SUMMARY:

• Diverse Financial Services Specialist with15+ years of Investment Banking/Financial Services experience and strong leadership abilities. Throughout my career, I have been involved in all aspects of Front, Middle and Back Office Operations including Cash management, P&L, Trading & Operational Support and Management for several top Investment Banks. Confident and poised in interactions with individuals at all levels. Experienced working in a fast - paced demanding environment, which requires strong organizational, technical, and interpersonal skills as well as superior client interfacing. Detail-oriented and resourceful in completing projects efficiently with the ability to multitask effectively. Knowledgeable and Experienced in:
• Credit/OTC/Equity Derivatives Capital Markets/Equities
• Fixed Income - Corporate/Emerging Market Bonds, MBS, FX High Net Worth/Private Client Trades
• Settlements - DTC, FED and Euroclear - Domestic & International Interest Rate Swaps/Options
• Sales & Trading, Client Management Data, BRD/FRD Dodd Frank, FATCA/IRS Compliance, EMIR,CCAR/Basel III
• Documentation/Confirms - ISDA, Guaranty & Schedules Electronic Trade Booking/Confirmations/P&L
• Worked with various Business systems which include: Bloomberg, Market Axess, Oasys, Omgeo, Tradeweb, Summit, PM Calypso, TCM Murex, Impact and Treats.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT/SENIOR BA

Responsibilities:

• Analyze FX and Libor transactions of legal documents pertaining to securities class action.
• Assist Sales and Customer Service Managers with data analysis to provide expert knowledge in various trading products.
• Manage various phases of projects including banking and asset management understanding front, middle and back office asset management operations.
• Engage cross-functional teams to help drive improvements and simplify the operational processes in order for the business to scale for growth through creativity and leveraging the company’s strengths.
• Monitored volumes of trading transaction data and assisted in the process of the settlement and claims process recovery.
• Provided guidance to Sales & Management to increase its return on settlement assets while achieving significant efficiency and accuracy.
• Managing & prioritizing researched data of stakeholders to capture trade data for various projects.
• Researching different exchanges like CBOT, CME, NYSE, to verify daily and historical settlement data for product codes and pricing information in order to minimize trade discrepancies.

Confidential

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Assisting organizations enhance their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and the development of plans for improvement.
• Provide organizational change management assistance, process evaluation, technology implementation, strategy development, or operational improvement services.
• Manage proprietary methodologies or frameworks to guide the identification of problems and to serve as the basis for recommendations for more effective or efficient ways of performing work tasks with a solid understanding of enterprise risk and standards, development methodologies and project risk management.
• Defines the problem through management consultations, team meetings, case framework analysis, and other applicable strategies.
• Basic understanding of information technology and deep understanding of financial domain, particularly in post trade activities.
• Familiarity with Fixed Income/Equity Derivative products in a Trading/Clearance/Collateral Management/Risk Technology role.
• Minimized revenue losses by updating operating system to monitor all transactions are in compliance with regulatory rules in order to sustain a more efficient operational system.
• Monitored employee performance on projects and daily work routine.
• Provided expert guidance to management on the process of changes and problem-solving.
• Worked on several projects simultaneously; coordinated with different departments to carry out operations successfully.
• Analyzed and evaluated organization’s operations and procedures to offer recommendations based on findings; assisted management in identifying issues, sorting solutions and implementing them.

Confidential

DERIVATIVES FIXED INCOME PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities by reaching and meeting all required goals related to the project’s constringent deadlines.
• Created and implemented processes in sourcing the required data downstream from legacy systems (Summit, PM Calypso, TCM, Murex, Impact and Treats) to ensure the quality and efficiency of Regulatory requirements in regards to FATCA and Dodd Frank compliance protocol in coordination with the IRS and the FED.
• Regulatory or Legal requirements such as SEC rule changes, formal regulatory inquiries regarding any Listed Equity Derivatives trade capture or execution systems.
• Capital adequacymanaging the development and implementation of the project risk management framework.
• Part of theT+2 Task Force which is the result of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) proposal that aims to improve settlement efficiency and reduce counterparty risk across European markets (EMIR): a shortened settlement cycle will decrease the length of exposure, improvement in operational efficiency and harmonization of settlement and reconciliation will help ease market differences.
• Subject matter expert of Derivatives: Settlements, Reconciliation, Payments, Money Market, FX, Equity and Metals Trading transactions.
• Document business processes of various groups to derive requirements into use cases, data and functional specs.
• Strong knowledge of quality control techniques/procedures to identify process and control gaps.
• Experience with operational risk analysis, process improvement, end-to-end process reviews and process flow mapping.
• Quality management tools and techniques working closely with several stakeholders across multiple departments, including Senior Management, IT, Tax, Front Office, Onboarding and Operations.
• Project management methodologies: work plans, escalation protocol, dependency management, issue mitigation, governance, etc.
• Served as a subject matter expert in dealing with clients on: UAT testing, test case requirements and functionality issues.

Confidential

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Major Dodd Frank initiative to reduce systemic risk and improve operational efficiency, particularly through the broader adoption of tools to increase the volume of OTC, Futures/Equity Derivatives, and FX trading transactions confirmed electronically via Bloomberg.
• Take ownership of the legal document family agreements (ISDA, CSA and Amendments) and correct all errors in OCR.
• Data management of Credit Risk process flows in an initiative to consolidate multiple security and pricing data.
• Team lead in the preparation of client clearing activities in scope with what will be populated in the CDU system in collaboration with Credit Risk and Legal.
• Cleansing and loading of data (Extraction, Transformation and Processing) in regards to the Dodd Frank initiative.
• Provided Metrics and maintain proper efficiencies in all stages of development and user acceptance testing.
• Managed data management of Credit Risk process flows in an initiative to consolidate multiple security and pricing data resulting in more efficient tracking of revenue and loss.
• Provided metrics and maintained proper efficiencies in all stages of development and user acceptance testing yielding a better operating model in order to capitalize on sales revenue
• Took ownership of the legal document family agreements (ISDA, CSA and Amendments) in correcting all errors in the OCR process and creating a mainstream master document to be utilized by all necessary parties involved within the bank to maximize profits.
• Confidential, SENIOR FX ANALYST, Treasury Finance/FX
• Currency Transfer Breaks: Query data from GL system, investigate and reconcile to counterparty data.
• Settlement Date Breaks: Query trade transactions from UFX system, investigate and reconcile between Inventory System and GL postings, follow up with support teams to clear issues.
• Coordinated and processed monthly financials, budgeting and allocations for the FX derivatives group.
• Ensured all aspect of derivative trade capture; maintenance and settlement are carried out in a timely manner.
• Responsibilities include financial and analytical support activities related to Interest & FX P&L reported within ICG Treasury.
• Run numerous data queries from GL system format and populate data into various FX analyses.

Confidential

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the single broker dealer migration of client & account static data and wire settlement instructions.
• Proactively reviewed current processes to identify and mitigate risk with Front Office and IT regarding Market Data.
• Performed in-depth analysis of performance based cost effective items that contributed to high-risk exposure.
• Analyzed and documented business/functional requirements, formulating and executing test plans with large datasets resulting in problem resolution and improvement recommendations in product management.
• Reviewed and reconciled client accounts to ensure various systems synchronization (Nigel, FPS, NEWS, MCD, IPS and GDI).
• Responsible to ensure the settlement of assigned collateral instructions for MBS deals and escalate all breaks, reconciliation and settlement issues accurately via TOMS (Bloomberg).

Confidential

SENIOR ACCOUNT ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Confirmed with counterparties that all Equity Derivative and Swap confirms coincided with proper language to the ISDA protocol.
• Maintained broad knowledge of fixed income credit sectors (municipal bonds and treasury products), legal structures, and issues which assisted portfolio managers in making timely trades of securities to be bought or sold.
• Responsible for all communication with the business and IT to reach targeted deadlines.
• Reviewed and dispersed correct Swap, Futures/Options and Bond payments to counterparties and run ad-hoc reports.
• Prepared reports reflecting database and data analysis activities for market data with meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.

Confidential

SENIOR OPERATIONS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Reconciliation of open transactions related to the mitigation of trading, financial and operational risk and the handling of ad-hoc requests.
• Assisted the IT team with the development and implementation of the swap reconciliation tool for the Summit trading system.
• Equity derivatives products traded including OTC & Listed Options, Equity Linked Notes, Swaps and FX.
• Functional testing and documenting scenarios in order to facilitate a better understanding of the Summit trading system.
• Liaised with account executives to submit RFPs in a timely manner and ensure there consistent with the conveyance of the point of view.
• Managed all RFP submissions and confirmed there attached to the appropriate sales account by key market segments.
• Worked with business users to analyze and document business requirements, system functional specifications, screen design and user interface.

Confidential

DOCUMENTATION ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Confirmed trade documentation reflects proper economics and agreed ISDA Protocol (Credit Derivatives, Equity Swaps and FX).
• Effectively managed entire documentation process in order to minimize operational risk (paper confirms and electronic platforms).
• Applied knowledge and understanding of dealers and products to ensure the appropriate prioritization of outstanding items.
• Coordinated with dealers to resolve any discrepancies and unresolved issues.

Confidential

ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of the Daily P&L for the Asset Liability Management Area and analysis for Fixed Income Derivatives Trading.
• Daily Preparation of Market Rates Package that generates the Daily Yield Curve for the Branch.
• Performed analysis of Asset Liability Management area to evaluate credit risk performance and to ensure the compliance with internal risk and rating methodologies.
• Analyzed and produced daily market price conformity report for trades with large deviations in order to minimize risk.

Confidential

EQUITY DERIVATIVES ANALYST

• Reconciled positions and trades between the MO risk management system, (Summit) and records i.e. TMS, ITS, RISC and MTS.
• Adjusted portfolio products and trades (Commodities, FX, Cliquets, Range Options and Best off/Worst) according to deal documents.
• Reviewed structured products and trades from smart ticket or paper tickets for accuracy and completeness and booked structured trades in MO P/L risk systems (GEDS, Summit, and Spreadsheets).

Confidential

ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Worked with third party vendor applications (Omgeo) to proactively maintain current market settlement information for customer accounts.
• Valuations subject matter expert in documenting functional specifications and data sourcing for International Trades (FX).
• Managed requests for new and updated accounts as well as analyzing requirements and defining solutions using to upper management.
• Identified problematic issues and proposed infrastructure overhaul to maximize efficiency and accuracy.
• Added and maintained settlement (DTC, FED, NOSTRO and Euroclear-International and Domestic) instructions integrity.

Confidential

SALES/TRADING ASSISTANT

Responsibilities:

• Researched data requirements and closely worked with traders to ensure clean and complete risk representation.
• Confirmed all electronic Fixed Income (MBS and CDS), cash, foreign exchange and credit derivative trades.
• Calculated and amortized interest expense over the life of all bonds as well as the accretion value until maturity, utilizing Bloomberg.
• Reconciled trade breaks with internal functions and external brokers to verify DTC, FED, NOSTRO and Euroclear settlements.
• Cross d market data and coupon payments via Bloomberg to correctly calculate the Net Asset Value of daily P&L.