Florian Schmidt
Freelancer
Experience
Mar 2022 - Present
3 years 5 monthsFreelancer
Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 8 months Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Principal Business Functional Expert for authoring business specifications and overseeing the implementation of regulatory
International Asset Manager
- Prepare and present regulatory requirements
- Create business requirements documentation for EMIR Refit reporting obligations
- Support the selection process (RFI/RFP) and integrate a leading IT service provider for reporting
- Coordinate and support development of a new (DaaS) reporting architecture
- Support operational reporting tasks for derivatives
- Create and review documents required under MaComp (compliance)
- Participate in working groups with market participants on regulatory topics (BVI, buy- and sell-side firms)
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of current EMIR derivatives reporting
- Liaise with counterparties in derivatives trading to ensure EMIR reporting compliance
- Provide expert support for replacing and improving current reporting processes
- Support contract drafting for asset management from a regulatory view
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
1 yearManagement Consultant
Schmidt Consulting
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
1 year 6 months Germany
Business Analyst for preparing a preliminary study and gathering evidence to implement requirements
Deutsche Boerse AG
- Analyze and gather evidence on security of international connections in the group network
- Create a preliminary study to introduce KPI reporting on network security
- Gather evidence on use of network security systems for external partners and clients
- Identify and assess security risks in data centers
- Prepare and present cryptographic authentication methods for data encryption
- Create internal documents and reports
- Coordinate with internal auditors of subsidiaries and external audit firms
- Coordinate with external service providers and internal experts
- Create presentations, organize internal and external meetings, and coordinate the project
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
3 yearsSenior Consultant
Soorce Professionals GmbH
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
1 year Austria
Business Analyst and Requirements Manager for introducing and patenting IT security applications
Austrian IT Company
- Analyze requirements to assess patentability of a software copy protection process
- Perform patent research on validation and licensing methods
- Prepare patent application in Germany and the EU
- Write patent description and draft patent drawings
- Model processes between cloud infrastructure and end users
- Define and monitor KPIs in the AWS cloud environment
- Implement project management tools JIRA/Confluence
- Prepare presentations, client meetings, and marketing materials
- Create internal policies and documents
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
3 monthsBusiness Analyst for fact finding and documentation of a project to introduce and collect the vehicle infrastructure charge
Austrian telecommunications and transport telematics group, German ticketing company and leading law firm
- Document project progress and timeline
- Gather facts to prepare for an arbitration
- Align fact finding and presentation with a leading law firm
- Identify and secure evidence
- Coordinate with subcontractors for fact finding and evidence preservation
- Implement a document management system
- Backup data and hand over facts and documentation
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
5 monthsRequirements Manager and Workstream Leader for introducing and collecting the vehicle infrastructure charge for residents and
Austrian telecommunications and transport telematics group, German ticketing company and federal agency
- Lead the “Requirements” workstream to ensure compliance with contractual requirements across 16 subprojects
- Analyze, prioritize and detail contractual requirements
- Create business concepts for development and architecture
- Review and support development in creating user stories
- Lead a joint working group between the operator and the federal agency
- Coordinate subcontractors and external service providers
- Review and accept deliverables from subcontractors
- Review and approve contractual deliverables for the main client
- Develop and detail non-functional requirements
- Define technical scaling guidelines for subsystems based on volume estimates
- Develop and detail performance requirements
- Support decision making on web service technologies (JSON, SOAP)
- Coordinate legal review of content in client letters and official notices
- Support creation and alignment of contractually required performance processes with subcontractors
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
2 monthsTrainings and certifications in IT Management and EPC/BPMN
- ITIL® Foundation Level v3/2011
- ARIS EPC/BPMN
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
2 monthsBusiness Analyst for integrating a merchandise management module into an ERP system to improve process efficiency
Medium-sized Trading Company
- Analyze supply chains
- Map current state, target state and process analysis
- Model processes using BPMN 2.0
- Define KPIs
- Discuss and analyze alternative actions
- Assess risk and change management
- Develop an implementation roadmap
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
6 months Eschborn, Germany
Business Analyst in retail banking “Investments” for OTC direct trading, exchange trading
International Large Bank
- Support mid-term planning for (web) order forms, limit functions, pricing models, inducements and measures to improve order process efficiency through KPI analysis
- Provide subject matter expert support and create business specifications (e.g. one-sided pricing, inducements related to ex-ante and ex-post cost disclosure, MIC codes)
- Support the branch in South Korea with local regulatory requirements
- Open omnibus accounts via SWIFT instructions for securities custody
- Perform statistical analysis and error analysis of quote and order performance using DECIDE integration with MS Access and R
- Support product management for funds (selection criteria, coordination with fund providers)
- Handle customer complaints (VIP clients)
- Analyze requirements for technical integration of new trading partners (FIX Gateway)
- Communicate and configure technical and sales integration for new OTC trading partners
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
7 months Eschborn, Germany
Business Functional Analyst and Project Coordinator for configuring and documenting OTC direct trading
International Large Bank
- Perform requirements and functional analysis for the new order routing and order management infrastructure
- Analyze interface specifications of external trading platforms (FIX) and internal interfaces (MQ/XML) and systems (DB2/COBOL)
- Document all configuration steps for order routing and order management for OTC trading
- Create user documentation for the full IT process
- Design process diagrams in UML and MS Visio
- Prepare and run workshops with the IT vendor
- Align with the IT vendor during testing
- Coordinate and align with trading partners during testing
- Conduct and accept load tests, user acceptance tests etc. during software rollout
- Record and track defects in HP ALM
- Support building an MS Access database (VBA) for performance analysis
- Draft an operating handbook for OTC trading for the business
- KPI: Analyze quotes and trades in production
- Prepare integration of new trading partners
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
2 months Germany
Test Analyst for the interface with the Regulatory Reporting Hub of Deutsche Börse to implement post-trade transparency
German Private Bank
- In-house Exprio training in HP QC and introduction to test management
- Create a test design for HP QC using Excel upload
- Document requirements in the HP QC template
- Write test cases in the HP QC template
- Define test data requirements
May 2017 - Jun 2017
2 months Germany
Business Analyst for specifying the interface with the Regulatory Reporting Hub of Deutsche Börse to connect the APA service
System Provider and German Private Bank
- Analyze the Deutsche Börse interface specification for APA Service Pilot 6 (FIX Gateway MiFID II – OTC Trade Reporting and SI Quote Publication – Version 1.4)
- Create a requirement catalog based on the bank’s business concept including open points and key assumptions for system integration
- Write a specification for reporting security buys and sells from the back office system considering:
- New data requirements for import and export of replies from Deutsche Börse
- Logging logic for different actions/market operations in the back office system
- Mapping rules for the FIX interface
- Align requirements with the system provider through workshops
- Coordinate the overall process with the bank and the system provider
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
3 monthsRemote
Business Analyst for remote support on Exprio projects and project acquisition
Exprio Services GmbH
- Support creation of a preliminary study on overdraft processing at a savings bank
- Prepare acquisition meetings on SFTR for a private bank and a savings bank
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
2 monthsBusiness Analyst for analyzing regulatory requirements of SFTR and EMIR 2.0
Exprio Services GmbH
- Analyze regulatory requirements of SFTR and the expanded EMIR reporting obligations
- Compare and analyze reportable fields
- Document findings
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
3 months Germany
Business Analyst for creating a business concept based on a preliminary study for collateral management and clearing
German Insurance Group
- Prepare and attend workshops with various business units to analyze EMIR collateral management implementation
- Analyze Regis-TR interface specification
- Specify collateral reporting via file upload
- Present expanded EMIR transaction reporting requirements
Jan 2015 - Dec 2020
5 yearsSenior Consultant
Exprio Services GmbH
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
7 months Germany
Business Analyst for creating a business concept based on a preliminary study for OTC derivatives collateral management
German Insurance Group
- Specify data requirements for a new module to handle OTC derivatives collateral management under EMIR in SAP
- Contract master data for collateral annex
- Transaction data
- Collateral positions
- Specify calculation logic for the new module
- Design cross-departmental process between back office, risk controlling and cash management for OTC derivatives collateral using Signavio in BPMN 2.0 with subprocesses:
- Contract master data maintenance
- Market value calculation and import
- Margin call management
- Dispute management
- Settlement and payments
- Design the liquidity risk management process in BPMN 2.0
Languages
English
Native
German
Native
Education
University of Bonn
Bachelor of Science · Economics · Bonn, Germany
FOM
Master of Science · Industrial Engineering
Certifications & licenses
ARIS EPC/BPMN Expertise Certificate
ITIL® Foundation Level v3/2011
EF SET Certificate Plus English Level C2
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