SUMMARY

• Experienced professional with a wide range of business and technical expertise in the Financial Industry, specifically on large, complex, and evolving software development projects.
• Business/systems analysis, project management, testing and implementing large - scale mainframe and web-based applications, data warehousing, client-server, and mainframe technologies.
• Expert at writing and analyzing complex business requirements and design specifications, data flows, process flows, documentation, procedures, test plans, RTM, and test scripts. Able to quickly learn new systems, processes, and tools.
• Possess strong analytical, managerial, and communications skills. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and effective problem resolution skills. Customer-focused, team-oriented and results driven. Manager of on-shore and off-shore resources.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM AIX
• RDBMS
• COBOL
• SQL
• MS Project
• Office
• Outlook
• Access
• Visio
• Balsamiq Mockups
• PowerPoint
• SWIFT
• Global Plus
• Trust3000
• Global Wealth ES (Trust Rite)
• NetX360
• CMM
• BPM
• ARIS Web Designer
• SharePoint
• SOA
• .NET
• SAML
• SOLA
• SOAP
• TCP/IP
• TIBCO
• UML
• UNIX (Linux)
• XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared business requirements for enhancements to automate processes for in-house foreign exchange order creation and consolidation system for trade settlement and repatriation of corporate action proceeds and internal Confidential Treasury transactions. Improved straight through processing of order generation and approval and integration with upstream and downstream systems, including the CLS Application.
• Prepared business requirements for system enhancements and modifications. Worked with system users to clarify and gain consensus for approval of requirements documents. Systems worked on include proxy processing, account opening, out-of-pocket expense payment processing, invoice-to-payment reconciliation and Anti-Money Laundering and Know-Your-Customer reporting and compliance.
• Worked with Compliance Department to upgrade trade surveillance and Anti-Money Laundering capabilities. Assisted with vendor and product reviews. Prepared RFPs for selected vendors.
• Assisted users with the acceptance testing of software enhancements prior to release to production. Documented and tracked resolution of encountered software defects. Performed systems testing on internal systems including Account Master and Global Network Management.
• Documented the input, throughput and output of user-system processes to determine process gaps and areas for improvement.
• Implemented SAP Business One as part of a general ledger replacement project. Tested and worked with accounting and finance department SME’s to document functional and data requirements. Implemented temporary manual upload procedures for journal entries for in-house systems until the procedures are replaced with automated processes.
• Familiar with China Bond and Stock Connect. Tested trade processing with Chinese market security identifiers and identification of Chinese market identifiers with ISIN’s.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared business requirements for improvement and re-write of employee annual FINRA compliance certification and internal trade review and approval system. Improved functionality of and streamlined user interface.
• Documented functional requirements for internal developers. Wireframed improved user interface screens.
• Worked with Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) team members to determine necessary requirements and enhancements to expand use of annual compliance and trade approval system into other regions, especially for sensitive employees.
• Prepared use-cases and test cases for system and user acceptance testing of improved system. Determined test and reference data required for testing, using SQL queries when necessary.
• Researched and tracked system issues to resolution.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared business requirements for securities processing system replacement and enhancements using visual models and Use Cases. Determined if gaps existed between current and future state and documented the gaps, issues, and solutions.
• Documented technical requirements of multicurrency securities processing systems for internal developers.
• Lead and participated in multiple ongoing project meetings using iterative and Agile project methodologies.
• Documented existing securities processing systems, system relationships, and trade workflows including; security trade order entry, trading, settlement, and client onboarding. Facilitated the review, approval, and signoff of deliverables.
• Performed system integration and user acceptance testing for global and domestic SWIFT trading interface into a wealth management platform.
• Worked with the Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) and OFAC committees to ensure the compliance of cash and security movements to Anti-Money Laundering and government sanctions review, and integration with OFAC checking system.
• Worked with Account Opening and Account On-boarding departments to produce new forms to meet KYC and Anti-Money Laundering procedures. Mapped new and existing fields to new form workflow system.
• Prepared reference data for the conversion of multiple client accounts from the existing securities processing trust accounting system to a new securities processing trust accounting system as part of the development of a consolidated wealth management platform.