SUMMARY:

Senior finance and technology professional with a deep understanding of business operations, accounting, treasury, compliance and risk management, and spanning financial services and fortune 500 companies. Demonstrable experience in driving change through strategy formulation, requirements drafting, stakeholder management and leveraging technology solutions. Superior communication and presentation skill, with the ability to work effectively in a team or independently, and at all levels of the organization.

SKILLED IN:

• Banking & Capital Markets
• Business / Functional Requirements
• Data Traceability & Reconciliation
• Systems Development Life Cycle
• Treasury / Liquidity
• Derivatives Products
• Financial / Risk Modeling
• Market Risk / Basel
• Regulatory Reporting
• Trade Order Management
• CCAR / Dodd Frank
• Operational Risk & Control

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS - Office (Excel, Access, Project), Bloomberg, POMS/TOMS, FactSet, Findur, SAP, Hyperion FM, SQL, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Cascade Suite, Blockchain, Salesforce.com, TM1, Timberline, Investran, JIRA, VersionOne, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing the automation of the regulatory reporting functionality pertaining to the FFIEC 102 Report and more specifically around VaR, IRC/CRM, Correlation Trading Portfolio and Standard Charge models.
• Assist business and risk team in the development and documentation of processes and data flows for automating reporting functionality, including: development of epics and stories, managing sprint sessions, tracking development, gathering testing requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Engage with Capital Management team in drafting of BRD for complying with new Confidential regulations requirements for the fundamental review of trading book (FRTB).
• Interpreted Fed guidelines for 2052a regulatory reporting and attaining consensus from Treasury and PwC.
• Developed source to target mapping document and functional specifications for driving data extraction, including enrichment and transferring of data to a 3rd party vendor platform to be used for report generation at entity and BHC level. Subsequently, reviewed and tested report output and reconcilability to firm’s books and records.
• Analyzed data workflows for end-to-end traceability and lineage, including review of various source systems, transformation rules engines, edit checks and data controls, as well as handling and identification of manual adjustments. Additionally, reviewed and analyzed legacy master and transaction data and recommended changes to enterprise tables in production.

Confidential, NYC

Manager, Finance Risk Technology

Responsibilities:

• For client, reviewed and recommended areas where execution capabilities for regulatory reporting may benefit from process enhancements in absence of internal resources to carry on a sustainable model.
• Assessed banks regulatory reporting processes and controls supporting programs around the reporting infrastructure and preparation process. Efforts included the review of existing framework and artifacts around report process & controls, attestation framework, revision to control framework design, target operating model and education.
• Analyzed and opined on firm’s documentation related to risk management framework, including 3LoD key principles, roles and responsibilities across the bank as well as the identification of risk types, controls testing templates, framework for reviewing SoX issues, and data quality and governance under Confidential .
• For client, worked with Internal Audit and CCAR team to assess firms’ capital adequacy model development and data management framework for stress testing forward-looking scenarios in conjunction with FRB guidelines (i.e. reviewed documentation around policies and procedures, approvals, model validation and technical specs, results reporting)
• Additionally, reviewed and assisted Citibank in remediating and formulating responses to Fed audits and MRA’s (Matters Requiring Attention) and MRIA’s resolution planning.
• Reviewed CCAR qualitative evaluation teams framework related to PPRN, RWA, Capital, including governance and controls around foundational risk, risk identification, and scenario creations
• For client, performed a high level assessment of Risk and Finance Group alignment for CCAR. Areas of review included organization and governance, alignment methodology, data and technology, and documentation. payments and regulatory control review, including developing of control standards which formed part of the review to be performed in subsequent phases for transactions that result in external release of manual, automated, and semi-manual cash and in various jurisdictions.

Confidential, NJ

Confidential Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed the functional design and deployment of a Hyperion (Oracle) corporate finance platform for the new Confidential (Intermediate Holding Company).
• Role required eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business user requirements and processes specifically around the FP&A functionality.
• Reviewed all data components for both management, legal and regulatory reporting requirements in order to streamline data capture, reconciliation and controls.
• Performed analysis of current state data lineage and data quality from legacy source systems in order to validate requirements for setting up data cubes and objects in OFSAA (Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application) for target state data management and reporting requirements.
• Developed a proof of concept for automating the firms daily and monthly reporting cycle of investor and partner funds, and their respective net asset value (NAV). This included reviewing various vendor packages and their functional capabilities in processing waterfall calculations, side-pocket investments, expense and fee allocations, scenario forecasting and the design of a post-implementation target operating model

Confidential, NYC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of firm’s asset liability management (ALM) program via the QRM platform.
• The program targets delivery of risk management and reporting of interest rate risk in the banking book across all groups including structural, basis and market risk.
• Primary focus was on the identification, sourcing and the reconciling of enterprise data to be consumed by the QRM system and models for the generation of internal and external reporting of risk metrics.

Confidential, NYC

OTC Derivatives Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project managed and supported end-to-end implementation and enhancements to global platform (Oasys) used by Treasury and OTC Derivatives business for trade capture, risk models, valuations, collateral management, CVA calculations, settlements, internal financing, and regulatory reporting.
• Tasks included development of BRD, FRD, test plans and test cases, UAT management and pre-production release.

Confidential, NYC

Product Mgmt. - Hedging & Accting Solution

Responsibilities:

• Engaged by financial services, central bank and treasury clients in the implementation and configuration of Findur
• A multi-asset, end-to-end, trade-order, risk, cash-management, hedging and workflow management system.
• Products covered: fixed income, f/x, interest rate derivatives and swaps, futures provided financial and operational oversight to the mortgages, securities-based lending (SBL) and credit card businesses for the Wealth Management division.
• Performed due diligence, managed technical teams, analyzed and designed, and subsequently gained approval for new product initiatives, all while ensuring compliance with accounting and regulatory requirements (FAS 65, 115, 140, 157, Reg-T and Reg-U).