SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Sr. Technical Business Analyst with 17 years of total experience in financial/compliance industry.
• For the past several years working on Actimize implementation and integration, including other Trade Surveillance and AML solution implementations at a large international banking institution.
• His areas of focus include integration of business systems, Compliance and AML technology solutions and AML Data Analytics.
• He was involved in development and implementation of Transaction Monitoring and Customer Due Diligence related solutions at large financial institution.
• Further to the compliance activities, Confidential leading a capital market projects including
• Built Data warehouse for Fixed income, investment back office and middle office development for large investment international brokerage bank.
• Confidential has a unique blend of a business and technology experience, effective in leasing between business and IT as well as communication with integrity to all level of organization.
• Senior Business analyst for Trade surveillance and AML process with experience in Actimize platform models.
• Developed the FRM (Financial Risk Management) practice to follow US regulations. This included - CCAR, Basel III regulations. LRM (Liquidity Risk Management), BCBS 239 and PPNR reporting. (Matrix)
• Built Data Warehouse for Fixed Income return Analysis.
• Analysis calculation processes. Acted as focal point between the business unit and the IT development team. Provided Business Specifications and supported business process development and acceptance testing.
• Senior Consultant and team lead in Confidential .
• Lead the Basel II regulation validating process in a major bank and Credit Card Company. Trained and mentored all staff levels in the IT Advisory Practice. Business consultant for internal audit in investment management process, writing proposals for projects and managing the project budgets.
• Project Manager and Senior BA for back Office / Middle Office implementation and development project. Responsible for delivery of new development for the client, managing JAD and status meetings with business stakeholders. Managed the project budget, coordinating Change Requests and new proposals.
• Senior Business Analyst for several of projects from the initiation until the production. Specialized in Core banking, accounting project, Wealth management and risk management project.

HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN:

• Business Analysis
• Workflow Design
• Quality Assurance
• ETL - SSIS
• Project Management
• Data Analysis
• Sales Force
• Risk Management
• Basel II / III
• Trade Surveillance
• CCAR
• Credit & Market Risk, LRM
• AML Compliance
• Actimize Capital Market
• Core Banking
• Insurance Management
• Investment Management
• SOX
• Back Office Process
• Operational Risk
• Change Management

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE:

• Basel II, III
• Risk Management
• Core Banking
• Investment management
• Compliance and Regulatory (CCAR, PPNR)
• Credit Risk, Market Risk, LRM
• Management Consulting
• Government
• SOX 404, ITGC
• GL and IFRS report.
• Policy Insurance
• SAS 70

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Office Suite
• Data Warehouse (Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
• HP Quality Center, JIRA
• Business Objects
• Salesforce
• MS Project & Visio
• Actimize Trade Surveillance/ AML
• SharePoint
• J2EE/Java/JavaBeans/EJBs
• DBMS: Oracle, DB2
• Lotus Notes/Domino
• SQL Server, SQL Developer
• ACL, IDEA

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The data warehouse solution serves as the consolidated platform for the entire bank Financial Markets Compliance. The project encompassed the entire bank transactions (RFQ, Order ad Execution), Instrument/reference, Market data, account hierarchy and position. The data is consumed by the various Trading Surveillance models.
• Extract and data analyze XML field from HTML table. Writing Complex SQL queries using Oracle DB.
• Process multi dimension statistical analysis for identify productivity alert. Writing tuning report for each phase (SANDBOX, UAT, PRODUCTION) recommend the tuning change and approve with the stakeholders
• Trade Surveillance transaction monitoring - segmentation and scenario analysis.
• Checking the calculation of the threshold’s calculation as- VWAP, STD, Firm contemporaneous price.
• Main Product asset class - Fixed income cash & derivatives, FX, Equity, Commodity.
• Advise the Compliance team with the tuning thresholds to minimize the false positive alerts.
• Assist with migration of TC4 modules to TC5 including gap analysis and recommended set of thresholds.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leading an XML interface process for the client requirement (Letter and other domains).
• Writing BRD and system analysis per the client requirement.
• Configure the system according to the FDS and SDS documents.

Confidential

Trade Surveillance Senior BA

Responsibilities:

• The data warehouse solution serves as the consolidated platform for the entire bank Financial Markets Compliance. The project encompassed the entire bank transactions (RFQ, Order ad Execution), Instrument/reference, Market data, account hierarchy and position. The data is consumed by the various Trading Surveillance models,
• Control Room and anti-fraud (AML) consumers and applications. Collaborated with lead compliance developers and stakeholders (Risk unit), reviewed BRD, FRD, Test cases, UAT and production release plan and execution.
• Leading the AML/Trade Surveillance activities for fixed income and equities: BRD, Implementation of incident methodology, monitoring threshold. Liaise between the users and the development team. Act as the focal point for QA and production problems.
• Performed data validation and pointed out discrepancies in data. Reviewed ETL process with client where errors were discovered, and corrective actions were suggested.
• Interact in number of data source for running the models including - financial market data, account hierarchy, Instrument/reference, trading transaction.
• Testing: Creating UAT test case for any of the BRD's documents. Validating the accuracy of the implemented model - receive the output and compare with side calculation. Also test case for Actimize GUI and reporting screen.
• Actimize models: AML - SAM, Actimize RCM model, ATMS FCM trade data (Front running), Watch/Gray List Trading, Price Manipulation.

Confidential

Senior Business System Analyst & Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Senior BA of a pension-wealth management application project. (Payment process)
• Leading the payment process between the pension fund to the insurers.
• Analyze User's requirements (CR) and produce designed documents.

Project management and Senior BA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading and writing the Business Requirements Specifications and development documents for the pension-clearing system according to the government regulations. The development process is using AGILE Scrum methodology.
• Meet to potential client for explaining the solution - Doing POC for proving the system reliability as of the regulation and the business requirement.
• Designed documents of external interface between the pension system to the payroll system, screen design and business logic (including table design and DB constraints).
• Design the full cycle of pensioner payroll process: request, approval and payment execution.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Writing Business Specification for Return Analysis calculation, Duration, modified duration, Return Curve etc.
• Design Data Architecture (ETL) using Confidential modeling for the fixed income instrument, cash flow, static data and data mapping from the legacy system to the Confidential hierarchies DB.
• Advisor to the SDLC processes implementation from the initial data upload to the controlling report and Confidential data analysis.
• Managing JAD and DR Sessions to gather information from a cross-functional team consisting of subject matter experts and writing the specification for the Development team.
• Working with COGNOS - BI reporting for querying return analysis.
• Managing and conducting QA testing for the system (Acceptance test).

Confidential

Senior financial Risk Management Consultant and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for validating Basel II compliance regulations for two major banks in Israel, with a focus in credit risk management ( BCBS239)
• Auditing the Risk Module Package (Algorithmic) to ensure accordance with Basel 2 compliance regulations (BCBS239) included retails segments.
• Responsible of validating compliance regulations for past due loans.
• Assurance for Basel II regulation - Pilar 1 and Pilar 2.
• Providing consulting to major institutions re Risk Management - e.g. avoiding investment frauds to Investment Back Office applications.
• In depth using of Excel analysis for risk analysis /database dumps.
• Direct managing a team of 3 auditing employees.