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Natascha Kluike

Business Analyst DORA and System Architecture

Natascha Kluike
Düsseldorf, Germany

Experience

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
3 months
Germany

Business Analyst DORA and System Architecture

PSVaG

  • DORA consulting and system optimization
  • Process analysis of existing business and technically complex processes
  • Analysis of individual processes in relevant areas: trading, back office, settlement, custodian bank
  • Acting as interface between business areas and IT to understand and define requirements
  • Creating a functional specification including adjustments and implementation of software applications and their interfaces to systems
  • Preparing a decision paper for the executive board to approve the project
  • Setting up and conducting project meetings with relevant stakeholders and documenting them
  • Close collaboration with stakeholders
  • Coordinating and steering the analysis
  • Planning and allocating resources and budget
  • Onboarding large banks (Asia and Eastern Europe) for Depot B
  • Migrating Depot B holdings (volume around EUR 70-100 million)
Mar 2025 - Aug 2025
6 months
Germany

Business Analyst

Baader Bank AG

  • Analyzed existing processes for Depot B (back office, custodian bank, settlement & co.)
  • Process analysis of existing business and technically complex processes
  • Analysis of individual processes in relevant areas: trading (including Bloomberg and Bloomberg AIM), back office, settlement, custodian bank
  • Acting as interface between business areas and IT to understand and define requirements
  • Creating functional specifications including adjustments and implementation of software applications and their interfaces to systems
  • Preparing decision paper for the executive board to approve the project
  • Setting up and conducting project meetings with relevant stakeholders and documenting them
  • Close collaboration with stakeholders
  • Coordinating and steering the analysis
  • Planning and allocating resources and budget
  • Onboarding large banks (Asia and Eastern Europe) for Depot B
  • Migrating Depot B holdings (volume around EUR 70-100 million)
Feb 2025 - May 2025
4 months
Germany

Project Lead / Regulatory Manager - DORA

Arvato Systems

  • Implementing DORA requirements for clients in the insurance industry
  • Analyzing current regulatory requirements (DORA etc.) and translating them into IT products and insurance clients
  • Developing regulatory IT products for clients in the financial and insurance sectors
  • Coordinating, creating and implementing the new structure to comply with the DORA regulation
  • Coordinating and managing regulatory projects for internal units, as well as planning and executing these projects
  • Preparing budget and resource planning and estimates
  • Supporting sales colleagues in tenders with focus on regulatory requirements and introducing and monitoring quality standards
  • Assisting in complying with and advancing AI solution requirements under the AI regulation
  • Advising management on current regulatory requirements
  • Acting as interface and coordinating internal and external audits together with business units
  • Implementing findings/solutions for products (digital/AI-based)
  • Accompanying and coordinating internal and external audits together with business units
  • Collaborating and coordinating with stakeholders on the client side, partners and within the company
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
3 months
Germany

Project Manager

Deutsche Industriebank AG (IKB)

  • Transition & transformation project for provider change including Bloomberg (AIM)
  • Overall responsibility for the PMO
  • Leading and managing adherence to time, budget and quality requirements
  • Supporting the overall project manager
  • Leading and coordinating teams
  • Developing and implementing PMO strategies and their IT strategy (including Bloomberg and Bloomberg AIM)
  • Creating and maintaining project plans
  • Monitoring and reporting (oversight, progress tracking, risk management and resource planning)
  • Project status meetings (holding regular meetings and reporting to stakeholders and management)
  • Ensuring adherence to milestones and deadlines
  • Preparing process documentation
  • Developing and maintaining standardized reports (e.g. status reports, risk reports)
  • Monitoring project KPIs
  • Escalation management for deviations
  • Ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g. MaRisk, DORA)
  • Documenting and providing evidence for internal and external audits
  • Preparing reports and ad hoc analyses
  • Preparing materials for project committees, steering committee and governance board (including the bank's executive board)
  • Close communication and interaction with stakeholders
  • Close collaboration with the DORA project regarding DORA requirements in the provider change
  • Coordinating and managing DORA requirements for operational documents, test reports and reporting
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
8 months
Germany

Business Analyst/ Project Manager

Deutsche Bank AG

  • Project lead in Market Change Trades (market & regulation, change requests, process optimization) – MaRisk, MiFID II
  • Analyzing functional and non-functional requirements (technical/business) – as-is/to-be analysis
  • Documenting requirements including interface requirements
  • Aligning business and technical requirements with stakeholders, business units and IT
  • Analyzing business processes and IT including Bloomberg
  • Creating a functional specification for process requirements
  • Adjusting and, if necessary, introducing new processes for transaction-based reporting requirements (EMIR, foreign trade statistics report, MMSR)
  • Setting up meetings, conducting them and documenting outcomes
  • Participating in project meetings with management and workshops
  • Meeting with stakeholders and management on site
  • Assisting with resource and budget planning and attending meetings
  • Conducting regression tests – creating test cases, executing and documenting tests and error analysis
  • Creating, adjusting and aligning functional specifications and user stories with business units and IT
  • Close communication with IT developers and acting as interface to business units
  • Rolling out business processes
Jan 2024 - May 2025
1 year 5 months
Germany

Business Analyst

FI Finanz Informatik GmbH & Co.KG

  • Modernization of IT systems for the POS head office department, authorizing national and international card payments
  • Process analysis of existing business processes that are functionally and technically complex, as well as creating processes for card payments (girocard, debit cards, Mastercard, etc.)
  • Translating programming languages Cobol/Assembler into a business concept for modernization in Java
  • Acting as interface between business units and IT to understand, define, and implement requirements
  • Creating a functional design of business and technical IT specifications, including graphics with BPMN
  • Supporting the design and implementation of IT solutions
  • Documenting business requirements to optimize existing business processes in Java
  • Setting up and leading project meetings with relevant stakeholders and documenting them
  • Close collaboration with stakeholders
  • Coordinating and managing workstreams
  • Creating and planning resources and budget
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
6 months
Munich, Germany

Business Analyst

Versicherungskammer Bayern

  • Implementing a new online platform for all products using new technology and implementing new processes according to VAIT
  • Analyzing the relationships between processes, structures, data, and user interfaces, as well as data migrations – current/target analysis
  • Creating requirements in coordination with the business unit (epic/business concept), creating user stories in Jira and Confluence
  • Close collaboration with development teams during implementation (Angular, Spring Boot, Jasper) as an interface to the business unit
  • Test management, creating test plans and execution, error analysis and retesting
  • Supporting the rollout of new features on the platform in Jira/Confluence
  • Coordinating cross-departmental, business, and project-related alignments
  • End-to-end responsibility for implementation with a technical focus and management of technical implementation
  • Considering company-wide architectural guidelines
  • Coordinating the project with all relevant interfaces along the value chain
  • Monitoring tasks and requirements as well as ensuring deadlines are met
  • Presenting user stories to the IT developers
  • Creating business concepts and documentation for the introduction of end-to-end business processes
  • Interface communication with various business units
  • Gathering business requirements in the property insurance area
  • Developing optimal and pragmatic solutions for stakeholders
  • Executing test cases and functional acceptance
Apr 2023 - Sep 2023
6 months
Germany

Business Analyst/Project Manager

EnBW AG

  • Optimizing processes and implementing new ones in cross-functional projects
  • Analyzing existing processes and workflows and identifying optimization opportunities (current/target analysis)
  • Cost center optimization in SAP S/4 Hana
  • Interface management between TOMS and SAP S/4 Hana systems
  • Defining and creating work packages and coordinating between IT and business units
  • Analyzing, defining, and writing business and technical requirements and modeling IT tools
  • Using data warehouse for data analysis and storage
  • Migrating master data for SAP S/4 Hana cost centers and customer data
  • Acting as interface to planning and construction teams for onshore/offshore wind farms and PV installations
  • Coordinating and managing interfaces with internal and external calculation resources
  • Close communication with stakeholders, setting priorities, and documenting decisions
  • Presenting the target architecture and processes to the business unit and management
  • Reviewing existing IT applications through a functional analysis
  • Creating test cases based on a runbook and documenting results (SIT and UAT)
Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
6 months
Germany

Project Lead/Project Manager

BNP Paribas

  • Migrating service delivery to AFB (Spanish service provider) – MaRisk, MiFID II/MiFIR
  • Analyzing the current situation in the software and transferring securities holdings and alternative investments
  • Defining and writing business and technical requirements considering MaRisk, EMIR, and MiFID
  • Optimizing execution flow processes with clearing partners (Clearstream, Euroclear, etc.)
  • Optimizing IT applications including Bloomberg and Bloomberg AIM
  • Adjusting processes for regulatory reporting under MaRisk, EMIR, MiFID
  • Monitoring project progress, timelines, resources, and risk management
  • Stakeholder management with teams in Paris, London, Milan, Luxembourg, and Madrid
  • Presenting project status to the international management board
  • Migrating customer master data and securities holdings (funds, derivatives, alternative investments like real estate funds, private equity, corporate private debt)
  • Preparing decision-making documents and weekly status reports for overall project management in Paris
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
7 months
Germany

Business Analyst/Subproject Lead

Ebase GmbH

  • Migrating from V3 system to FNZ system/Clearstream and building an IT project portfolio – MaRisk, WpHG, MiFID/MiFIR
  • Analyzing the current state between V3 and FNZ including front-to-back processes
  • Defining and writing business and technical requirements (business concept)
  • Building new IT infrastructure including Bloomberg and optimizing Bloomberg AIM
  • Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements (MaRisk, MiFID/MiFIR)
  • Adjusting and documenting processes with clearing partners like Clearstream
  • Rebuilding FNZ applications and setting up FNZ infrastructure components and data warehouse
  • Building interfaces and creating target infrastructure diagrams
  • Collaborating with software developers in the USA and UK to build the FNZ infrastructure
  • Creating and presenting the FNZ IT target architecture to the management board in the USA
  • Identifying operational risks and stakeholder management
  • Migrating customer master data and holdings (securities, funds, derivatives, options, fixed income, alternative investments)
Nov 2020 - Dec 2023
3 years 2 months
Germany

Business Analyst/Change Lead (Project Lead)

Deutsche Bank AG

  • Migration and implementation of Treasury/ALM IT systems
  • Setup and implementation of the Treasury back office, building the IT portfolio and optimizing front office processes (MaRisk, DORA, MiFID II/MiFIR, WpHG, KWG)
  • Serving as Change Lead for the Back Office Treasury and Cash Management, Data Warehouse workstream
  • Leading and coordinating an interdisciplinary team of specialists and developers
  • As-is/to-be analysis of existing processes and technical requirements, including risk analysis
  • Process analysis and management considering MaRisk, MaComp and the digitalization strategy
  • Documenting business requirements for implementing new processes and optimizing them after migration
  • Developing solution scenarios, deriving recommendations and presenting them to the management board
  • Designing interfaces and coordinating with business units
  • Developing and implementing the target operating model
  • Defining, creating and managing work packages/workstreams
  • Developing the milestone plan and roadmap, including resource and budget planning
  • Data governance, security and quality
  • Designing the target architecture of IT applications in collaboration with the business unit and software developers
  • Modeling, simulating and optimizing processes and target architecture
  • Developing and implementing IT applications, including Bloomberg integration
  • Migrating master data and trades
  • Identifying operational risks and creating the RAID log
  • Setting up EMIR refit, collateral, MiFID and MMSR reporting
  • Optimizing the process with Eurex regarding margin, market prices and positions
  • Creating test cases and executing in the UAT environment
  • Presenting project status to the steering committee and the IT management board
  • Coordinating the BHW integration from the perspective of Deutsche Bank AG Investment Banking (DBAG IB)
  • Analyzing and identifying DORA requirements and implementing regulatory control processes
Jun 2019 - Aug 2020
1 year 3 months
Germany

Business Analyst/Subproject Lead

Dt. Apotheker- und Ärztebank eG

  • Implementing a new core banking system AVALOQ and replacing the legacy systems in the custodian
  • As-is/to-be analysis of existing processes and technical workflows
  • Creating the project plan, project structure and milestone plan
  • Defining, creating, coordinating and managing work packages/workstreams
  • Developing resource and budget planning
  • Designing the target architecture of IT applications (functional specification)
  • Optimizing and documenting regulatory requirements for reporting (EMIR, MaRisk, MiFID)
  • Optimizing clearing processes with clearing partners
  • Close communication with software developers in Singapore as well as client advisors and sales
  • Identifying operational risks and preparing project documentation for department management and the board
  • Applying lean management and prioritizing tasks
  • Migrating fund master data and positions
  • Supporting daily operations (investment limit checks of ESG funds, NAV valuation, market risk and fund onboarding)
Mar 2018 - May 2019
1 year 3 months
Germany

Business Analyst/Project Lead

Fondsdepotbank

  • Realigning investment management
  • Analyzing the current state and existing processes (as-is/to-be analysis)
  • Defining business and technical requirements
  • Creating training materials for Allianz advisors and conducting workshops
  • Estimating costs and planning resources
  • Identifying, coordinating and managing stakeholders
  • Creating work packages and prioritizing tasks
  • Monitoring project progress and documentation
  • Close communication with sales units of Allianz and Ergo Insurance
  • Claim and lean management
  • Supporting the setup of funds on the fund platform (ESG funds, equity and bond funds, etc.)
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
1 year 11 months
Luxembourg

Business Analyst/Project Lead

Warburg Invest Luxemburg

  • Setting up and implementing trading desk and back office processes – MaRisk, AIFM, WpHG, MaComp
  • Recording current state and designing the target model (as-is/to-be analysis)
  • Deriving and agreeing on project planning and project structure
  • Managing and defining business and technical requirements for products and processes
  • Defining, creating, coordinating and managing work packages/workstreams
  • Adjusting the interface between SimCorp and OBS as well as Bloomberg
  • Customizing screens in OBS
  • Active communication with client relationship management, sales, risk management and legal
  • Claim and lean management as well as prioritizing defects
  • Suspending and coordinating contracts (ISDA framework agreement)
  • Strategic optimization in trading desk area and downstream departments
  • Migrating client master data and positions (securities, funds, derivatives, options, fixed income, alternative investments)
  • Supporting daily operations (investment limit checks and issuance of ESG funds)
Aug 2007 - Feb 2016
8 years 7 months
Germany

Business Analyst/Project Lead & Interim Portfolio Manager

Talanx Asset Management

  • Implementing a new front tool for portfolio management (MUREX Mx3)
  • Feasibility analysis of alternative front office systems (T24, AVALOQ, Bloomberg AIM, SimCorp Dimension)
  • Analyzing existing processes and products and creating business requirements (functional specification)
  • Creating the project structure plan as well as cost and resource planning
  • Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements (MaRisk, EMIR, MiFID)
  • Adjusting and documenting the clearing process with clearing houses and EUREX/GLOBEX/SIMEX
  • Data analysis using data warehouse and data storage
  • Migrating master data and positions (equities, bonds, derivatives, funds, structured bonds)
  • Interim Portfolio Manager: optimizing & implementing strategic/tactical asset allocation of fund-of-funds
  • Focus on equities, bonds, MBS/ABS, commodities, private equity, infrastructure and derivatives
  • Collaborating with product management on the issuance of ESG funds
  • Developing a bank loan fund model with BlackRock
  • Presenting to investment committees and leading insurance units (AUM 10 billion EUR)
  • Conducting quantitative and qualitative due diligence on investment funds under HGB, IFRS and Solvency II
  • Managing master KVG mandates (AUM 3 billion EUR), including overlay management
  • Trading & settlement of OTC derivatives, high yield bonds, ETFs and currencies
  • Negotiating ISDA agreements and give-up arrangements
Mar 2000 - Jun 2007
7 years 4 months
Germany

Business Analyst/ Project Lead/ Test Manager

WestLB Mellon AM

  • Implementation of the trading desk for equities and fixed income
  • As-is/to-be analysis of existing processes and technical requirements
  • Identification and definition of stakeholders and project objectives
  • Creation of the project structure plan and milestone plan
  • Monitoring, coordination and management of workstreams, as well as cost and resource planning
  • Preparation of status reports and technical concepts for management and the investment board
  • Process optimization at the trading desk and involved interfaces
  • Operational support in the day-to-day operations of the trading desk (trading CDS, interest rate derivatives, OTC derivatives)
  • Collaboration with risk management, settlement, and international brokers (USA, Europe, Asia)

Summary

Responsibility and successful implementation of various strategic and development projects at several banks, insurance companies and energy providers

Deep knowledge & hands-on experience in banking front-to-back processes (E2E processes), treasury, payments, trading processes, back office processes, settlement processes with various clearing partners (Clearstream, EUREX), investment banking / asset management, trading, trade settlement, finance and accounting, finance modelling, client relationship management, institutional/international custody and test management, contract management

Knowledge of HGB and tax accounting as well as IFRS accounting

Extensive experience in planning, steering and coordinating complex business topics, leading, steering and coordinating projects with interfaces to IT and various business units, coordinating and optimizing IT portfolios, creating documentation, functional specifications and presentations

Detailed review and alignment of national and international contracts on a business level including consultation with relevant contacts, external service providers and legal department

Excellent communication skills and strong social competence

Skills

  • Roles: Business Analyst, Project Manager, Project Lead, Subproject Lead, Change Lead

  • Regulatory Focus: Esg, Kagb, Wphg, Kwg, Aifm, Macomp, Marisk, Mifid Ii/mifir, Bait, Kait, Vait, Dora (Ict Risk Regulation Incl. Itil), Micar (Crypto-asset Regulation), Ai Regulation, Anti-money Laundering, Terrorist Financing And/or Financial Sanctions, Embargo Regulation, Regulatory Reporting, Iso 27001

  • Many Years Of Project And Line Experience In Banking, Insurance And Energy Industries

  • Project/change Management: Scrum, Agile Methods, Waterfall, Kanban

  • Modeling As-is And To-be Processes, Project Planning, Monitoring And Risk Management

  • Process Analysis And Optimization

  • Planning, Steering, Coordinating And Executing Projects

  • Managing Project Activities And Taking Functional Responsibility For Project Team/business Unit

  • Cost Monitoring And Budget Compliance (Lessons Learned)

  • Communication And Reporting To Project Committees

  • Coordination And Management Of Work Packages

  • Preparing And Conducting Project Meetings, Creating And Updating Milestone Plans

  • Monitoring Tasks/workstreams And Open Items With Business Units And Internal And External Stakeholders

  • Ensuring Timely Adherence To Timelines

  • Stakeholder Management And Project Risk Management

  • Resource Coordination

  • Change Management, Lean Management, Best Practice Methods

  • Project And Process Documentation And Creating Presentations

  • Cross-departmental And Cross-functional Communication

  • Business Analysis & Subproject Leadership In Front-to-back Projects

  • Implementing Trading, Front-office And Back-office Systems

  • Migrating Entire It Infrastructures

  • Building It Infrastructure And It Portfolios

  • Setting Up And Optimizing Payment Processes And Swift

  • Migrating Holdings Between Business Units

  • Implementing Regulatory Requirements For Financial Institutions, Insurance, Asset Management And Energy Providers

  • Setting Up Booking Interfaces Front-to-back Finance And Accounting (Finance Modelling)

  • Contract Management Nationally And Internationally Including Negotiations

  • Test Management: Creating Test Strategies, Writing Test Cases (User Stories), Test Coordination, Execution And Monitoring, Documenting Results, Processing And Documenting Defects

  • Overall Responsibility For It Project Topics And It Portfolios

  • Further Development And Specification Of Interfaces

  • Business Analysis And Process Management

  • System Migrations And Data Management

  • Structured Management And Optimization Of It Portfolios

  • Setting Up It Portfolios And Processes And Supporting Implementation

  • Assisting In Developing And Designing Solutions

  • Defining And Describing Internal And Cross-system Process Flows

  • Business Analysis, Gap Analysis, Specifications, Test Management And Oversight Of System And Data Migrations

  • Implementing Business Units And It Portfolios And Processes

  • Preparing Reports For Management, Steering Committees And It Management Boards

  • Cloud: Microsoft Azure, Aws

  • Analyzing Current State Of Existing And Planned Software And Hardware Architecture

  • Cost-benefit Analysis Including Break-even Analysis

  • Preparing Master Agreements And Slas With Cloud Providers (E.g. Outages, Response Times)

  • Analyzing And Preparing Required It Activities And Gap Analysis Of Existing/future Needed Skills

  • Creating Detailed Project Plans Including Time And Cost Planning And Dependencies

  • Soft Skills: Analytical And Structured Approach, Methodical Work, Strong Communication And Coordination Skills, Quick Onboarding Of New Topics, It Systems And Complex Issues Or Business Processes, Result-oriented, Efficient, High Initiative And Independent Working Style, Resilience, High Motivation And Integration Ability, Team Player

  • Applications: Simcorp Dimension, Obs, Avaloq, Sap S/4 Hana, Sap R/3, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, Xentis, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Aim, Murex Mx3, Markitwire, Bloomberg Bond Trader, Tradeweb, Summit, Kondor+, Morningstar Direct, Hp Alm, Hp Qs, Ms Office Excel/vba, Powerpoint

  • Modeling Languages: Bpmn, Epc, Uml

  • Programming Language: Python (Currently In Training)

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Avancs Hogdeschool B.V.

Bachelor of Business Administration · Business Administration · Netherlands · Grade 1.8

Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie, Essen

Business Economist · Essen, Germany · Grade 2.0

Certifications & licenses

DORA training

BaFin

MiCAR training

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