OBJECTIVE

Sr. Business Analyst in Risk Management with a focus on strategic initiatives, process improvement team development

Professional Summary Skills

• Highly driven IT professional with over 10 years' experience partnering with clients in the Financial Services and Insurance sectors as Business Analyst and Project Manager
• Proven track record of problem solving, critical thinking, managing diverse cross-functional teams, decision making, conflict management, coaching, and mentoring.
• Proficient business writing and presentation skills, with credibility to communicate within all levels of an organization.
• Expertise in Lean Six Sigma, Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Solid abilities in motivating teams, planning, managing priorities, resolving issues with a bias for action.
• Extensive experience and functional knowledge in the areas of Credit Risk, Market Risk, Enterprise Risk Management, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Basel III, VaR calculation and Stress Testing, Credit Ratings and Compliance OFAC, KYC .

Key personal qualities: goal-oriented, self-driven, analytical, personable, professional and respectful.

Tools/Programming: Matlab, Excel-VBA, Visio, MS Project, Clarity -PPM, SunGard, Mantas, Sophis, Archer, TOAD SQL .

Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

• Partnered with Risk and Legal business managers and associates in authoring robust business cases, performed ROI analysis and achieved management approvals for the business cases. Once approved, created charter documents, authored business requirements, documented current state and future state processes, authored UAT plans and maintained traceability matrix from requirements to test cases. Ensured project delivery was in conformance with the firm's project life cycle standards.
• Designed efficient tools and reports for the Strategic Risk assessment process and KRI tracking and reporting process that resulted in 80 reduction in process cycle time.
• Proactively identified risks, analyzed business impact and negotiated an optimal solution that mitigated scope creep and ensured that project for OFAC screening of entities was delivered on schedule.
• Led facilitation workshop with AML Strategy team to document current state, identify problem areas, perform impact analysis, and define desired outcomes and an implementation roadmap for the team.
• Delivered key enhancements to improve the efficiency of the Management Control Self-Test Program SOX 302 404 by eliminating bottlenecks and by integrating with the Enterprise Risk platform.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager

• Served as a liaison between Basel III Technology and LOB leads to identify gaps in the data to calculate Liquidity Coverage Ratio LCR and Net Stable Funding Ratio NSFR . Created phase WBS and communicated weekly progress to head-office in Tokyo.
• Researched information from multiple source systems for ABCP, Loans, Deposits and Trade Finance instruments to identify and document source data elements and rules to calculate LCR and NSFR ratios for the BASEL III project.
• Prepared project plans, work breakdown structure, risk log and communication plan coordinated estimation efforts for the implementation phase of the project.
• Developed detailed calculation models in MS excel to support analysis, authored detailed test scenarios and test cases to validated deliverables.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager

• Additional responsibilities included defining project scope, creating funding request dossier, authoring business requirements, maintaining project traceability, creating resource and cost management plans, monitoring project execution to identify risks, developing risk and communication plans and maintaining a project status reporting dashboard.
• Key contributor in the definition of a logical data structure to efficiently and accurately represent municipal debt credit ratings, which improved process efficiency by reducing the number of touch points for annual surveillance.
• Researched Public Finance and Bank rating manuals to identify and document business rules to automate rating calculation of Muni Structured Finance, Housing MBS and ABS credit ratings.
• Managed E2E critical time to market implementation of an automated alert mechanism for USPF ratings based on data and sector-specific variables from external sources such as EMMA, Bloomberg. This reduced manual surveillance efforts leading to over 100k in annual cost avoidance.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Successfully managed time sensitive project to develop a response to Confidential to streamline middle office operations with a focus on the P L process.
• Liaised with engagement manager and geographically dispersed team of SMEs to identify key tasks in the project.
• Created baseline project plan, WBS and schedule estimates monitored progress, coordinated change management workflow and made resulting updates to the project plan.
• Established baseline cash flow for project and maintained budgetary control over project expenses.

Program Business Analyst

• Partnered with Business Relationship Managers and associates in the client organization to Confidential of process improvement. Managed vendor project managers and business analysts, created weekly client leadership status reports, proactively communicated and managed risks, prepared resource management plans, assisted in creation of business cases and RFP responses.
• Proactively developed a business case for implementation of Content Management System for the surplus lines underwriting program, which resulted in approximately 550,000 in new business for the program.

Business Analyst

• Performed end to end business analysis for a new underwriting platform to automate Confidential
• of business in the domestic surplus lines division. Also captured requirements to integrate reinsurance, pre-sales and accounting functions.
• Facilitated workshops, documented underwriting process workflows, authored business requirements and test plans to onboard Financial, Punitive, Property and Casualty lines of businesses.
• Successfully managed a team of onsite and offshore resources to implement over 1500 policy forms.
• Researched and implemented Quick Quote and Quick Bind processes that reduced transaction time by 70 .

Business Analyst

Performed end-to Confidential Securities Clearing Settlement System, Derivative Swaps, Futures Clearing Settlement System