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Connaissances fonctionnelles

SimCorp Administration APEX audit Banking Budget Business Cash Coaching COMPLIANCE Coordination Delivery DISTRIBUTION eFront Finance Financial international Investment Maintenance Marketing office offshore Performance PROCEDURES Production Réconciliation REPORTING RFP Risk RUN Securities sla Strategies UAT workflows

Langages

Excel EXCHANGE PRINCE2 SPRING SQL

Méthodes

Backup Management Planning SCRUM Support Testing WATERFALL

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Teams

Réseaux et Middleware

Security

Systèmes

AD

01.06.2023-30.11.2023
External Consultant (6 month contract through Taleo), Société Générale Securities Services, Luxembourg.
- Part of SimCorp Dimension operations and knowledge transfer project, moving knowledge and fund operations
from Munich to Luxembourg (due to closure of Munich branch)
- Completion and execution knowledge transfer project in three fases: Shadow, Reverse Shadow and Stabilization
- Involved in the knowledge transfer of the following fund operations: Oversight Control (NAV production),
Corporate Actions, Transfer Agency/Fee Invoicing, Fund Service Cost Setup, AWV and ECB reporting
- Defining and mapping the business processes. Reviewing and improving Standard Operating Procedures.
- Training and coaching of new SimCorp Dimension operations team in Luxembourg in the various SimCorp
applications and SimCorp ad hoc problem solving
- Validate NAV in core system SimCorp Dimension and monitor the completeness of the flows
- As part of the oversight and control responsibilities, monitor and review of the fund accounting activities
performed at offshore center to ensure timely and accurate NAV calculation and reporting
- Performance of 2nd level of control on NAV deliverables produced by fund accountants to analyze and justify
NAV impacts and expectations
- Client reporting
- Collection of information concerning the audit of funds


06.03.2023-30.05.2023
External Consultant (3 month contract through Skillfinder), RBC Inv. & Treasury Services, Luxembourg.
- Preparation and oversight of monthly / quarterly management accounts for a portfolio of clients
- Preparation and oversight of annual financial statements in accordance with UK & US GAAP / IFRS / AUS
- Management of key deliverables in accordance with SLA’s or equivalent
- Calculations of management fees, carried interest and distribution amounts and waterfall calculations
- Deal with year-end audits and auditor queries
- Ensure compliance with client documentation and RBC processes and procedures
- Answering / investigating client queries


01.05.2022-20.12.2022
External Consultant (8 month contract through Skillfinder), KBC Asset Management, Brussels, Belgium.
- Worked in a Brussels-based Development Team, and worked closely together with Scrum Master,
Product Owner, and various Development Teams in short, high effort, collaborative and extremely productive
team ‘sprints’
- Part of SimCorp Dimension Backoffice and Middleoffice implementation project (Front office already in prod).
- Configuring and testing new investment compliance rules in SimCorp Compliance Manager in accordance with
KBC Investment Guidelines
- Improving and reconfiguring existing compliance rules and testing these
- Working with Product Team on improving performance in Compliance Manager and general system
performance
- Working with Compliance team on converting EUC tools from previous system to SimCorp.
- Testing Options: writing test cases, testing correct accounting mapping and performing reconciliation
- Writing SimCorp Standard Operating Procedures for new SimCorp Market Data Validation setup


01.08.2021-30.04.2022
Client Services Manager / Assistant Vice President, Apex Fund Services, Münsbach, Luxembourg.
Client Services Management
- Review & validate financial statements
- Validation of NAV calculations in core systems SimCorp Dimension and Efront
- Ensuring reconciliation of cash, securities and fund certificates
- Preparation of financial statements and following-up their approval and audit process
- Preparation of various other accounting reports such as interim, quarterly and liquidation
- Head of Client team assigned to Northern European clients
- Ensuring client satisfaction by initiating appropriate actions when escalated
- Building excellent long-term relationships with existing clients and ensuring an excellent client
satisfaction.
- Key contact for clients and responsible for the coordination of all client related services and queries
- Ensuring reliable processes with clients and specialist department teams
- Project coordination with key stakeholders in a solution-oriented manner to meet client needs
- Coordinating contractual agreements and ensuring qualitative follow-up of service agreement
- Taking responsibility for the further development of the team and training of junior staff
- Participation in fund board meetings to represent the management company
Client acquisition:
- Heading team responding to RFP and delivering tender offers
-Negotiating fee and terms-
- Outbound marketing and engaging with sales leads
- Identifying business opportunities and contributing to further internal & external development


01.02.2020-31.07.2021
Senior Controller, Middle Office, Fund Management, Velliv Pension (Nordea), Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Working in Middle Office-team, which have the responsibility for the daily/timely NAV calculation, controlling
& validation of all Velliv Pension’s investment funds with adherence to strict deadlines (publication cut-off)
- Key contact for all NAV related queries
- NAV controlling: Timely and accurate calculation and controlling/validation of NAV, market data and
Corporate Actions, ensuring Zero Default Quality
- Price Check: Assuring and validating Market Data, daily and periodically (using Bloomberg/Reuters and other sources)
- Reconciliation: Ensuring reconciliation of cash, securities and fund certificates
- Daily supervision of SimCorp Compliance Manager: taking action on alerts when limits/lines are breached and making sure that these carefully documented
- Creating/modifying compliance rules in the Compliance Manager in accordance with investment guidelines
-Ensure efficient and consistent workflows in core system, SimCorp Dimension
- Responsible for testing all patch and all system upgrades of SimCorp Dimension
-Identification, measurement and management of Operational Risks
- Working actively and proactively on constantly improving the overall Operational Control environment
- Assisting management with closing/documentation of Internal Audit Remarks concerning complex Fund
Operation Issues
- Working together with SimCorp and Axxsys consultants with testing and configuring a completely new Simcorp Dimension installation, ensuring correct NAV-flow and correct fund accounting mapping, of a 3-level pool fund structure
- Completion of 3 stage testing period: SIT, UAT and Parallel Run with daily reconciliation of 140 investment
funds toward production in Nordea Liv and Pension


2017-2020
Senior Controller, Fund & Portfolio Calculations, Wealth Management, Danske Bank, Lyngby, Denmark.
- Working in International NAV-team, which has the responsibility for the daily NAV controlling & validation of European investment funds (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Luxembourg Funds)
- Managing the delivery and facilitating the oversight of NAV production with tight deadlines for funds listed on
NASDAQ OMX
- Primary tasks: to ensure that the NAV’s of Danske Invest's and Danica’s investment funds are calculated
correctly and efficiently with the focus on delivering high professional quality and customer satisfaction
Further to ensure efficient and consistent workflows in core system, SimCorp Dimension
- Assuring and validating Market Data, daily and periodically for Danica Funds (Bloomberg)
- Daily controlling and validation of Corporate Actions
- Participating in the lifecycle of funds (launch of new funds, new share classes, but also deactivation of share
classes, liquidation etc.
- Working actively and proactively on constantly improving the overall Operational Control environment
within SimCorp Dimension, optimization of processes/controls and constant mitigation of Operational Risk
- Identification, measurement and management of Operational Risks


2015-2017
Controller, Danica Pension, Wealth Management, Danske Bank, Lyngby, Denmark
(NAV teams merged within Wealth Management by August 2017)
- Working in NAV-team, which has the responsibility for the daily/timely NAV controlling & validation of all
Danica Pension’s investment funds
- Ensure efficient and consistent workflows in core system, SimCorp Dimension
- Timely and accurate controlling and validation of NAV, market data and Corporate Actions
- Assuring and validating Market Data, daily and periodically (Bloomberg)
- Daily supervision of SimCorp Compliance Manager: taking action on alerts when limits/lines are breached and making sure that these carefully documented (for future audit)
- Creating/modifying compliance rules in the Compliance Manager in accordance with investment guidelines
- Responsible for testing all patch and all system upgrades of SimCorp Dimension
- Identification, measurement and management of Operational Risks
- Assisting management with closing/documentation of Internal Audit Remarks concerning complex Fund
Operation Issues
- Working actively and proactively on constantly improving the overall Operational Control environment


2012-2015
Investment Controller, Middle Office, Operations, Nykredit Asset Management, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Part of team (NAV-team), which has the responsibility of daily/timely controlling & validation of more than
700 daily Net Asset Values (NAV) of 325 investment funds listed on NASDAQ OMX
- Timely and accurate controlling and validation of Net Asset Values and market data
- Working actively and proactively on constantly improving the overall operational control environment
- Identification, measurement and management of Operational Risks
- Validation of financial transactions, corporate actions and the static data of securities
- Assuring and validating security values, daily and periodically (Bloomberg/Reuters)
- Responsible for testing all patch and all system upgrades of SimCorp Dimension
- Assisting management and reconciliation department with Internal/External Audits
- Part of complete SimCorp Dimension implementation project (Front, Middle & Back Office)

2010-2012
Business Controller, BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Local head coordinator of implementing and testing controls in accordance with BNP Paribas Group Guidelines
- Definition and implementation of the Branch internal control framework, in line with Group guidelines and
Policies
- Identification, measurement and management of operational risks
- Internal Audit recommendations implementation follow-up
- Maintenance of the Branch business continuity plan (BCP)
- Local management of central / local IT systems deployment projects
- Maintenance of IT systems and reports locally setup, i.e. parameterization coordination and implementation of new functionalities
- IT systems end users’ functional support and training
- Definition and maintenance of access rights


2006-2010 Financial Controller, Ejendomsinvest A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
 Controlling of quarterly reports from adminstrators for Scandinavian property companies
 Preparing yearly budgets in close cooperation with administrators and Account Managers
 Preparing annual reports for auditing
 Liquidity planning and controlling of budget deviations
 Assisting with optimizing loan structure for property companies and simulating new loan structure in budgets
 Assisting Account Managers in preparing and holding yearly general assembly for property companies


2004-2006
Business Controller, Citibank International Plc., Copenhagen, Denmark
- Managing implementation of Citigroup Self Assessment Reporting System
- Local head coordinator of implementing and testing controls in accordance with Citigroup Global Policies
- Coaching departments with implementing/improving controls and testing these
- Managing and reporting identified business issues and plan for correcting these with involved
department managers
- Coordinator for the Branch’s emergency backup planning, safety & security and vendor management.
-Assisting CFO with IFRS compliance
- Branch’s backup compliance officer


2001-2004
Auditor, Deloitte, Copenhagen, Denmark
-Auditing international and C20 companies
- Inspecting clients financial records, compiling and analyzing data and preparing detailed accounting reports and resolving accounting research issues
- Performance of accountings of complex areas of clients balance sheets and income statements
- Oversee the completion of clients annual reports and interact with clients on a regular basis to discuss field audit issues
- Building long-term relationships with clients. Key contact for clients and responsible for the
coordination of all client related services and queries
- Gained good knowledge of IFRS


1999-2001
Corporate Finance Analyst, Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Banking, Copenhagen.
(Copenhagen Office closed in 2001)
- Corporate Finance: Worked together with Nordic Corporate Finance Team/Asset Based Finance Team on
opportunities in the Danish/Nordic market
- Worked one month for Asset Based Finance team and Credit Analysis Department in Stockholm
-Worked one month for Corporate Finance Department in Paris
- Completed 4 week Corporate Finance Training Course in London


Education:
October 2023 PRINCE2 Foundation & Practioner Certification, The Knowledge Academy, Luxembourg
-Aquired in-depth knowledge about Prince2 principles, themes and processes.
-Aquired in-depth knowledge on how to apply PRINCE2 principles and themes throughout the project.
-Learned how to structure and manage projects using the PRINCE2 methodology.
-Gained in-depth knowledge of tailoring PRINCE2 Practices to diverse project contexts.
-Learned how to create robust business cases and align projects with the goals.
- Became familiar with designing and managing project plans efficiently and effectively.

October 2023 Scrum Master Certification, The Knowledge Academy, Luxembourg
Learned how become an efficient Scrum Master, Product Owner or Developer.
- Enhanced awareness of the Scrum framework in order to boost productivity.
- Aquired in-depth knowledge on how to understand Scrum values, practices, and applications to lead Scrum
teams.
-Learned how to introduce the Scrum framework into an organization to ameliorate the operational capacity of the project.


1997-1998 MBA in International Management, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California
- 12 months MBA program, in general international management
- Core Courses: Entrepreneurial Finance, International Finance, IT, International Organizational Behavior, Global
Business Strategies, International Company Law and Tax Planning, Business English Writing, Public Speaking,
Managing Entrepreneurial Businesses, Business Plan (one semester with development of International Business
Plan with international MBA team)
- Developed skills in: working independently as well as in teams with internationals, financial modeling, business
planning, presentations/public speaking
MBA Internship, Prudential Securities Inc., Carmel, California
- Achieved experience with financial advising/financial products/sales promoting activities
MBA Internship, Strategic Finance Group LLP, Monterey, California
- Developed business plans and cash-flow analysis for the purpose of acquiring
bank/venture-capital for small and mid-sized companies
- Developed skills in financial modeling and business planning

1996-1999 Master of Science in Finance & Accounting, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Core courses: Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Derivatives (Options, futures ect.), International Financial
Markets and Banking, Corporate Finance, Portfolio Theory, Managing Financial Institutions, Finance and
Company law
Thesis: ‘Overreaction Hyphothesis on Oslo Stock Exchange’
Summer semester 1996 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Course: ‘Financial Institutions & Markets’

1993-1996 B. Sc. in Business Administration, Southern Denmark Business School, Kolding, Denmark
Fall semester 1995  Exchange student at University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, England
Spring semester 1996  Wrote bachelor degree thesis for Arla Foods Plc., Leeds, England
Thesis: ‘Activity Based Costing & Customer Account Profitability in Arla Foods Plc.’
1992-1993 National Service, Motorized Infantry, Slesvigske Regiment, Haderslev, Denmark
1989-1992 Hasseris Gymnasium, Aalborg, Denmark
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Languages:
Danish: mother tongue Swedish: fluent English: fluent German: fluent French: intermediate
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IT:
Programs: MS Excel & MS Access: Superuser
Systems: Simcorp Dimension, GP3, Bloomberg, Efront, Portman, Reuters, SQL, Framework
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Interests: Travelling and sailing