Marc Polfliet

Experience

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  ONG Delipro - Belgium Cooperation (AGCD)

  Jan 1989 - Dec 1989

  Technical Project Manager

  Technical assistant in the development of agricultural, breeding and commercial activities in a Canadian project of development aiming to support single mothers.

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  ONG Delipro - European Funds of Development

  Jan 1990 - Jun 1993

  Technical Assistant - Credit Lines and Small Business Development Manager

  Responsible of developing 19 Cooperatives for the province of Rutana (South Burundi), implementing credit lines for habitat development with the six communes as well as managing construction projects and innovating new technologies in agricultural products transformation.

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  Euro-Gamma S.A.

  Aug 1996 - Jul 1997

  Assistant Portfolio Manager - Fixed Income

  As a Senior Implementation Manager:- Assist Fixed Income Portfolio manager (mainly excel reporting)Key Accomplishments:- Develop interest in financial instruments- Improved excel knowledge

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  Princeton Financial Systems

  Jul 1998 - Jul 2008

  Senior Implementation Project Manager

  As a Senior Implementation Manager:- Transfer data from legacy systems to our back-office platform- Integrate our back-office platform to each client’s environment- Train the clients on all asset classes, accounting rules, financial reconciliation, settlement processing supported by the systems- Gather and communicate enhancement and bug details back to the main office (UK)- Generate revenues for the company though sales and consultancy services- Manage clients’ expectations- Track projects progresses and act on prioritized open issuesKey Accomplishments:- Lead full implementation projects across 11 European countries - Spent 90% of my time visiting clients- Provided new functionality and consultancy services- Implement interfaces (e.g.: Bloomberg) - Self-managed my time between clients across Europe Show less

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  State Street

  Jul 2008 - now

  As a Product Owner- Convert requirements in actionable tasks and work with cross-functional agile teams to execute requirements- Work with the Dev Lead and Teams to ensure estimates are provided- Define and Implement the Agile ceremonies such as Backlog grooming, Spring Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective across various teams- Be accountable for Acceptance Criteria completion- Communicate, implement, test and document requirements with all stakeholders efficiently Key Accomplishments:- Manage efficiently many tasks across various projects and teams- Leverage the work already done or technology already available- Improve the prioritization process - Improve the exchange of key information between stakeholders- Mediate conflicts between stakeholders when neededAs a Product Manager: - Interact directly with clients to understand their requirements, priorities and deadlines- Integrate market’s expectations to the clients’ feedback to provide a generic solution- Document and share the clients’ expectations to help our department’s planning efforts, overall vision across products integration and resources allocation- Lead demos tailored to various audiences - Maintain and communicate projects status to senior management and stakeholders- Lead demos at yearly clients’ conferences and Sales demo on various asset classes and complex accounting matters- Interact frequently across departments (Configuration Management – Release Testing – Client Support – Implementation – Sales – Development – Front Office) to eliminate bottlenecks and maximize time to delivery.Key Accomplishments:- Maintain projects withing targets allowing the company to avoid paying late charges- Deliver efficiently functionality corresponding to market demands- Promote successfully new asset classes to our client basis- Develop communication skills to senior management- Was promote to Vice-President Show less As a Senior Business Analyst- Gather, document, test functionality associated to back-office processing, complex accounting requirements- Implement a “Waterfall” approach to enhance new functionality - Interact with the system design analyst- Demo and train clients on various back-office functionality across various asset classes- Support other departments (Client support, Sales, Implementation)- Provide “paid for” consultancy services to clients in the USA and abroad- Internal and external training such as Clients Conference training sessions on various topics (CACS, Mutual Funds, Fund of Funds, Complex Accounting, New Graphical User Interface, Fair Value Measurement, Currency Revaluation, Yield Recon, Cash Settlement…)Key Accomplishments:- Provided new functionality and consultancy services- Support Sales efforts by leading and contributing to sales demo- Train users of the system Show less

  • Product Owner/Product Manager - VP

    Sept 2014 - now

  • Senior Business Analyst - AVP

    Jul 2008 - Sept 2014