Matthias M.

Project Manager

Dublin, Ireland

Experience

Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
6 months

Business Analyst

Marketdata Provider

  • Analysis and provision of market data from a range of providers for different clients and their requirements
  • Interface between IT and client
  • Capturing client requirements and transforming them for IT (incl. PRIIPs)
  • Analysis of migration of WM data to EDDy_neu
Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 9 months

Business Analyst and Project Manager

DepotBank

  • Evaluation of required reporting under MiFIR Article 26 (Transaction Reporting) / RTS 22
  • Interface between functional requirements and IT
  • Coordination of reporting channels
  • Analysis for deployment of reporting software (UnaVista)
  • Gap analysis of existing data vs. required data
  • Data quality optimization
  • Contract management and license negotiations with the software vendor
  • Defining and agreeing on new processes
  • Coordinating and defining the required data for reporting
  • Planning software development
  • Planning and design for extension of core database (in-house KVG software)
  • Creating business concept for the MiFIR reporting
  • Creating test cases and executing tests
  • Functional acceptance
  • Managing software development and test team
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
10 months

IT Project Manager for software rollout / Business Analyst

Depot/FondsBank

  • Classic implementation of end-to-end processes
  • Steering and coordinating meetings
  • Preparing and leading steering committees for top management
  • Creating and presenting decision papers
  • Business analysis when planning volume expansions in the processing environment, as well as analyzing and creating rough concepts for optimization
  • Capacity planning
  • Contract management
  • Hybrid software development -> traditional with transition to agile processes and methods
  • Coordination between various departments
  • Interface between business units and project stakeholders
  • Tools: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, Miro Boards
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
1 year 1 month

Coordination & Scrum Master (software rollout / CD) / IT Project Manager DevOps & BA

  • Coordinating DevOps team in agile software development Scrum / Kanban
  • Coaching and optimization in terms of DevSecOps (SAFe® practices)
  • Ensuring compliance with BAIT requirements as a service provider
  • Coordination between various departments
  • Task planning and optimization of CD and traditional software rollout
  • Business analysis and co-design of pipeline designs
  • Building organizational structure
  • Personnel and technical coordination, coaching
  • Environment: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, Miro Boards, microservices, Kubernetes, GitLab, Kafka, Grafana, Kibana, ElasticSearch, Splunk, PostgreSQL
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
4 months

Project management (interim PM with handover)

  • Building Avaloq landscape
  • Coordinating the teams
  • Requirements analysis
  • Organizing and leading meetings
  • Initiating orders and monitoring them
  • Contract management and license negotiations with the software vendor
  • Link between clients and IT
  • Capturing requirements and planning servers, data lines, databases, etc., incl. interviews with various business units and IT
  • Tools: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, Miro Boards
Mar 2019 - Present
6 years 10 months

Management

  • Online marketing in the area of online seminars and coaching
  • Determining IT requirements (hardware, tools, social media platforms, etc.)
  • Defining the processes
  • Designing the member area for clients
  • Creating videos/photos for ads (Facebook, Instagram, XING and LinkedIn)
  • Setting up organizational structure
  • Advising and creating content for ads (text links and video ads)
Feb 2016 - Dec 2019
3 years 11 months

Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer and Subproject Manager

Deutsche Börse

  • Various MiFID II/MiFIR requirements to be implemented and MAR reporting (rule-based implementation of MAR requirements)
  • Subproject management/Scrum Master for the business analysts
  • Creating decision papers and reports for program managers
  • Planning and coordinating software release upgrades to newer versions
  • Planning and creating resource planning proposals
  • Service and works contract management
  • Designing an automated MiFID/MiFIR report monitoring system, including automated error correction and a dashboard for various user groups
  • Asset classes: ETFs, equities, repos, futures, certificates, swaps, commodity warrants, bonds
  • Creating and maintaining documentation in the context of MiFID II/MiFIR and MAR
  • Creating user stories, impact analyses, functional and IT concepts
  • Regular personal interaction with authorities like BaFin
  • Evaluating data analysis and data modeling (BPMN)
  • Analyzing trade/deal flow for MiFID II reporting
  • Capturing requirements and planning IT infrastructure
  • Project management and workshop moderation, use of JIRA, Confluence, MS Project
  • Specification in close coordination with business departments and IT (offshore Prague)
  • Analysis and coordination for the SAP interface
  • Planning and supporting software rollout and handover to operations
  • Further development of internal processes and customer portals
  • Feasibility analysis & concept for PAM & IAM
  • BCM planning and support of IT security concept
  • Suspensions (MiFID II/MiFIR), transparency requirements (RTS 1 & 2), volume limitation (DVC RTS 3)
  • Planning and monitoring milestones
Jun 2014 - Mar 2016
1 year 10 months
Nuremberg, Germany

Project Management / Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer

Consorsbank / BNP Paribas

  • Leading various projects/multi-project management in the SAFe framework
  • Release changes and version upgrades for the trading emergency system
  • Implementing online orders in the securities environment
  • Resource planning and proposal creation
  • Organizing and moderating workshops with management and stakeholders
  • Coordinating various IT projects
  • Analysis and work package planning
  • Creating decision papers for the steering committee
  • Using Clarity, MS Project, Confluence
  • Agile (Scrum) and traditional project management
  • Managing external service providers
  • Defining interfaces for front-end and algo systems
  • Trade delivery to risk and collateral management systems
  • User stories for new order types in trading and OMS systems
  • Requirements engineering and documentation maintenance
  • Implementing new order types as well as MAD/MAR Level 1 requirements
  • Preparing UAT test cases
  • Integrating new providers for account opening
  • Upgrading the order emergency system
  • Online instructions for corporate actions & AGM card creation
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
3 months
Munich, Germany

Project Manager

HVB

  • Project management for migration in the Kondor+ area
  • International environment (LDN, NY, MUC)
  • Coordinating the project team across multiple locations
  • Creating decision papers for the steering committee
  • Reporting to the steering committee and stakeholders
  • Scheduling
  • Implementing new calculation methods
Sep 2012 - Dec 2013
1 year 4 months
Munich, Germany

Consulting / Project Coordination & Management / Coach

FMS Wertmanagement AöR

  • Application management for market & risk systems (AC+, Algorithmics/IBM, Visual Rules, Bloomberg)
  • Project leadership with service providers (quality and project controlling)
  • Creating decision papers for the steering committee
  • Monitoring IT requirements for outsourcing according to CEBS
  • Application support and reporting to stakeholders
  • Quality assurance during transition and migration
  • Planning and proposal creation
  • Managing external service providers, SLA management
  • Contract and license negotiations
  • Supporting knowledge transfer (offshore India)
  • Communicator between IT and the business department
  • Analysis and coordination of the SAP FI/CO interface
  • Interface descriptions for SUMMIT, Bloomberg, MarkIT/LoanX
  • Test coordination and UAT (HP-ALM, SharePoint)
  • Introducing business processes at IT interfaces
Oct 2007 - Sep 2012
5 years
Frankfurt, Germany

Consulting / Project / Program Coordination and Management / Coach

Dekabank-Fonds

  • Advice on selecting new trading software (equities, derivatives)
  • Integration of exchanges, brokers, clearers and pan-European CCPs
  • Requirements for hardware, software, networks, transaction volumes
  • Coordination of software development and rollout
  • Version upgrades from various vendors
  • Team and external vendor management, SLA monitoring
  • Preparation of decision papers and reports for the steering committee
  • Use of MS Project and budget responsibility
  • Handover of software to operations (BAU)
  • Resource and infrastructure planning
  • Concepts for pan-European market connectivity, data center setup
  • Contract and license negotiations with data and software providers
  • FIX connectivity design and project lead for OMS/trading systems
  • Audit support in the business unit and IT
  • UAT test cases and drafting of emergency manual
  • Product selection for trading systems, middle office, settlement, depositories
  • Sales tool analysis and reporting
  • IAM and RACI concepts
  • Definition of quality gates
  • Compliance exchanges
  • Data provisioning concepts and data analysis
  • Deployment process and STP coordination
  • Single point of contact between business unit and IT
Apr 2004 - Sep 2007
3 years 6 months
Munich, Germany

Consulting / Project Management

HVB

  • Consulting and design of IT architecture for expanding securities trading
  • Organization and coordination of IT projects, SLA monitoring
  • Software development and IT implementation
  • Deal flow analysis for failed trades
  • Decision papers for the steering committee
  • Use of MS Project and budget responsibility
  • High availability concepts and integration of European branches
  • Audit support
  • Exchange and broker connectivity, compliance coordination
  • Trade delivery to risk and collateral systems
  • Retail client connectivity including IAM concept
  • Contract and license negotiations with exchanges and data providers
  • FIX and RTD Connect design for OMS/trading systems
  • Market data provider consulting
  • Instrument master data design
  • Test cases and UAT planning
  • Product selection, price negotiations, controlling
  • Handover to operations
Apr 2003 - Mar 2004
1 year
Munich, Germany

Project / Program Management

HVB

  • Selection of new trading software (equities, derivatives)
  • Impact analyses and coordination before trading system change
  • Implementation of RTS AG / RTD and FIX engine (CameronFIX)
  • Exchange connectivity: LSE, Euronext, XETRA, EUREX
  • Market and reference data provisioning
  • Coordination with clients and custodians
  • Radianz connectivity
  • Requirements catalogue, concept and design
  • Business case creation
  • Contract management and invoice verification
Mar 2002 - Mar 2003
1 year 1 month
Munich, Germany

Project Lead / Management of New Trading System Development

HVB

  • Project leadership with budget responsibility (7-figure) and 15 developers
  • Gathering requirements (hardware, software, networks)
  • Hardware and architecture planning, resource planning
  • Identity and role concepts, password management, reporting (IAM & PAM)
  • Milestone setting and tracking
  • Contribution to business and technical specifications
  • Coordination of IT subprojects
  • Process and structure implementation
  • Single point of contact between business unit and IT
  • Handover to operations
  • Technical environment: JAVA, EJB, ORACLE 8i, BEA, Apache, RMI, JMS
Oct 2001 - Jan 2002
4 months
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Project Management / Quality Management for Start-Up

  • Review of IT architecture / design under banking regulations
  • Coordination and support of system and integration tests
  • Prioritization of change and error requests
  • Coordination with project team members and product division
  • Contract negotiations with software vendors and ASPs
  • Creation and maintenance of requirement specifications
  • Creation and quality assurance of system parameterization and documentation
  • Test data and test case creation (UAT)
  • Error documentation and tracking
Jul 2001 - Dec 2001
6 months
Munich, Germany

Project Lead

Bank

  • Migration of Kondor+ 1.9 to 2.0 for customization
  • Interface modifications (MIKO, DEVOS, GEDIS) for forex and money market
  • Coordination of handover to new system vendor
  • Coordination of IT subprojects
  • Milestone monitoring and tracking
  • Implementation of processes and structure
  • Documentation setup and resource planning
  • Single point of contact and budget control
  • Technical environment: Sybase, SQL, C, C++
Jan 2000 - Jun 2001
1 year 6 months
Augsburg, Germany

CIO

COMVIMA AG

  • Development of complex websites (J2EE, ORACLE 8i, Linux)
  • VPN planning and intercontinental network
  • Project and infrastructure planning and proposal creation
  • Data center planning and team leadership (25 developers)
  • Recruiting and budget planning
  • Setting milestones and tracking
  • Draft concept for product development
  • Acquisition of pilot customers and investor meetings
  • Business case and trademark and patent registration

Various Roles

Previous assignments include: Du Pont de Nemours Germany; Software AG (mainframe setup, operation, Y2K and euro introduction); mainframe operation and system programming (COBOL, CICS, VMS, VM/VSE).

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Certifications & licenses

MiFID II / MiFIR And MAR Reporting (ESMA & BaFin) Level 1, 2 & 3

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