SUMMARY

• Senior Financial Management Professional specializing in life cycle project management in all areas of operational processing with an emphasis on conventional and derivative product processing and the related accounting, treasury, tax, and risk management functions. Extensive experience in problem resolution, systems and process integration. A self - starter with a mind for detail and follow-up with a strong commitment to excellence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead Project Manager & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Basel Committee on Banking Supervision - revised standards to the Minimum Capital Requirements for Market Risk.
• Project Manage the IT, Market Risk, Legal and Compliance work streams.
• Business Analysis of the Target Operating Model Desk Structure from the Volcker Rules as a straw man for the FRTB Desk Structure (Basel Rules).
• Create a local BRD for the regulatory requirements.
• Meet with the Head Traders, Heads of Legal and Compliance, Market Risk, and IT weekly to gain status updates leading to issues and risks mitigation, and RAG status.
• Employ JIRA for reporting metrics.

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create BRD’s for the regulatory requirements for NAV mutual funds from a Business and Reference Data perspective. Establish governance for the rules changes in the future state for both business rules and reference data related to the rules.
• Meet with the Head Traders supporting the Financial Advisors to create a Gap analysis between Bond Wave and Trade Web/Bond Desk. This will be a significant piece contributing towards the development of an FA/Trader Dashboard. Focusing on reporting metrics and FA notification functionality.
• Authored the BRD for an internal rebalancing tool, after creating the GAP analysis.

Confidential

PMO - Lead Project Manager & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work in the corporate PMO managing 2 work streams for a client facing clearing conversion implementation. Barclay’s was converted from a self-clearing entity, to the Confidential clearing platform.
• Share Point for project artifacts pertaining to all CMM requirements for the SDLC.
• Standard agendas, dashboards, issues lists, meeting minutes for all meetings in the work streams on a weekly basis.
• HP QC for all testing and QA management from both the client and internally.
• Work directly with Barclay’s the end client, their PMO, stakeholders, and the Confidential Business Analysis group, developers, and stakeholders to create and review the Business Requirements, weekly issues lists, dashboard updates and Senior Management RAG status. Also included were the weekly change control process review and daily QC for bug review and fixes.
• Internally, manage the weekly meetings with the Confidential developers to maintain continuity with the Business Requirements and the timely development of the functionality with the dates on the dashboard for the SDLC tracking.
• Maintain the budgets and the tracking to plan of the human capital expenditures on a weekly basis.

Confidential

Business Analyst III & Lead Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Regulatory - The European Banking Authority (EBA) Financial Reporting Standard (FINREP) reporting of finance and related information to the Regulator.
• Collate the FINREP data submitted by divisions in the form of Supplementary Data Packs, transform and submit that data to the regulators in the required format.
• Key reporting of Credit Risk fair value changes, Fair Value Hierarchy of unrealized gains and losses, Income Statement by counterparty and geography, Derivatives by type and counterparty.
• Writing of BRDs and oversight of FRDs. Writing of high level test plan as well as all lower level test plans, and testing.

Confidential

Business Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Support the Private Wealth Management Group in the system development for the Financial Advisors.
• Help with the joint venture between Charles River Development and Confidential Technology for the upgrades and production requests for the Portfolio Plus system. Assist in testing the scripts for the new system functionality and future releases.
• Authored BRD’s for updates to Portfolio Plus Account and Security screen functionality, Compliance rule changes, and requested functionality utilized in legacy systems to be developed in the Portfolio Plus/Charles River application.

Confidential

PMO - LeaD Project Manager & Business Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Project Manage the upgrade of the Linedata Longview Trading System (LVTS) from version 6.3.8 to version 7.2.
• Asset classes include; Fixed Income, Options, FX, Convertible Bonds, Mutual Funds, Equities, & Futures.
• Compile an overall Project Plan with Resource allocation, and a Reports project plan for management reporting.
• Plan and review the Gap analysis for all Customizations, Workflows, Configurations, Interfaces, & Report functionality.
• Migrate all Batch processes, upgrade Report Launchers from VB to JAVA.
• Manage issues and risks in Sharepoint along with all project artifacts.

Confidential

PMO - Project Management & Business Analysis

Responsibilities:

• BA work - Ensure all SOU’s/SOW’s and BRD’s were completed for each project.
• Work closely with business SME’s to arrange meetings, work through issues lists, and review and sign off on SOU’s/SOW’s and BRD’s.
• Maintain all artifacts and deliverables documentation in Sharepoint.
• Manage the following projects for the DST TRAC Defined Contribution System Implementation; Exchanges, Plan Linking, Ibbotson, Morningstar, Payroll/Eligibility, Loans.
• Employ the Six Sigma methodology for PMO Status Reporting on a weekly basis into the Command Center.
• Manage project plans at the Milestone level as well as full detail
• Prepare integrated testing and release management analysis across all projects.

Confidential

PMO - Project Management & Business Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Ensure BA’s worked closely with SME and Business Side to develop timely Business Specifications for submittal to Offshore ETL team.
• Work through issues lists with ETL team to gain acceptance into Build and Design phases of the SDLC.
• Provide Functional Specifications into an ETL Design, Build, and Test development life cycle.
• Senior Project Manager of a staff of Business Analysts for Fixed Income Trading and Accounting systems.
• Reference Data - Oversee the build of a Data Warehouse for data acquisition and distribution for Perform and Aladdin Fixed Income vendor applications.
• Compile and manage a 600 plus line project plan for all phases of the SDLC, Data Hub and Point to Point interfaces.

Confidential

Project Manager & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager leading the Unified Intranet Platform project for the Confidential /Smith Barney Joint Venture consolidating the legacy intranets into a unified platform.
• Employ standard project management practices in a SDLC environment for Planning, Design, and Construction.
• BA work - Milestone level project plan, oversee BRD’s and FRD’s leading to construction.

Confidential

Project Manager & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead a Greenfield project to outsource virtually all of BofA’s NY Prime Brokerage operational processes to an offshore vendor.
• Documented all of the Equity & Fixed Income processes.
• Interviewed the existing staff to determine the gaps between the current business requirements to the existing process documentation.
• Managed and worked on the sub-projects arising from the gap analysis which included operational procedures, outsource training, IT development functions, financial implications, and work flow documentation.

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• The majority of the projects were related to implementing new process and technologies to solve changing business requirements or to implement new products or services.
• Managed a $20 million integration project implementing a straight through processing solution for the Money Markets, Fixed Income, and Municipal Bonds trading desk by installing the Charles River Trading System.
• BA work - Streamlined the Commission reporting process for all of the Mellon Bank asset management subsidiaries.
• Managed the rollout of system upgrades and maintenance for the in-house developed equity trading system and bond trading system for all equity and fixed income products.

Confidential

 Project Manager & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Regulatory - Delivered the Credit Risk Management System for Swiss European Banking Authority (EBK) Capital requirements successfully, reporting to Basel Miller in Switzerland.
• Designed & implemented a credit risk management system for Swiss EBK Capital requirements ($140M monthly reserve), developed Front Office management reports (CoRep) and automated controls on an Access database.
• Worked domestically and overseas on the development of the Client Marketing Information System (CMIS, over 400 clients)