International Projects

Crédit Agricole CIB, 18 months

Summary

Crédit Agricole CIB is the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the world’s n°11 bank measured by Tier One Capital (The Banker, July 2016). Within the “Etudes & Projets” International Coordination Finance Team (FIN-E&P), our mission was to help the 19 CA-CIB’s entities in the world to do their financial controls efficiently, locally plus at the group level. We must insure that their reportings met local regulatory exigences without spending too much ressources.

After working in the Financial team, I worked for a similar team : the International Coordination Operational Risks Team (OPC-ICO-NPM). This team insured the same functions as above, on an Operational Risk scope.

Mission

Creating tools to monitor each entity controls in order to :

  1. Detect controls not made correctly.
  2. Identify a pattern of time consuming controls.
  3. Optimise / Add / Delete controls made by entities to create faster and/or more compliant reportings.

Skills Used

  • Curiosity
  • Adaptability
  • Networking

Skills Learned

  • Stand Up meetings + asks prioritization (Agile Scrum Methodology)
  • Mastering Microsoft Excel (except VBA Macros)
  • Microsoft Access Databases

Solutions

In both teams I worked on creating automation tools to monitor controls faster. I created an Access Database tool in FIN’s team and a vectorial excel spreadshit in ICO’s one.

Used Tools

  • Microsoft Access / Excel / PowerPoint
  • SAP Business Object
  • Atlassian Jira