Thomas Simon

Business Analyst in the Global Debt Markets stream of the Markets Centralization Program for moving securities settlement

Cologne, Germany
Experience
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
8 months
Germany

Business Analyst in the Global Debt Markets stream of the Markets Centralization Program for moving securities settlement

HSBC Continental Europe (Germany)

  • Knowledge gained:
  • End-to-end securities trading process (Front-to-Back: trading, allocation, confirmation, settlement).
  • Business analysis and project coordination:
  • Prepared and led a series of workshops with all relevant stakeholders (sales, middle/back office, legal, compliance, IT, management).
  • Analyzed client base and developed a communication strategy and contents with client managers.
  • Defined and planned the migration strategy and process.
  • Extracted and compiled relevant client data including settlement info for migration.
  • Managed internal project communication, including via newsletter.
  • Created a project plan with milestones.
  • Carried out migration together with pilot clients.
  • Identified cost-saving potential during migration.
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
1 year 6 months

Business and Test Analyst in the FX and Commodity Derivatives stream of the EMIR Refit Program to implement a new reporting

HSBC Continental Europe

  • Knowledge gained:
  • Analysis and architecture of reporting infrastructure and interfaces.
  • Regulatory requirements for EMIR Refit reporting.
  • Derived target design and processes.
  • Business analysis and functional specification:
  • Created functional and technical designs for systems in the reporting chain (Murex trading system, integration/data layer, UDM master data system).
  • Coordinated and documented business processes.
  • Configured and tested in ABACUS Transactions reporting system.
  • Clarified requirements with IT.
  • Supported implementation.
  • Test preparation and execution:
  • Developed test strategy.
  • Wrote test cases in HP QC.
  • Conducted module and system tests.
  • Analyzed defects in SIT and UAT.
  • Documented test runs and defects.
  • Coordinated defect management with business and IT.
  • Business readiness:
  • Wrote an error-handling manual.
  • Prepared and delivered training.
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
9 months
Germany

Business Analyst in the project to convert HSBC Germany to a branch of HSBC Continental Europe with focus on regulatory

HSBC Germany

  • Analyzed all EMIR-related processes and identified open issues, especially in OTC derivative collateral processes.
  • Consolidated EMIR documents and created an overall EMIR concept.
  • Derived and documented an EMIR target model for the future HBCE Germany branch.
  • Documented functional requirements and created test design for the HBCE Germany target model.
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
1 year 6 months
Switzerland

Business Analyst in the “Methodology” stream of the Lombard Front-to-Back program to introduce an in-house tool

Credit Suisse AG

  • Knowledge gained:
  • Reviewed credit structures and collateral in private banking Lombard business.
  • Methods for concentration, liquidity, FX, and client-specific risk.
  • Mapped technical structures and Front-to-Back flows in Lombard business.
  • Documented processes in BPMN 2.0.
  • Agile requirement management and monthly release cycles:
  • Workshop-based requirement analysis and alignment.
  • Documented requirements in JIRA for a custom client portfolio analysis tool.
  • Clarified requirements with IT.
  • Test prep and execution:
  • Wrote test cases in HP Octane.
  • Documented test runs and defects in HP Octane.
  • Coordinated defect management.
  • Prepared and led user acceptance and post-production reviews.
  • Business readiness:
  • Created tool manual.
  • Updated guidelines and work instructions.
  • Delivered training.
  • Defined user groups and permissions.
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
4 months

Business Analyst in Transaction Reporting under MiFIR Article 26 after go-live of a migration project

Settlement Service Provider

  • Analyzed and documented errors.
  • Managed defects.
  • Corrected reports.
Aug 2019 - May 2020
10 months

Business Analyst for implicit options in credit product client management

Financial Services Firm

  • Developed a procedure for modeling implicit options.
  • Validated implemented models and identified improvements.
  • Wrote IT spec for model enhancements.
  • Created a user guide for setting implicit options.
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
1 year 4 months
Germany

Business Analyst and Test Manager to build a reporting infrastructure for ex-post requirements

HSBC Germany

  • Analyzed regulatory requirements.
  • Turned requirements into business requirements:
  • Aligned with markets, wealth management, legal, compliance, and reporting teams.
  • Ran workshops and resolved open issues.
  • Wrote functional design.
  • Created sample cost statements.
  • Documented business processes in BPMN 2.0.
  • Developed test strategy.
  • Defined and ran test cases in HP ALM.
  • Managed defects.
  • Aligned requirements with IT:
  • Produced IT infrastructure overview.
  • Drafted interface design.
May 2017 - Jun 2017
2 months
Germany

Part-time expert support to specify the interface with Deutsche Börse Regulatory Reporting Hub

System Provider and German Private Bank

  • Analyzed Deutsche Börse interface spec for APA Service Pilot 6 (FIX Gateway MiFID II – OTC Trade Reporting and SI Quote Publication – v1.4).
  • Created requirements list based on bank’s design, noting open points and assumptions.
  • Specified reporting of securities buys and sells from BO system, covering:
  • New data for export/import of Deutsche Börse feedback.
  • Reporting logic for different actions/market operations in BO system.
  • Mapping rules for FIX interface.
  • Coordinated requirements with system provider through workshops.
  • Documented end-to-end process with bank and provider in BPMN.
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
1 year 3 months
Germany

Business Analyst for connecting OTC derivatives to ABACUS TR reporting system for transaction reporting

HSBC Germany

  • Specified data requirements for source systems Murex (FX & commodity derivatives) and Front Arena (interest rate & equity derivatives) per ABACUS and Deutsche Börse requirements.
  • Defined automated workflow with BPMN diagrams.
  • Clarified spec with IT and supported implementation.
  • Defined and ran tests in HP ALM and managed defects.
  • Specified change requests during rollout.
  • Provided production support (filing and corrections, monitoring reports).
Jan 2016 - Feb 2025
9 years 2 months
Cologne, Germany

Senior Business Analyst

exprio Services GmbH

Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
2 years
Switzerland

Business and Test Analyst in CRO Change to integrate full title transfer collateralization in private banking

Credit Suisse AG

  • Reviewed entire IT setup for credit risk in OTC derivatives (potential exposure, limit management, risk analysis, credit risk reporting).
  • Conducted client impact analysis in credit risk stream and assessed risk positioning effects.
  • Specified functional and technical requirements for credit risk management with Global Credit Risk, quantitative analysts (Investment Banking London), and Credit Risk IT (Poland, India, Switzerland):
  • Wrote business requirement docs for new credit product, limit management changes, wrong-way risk analysis, and enhanced credit risk reporting.
  • Created functional requirement docs to consolidate necessary data (market data, collateral, client, contract master data) for feeder systems (e.g., APEX, Framesoft).
  • Documented processes in BPMN.
  • Supported credit risk stream rollout of internal haircut models and net potential exposure engine.
  • Contributed to credit risk reporting design.
  • Managed requirements in JIRA and coordinated with IT on specs.
  • Planned, ran, and documented tests in HP ALM for SIT and supported UAT.
  • Developed training materials and ensured business readiness.
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
2 months
Germany

Business Analyst for feasibility studies on introducing collateral management

Savings Bank

  • Conducted feasibility studies on introducing collateral management.
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
3 months
Germany

Business Analyst for feasibility studies on introducing collateral management

German Insurance Group

  • Conducted feasibility studies on introducing collateral management.
Apr 2014 - May 2014
2 months

Business Analyst for a feasibility study and functional design to meet REMIT requirements

Energy Supplier

  • Led feasibility study and drafted functional design to implement REMIT requirements focusing on transaction reporting for wholesale energy products.
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
3 months

Business Analyst for a feasibility study and functional design to meet REMIT requirements

Energy Trading Company

  • Led feasibility study and drafted functional design to implement REMIT requirements focusing on transaction reporting for wholesale energy products.
Apr 2013 - Dec 2013
9 months

Business Analyst to implement EMIR and US Dodd-Frank regulatory requirements

Energy Supplier

  • Implemented EMIR derivative regulation requirements and US Dodd-Frank Act requirements.
Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
6 months
Germany

Business Analyst to introduce EMIR transaction reporting and assess Dodd-Frank Act Title VII impact

German Landesbank

  • Introduced EMIR transaction reporting and analyzed Dodd-Frank Act Title VII impacts.
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
2 months
Germany

Business Analyst to analyze and evaluate derivative risk positions under central clearing in Basel III context

German Landesbank

  • Analyzed and evaluated derivative risk positions under central clearing within Basel III.
Nov 2011 - Jul 2012
9 months
Germany

Business Analyst for Front-to-Back implementation of OTC central clearing via two clearing brokers for interest rate derivatives

German Landesbank

  • Led Front-to-Back implementation of OTC central clearing with two clearing brokers for interest rate derivatives.
Jan 2011 - Dec 2015
5 years

(Senior) Consultant, Capital Markets

d-fine GmbH

Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education

University of Freiburg

Diploma · Mathematics · Germany

University of Freiburg

State Exam · Physics and Philosophy/Ethics · Germany

Certifications & licenses

Actuary DAV

DAV

ISTQB Certification

ISTQB

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