JACK NBAKINA
Berkeley Heights
Summary
Senior Business Analyst with strong analytical background from Investment Banking with overall experience of 10+ years. Friendly team player with the ability to meet tight deadlines, to coordinate and manage different business units. Collateral Management SME with in-depth experience of calypso software configuration and problem resolution gained at various Key implementations (from v8 to v17). Key role played on several projects in USA, Europe, Singapore, and South Africa.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consultant - Lead Business Analyst
ZDiamond Consulting
01.2020 - Current
- Client: Citizens Bank
- Client: Fidelity Investments
Lead Business Analyst
Fidelity Investments
12.2020 - 06.2025
- Phase 1: “Blueprint” phase conducted in form of workshops to ascertain Fidelity business requirements for Collateral Management implementation on calypso.
- Phase 2: Bilateral and MSFTA Collateral Management Implementation (calypso v16)
- Phase 3: Futures/ETD & OTC-Cleared Collateral Implementation (calypso v17)
- Core calypso gap identification
- Managed entire project lifecycle (Business Requirement, Plan, Analysis, Development / Configuration, unit, and End to End tests, and Deployment).
- Provide leadership and advice on design for upstream and downstream data Integration
- Static data bulk upload via Calypso Data Uploader File (Margin call agreements, Accounts...)
- Segregated Accounts SDIs model configuration & Swift messages validation (MT202, MT210, MT54X, MT912...)
- Interfaces specification for Brokers statements integration (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, CITI...)
- Interfaces specification to feed downstream systems (accounting Ledger, escrow/de-escrow process...)
- Calypso configuration (Workflows, Accounts, SDIs, Pricing Env, Reports, Scheduled Tasks...)
- Security Eligibilities and Haircut rules configuration
- Collateral Balance Migration
- Acadia Software integration as a Dispute management platform
- Securities Collateral Corporates Actions processing and workflow enhancement
- LME Market Data integration for Discount LME amount configuration
- Collateral inventory management
- User groups definition and configuration
- Reports (Ops reports and Integration reports)
- Calypso platform upgrade from V16 to Calypso v17 and from Calypso v17 to Calypso v18
- Reconciliation Module configuration to replace existing excel macros
- Project Methodology: Agile-scrum
Lead Business Analyst
Citizens Bank
01.2020 - 12.2020
- Project: CSA, MSFTA & OTC-Cleared Collateral Management implementation on calypso v16
- Brokers statements files analysis (Goldman Sachs, BNP, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo...)
- Broker interfaces requirements and technical specifications
- Calypso configuration (Workflows, Accounts, SDIs, Pricing Env, Reports, Scheduled Tasks...)
- Static data bulk upload via Calypso Data Uploader File (Margin call contracts, SDIs, Accounts...)
Lead Business Analyst
Vanguard Group
04.2019 - 12.2019
- Project: OTC-Cleared and ETD/Futures Collateral Management implementation on calypso v15
- Brokers statements files analysis (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America...)
- Broker interfaces requirements and technical specifications
- Calypso FCMs/Brokers statements mapping table requirement for Middleware
- Calypso configuration (Workflows, Accounts, SDIs, Pricing Env, Reports, Scheduled Tasks...)
- Static data bulk upload via Calypso Data Uploader File (Margin call contracts, SDIs, Accounts...)
- Concentration and Collateral Optimization rules configuration
- Cash collateral currency repatriation process
- Downstream reporting configuration (Accounting)
- Users training
- Coordinate UAT on behalf Collateral Mgt Department, create and executed test scripts on behalf of end users, log issues and act as primary contact with development team
- Follow up of different bugs raised to Calypso via P2
- Managed entire project lifecycle (Business Requirement, Plan, Analysis, Development / Configuration, unit and End to End tests, and Deployment).
- Provided leadership and advice on design for upstream and downstream data Integration
- Functional Skills: Margin call, Initial Margin, Clearing Transfer, Collateral Exposure, Fixed Income, Futures, Equities, Cash Management, Swift Messages (MT202, MT54X)
- Technologies used: Calypso Cloud services, Calypso version 15.1, Java, ETL Technology, Oracle 10g, XML
- Project Methodology: Agile-scrum
Consultant - Lead Business Analyst
Synechron
06.2016 - 12.2019
- Client: Vanguard Group
- Client: Leumi Bank USA
- Client: MetLife Investment, Whippany, NJ
Lead Business Analyst
Bank Leumi USA
10.2018 - 04.2019
- Project: Front to Back-office migration from Calypso v15 to Calypso v16
- Static data migration (Legal Entities, Books, Accounts, Accounting rules...)
- Calypso configuration (Workflows, SDIs, Reports, Scheduled Tasks, accounting rules...)
- Bloomberg Data License set up (Bonds definition, Factors...)
- Security & Equity Liquidation method configuration
Lead Business Analyst
MetLife Investment
08.2016 - 09.2018
- Project: Clearing and Collateral Management platform migration
- Migration of clearing and collateral management activity from Algo system into Calypso v14.3
- Regionalization of Collateral Management activities across USA and ASIA through several migration projects (ALICO-JSCC, RKA Clearing, MLK, ALICOJP...)
- Implementing a solution within calypso to handle new margining regulations (UMR, MSFTA...)
- Implementing Collateral Optimization and Concentration Limit
- Interfacing calypso with Perceptiv (Recommind) for Margin call CSAs digitalization
- Interfacing calypso with Acadia software for dispute management
- Handling MetLife's entities Merger strategy and cutover plan
- Assisted local Project Manager with task planning, timing and resourcing
- Entities Cash and Securities Portfolios' transfer
- Scenario optimization performance improvement
- Enhancement of workflows & customized processes (Allocation process, 4 Eyes validation...)
- Users training
- Providing Level 3 user support
- Client advisory on calypso functionalities
- Follow up of the different bugs raised to Calypso via P2
- Managed entire project lifecycle (Business Requirement, Plan, Analysis, Development / Configuration, Test, and Deployment).
- Provided leadership and advice on design for upstream and downstream data Integration
- Functional Skills: Margin call, Initial Margin, Dispute management, Clearing Transfer, Collateral Exposure, Fixed Income, Futures, Equities, Cash Management, Accounting postings, Swift Messages (MT202, MT54X)
- Technologies used: Calypso version 14.3, calypso version 15, Murex 3, Java, ETL Technology, Oracle 10g, Sybase 12.0.5, XML
- Project Methodology: Agile-scrum
Senior Business Analyst
Allied Irish Bank
02.2016 - 03.2016
- Project: Migration of the Treasury platform from Opics satellite system into Calypso V14.3
- Drafting tests scenarios and executing cycle 2 and cycle 3 functional smoke tests (Front to Accounting)
- Fixing issues noticed during functional smoke tests cycles or raised by client via Jiras
- Documenting all new configurations
- Client advisory on calypso functionalities (i.e. DTCC GTR for EMIR UTI...)
- Follow up of the different bugs raised to Calypso via P2
- Functional Skills: MM, Call Notice, Call Accounts, IRD, Equity Options, FX Options, Fixed Income Credit, Inflation, Futures, Equities, Cash Management, EMIR, Accounting postings, Swift Messages (MT103, MT202, MT320, MT300, MT54X, MT360, MT361)
- Technologies used: Calypso version 14.3, Java
Consultant - Senior Business Analyst
Calypso Technology LTD
03.2015 - 03.2016
- Client: Allied Irish Bank, Dublin, Ireland
- Client: Credit Du Nord Bank, Paris, France
Lead Business Analyst
Credit Du Nord Bank
03.2015 - 02.2016
- Project: Migration of Front to Back-office activities from the system street GEODE to EVOLAN into a new system street GEODE to CALYPSO version 14.1
- Acting as a design authority within Calypso team by reviewing and validating all configurations or solutions to be migrated into Gold environment.
- Gathering business requirements and translating those into Calypso solutions.
- Defining the appropriate XML tags mapping for trade integration via Calypso interface module Data Uploader.
- Drafting functional and technical specification for custom functionalities (Trades windows validators, workflow rules, accounting events, accounting CRE enrichment for the General Ledger interface, pricing measures, static data filters, reporting columns...)
- Configuration of new pricing measures and pricing environment parameters
- Configuration of payment messages (TARGET, EBA, SWIFT...), Workflows, Accounting events rules, Ops reporting templates...
- Configuration of calypso cash management modules for CLS settlement and account sweeping.
- Configuration of calypso modules for EMIR processing interface (UTI generation).
- Configuration of Risk Analysis, liquidity management modules and reporting tools (Market Data Server, Forward Ladder, Calypso Workstation, OfficialPL...)
- Configuration of all Calypso components needed in order to save daily trades valuations (NPV, Accrual...) results on the Database (PL Mark).
- Designing functional solution of modules not provided by calypso core functionalities (Accounting CRI enrichment for data warehouse interface, FXSPOT Fixing Engine...)
- Follow up of HD calls with Calypso regarding BUGs or ENHs (P2 or P5/P6)
- Assisting the client on defining its migration strategy
- Reviewing and enriching client UAT test pack
- Reporting project KPIs and impediments to calypso project manager for Steerco preparation
- Project phase 2's gap analysis (Migration of securities Bonds & Repos)
- Functional Skills: FXSpot, FXForward, FXSwap, Money Market (Loan and Deposit), Bond, Repos, Liquidity Management, Risk Analysis, Cash Management, EMIR, Accounting postings, Swift Messages (MT103, MT202, MT320, MT300, MT210), Agile/Scrum
- Technologies used: Calypso version 14.1, Java, XML tags mapping, Reuters, Bloomberg, Calypso MDS (MarketDataServer), RiskServer
Consultant - Senior Business Analyst
INNOVARE MANAGEMENT
01.2014 - 02.2015
- Client: ING Bank, Singapore
Senior Business Analyst
ING Bank
01.2014 - 02.2015
- Projects:
- 1- Europe: On boarding Murex Deal Capture as a FO system & Position Keeping System by migrating FX & MM trades from the Front to Finance system street Valuta-IDS (FX, MM), Kondor (FX) to Calypso into ING strategic systems street Murex to Calypso v14.1
- 2- CEE & Asia: Decommissioning the Front-to-Finance system street from Murex (FX & MM), Summit (IRD) Bloomberg (Fixed Income) to GBS into ING strategic systems street Murex to Calypso v14.1 & Summit, Bloomberg to BOTS & Calypso (for Fixed Income & IRD payment messages)
- Handling Front-to-finance impact analysis
- Designing functional solutions that is aligned with the strategic architecture road map
- Enhancement of Calypso Interfaces-IN and Interfaces-OUT logic to be aligned with the strategic architecture (trades integrations, static data upload, XSD enrichment...)
- Configuration of the accounting postings reevaluation module for the US Branch GL
- Configuration of Ops reporting templates
- Create test cases for validating the solution
- Create user guides and provide training / user demos
- Defining and setting up Ops' user access groups and Task station profile
- Support Regression testing cycle and User Acceptance Testing
- Provide support in production environment when required
- Raising and following different HDs calls (BUGS or Enhancement) with the Vendor Calypso
- Taking part on the elaboration of the Migration Strategy (Front to Finance)
- Release management coordination with all scrum teams
- Impact Analysis of a new End of Day process execution cycle in alignment with Asia's branches SLA (Ops and Finance)
- Impact analysis of Transactions Data Segregation for Asia's branches
- FATCA Regulatory reporting designing and implementation
- Functional Skills: FXSpot, FXForward, FXSwap, FXNDF, Equities, Money Market trades (Loan, Deposit, Call Notices), FATCA, TRM, PayPlus, TRAM, SMART, Intellimatch, AGREE, WordServer, ACR, Swift Messages (MT103, MT202, MT320, MT300, MT210), Agile/Scrum
- Technologies used: Calypso 14.1, Bloomberg,Middleware, MQ, Autosys, GI T Extension, Artifactory, Jenkins, XML, Fpml, JMS, Tibco, Toad, DBbrowser
Senior Business Analyst
US Bank
06.2013 - 12.2013
- Project: Migration of Clearing and Collateral management processing into Calypso and enabling a daily reconciliation between clearing broker statements received against the Margin call, Initial Margin and Product cash flows (coupons, PAI, Fees...) computed within calypso
- Configuration of calypso collateral modules required for computing daily margin call and Initial Margin (Margin call contract, Collateral scheduled tasks, Margin call trade workflow...)
- Configuration of cash management components to compute variation Margin call (account definition, SDI, SDI filter...)
- Configuration of Fees grid for commission and Clearing house fees...
- Pricer configuration to calculate Initial Margin measure per trade in the scope
- Drafting the functional specification for customs scheduled tasks (Initial Margin calculation and generation, upload daily PAI quote values from CME csv file and Clearing Broker statement generation)
Consultant - Senior Business Analyst
NewSide Consulting
07.2010 - 12.2013
- Client: US Bank, New York, USA
- Client: USA Investec Bank, Johannesburg, SA
- Client: Standard Bank, Johannesburg, SA
- Client: Fund Manager Comac Capital, London, UK
- Client: La Banque Postale, Paris, France
- Client: EADS, Munich, Germany
Lead Business Analyst
Investec Bank
08.2011 - 05.2013
- Project: Migration of FO and BO activities from Equation system into Calypso 11.10 (3 phases project focus on trade booking, Settlement & Cash management)
- Functional Skills: Money Market trades (Loan and Deposit), Settlement & Cash Management, PayPlus & IPH (ZAR payment hub), STRIATA (paper confirmation gateway), Swift Messages (MT103, MT202, MT320, MT940, MT910, MT900)
Business Analyst
Standard Bank
07.2011 - 07.2011
- Client advisory on Calypso functionalities
- Functional Skills: Money Market, Bonds, Repos
Business Analyst
Fund Manager Comac Capital LLP
06.2011 - 06.2011
- Client advisory on Cash management (Known & forecast) using Forward ladder & Calypso Workstation tools
- Enhancement of Data flows sent to the Fund Administrator
Lead Business Analyst
La Banque Postale
09.2010 - 06.2011
- Projects:
- 1- Back-office implementation on FCPR (Fund), Futures, Equity linked Swap, Swap Livret A, Inflation Swap, Swaption, and Credit Facility
- 2- Collateral Management Implementation
Lead Business Analyst
EADS
07.2010 - 08.2010
- Client advisory on Back-office implementation of Bonds, IRD, FXSwap, FXForward, FXSpot, FXOptions, Money Market, Credit Facility Products
Consultant - Business Analyst
GROUPE OPEN Consulting
06.2007 - 06.2010
- Client: Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking, Paris France
Business Analyst
SGCIB
06.2007 - 06.2010
- Work in Baseline team (In charge of the production issues and managing Bugs fix) and Catalogue team (Managing all the Functional Enhancements)
- Functional Skills: Equities, Equities Derivatives & Funds Derivatives, CFD, Options, Forwards, Certificates, Exotic products, Thunderhead, Swapswire, Sirocco, SR
- Technologies used: Calypso 8.2, Calypso 11 Oracle 9i/10g, Sun Solaris 10, Linux Red Hat 4.7, Weblogic 9, Tibco, Tibco Hawk, Autosys.
Education
MBA - Corporate Finance
PACE University
01.2022
Master Degree - Computer Science
EICNAM Engineering School
01.2006
Skills
- Vendor Products: Calypso from (v8 to v17), Murex 3, Colline, Acadia Software, Bloomberg
- Language: Java, Python, PL/SQL, XML
- Database: Oracle 10g, Sybase 1205, MS SQL Server
- Tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, CVS, TOAD, R, SQL Developer
- Platform: MS Windows, UNIX and Linux
- Miscellaneous: ETL (Extract Transform Load) Technology
Certification
- Bloomberg Market Concepts
- Excel: Statistical Process Control
- Six Sigma Foundations
- Business Analyst Certified Advanced Training, ALLIENCE Training Group, Paris, France
- Finance Master Class Certified, FIRST FINANCE Training Group, Paris, France
- Intuition online courses (Interest Rate Risk, Market Risk, CCR, Fixed Income, Money Market, Exchange, and OTC Derivatives...)
Languages
French
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
German
Elementary
Interests
- Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency
- Coding and Programming
- Volunteer Travel
- Swimming
- Team Sports
Timeline
Lead Business Analyst
Fidelity Investments
12.2020 - 06.2025
Consultant - Lead Business Analyst
ZDiamond Consulting
01.2020 - Current
Lead Business Analyst
Citizens Bank
01.2020 - 12.2020
Lead Business Analyst
Vanguard Group
04.2019 - 12.2019
Lead Business Analyst
Bank Leumi USA
10.2018 - 04.2019
Lead Business Analyst
MetLife Investment
08.2016 - 09.2018
Consultant - Lead Business Analyst
Synechron
06.2016 - 12.2019
Senior Business Analyst
Allied Irish Bank
02.2016 - 03.2016
Consultant - Senior Business Analyst
Calypso Technology LTD
03.2015 - 03.2016
Lead Business Analyst
Credit Du Nord Bank
03.2015 - 02.2016
Consultant - Senior Business Analyst
INNOVARE MANAGEMENT
01.2014 - 02.2015
Senior Business Analyst
ING Bank
01.2014 - 02.2015
Senior Business Analyst
US Bank
06.2013 - 12.2013
Lead Business Analyst
Investec Bank
08.2011 - 05.2013
Business Analyst
Standard Bank
07.2011 - 07.2011
Business Analyst
Fund Manager Comac Capital LLP
06.2011 - 06.2011
Lead Business Analyst
La Banque Postale
09.2010 - 06.2011
Consultant - Senior Business Analyst
NewSide Consulting
07.2010 - 12.2013
Lead Business Analyst
EADS
07.2010 - 08.2010
Consultant - Business Analyst
GROUPE OPEN Consulting
06.2007 - 06.2010
Business Analyst
SGCIB
06.2007 - 06.2010
Master Degree - Computer Science
EICNAM Engineering School
MBA - Corporate Finance
PACE University
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