Steffan Markus Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, Capital Region Of Denmark, Denmark

IT Application Specialist, Principal at Danske BankPredominantly been test manager of the upgrade of SimCorp One from version 23.01 to 24.04.• Going through all the Release notes, mapping users to test groups, ensuring that the static testing and the dynamic testing could be performed, being single-point-of-contact for the business users, ensuring the state of the testing environments, and ensuring the quality of the test cases in Jira. Legal framework:• Created and gotten approved the Service Recovery Plan, Service Impact Assessment and Exit plan for the following SimCorp One cloud-based solutions:Asset Service Hub and Investment Analytics Platform.• Implementation of the Quality Assurance Instruction (mandatory by the Danish FSA). Analysis:• Pre-analysis of the sunsetting of the following instrument types in SimCorp One:CD, CMO, Commitments, CP, Equity swap, Facility, Floating rate deposits, FRA, FX NDF, FX spot, Loan, Reduced face value bond, Swaption, and Synthetic bond. ESG• Have completed the three Danske Bank’s certificates for Sustainable Unlocked - ESG

Farum, Capital Region Of Denmark, Denmark

Day-to-day maintenance and reconciliations, my work has mainly consisted of helping the business on using the functionalities in SimCorp One, sparring with colleagues, and troubleshooting regarding reconciliation of G/L, bank accounts and swaps.Lately I have been working with the Alternative Investment Manager for handling a solution for illiquid credit.This decision was based on factors as, the ability to design the layout of the Alternative Investment Manager, using the Document Processing, and the flexibility of loading information into the Flexform – Flexform is a user-defined xml-based storages which works for the Alternative Investment Manager, the Asset Manager, and the Compliance Manager. Builds:• Material for the annual financial statement.• Set up for Illiquid credit as an Alternative Investment.• Price control for Alternative Investments.• Control of gain/loss on a day-to-day basis.• Trade control of swaps (based on comparison with shocked prices).• Converting controls from MS Excel to SimCorp Dimension General Reconciliation. Gained knowledge of the following systems and functions:• SWIFT, Uncleared Margin Rules (incl. Initial Margin and Margin Manager in SimCorp Dimension), MarkitServ (DDTC and Markitwire), Acadia, Variation swaps, Collateral, Solvency II, and SSI. Day-to-day work:• Troubleshooting, Sparring, and helping colleagues.• Pledging collateral, checking, and updating SSI & settlement defaults.• Investigating issue with valuation of swaps.• Closing of Alternative Investments.• Investigation of accounting values, market value and reconciliation breaches. Alternative Investments (ALTS):• ALTS Manager including TPT -, Look-Through -, Market - and Static data.• Capital calls and Distributions. Document processing from Alkymi.• Flexible events and - balances.• Data import, - rules, - mapping.• Flexform – for storing TPT data.

Worked in the following areas:• ABOR (Accounting & Funds Administration), Settlement and Customer Service (Back Office).In these countries:• Denmark; Finland; Luxembourg, Singapore and Thailand.With assignments regarding:• Analysis & Design of ABOR solution (Dec 2020 - Jan 2021) – for two nationalbanks in Asia (remotely).• Analysis & Design (Dec 2018 - May 2019) and Implementation, as stream lead, of ABOR (Jun 2019 - Jan 2021) for investment holding co. in Singapore.• Implementation of ABOR for a National Bank (Jun 2018 - Nov 2018).• Implementation of Pool Funds (Sep 2017 - Apr 2018).• Implementation of MultiClass funds (Aug 2016 - Apr 2017; Apr 2017 – Jun 2017).• Implementation of FAP/FAM; Finance Schemes & Account Assignments (Sep 2017 - Apr 2018).• General Reconciliations (Jul 2014 - Mar 2015; May 2015 - Jan 2016; Dec 2015 - Mar 2016).• Fund merger (May 2015 - Jun 2015).• Fund Service Costs/Fees (Jul 2014 - Dec 2014).And tasks revolving:• Controls (using Alerts Inbox; Fund Scheme Validation Lines; General Reconciliation).• End-of-period adjustments; Financial Accounting Principles; Financial Accounting Methods; Internal General Ledger.• Fund Decomposition; Fund Definition (Asset & Liability Portfolio; Fund Calendars; Fund Event Group; G/L Event Setup; Portfolio Calculation); Fund Scheme (Fund Figure Booking Setup; Fund Figure Manual Values;Global Standards; Shadow NAV); Fund Service Costs/Fees accrual; settlement (Fixed fee; Percentage fee; Umbrella fees; Class fees; Multiclass fees; Postpaid; Prepaid fee; Service Cost Group; Performance fee (incl. High Water Mark; Index/Benchmark; Hurdle rate)); Fund Structure (Partnership -; Pool -; MultiClass -; Normal funds); FundSTP.• General Reconciliation (EMIR, General Ledger, Holdings and Securities).Certifications:• Back Office; Communication server; Data Extractor; Filter Tool Box; Financial Accounting & General Ledger; Fund Accounting.

• Design and development of NAV control for FIN-FSA in ACL and Lead auditor on the related statements.• Assessment of IT dev. model used by Danske Markets based on agile development and how the model ensures stakeholder requirements.• Audited processes where the following applications, systems and end-user tools have been used: Global Recon, IMaction, Omega CTM, SimCorp Dimension, StatPro, Summit and SuperFly.• Thorough audit knowledge of the following back office modules in SimCorp Dimension: Limit Monitor, Market Data Validation Rules and Fund STP.• Planning and performing audit procedures in order to obtain adequate audit comfort.• Understanding of the elements of the audited units’ value chain, and their interactions.• Using the Planning Matrix and ‘The 4 step approach' and assessment of inherent, control, detection and audit risk.• Ensuring compliance with the group's guidelines (e.g. segregation of duties and dependence on key personnel) and applicable law (e.g. Financial Business Act).• Understanding and auditing of audit assertions (e.g. occurrence, completeness, accuracy, accruals and classification) and standards (ISA).• Test (design, implementation and operating effectiveness) of controls (automated/manual and preventive/detective).• Audit of Service Level Agreements and Activity Based Costing. Results:Audits• Danica Pension: Danica Select, Fee Calculation, ‘Livsforsikringshensættelser’, Premiums and Payments.• Danske Bank: Future & Options, Intraday Clearing, NAV Control, Performance Measurement and Standing Orders.• Danske Capital: Business Support (Limit control, Static Data & Prices, Benchmark calculation, Fee/Rebate calculation and Fair Value), Alpha customers, Trade Processing, ‘Formueprognose‘, Finnish NAV process and Limit control of forex, options and futures trades.• Danske Markets: Summit and SuperFly.Statements• Trade Control (for Danish and for foreign customers), GIPS, NAV control of Finnish funds and PAL (pension tax).

• Development, maintenance and support of financial back-office system for asset management.• Responsible for the development, maintenance and support of ‘Kontoførende Porteføljer’ (business-critical module primarily for institutional clients).• Review of new contract and participation in the implementation of this.• Participation in the development and implementation of new working practices, procedures and processes to support our Service Level Agreement.• Review of business procedures and the implementation of these.• Establishing procedures and workflows for time and project management system.• Member of the external steering committee and the development of supplier material for these meetings.• Member of the internal steering committee.• Responsible for all development projects.• Project manager (incl. acceptance criteria, configuration management, testing and deployment).• Worked with Oracle's dev. tools, Forms and Reports, and databases.• Management of consultants and subcontractors.• Participation in the constitution of a national quality network.• Handbook for development standard. Results:• Project management of the several releases of INV/INVision.• Building and structuring installation procedure, automated testing and continuous integration.• Development of guidelines and tools for currency conversion of funds, tax free or taxable fund mergers.• Design and project management of STP (straight through processing) on dividends registration.• Development of integration between INVision and Statpro for decomposition of performance.• Renovation of the existing calculation engine (model and algorithm) for accounting and tax of financial instruments.• Construction of role templates for Quality Responsible and Release Manager, at various levels.• Statement of account ‘Nettokurstabskonto’ as a result of the Danish tax reform: Forårspakke 2.0.• Conversion of time and project management system, as well as version control system.

Denmark

• Training and coaching of employees and partners.• Preparation of budget, forecast and status reporting.• Consulting engineering and contractors, as well as giving instruction on construction sites.• Preparation and review of the use of our quality assurance system, installation instructions and working drawings.• Preparation of tenders, travel and meeting plans.• Responsible for all projects in Denmark.• Designed, developed and implemented project and customer database, quality assurance system, and photo and document management system. As well as the integration between them.• Purchasing and cooperation agreements.• Collecting and analyzing information regarding our competitors.• Developing and maintaining customer relationships.• Purchase and maintenance of IT equipment (software and hardware).• Designing of advertisements. Results (Engineer - Contractor):• CMC - Mini Metro, Ørestad (COWIconsult - Skanska Denmark).• Dandy, Russia (COWIconsult - Skanska Finland).• Oceanarium, Hirtshals (Viggo Folmer - NCC Denmark).• Cheese Dairy, Taulov (MA Project - Højgaard & Schultz).• Tuborg Nord, Hellerup (Ramboll and Birch & Krogboe - NCC Denmark).• Tunnel, National Bank (Leif Hansen - CG Jensen).• Tunnel, the Great Belt (COWIconsult - MT Group).