At VTB I was faced with Cognos 8, which had a complete different interface than Cognos 7.4, but I've quickly got used to it. After being there a few months we upgraded to Cognos 10.

In my first half year, I mostly was working on Cognos reports. Then, after a lot of new DWH related requirements came from Moscow, I had to put more and more data from other productive systems like our core banking system. I've also created some interface to Calypso, Bloomberg, Reuters. Sometimes I was working as a “normal programmer” and wrote C# code in Visual Studio (e.g. for a Lotus Notes interface).

Here a list of some exciting projects I've implemented/participated:

• Cost allocation
• Daily client P/L
• FTP (=funds transfer pricing) calculation in DWH
• Selection process of new MIS tool

Here some non-BI/-DWH related projects:

• Member of IT team VTB Austria at the selection process of our central ticketing system
• Member of IT team VTB Austria at the selection process of our new core banking system

For most of our projects, deep understanding of banking products and good knowledge of accounting was necessary.