About Davy
At Natixis, my role as a Summit Business Analyst in the Front Office revolves around ensuring seamless technical and functional support for our trading operations. Adept in Unix, integration, and shell scripting, I have refined these skills to enhance real-time issue resolution and data accuracy for critical financial activities such as hedges, stress tests, and PnL calculations.
My journey has been marked by a commitment to process improvement and security, where I actively manage user rights and procedures, while training new traders to competently navigate our complex systems. The synthesis of my technical acumen with a deep understanding of financial products positions me as a key enabler of Natixis operational excellence.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Portuguese
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Conversational
Can work on-site
Châtillon (up to 50km)
Experience
- Natixis Corporate & Investment BankingTECHNICAL AND FUNCTIONNAL SUPPORT ANALYST – SUMMIT FTOctober 2021 - September 2024 (2 years and 11 months)Paris, FranceKey Responsabiliities:
- Provide real-time functional support to traders and sales teams across front-to-back systems
- Investigate and resolve valuation discrepancies and data quality issues (P&L, hedging, stress testing)
- Analyze and solve integration issues with internal and external systems (e.g., Murex, MarkitWire)
- Support Summit FT: analyze issues, reproduce bugs, and escalate to vendor or internal teams (via Jira)
- Conduct onboarding and training for new traders and sales staff
- Handle trade compression using TriOptima
- Participate to on-call rotations for critical production support
Process and Systems Management:- Manage user access rights across trading platforms and ensure alignment with compliance standards
- Evaluate the technical and functional feasibility of new solutions, including human effort estimation
- Write and maintain procedures and documentation in Confluence
- Monitor and validate results for hedging, stress testing, and P&L calculations
- Implement improvements and increase security across key business processes (e.g., reporting, risk metricsTest)
- Diagnose and resolve technical and functional incidents across the trading lifecycle
Projects & Key Initiatives:- Lead the Firedrill simulation with LCH to test business continuity in the event of a systemic bank failure
- Contribute to the migration of key business modules from Sybase to Oracle database (fixes, reporting, curves, TriOptima)
Environments:- Functional: P&L, Hedging, Stress Testing, Fixings, Trade Lifecycle OperationsTest
- Technical: MS SQL Server, Control-M, CFT, Elasticsearch
- Crédit Agricole CIBTECHNICAL AND FUNCTIONNAL SUPPORT ANALYST – ORCHESTRADEJuly 2019 - February 2021 (1 year and 7 months)Montrouge, FranceKey Responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day technical and functional support for Orchestrade's risk platform
- Monitor and ensured smooth execution of daily operational processes
- Configure new risk indicators in collaboration with risk management and business monitoring teams
- Produce risk metrics including sensitivities, P&L, Stress Tests, VaR, and SVaR for users and consuming applications
- Investigate and resolve functional issues such as unexpected deviations, missing market data, incomplete pricing configurations, missing calculations, incorrect consolidated results, and automatic report generation errors
- Diagnose and escalate technical issues affecting system stability and performance
- Collect and analyze enhancement and bug-fix requests from project teams, tracked via TFS
- Deliver on-demand operational business reports
Market Data Management:- Manage the importation and quality control of market data including quotes, curve building, and volatility surfaces
- Support a wide range of instruments: interest rates, credit, FX, inflation, equity, bond prices, and futures contracts
Automation & Support:- Maintain, create, and correct automated jobs and tasks in Control-M
- Participate to on-call rotations (every 1–2 weeks) to ensure production stability outside business hours
Environments:- Functional: P&L, Stress Testing, VaR, HVaR, SVaR, Fixings, Trade Lifecycle
- Technical: MS SQL Server, Control-M, CFT
- Natixis Corporate & Investment BankingTECHNICAL SUPPORT ANALYST – SUMMIT FTAugust 2016 - June 2019 (2 years and 10 months)Paris Area, FranceKey Responsibilities:
- Provide technical support for application services, with a focus on the Summit FT platform
- Industrialize and maintain the Summit FT application across production and non-production environments
- Support business and IT teams in managing and enhancing application services
- Continuously improve system reliability, performance, and exploitability while ensuring compliance with internal standards
- Oversee deployment of technical and functional changes in production, pre-production, and qualification environments
- Conduct functional impact analysis and non-regression testing for all deployments
- Work in a Front Office environment requiring deep understanding of business processes and functional constraints
- Develop and maintain scripts under Unix and Windows environments
- Participate to on-call rotations (every 1–2 months) to support critical systems
Project Responsibilities:- Manage deployment and testing of the Firedrill exercise with LCH (simulation of a systemic bank failure)
- Lead the production implementation of the Puriphi solution (by Phi Partners) for deal cleaning and archiving
- Involved in the execution and testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
- Apply DevOps best practices using XL Deploy for environment consistency and automation
Environments:- Functional: Summit FT, Datasynapse, GigaSpaces, Front/Middle Office, Interest Rate & Credit Derivatives, FX, Securities/Markets, P&L, Hedging, Market Data Feeds, Fixings, Trade Lifecycle
- Technical: Sybase 15, Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, Solaris 10/11, Red Hat, Windows, Perl/SQL, Shell scripting, Control-M, Apache Tomcat, CFT
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Education
- MARTER’S DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCEEPITECH - European Institute of Technology2008
- ASOCIATE DEGREE IN COMPUTER HIGHER TECHNICIAN CERTIFICATIONLycée Paul Cornu, France, Lisieux2005