Imane Essrifi
Verified Expert in Engineering
Enterprise Architect and Developer
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.
Portfolio
Experience
- Architecture - 10 years
- ETL - 7 years
- APIs - 7 years
- Oracle EBS General Ledger - 3 years
- Oracle Fusion Analytics - 2 years
- Oracle Cloud - 2 years
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) - 1 year
- Development - 1 year
Availability
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
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.
Business Intelligence Architect
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.
Business Architect
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.
Business Architect
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.
Business Architect
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.
Business Architect
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.
Trader
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.
Experience
Finance Compliance Project | Enterprise Architecture
• 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
National Bank Financials / Black Diamond Implementation
Citi Bank | Segregation of US and CA Operations
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business and Finance
UQAM's School of Management (ESG UQAM) - Montreal, Canada
Certifications
TOGAF
The Open Group
Oxford Fintech Program
Said Business School, University of Oxford
Comprehensive Business Analysis
McGill University, School of Continuing Studies
Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate
McGill Executive Institute
Skills
Tools
Oracle EBS General Ledger, Bloomberg, Markit EDM, Visio, Murex
Storage
Oracle Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redshift
Paradigms
Agile, Management, ETL
Languages
Snowflake, SAS
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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