SUMMARY:

Senior business analyst and project manager for advanced financial application development with broad credit and interest - rate risk management experience

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NYC

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business analysis in support of the deployment of Maker/Checker approvals for new and updated trades and new journals in the Scribe UI by GBT Operations team.
• Work included chairing the daily technology team meetings, developing screen mockups and functional descriptions, and devising test cases and acceptance criteria for the QA team.
• Defined and documented application profile and entitlement changes, and coordinated signoffs, in the firm’s Enterprise Permission Request system to enable permissions to the new functionality.
• Business analysis in support of the deployment of Financial Adjustments in the Scribe UI by GBT Operations team.
• Work included developing screen mockups and functional descriptions, creating process flow and state diagrams, and devising test cases and acceptance criteria for the QA team.
• Defined and documented application profile and entitlement changes, and coordinated signoffs, in the firm’s Enterprise Permission Request system to enable permissions to the new functionality.
• Business analysis in support of the migration of the Fund Transfer Pricing application to the Scribe platform.
• Work included developing process flow and system architecture diagrams, business requirement documents, and the definition of all related Scribe database and reference data tables.
• As part of the migration, loan portfolio data for products previously provided by the Data Warehouse would be sourced directly from the WM and ISG LoanIQ instances.
• I participated in the analysis of the source files and mapping of critical fields to the Scribe data model.
• To simplify the identification of specification parameters required for calculation of the transfer rate and daily charge, I revised the structure of the product definitions for mortgage and non-mortgage products, including the addition of new parameters for unfunded calculations.
• Business analysis in support of the addition of Commercial Real Estate Financing (CREF) and Purpose Lending (RUP) products to the Fund Transfer Pricing application.
• Work included developing business requirement documents, and amendment of all related Scribe database and reference data tables, and product definition files.
• Business analysis in support of the enhancement of the Bank’s CCAR Forward Amortization and Forward Pricing calculators to include Amortized Cost Basis (ACB) and Inception-to-Date Amortization (ITD) for specified CCAR future dates and stress scenarios.
• In addition, the set of interest-rate sensitivities evaluated for all scenarios is extended to include a 200bp downward shift in the underlying curves, and more granular default and recovery assumptions that vary by scenario, future period, and trade are applied for CMBS products in the Bank’s portfolio.
• Work included development of the SRS and coordinating user signoffs for Production release.
• Review of all Scribe reference data tables to eliminate duplicate or unused entries and provide or improve long and short descriptions of reference fields that appeared on user screens. Tasks also included advising development staff on the definition and descriptions of new reference data and ensuring that all reference changes were subject to review by the data architecture team.

Confidential,NYC

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with DMO Technology, DMO Business, Legal, and other subject-matter experts to identify and document how the 60000 impacted documents need to be amended or terminated. Created user stories detailing needed queries and updates, and validated story results and test requirements.
• Analysis included the identification of which existing documents in the two Broker-Dealers might duplicate one another post-merger.
• Assembled spreadsheets detailing use case, expected action, and status, prepared weekly status updates to business management, managed communications with Legal, upstream data suppliers and downstream consumers.
• Coordinated manual update and review of the subset of agreements that could not be automated, provided business support during user testing, and supported implementation planning and governance.
• Business analysis in support of Phase 2 of the general ledger migration of EMEA JPM Entities from the legacy Merit GLS to SAP, targeted for completion .
• Program will replace the Legal Entity and Business Unit identifiers and Names across all document management systems.
• Tasks include coordinating efforts of DMO Technology and other subject-matter experts to identify and document how the 300000 impacted documents on two separate document management systems must be amended, adapting user stories developed during Phase 1 of the project to define the needed queries and updates, and reviewing story results.
• Support also included development of test cases and test environment configuration, preparing weekly status updates to business management, and managing communications with upstream data suppliers and downstream consumers.

Consultant

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Business analysis in support of Confidential ’s Back Office Americas Renewal initiative.
• The program will replace the mainframe NTAPS Equity Middle and Back Office system with Broadridge BPS.
• Worked with Finance, Operations, Compliance, and other subject-matter experts to identify and document which of some 16000 existing NTAPS reports and internal feeds will be required in the new architecture, including Compliance and Regulatory reporting.
• Assembled spreadsheets detailing ownership and usage of the identified feeds and reports, prepared weekly status updates to the project working group, and managed all communications with downstream report users globally.
• Worked closely with offshore team responsible for analyzing required reports and feeds to validate file layouts and format and to develop a data dictionary of required fields that must be replicated by the vendor solution.
• Coordinated with project data analysis team to map feed and report attributes to the data models used in NTAPS, the current and proposed reporting solutions, and the Broadridge BPS/A database.
• Identified and documented current-state process and system flows for Confidential equity products and business lines, including ETFs, Listed and Index Options, Stock Borrows and Loans, Prime Brokerage, and Affiliate trading.
• Work included extensive discussions with subject matter experts in Finance, Compliance, Operations, and Technology.
• Business analysis for the enhancement of the EPIC and ETF Center applications used to facilitate the creation and redemption of ETF shares between Exchange Traded Fund issuers and Authorized Participants. Work included chairing daily scope and functional requirements sessions with project stakeholders and subject matter experts, documenting and reporting the discussion points and significant conclusions, proposing functional solutions to issues raised, and integrating business and technical feedback into the evolving design.
• Developed screen prototypes for all new and amended interfaces, assembled relevant data relationships, and compiled all reporting requirements.
• Drafted and obtained signoffs on all business and functional requirements documents, and post-approval change requests.
• Devised functional test cases, provided business support to the functional testing team and design support to the application technology teams, and participated in functional testing and daily test status meetings.