Business Analyst, Financial & Energy Markets, CIIA Certified

Sebastien GODET is a Business Analyst at Amundi Asset Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (SUMARY)

DONG Energy, Copenhagen

Trading IT (since October 2011)

UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen

Financial Management and Administrative Center (January 2011- September 2011)

Amundi (ex Crédit Agricole Asset Managment), Paris

Investment System Team (2 years from Jan 2008)

Referential Team (2.5 years from Aug 2005 to Dec 2007)

ProCapital Securities Services, Paris

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (DETAILED)

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Unicef Supply Division, Copenhagen

Financial Management and Administrative Center

Unicef is mandated by the United Nation to advocate for the protection of children’s rights and contributes to basic education and gender equality across the world. Unicef today procures a range of products to support country programmes and respond to emergencies. Unicef has a presence in 162 countries and its main warehouse is located in Copenhagen, for most of the worldwide procurement of supplies and equipment (around $95 million).
  • Description of the team:

Our team supports the financial operations of Supply Division in Copenhagen, being reponsible for accounting, administration, budgetary and financial issues, including procurement services accounting.

  • My current responsabilities:

Business Process Analyst  (since January 2011)

>> Coordination of a business process review

To prepare the next implementation of IPSAS, the new accounting standard for public organisations, our team has to review the current processes that may be affected by these new standards. The processes correspond to the financial flows during the supply chain, from the accounting entries until the issuance of Statement of Account.
My main action is to work together with the business users to review the processes, to identify areas with potential IPSAS compliancy issue, and finally to develop new compliant procedures and workflows. Required changes will be then implemented in SAP by the IT department.
The typical issues are to determine the basis of calculation for expenses, the timing for revenue recognition, or how price and Forex reevaluation have to be managed.

>> Coordination of the project of roll-out of a new version of SAP

Together with the implementation of IPSAS, a new version of SAP will be rolled-out this year and will affect some of the current processes as well. Beside the process review, the migration of the system requires a strong effort to test the data and functionalities.
My main action is to work among the business users and the IT department in order to follow-up the data migration (data cleansing, definition of mapping rules, validation of migrated data), the testing (definition of test cases, testing, validation) and finally to contribute to the training sessions of the business users.

[Keywords: SAP, IPSAS, Supply Chain]

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Amundi (ex Crédit Agricole Asset Managment), Paris

Investment System Team (2 years from Jan 2008)

Amundi [Credit Agricole Asset Management before] has a strong tradition of internal software development for each of its departments, such as Trading, Asset Management, Financial and Extra-financial Analysis, Risk management, Middle & Back office etc.
The team is especially dedicated to Front Office users: Portfolio Managers and Traders. Our goal is to create powerful and reliable softwares that will respond to their needs, like trade processing or portfolio monitoring.
Our main actions are to specify the functionalities of new softwares together with our users, to plan and control the development done by the IT team and to train and support end users.

Business Analyst for Fixed Income Portfolio Managers (1,5 year)

These 3 functions are done simultaneously:

>> Responsible for the development of a new Portfolio Management System (PMS)

I am in charge of the development of the portfolio monitoring, its valuation and its securities, and to compute different kind of risk exposition on rate and credit axes. Portfolios can include standard fixed or floating rate bonds, funds, but also derivatives like futures, options, swaps, cds, itraxx etc./p>

>> Responsible for the pricing model of a Front-Office Referential of fixed income securities

My main action is to improve, together with the portfolio managers, the pricing method of the referential used in their PMS. Prices and risk indicators (yields, duration, sensitivity, spreads etc.) are computed on a daily basis for any kind of securities that have been bought by our users or included in their benchmarks. Once calculated, data are used to monitor the portfolio and to calculate its global risk indicators.

>> Responsible for the coordination of the development of the PMS and the Referential

The objective is to schedule the different actions required for the development of the PMS and the Referential improvements.
As project manager it is also my responsibility to lead monthly meetings with 20 people among Research team, IT team, Risk Management Team and Referential Team.

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[keywords: Project Coordination, Meeting leader, Portfolio Management System, PMS, Referential, Fixed Income, functional specifications]

Business Analyst for Sustainable and Responsible Investment Analysts (SRI) (0,5 year)

>> Project manager for a new software for SRI Analysts

My first mission within the team was to work with SRI Analysts, on a new system that would help them to compute SRI ratings. The required functions were a system capable of computing and monitoring SRI scores, based on an internal method.
The work included also the writing of functional specifications with the analysts, the initiation and the leading of the project, the coordination with the IT developer and the training of analysts.

>> Responsible for the implementation of a method to use SRI Ratings in Fixed Income Asset Management

My main task was to convert a SRI coverage of Equity issuers to a Fixed Income Issuers coverage.
The work included the specification of the algorithm to “propagate” ratings from equities to bonds, and the coordination with the IT developer for the implementation in the different PMS

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[keywords: SRI rating, Sustainable and Responsible Investment, Project manager, Project leading]


Amundi (ex Crédit Agricole Asset Managment), Paris

Referential Team (2.5 years from Aug 2005 to Dec 2007)

Amundi decided some years ago to have a unique referential of financial data that would be used by a maximum of departments, such as Asset Management, Risk Management and Middle & Back office. The main objective was to provide the company with the same financial data, with the best quality.
The team is responsible for the providing and the high-quality of referential data in the whole company. These data include static data (ratings, sectors etc.) or dynamic data (prices, risk indicators) for any kind of securities (equities, bonds, funds, derivatives etc.) and issuers. Indexes and benchmarks are also controlled and provided.

Project Manager (2 years)

>> Project manager of Referential projects

The main objective was to schedule the actions required for different projects, like the development of our Data Quality Controller software used to provide and control data, the implementation of new providers like Markit for CDS and ITraxx etc.
I initiated and constructed also an intranet (a wiki site) dedicated to the team, to easily provide information, documents and training supports.

>> Responsible for the daily data providing (Bloomberg, Moodys)

The objective was to provide our systems with financial data, to parameter every data flow in order to select the right information depending on the securities.

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[keywords : Bloomberg, Markit, Moodys, CDS, Itraxx, Wiki, data providing, provider]

Data Quality Administrator (0.5 year)

>> Responsible for the daily data controls

My main actions included to control data with a ruler on a daily basis, and to correct the possible mistakes from the providers (essentially Bloomberg). Dynamic and Static data were controlled for any kind of instruments.

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[keywords : Data control, Bloomberg]

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ProCapital Securities Services, Paris

ProCapital is a securities services provider offering flexible solutions to financial institutions: portfolio managers, private banks, banking networks, on-line banks and e-brokers.
This offer includes Negotiation – clearing, Legal / administrative account-keeping, custody of financial instruments, implementation of websites, for transactional or read-only use.

IT Project Assistant (6 month internship from Feb 2005 to Aug 2005)

>> Responsible for a survey to create a new Document Management System
The objective was to define a new system to provide on the fly financial documents for clients through the web. It included different kind of documents from administrative to legal to account-keeping documents.

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