Funda T. - Senior Business Consultant

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Offenbach am Main, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Present

1 year 9 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 option types and series

EMIR REFIT tasks:

Advising project management for the securities & operations department
Support during implementation and advice after go-live
Communication and coordination with the software vendor to clarify functional questions
Overall responsibility for the test concept and go-live on 29.04.2024 (phase I) including bug fixes and follow-up (phase II)
Active support for go-live: creating reports and assisting with the migration of position reporting
Creating training materials 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
Developing a test concept and coordinating with departments
Creating a test matrix for standardization
Executing tests on the test/acceptance environment in PuTTY
Logging tests in XRAY
Error analysis, defect management & instructing 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
Executing and documenting tests
Error analysis and instructing developers
Data analysis of the source system and presentation of action alternatives (SQL queries)
Creating and aligning master data "accounts" specification
Tools: OBS, PuTTY, XML Spy, Notepad++, SQL Developer, Notes

Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

1 year 6 months

Senior IT & Business Consultant

Bethmann Bank AG

IT block:

Supporting bank-wide reporting data from various systems
Mapping and error message handling (bug fixing)
Converting booking logics to the Italian FTT
Production monitoring and troubleshooting
Data analysis for general ledger mapping

Migration team:

Main contact for finance-related activities
General ledger reconciliation and data cleansing
Creating test matrix checkpoints
Working on data loads and bug fixing
Analysis of migration strategies

May 2020 - Sep 2020

5 months

Senior Manager

Commerzbank AG

Developing test concept and regression test cases for cloud infrastructure and server upgrades
Impact analysis for outdated legacy systems
Optimization analysis of the 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

Investment Compliance Specialist

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 department drive migration
Test concept creation, execution and migration
Maintaining file server infrastructure standards
Leading and coordinating workshops

Aug 2017 - Jan 2018

6 months

Subproject Lead Fund Taxation & Testing

Commerzbank AG

Developing tests for the investment tax process
Leading workshops in fund strategy areas, including optimization

Apr 2017 - Jul 2017

4 months

Functional Lead Subproject WGZ Migration

DZ Bank

Optimizing input requirements for FATCA-CRS datasets

Dec 2015 - Nov 2016

1 year

Project Manager

UBS Deutschland AG

Leading requirements & adjustments in international compliance management.

Jun 2015 - Dec 2015

7 months

Business Consultant

J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Compliance rule boundaries, international anti-codification.

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 as per specifications, focusing on finance in cooperation with head of accounting, collaterals in cooperation with credit department, FX in cooperation with head of treasury & ALM; project ECMS – Eurosystem Collateral Management System
Project management and TPL regulatory requirements, specialist projects acting as interface between business department and IT (project languages: German and English)
Business analysis, impact analysis and functional design for withholding tax, money market statistics and IFTT (English) and the FATCA new account process, migration concept for CRS and FATCA optimization, 65th WM release capital measures, SEPA, developing IT target architecture, creating various work instructions for business units and external service providers, review & quality assurance of various technical concepts
Process modeling, software implementation (Abacus), designing IT target architecture and implementation planning (roadmap), role modeling and implementing a role model for access control in Abacus
Test management: creating master test plan and test case descriptions, test lead including tracking development (definition and oversight of involved IT departments), go-live including possible initiation and management of follow-up activities, responsibility & implementation of rollout, rollout support as main contact for IT for implementing business requirements, defect management, as well as training and mentoring colleagues in India & the U.K. (outsourcing testing to external providers)
Special assignment: supporting project lead in the context of the asset quality review (AQR) commissioned by BaFin (special audit), main responsibility for the output template for risk metrics/loans/single exposures (T4B) and validation of metrics, writing report sections & preparing audit documents
Conducting training sessions and workshops (German and English; also cross-border)
Drafting investment guidelines according to InvG, adapting fund contracts/profiles to KAGB, capturing and monitoring in CRIMS & MIG21, supporting the investment process, acting as interface between KVG and custodian
Investment compliance: mapping investment guidelines and client risk profiles according to KAGB (InvG)/DerivateV in MIG21, CRIMS and TRAC, as well as pre- and post-trade controls, parameterization and rule adjustments, special tasks: adjusting leverage exposure (net vs. gross method compared to VAR)
Advising institutional large clients on investment options for their special assets (portfolio analysis) according to all legal guidelines.