Patricia RAKOTONIAINA
Product Manager
Client driven
Result oriented
Solution finder
Team player
Digital & Transformation
ETF Solution Digital Project Manager
BNP Paribas Securities Services - IT Investment and Fund Services
Since January 2019
- Project aiming to create a global elite Exchange Traded Funds servicing platform - including a digital interface for clients and their partners
- Challenge: Build a complete ETF servicing that can adapt to the service level prospect clients will expect and propose a differentiated offer
- Team selection, Vision & objectives formalization, Initial product backlog creation, Quaterly Agile Planning organization
- Budget: >7M€
Planet Funds Digital Project Manager
BNP Paribas Securities Services - IT Investment & Fund Services
March 2018
to December 2018
- Joined the innovation program Planet Funds looking to disrupt the funds distribution by creating a decentralized platform based on 3 initial modules: Fund Trade, Fund Investor Onboarding and Fund Finder
- Member of the Product Tribe as Tribe delivery leader
- IT Owner on Fund Investor Onboarding
- Challenge: Innovate within a large organization
- Team selection, Technical backlog construction along with IT Team, Blockchain related backlog completion, Steering committee preparation & presentation, validation of the product by transversal internal teams, participation to product definition, strategy and excubation preparation
- Budget: ~3m€
Smart Derivatives Primary IT Team member - several positions
BNP Paribas Global Markets
January 2011
to February 2018
- Best-in-breed client-facing platform for institutionals dedicated to derivatives investment
- Available in 31 countries, 3000 users (600 external clients)
- 1,2m quotes / 50k trades per day
- 35 team members (IT BA & Developers) in Paris / 5 in Hong Kong
- Held several positions to accompany the platform & team expansion
Smart Derivatives Primary IT Manager
Client and Sales Facing Department
February 2017
to February 2018
- Challenge: Implement a "feature team" based organization around the product
- Managed a feature team of 9 persons (3 IT Business Analysts, 6 Developers)
EQD Industrialization Project Manager
Client and Sales Facing Department
May 2015
to February 2018
- Universal Wrapper: extend investments funding possibilities especially for complex structures including pricing and booking specificities
Challenge: provide an easy onboarding set up for a wrapper able to provide an easy interface definition for the client and facilitate the Front-to-Back chain - X-Assets products integration: extension of the Structured products asset classes to CDS and Rates underlyings
Challenge: extend the product range with Fixed Income related underlyings / structures ensuring an aligned client experience and an integrated architecture
Smart Derivatives Primary Global Head of Business Analyst
Client and Sales Facing Department
October 2014
to February 2017
- Challenge: Drive the platform evolution based on features expansion and industrialization objectives while enlarging the team worldwide
- Managed the team of IT Business analysts (10 persons worldwide) directly integrated within the IT Team (18 developers worldwide) and the evolution requests portfolio worldwide
- Participated to a Task Force composed of 6 functional or technical experts on the department
Objective : Define and present the future Client and Sales Facing department (>100 persons) architecture and organization inspired by the Agile at Scale
Submitted the study result to management and launched the organization change within the Department through creation of Guilds and Domain communities
Smart Derivatives Primary Business Analyst
Client and Sales Facing Department
January 2011
to September 2014
- Challenge: Launch the pricing and trading platform to external users by ensuring a minimum feature available for attraction , a capacity to respond to new requests and a support reactivity
- Began as the sole Business Analyst within a team of 6 developers (4 in Paris, 2 in Hong Kong)
Trading Tools Support
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - Trading Tools
December 2007
to October 2010
- Joined a Team that handles support, upgrades, new requests on 5 Traders applications for stock and index derivatives market making, hedging, trading and shares lending / borrowing
- Challenge: Be super reactive on issue investigation and fast solutions finding as well as being able to define long term solutions to avoid issue recurrence or reply to new demand
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Business case definition
Good
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Product requirements definition
Expert
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Product backlog formalization
Expert
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Backlog prioritization
Expert
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Roadmap building
Expert
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Test strategy definition
Advanced
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Documentation & Release note
Advanced
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Users training / Product demonstration
Good
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User Experience
Advanced
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Design thinking approach
Good
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Investment banking context
Expert
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Front-to-back processes
Advanced
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Derivatives products
Good
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Structured products
Good
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Funds distribution and servicing (mutual funds & ETF)
Intermediate
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Investment decision tools
Good
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Functional architecture
Advanced
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Detailed specifications
Expert
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n-Tier application
Advanced
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Event-driven application
Good
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DevOps practice
Good
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ERP Integration
Intermediate
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Digitalization & Transformation
Advanced
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Coordination
Advanced
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Risk assessment
Advanced
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Change management
Advanced
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Steering committee
Advanced
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Budget follow-up
Good
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Agile methodology (SaFe, Scrum)
Advanced
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Provide oversight and direction
Advanced
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Team building
Advanced
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New comer training program
Advanced
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Team member growth
Advanced
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Team day-to-day organization
Expert
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Administrative follow-up
Good
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Contract Management
Good
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Release cycle organization
Expert
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Support organization
Expert
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Maintenance & Stability procedure
Advanced
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Applications KPI
Advanced
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Non-regression strategy
Advanced
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Documentation
Expert
- Volunteer at "Paris en Compagnie"
- Piano
- Classic french writer
- Writing class
- Leisure travels in Europe, Asia, South & North America, Africa
