SAMMARY

Detail oriented, dedicated Analyst with national and international work-experience, strong, diverse background in System-Maintenance and -Design, Finance, Planning, Reporting and Analysis. Upholds highest level of professional and personal ethics well-versed in regulatory requirements. Proficient in using multiple information technology tools and applications so to reach top-priority business and corporate goals

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Career Synopsis

Confidential

• Contractual Senior Business Analyst at the Mortgage and Small Business Banking Unit
• Evaluate/document current manual credit scoring process and formulate detail business requirements for automatic Scoring Decision Engine
• Charted and documented 'Special Assets Department' and 'Servicing department'-functions and workflows and drafting comprehensive business requirements serving a sub-ledger to sub-ledger data-migration
• Designed vision and proposed rules through writing business requirements allowing development of an 'Online Banking'-application
• Advise senior management on 'Financial Processing' and 'Servicing' department transition/relocation
• Formulate business requirements to adapt loan origination system complying with the federal Fair Lending 'Equal Credit Opportunity Reg. B' Act
• Analyze manual Customer Credit Application process and writing business requirements for end-to-end automation/development
• Fine-tune federal Small Business Authority 1502 report and define/specify METRO 2 Credit Bureau report and processes
• Identified sub-ledger to delinquency repository system data variances proposing interface enhancements
• Coordinate and control across division the User Acceptance and Regression Testing effort prior to Loan Origination Systems core- and admin-release deployments

Confidential

Contractual Senior Business Systems Analyst

• Provided Financial Control subject matter expertise and acted as mediator bridging the technical- and business-end of Stakeholders
• Assessed growing/expanding Prescription Drug Plan PDP Business Model and advised on seamless integration with applied and new technology
• Analyzed existing finance and operational workflows and advised on potential enhancements
• Assisted in planning and designing a new core application
• Diagrammed 'Current' process definitions for 'To-Be' process definitions serving Business Case discussions
• Wrote Functional and Technical Requirements and -Specifications to interpret and define business rules so to:
• process CMS Center for MediCare and MedicAid Services Part D Direct Subsidies, LIPS, LEP, NMEC- and COB-fee, Plan to Plan and Coverage Gap transactions
• specified comprehensive Aging Reports by Insured Members and Line of Service, Accrual-, Exception- and Variance-Reports defining purpose, justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters
• facilitate the building of automatic Cash- and Underwriting-Statements and -Reports to meet business needs
• improving internal Explanation of Benefits reports development
• Assisted in specifying reports and performing Integration- and Acceptance-Testing for new ASO Administrative Service Organization models sold under the PDP Business Model
• Formulated Test Cases Scenario to facilitate User Acceptance and guarantee Stakeholder Approval

Confidential

Contractual Business Analyst

• Provided high level consulting service to FIS Global personnel to allow the development of the latest generation of commercial loan processing application
• Analyzed and formulated specifications for commercial lending clients and their business needs
• Formulated requirements, managed and monitor commercial lending feature enhancements
• Advised staff on all managerial levels on complex/new banking and fiscal regulation issue to be solved through information technology and changed systems functionalities
• Collaborated with developers and subject matter experts to establish and formulate the technical vision
• Analyzed tradeoffs between usability needs and performance
• Formulated user requirements and technical specification
• Designing presentation templates for project and executive meetings
• Translated commercial lending and general banking knowledge and experience to write workflow and program specifications
• Guided general users, managers and executives through define concepts
• Facilitated interface development, parameterization, code-merging, and testing
• Performed diligent business requirement analysis and formulated development scripts to specify user interface design and data conversion methodology
• Evaluated and documented the quality assurance test results and monitored the performance of newly developed modules within the application as end-user
• Communicating with off-shore, international and national stake holders

Confidential

Business Analyst and Comptroller

• Supervised IT, HR, Billing and Finance department staff of 8 people
• Planned, implemented and Quality Assurance tested accounting system implementation
• Spearheaded updating of the on-site billing package
• Designed and developed MS-Access database for cost accounting/MIS and data warehousing
• Directed financial accounting functions to ensure timely and accurate reporting of clinical financial information
• Developed and implemented policies and procedures according to IFRS and US GAAP to ensure HIPPA, Medicare and Medicaid compliance
• Enforced timely payment of current liabilities, proper control and recording of cash/check Co-pay receipts
• Designed MS-Access database to record and monitor fixed assets and automate depreciation calculation
• Automated monthly Call report securing the Line of Credit
• Drafted the monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements, cash flow report and analysis of variance in accounts, ratios, investment analysis, fee collections and charges
• Implemented QuickBooks Enterprise, replacing time-consuming manual record keeping
• Reviewed third party operational and medical equipment contracts about current market competitiveness and renegotiated conditions with suppliers
• Met on regular basis with auditors, lenders and third party agencies to guarantee proper systems control and accounting
• Drafted the annual capital and administrative budgets as well as financial and credit policies of the clinics for discussion and approval
• Directed the preparation of statistical information and reports for management, physicians, government and agencies
• Directed, forecasted and analyzed the impact of special projects, new services and the benefits of a possible affiliation.
• Reviewed current operational procedures Diagnostics, HR, Billing and Collection and recommended enhanced operating procedures.
• Supervised the selection and training of departmental personal
• Initiated performance evaluation and recommended merit increase, promotions and disciplinary actions
• Implemented biweekly meeting to discuss Finance, Accounting and HR issues in open forum
• Launched documented reference, training and testing platform for all staff to:
• have accurate CPT Current Procedural Terminology applied by the billers and to
• increase HIPPA compliant billing and collection practice and to
• guide practitioners to complete valid fee tickets with accurate Procedure and Diagnose Codes
• Guided the Compliance Officer though timely Practitioners Credentialing and License renewal process
• Drafted IRS K-1 and compilated Corporate and Partnership Tax Return

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

• Supervised and mentored 2 junior Business Analysts
• Daily intra-company Requisitory /Change Management tool maintenance and business process change documentation
• Provided strong link between the Finance team, the Letters of Credits, Bank Guarantees team, the Payment team and IT
• Liaison between the Miami BoA IT team, the Geneva, Switzerland software supplier and the Chenai, India Helpdesk management
• Defined business rules, proposed workflow alterations, core- system changes and applied parameter and table maintenance
• Analyzed FedWire error log to specify vital changes to the payment module
• Analyzed variances in the Balance Sheet, the Off Balance Sheet and Memorandum Balance Sheet to specify necessary changes to the system
• Analyzed differences in the MS SQL Server application and specified changes necessary to the system-tables to guarantee accuracy of the MIS
• Acted as mediator between the Technical programmers and Business end users breaking down the communication barriers between stakeholders and developers
• Bridging the Business Owners needs and the Developers skills guaranteeing that the needs of all system users was met

Deliverables:

• Converting workflow changes into program change specifications
• Describing business processes
• Charting product booking and evaluation processes Derivative products, Foreign Exchange products, Hedging products
• Interpreting stakeholders needs and translate into programmable specifications
• Financial-, control-, evaluation-Reports change, alteration or modification specification formulation
• Systems upgrade and module implementation planning and test script designing
• Formulated pre-implementation test scripts and post-implementation Quality Assurance 'snap-check' controls
• Managed the IRS 1099-xxx and IRS 1042-S project to automate form production and reconciliation

Confidential

Corporate Securities Registered Representative NASD S62/7 and Equity Trader NASD S55

Confidential

Senior Accountant/Financial Analyst/Business Analyst

• Supervised the Reconciliation Dept, the Legal and Statutory Reporting Dept and Finance Dept of 7 people
• Recorded in the Geneva 'Registre de Commerce' as official Manager 'Fonde de Pouvoire' 1995-2003
• Assistant to the COO taking minutes at Board Meetings and monitoring department Head's allocated tasks progress
• Designed and developed comprehensive internal website with MS-FrontPage detailing operational/financial procedures and directives
• Directed the AVALOQ core-banking system implementation project budget and forecast
• Supervised the Project designing, planning, implementation matrix and briefed the Board of Directors about possible deviations or delays.
• Supported internal audit team in setting up guidelines for internal control 'snap-checks' and assisted external audit company during regular and extraordinary audits
• Launched mainframe systems EOD/M/Q/Y processing
• Formulating, documenting, numbering and sampling IFRS, UK and US GAAP accounting procedures
• Monthly interest receivables and payable accruals monitoring and client account/safe custody fee processing
• Guided the Corporate Events Dept in diarizing Security Events Coupon Payments, Maturities
• Stepped in as Managing Substitute for Finance Companies, Brass Plate Companies and Trust accounting and settler/beneficiaries reporting
• Proposed annual budget and directed monthly forecasting process
• Calculated and reported Key Performance Indicators Product Return, Revenue Analysis of Client Investment Portfolios and Fund Management to Senior Management and the Board
• Spearheaded the team automating Swiss National Bank weekly Liquidity, monthly FX- and Securities Positions and Bulk Risk Bank of England reporting
• Facilitate implementation of automatic SWIFT messages processing
• Directed Reconciliation Team in implementing application for automating NOSTRO/VOSTRO account reconciliation
• Performed preliminary analysis and managed blueprint paper for FBAR FATCA Offshore Disclosure Reports mainframe modules design
• Assisted in planning and implementing the KYC standalone application
• Designed and formulated internal compliance and accounting procedure for SOX Sabanes-Oxley

Confidential

Financial Controller

• Supervised Treasury Team then acted as Assistant Controller during the Branch to Finance Company separation and was elected by the New York Board as Financial Controller to manage final wind-down of all operations in Switzerland for Handover to Chase
• Developed Trading Blotter for charting and squaring daily foreign exchange positions to prevent Risk Exposure
• Co-designed a Microsoft tool allowing accurate monitoring and reporting of Fiduciary rollovers and maturities
• Directed Swiss National Bank and US Federal Reserve legal and statutory reporting
• Facilitated daily Interest Rate/Foreign Currency and Securities Trading Risk management
• Represented the finance department in the bank branch's merger with Manufacturers Hanover Trust
• Managed SEC and local Zurich, Geneva Stock Exchange reporting Reduced monthly operating expenses 20K through the implementation of an online risk management tool and enhanced blotter for traders.
• Eliminated time consuming and expensive reconciliation errors by streamlining the accounts department and purging dozens of sub IT systems.
• Signed off the Annual Financials and recommended footnotes for the Annual Reports
• Worked diligently and closely with external auditors to guarantee neat less transition of business to Manufacturers Hanover Trust Chase