OBJECTIVE

• Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager, with a strong background in technology and finance, looking for a position where I can apply my analytical skills and experience toward tangible solutions.

SUMMARY

• Excellent finance, research and analytical skills.
• Strong experience of ten years in credit/market and operational risk with a variety of asset classes.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Good understanding of the financial markets, both equities and fixed income, as well as the Basel regulations, CCAR and Dodd Frank regulatory framework, securitization market and financial modeling techniques.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SPPS, MATLAB, R, SPLUS, Mathematica, Stata, Gauss, Eviews, SAS
• SQL, Visual Basic, VBA, Access/Excel, ASP, C++, ERP, CRM
• Business Objects, Cognos, Microsoft Office and several reporting software packages.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Founding member and major contributor of the Natixis’ data quality and governance program. Built and maintained the firm - wide issues log and spearheaded various remediation processes. Initiated monthly data quality/governance meetings to build a framework, rules, policies and guidelines to ensure that the firm’s data/information assets are formally, proactively and properly managed.
• Participated on data quality, enhancements and validation of critical data elements and setting up rules to measure data quality by identifying golden source critical data elements, data dictionary, implementing data quality checkpoints, mapping critical data elements to database attributes and finally creating dashboards for business users to take ownership of the data quality rules and the overall process.
• Built a set of metrics to assess the accuracy, completeness, consistency and timeliness of the various issues log components. Informatica Data Quality, business intelligence tools (Tableau, Datawatch), as well as Collibra Data Governance were used to gather and present metrics on rules, exceptions, outliers, etc.
• Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager in the Confidential group, implementing shadow booking of major entities throughout Natixis’ internal booking systems, risk management systems and finance and regulatory systems.
• Major participant and involved in building and implementing a middle layer engine allowing finance and liquidity risk adjustments to be performed in-house by multiple business users. Gathered requirements, wrote business requirements and guided every aspect of development and testing.
• Worked on implementing a framework to store all business/filter rules as objects across all work streams.
• Participated in multiple projects and work streams with regard to enhancing stress testing and Trade Control Engine support of intraday risk derivation for multiple risk groups.
• Drafted weekly/periodic project status reporting and governance reporting, business and functional requirements and worked closely with the all the end users, development team, QA, onshore and offshore teams, and other stakeholders.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior BA in implementing two major BASEL regulatory initiatives - BCBS 239 (Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting) and BCBS 270 (Standardized Approach for measuring Counterparty Confidential ) from their initial concept/design to full implementation and go live.
• Worked on both of these projects, end to end, including determining design requirements, business data metadata, developing functional designs based on users’ feedback and involved in testing the prototype product. Several technologies were used in the process, including but not limited to SQL, Python, MDM data management, HTML5 and Datawatch for GUI development, etc.
• Drafted weekly/periodic project status reporting and governance reporting, business and functional requirements and worked closely with the all the end users, development team, QA, onshore and offshore teams, and other stakeholders.
• Senior Business Analyst on CCAR stress testing initiatives including gathering requirements and identifying data sources for multiple asset classes and trading desks. Participated in building out of the risk engine for CCAR’s baseline, adverse and severely adverse scenarios and finally implemented a reporting infrastructure to support internal as well as external regulatory requirements.
• Created functional requirements and research supported documents that were presented to internal and external stakeholders including regulators. Preformed reconciliations and responses to regulators by working with Treasury Controllers, Credit and Confidential, IT and Operations.
• Created and provided complex ad-hoc Basel II analyses for managers via Business Objects, through the client version as well as the web portal.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Team lead in implementing two major regulatory initiatives - the Legal Lending Rule (DFA Section 610) and Single Counterparty Credit Limits (DFA section 165e) from their initial concept/design to full implementation and go live.
• For both projects, I’m the lead PM and BA for both counterparty identification and exposure calculation work streams - which aim to analyze the identifying, capturing and consolidation of all counterparties’ exposures through many HSBC’s legal entities and hierarchies.
• Worked closely with business users, developers and testers to make sure requirements are translated accurately, coded and tested by following SDLC Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Technologies used were, among others, SQL, Business Objects, Python, Jira, Tableau, SPSS, etc.
• Business Analyst for Volcker Rule implementation, including its various risk metrics work streams - risk limits and position limits, VAR and stress VAR, risk sensitivities, inventory ageing and turnover, RENTD calculation, etc.
• Participated in initial discussion with other teams in their effort to comply and implement other global regulatory initiatives, such as EMIR Regulatory Reporting of OTC Derivatives, Basel III Liquidity Ratio Rules, etc.

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Management of all resources that form part of the delivery team for the program, incorporating all resources and their activities into clearly stated defendable plan for a variety of regulatory projects. Effective stakeholder management relating to the project, ensuring through both day to day management, and in governance, that project status clearly articulated and timely in its delivery.
• Participated, reviewed and analyzed in Treasury’s involvement to regulatory reporting requirements, including CCAR, FR Y-9C, and Basel 2.5. Worked on monthly and quarterly variances with treasury analysts and risk managers to identify the issues and propose fixes/solutions.
• Reviewed statistical Confidential models (VAR) in commercial banking, corporate finance and capital markets and their direct impact on regulatory initiatives (Dodd Frank Derivatives rule, Volcker rule, Basel III, etc).