Roger Dacombe Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Stakeholder management, writing business cases for change, data modelling, trader support (P&L calculations, risk management), instrument static data classifications, alignment with Risk, Compliance, Operations and Finance. Implementation of market data and regulatory feeds (e.g. Bloomberg DL, SFTR, Triparty), resolving support incidents, developing user stories, change tickets, support of product owner in prioritization of changes, and showing traders solutions developed.• Led an agency lending KYC development within a complex counterparty data system, organising technical meetings to overcome knowledge gaps, designing database models and messaging flows, overseeing development and testing, resulting in a successful implementation enabling the business’s first 360-degree view of 12,000 principal lenders.• Improved accuracy of tri-party allocation risk reporting (exposure risks to approx 29 billion EUR of assets) by correcting and standardising processing of agent bank data, agreeing protocols with Risk. Broke the problem down by agent bank, creating transformation maps to the target for each, and managed incremental releases into production to close priority audit issue and saving the cost of a lengthy user acceptance test.• Managed the testing of several major version upgrades to the Apex system, essential for maintaining the financing of the bank and covering over 70 interfaces to other internal and external market, financial, legal, regulatory, risk, settlement, and reporting systems. Authored general test strategy for the product, detailed test scripts, defined acceptance criteria, coordinated user and technical tests and obtained sign-off from all stakeholders, resulting in successful upgrades keeping the system up to date with the market.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Identified a 900,000 EUR annual saving as part of a migration to Apex Collateral by carrying out the initial functional gap analysis, cost and benefit analysis and assessment of the fit to the technology strategy for the use of Apex Collateral.• Conducted detailed analytical work on the migration of data, particularly the configuration and set up of Credit Support Agreement (CSA) agreements, margin type parameters, classification of assets into buckets for eligibility criteria, thresholds, concentration limits and developed SWIFT collateral messaging (e.g. MT527, MT569). • Set up the optimization parameters, understanding the business’s funding model and translating this into a cost matrix, scheduling optimization runs and diagnosing outcomes from the optimization.• Completed the build and migration using agile methods to live usage in 18 months, utilising sprints, planning meetings, backlog refinements, user reviews and retrospectives.• Worked with users on design and specification for a new WebUI for the system, to be provided by vendor, to improve usability.• Have taken an interest in AI topics, attending several BCS sponsored industry events and writing python code using neural networks as a hobby interest for checking test data.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Coordinated the migration of interest rate swap products from an in-house system to a third party supplied product (Summit Classic) within budget and timeframe by combining in-depth technical understanding and a collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement across the business.• Integral in the successful delivery of a FX integration test programme following the merger between of Commerzbank and Dresdner Klienwort. Developed excellent working relationships with project sponsors and leadership team to achieve aggressive deadlines whist mitigating any risk to the business.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Brought in to implement and manage the testing and implementations for an international equities settlement system. Built a complete regression test environment for repeated use in releases, using test automation tools (Winrunner, QuickTest Pro and Quality Center).• Developed business knowledge of share and funds trading, wrote business cases and requirements for changes to the system. Built up a QA team with 2 trainees and managed change control, defining entry and exit criteria for each stage. Spent a year in Frankfurt developing testing with Calypso. Responsible for creating and managing baseline test files, adapted Perl scripts for reconciliations, engineered test data files for Martini and Calypso, and took control of the technical set up of test environments.• Managed a project to upgrade the CREST Gateway at two data centres, operating at a higher level meeting representatives from external suppliers such as BT to negotiate service levels, and taking on admin and invoicing responsibilities.• Ran a project to improve front-to-back charges and commissions transparancy.• Led small development projects and managed large data migrations for roll-out of systems to international locations.• Used product and system knowledge to motivate others by providing big picture insight into changes. Identified risks with changes and directed testing accordingly.