WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Business Analyst & CCAR Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing monthly, quarterly, and yearly CCAR submissions within the Finance department for compliance with regulatory enhancements as part of a large multi - year CCAR program.
• Successfully leading implementation of Federal Reserve Bank regulatory reports for Bank Holding Company (BHC) across multiple business streams within CIT; automation mapping reduced reporting effort from 3+ days per stream to few minutes.
• Analyze and interpret business requirements and technical specifications for the filing of Federal Reserve Board quarterly and annual regulatory reports: CCAR, FRY-9C, FRY-9LP, FRY11, FR-2314.
• Work closely with stakeholders, users and IT to formulate business requirements, and provide efficient solutions.
• Perform data migrations between projects, branches, and environments and production support.
• Increased users’ confidence by providing timely customer service and out-of-box solutions to complex problems.
• IT Solutions: Axiom CV - v 9.2.6; OFSAA, Oracle 11, MS Office Pro, JIRA, SharePoint, MS-SQL; Excel, XML, Visio, MS Visual Studio

Confidential, New Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager / Senior Business Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised PMO efforts for senior management; created both high-level and granular reports covering test plans, performance metrics, delivery, data governance, remediation items, operational risks and audit.
• Successfully adopted new management strategies that resulted in a 20% increase in efficiency.
• Tracked project progress and milestones, held meetings, and produced status reports for senior management use.
• Advised financial services institutions on infrastructure (technology/process/people) issues and opportunities for regulatory reporting both financial reporting and risk reporting.
• Liaised with various departments to adapt business requirements into functional specifications.
• Analyzed and interpreted business/functional requirements and implementing technical specifications for the filing of Federal Reserve Board quarterly and annual regulatory reports: CCAR, FRY-9C, FRY-9LP/11, FR-2314, etc.
• Coordinated a series of workshops to gather, document, and finalize business requirements and future workflows.
• Identified potential issues and proactively suggested changes and solutions in transformation process.
• IT Solutions: Axiom CV - v 9.2.6; OFSAA, Oracle 11, MS Office Pro, JIRA, SharePoint, MS-SQL; Excel, XML, Visio, MS Visual Studio

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Systems Analyst and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully lead implementation of FED regulatory reports for Bank Holding Company (BHC) - CCAR, FRY-9C, FRY-9LP, FRY-Y11 and 2314, Call Report across multiple business streams;
• Automation has reduced mapping effort from 3+ days per stream to few minutes.
• IT Solutions: Axiom CV - v 9.2.6; MS- SQL; Excel, XML, Visio, MS-Project, MS Visual Studio, SharePoint, Serena

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used systems and strategies to provide timely and feasible solutions based on Agile system to the organization.
• Performed GAP analysis of business rules, system process flows, and user administration requirements.
• Coordinated activities with software developers, stakeholders, project managers and software testers.
• Met with data subject matter experts to ensure the essential data was available in support of business requirements.
• IT Solutions: PowerPoint, PL- SQL; Aqua Studio; Excel, XML, Visio, MS-Project, MS Visual Studio, SAS

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Advised Financial Services institutions on infrastructure (technology/process/people) issues and opportunities for regulatory, risk and financial reporting: FRY-9C/9LP, FFIEC031, FRY-11/2314; this includes assisting clients to enhance data accuracy, automating manual tasks and adhering to regulatory requirements.
• Assisted clients to implement systems to manage their regulatory capital requirements, market and credit risk reporting, and determine critical gaps in their regulatory reporting capabilities. Dimensions of the work included process, data, information management, analytics, reporting and technology.
• Liaised with various departments at clients to adapt business requirements into functional specifications.
• IT Solutions: PowerPoint, Advanced Microsoft Office, MS SQL, XML, Visio, MS-Project, MS Visual Studio

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Captured detailed requirements and performed system testing for the implementation of a sophisticated dashboard reporting tool that is presented to pension plan sponsors and prospective clients.
• Performed extensive validating and cross-validating of data by writing queries and analyzing XML while performing system testing and production support.
• IT Solutions: MS Visio, PL-SQL, Linux, MS Excel, Access 2003, MS-Project, Monarch, PowerPoint, Serena

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led an implementation of a four-tier trade processing/settlement system, including data warehousing capabilities.
• Developed and managed resources and vendors. Designed and presented project requirements. Led a team of 6.
• IT Solutions: Oracle - 10g and Business Objects XI, MS Excel, Access 2003, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Monarch, PowerPoint

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for front office trading application, supporting U.S. and European equity trading desks.
• Analyzed business requirements of new systems and database, and application architecture of old existing systems to model new database schema using conceptual modeling methods (UML, MS Visio).
• Worked closely with traders to gather and document business requirements, developed test plans, and test cases.
• IT Solutions: Access 2000, PL-SQL 2000, Crystal Reports 9.0, Excel, POWERPOINT, MS Project.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for front office trading application, supporting U.S. and European equity trading desks.
• IT Solutions: MS Project, Access 2000, MS SQL and Crystal Reports 8.5