Abed Hoteit

• Lead processes and controls review for a large panel of financial services clients:
o Reviewed the Front Office to Back Office processes for interest rates and derivatives activities and evaluated the related controls for La Banque Postale Investment Bank
o Reviewed the reconciliation process of accounting and risk data at central and local levels for BNPP CIB and evaluated the corresponding controls
o Reviewed the reconciliation process of accounting and risk data at central level for Crédit Agricole CIB and evaluated the corresponding controls
o Reviewed the commission calculation process and evaluated related controls for Natixis Asset Management
o Evaluated the controls in place over depositary activities for Crédit Agricole Titre: controls over foreign representatives, swift messages (automatic and manual), as well as cash and securities reconciliation process
o Evaluated the cash and securities reconciliation processes between the depositaries and HSBC Security Services
o Reviewed the reconciliation process of daily nostri accounts transactions and accounting movements for BNPP BDDF and evaluated the corresponding controls
o Reviewed the operational risk and IT incident management processes for BNPP ITP
o Reviewed the process of capturing manual transactions in the accounting system SAB and evaluated the controls in place for Banque Palatine
o Worked on a SAS 70 audit review for BNPP Asset Management
o Reviewed the migration project of the credit management system (from Uniloan to LoanIQ) managing the buyer’s credits, supplier credits and international financial credits for BNPP CIB: evaluated the project management processes and the controls in place to ensure accurate migration
o Reviewed the implementation of a purchasing and payment system for Caisse des Depôts et Consignations: evaluated the project management processes and the related controls
• Helped defining and implementing a Chinese Wall to separate the Front Office / Middle Office / Back Office functionalities at systems and organizational level for interest rates, fixed income, and commodities activities at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Bank (Fighting Back project)
• Assisted HSBC France on producing Basel II regulatory reporting as well as the Yoshikuni report
• Advised Viel on performing an operational valuation of Turquoise over the following subjects: analysis of the workflow of orders (including the assessment of events such as rejections, amendments, cancellations, etc.), relations with customers, Liquidity Partners, MTF members, clearing institution (EuroCCP) and Settlement Bank (Citibank), and Information Technology assessment
• Worked on a financial audit of Collateralised Debt Obligation portfolios at AXA Investment Management
• Helped defining the Group IT Strategy of Mondial Assistance: IT governance, projects globalization for Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office systems, planning and budgeting
• Helped designing the “Global IT” department Governance & Organization for Mondial Assistance Group including setting the interactions between “Global IT” and the IT Shared Service Centres: helped define key decisions of the department, decision models, governance structures, governance processes, policies and standards, mission statement of the department, functional scope, activities, sizing, organization chart, and job descriptions
• Intervened on Information Systems audit for Sarbanes Oxley implementation: AXA and AVIVA-GIE AFER

• Intervened on Information Systems Audit for Sarbanes Oxley implementation for the “change management”, “manage operations”, “billing”, “physical and environmental security”, “network access controls”, “application change management”, “virus management” processes: AXA, Allianz Marine et Aviation, Brinks, France Telecom, Orange France, Clear Channel France
• Processes and controls reviews:
o Conducted a review of the IT application controls for the purchasing, cash and stocks processes for JPG
o Conducted a review of the IT general controls over the Quartz and Oracle applications for the manage changes, logical access, and physical access processes for Tele Diffusion France
o Conducted a review of the IT application controls over the CODA application for Veolia Environement
• Audited the accounting information system and identified the major IT risks for Iveco Lease
• Reviewed the Logical Access over SAP for Altadis