Kimes B Daya

Data Management Analyst - IB Technology

• Planned and executed a Proof Of Concept of the centralized data warehouse solving the Data Governance Framework for Investment Banking Technology.
• Lead a cross skilled team through the Sourcing -> Standardizing -> Provisioning of source data for financial and MI reporting.
• Conducted internal research of Centralized Group data standards and policies, tailored these standards to Business Unit specific requirements.
• Drove the formation of the Data Management Forum in Investment Banking which defined and accounted for the change management in Data Ownership, Data Target Operating Model and Data Governance adoption.

System Analysis - LIBOR Reform

• Conducted literature and system reviews to adhere to international market benchmark interest rates.
• Reviewed and evaluated manual and system test results to suggest system implementation plans.
• Collaborated closely with senior stakeholders to drive strategy through development and implementation of new processes.

Product Owner - Market Information Provider RFP

• Presented business leaders with cost-benefit estimations to drive project planning and execution.
• Improved business operations by optimizing data integration to business processes.
• Drove implementation of FactSet Market Research Data software to automate office operations.
• Analyzed 4 competing Market Research Data providers to optimize cost, data and future business and data strategies.

Product Owner - Coverage Ratio Dashboard

• Drove the digitization of manual excel based spreadsheet to a daily automated Power BI dashboard.
• Mitigated data audit findings of data inconsistency, access management and best practice.
• Distributed vetted client reports to improve coverage and liquidity.

Data Source Analysts - Bloomberg BPIPE

• Conducted System comparisons and gap analysis to create implementation plan and timeline.
• Intensely analyzed and tested data outputs to ensure data and business continuity.
• Effectively integrated new source system for daily pricing and rate information which is standardized across all business units.

Centralized Data Warehouse and Master Data Reference Store

• Lead 3 decentralized Agile teams across Africa, Asia and Europe towards a common end purpose of Warehouse overhaul and re-platforming.
• Owned and prioritized product backlog.
• Allocated and approved team resource usage.
• Drafted integration plans to ease assimilation of services into customers' business infrastructure.
• Formed the New Product Forum to coordinate support prioritize responses to customer issues, verifying closure of concerns and correction of deficiencies.

Data Quality Dashboard

• Coordinated with software developers to create custom dashboard and trackers to visualize daily data quality issues.
• Formed Data Quality Forum to own and drive the resolution of data quality issues across Corporate and Investment Banking.
• Lead a team of Process Analyst to cluster data issues and analyze the root cause to data issues and recommend business or system process improvements.

CIB Africa Front Arena and Sub-Ledger Implementation

• Analyzed key aspects of Front Office, Finance and Credit businesses to evaluate accounting, business and country specific rules for a multi currency Sub-Ledger which was implemented across 12 countries.
• Integrated the sub-ledger to core banking trading and financial systems for daily allocation of trades and pricing models.
• Instituted daily data completeness and accuracy checks between Front, Middle and Back Office business areas on trade count, cash positions and GL postings.
• Created weekly tracking matrix to simplify the delivery of each country and to report progress to senior management and program lead.
• Produced comprehensive training documentation with accompanying process diagrams and troubleshooting models

Process analyst for a data warehousing project at ABSA Capital. Responsible for system data flow diagram, defining data conformance and standardization rules and system schedule design of 15 data sources.