AMS, Infocenter), Transfer Agency Reporting MFTA.
- Interim project management for data delivery (Euroclear Fundsettle, Clearstream Vestima) and SWIFT migration.
- Conducting UAT tests with Mercury TestDirector.
Transfer Agent / Bank Employee / Fund Accountant
Union Investment Asset Management AG (Attrax S.A. / DZ Bank International S.A. / Unico Financial Services S.A.)
As a Transfer Agent at Attrax S.A.: maintained master data for multi-fund TA, performed KYC checks, and configured system parameters for contractual distribution fee agreements.
Managed fund price and foreign exchange rate interfaces.
Completed securities account transfers.
Developed STP custody position reports, sales statistics, and reports using Oracle ODBC, MS Access VBA, MS Query SQL, and Excel.
As a Bank Employee at DZ Bank International S.A.: fund registration procedures for UCITS, FCP, SIF, SICAV, SICAF.
Daily portfolio/call money account checks, AML, NIW controls, and asset class coherence checks for securities and contracts (FX, EUREX, OTC).
Reporting active investment limit breaches to regulators.
As a Fund Accountant at Unico Financial Services S.A.: NAV valuation for fund of funds (in-house and external funds in Excel).
Migrated fund of funds from Excel to the MFFA software application.
Booked share transactions, cash movements, securities trading, corporate actions, and prepared reporting for general meetings.
Daily reconciliations with fund management, brokers, market makers, custodian bank, and transfer office, periodic fund price publication.
Supported auditors.
Summary
My skills include business analysis, requirements management, requirements engineering, project management, change and test management, test execution, parameterization, and software development mainly for core banking systems and financial systems (Avaloq, Olympic, SimCorp Dimension, Multifonds, GP3, PM1, SAP) in project roles as a BA, BE, PM, PO, and QA.
My foundation is built on over two decades of operational experience and expertise in the financial industry and IT. I have supported international banks, private financial institutions, and EU governmental financial institutions at various locations. My professional know-how covers financial management, investment fund administration, custodian banking, treasury, lending, risk management, controlling, regulatory reporting, audit, compliance, sustainable development (UN PRI, UN PRB, SDG, ESG), sustainability management, and sustainable finance. My characteristic values are a structured way of working, systematic problem-solving, professionalism, integrity, trustworthiness, reliability, punctuality, a positive attitude, sound judgment, stress resilience, proactivity, pragmatism, efficiency, positive thinking, empathy, and teamwork.
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Education
SRH
Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Management with a focus on ESG Sustainable Finance · Sustainability Management · Germany
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen
Economics · Nürtingen, Germany
Pôle Universitaire Euclide
MBA Sustainable Development · Sustainable Development · Serrekunda, Gambia
Certifications & licenses
Operational Aspects Of Sustainable Finance (Advanced)
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
Sustainable Finance (Foundation)
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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