PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Front - to-Back “F2B” business requirements, functional requirements, status updates, project plans, roadmaps, Visio flow diagrams, UAT positive & negative test scenarios and scripts; Reconciled project costs against forecasted estimates; Data analytics for patterns or gaps; Tracked milestones and deliverables; Testing; Trained production support; Documented Controls (data consistency, anomalies, data audits & RACI, etc.).
• Pricing Leader - Developed monthly C-Suite and weekly Operating Committee updates, issues, risks, next steps
• Successfully pioneered future 871m Pricing Target Operating Models for equity swaps (TRS, PRS, DPS)
• Achieved regulatory mandate by automating collection and payment - 871m dividend taxes on listed derivatives (SSF); SocGen could continue its business and avoid IRS penalties after sending “ACH” payments
• Detected and Escalated Accrual vs. MTM pricing issues in P&L, Accounting, Client Pricing & Risk Management
• Implemented IRS 2019 tax changes on web-based platform and reconciled tax outputs (1042, 1042-S)
• Created and uploaded technical “XML” files into Wolters Kluwer’s Gainskeeper tax software to identify gaps
• Review and correct developer’s data queries (SQL scripts)
• Stakeholders included Product Control/P&L, Client Valuations, Risk Management-Margin Calls, Operations, Accounting, Tax Advisory, Traders and Sales, Legal, Technology, System Architects, Wolters Kluwer

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Equity Derivatives Tax Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded technology - collected Post-Trade tax requirements: Reconciliations, Operations and Client Reporting; Generated status updates; Depending on release, used either Agile or waterfall frameworks (wrote user stories in JIRA, requirements in BRD, daily scrum sessions, testing, code releases, etc.).
• Fulfilled Regulatory Deadline by compiling detailed front-to-back contingency plans for manual steps and entries; These contingency plans were used, so Confidential could continue its business and avoid IRS penalties.
• Redesigned client reporting system flows to resolve current business gaps and meet future needs; System Architect and Compliance approved my proposal.
• Additionally: Designed new Client Report layouts to match IRS 871m regulatory needs; new system flows adopted as well Provided IRS 871m Tax Client Reporting business and functional requirements to Technology teams
• Stakeholders included Product Control, Front Office Traders, Business Managers, Tax Operations, Settlements, Reconciliations, Middle Office, Technology, Client Service, Architecture, Compliance, ACH Payments and Markit

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led transaction processing requirements on $50 billion Fixed Income business migration from Broker-Dealer to Bank; Covered mortgages - TBAs & pools “MBS”, CMOs, Secured Finance “Repos”, and municipal bonds. Organized front-to-back Technology teams, Operations, Reference Data, Broadridge vendors (MBSE, IMPACT, BPSA), etc.
• Accomplished Retail Bond Platform Migrations (Smith Barney to Salomon), Economic Cancel and Correct for Repos (Treasuries), Margin Collateral Management Straight-Through-Processing “STP” Swaps Clearing, Reduce Cash Settlement Fails, Fed (BONY) and DTC projects; electronic payment mappings
• Achieved Outsourcing - Project Managed release of DTC Vault & Broadridge services, coordinated Ops & Control (Vendor Risk, Audit, etc.), testing, deliverable tracking, C-suite management status reporting; 50% FTE headcount reduction ($700,000+ annualized savings).
• Drove Business Process Improvements using technology by documenting business case, business requirements, current weaknesses, future flows (Visio), SDLC project plans, status reports, issues log (JIRA) and test scenarios and scripts (SIT/UAT), deliverable tracking, testing, and technology code releases
• Queried Oracle using SQL, perform data analytics for requirement gaps on transactions and reference data Stakeholders: Operations, Technology, Corporate Actions, Finance “P&L”, Tax, Ops Control “TLM”, Compliance, Margin/Collateral, Trading (Mortgages, Commercial Paper, Equities, Derivatives, Governments), etc.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technology Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Built Futures & Options Reconciliation to handle 120,000 data records over 93 data attributes
• Delivered $100 billion notional stress test risk exposure report for credit derivatives (CDS, CDO, etc.)
• Discovered and corrected client’s $500 million production error in Copper and Hurricane Katrina risk report. Client received margin relief after production installed a new stress test model (Riskmetrics XML)
• Composed options data retrieval tutorial for new system covering margin requirements and positions - included calculations and data-mappings. Affected 400 institutional accounts, covering 7200 positions.
• Remodeled risk reports to provide margin requirements (SPAN) or Value-at-Risk (VaR) figures

Confidential, New York, NY

Technology Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated START Straight-Through-Processing (STP) Trade Capture Project, integrating data from web front-end to back-office system with focus to retire intermediary legacy mainframe system.
• Retired legacy data application with hybrid technology solution - vendor (Cognos) data analytics software supplemented with internal front-facing web-based and back-end processing
• Produced Real-Time Quotes on Bloomberg for VRDN Notes, using FIX and Confidential transmission protocols. Won divisional award over teams with budgets twice my budget. I led 10 resources.
• Business Process Improvement on a daily print file into an integrated web page and Secured Bond Offering Notification. Saved 30+ minutes each day for trader to manually generate the same results.
• Co-coordinated project to enable institutional clients send Tradeweb CP orders and perform trade allocations. Project cost: $530,000, involved 15 different groups (30 individuals).

Confidential, Jersey City, NY

Technology Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Launched 4 new risk management web-based applications covering Market Risk, Concentrated Portfolios, Automated Liquidations, Margin Book Risk Management using VaR; Minimized unsecured accounts and reduced capital losses by $350,000+; Contributed revenue increase and reduced risk by $300,000+; Eliminated careless manual errors by $10,000+
• Analyzed Basel II data for regulatory purposes - margin, stock borrow, bank, bonds, options, etc.
• Upgraded compliance - fraud reduction, anti-money laundering (AML), OFAC, and cash deposits monitor
• Business Process Improvement on Margin Department’s workflow using web-based application to distribute work-units and monitor employee performance - would reduce Margin Department’s headcount by 20%.
• Enhanced enterprise reporting coverage in data warehouse by defining rules to identify all securities (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc.). Data mining reference data for pattern consistencies and anomalies.