The Palais de la Bourse (Stock Exchange Palace) in Lyon, France was erected in 1862 at the epicenter of the silk trade from which the city thrived. Today it is still one of the most remarkable landmarks of the city.
Client: Multinational Corporate Treasury Operation
Requirement: Detailed analysis to support an end to end implementation plan commencing with the front office for a broad class of assets (Fixed Income, Equity, Credit, FX, Loans) initially deal capture, trading and risk, followed by operational processing, interface creation, accounting and integration with downstream systems.
Rationale: Introduction of new technology replacing / supplementing old legacy system and disparate spreadsheets with commercially available off the shelf vendor application.
Our Contribution: Project management and implementation along with client resources commencing with business and technical requirements from a front office through a back office perspective.
Approach: The implementation followed a standard SDLC approach with defining functional requirements from the Gap report items, technical specifications, test cases with expected and validated results, unit testing, development, quality assurance testing, user acceptance testing, deployment, parallel testing, deployment into production, and finally knowledge transfer.
Results: The project was implemented and rolled into production on time and budget based on the original project plan and continues to be used for end to end processing successfully.