SUMMARY:

• Business Analysis - IT Development - Risk & Compliance - Project Management
• Senior Business Systems Analyst and Project Manager with over 15 years of experience specializing in banking and financial information systems.
• Strong business knowledge of - Capital Market, Basel II, Credit Risk, Market Risk and investment management operations.
• A unique professional with a rare blend of business and technology experiences, effective at liaising between business and IT as well as communicating with integrity to all levels of an organization.

HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN:

Business Analysis

Workflow Design

Quality Assurance

Content management

Project Management

AGILE Scrum methodology Sales Force

Risk Management

Basel II / III

BCBS 239

CCAR

Credit & Market Risk, LRM

AML Compliance

FATCA

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

PMP

Policy Insurance

SAS 70

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Office Suite

Data Warehouse (Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

HP Quality Center, JIRA

Business Objects

Salesforce

MS Project & Visio

IBM WebSphere

SharePoint

J2EE/Java/JavaBeans/EJBs

DBMS: Oracle, DB2

Lotus Notes/Domino

SQL Server, SQL Developer

ACL, IDEA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaising requirements of life insurance regulations and configuring of systems in accordance to the business requirements.
• 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.
• Communicating with the client and resolving issues, detecting system defects and others concerns of the system functionality.
• Writing complex SQL queries for checking any DB client related issues.

Confidential, Jersey City

Project Management & Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Senior Business Analyst for Risk Management practice including Basel III, CCAR, and PPNR reports.
• Business development documents for new project in the practice of Risk Management and CCAR.
• Solutions Architect and Project manager for the compliance department of Confidential.
• Leading content management project (SharePoint - Wiki) in the compliance department.
• Capital markets trade surveillance, post-trade experience at Confidential
• 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. Reducing production Incident projects by 70 percent.
• Sales force super user- Configure CRM report for senior stakeholder in the company, for achieving target sales goals. The report was by permission user and responsibilities.

Confidential

Senior Business System Analyst & Project 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 for a Clearing System
• 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.
• Designed documents of external interface between the pension system to the Confidential system, screen design and business logic (including table design and DB constraints).
• Data Analysis and requirements of the pension module and investigate defects via SQL DB using complex SQL queries.
• Design the full cycle of pensioner Confidential 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 DWH modeling for the fixed income instrument, cash flow, static data and data mapping from the legacy system to the DWH hierarchies DB.
• Advisor to the SDLC processes implementation from the initial data upload to the controlling report and DWH 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 analysisfor risk analysis /database dumps.
• Leading FATCA analysis project.
• Direct managing a team of 3 auditing employees.

Confidential

TEAM Leader and Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of the main module in the Back Office System Platform.
• Gathering user requirements into detail design specification.
• Working with the development team: Solving technical problems concerning the specification and the implementation of the system. Coordinating between the system users and the test team for Quality center.
• Managing JAD sessions for each milestone of the project. Writing TSQL queries.

Team leader SAP

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and executing project plans, Managing JAD sessions for the project.
• Managing project scope, time, effort, budget, issues and deliverables of the project.
• Writing Specifications, both High Level Design and Detail Design, for Citibank and other DANEL clients.
• Analysis of Financial Derivatives Instrument- Fixed Income, Currency Option, Future, Equities, Forward. Fixed Income, etc.
• Preparing business proposals for various clients, e.g. analyzing and determining whether the software and content development and milestones meet the cost/pricing.
• Writing Specifications of projects for Market Risk Management, i.e. VaR, CAPM.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Modeling in adherence to the Basel II requirements (BCBS239).
• Managing and pursuing main Activities of the Basel II project, gathering requirement for Market Risk functionality including reports and interface.
• Participates in the design of product architecture solutions using Algo Risk Watch application.
• Leading the Interfacing (internal and external) & MIS Reporting of the Project i.e. writing specifications for various trading systems interfaces.