Co-head of Apac Dec Clearing It/ba

In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas is one of the best-positioned international financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence since 1860. Currently with over 18,000 employees* and a presence in 13 markets, BNP Paribas provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.

Worldwide, BNP Paribas has a presence in 68 markets with more than 193,000 employees. It has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. Asia Pacific is a key strategic region for BNP Paribas and it continues to develop its franchise in the region.
- excluding partnerships

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**MAIN OBJECTIVES & PURPOSE**:
The Co-Head of APAC DEC clearing IT manages changes requested from the Listed derivatives execution and clearing department for APAC or driven by the listed derivatives business.

**CUSTOMER/SUPPLIER RELATIONS**:
Internal:
Chennai, Singapore, KOP, Paris, United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

**KEY RESULTS AREAS**:

- Co-Head of APAC IT DEC clearing (9 employees)
- Manage the DEC clearing IT team locally in Singapore (3 employees) and liaise closely with the other Co-Head in Chennai (6 employees),
- Entry point for all DEC Clearing IT related matters for APAC
- Ensure the analysis and delivery of all APAC IT projects for DEC (Singapore and Mumbai hubs)
- Monitor the IT DEC budget for APAC
- Analyse and write specifications for all change requests
- Review Design Plans and all Change Requests, and raise any concern (if any) to ensure that the change request is properly and fully understood.
- Guarantee that target solution fully covers and support request’s sponsors.
- Create and manage associated change and developments requests (tickets entire lifecycle).
- For all Change Requests, manage the detailed analysis, and write detailed functional specifications taking into account technical features (database model, technical architecture guidelines,) to be given to IT team (Tech lead / DEV / APS), or to be sent to the vendor for quotation. Guarantee as well the scheduling and implementation.
- Transform all Design Plans and Change Requests in an exhaustive list of technical / non-functional requirements in accordance with DEC IS norms & standards.
- Consult and involve Application / Technical Architect in order to validate consistency of the target solution and accordance with guidelines.
- Ensure Quality Assurance and usage of CMMi practices (coordination with AQF): practices related to change management lifecycle (Booster deliverables, Clarity usage,).
- Implement changes in relation with the Change Management and DEV teams, or any other external team.
- Contribute to implementation cost definition, in coordination with the Process Design function and Development team.
- Communicate to Project Monitoring function about progress, issues, any event that could have an impact on the delivery process and planning (including changes of original scope or needs).
- Communicate to the Process Design function the details of enhancements related to any change request.
- Lead Project Committees on major on-going changes.
- Guarantee user testing phase: test plan definition and preparation (testing needs, test cases, testing environment parameters and scope), manage testing environments (every parameters except pure hardware pieces, deal with external providers including IPS, prepare and anticipate the needs), plan testing activities, execute and coordinate with all stakeholders (Ops, Client Service, Clients, Markets, Regulators,), defect monitoring and management, UAT sign off (deliver formal assessment).
- Ensure the post go live support on all change requests.
- Contribute to functional Support level 2 (complex issues, BAU set up to be re-visited and changed, end user training and assistance on new projects, t