SUMMARY:

• Strong Technical Knowledge: Hedge Funds, Bank Operations, Treasury Management, Corporate Treasury Management, SDLC
• Implementations, Conversions, Post Conversion Data Cleanup, Reconciliation, Project Management, Analysis
• Well prepared to provide exceptional deliverables and contribute to optimized work - product delivery through solid skills in organization, communication, and negotiation
• Collaborated with technical, product and business teams to implement programs and achieve their goals
• Effectively coordinated projects across multiple internal and external client organizations resulting in significant process improvement
• Multiple engagements with large banks, investment and financial institutions with expertise in front, middle and back office operations; including mergers, acquisitions, migrations, new implementations, accounting, audits, valuations and reporting
• Uniquely positioned to deliver extraordinary results in business-process management, solutions implementation, and service delivery, combined with expert-level technical proficiencies, in a Project Management capacity
• Financial Professional with extensive expertise in ABS (Asset Backed Securities), CLO, CDO, CMO’s, ACH, Alternative Investments, Balloons, Bank products, Bullets, Capital Markets, CDS & TRS, Commercial Credit, Commercial Loan, Derivatives, ETF’s, Equities, Fixed Income, Futures, Hedge and Mutual Fund, Institutional Trading, Mortgage Backed Securities, Treasury Management, Options, Physical Securities, Private Equity, Private Placements, Standby Letters of Credit, SWAPS, Syndicate Trading, Treasury Management, and Total Return Swaps
• Expert in Business Delivery and Operational Effectiveness able to provide ongoing, timely, and accurate analysis of monthly financial results to support month-end and quarter-end close processes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct system build, integration of AD & CMDB troubleshooting and configuration updates
• Develop, support and maintain all required system design, attributes and build documentation
• Work with stakeholders to understand the current processes and requirements
• Contribute to the update and development of testing scripts and materials
• Actively participate in all phases of the testing lifecycle and performs unit, system and integrated testing tasks and activities
• Complete specific team task activities which will extend to other software
• Developed a comprehensive standard operating procedure guide using MS Visio and businessprocessmappingbest practices
• Attend team meetings to discuss team and project related activities, work tasks, and issues
• Create and maintain regular status reports and provide verbal and written status to Project Managers and project leadership, as required

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business and Technology Services (BTS) is responsible for maintaining the data integrity relating to servers in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
• Working under tight timelines in preparation for annual asset management audit
• Tasked with following up with hundreds of “server owners” to validate data within Abbotts CMDB
• Validate from a master spreadsheet, in SharePoint, sending email communications and following up until needed responses are received
• Responses are then recorded in a mass import spreadsheet and attached to an ITSM ticket for CMDB updates
• KPI’s are tracked and progress reported to Sr. Leadership

Confidential

Business Analyst Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided Cash Management product and industry expertise to the organization with a primary focus on supporting Implementation of ACI commercial online business platform
• Accountable for 200 Commercial (Middle Market) online banking clients which included researching Treasury Management product portfolios, confirming user entitlements and liaising with internal business units to identify unique requirements
• Functioned as central point of contact throughout client transition to the new ACI commercial online business platform
• Primary focus was consultation to the Commercial (Middle Market) online banking clients clients in balance reporting, managing account views, all aspects of ACH and wire transfer payments (migration and creation of templates, payment creation and reporting, NACHA file format conformance), fraud mitigation (review of Positive Pay exceptions), archived image retrieval, alert management, and exporting to 3rd party applications
• Lead needs assessment / implementation analysis sessions to gather and document configuration and service settings for new product implementation and contacted clients to assess interest, needs, and availability via webinar
• Fielded, troubleshot user conversion issues, escalated complex issues to conversion response team to ensure a seamless transition to new online platform driving reported issues to resolution

Confidential

Master Data Systems/Tax Analyst

Responsibilities:

• VMD systems/tax analyst worked closely with Tax, Accounts Payable, IT, and Purchasing to maintain accurate and appropriate tax documentation, and monitor performance/compliance in conjunction with Tax department
• Provided direct support for projects, daily business activities, and supports the VMD team, including providing specialized technical and business knowledge regarding US tax form collection and tax code assignment
• Instrumental in the development, identification, and implementation of system modifications to improve productivity regarding vendor set-up, monitoring VMD system performance, and tax form collection and coding
• Applied appropriate tools to collect, correlate and analyze data: records and maintains technical data in vendor records

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of new accounting and expense software; transition from Replicon and Sage to Intacct and Nexonia
• Revised monthly travel (American Express) reconciliation from a manual to an automated process
• Financial Reporting, monthly, quarterly, accounting closes
• Prepare federal and state tax returns for partnerships, S corporations and individuals
• Research filing requirements and tax issues using internal revenue code, treasury regulations and other relevant authorities/guidance

Confidential, Chicago & New York, NY

Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Accessed current financial business processes and procedures to align the same in Workday
• Responsible for configuration planning for Workday functionality, requirement analysis, data privacy, data validation, testing of business processes and integrations as part of full life cycle implementation
• Configure and run calculated fields, custom reports, advanced reports, EIBs and Core connectors as required
• Gathered and designed global and local requirements for Workday BPs for Core functionality

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed process of daily ACH payments and weekly checks to vendors
• Managed a team of 7 AP specialists, assigned tasks and produced procedural processes documentation
• Executed data Conversion from PeopleSoft to Workday, ensuring the integrity of the data
• Facilitating team processes; writing and reviewing Unit Testing and UAT test plans and scripts when necessary
• Created customized Excel template for accounts payable month-end analysis and KPI’s
• Reported via deck all Key Performance Indicators for AP department
• Reconciled large sets of data for vendor payments (i.e. companywide use of Telecom, Data, FedEx, Staples
• Enter Fixed Asset Additions and Disposals in Workday Financial Software

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Sr. Investment Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Daily and monthly reconciliation and analysis to be included in the report package to the Board of Directors of 3-billion-dollar investment portfolio to custodian and over 30 internal general ledger accounts using SAP Financial Management
• Reconciled general ledger accounts
• Performed balance sheet and income statement analysis
• Analyzed variance explanations for Executive review
• Performed month-end close
• Complex calculations for MBS, CMBS, (CMO’s), Bank Obligations, NCUA Guaranteed Notes, Bullets, Balloons, Derivatives, Muni’s, and utilized solid analytical skills to determine and reconcile principle pay downs, accrued interest, and coupon payments
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports for internal and external auditors and NCUA call report
• Calculated, analyzed and reported performance metrics for each series of capital; comparing to index benchmark’s

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple credit bureau strategic initiatives including sub code clean-up project where over 77% of credit bureau subscriber codes were identified as either inactive or duplicate efforts and could effectively be closed, resulting in saving 42% of costs
• Analyzed invoice spend and identified opportunities for consolidation and alignment
• Developed and maintained process flow diagrams and activity assessments to design and/or re-engineer Risk Management processes expanding project opportunity and mitigating risk
• Visio for process mapping
• Performed Requirements Analysis for CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review) in terms of capital adequacy, Capital ratios, Equity/Liabilities, Loan Loss, Investment Loss, Load to Value ratios (Under the Dodd- Frank Act Stress Test) for cross-functional project

Confidential - St Louis, MO

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Calculated fee analysis on multi-faceted spreadsheet with multiple scenarios to assist products team in fee negotiations
• Incremental fee analysis using complex pivot and V-lookups that compared and calculated pre/post conversion revenue
• Meeting facilitation, documentation of issues, risks, project status, project plan maintenance

Confidential - Chicago IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined operations and workflow to close office in NJ and transfer all processes to Chicago and Bangalore
• Prepared daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly control reports for senior management
• Supervised audits and safekeeping of securities and processes
• Analyzed operations and created workflow diagrams to streamline all processes
• Calculated and processed FED/DTC factor adjustments, CTAS adjustments and Buy/Sell reclaims for all CMO’s
• Maintained the investment activity and valued portfolio companies, investments and real estate assets and fixed income in the accounting database, reviewed that the unrealized and realized gain/loss was accurately reflected on the balance sheet, income statement and changes in partners' capital for the period