Specialist in Capital Markets Trading with over 14 years of experience in investment banking and consulting. Expertise in implementing, testing, and maintaining Murex application, focusing on IR derivatives, bonds, FX, and MM. Proven track record in functional and business analysis for IT implementation projects, with a strong background in Accounting, Front Office, Back Office, and Datamart. Currently supporting Capital Markets projects as part of the NBC Murex IT support team, leveraging a degree in Administrative Engineering and a Bachelor in Finance and Capital Markets.
•Responsible for develop/code the Market data parameters : rate curves, Vols, and the CAC (Collateral agreement Categories). Part of the building processes involved in unitary testing, the configuration merge to the Golden environment, the show sessions preparation to show the user the Market data building progress, and creation/delivery of the tactical documentation.
•Collaborated in creation of QA test campaign for Position Revaluation and Market data test cases. The position revaluation cases focused on the pricing test for the different products in scope: Plain Vanilla derivatives, Exotic derivatives (equities, range swaps, PRDC swaps, autocallable swaps, etc). The Market data cases focused on the curve validation (tenors and calibration), vols validation (tenors and strikes defined) and the Market data scripts/report validation.
•Executed and assisted exotic event testing and supporting the migration team in the cash flow reconciliation process.
•Supported the bank in its first GO Live: Assisting the end-user on the migrated trades reconciliation, raising and tracking the defects found during the stabilization week, and guiding the user on the troubleshooting process in the new platform.
•Responsible for the review and the test case enrichment for the UST and UAT phases: validating the products in scope for the NY entity, and the internal trading process.
•Collaborated with the Accenture working group based on Holland, being the key point of contact in NY for all the End-to-End testing activities: planning the testing schedules, defining test environments, raising the defects, and tracking them (following up the fixes, asking the user re-test and validating the acceptance criteria in the test cases, etc.)
•Conducted the Murex training for the bank's liquidity team.
•Responsible for ensuring the test cases execution occurred on time and guided the Front Office end-user in the bank's testing tool usage.
•Responsible for the treasury products implementation in the Murex latest version acquired by the bank. The process involved coding and testing the new products configuration or new adjustments on the existing products.
•Responsible for the migration plan/strategy definition for the treasury products (Accounting perspective). The process involved the execution of the migration testing, account reconciliation, and the reporting validation.
•Designed the treasury processes for the Murex implementation and responsible for the analysis, requirements consolidation and functional definitions of the Accounting stream. The process involved the accounting configuration design, coding and testing for the products in scope Fx, IR derivatives, Bonds and Money Market. For each one the products were created new set of the accounting rules, and accounts.
•Participated in the Migration strategy definition, and product reconciliation.
•Responsible for the building and implementation of the accounting requirements for the Money Market products (Repos and Loans) according to the standards of the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia.
Murex workflows (Back and Operations)
Testing
Data Migration
Test Case Creation
Requirement gathering
Business analysis
Front Office
Datamart
Accounting
Market Data
Fixed Income, Equities, FX
Securities Lending, OTC Derivatives, Interest Rate derivatives, Repo
Murex and Markitwire