SUMMARY:

• Corporate finance and accounting project management professional with a history of achieving cost savings and enhancing system functionality.
• Established a track record of tackling and solving tough business and technical problems.
• Strong leader with demonstrated ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels and in all functional areas.
• Spearheaded the transformation of a Waterfall project environment to Agile methodology.
• Project management for projects of broad scope, and technical detail 20+ years of operations analysis, technical analysis, and analytical accounting
• Extensive proficiency with training, facilitation and public presentations Six Sigma Green Belt Technical proficiency with data management solutions (VBA, ACL, SQL,ORACLE, Monarch) Multiple platform data management (Mainframe, VSAM, PC, Data Warehousing, SQL,DB2) Suspicious Financial Transaction detection, analysis and documentation Retail personnel management of 100+ employees, at multiple locations Corporate management of 9 senior level financial analysts 10 years of customer service orientation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, RI

VP, Enterprise Data Management

Responsibilities:

• Business Leader responsible for oversight and execution of the enterprise master data management application.
• Administered the overall function of customer mastering.
• Directed the team focus on expanding the MDM ecosystem through alignment across key internal groups and fostering adoption of the single customer data source enterprise wide.
• Manage business analytical team responsible for multiple concurrent agile project work streams to support data strategy objectives as Chief Product Owner.
• Reduced annualized cost of the support and analysis team by 41%
• Lead the transformation of the technology support team to Agile methodology reducing the capitalized cost of the team by 35% ($2 million annualized cost)
• Lead the improvement of data quality of over 10 million records in the customer master through name and address standardization improvements

VP, Accounting Group Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed the activities of the Confidential Team in providing a second line of defense function which objective is to foster the environment for strong accounting policy compliance. Successfully defended the Citizens balance sheet from erroneous transactions by meticulously monitoring high - risk accounts.
• The Reconciliation Manager is a highly visible position that requires frequent contact with the senior management in many business lines.
• Spearheaded the implementation of the Checkfree Frontier v 5.2 application for all reconciliations bank wide.
• This Involved all phases of project development life cycle from requirements gathering and documentation through training and post completion system and metric monitoring to ensure high performance
• Orchestrated the CCAR Reconciliations work stream for the triangulation of loan level data amongst 3 key submissions and developed analysis of significant differences.
• Presented the reconciliations work stream to the FRB Audit team to demonstrate controls over the data management process.
• Through this process obtained a strong understanding of the reporting drivers.

VP, Sr Finance Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage UK Capital Reporting Team of 2 Finance Managers that analyze, adjust and report on capital requirements for the US Franchise of RBS Group.
• Manage specialty projects for changes to rules and methodology to ensure accurate capital reporting
• Frequently interact with finance colleagues at various global locations to support capital reporting process
• Develop complex Excel models to calculate risk weighted assets and capital allocations
• Work with finance teams in global locations to adjust and produce segment reporting for Citizens In line with Confidential Authority policies

AVP, Business Support Team Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage Business Support team for Consumer Loan Accounting Group including a team of 9 Analysts that provide project management, technical expertise, and consult on business projects with broad reaching impact.
• Manage specialty accounting projects for Serviced by Others, Student, Investor accounting, and all internally originated consumer lending products and ensure compliance with FFIEC rules.
• Provide world class business solutions to facilitate process streamlining and volume increases without the need for additional staff.
• Design, develop and implement End User Developed Application ( Confidential ) control framework for all business units. This involved writing department policy on the development life cycle, testing & documentation plans, and drafting templates for technical, change control, and database integrity inspections.
• Also developed Confidential governance committee to have panel discussions concerning the impact and stability of Confidential ’s in production.
• Program Manage all department projects to ensure compliance with business needs, control documentation and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and manage all regulatory reporting submissions for a diverse portfolio of consumer lending products.