Imane Essrifi, Developer in Miami, FL, United States
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Imane Essrifi

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Enterprise Architect and Developer

Location
Miami, FL, United States
Toptal Member Since
August 18, 2023

Imane is an enterprise architect with more than 15 years of experience in wealth management as a trader, business analyst, and architect. She has worked on diverse projects and implemented Bloomberg for trading and compliance, anti-money laundering solutions for a network of brokers, and sustainability models within investment tools in one of Canada's most significant pension funds. With her vast enterprise experience, Imane will be a great addition to any team.

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Agile

The most amazing...

...thing I've implemented is a SAS calculator supported by an in-house data warehouse, voted the best SAS project worldwide.

Work Experience

Principal Business Architect

2018 - PRESENT
Intact
  • Led a team of 30 business analysts that provided requirements and designed a data warehouse fed from 20 different source systems under 12 months.
  • Headed design decision meetings with five senior VPs and provided group consolidation recommendations that fast-tracked the delivery of the program by six months.
  • Spearheaded reporting stream delivery of 450 reports to ten finance teams.
  • Led solution design workshops and presented all solutions to solution design committees to get sponsors' approvals.
Technologies: Snowflake, SAS, SaaS, APIs, ETL, Oracle

Business Intelligence Architect

2018 - 2018
Citi
  • Assessed the organization's context and provided multiple views that informed critical decisions.
  • Performed an impact assessment of processes and implemented mitigation strategies.
  • Managed communications with key IT and business stakeholders.
  • Headed integration strategies and guided program plans.
Technologies: Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Business Architect

2017 - 2018
Laurentian Bank Securities
  • Implemented an onboarding solution that combines compliance requirements from the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization (IIROC), Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Common Reporting Standard (CRS), and qualified intermediary (QI).
  • Identified business needs, documented requirements, and designed solutions in collaboration with IT and business teams.
  • Implemented business processes in collaboration with stakeholders.
Technologies: SAP CRM

Business Architect

2016 - 2017
Desjardins Group
  • Implemented business processes for anti-money laundering, including watch list filtering, due diligence, and enhanced due diligence.
  • Identified business and system requirements and documented dependencies and constraints.
  • Managed stakeholders and led change management workshops.
Technologies: Actimize, Visio

Business Architect

2015 - 2015
PSP Investments
  • Assessed the impact of deploying a new trading platform on existing processes.
  • Supervised data mapping for complex derivative products such as OTC derivatives.
  • Gathered audit and compliance groups' requirements and assessed their impact on the project.
  • Implemented data management within an enterprise service bus (ESB) for the new platform.
Technologies: Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Bloomberg, Markit EDM

Business Architect

2014 - 2014
National Bank of Canada
  • Delivered an integrated business architecture for 11 business units sharing the same client management, portfolio management, and reporting capabilities.
  • Provided strategic roadmaps for an anti-money laundering solution across all business units.
  • Performed process assessment and design and led target process definition workshops.
Technologies: Salesforce, Development

Trader

2002 - 2007
National Bank of Canada
  • Engaged in equity and derivatives transactions and offered guidance on portfolio composition and asset allocation to mutual funds and bondholders.
  • Performed market analysis and addressed clients' inquiries.
  • Monitored market events continuously and followed up on them.
Technologies: Bloomberg, Murex, MSCI

Finance Compliance Project | Enterprise Architecture

Implementation of a new financial ecosystem, including a Snowflake data warehouse, IFRS 17 calculator, ERP, and reporting with a budget of over $200 million. As the enterprise and business architect for the program, my tasks included:

• Establishing the design and data teams that delivered an Enterprise Data warehouse (30 BAs)
• Led design decision workshops and presented recommendations to the Solution Design Committee.
• Facilitated successful design decisions for critical components of the program, i.e., consolidation and reporting.
• Established a reporting strategy for key stakeholders and recommended solutions.
• Built a reporting roadmap that considered dependencies with other significant initiatives at the enterprise level.

Laurentian Bank Securities | Compliance for a Network of Brokers

Implementation of an onboarding solution that combines IIROC, FATCA, CRS, and QI compliance requirements. I implemented business processes in collaboration with stakeholders. Also, I identified business needs, documented requirements, and designed solutions in collaboration with IT and business teams.

National Bank Financials / Black Diamond Implementation

In this project, a Black Diamond software implementation was undertaken to streamline and enhance the operations of a network of financial brokers. The project aimed to provide a comprehensive wealth management solution that would enable brokers to manage client portfolios efficiently, offer personalized financial advice and deliver top-tier service. I delivered business architecture, data migration strategies, and integrations with other systems, such as Salesforce.

Citi Bank | Segregation of US and CA Operations

Citi Bank divested a segment of its operations in Canada to a consortium of private investors. The designated project team has been granted a timeframe of 6 months to construct fresh infrastructure and seamlessly transfer all pertinent data and reports to the new entity's (Fairstone) infrastructure. Within this context, I delivered a comprehensive business architecture for a data lake and cutting-edge reporting tools.
2008 - 2010

Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business and Finance

UQAM's School of Management (ESG UQAM) - Montreal, Canada

AUGUST 2023 - PRESENT

TOGAF

The Open Group

FEBRUARY 2018 - PRESENT

Oxford Fintech Program

Said Business School, University of Oxford

JUNE 2015 - PRESENT

Comprehensive Business Analysis

McGill University, School of Continuing Studies

SEPTEMBER 2013 - PRESENT

Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate

McGill Executive Institute

Tools

Oracle EBS General Ledger, Bloomberg, Markit EDM, Visio, Murex

Storage

Oracle Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redshift

Languages

Snowflake, SAS

Paradigms

Agile, Management, ETL

Platforms

Salesforce, Oracle

Other

Oracle Fusion Analytics, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), SaaS, Architecture, Development, APIs, Oracle BI, SAP CRM, Actimize, Fintech, Process Improvement, Business Analysis, Business, Finance, MSCI, Business Administration, Enterprise Architecture

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