Expériences — Patricia RAKOTONIAINA

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Experiences

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€

Detailed Description

Retrieve the project initial scoping (vision, objectives, clients and requirements formalization)
Defines the project governance along with Business and IT team
Work along with internal architecture teams to define and validate a functional & technical architecture in line with BP2S target
Manage the IT team selection and contractualization if required
Define the roadmap of the project identifying key milestones and dependencies with Business, Operationals and IT Teams

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€

Detailed Description

Led the FIO project initial scoping through a validation committee including business and technical stakeholders of the organization
Managed the development team selection and the squad launch through a one week seminar giving context to all actors (context, objectives, functional & technical requirements)
Ensured the project progress within the Squad based on Agile methodology: participated actively to the refinement, product architecture definition, sprint demo to clients, test strategy definition
Worked closely with internal teams (legal, compliance, data protection, operational process experts) to ensure all business aspects consideration
Participated to the product definition, position, strategy and excubation preparation

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

Detailed Description

2018: Most innovative investment Bank for Equity Derivatives - The Banker IB awards
2017: Equity Derivatives house of the year - IFR awards
2017: Best Single-Dealer Platform - Asian Private Banker Structured Products Awards
2016: Best Single-Dealer Platform - SRP Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Awards
Bank technology provider of the year - Structured Products Award Americas-2017, Europe-2016, Asia-2015

Detailed Description

Ensured collaboration with other Smart Derivatives Primary Teams (in Paris and HK) and department Teams either through projects or community/guild work
Ensured team members best practices of specifications, developments, support and documentation
Team member growth
Administrative management

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

Detailed Description

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

Detailed Description

Ensured global functional coherence by challenging worldwide users' requirements
Ensured specifications method best practices within the team
Defined and ensured test strategy implementation for non regression proper coverage at each release
Defined and ensured proper release management practices from content prioritization to release note sending
Involved in several projects for Business Industrialization within CIB of Tomorrow Program to drive product impacts definition and delivery
Prepared and present product prioritization committee with main stakeholders

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)

Detailed Description

Analyzed business expectations on a wide range of problematic from interface and feature ergonomics to pricing or deal processing on the platform
Interacted on a regular basis with all project actors: developers, application users – Structurers, Sales and Traders – Research Team, UX Team and project stakeholders
Detailed specifications and follow-up with developers
Level 3 support handling
Documentation and release note

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

Detailed Description

In charge of analysis and follow-up of issues and improvements requests
Applications maintenance and upgrade through deployment in production of applications new version
SPOC for 3 applications implying demand backlog handling and follow-up with stakeholders and impacted IT Teams

Patricia RAKOTONIAINA