Lead Product Owner at Regnology (2025-12 – 2026-08)
Regnology acquired our Wolters Kluwer FRR division so job content remained the same
Lead Product Owner at Wolters Kluwer (2024-01 – 2025-11)
- Own product vision and roadmap for the XBRLEngine regulatory reporting platform, leading a 9-person Agile squad (1 Scrum Master, 7 developers) spread across Ghent, Madrid, Tbilisi and Pune
- Sustain a zero dedicated-QA delivery model by embedding automated testing and CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity) into the squad's way of working
- Prioritize and manage the product backlog for tooling used by delivery teams supporting EBA, SRB and country-specific regulatory obligations in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Singapore, Poland, Slovakia and more
- Serve as key point of contact for internal teams requiring tooling support, external banking clients requesting new features, and xbrl.org during the engine's certification process
- Drove the XBRLEngine to official XBRL.org certification (base and dimensional conformance)
- Automated the full "last-mile" reporting process, eliminating manual steps from the implementation workflows
- Operate in a SAFe environment, aligning roadmap and backlog priorities across multiple stakeholder groups and delivery teams
- Use Jira and Confluence daily for backlog, documentation and sprint management, and Miro quarterly to facilitate SAFe Program Increment (PI) planning sessions
Product Owner at Wolters Kluwer (2018-04 – 2024-01)
- Managed product backlog and sprint priorities for the same distributed 9-person squad (Ghent, Madrid, Tbilisi, Pune) building the XBRLEngine and supporting reporting tools
- Translated regulatory and customer requirements into clear user stories and functional specifications for developers
- Coordinated with internal teams and external banking customers to gather requirements and prioritize feature requests
- Built and matured the team's automated-testing culture, reducing dependency on manual QA
- Used Jira and Confluence daily for backlog and documentation, and Miro quarterly to support SAFe Program Increment (PI) planning
Senior Software Engineer at Wolters Kluwer FRR OneSumX Financial Studio (2017-05 – 2019-04)
- Became sole technical owner of all EBA "last-mile" reporting modules (COREP, FINREP, LIQREP) as the team scaled down from 6 to 1
- Implemented all reporting layouts, validation rules and xbrl configuration for these modules, ensuring customers could submit filings to regulators in the correct XBRL format
- Worked extensively with SQL Server and the underlying database schema, requiring a solid relational understanding across all tables to properly configure xbrl and validation logic
- Delivered and maintained reporting logic ensuring compliance with EBA regulatory specifications across multiple reporting frameworks
- Provided single-handed continuity of critical regulatory deliverables, safeguarding client reporting deadlines
Project Lead / Reporting Analyst at Financial Architects / Wolters Kluwer FRR OneSumX Financial Studio (2015-07 – 2015-10)
Project Lead / Reporting Analyst at Financial Architects / Wolters Kluwer FRR OneSumX Financial Studio (2011-01 – 2018-04)
- Analyzed detailed business and regulatory requirements imposed by regulators across multiple jurisdictions
- Defined quality assessment methods and acceptance criteria for developed reporting solutions
- Authored detailed design documentation, translating regulatory specifications into buildable software requirements
- Verified developed software against specified acceptance criteria prior to client delivery
- Tracked regulator publications and policy changes across jurisdictions, feeding requirement updates into the product backlog
- Prince2 methodology
Personal Advisor at Belfius (2009 – 2011)
Advised retail banking clients on financial products and services
