Peter Kepel | Freelancer Resume

ABOUT Tester and Analyst for Digitalization of Securities Services and Payments (collateral management, securities lending, settlement, asset services). Delivered connectivity designs for Clearstream, Euroclear and other Global custodians with high exposure to ECMS business infrastructure. I am an expert in international financial standards interoperability for UCITS, bonds and securities. Having deep knowledge of regulation, operational excellence and digitalization concept I assist my customer from program to operational capability for bottom line revenue. EXPERIENCE 2024 – Current Frankfurt, Germany FREELANCER – XnumiC • AI and Digitalization Analyst for Financial Services Projects • Market research on AI, BI, Cloud and Digitalisation for Capital Markets, Gaming and Crypto 2023 – 2024 Frankfurt, Germany FREELANCER – VENTUREXPERT MANAGEMENT – Financial Services Digitalization • Project Manager for Projects on Digital Transformation for Payments and Securities Services • Running RFP for Digital Euro of the European Central Bank 2023 Frankfurt, Germany SENIOR TESTING ANALYST – DEUTSCHE BÖRSE – Service Delivery of Clearstream Securities Services • Interoperability Manual, Functional and Business Test Case Design and Execution for Collateral Management, Settlement and Asset Services User Interfaces using JIRA 2019 – 2020 Frankfurt, Germany ANALYST PAYMENTS – DEUTSCHE BÖRSE • Produce functional analysis documents for Eurex to implement the ISO20022 payment messages • Create SWIFT ISO20022 architecture supporting documents for proposal to Deutsche Boerse entities and clients. • Review Business Requirements Documents for completeness, accuracy, and compliance • Liaise between Prague and Frankfurt to ensure functional alignment with business. 01/11/2017 – 30/04/2019 Zurich, Switzerland PROJECT MANAGER and SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST - UBS A.G. – SCDR regulation • Global Working Group member to deliver strategic (risk)-assessment of all Central Securities Depository Regulation articles on UBS global businesses. Activities included review and analysis of all articles, participation in industry and regulatory workshops, with the goal of translating regulatory text to tangible high level business requirements. • Lead analyst for Settlement Discipline and Internalised Settlement Reporting (ISR) impact to deliver high level business requirements to UBS Group business processes and application landscape for the countries UK, IT, LU, ES, AT, FR and DE. Other key deliverables included a Clearing&Settlement stakeholder mapping, End2end settlement ﬂows for all UBS entities and volumetric analysis for business case input. • Project Manager for Art.9 ISR to create the conceptual design of the Target Operating Model and implementation (key focus on entity scoping/functional model, capability and capacity model, risk and control framework, governance model, process architecture and training and moving into BAU). 01/12/2016 – 30/10/2017 Frankfurt, Germany PROGRAM MANAGEMENT and SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST - DEUTSCHE BANK A.G. • Implementing MiFIDII requirement of “Safeguarding of client assets and funds” for all Deutsche Bank subsidiaries and branches worldwide. • Construction of program planning deliverables (Charter, stakeholder maps/governance framework, senior mngt. reporting, RACI charts, program management plan etc..). • Facilitation of workshops for legal, network management and implementation workstreams. • Assistance in design for controls, attestations, resolution packs, client asset oversight oﬃcer and related securities and network management processes required to be compliant by 1 st January 2018. • Creation and maintenance of central information sources in SharePoint for all divisional deliverables. 01/06/2016 – 30/11/2016 Dusseldorf, Germany SENIOR ANALYST - HSBC • Analysis of ISO20022 requirements to connect as DCP to T22. • Adaptation of GEOS banking platform to be able to process T2S business processes. • Review of CBF migration requirements 2015 – 31/05/2016 Brussel, Belgium SENIOR ANALYST - DEUTSCHE BANK • Analyst to implement MiFID2. • Gathering, deﬁning and documenting all requirements to be MiFID2 compliant for the tracks of pre-trade, post- trade, regulatory reporting and record keeping with internal and European stakeholders. • Validation of business requirements, functional analysis including use case modeling, construction of logical data model, describing all functional and non-functional requirements, construction of data interchange speciﬁcations and construction of mock-up models. • Deﬁning functional solutions within the IT architecture and analyzing business processes and architectural IT solutions with the solution architect. 01/06/2014 – 31/10/2015 Zurich, Switzerland SENIOR ANALYST - UBS A.G. FREELANCER • Business and functional analysis for a ﬁnancial institution (General ledger). • IT application functional design for a new global operating model of a ﬁnancial institution. Speciﬁcally the requirements deﬁnitions for the migration of trading ﬂows (cash and securities) from old entities to new UBS Holding A.G. to ensure general ledger bookings are correctly done for cash and securities bookings so to produce the balance sheets and proﬁt and loss statements. • High level Requirements Matrix including Test Cases and Non-functional requirements • Working closely with oﬀshore teams to carry out testing ensuring it is documented to a high standard, supporting user end testing where appropriate, obtaining / coordinating sign oﬀs from the stakeholders including answering any queries they may have, coordination with release teams, keep the lights on activities – minimisation of feed failures and support of upstream release changes. • 01/08/2013 – 30/10/2014 Frankfurt, Germany Senior ANALYST - DEUTSCHE BANK FREELANCER • Product Design Documentation for the T2S SettlementHUB, whereby securities settlement and some asset servicing services are targeted to be centralised from the individual T2S countries to the re-engineered platform in Frankfurt. Responsible for the creation and design of the services “Cancellations”, “Linking”, “Prioritisation”, “Restrictions”, “Instruction Types” and “Settlement Day”. • Responsible for the deliverables of “CSD Document Listing” (Document Management and tracking of services for all CSDs in scope of T2S) to ensure latest service changes and oﬀers of the CSD captured and incorporated into Deutsche Bank oﬀering. • Responsible for the business requirements documents of “Tax reporting” (Italian ﬁscal and regulatory reporting to be taken over by the SettlementHUB) and “Beneﬁcial Ownership” (Design of a new Beneﬁcial Ownership Logical Data Model and process descriptions for all settlement and asset servicing processes and forms for implementation on the SettlementHUB). • Responsible for the creation and structure of the Deutsche Bank T2S network drive. 01/02/2012 – 30/08/2012 Singapore, Singapore DIRECTOR - SECURITIES SERVICES OWNER • Design of operating model for an exchange as external advisor for a conceptual model on intellectual property exchange. Focus on the design for the post-trade processing of IP trades. • Delivery of a program approach for a cross-border commodities software package implementation. supporting project management to ensure knowledge, experience, skills and techniques are applied and transferred to the organization, while the change management stream ensures that the organization is able to transform and cope with the changes of implementing a companywide CTRM solution. • Capture and measurement of business case parameters. 01/06/2010 – 28/02/2012 Luxembourg, Luxembourg SENIOR ANALYST - DEUTSCHE BOERSE (CLEARSTREAM) KURT SALMON • Conceptualization of target ʺUser-2-systemʺ and ʺSystem-to-systemʺ operating model and target infrastructure for Clearing&Settlement, Custody, Cash, Tax services, Tripartite Collateral, Securities Lending and reference data. • Creating and reviewing of RfI, POC and RfP for SOA, BPM and Portal providers. • Design for target SOA, BPM, Portal infrastructure with a single user management and dynamic security model (Service catalogue, UI design, business process modeling, etc…). • Requirements gathering of issuing, asset servicing and asset optimization products/services (e.g. to determine design principles for safekeeping, custody, global securities ﬁnancing, investment funds, credit claims and issuer services). • Reviewing business requirements and architecture from other strategic programs (e.g. lifecycle management, position management, liquidityHUB, order routing, global value-added services, cash forecasting, etc…) • High level Use Case scenarios covering testing scope, test strategy and minimum testing requirements. 2006 – 2010 Luxembourg, Luxembourg MANAGER SECURITIES SERVICES - KURT SALMON • For Cetrel Luxembourg Migration planning, document strategy, test strategy and advise to CIO on IT transformation Implementation of ETL and EDI solution for transferring payments information. Program reporting and roadmap creation for issuing and acquiring payments platform. • For Société Generale Luxembourg OMS Package Selection for trading desk. I.e. construction of Target Operating Model, key business processes, Implementation Plan and Finance sheets. Construction and execution of RFI/RFP to OMS/EMS software providers (i.e. Bloomberg-PomsAI, Charles River IMS, BNYConverge Ezecastle, Fidessa Latentzero, Linedata Longview, Odysis/Bridge and GLStream) • For ECB in Frankfurt, drafting and proposing of T2S harmonized functionality for the subjects of (partial) settlement, auto–collateralization, liquidity transfers, taxation and registration, Corporate Actions, Cross–CSD settlement and settlement finality to ECB members for workgroup discussions. Managing ISO15022 T2S messaging consultants • For RBC Dexia Initiation and preparation of Due Diligence pack (Preparation of Target Operating Model, key business processes, Implementation Plan, Finance sheets, key risks and issues relation to products of Transfer Agent, Fund Distributor, Fund Accountant, Custody and IT). Assisting in optimizing PMO department for migration of global Swiss asset manager (TA, FA, Custody &IT) by identifying key success factors related to due diligence, lift-out preparation and conversion lift-out and propose according to project plan and new governance model. • For Kurt Salmon constructing market offers, designing and giving training documents and responding to RFIs and RFPs (EU and ECB RFPs won €20Mln) EDUCATION AND TRAINING (non-exhaustive) 01/01/2011 – 31/12/2011 Fontaineblue, France CERTIFICATE Accelerated Management INSEAD 15/08/1993 – 09/1999 Amsterdam, Netherlands ECONOMICS University of Amsterdam 2002 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Certificate Project Management 2004 Geneva. Switzerland Certificate International Capital Market Association LANGUAGE SKILLS Mother tongue(s): ENGLISH | FRENCH | DUTCH Other language(s): UNDERSTANDINGSPEAKINGWRITING ListeningReadingSpoken Production Spoken interaction ADDITIONAL INFORMATION JOB-RELATED SKILLS Methodologies and disciplines Waterfall and V-Model testing (Manual, Functional and Business), ITIL, SUMMIT, UML, BMPN2.0, Prince2 and generic project and programs techniques. Project Management, Program Management, Business and Competitive Analysis, Competitive Positioning, Business and Operating Model design, Business Process Modeling, Service Level Agreements, Customer Segmentation, Client Integration/Onboarding, IT (IT Strategy, Portfolio Management, Organization and Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Master Data Management, etc…) Business expertise Asset Services products, Asset Optimization products, Order Management (Incl. FIX), Interoperability, General Ledger, Fund Distribution, Transfer Agency, Fund Accounting, Payments (Issuing&Acquiering), Market Infrastructures, Custodian landscape (Agent, local and global Custody) and operating models, Clearing & Settlement, TARGET2- Securities (including ECMS and T2 processes), Network Management, ISO15022&ISO20022 (Including modeling), EMIR, CSDR, SFTR and MiFIDI&II, TARGET and TARGET Consolidation. 01/01/2000 – 10/11/2020 Software/Applications Business Process Modeling, Content Management and Collaboration tools, Competitive analysis and Proﬁling, Porter, McKinsey7S, Strategic Management, Strategic Program Management, Visio, Microsoft Oﬃce, Microsoft Project, Metastorm for Enterprise Architecture, SAP BW for data mining, BridgeTradingRoomSystem, IntelliMatch, IBM Rational Rose, Charles River Trader, MetaStorm Provision, Way4, SwiftAlliance, Mercury, Vestima+, CRM-SAP, SAP BW, Euclid, FundSettle, CASCADE (Mainframe/VMS), Vestima+ web application, CreationConnect (JREE), SOA, ESB, BPM, Portal and Asset Management for IBM Websphere, Oracle Websuite, Software AG and Redhat, Management Information Systems, Business Intelligence, SAP, CRM, Dashboard, BAM and CCA, Asset Liability Management, Backbase Digital Platform, Informatica power.