SUMMARY:

• Business Analysis supporting Project Managers, Change Management, Regulatory reporting (FR2004, Mifid II, CFTC/Dodd - Frank and EMIR/ESMA), Fund accounting, NAV calculations, P&L calculation, Complete trade lifecycle, trading, clearing, settlement, custody, netting, margin, collateral management and corporate actions.
• Familiarity with a number of software applications, including technical writing, reporting, implementation and testing. In depth Knowledge of Fixed Income, Equities, FX Forwards, Swaps, Options, Futures, IRS, Repo, CFD, OTC derivatives, warrants & CDS products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software/Technologies: MSOffice Suite: Word, PowerPoint, Excel; Visio, SharePoint, BPS, Impact/ICI, Bloomberg, Reuters, Omgeo (CTM), Tradar, Murex, TriOptima, DTCC, JIRA,PD Plus Pyramid, DTCC, XCOLL, (ICS),Gloss and Geneva

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Part of teh project team in implementation of system Impact/ICI (Fixed Income - Settlement & Clearing)
• Reporting & Integration Testing - Regulatory Operations (FR2004, FINRA, Fails, Customer types, Confirms & Statements), Operations (Front, middle & back including - Fails, settlement and clearing) and Reference Data reports (Customer Setup including Swift)
• Data sourcing, data mapping, data migration, data profiling, data mining and documenting data definitions
• Create data flow diagrams and process flow diagrams to facilitate better system understanding.
• Design different reports and custom dashboards for various user groups based on their business functionalities and needs.
• Analysis of business processes, documentation of those processes, determining user/ system requirements and issues and translating them into functional specifications.(Information and requirements gathering, root cause analysis, gap analysis, use case and process modeling, design test scripts, UAT and Prod testing, developing solutions, and vendor relations).Including Chase to BONY conversion for Fed clearing (BONY Accessedge Reporting)
• Documenting test scripts and assisting in User Acceptance Testing and post-production check outs for rule/system changes that impact reporting processes;

Confidential

FX Projects Associate

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate teh remediation of reporting anomalies (raise JIRAs, document requirements, create test scripts, and perform checkout)
• Analysis and documentation of future state trade and process flow(Using SCRUM/AGILE)
• Point of contact with respect to inquiries on regulatory reporting, ensuring appropriate escalation procedures are followed when required (EMIR, (ESMA L2 and MIFID 2) DODD-FRANK(including Part 43 & 45 & DTCC Uploads)
• Participate in exception review working group meetings across businesses, Compliance, Operations, Legal & Technology stakeholder
• Knowledge of regulatory infrastructure (GTR,regulatory regimes)

Confidential

Regulatory Reporting Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Support implementation and execution of re-designed/ engineered processes to BAU to ensure regulatory change requirements are embedded Project status reporting to upper management, stakeholders, and users
• Produce documentation: "As Is" and "To Be" workflows, Business Requirements, "Stories" for development
• Information and requirements gathering, FRDs, root cause analysis, gap analysis, use case and process modeling, design test scripts, UAT and Prod testing, developing solutions, and vendor relations

Confidential

Business Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migration of currencies from legacy to strategic system
• Business requirement gathering and documentation, defining test scripts and UAT planning

Confidential

Wealth Management

Responsibilities:

• Account opening, payments, fixed deposits, foreign exchange business, stock market orders and alternative investment applications
• Provide guidance and assistance to client with onboarding, AML, and KYC issues; in conjunction with compliance, provide guidance and advice on material reputation issues including due diligence findings
• Liaising with internal service providers within teh Bank to ensure timely execution/resolution of client requests/queries

Confidential

Client Service Representative

Responsibilities:

• T+0 Blotter Checks
• Trade bookings, Allocation, matching, confirms & resolving trade breaks
• Resolving Trade breaks & fails to avoid Buy-ins
• Support all types of Dividend and/or Corporate Action processing for Brokerage Operations
• Confirm, clear, and ensure settlement of trades across asset classes
• Trade clearance, settlement, and custody

Confidential

Operations Planning and Analysis Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provides comprehensive analytical support to teh Group Operations Director and COO including pulling data, preparing analysis, and interpreting data from multiple sources
• Owns teh production of monthly Board, Exco, Group OpCo, Business OpCo and weekly operational KPI reporting
• Tracks key actions assigned to either teh COO or Group Operations Director which require analytical support and pro-actively engages with teh leaders or functions involved to support teh closure of actions in a timely manner

Confidential

Operations Professional

Responsibilities:

• Daily accounting and P&L reporting and reconciliations
• Price verification (daily, weekly, monthly).
• Booking of subscriptions & redemptions in teh portfolio system (tradar) and recording switches
• Fund Monitoring: Maintaining internal records for client values and performance, including internal monitoring spreadsheet. Check against Fund Administrator records on a periodic basis.
• Responsible for producing NAV sign off & reporting
• Month end close, including Financial Disclosures and calculation and recording of netting entries
• Booking Trades in teh portfolio management system
• Allocating and matching of teh trades on Omgeo - CTM, (Oasys)
• Trade processing and settlement confirmation
• Oversee teh processing of teh mandatory corporate action events for all domestic and international accounts (me.e. dividends, splits, mergers, rights offerings), ensuring that all events are processed in a timely and accurate fashion. Review of all event records received in from our data vendors and associated processing with teh portfolio accounting system.
• Making sure teh give ups & conversion of bonds have been accounted accurately, Month end Bond Interest checks, dividend checks

Confidential

Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide Accounting solutions to Hedge Funds for independent valuation, investor transparency, and regulatory compliance
• Liaison with external clients to facilitate a smooth on-boarding process and ensure a positive client experience
• Assisting teh London Team in teh preparation of offering memorandum, Prospectus, Articles of Association, KIID, AIID, Side letter, Opening Custody Accounts, Setting up share classes.
• Responsible for teh creation and delivery of Corporate Action notifications encompassing all event types (Swift MT )
• Processes client elections for voluntary Corporate Actions to DTCC.
• Responsible for processing allocations for all types of U.S. Corporate actions (Tenders, Optional Dividends, Exchanges, Mergers, Stock Splits, Stock dividends, Spin-offs, Consents) on teh global custody accounting system.
• Validating and overriding pricing of securities from sources such as Bloomberg, Reuters.
• Delivering Accurate and Timely PNL, Portfolio Valuation Report, Daily Cash Balances, FX Report, Daily Estimated NAV.
• Reconciliation of cash balances and position balances & breaks
• Managing pre settlements and Nostro (cash) breaks for quarterly and non-quarterly trades
• Making and netting of CDS payments on a quarterly basis
• Tracking Swift MT900,910
• Updating of Sarbanes - Oxley Act: Nostro management as prescribed guidelines