Funda Toprakci - Senior Business Consultant

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Offenbach am Main, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Present

1 year 4 months

Senior Business Consultant

Bethmann Bank AG

Settlement of ETD (futures & options), OTC (DTGs), give-up/take-up
Position reconciliation and account reconciliation
Coordination with trading, Eurex, UBS AG, asset management
Creation of new categories for options and series

EMIR REFIT tasks:

Advising project management for Securities & Operations
Supporting the roll-out and post-go-live consulting
Communication and coordination with software vendor to clarify business questions
Main responsibility for test concept and go-live on 29.04.2024 (phase I) including bug fixes and follow-up (phase II)
Active go-live support: creating reports and assisting with migration of position reporting
Preparing training documents for various modules and conducting training
Updating and creating instruction manuals

Apr 2023 - Dec 2023

9 months

Senior IT & Business Consultant

Baader Bank AG

Project: TEV Reprogramming

Test manager for newly programmed OBS TEV programs in Java
Development of a test concept and coordination with departments
Creation of a test matrix for standardization
Execution of tests in test/acceptance environment using PuTTY
Test logging in XRAY
Error analysis, defect management & instructions to developers
Data analysis and presentation of alternatives (SQL queries)
Tools: OBS, PuTTY, UNIX Shell, Notepad++, SQL Developer, Notes

Jul 2022 - Dec 2022

6 months

Senior IT & Business Consultant

Die Software Objectway Group

ECMS integration for the Bundesbank:

Responsible for master data test logs: parties, accounts, pools
Execution and documentation of tests
Error analysis and instructions to developers
Data analysis of source system and presentation of alternatives (SQL queries)
Creation and coordination of master data "Accounts" specification
Tools: OBS, PuTTY, XMLSpy, Notepad++, SQL Developer, Notes

Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

1 year 6 months

Senior IT & Business Consultant

Bethmann Bank AG

IT block:

Support for bank-wide reporting data from various systems
Mapping and error message handling (bug fixes)
Conversion of booking logic to Italian FTT
Production monitoring and error resolution
Data analysis for general ledger mapping

Migration team:

Main contact for finance-related activities
General ledger account reconciliation and data cleansing
Creation of test matrix checkpoints
Participation in data load and bug fixing
Analysis of migration strategies

May 2020 - Sep 2020

5 months

Senior Manager

Commerzbank AG

Development of test concept and regression test cases for cloud infrastructure and server upgrades
Change analysis for outdated legacy systems
Optimization analysis of IT system landscape and relevant data feeds
Communication and coordination with business units and developers regarding relevant data providers

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

7 months

Specialist Investment Compliance

Metzler Asset Management GmbH

Analysis and focus on digitization strategies
Gap analysis and IT target architecture process
Recommendations for replacing audit systems

May 2018 - Dec 2018

8 months

Senior Consultant

Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen

Execution of GDPR file server migration
Creation and execution of test concept and migration
Maintenance of file server infrastructure standards
Workshop leadership including coordination

Aug 2017 - Jan 2018

6 months

Subproject Lead Fund Taxation & Testing

Commerzbank AG

Creation of tests for the investment tax process
Leading workshops on fund strategy areas including optimization

Apr 2017 - Jul 2017

4 months

Functional Lead Subproject WGZ Migration

DZ Bank

Optimization of FATCA-CRS data requirements input

Dec 2015 - Nov 2016

1 year

Project Manager

UBS Deutschland AG

Leading requirements & adjustments for international compliance management

Jun 2015 - Dec 2015

7 months

Business Consultant

J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Compliance rule definitions, international anti-coding.

Summary

Skills:

Data migration of core banking software OBS – T24; SQL scripts prepared according to DMS (Data Mapping Sheet) for technical runs/data loads and bug fixing per specifications, focusing on: Finance with Head of Accounting, Collaterals with Credit Department, FX with Head of Treasury & ALM; project ECMS – Eurosystem Collateral Management System
Project management and TPL regulatory requirements, specialist projects acting as interface between business and IT (project languages: German and English)
Business analysis, impact analysis and business design of withholding tax, money market statistics and IFTT (English) and the FATCA new accounts process, migration concept for CRS and FATCA optimization, 65th WM release capital measures, SEPA, development of IT target architecture, creation of various work instructions for business units and external service providers, review & quality assurance of various business designs
Process modeling, software implementation (Abacus), design of IT target architecture and implementation planning (roadmap), role modeling and implementation of role model for access control in Abacus
Test management: creation of master test plan and test case descriptions, test lead including tracking development (definition and monitoring of involved IT departments), go-live including, if needed, initiation and control of post-processing, responsibility & implementation of rollout, rollout support as IT contact to implement business requirements, defect management, as well as briefing and managing colleagues in India & U.K. (when outsourcing testing to external service providers)
Special mandate: support project lead in Asset Quality Review (AQR) on behalf of BaFin (special audit), main responsibility for output template for risk metrics/loans/single exposures (T4B) and checking metrics, writing report sections & preparing audit documentation
Conducting trainings and workshops (German and English; also cross-country)
Drafting investment guidelines according to InvG, adapting fund contracts/profiles to KAGB, capturing and monitoring in CRIMS & MIG21, supporting the investment process, interface between KVG and depositary
Investment compliance: mapping investment guidelines and risk profiles of clients according to KAGB (InvG)/DerivateV in MIG21, CRIMS and TRAC as well as pre- and post-trade controls, parameterization and rule adjustment, special tasks: adjustment of leverage definition (net vs. gross method vs. VAR)
Advising institutional large clients on investment options of their special assets (portfolio analysis) according to all legal guidelines.