Emeric Bertoli

For a major financial institution, in the context of a merger:
• Operational model definition, gap analysis and business integration of new clients for a Fund Distribution department

For a major financial institution implementing an Asset Allocation software
• Test strategy, test data collection and test cases writing related to the implementation of an Asset Allocation software

For a major financial institution implementing a Fund Distribution software
• Selection and execution of test cases related to Mutual funds and Hedge Funds
• Management of offshore testing activities in India
• Production Support

For a major financial institution, in the context of a merger:
• Gap analysis between custody SLAs of the two merging banks
• Update the procedure document concerning the migration of investment funds
• PMO Support (maintain action logs)

For a major Global Custodian implementing a Global Custody software worldwide:
• Review of BRD and FSD to improve overall quality (Cash, Trade, Integration: Transfers and Wires, Forex, Mutual Funds, Security Lending, Trade processing etc).
• Hold review meetings with the design team based in Toronto and London.
• Creation of detailed business scenarios, test cases and coverage matrix related to Cash, Tax, Trade and Corporate Actions.
• Gathering data setup required to execute test cases.
• Acceptance testing execution in New Delhi (India).
• Review of Functional Tests.

For a European Institution:
• Identification and mapping of all processes and procedures within the Finance Directorate. (Capital Markets, Treasury and Back-Office departments).
• Verification that produced documents are coherent and consistent with the defined guidelines.
• Flowcharts modelling in a dedicated tool (System Architect) with the Business Process Modelling Notation.
• Reports production.

For a Fund Administrator: participation in the phase of measure and analysis related to the Assistance with the implementation of the Lean Six Sigma method: Pilot project on the NAV calculation process:
• Data bases construction for measure purpose (data from accountants, systems…).
• Analysis of current performances of the process.
• Value analysis (NAV activities, NAV controls) and optimisation.
• Data reconciliation.
• Process Improvement with cycle time reduction.

Hedge Funds Dealing Agent:
• Analysis and completion of the relevant documentation.
• Follow up of the investment process (Subscription, redemption, switch and transfer dealing).
• Documentation of the eligibility in hot issues.
• Liaison with the administrator and Hedge Funds manager (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, HSBC, etc).

Hedge Funds Analyst:
• Analysis of the fund documentation (Offering memorandum prospectus, financial statements).
• Checking of possible conflicts of interest (e.g. directors being shareholders in the fund).
• Ensuring that the investment restrictions foreseen in the prospectus are met (Equalisation analysis and follow up).
• Price Comparison preparation.
• Quarterly Reports writing.

Fund Services Engineering Department

Project Manager assistant:
• Overview of the securities industry (Training relating to TA, FA, UCITS 3, MiFID).
• Project management relating to NSCC, training office.
• Testing: Hedge Funds (NTAS).

Project Office (PMO):
• Projects coordination, time tracking, quality assurance and operational support.
• Project management relating to the training for new comers within the FSE department (project initiation, development and conclusion).

Financial direction

Management Controller assistant:
• Optimization of dashboards and controlling files within the financial direction.
• Data massaging to produce statistics.
• Improvement of Excel files for the monitoring of financial intermediates.
• Reconciliation of accounting data with management data.
• Participation in reporting evaluation to ensure compliance with IAS/IFRS standards.