Karine Duranton

Responsible for CEP IT Functions (HR IT) and Third Party Lifecycle Management (KYC, Client On-boarding) in NAR (team of 12 people across US, Canada and India)
Advocate for local needs and requirement in global instances

On-board local and global applications following AMER Bank policies (data privacy, security constraints, ...).

Participate in the global alignment strategy to apply in the AMER region

Provide budget forecasting for the scope (headcount, software licenses and projects) and elaborate resource synergies when possible

Maintain and improve local platforms to support clients needs and manage obsolescence.

Responsible for HR, Premises, Procurement, Corporate Security, Transversal and Collaboration Solutions teams (team of 5 people across US and Canada)

Monitored key projects, challenged solutions and ensured timeline and budget were respected.

Provided budget forecasting (headcount, software licenses and projects).

Monitored closely remediation on IT security to stabilize platforms supported

Built new organization within the team.

Participated to key initiatives for the Bank as the optimization strategy between Bank of the West and CIB.

Responsible for HR, Premises, Procurement and Corporate Security platforms (team of 4 people across US and Canada)

Built strong relationship with the different sponsors

Monitored closely all projects in the scope, also acted as Project Manager for some of them and ensured budget and timeline constraint were respected.

Provided adequate reporting to Senior Management and other teams (PMO, Audit, ....).

Responsible for CB IT Finance, Risk & Liquidity Transversal coordination responsible for CB IT FRL Transversal coordination

Ensured efficiency in the strategic governance (framework, content, alignment, implementation)

Supported team leaders while forecasting and updating their resources and technology costs budget (including invoices follow-up),

Facilitated transversal management reporting and participated to initiatives with BNPP Group for specific transversal initiatives (KPI review, US TOM)

Manage the IT component of HR Transformation Program

Monitored closely the detailed and overall IT budget ($5 M) and presented it to Senior Management during Steering Committee meetings.
Accountable for all required reportings (Project Portfolio, Control Tower reporting for Audit, CIB of Tomorrow reporting and others).
Active listener and facilitator of problem resolution by reviewing all options with appropriate resources/managers.
Strong follow up with all stakeholders and especially with UK Global PeopleSoft team to have an unique governance and make sure deadlines were met or change of schedule/budget is communicated accordingly.

Supervised Payments & Cash Management teams in North America Region (Team of 5 to 14 across US and Canada)
Managed 3 Applications Support teams and BA/PMs across Canada and US: Payments & Check Processing (Montran, …), Financial Messaging (SWIFT), and E-Banking. Critical applications supported 24/7.
Improved governance of the teams including segregation of duties between BA/PM and APS. Introduced LEAN methodology to the teams.
Built the business case and analysis for the conversion of the Disaster Recovery model to Synchronous for the most critical applications.

Supervised General Ledger Platforms (LAP and Atlas 2) in North America Region and Canadian Regulatory Reporting (Team of 12 across Canada, US and Brazil)
Responsible for the integration of the 2 GL platforms (Atlas 2 into LAP) $300K IT budget
Redesigned organization and delocalized part of the teams (3 locations Mumbai, Montreal and JC).

Supervised Local Accounting Platform (LAP) in North America Region (Team of 8 across Canada, US and Brazil)
Reorganized Application Platform in Americas by creating Business Analysis Function in IT and restructuring LAP Support team in North America in coordination with London LAP Support team 

Supervised Referential Data and Risk Systems Teams in North America Region (Team of 8 in US and Canada)
Organized around the clock application support 
Managed cross functional projects including major upgrade of the platform related to the applications used by Referential Group, Credit Control Risk  & Operational Risk departments

Facilities and Received Guarantees (ATLAS 2) 
Drove industrialized implementation for all US Branches (New York, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco) including numerous customized features, users training and post migration support
Managed several implementations of new enhancements, CreditNet standardization (local US application integration to Atlas 2 platform) and Canadian Regulatory Reporting

Standardization and Implementation of  Facilities and Received Guarantees Platform (ATLAS 2) for Egypt, Bahrain, Peru, Japan, Hong-Kong and Canada
Industrialization of migration processes, Standardization of functional documents (users guide, implementation guide)

Implementation of new releases including strong coordination with the Sponsor and Development teams, Elaboration of project documentation (test scripts, testing phase with all stakeholders, functional specifications).

 Credit Lyonnais international information system (ISBA) - Risk, SWIFT and Cash Management Modules

Business Analysis, Users guide and training, and Helpdesk for deployment in Luxembourg, Spain and Poland

Documentary Credit application in Java (St@rdoc)

Application development, Functional Specifications to Unit testing