Consulting Manager Resume

SUMMARY:

Asking the “right” why/ how questions
Connect and Communicate small backlog items and larger business goal
Knowing when to push back and when to back off
Commit to the “end goal”
Collaborate to make it all happen
User Experience Research
Ability to quickly pro - type
Business know-how around Financial Services and different asset classes, Regulatory Reporting and capital Calculations
SQL proficiency
Scrum Methodology, JIRA set-up
Experience with third party applications like OFSAA and AxiomSL ControllerView
Product Owner with 13 years of successful experience in deliveringdigital transformations of regulatoryreporting process in Agile/ Hybride Agile
Partner with Management, Business, Operations, Technology teams to launch a new/ enhanced product to market
Responsible for Providing clear statement of vision, direction, release purpose and goals.
“Single Voice” for priority and acceptance of what to work on for delivery that ensures maximum business value
Experienced in engaging with business and eliciting requirements, documenting use cases, pain points and feature enhancements
Develop features and user stories for modular development
Self Starter, ability to thrive in a fast paced environment and make an impact, effectively collaborate and communicate across different levels/ cross functional teams to deliver business value and client centric solutions

WORK HISTORY:

Consulting Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Large scale Research and Automation projects for Confidential Regulatory and Management Reporting Division for streamlining workstreams through process diagnosis and providing end to end business solutions which enables high end cost savings and effeciency in workflow management.
Research and understand client requirements (stated versus implied versus unknown) to develop an effective backlog (epics and user stories)for Scrum Team.
Design Product (Specifying features, processing and UI/UX requirements) for various platform features for Report and Rule definition, processing/ generation, submission, controls, process mining etc. in an API based micro-services approach
Validate the product features by on-boarding a number of Treasury and Regulatory reports on the platform and ensuring pre-defined acceptance criteria are met

BA/ Subject Matter Expert

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Worked with cross functional teams across BAU Operations, Finance and IT to Implement a robust reporting and control framework around reporting
Implemented a data governance and risk controls framework for risk management and reporting
Responsible for business analysis around data quality, data sourcing, technical transformations, reconciliations, checks and controls, remediations
Analyzed regulatory requirements per report and document data (fact/reference) and transformation requirements and translate them into data mapping documents, transformation rules per MDRM/ line item
Reconciled source system numbers with GL and repositories/ front-end trading systems to ensure accurate and complete datasets
Traced and documented data lineage across source systems for key attributes used for Regulatory Reporting manually

Manager/ Sales Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Lead for a Confidential 239 consulting engagement for one of the largest Financial Services brands in South Africa, encompassing investmentbanking, fund management, private wealth management and advisory services.
Scope of engagement included data lineage, business glossaries, data quality measurement and risks and controls for Credit Risk Data.

BA/ Subject Matter Expert

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Specified requirements for a Risk/Finance calculator for Basel II/III (Rating, Exposure at Default, Collateral mitigation, Netting benefits, RWA calculations and Reporting)
Managed a team of BA, Dev & QA resources.
Responsible for end-to-end delivery, defect prioritization, UAT support and User training
Lead initiatives to improve operational efficiencies in testing

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Interpreted the APRA, FSA and BNZ guidelines for the Standardized Approach, the Foundation IRB and the Advanced IRB Approach to Credit Risk Calculation
Designed/ Wrote specifications for data and transformation requirements as per Bank’s source systems to implement technical solutions for Capital Adequacy (APRA and COREP) Regulatory Reports on OFSAA product offerings
Oversaw development/ product configuration and customization, Responsible for Pre-fulfillment testing and Defect triaging
Document business artifacts and manage client sign-off

BA for Basel II/ Datawarehouse

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Delivered solutions for Basel II collateral mitigation, Channel Analytics, Customer Profitability/Banding, Customer Vintage, Portfolio analysis, Scorecards for Loan Eligibility etc.
Implemented/ Maintained Requirements Traceability Matric trace Requirements through development, testing and UAT/Production migrations, resulting in a reduction in the number of defects raised