
Nouara A
Senior Project Supervisor | Business Intelligence
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Project Supervisor & BI expert with 15+ years leading IT, finance, and HCM initiatives across major corporations. Currently managing Business Intelligence projects at Group IT, with proven success supervising teams at Cegid, ENGIE, and BNP Paribas. Specialized in program management, strategic account oversight, and delivering complex technical solutions on time and budget.
Work experience
Project Supervisor / BI
Freelance | Self-Employed
Jul 2024 - Present
2 years 4 months
Au sein de Group IT, éditeur de logiciels spécialisé dans le domaine de la Business Intelligence, ma mission consiste à superviser les projets qui me sont confiés et à garantir leur bonne exécution, dans le respect des délais, du budget et des objectifs fixés. Mes principales responsabilités : - Superviser les chefs de projet et leurs équipes, en coordonnant les actions pour assurer l’avancement des travaux dans les temps et le respect du budget. - Élaborer, suivre et évaluer les programmes et processus permettant d’atteindre les objectifs fixés. - Assurer la liaison entre les chefs de projet, les équipes, les clients et la direction afin de garantir la qualité des livrables. - Suivre l’avancement technique, la gestion financière et la conformité des projets. - Définir les plannings et jalons clés, établir et suivre les budgets, recommander des ajustements pour maintenir les projets sur la bonne voie. - Élaborer des plans alternatifs en cas d’écart ou de risque. - Présenter l’avancement et les résultats aux investisseurs, partenaires et à la direction. - Prendre des décisions stratégiques et assurer un leadership fort auprès des chefs de projet pour leur mise en œuvre. - Rencontrer régulièrement les clients et parties prenantes afin de rendre compte de la progression et de consolider la relation de confiance. - Concevoir des plans efficaces et rentables pour garantir la réussite des projets. - Identifier et gérer les risques afin d’éviter les retards ou atteintes à la réputation. - S’assurer de l’obtention des autorisations et documents légaux nécessaires. - Évaluer et valider les propositions de projets, et collaborer avec des prestataires externes lorsque requis. - Suivre les efforts planifiés versus réalisés et ajuster les ressources si nécessaire.
Cegid
Mar 2020 - Dec 2023
3 years 10 months
Paris, France
Program Director - Account Manager / HCM
Feb 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 11 months
Paris, France
At the heart of Professional Services and within the PREMIUM team, my role is to manage the relationship with strategic accounts that have subscribed to the PLATINUM service offer reserved for customers whose HRIS issues require reinforced support in RUN mode. As Program Director, I am in contact with demanding clients for whom the optimal use of the Talentsoft solution is at the heart of their HR strategy. For three clients (Orange, Groupama and Total Energies), I lead multidisciplinary teams with functional and technical profiles. Beyond the customer relationship and the animation of the operational system, I ensure the commitment of Cegid on the respect of the contractual SLAs and ensure that the HR schedule of the customer is respected. I am in charge of defining and defending the strategic vision defined between Cegid and clients in order to guarantee account retention and business development. Internally, I am the operational point of contact and responsible for the governance of my accounts with Cegid's management. Main missions : • Program management: animation of governance bodies (COPIL, contractual committees, etc.), risk management, contractual and financial management (issuance of purchase orders, compliance with the billing plan), monitoring of KPIs; • Coordination of internal Premium teams as well as other intervening teams; • Qualification of issues in collaboration with operational teams and escalation with relevant actors or cross-functional governance bodies; • Identification and activation of internal levers (eg CSM, Technical Support, RSSI…); • Development of the customer relationship with sales managers and BU management; • Contribute to the annual salary review campaign; • Participate in the execution of the CEGID strategic plan by developing Premium offers and their added value for customers
Product Manager / Finance & Tax
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
2 years 1 month
Paris, France
As Product Manager, my mission is part of the operational implementation of the strategy defined by Cegid Group, namely: - Define the Product offer of the Finance BU based on the market expectations and the value proposition defined with Product Marketing. - Supervise Delivery to ensure that it is the defined offer that will be delivered My main activities: - Build and diffuse the product vision, take in charge of the RoadMap evolution - Organize the production of Products Requirements associated to a product - Translate the product strategy into the prioritized Backlog and the development plan - Manage the steering bodies of the Product Delivery Plan - Ensure priority management of the Backlog (internal and external) - Give the Go to make a release available on the market - Supervise the Product Managers and Product Owners teams - Be the spokesperson for the product on the market - Participate in the construction of the value proposition and the Go To Market strategy (princing, focus in the year ...) - Support the sales forces (ex: demos) - Participate in the marketing actions of the year (communications, events)
Global Application Manager / Tax & Credit Risk
ENGIE Global energy management solutions
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
1 year 1 month
Région de Paris, France
1) Taxation - Group Tax Department - Administer the Taxation business applications: Optim'IS, Etafi, Digital Safe (> 400 users) - Control application operating rules (DRaaS, SLA), prepare test campaigns - Assist end users (accountants & tax specialists); expert support. - Take charge of the tax integration regime process (from preparation to analytical review). - Establish Country by Country Reporting (CbCR) from preparation to declaration to DGFip. (1600 companies worldwide) - Manage declarative, forecast, budgetary and tax closing campaigns (opening on Optim'IS, production and communication of package entry instructions, monitoring of progress (225 companies). - Manage the declaration of company closures in DC (2000 companies) - Maintain the doc. up-to-date in connection with the releases of evolutions & corrections - Prepare & manage the Client-Publisher contractual committees (Com ', meetings, follow-up of actions) - Manage the client-publisher relationship (contract, CVC, com '...), as well as with Subsidiaries and partners - Prepare and animate internal meetings - Manage the migration project from the current application (SaaS) to the new solution (Full Web): Project framing, estimation, planning, budget, contract, meetings, client-publisher mini-committees. 2) Tax Risks - Corporate - Administer the Phenix application - SalesForce (international) - Prepare and manage campaigns on tax risks (opening, monitoring, support -26 BUs) - Validate the recipe, Follow-up of publisher services - Assist users (Tax managers, BUs managers - 40 users) 3) Credit Risks - Risk Department - Administer the Fact-ECR (Engie Credit Rating) application - Validate quotes and specs. functional - Participate in the recipe, Follow the incidents - Manage the relationship with the publisher (com ', contract, incidents, SLA), BUs - World
Senior IT Business Analyst / Investment Compliance
BNP Paribas Asset Management
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
1 year 7 months
Région de Paris, France
As part of the regulatory and statutory controls of funds managed by BNPP Investment Partners, and within the Investment Compliance MOE / MOA team; - Participate in the corrective and evolutionary maintenance of the software package used by the company - Provide support for the various application interfaces - Gather business needs, and write specifications for development teams. - Plan deliveries - in accordance with internal Release Management procedures. - Ensure the follow-up of the deployments on the different environments until the start of production - Participate in technical tests and their validation. - Documentation related to the delivery of evolutions and corrections - Ensure a role of project management and project management for the various application interfaces
Business Analyst / Compliance Engineer
AXA Investment Managers
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 2 months
Région de Paris, France
Within the Compliance division (Control and Risk management), implementation of compliance control tools with the aim of identifying, analyzing and mitigating the risks of non-compliance associated with the services offered by AXA IM in Paris, the UK and in Asia. • Collect and analyze needs, write functional specifications • Develop new controls (under Access VBA) in coordination with the IT team regarding the source of the data (Oracle / SQL database) • Perform technical tests, validate them • Plan the release into production with users, deliver the service while producing documentation (user procedure) • Optimize existing control tools (performance, deployment on other sites, etc.) • Provide day-to-day application support for all entities (around 40 controls) • Produce automatic reports for all entities (Paris, UK, Asia) • Develop controls and tools based on regulatory changes (AMF, ESMA, etc.) and organizational changes with documentation or its update if it exists. • Check the adequacy of the processes and procedures related to the delivery of services, help their development and update with the business teams • Animation of training sessions, for new users, on the overall aspect of the application • Some examples of controls: Short Selling, Insider Trading, Cross Trades, FR Mandate, COP, Best Execution, OTC AC / Listed… etc.
Application Manager / Project Leader HRIS
Technip
Mar 2013 - Oct 2016
3 years 8 months
Région de Paris, France
Mission: Provide the interface between business and IT teams within the framework of the Corporate Human Resources application portfolio, HR Referential data consolidation and the management of deployments as well as the evolutions of these applications. The whole mission is carried out within the IT Group in an international context and in English. Stains: • Analyze, frame and formalize business needs • Lead the design phase and write the functional specifications • Prepare, organize and ensure the functional test and assist users during this test phase • Support the change with users • Prepare the weekly project / run meetings and ensure clear and synthetic reporting on the progress of the work. • Participate in the definition of the roadmap and project framing • Follow developments made by international teams (Datawarehouse, Biztalk, BI, AD, CapGemini) • Watch over communication between the various project stakeholders • Ensure corrective and evolutionary maintenance of HR applications • Provide L2 & L3 support for the entire HR field and other areas linked to HR. • Knowledge transfer to the CapGemini team (training and workshop) with preparation of materials Dev. made in India, Abu Dhabi & Aberdeen / developments & completed projects: the technical specifications are written and validated, the service is delivered to test. The exchange of docs and the communication respect the ITIL method via various tools (ServiceNow, TeamForge). • "GMT": Expatriate solution; Group international mobility Provide full support for the mobility tool • "EuHReka NgA": HR ERP managing Employee data, across the Group + the various developments • "PoepleDoc": electronic management of Employee and Organization data • "BI Reporting"; BI solution for reporting on HR data within the Group • "APEX": Various releases on CE HRMS for HR data integration
Project Manager Scrum Master
UltraSoft Technologies Ltd
Jan 2012 - Mar 2013
1 year 3 months
Région de Paris, France
Deployment of a new Information System • Ensure the proper application of Scrum adapted to the context of the team • Animate the Daily meetings as well as the Retrospective • Attend Sprint Planning and Sprint Review while supporting the Product Owner if necessary. Given the context of the mission (1st Agile experience for the team), participation in the classic tasks of piloting a project and the MOA • Writing of functional specifications and recipe books • Organization and conduct of acceptance tests • Contribution to developments and proposal of solutions (process, organization) • Change management • Preparation and animation of progress points.
Corporate Project Manager
Atos IT Solutions and Services A/S
Dec 2010 - Dec 2011
1 year 1 month
Région de Paris , France
Implementation and deployment of a collaborative work tool (Enterprise Social Network) as part of the Zero Email program • Organization of workshops, animation of weekly meetings • Definition of change actions, planning and specifications • Communication between the different actors of the program (MOA / MOE) • Preparation of progress reports • Realization of the “training deployment” plan at local and international level
Change Manager
Atos IT Solutions and Services A/S
Oct 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year 3 months
Project : Deployment of the biometric passport in France Integration of the Change Management team of the French Ministry of the Interior • Realization and monitoring of the training schedule • Training of users (agents of town halls and prefectures) • Collect user feedback to improve the new application
Sales Manager
Gulf Bank
Sep 2008 - Oct 2009
1 year 2 months
Define the organization of the activities of the sales department in terms of banking and financial products. At the head of a team and in conjunction with other departments, contribute to the proper functioning of the sales department. Responsibility: Sales Manager • Manage the agency's commercial team and support the development of the agency's commercial activity • Ensure the quality of relations with customers, handle complaints and propose appropriate solutions • Develop corporate and commercial customers and coordinate prospecting campaigns • Develop commercial strategies for the products in order to achieve the annual objectives • Provide training and mentoring to team members, assess their needs, formulate objectives for them and support their skills and performance to align with the bank's strategy • Control the regularity of payments and debt collection • Ensure compliance of operations and procedures with regulations and guidelines • Approve international trade operations Technical environment: Microsoft office, Citrix, Outlook, CRM, SWIFT, Apple Workflow
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
Jan 2006 - Dec 2008
3 years
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Operations Supervisor
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
2 years
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• Management of a team of 3 employees, employee training, communication • Problem solving and monitoring follow-up, implementation of procedures • Coordination of work between departments, establish dashboards • Monitoring compliance with Basel II and IFRS regulatory standards • Optimization of the bank's profitability while respecting its financial commitments
Sales Manager
Jan 2006 - Dec 2007
2 years
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• Participate in the definition of local commercial policy, based on the management strategy • Set the objectives and priority axes • Promote the image of the agency locally and win new clients • Participate in the negotiation of certain strategic accounts • Measure market developments and competitive offers in order to constantly adapt the agency's offers • Report to Management
Credit Analyst
CAISSE d'EPARGNE
Jan 2003 - Dec 2006
4 years
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Deal with the daily operations of the bank, namely: financing requests, current front-office, back-office, commitment, recovery, etc. operations.
Education
Université Paris 8
PhD Web sémantique
2016 - Present
10 years 10 months
Université Paris 8
Master 2 Consulting & Change Management
2010 - 2011
2 years
L'École supérieure de la banque
DES Banque & Finance - ITB / Paris
2004 - 2006
3 years
Ecole Supérieure de Banque (ESB)
Licence Banque & Finance
2000 - 2003
4 years