Ilze Carlqvist

Experience

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  SEB

  Jun 2011 - Nov 2012

  Nostro account specialist at SEB Shared Service Center

  Managed Nostro accounts across Sweden, Oslo, New York, Frankfurt, and Singapore, focusing on daily tasks such as deal matching, balance checks, and investigating missing credits/debits. Collaborated with stakeholders to drive process improvements and participated in local projects like CLXP. Additionally, served as the first line of defense for AML compliance.

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  SEB

  Jan 2013 - Apr 2013

  Internship - Transaction banking department at SEB Latvia

  Working in SEB Latvia while writing bachelor thesis.

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  SEB

  Dec 2014 - May 2015

  Operation Specialist - Voting Services Finland at SEB Shared Service Center

  Temporary positionProcessing Voting instructions, contacting with custodians and companies about annual/ extraordinary general meetings.

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  Swedbank

  Jul 2015 - now

  Focused on driving development and implementation of the Next Best Actions (NBAs) strategy across multiple teams and channels. Setting both short-term and long-term vision, OKRs and roadmaps to align business objectives with technical execution. Acting as key link between business and development teams, providing detailed requirements and ensuring business implementation prior to product releases. Responsibilities as Business Owner is to ensure that the features in the development funnel and prioritization is done according to the banks strategic goals. Show less Daily Support Manager for Front Office systems – MX3, K+, Calypso, eFX, TOMS.Working in an Agile framework requires me to communicate and collaborate efficiently in order to complete daily support tasks and to forward plan for larger features while working closely with business. One of my main duties is to facilitate and organise team meetings within my own team and in conjunction with other feature teams. When working with other teams, it’s essential to have a common view of how to achieve the objective and this often requires taking on different views and channelling them into a path that everyone agrees on and understands, this comes with its challenges of course, two of which being the removal of impediments and introducing improvements. Show less Working in a Calypso project - Responsible for static data and being part of Foundation team. Responsible for correct SDI setup for bonds, repos, CA in Calypso. Participating in tests and writing requirements for static data. Closely working together with QA team, Production Support, Calypso team and stakeholders who work is dependent on correct static data. In the mean time also participated in Bank in a Box project that implemented different workflow checks to secure correct static data in Calypso and trades.Participating in the pre-study process for bringing Fixed Income products into Calypso system. Being a member of an Agile team in the Fixed Income train. Work in the Agile team included creating trade workflows, message setups, creating/adjusting SD filters, testing and cross - training. Show less Managed full Legal Entity setup in Calypso, including confirmations, legal agreements, netting, SDI/SSI, and trading book/portfolio setup for FX, MM, Collateral, Swaps, FRA, and cleared products. Collaborated closely with Settlement, Confirmation, CLS, and Collateral departments, as well as Client Executives, Legal/Compliance, and Client Onboarding teams to ensure regulatory compliance and accurate client setup. Additionally, participated in Calypso projects and took over Static Data processes from the Onboarding team. Show less

  • Business Development Manager

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Business Analyst

    Feb 2020 - Dec 2022

  • Daily Support Manager

    May 2019 - Feb 2020

  • Business System Analyst

    Aug 2017 - May 2019

  • Business Operations Analyst

    Aug 2016 - Aug 2017

  • Data Management Specialist

    Jul 2015 - Aug 2016