
iulia balba
Senior Business Analyst | Market Data
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Paris, France
Freelance
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About me
Intro
Senior Business Analyst with 15+ years of expertise in market data and financial systems across top-tier institutions like BNP Paribas, Natixis, and Caisse des Dépôts. Specialized in regulatory compliance (FATCA, EMIR, Volcker), platform migrations, and data quality optimization for multi-million dollar trading systems. I deliver end-to-end solutions that enhance pricing accuracy and operational efficiency for financial services clients.
Work experience
Lead stream referentiel Projet - Murex Market Data and Static Data
Groupe Caisse des Dépôts
Nov 2020 - Jan 2025
4 years 3 months
Skills: Finance
Senior Business Analyst
BNP Paribas Securities Services
Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
2 years 6 months
Paris Area, France
Migration of two international referenced clients on Dimension platform - Market Data coverage and quality analysis for reproducing and improving the assets pricing quality (Bloomberg, ICE, Reuters) - creating a process for pricing the fixed income, futures, options and equities in the perimeter - end to end testing - model validation and quality check
Senior Business Analyst
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
2 years 1 month
Paris Area, France
Asset Management - DSI - Engineering Team - Third party referential Managing all the projects and regulations for foreign accounts US (FATCA) and non US (AEOI): FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) AEOI (Automatic Exchange Of Information) Volcker Rule Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act HIRE Act 871(m) - IRS EMIR regulation (European Market Infrastructure Regulation) ESA2010 (European System of Accounts) MMSR (Money Market Statistical Reporting) - design and implement the new projects to improve the main platform that feeds data to 20 other platforms - create business requirement description for all new projects - design, implement and validate new test scenarios before implementation in production - provide training for Natixis NY branch
Senior Business Analyst (Market Data)
BNP Paribas Securities Services
Dec 2011 - Dec 2015
4 years 1 month
Paris Area, France
Market Data Business Analyst for Asset Fund Administration Services - Engineering Team -Provide quotes and obtain business authorisation for all new service requests - Validate processes in order to provide all the instruments prices for the calculation of the Net Asset Value -Evaluate and recommend products and services to meet user requirements, including manage demos and trials of new products/services of interest. -Procure all new services and meet any contractual requirements - Market Data cost reviews from all data providers: Bloomberg, Reuters, Six Financial, Markit, Interactive Data -Establish contractual obligations, note financial implications i.e. impact to other users / business and action removals as required -Ensure database is updated in time to record any changes including cancellations, additional costs, new contracts/renewal costs. -Design and implement and validate test plans for all the new projects -Testing new development scenarios -Creating Business Requirement Decription for new projects (BRD) -Improving the quality of prices for the clients, from different providers -Coordinate with outside data processing vendors -Implement new provider feeds for the trading platform in order to satisfy client's requests for all the instrument types : stocks, bonds, ucits, futures, options, rights/warrants on all pricing points: intraday/end of day
Market Data Analyst
FlexTrade
Sep 2009 - Oct 2011
2 years 2 months
Paris Area, France
Traderforce provides the financial community with a complete suite of on-demand solutions, including electronic trading services, market data and risk management in a single platform. It is owned by FlexTrade Systems,the industry pioneer and leader which introduced the first broker-neutral algorithmic platform fully controllable and customisable by the end-user. - Provided client support services from client request qualification and analysis to resolution - Tested new releases, integrations, and bug fixes and provided functional and client follow-up - Managed client support requests across internal R&D, IT, Sales and Support teams as well as Data Providers (Interactive Data, Morningstar, Infinancials, Bloomberg) - Support and Market Data
Education
David o'Gilvy - University of Politics and Economic Studies
Master's degree
2008 - 2010
2 years 1 month
Academy of Economic Studies
Bachelor of Economics
2004 - 2008
4 years 1 month