SUMMARY:

• Senior Financial Executive with extensive experience in front and back office operations and systems in Global Insurance (Life, Property and Casualty), Banking, Brokerage, and Wealth Management.
• Unique ability to move project initiatives forward in a cross - functional and matrixed organizational model. Regarded as a “hands on” leader, experienced in building or improving existing operations and technology by applying a standardized lifecycle (SDLC) approach.
• Achieved major s in the integration of multiple acquisitions and management of key strategic projects for both domestic and international operations.
• Expert level knowledge of Excel, Word, Power Point, SharePoint, SQL, Visio, JIRA, TFS, MS Project, Access, Business Objects, Six Sigma Tools, PMP-PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge), HP PPM and CA Clarity.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Strategic Planning and Analysis
• Program / Project Management (PMO)
• Financial Data Management
• Risk and Exposure Management
• SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, RUP, Agile
• Implementation - Build, Test, Deploy
• Integration and Due Diligence
• Process and Infrastructure Improvement Core Accounting Processes (e.g. General Accounting, Asset Management Tax)
• AML/KYC/OFAC Compliance
• Cost Control Management

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a business proposal for Confidential to validate their statement of work for the integration and implementation of a system supporting Confidential on banking side and BroadRidge on the clearing side.
• Accomplished in the design, development, and management of highly effective Operations, IT effectiveness, business process improvement/outsourcing/off shoring, M&A due diligence and integration, best in class global customer service delivery and large-scale processing operations.
• Strategic growth initiatives included global expansions such as country start-up operations in China and India, as well as large complex IT initiatives, transformations, data management projects, data mining and reengineering to create common administrative and customer service operating platforms.

Confidential, Melville, NY

Senior Project Manager, PMO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing multiple financial projects in the Project Management Office supporting the CFO and his team.
• The following projects were involved: EVO Merchant Reserve System, EVO Risk Measurement System, Splunk Network - Service Log Aggregation Remediation, Worldwide Merchant Database, Global Payments Greenhouse System Authorization- Canada, eBalance - Settlement and Reconciliation System and the Sterling System Acquisition and Migration, all utilizing either Waterfall or Agile methodologies.
• As Scrum Master, I worked with the Technology area and the Product Manager to develop sprints (story boards) based on the business requirements, honing -in on product functionality and ensuring projects were rolled out months ahead of time.

Senior Project Manager/ Business Analyst- Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst - supported the Accounting and Technology Areas in updating the Financial System known as Financial Focus.
• The objective was to automate the processing and tracking of the Adult Protection Service Area requests, process the bank Confidential file of benefits received, interest earned, exceptions, and requests to transfer funds and make payments, automate bookkeeping for each client, allow for segregation of duties and internal controls, and simplify the process of recordkeeping, communications with bank and bill payments and integration with Confidential ’ client management system.
• This automation facilitated communications between FMU and Confidential and enforced business rules to ensure proper handling of financial management tasks.

Confidential, New York, New York

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducting analysis on the translation of old data to new data attributes to ensure required reporting needs were met for Day 1
• Ensuring the data in scope was Operational Risk data (issues/action plans, risk events/losses, control evaluations, and testing - Sox, etc.)
• Interacting with multiple stakeholders across the PMO / Technology / Business teams
• Engaging in various data analytic functions across the firm from multiple sources and formats
• Proactive communication of reporting modifications and process changes to contributors based on senior management requests and personal observations.
• Ensuring key trends, issues, and watch items were brought forward into management summaries clearly.

Confidential, Je rsey City, New Jersey

Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developing BRD’s, Technical Design Document, and UAT plans.
• Supporting the Global Management Reporting System team (GAAP, IFRS 9, BASEL 2 & 3 and statutory).
• Sharing extensive experience with FP&A, PnL, and Capital Market product knowledge, which included MBS/ABS, UST, Agency, Corporate Bonds, Repo, Tri-Party, FX, Derivatives, ETFs, and OTC Derivatives.
• Supporting the Prime Brokerage Area, Product Control, and Regulatory Reporting initiatives.
• This required Confidential to project its regulatory capital under stress conditions and demonstrate to the Fed that it met the minimum regulatory capital requirements. These requirements include leverage and risk-based capital requirement. This included Annual quantitative evaluation of prospective capital adequacy under a specified baseline plus two (2) supervisory stress test scenarios, modeled by both the banking organization and the Federal Reserve using its own independent models.

Confidential, Jersey City, New Jersey

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supporting a new DVP Recon Process for the Confidential ’ Project, which involved 800 accounts with $10 Billion AUM and contract negotiation management with Confidential and Confidential .
• Also, developed reports utilizing Confidential - Confidential software for Confidential ’ Asset Management Business. Responsible for test plans and test case management through a JIRA testing process.
• Developing new Client on Boarding workflow initiative for Santander Securities, which included forms, e-Signature (Topaz), and entitlements end to end.
• Creating a new Mobile Check Deposit process for 360 Investment Advisors and IBDs using two vendors, Remit Pro and Confidential .
• Responsible for writing BRD and functional specifications, which included use cases and project estimates and test cases.
• Supporting the International Risk Committee responsible for managing Pershing’s IRC Charter, which protected the reputational credit and operational risk of the firm. I additionally led due diligence reviews of clients conducting international business by utilizing input from Compliance and KYC departments.
• The reviews were in conjunction with the Pershing Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Manual and the OFAC Compliance Manual, along with the Confidential Act and other relevant regulations.
• This was to understand the regulatory, credit risk, and operational risk landscape of our current and prospective international client base, and the implications of conducting business in various international jurisdictions.

Confidential, Jersey City, New Jersey

Senior Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Global Technology Operations Excellence for $130 million Location Strategy, RTB/CTB initiatives, programs, and projects during the PMO lifecycle.
• Location Strategy is a global initiative to move headcounts from high cost locations to lower cost locations.
• The Portfolio Manager acts as the primary point of contact for Program Directors, playing a vital role in the overall reporting of program health and governance by assisting the Program Directors in the development of in-scope business cases, ensuring completeness, quality and alignment to the various internal controls (e.g. HR, Tax, Finance, Strategy, Risk, etc.).
• Also, responsible for the development of the project schedule and tracking in CA Clarity, project object, risk assessment, statement of work, change control, risk and issues log, requirement traceability, roles and responsibilities, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, action items, BRD, technical design document, user acceptance test plan and lessons learned.
• Used tools SharePoint, Business Objects, Clarity PPM and Change Management across the enterprise.

Confidential, New York, New York

Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Global IT PMO responsible for the management of an end-state solution for the Global Portal/Content Manager integration project for Confidential Tax Division and their Marketing Research teams. The solution provided the ability to upload documents independently of any specific workflow documentation for Confidential, FIN 48, and Other Discrete information.
• The project was structured and delivered by a prescribed project lifecycle: Plan, Analyze, Design, Build, Test, User Acceptance Testing and Deploy. Also, responsible the stakeholder management plan and implementation of the communication of weekly status reports.
• Responsible for the development of the BRD for a new Global Tax Portal using Appian for security and IBM Content Manager, which was used to store workflow documentation for Confidential, FIN 48, and Other Discrete information.
• This project included the reconciliation of $100 billion of structured data going back to 1985 and handled multi-currency transactions. Comprehensive Global Markets Product Knowledge {MBS/ABS, UST, Agency, Corporate Bonds, Repo, Tri-Party, Derivatives, ETFs, Equities, etc.}.

Confidential, Jersey City, New Jersey

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• supporting the Finance Division in the development of a Global Management Reporting System (GAAP, IFRS 9, BASEL 2 & 3 and Statutory) known as Meridian. The project required changing Confidential ’s product pricing from Cost Basis to Fair Market Value, which covered IFRS 9 and FAS 157 Pricing for Derivatives Products (Interest Rate Swaps and Credit Default) and Dodd-Frank FDIC regulations. The system was built around an SAP General Ledger that supported all downstream areas of the firm, including Treasury, Compliance, Regulatory, and Management Reporting. Also, supported the London Products’ Control area in developing trade break PNL reports for off balance sheet trades utilizing the Business Object’s tool for data mining. Responsible for managing the outsourcing of business analyst testing with WIPRO by utilizing JIRA into the testing process, thereby automating the execution of unit and functional tests with the BamBoo application. This provided available results within every issue in JIRA, so the team had full traceability. Used tools SharePoint, Business Objects, Clarity PPM and Change Management across the enterprise.

Citigroup, New York, New York

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• supporting the IT PMO/ Business Analyst responsible for writing the BRD and Functional Specifictions for the retirement of the old legacy Citibank Trading System, Economic Trading P&L System, and the Trade Management System for all futures and options on futures’ products onto Confidential ’s GMI Platform, which handled foreign exchange and derivatives.
• The project’s objectives were to produce all accounting entries from one source of financial information to the Oracle GL, provide downstream systems with financial data, and streamline the process by eliminating and automating reconciliations. the Middle Office and Product Control areas in moving the CME OTC derivative products, such as Credit Default Swaps and Interest Rate Swaps, onto Citi’s GMI System.
• Also, developed the business plans for s on the BM&F BOVESPA in Brazil for trading futures, the NODAL Exchange, and the New York Portfolio Clearing Exchange.