PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Leader specializing in the full end - to-end UAT and Business Process functions with strong expertise in Regulatory and Liquidity reporting as well as Risk Management.
• Managed successful UAT projects on Regulatory and Liquidity programs for Confidential (BDUSA) and conducted UAT business side support on REG-YY/Liquidity and Capital Reporting testing projects.
• Strong knowledge of the full SDLC governance processes and Project Management for large scale technology projects.
• Responsible for establishing project governance processes in order to engage senior stakeholders, business units (BU) leads, and technology (IT) resources.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Derivatives: I-Match, Poseidon, Pharos, Halo, Summit Classic/FT, TSAR, Front-Arena, Confidential /Wire, DTCC, Makit/DSMatch, CharlesRiver, Bloomberg, Numerix, TradeGate, iTrac.

Finance Reporting: SAP, FDW, BART, FAaWS, AXIOM, Saturn, Micro Strategy (MS), Consolidated RAPS.

Database: Microsoft Access, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Monarch, XML

Spreadsheet: Excel, Lotus, DBAnalytics, Summit bridge

Presentation: PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Visio.

Project Management: HP Quality Center (ALM), Share Point, MS-Project, Delivery Tracker, PPM, Clarity, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential New York, NY

Business Process Analyst/UAT Lead Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a Finance SME for business process work streams (Cash Flow Forecast, Liquidity and Internal Liquidity Stress Testing) within the DWS US Treasury on-shore team.
• Assisted with the creation of business and functional requirements documents (BRD’s and FSD’s) as well as in the development of the UAT test plans or strategies for their Regulatory Reporting and Liquidity Reporting needs.
• UAT lead and coordinator on the full end-to-end UAT process (preparing user acceptance test scripts, coordinate end-user testing, review test evidence via HP-ALM, and defect management via JIRA system) for the Liquidity Reporting work stream deliverables (CFF, ILST, FR-2052a, and LCR).
• Served as a central point of contact for all Liquidity Reporting future releases and enhancements as well as development of remediation project plans in relation to the overall SDLC governance for DWS Liquidity.
• Worked with data sourcing teams, DWS Manila Finance operations, and DWS US Treasury director’s team on data gap analysis and identifying upstream systems to parse out the data attributes required for the Cash Flow Forecasting (CFF) downstream reporting via a strategic in-house data hub system (GENI).
• Work stream senior BA on the Cash Flow Forecasting (CFF) and Stress Testing processes and requirements for the FR-2052a daily REG-YY report submission to FRB.
• Developed and created project plans (via MS-Project, MS-Server, and Clarity) including project’s scope definition, deliverables and milestones as well as proper mitigation of project’s risks and issues.
• Responsible for managing part of the Regulatory Reporting work stream deliverables and artifacts including ongoing project updates to senior management; Global Steer committees, Operational Committees (OpCo.), and other project’s stakeholders PMO necessities.
• Senior Business Process Analyst on the DWS Regulatory-Reporting implementation and ready-form submissions for FRY-9C, TIC-BC/BL1/SLT, FFIEC009/009A & FR-9LP reports and schedules via AXIOM templates and upload feeds.
• Created, wrote and updated Key Operating Procedures (KOP’s), Internal Controls Framework, and Run Book activities documentation in relation to the DWS US Liquidity work streams (CFF, ILST, FR-2052a, LCR) and their reporting and submission needs.

Confidential . New York, NY

Business Process Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• BA within the Confidential & the Change Management Regulatory/Financial Reporting team on the StRIDe program.
• Assisted in the UAT phase for the Micro Strategy B-ART (Business Alignment & Recon Tool) and its in-scope deliverables: DBP Integrity Reconciliation, Risk vs. Financials Reconciliation, and OTT’s disaggregation processes.
• Performed Daily Balance Posting (DBP) Integrity recon between SAP & FDW global reporting systems for the DBTC entity.
• Conducted granular reconciliation analysis between SAP vs. FDW aggregated DBP & Non-DBP balances reports via pre-set SQL scripts, queries and Excel Macro’s build ups.
• Identified and reconciled Inter/Intra elimination entries for DBP Integrity Recon process post the IHC implementation for the DBTC global entity.
• Analyzed IHC Regulatory month end reporting processes, KOP’s review and updates, and assisted with the transition of these group duties to the Jacksonville FL team.
• Coordinated the end of the month over the top (OTT’s) tactical approach entries, creation and the submission via the DB in-house FaAW’s system.
• Reconciled the Axiom static report tables and their underlying data results via SQL data analysis and extraction reports prepared by the reporting schedule’s owners and their stakeholders, post the IHC implementation.

Confidential, New York, New York

Business Analyst/Senior Operations Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Traded support business analyst for the Confidential Flow (Options) desk within the Global Business Services America team.
• Daily trade capture support and trade cycle activities for all Confidential USA Rates Options trading strategies.
• Conducted UAT business side support on the Dodd Frank - Volcker Program testing for the Customer Facing Trade Ratio projects via a DB-Volt tool.
• Assisted on the Options Flow desk and book runners’ process to reconcile Risk and FO/ PLN of daily activities.
• Supported Summit Classic vs. Summit FT system book moves & reconciliation via a parallel validations process of Summit using SQL pre-set queries and extraction files.
• Reconciled post-trade level “Blend & Trioptima” compression process with trade workflow validation and Risk analysis.

Confidential, New York, New York

UAT Lead Coordinator/ Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the UAT end-to-end processes (SIT/Regression testing phases) and pre-implementation tasks with vendor’s IT/DEV teams (IMatch-SunGard).
• Created, reviewed and enhanced BU’s test scripts and test cases in accordance to the IMatch new reporting functionalities and the project’s deliverables expectations.
• Aligned UAT traceability matrix and requirements in accordance to business related artifacts.
• Assisted with the project’s strategic architectural framework, functional analysis and system deliverables processes.
• Conducted Post-Go-Live IMatch tool implementation, assessments, and enhancements prioritization.
• Coordinated decommission of all asset classes tactical/manual reconciliation and reporting processes.

Confidential, New York, New York

UAT Lead Coordinator/Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• UAT Lead Coordinator on the Confidential Derivatives Project Group (MS- Confidential -DPG) within the Equity Swaps team.
• Planned and controlled project deliverables for the global renovation and the re-engineering of its core synthetic processing platform for Equity Swaps: Swap Event Management (DPG-SEM) project.
• Gathered and documented business requirements, platform pre-requisites, and richer product functionalities.
• Established and coordinated project governance processes in order to engage senior stakeholders, business units (BU) leads and technology (IT) resources.
• Coordinated UAT testing processes to be in line with the strategic functional and technical architecture of the project.
• Responsible of the planning, test turnover approach and processes to be implemented within the migration, and post-deployment stages of the DPG-SEM project.

Confidential, New York, New York

Business Process Analyst/Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identified and documented gap analysis of enhancement requirements for BNYM/Bridgewater Summit FT manager.
• Reviewed and enhanced BRD’s and Enhancement Request Forms (ERF’s) deliverables.
• Assisted with the build and maintenance of SQL scripts, indexes and queries used for data analysis and file extractions.
• Provided SQL database support based on the business requirements of Manger Queue (MQ) used for Summit FT.
• Set-up data sourcing and conducted UAT testing on the Manager Queue (MQ) adapter functional process.
• Determined, set-up, and test minimal XML import schemas via Summit FT XML and Summit gateway adapters.

Confidential, Jersey City, New Jersey

Business Process Analyst/UAT Lead Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• User Acceptance Testing Project Coordinator on the (MSSB-PWM) Consolidated RAPS project.
• Created, reviewed and enhanced BRD’s, SRS’s and FRD’s requirement documents in accordance to the project tool functionalities under the Consolidated RAPS program.
• Developed, reviewed, and submitted UAT test approach plans to senior management for review & sign off.
• Managed, coordinated, and executed all UAT processes for the Consolidated RAPS project within the Retirement Services, Insurance, and Stock Plan products.
• Reviewed, maintained, and enhanced user guides, KOP’s, and SOP’s in relation to new Consolidated RAPS tool.
• Post-deployment and change management support along with the Quality Assurance (QA) and Development (IT) teams.
• Aided with the of BU operations team, PMO members and end-users with the Consolidated RAPS functionalities.

Confidential, New York, New York

Business Analyst/ UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated, implemented and executed UAT functional testing processes for the DSMatch and MarkitWire Rates projects.
• Assisted with the UAT planning, execution and reporting for the Rates Interoperability, Electronic Allocation Delivery (EAD) and C=C affirmation projects via Summit and DTCC systems data bases.
• Trained operational, implementation and account management team users on new tool functionalities and/or product upgrades as well as user interface (UI) layouts updates.

Confidential, New York, New York

Business Analyst/UAT Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• UAT coordinator for the price re-valuation of terminated IRS swaps population using Numerix Product Solutions tools.
• Reconciled and cross d post-bankruptcy terminated IRS swaps population within Summit and OPTModel data.
• Assisted with the pricing tool assembly using Numerix application objects for all ( Confidential ) post-bankruptcy IRS swaps.

Confidential, New York, New York

Business Analyst/Trade Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed trade capture support activities of 4 major U.S. Rates clients PIMCO, BLACKROCK, JPMIM, and GSAM.
• Coordinated daily risk, book running, and P&L maintenance analysis for internal/B2B/wash books derivatives strategies.
• Liaised with project team leads, trader assistants, sales assistants, and trade support to resolve trade capture root cause analysis and improve overall transaction efficiency via DTCC trade affirmations/confirmations.
• Trained, and liaise in developing the offshore (Jacksonville/Bangalore) post-trade operations and trade support teams.
• Coordinated and assisted with Summit database enhancements, developments, and new rollouts implementations.
• Developed, and documented new controls, processes and procedures for Rates fund clients.

Confidential, New York, New York

Business Analyst/Trade Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted daily trade capture testing for the Global Equity, Fixed Income and OTC Derivatives trading groups within Confidential, LP via the Charles River Manager Platform (Charles River Investment Management Systems).
• Reviewed, implemented and performed pre-trade compliance checks, alerts and warnings testing for domestic Equity Portfolio Managers and Fixed Income products.
• Tested blotter asset allocations, accounting blotter operations, trader’s ownership execution and portfolio managers (PM) reviews via the “Manager Workbench” system platform.

Confidential, New York, New York

Business Analyst/Trade Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global Credit Trading Business Control & Support Unit.
• Trade warehouse back loading data process and middle office support for NY/London/Asia for CDS and CDX derivatives.
• Trade support for credit curve renames and credit events process on the Credit Default Swaps (CDS and CDX) asset class.
• Coordinated with DB-Off-shore (DBOI) and credit trading subunits execution process with curve renames and obligations for Credit Default Swaps (CDS).

Confidential, New York, New York

Credit/Risk Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established, executed and maintained Master Agreements (ISDA, MRA and GMRA) of credit counter parts SPhinX Index.
• Effectively communicated, managed, and identified outstanding issues related to Master Agreements requests.
• Reviewed and managed daily monitoring of exposure positions, collateral valuations, and margin calling/delivery.
• Analyzed unencumbered cash balances from prime-brokers, credit counter-parts and clearing agents.

Confidential, New York, New York

Senior Operations Associate, Trade Support

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated daily depository (DTC) and Contract for Difference (CFD) reconciliation and settlements processes.
• Worked alongside Front Arena’s Dev/IT support teams to enhance and improve loaders automation features.