SUMMARY

• Diverse Financial Services Specialist with15+ years of Investment Banking/Financial Services experience and strong leadership abilities.
• Throughout my career, I have been involved in all aspects of Front, Middle and Back Office Operations including Cash management, P&L, Trading & Operational Support and Management for several top Investment Banks.
• Confident and poised in interactions with individuals at all levels.
• Experienced working in a fast - paced demanding environment, which requires strong organizational, technical, and interpersonal skills as well as superior client interfacing.
• Detail-oriented and resourceful in completing projects efficiently with the ability to multitask effectively.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Credit/OTC/Equity Derivatives Capital Markets/Equities
• Fixed Income - Corporate/Emerging Market Bonds, MBS, FX High Net Worth/Private Client Trades
• Settlements - DTC, FED and Euroclear - Domestic & International Interest Rate Swaps/Options
• Sales & Trading, Client Management Reference Data, BRD/FRD Dodd Frank, FATCA/IRS Compliance, EMIR,CCAR/Basel III
• Documentation/Confirms - ISDA, Guaranty & Schedules Electronic Trade Booking/Confirmations/P&L
• Worked with various Business systems which include: Bloomberg, Market Axess, Oasys, Omgeo, Tradeweb, Summit, PM Calypso, TCM Murex, Impact and Treats.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT/SENIOR BA

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyze FX and Libor transactions of legal documents pertaining to securities class action.
• Assist Sales and Customer Service Managers with data analysis to provide expert knowledge in various trading products.
• Manage various phases of projects including banking and asset management understanding front, middle and back office asset management operations.
• Engage cross-functional teams to help drive improvements and simplify the operational processes in order for the business to scale for growth through creativity and leveraging the company’s strengths.

RESULTS:

• Monitored volumes of trading transaction data and assisted in the process of the settlement and claims process recovery.
• Provided guidance to Sales & Management to increase its return on settlement assets while achieving significant efficiency and accuracy.
• Managing & prioritizing researched data of stakeholders to capture trade data for various projects.
• Researching different exchanges like CBOT, CME, NYSE, to verify daily and historical settlement data for product codes and pricing information in order to minimize trade discrepancies.

Confidential

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assisting organizations enhance their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and the development of plans for improvement.
• Provide organizational change management assistance, process evaluation, technology implementation, strategy development, or operational improvement services.
• Manage proprietary methodologies or frameworks to guide the identification of problems and to serve as the basis for recommendations for more effective or efficient ways of performing work tasks with a solid understanding of enterprise risk and standards, development methodologies and project risk management.
• Defines the problem through management consultations, team meetings, case framework analysis, and other applicable strategies.
• Basic understanding of information technology and deep understanding of financial domain, particularly in post trade activities.
• Familiarity with Fixed Income/Equity Derivative products in a Trading/Clearance/Collateral Management/Risk Technology role.

RESULTS:

• Minimized revenue losses by updating operating system to monitor all transactions are in compliance with regulatory rules in order to sustain a more efficient operational system.
• Monitored employee performance on projects and daily work routine.
• Provided expert guidance to management on the process of changes and problem-solving.
• Worked on several projects simultaneously; coordinated with different departments to carry out operations successfully.
• Analyzed and evaluated organization’s operations and procedures to offer recommendations based on findings; assisted management in identifying issues, sorting solutions and implementing them.

Confidential

DERIVATIVES FIXED INCOME PROJECT MANAGER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities by reaching and meeting all required goals related to the project’s constringent deadlines.
• Created and implemented processes in sourcing the required data downstream from legacy systems (Summit, PM Calypso, TCM, Murex, Impact and Treats) to ensure the quality and efficiency of Regulatory requirements in regards to FATCA and Dodd Frank compliance protocol in coordination with the IRS and the FED.
• Regulatory or Legal requirements such as SEC rule changes, formal regulatory inquiries regarding any Listed Equity Derivatives trade capture or execution systems.
• Capital adequacy managing the development and implementation of the project risk management framework.
• Part of theT+2 Task Force which is the result of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) proposal that aims to improve settlement efficiency and reduce counterparty risk across European markets (EMIR): a shortened settlement cycle will decrease the length of exposure, improvement in operational efficiency and harmonization of settlement and reconciliation will help ease market differences.
• Subject matter expert of Derivatives: Settlements, Reconciliation, Payments, Money Market, FX, Equity and Metals Trading transactions.
• Document business processes of various groups to derive requirements into use cases, data and functional specs.
• Strong knowledge of quality control techniques/procedures to identify process and control gaps.
• Experience with operational risk analysis, process improvement, end-to-end process reviews and process flow mapping.
• Quality management tools and techniques working closely with several stakeholders across multiple departments, including Senior Management, IT, Tax, Front Office, Onboarding and Operations.
• Project management methodologies: work plans, escalation protocol, dependency management, issue mitigation, governance, etc.
• Served as a subject matter expert in dealing with clients on: UAT testing, test case requirements and functionality issues.

RESULTS:

• Minimized revenue losses by updating manual system to monitor all trade data is in compliance with regulatory findings resulting in a more efficient P&L tracking system
• Ensured there was no gap in the systems and operations of both US and non-US companies with respect to documentation, reporting and making modifications to internal systems, control frameworks, processes, and procedures for timely compliance with regulations on or before their effective date
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities by setting and meeting all required goals as depicted by the project’s constringent deadlines to maintain target date.

Confidential

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Major Dodd Frank initiative to reduce systemic risk and improve operational efficiency, particularly through the broader adoption of tools to increase the volume of OTC, Futures/Equity Derivatives, and FX trading transactions confirmed electronically via Bloomberg.
• Take ownership of the legal document family agreements (ISDA, CSA and Amendments) and correct all errors in OCR.
• Data management of Credit Risk process flows in an initiative to consolidate multiple security and pricing reference data.
• Team lead in the preparation of client clearing activities in scope with what will be populated in the CDU system in collaboration with Credit Risk and Legal.
• Cleansing and loading of data (Extraction, Transformation and Processing) in regards to the Dodd Frank initiative.
• Provided Metrics and maintain proper efficiencies in all stages of development and user acceptance testing.

RESULTS:

• Managed data management of Credit Risk process flows in an initiative to consolidate multiple security and pricing reference data resulting in more efficient tracking of revenue and loss.
• Provided metrics and maintained proper efficiencies in all stages of development and user acceptance testing yielding a better operating model in order to capitalize on sales revenue
• Took ownership of the legal document family agreements (ISDA, CSA and Amendments) in correcting all errors in the OCR process and creating a mainstream master document to be utilized by all necessary parties involved within the bank to maximize profits.
• CITIGROUP, SENIOR FX ANALYST, Treasury Finance/FX, April 2011 - May 2011
• Currency Transfer Breaks: Query data from GL system, investigate and reconcile to counterparty data.
• Settlement Date Breaks: Query trade transactions from UFX system, investigate and reconcile between Inventory System and GL postings, follow up with support teams to clear issues.
• Coordinated and processed monthly financials, budgeting and allocations for the FX derivatives group.
• Ensured all aspect of derivative trade capture; maintenance and settlement are carried out in a timely manner.
• Responsibilities include financial and analytical support activities related to Interest & FX P&L reported within ICG Treasury.
• Run numerous data queries from GL system format and populate data into various FX analyses.