SUMMARY:

• Nathan Segal is a seasoned financial professional with over 20 years of experience, specializing in capital markets and wealth management, financial compliance, and regulation. As a Sr. Technical Business Analyst and Product Owner, Nathan has successfully managed the development of a wealth management product for a leading global investment management firm, as well as the creation of an online accounting platform for a payment product. In addition to his compliance work, Nathan has led various capital market initiatives, including designing data warehouses for fixed income, investment back - office, and middle office functions for major global brokerage banks. His proficiency in both business and technology allows him to communicate effectively with all levels of an organization. Nathan has a proven track record of driving comprehensive digital transformations and enterprise-wide operations in the banking industry. He excels at analyzing customer requirements and developing optimal solutions to meet their needs, making him highly effective in his role. Nathan is Highly effective in:
• Business Analysis
• Workflow Design
• Quality Assurance
• Content management
• Project Management
• AGILE Scrum methodology
• PMP, PMI-ACP
• Risk Management
• Basel II / III
• BCBS 239
• CCAR
• Credit & Market Risk, LRM
• AML Compliance
• Actimize Trade Surveillance
• Core Banking
• Insurance Management
• Investment Management
• SOX, Volcker
• Back Office Process
• Operational Risk
• Change Management
• Product manager for online payment solution - Lead Road map for financial / accounting payment online - payment software.
• Led Trade Surveillance tuning activities - Segmentation and data analysis, scenario analysis and writing analysis decks, and Tuning report for the Model Validation and the regulator.
• Developed the FRM (Financial Risk Management) practice to follow US regulations. This included - CCAR, Basel III regulations. LRM (Liquidity Risk Management), BCBS 239, and PPNR reporting. (Matrix)
• Analysis calculation processes. Acted as a focal point between the business unit and the IT development team. Provided Business Specifications and supported business process development and acceptance testing. ( Confidential )
• Senior Consultant and team lead at KPMG. Lead the Basel II regulation validating process in a major bank and Credit Card Company. Trained and mentored all staff levels in the IT Advisory Practice. Business consultant for internal audit in the investment management process, writing proposals for projects, and managing the project budgets. (KPMG)
• Project Manager and Senior BA for back Office / Middle Office implementation and development project. Responsible for delivery of new development for the client, managing JAD and status meetings with business stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Industry Knowledge: Basel II, III Risk Management Core Banking Investment management Volcker Credit Risk, Market Risk, LRM Management Consulting SCRUM Master SOX 404, ITGC PMP, PMI ACP Policy Insurance SAS 70Skills: MS Office Suite Data Warehouse (Excel, Access, PowerPoint) JIRA Business Objects Salesforce MS Project & Visio AWS SharePoint Tableau DBMS: Oracle, DB2 Java / .net SQL Server, SQL Developer ACL, IDEA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles County, California

Senior Business Analyst/Product Expert

Responsibilities:

• Senior Business Analyst - Product SME - Wealth Management product for Tier 1 US Clients
• Senior Business analyst for multi-year implementations of firm’s wealth management client reporting system:
• Project lead for multi-tiered initiatives for major domestic asset management firm:
• Configuration and implementation of firm's testing environment to enable testing of end-to-end system processing of transactions and account positions.
• Integration of processing and reporting for accounts of firm's highest-net-worth clients with those of remaining clients, to enable consistency of reporting of positions and transactions across all portfolios managed by firm.
• Lead a new initiative for RIA Customers using the system as External advisor trough Tier 1 customer.
• Conduct analysis on clients' project objectives and define optimum solution
• Deliver agreed-upon products within committed timeframes; while managing scope and change rigorously
• Strong understating & experience in Asset Management Servicing Or Investment Management Servicing with focus on following: Transaction management (confirmation, settlement, failed trades) Derivatives servicing and collateral management
• Data management
• Corporate action processing across all custodians
• Reconciliation and control
• Investment record keeping Information delivery and end-client reporting
• Performance, analytics and risk

Senior consultant / Project lead

Confidential, Toronto/NJ

Responsibilities:

• Lead Volcker Market abuse risk assessment for multiple regions.
• The Volcker market abuse report includes all global regions (US, CAN, APAC, EMEA), and risk assessment
• Translate business needs into requirements, identify opportunities for process improvement and ensuring delivered solutions meet business expectations in managing/mitigating risks.
• Assist in devising and implementing efficient processes for data management and analysis to create standardized automated reports.
• Assist in the risk assessment of existing controls in adherence with enterprise risk assessment procedures and standards.
• Analyze and process data relevant to Key Risk Indicators and Key Performance Indicators to monitor the effectiveness of the Trade Surveillance program.

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Product Owner /Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the SaaS platform development of C.M.S. (Case Management System) software's AWS - online payment and accounting modules. The process uses a financial payment transaction from cloud apps (ACH and Credit Card) into the AWS JSON file interface (Rest API).
• Data mapping and data analysis and visualization and automated reports by using Tableau and Jaspar analysis tools.
• Led Feature design, firmware, Mockup upgrades, and break/fix updates through stakeholder review, approval & delivery using Agile/Scrum tools JIRA and Confluence.
• Created a Financial data reconciliation process between the API financial transaction trough AWS to the bank account statement transaction.
• Managing Backlogs requirement, creating EPICS, and monitoring the development Jira system.
• Financial Planning and Analysis - Design financial reports in multiple dimensions using the accounting segment.
• The product includes - API - AWS financial interface, Banking reconciliation, Payment API, Financial / Accounting reports.
• Writing User Story Mapping, Using Case Diagrams, Sequence Mapping, Flowcharts, System Context Diagrams
• Created SOW, Risk management status, Decide for the M.V.P. and POC process for the development of the product.
• Salesforce -Using Salesforce CRM module to monitor customer request and project activities.

Confidential, Greater New York City Area, NY

Sr Consultant Analyst Trade Surveillance

Responsibilities:

• Led financial crime Actimize trade surveillance solution for BMO.
• ATS Modeling tuning project For BMO
• Reviewed the trade surveillance alert by business lines and product according to Volcker desk and trade books.
• Analyzed the tuning thresholds for Actimize MSE - OMT (Market surveillance enterprise).
• Analyzed the Segmentation process, transaction monitoring, and data mapping.
• Analyzed the extract data by using Tableau to create multi-dimensional analysis and reports.
• Wrote review reports, including drafting issues and proposing recommendations.
• Main Product asset class - Fixed income cash & derivatives, FX, Equity, Commodity.
• Advised the Compliance team with the tuning thresholds to minimize the false-positive alerts.

Confidential, Greater New York City Area

Senior BSA

Responsibilities:

• Liaising requirements of life insurance product life cycle, regulations, and configuring of systems in accordance to the business requirements.
• Leading the requirement for life insurance policy management. Analyze policy events and configure to the system - Underwriting, New business Reporting, and letter, Billing and Collection, Policy laps, Claims.
• Led Billing / Collections, compensations (Agent commissions) and accounting module and process.
• Analyzed products and modified to US regulation- Term, Whole Life, and Universal Life.
• Led an XML interface process and wrote BRD and system analysis per the client’s requirement. s requirement.

Confidential, Jersey City

Senior BA- Project Manager & CCAR BA (Capital market)

Responsibilities:

• Senior consultant - change management at Confidential . Led AML/ Trade surveillance compliance- change management process & Quality management. HSBC - monitoring and Tuning of AML threshold in accordance with the technical specifications.
• Risk Management practice: Worked on risk regulatory projects BCBS 239 For Basel III, CCAR, and LRM (BNP Paribas)
• Project Management and Senior BA: Led the AML/Trade Surveillance activities for fixed income and equities: BRD, Implementation of incident methodology, monitoring threshold. Liaised with the users and the development team. Acted as the focal point for QA and production problems. Reduced production Incident projects by 70 percent.
• Reviewed the bank's AML Actimize implementation. Performed data visualization and pointed out discrepancies in data. Reviewed the ETL process with the client where errors were discovered and corrective actions were suggested.
• Senior Business Analyst for Risk Management practice - Basel III, CCAR, and PPNR reports (BNP Paribas).
• Analysis CCAR report - FRY14Q, FRY14A, including - data mapping, data aggregation.
• Created data analysis and visualization using analysis tools (Tableau) for auditing and examining transactions and automating reports.
• CCAR Data governance project - Advised the banks about the data lineage process, risk data aggregation, and controlling process. The CCAR data analysis used Tableau as an analysis tool.
• Checked the accuracy of the RWA process following the segmentation of the credit and the CRM (credit mitigation) CCF, LTV (Lost transfer value), (The credit conversion factor).
• Data Management - Created data mapping and lineage process flow.

Confidential

Product Owner & Senior BSA

Responsibilities:

• Contracted with Malam - Payroll to support an on-site pension fund back-office application. Led the new pension clearing system process and acted as the project manager within the “ Confidential ” team.
• Senior BA of a pension-wealth management application project. (Payment process)
• Led the payment process between the pension fund and the insurers.
• Analyzed User's requirements (CR) and produced designed documents.
• Project management and Product owner for a Clearing System
• Led and wrote the Business Requirements Specifications and development documents for the pension-clearing system according to the government regulations. The development process used AGILE Scrum methodology.
• Designed documents of the external interface between the pension system to the payroll system, screen design, and business logic (including table design and DB constraints).
• Designed the full cycle of pensioner payroll process: request, approval, and payment execution.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Contracted for the DWH Fixed Income project by the ‘ Confidential ’, leading the BA and the business requirements for the IT team. Developed Fixed Income return analysis calculation and reporting to the Data warehouse system including Data mapping, ETL, Process flow, aggregation calculations, and reporting.
• Wrote Business Specification for Return Analysis calculation, Duration, modified duration, Return Curve, etc.
• Designed Data Architecture (ETL) using DWH modelling for the fixed income instrument, cash flow, static data, and data mapping from the legacy system to the DWH hierarchies DB.
• Advisor to the SDLC processes implementation from the initial data upload to the controlling report and DWH data analysis.
• Managed JAD and DR Sessions to gather information from a cross-functional team consisting of subject matter experts.

Confidential

Senior Financial Risk Management Consultant and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• for validating Basel II compliance regulations for two major banks in Israel, with a focus on credit risk management (BCBS239), verified the counterparty credit risk including - RWA, CCF, CRM.
• Audited the Risk Module Package (Algorithmic) to ensure accordance with Basel 2 compliance regulations (BCBS239) including retail segments. Led the validation compliance regulations for past-due loans.
• Assurance for Basel II regulation - Pilar 1 and Pilar 2.
• Led Data analysis for credit risk compliance - Checked the RWW, CRM (credit risk mitigation), CCF (the credit conversion factor), checked the accuracy of the calculation process concerning the regulation. Verified the data, segmentation, and data lineage..In-depth use of Excel analysis for risk analysis /database dumps.
• Directly managed a team of 3 auditing employees.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Senior Business analyst for a Wealth Management provident fund application development. Led critical modules development from specification to product launch.
• Responsible for the main module in the Back-Office System Platform.
• Gathering user requirements into the detail design specification.
• Working with the development team: Solving technical problems concerning the specification and the implementation of the system. Coordinating between the system users and the test team for the Quality center.
• Team leader SAP CML (Consumer Mortgage & Loan) and CMS (Collateral Management system) - FIBI Bank
• Implementing SAP solutions Banking - Collateral (CMS) and loans (CML) for bank Loan/Lease and mortgage activities.
• Leading CML Functional activities from the business requirement) Blue Print) to the technical configuration.
• The CML Implementations include - Pre-Loan/Lease activities, BP (Business Partner), Loan/Lease initiation, Loan/Lease life cycle, Loan/Lease Accounting process workflow, Interface from the bank legacy and to the bank systems.

Confidential

Project Manager and Senior BA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a large project for Citibank Israel - Focusing on the financial markets - specifically PD (Primary Dealership). The project involved the customization of the “DANEL -2000” system to the specific requirements of Citibank Israel. The system managed the ‘back office’ for Citibank as Treasury & Balance Sheet Management (TBSM).
• Role focus: Interfacing with the dealer system (‘E- Dealer’), managing the securities of the bank (Fixed income, Equities, FX), executing journal entries for the GL system, and executing financial and accounting reports. This is the best paragraph, all your other ones should follow this format.
• Preparing and executing project plans, Managing JAD sessions for the project. Managing project scope, time, effort, budget, issues, and deliverables of the project.
• Analysis of Financial Derivatives Instrument- Fixed Income, Currency Option, Future, Equities, forward. Fixed Income, etc.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Modeling of adherence to the Basel II requirements.
• Managing and pursuing main Activities of the Basel II project, e.g. production.
• Participates in the design of product architecture solutions.
• Leading the Interfacing (internal and external) & MIS Reporting in the Project i.e. writing specifications for various. trading systems interfaces. The Interface was in Batch file, XML, etc.
• Managing JAD sessions for the project.
• Designing a Work Plan and QA the system.
• Performs integration testing, creates testing procedures and manages activities within test plan.
• Analyzing and reconciling between various systems in the bank, bank subsidiaries and open systems and in the Mainframe.
• Specifying and Designing Accounting Reports for the System (performed in Oracle).
• Leading the Business Object in the Project.
• Reconciling between various systems in the bank.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• G.L project, Portfolio management project and Credit risk project.
• Writing of configuration procedures in Unix operational systems.
• Writing Script based on SQL in framework of Odyssey Systems.
• Analyzing and Specifying Financial Banking Reports, especially CBS (Consolidated Banking Report) and BOI ( Confidential ) Reports.
• Writing of User Guide for the System.
• Implementing ISO - 9000 in the Department.