Business Analyst, Project Manager, Test Manager

Elaboration of the emergency plan for a systemically important bank.

Activities:

• Documentation of the emergency plan
• Specification of the activities for the re-capitalization and to regain the liquidity capability
• Analysis of business process concerning the emergency fitness

Implementation of a AML (Anti Money Laundering) tool for the automation of the AML process and the generation of the XML reports for MROS (Money Laundering Reporting Organisation Switzerland) in the goAML web application

Activities:

• Requirements specification
• Mapping of the goAML XML interface on the data model of the core banking systems Avaloq and DIALBA2000
• GUI design for the AML tool
• Coordination with MROS

Implementation of the regulatory requirements for a systemically important bank: implementation of the prudential requirements for equity capital, risk allocation, liquidity (incl. Emergency Liquidity Assistance = ELA) and regulatory reporting. Implementation of the processes for ELA including the implementation of SIX Nominee (fiduciary administration of registry encumbrances on real estate) and the integration in the mortgage process. Creation of the emergency plan.

Activities:

• Documentation of the emergency plan
• Coordination with FINMA concerning the emergency plan and with SNB concerning ELA
• Coordination of legal opinions for the emergency plan
• Use case specification for the mortgage process and the ELA process
• Specification of the SNB reporting
• Specification of the software requirements for Terravis (SIX Nominee), Avaloq and DIALBA2000   
• Project planning and project budgeting
• Test management E2E test, specification of test cases and test scripts
• Business support for the mass mutation of the registry encumbrances for SIX Nominee

Digitalization and automation of the mortgage process and optimization of the corporate banking.

Activities:

• Scope definition for the program
• Project budgeting and project planning
• Specification of the credit engine
• Selection of the use cases and tool selection for a proof of concept for Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Conception churn rate analysis of expired mortgages
• Participation in the development of an enhanced Dept Capacity Method (DCM) for the assessment of the borrowing capacity of corporate clients

Implementation and integration of the standard softwarev tool IBM Interact to personalize the near-time offerings and suggestions for new products on the channels of E-Banking and mobile banking.

Activities:

• specification of the software requirements
• interface specification with data mapping from the data warehouse to IBM Interact
• data modeling

Design and implementation of a new financial product for cooperatives (similar to a participation certificate) which increases the core capital of Raiffeisen Schweiz.

Activities:

• Definition of the product features based on the Swiss law for cooperatives
• modeling of the business use cases and the system use cases for Avaloq
• specification of the mathematical pricing model

Implementation of the Swiss Final Withholding Tax agreements with UK and Austria.

Activities:

• Modeling of the business use cases and the system use cases
• specification of the data model for a data base which feeds the tax calculation software EasyTax with the data from the source systems (Avaloq, DIALBA)
• interface specification and data mapping
• test case specification
• test

Redevelopment of the payment systems based on the software components Avaloq and dips. All payment products have been migrated to the new core systems: pay-in slips, card transactions (KTB), SIC incoming and outgoing payments (A10, A11, A15, B10, B11), SWIFT payments (MT103, MT202, MT202COV, MT191), SEPA payments (pacs.008, pacs.004), direct debit (LSV+), online banking, DTA, Postfinance (ESR, EGA-B, EGA-V).

Activities:

• requirements specification for archiving, reporting, audit trail, and data warehouse (modelling of the data marts),
• interface specification
• test case specification
• test

Conceptual design of an unified tool for the export logistics processing for several Siemens business divisions. The software tool supports and automates the generation of the required export documents, the export declaration via ATLAS, the compliance with the export control and customs regulations and the processing of the letters of credit.

Activities:

• Business process analysis
• specification of the business use cases
• development of the business class model
• development of the organizational model
• specification of the software requirements
• specification of the process interfaces

Development of a system for the automatic verification of the invoices which are submitted to a health insurance by the insurance holders and the care providers. The invoices are checked automatically for formal correctness and correctness of the contents. The system corrects and logs any occurring errors. It also supports the manual post-processing, if necessary. The interfacing systems are supplied with the required data (e.g. for payments).

Activities:

• development of the business class model for the tariff data, product data and partner data.

Development of a cash management system for the optimisation of the cash supply of cash points (ATM’s, Cash Recyclers, bank branches). The optimal amount of cash and the optimal day for the cash delivery is calculated via the minimisation of the cost function. This requires a forecast of the cash volumes. The system delivers cost-optimised orders for the cash supply of the cash points.

Activities:

• Mathematical-statistical analysis: time series analysis, development of the forecast models for the time series
• nonlinear optimisation / operations research
• use case specification
• requirements elicitation
• functional design of the optimisation and forecast modules
• project management
• test coordination

Development of a management information system for the reporting of operational risk. The cause of the risk are reconciliation breaks from investment banking / proprietary trading. The break data are imported from the reconciliation and trading systems (i.a. Murex, TLM, Corona). The expected loss is calculated and several types of reports for the management are generated.

Activities:

• interface specification
• coordination of the interface implementation
• implementation of Connect:Direct scripts
• test coordination
• test

Implementation of the IBM OnDemand software within an ePayment solution. OnDemand allows for the indexing and archiving of electronic documents on hard disk and on several archiving media. Archived documents can be retrieved and restored via OnDemand.

Activities:

• Project Management

Development of a document management system for the credit risk operations department. Paper documents are scanned in the Province Management Offices and filed in a central Content Management System which provides remote access via Intranet. The processing of the documents is handled via a predefined workflow that is automated by a workflow management system.

Activities:

• Project Management

Development of the new web site www.AlFransi.com.sa. The portal integrates the existing Online banking applications of the bank. It enables the visitors to customize and personalize the web content and it supports PDA’s. The business users maintain their content using a web content management system. In addition, the portal allows the business lines to target the visitors with the right marketing campaigns (products & service offerings) depending on their profiles.

Activities:

• Project Management

Processing of electronic credit advices for the payment products ESR (Einzahlungsschein mit Referenznummer) and IPI (International Payment Instruction, XML format) within the card processing system Advantage.

Activities:

• Specification and functional design
• interface specification
• data modelling
• analysis of existing COBOL sources

Planning, preparation and implementation of business acceptance tests and technical tests for the projects ‘GSM-Rail’ and ‘Trassenportal’. Planning and coordination of the production rollout.
Project ‘GSM-Rail’: Customer Care and Billing system and SIM card management system for the train control via cellular phone network.
Project ‘Trassenportal’: Web based application to receive XML-orders for railway routes and to send the corresponding proposals.

Activities:

• Test planning (defining activities and milestones, budgeting, resource planning, identifying project risks)
• test strategy development
• test case specification
• coordination of the set-up of the test environment
• test management (leading a team of five testers)
• testing
• error tracking
• coordination of the production rollout

Development of a billing system for the international payment products (international credit transfer, direct debit request, request for transfer)  and for the products of the financial information system (e.g. electronic account statements, transaction statements, account balance statements). Archiving of the billing data.

Activities:

• Specification (requirements elicitation)
• interface specification
• functional design
• quality assurance
• set-up of the test environment
• test case specification
• acceptance test
• preparation of the
• production rollout
• project management

Development of the risk management component which calculates prices (market prices and theoretical prices for financial derivatives), the market risk (Value at Risk), and the Profit and Loss for securities and portfolios. The component was designed for the integration into a web based trading system.

Activities:

• Project management (deputy of the project manager in a team of seven team members)
• tender preparation
• documentation oft the software development process according to the Rational Unified Process
• quality assurance
• use case specification

Development of an application for the end-to-end tracking of the processing of international payments (international credit transfer and request for transfer). The processing extends to different platforms: UNIX, IBM-Mainframe, DEC-Alpha.

Activities:

• Requirement specification
• interface specification
• data modeling

Specification of a billing system for the national and international payment products, the cash management and the financial information system.

Activities:

• Specification
• interface specification
• entity relationship modeling

Specification and implementation of a module for a warehouse management system. The module extracts the transaction data which are used for billing. For a future release the data are intended to form the basis of a data warehouse.

Activities:

• specification
• entity relationship modeling
• tender preparation
• project management (team of three developers)

Development and maintenance of a database for warehouse management and transport data of parcels. Specification and implementation of billing programs which use the transaction data from the database.

Activities:

• Specification
• programming
• rollout
• maintenance
• project management

Description: Development of a Client-Server-Application for the management of condition data and turnover data of the suppliers for the purchasing department of a wholesaler.

Activities:

• programming
• rollout
• specification
• project management

Business analysis of the assortment of a wholesaler of car spare parts. The cost-optimised way of distribution (one central warehouse vs. a number of smaller spare parts stores) was calculated comparing the capital lockup costs and the costs of transport and handling. 

Activities:

• Programming of the cost calculation algorithm