SUMMARY

• Confidential is a Business Analyst who has teh due diligence and experience in reviewing risk evaluations for Business Banking customers while providing analysis of Know Your Customer (KYC) standards while ensuring AML/KYC Regulatory requirements are met (i.e. executed Patriot Act certification for all Foreign Banks, Section 312).
• I is required to investigate conflicts and risk issues as well as evaluating teh proper course of action to be taken based upon their review of teh client’s financial activity.
• My in - depth noledge of SLDC ( Software development lifecycle) including gathering requirements, creating specifications document, UAT testing, release management.
• I developed and managed implementation of portfolio reporting and tools dat include quantitative investment/risk management metrics and analytics on a suite of global multi-asset class risk.
• In addition I partnered wif other teams wifin teh company, particularly Treasury, to implement Accounting and IT solutions to enhance products design, risk management and capital requirements.
• Lastly, I performed all cost accounting activities including standard cost development, average pricing analysis, margin and cost ratio analysis, inventory control, variance analysis, etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Microsoft, Mainframes

Databases: Sybase, Oracle

Software: ADP, Loanet Trading - (Smart Loan), Broadridge Impact, Fix, Bloomberg, ADP, DTCC Deriv/Serv, Smart Stream, Portia - Salomon ProductionSuite Chase BDEM System, Geneva Systems, Prince 2, Cognos, SharePoint, New Architecture Inquiry Systems (NAS), Transaction Summary Display (TX Express), NTPA Application, Portfolio Management Accounting (PMR), General Management Inquiry (GMR), Bony, Visio, Lotus Notes, MS Office, Word, Excel, Project, Adobe Microsoft Word/ Creative Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New York, New York

Senior Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support analysis and reporting of liquidity and funding metrics to senior management through interactions wif Capital Markets, Operations, and Cash Management.
• Reviewed alerts on teh system and follow standard AML investigation process as defined by Operations Procedures to ensure teh testing of systems functionalities has a deep perspective of an analyst requirement. Work wif automated testing tools such as Test Director or HP Quality Center.
• Provide subject matter expertise and project oversight to teh development of P&C AML policies and procedures, including mapping them to AML controls, testing controls, and reporting metrics
• Work directly wif end users in support of their use of Information Management solutions (SharePoint, SQL Server Business Intelligence)
• Work wif all teams to establish and implement metrics and accountability
• Track, manage and maintain teh company's operating model/strategic plan, and own teh forecasting process
• Prepare quarterly and annual analyses of Fund general ledger accounts, trial balance, report preparation work paper schedules and financial statements for tax purposes
• Performed/reviewed balance sheet account reconciliations wif teh assistance of GAAP and other software applications.
• Accesses, and document business and functional requirements (BRD/FRD). Create test case, test plan and testing methodologies (UAT).
• Responsible for teh monitoring and recording of treasury transactions, maintaining bank documentation, preparing various reports, schedules and bank related issues
• Manages teh development of statistical and econometric based interest rate models, credit risk, equity models as needed to manage and monitor portfolio risks, returns and volatility.
• Evaluate and provide consultancy on Technical feasibility to meet Business needs in regards to Actimize.
• Assist wif teh development, implementation and management of global Compliance Oversight Programs for Corporate Finance and Treasury activities, including serving as a second line of defense assurance and monitoring and surveillance function.
• Project manages resources; drive delivery schedule testing and issue management for each line of business.
• Responsible for identifying key issues highlighted through variances on monthly trends, prioritizing material issues and directing operations or GFDS (Global Function Data Service) units to investigate and resolve root causes while facilitating teh appropriate escalation process and ensuring dat corrective action for High /Medium IMR’s (Incident Management Reporting).
• Specific subject matter expertise regarding IMR Process wif a solid understanding of Credit Risk Management concepts, especially those associated wif Lines of Businesses (LOBs) dat extend credit to consumers - Retail, Mortgage, Card, etc.
• Provided assistance to AML E2E to ensure all AML monitored transactions are delivered to teh AML Mantas applications in regards to reconciling transactions data from source product processors to Mantas ingestion feeds.
• Capable of reviewing alerts on teh system and follow standard AML investigation process as defined by Operations of Procedures to ensure teh testing of systems functionalities has a deep perspective of analyst requirement. Worked wif automated testing tools such a
• Review and analyze underlying data gatheird to assess reasonable cause to escalate an alert to Investigations or to clear teh alert.
• Built relationships wif AML Investigations units, TEMPeffectively communicating and transferring information for case investigations

Confidential - New York, New York

Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Oversight of cash management banking and financial institution relationships, including bank fee and interest earnings, Implement new bank technologies, products and services to improve cash cycles and simplify cash operations and processes.
• Maintaining teh long-term corporate model, forecasting Company cash on a monthly basis and producing pro-forma financial statements, as well as being involved in ad-hoc projects and financial analyses as necessary.
• Monitors Agency cash flows and maintains cash flow forecasts; maintains and plans both short term and long term liquidity for teh Agency; reviews bank reports, account analysis, and approves electronic fund transfers; manages relationship and contract wif depository banks and liquidity providers; and evaluates bank services, products and fees
• Assist in forecasting borrowing base for bank borrowing availability.
• Applied noledge of financial risk management concepts to measure and mitigate through strategies including appropriate use and maintenance of financial derivatives such as interest rate swaps, forward contracts and commodity futures.
• Responsible for monthly Short Term Liquidity Forecast (STLF) and analysis of cashflows - working wif Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable/Purchasing.
• I accurately forecast cash inflows and outflows and report outcome to Corporate Treasury department.
• Responsible for reporting teh proper and timely execution of Firm Settlements and management of teh Firm’s Liquidity needs for Treasury.
• Liaise between business groups (operations, investment management and investment accounting) to ensure PAM data integrity and accuracy.
• Mediate and follow through wif appropriate Treasury management staff and outside department personnel if teh electronic transaction request has not been properly approved.
• Analyzed transactions and prepare reconciliations to assure proper financial reporting and audits.
• Continuous and TEMPeffective partnering wif key Treasury, Finance, Risk, and Business partners wifin teh company to research, analyze, and prepare reporting for liquidity management.
• Performed balance sheet account reconciliations and provide analysis of changes and fluctuations. Manage, reconcile, and report intercompany.
• Provide information to both Market Risk Management and teh business for audit, stress testing and ad-hoc related queries.
• Delivered and improved weekly and monthly metrics Anti-Money Laundering reports. These reports are a regulatory requirement and theirfore need to be prepared to meet regulatory and executive requirements.

Confidential - New York, New York

Project Manager / UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Assisted wif month-end close process by providing Accounting wif business insights, accruals development, and variance analysis in a timely and TEMPeffective manner.
• Developing, maintaining and back testing major interest rate risk modeling assumptions (wifin teh QRM Asset-Liability model), including (but not limited to) loan and deposit pricing, loan prepayments, and future balance levels.
• Managed global exposures derived from foreign currency transactions and positions as well as precious metal commodity prices. Designed / recommended / implemented strategies to mitigate teh impact of these exposures on teh Company's consolidated earnings, balance sheet and cash flows
• Prepare short term cash forecast and interest income forecast.
• Provided testing support for large Finance project wif focus on General Ledger and Remediating upstream systems
• Performed a wide range of accounting, accounts payable & accounts receivable (AP/AR) tasks
• Works on special projects or assignments requested by managements. If involved in teh financial field, oversee teh reporting and integrity of accounting for invested assets in bonds, mortgage loans, equities, limited partnerships and derivatives.
• Subject matter and testing support for large Finance project wif focus on General Ledger and Remediating upstream systems
• Assisted Treasury department wif tracking cash forecasts of balances and liquidity.
• Works on special projects or assignments requested by managements. If involved in teh financial field, oversee teh reporting and integrity of accounting for invested assets in bonds, mortgage loans, equities, limited partnerships and derivatives.
• Actively involved in, design, reconciliation and testing of system remediation.
• Prepare BRDs to create clear and concise documentation for use by internal and external business and internal development organizations
• Ensure teh data feeds and data quality for teh application are accurate and being updated in teh specified timeframes.
• Analyzing and documenting data requirements and data sources for system enhancements
• Attend meetings wif Program Managers and other global business stakeholders to review teh system scenarios, tools and processes dat will support teh project efforts, and provide both written and verbal feedback. Discuss teh feedback and assist in determining impact to teh business.

Confidential - New York, New York

Credit Methodology, Analytics & Control (CMAC) - Trade Analyst / UAT Tester ( )

• Forecast short-term cash requirements for all currencies
• Prepared monthly financial reporting and operational metrics for product teams, business unit management, and executive management
• Analyzing financial results, trend comparisons from period to period, accounting issues and pronouncements, economic events and their impact, Regulatory/ GAAP interpretations, risk based capital analysis (Basel I,II,III), SEC disclosure analysis and Board and Senior Management presentations
• Reconciled monthly custodian statements, make reconciling entries into Axys, produce & mail monthly client appraisals, review accounts for cash needs/monthly payouts, and maintain client information
• Hands on Business Analyst for Oracle Financials areas of AR, AP, GL, FA, CE and iExpense.
• Responsible for teh timely and accurate download of custodial data, trade blotter validation and NAV reconciliation versus custodian
• Provided support for audits and special projects through data extraction and analysis from data warehouse and other systems using various tools.
• Created queries and reports to specifications while making recommendations solutions using practical applications of technology.
• Elicit requirements/Gap Analysis using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints
• Reviewed monthly financial reporting packages produced by Treasury to ensure completion, accuracy, consistency and quality prior to submitting statements to client.(Monthly financial reporting packages include a Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss / Income Statement, Trial Balance, General Ledger detail, Fixed Asset Register, and Balance Sheet Reconciliations.
• Responsible for performing accounting, pricing, and reconciliation functions for client mutual funds while performing various general ledger accounting functions which included monitoring cash settlements, fund share activity, interest, and dividend payments. In addition to ensuring each fund accounts for all activity is fully invested at all times to reflect current positions in each fund portfolio.

Confidential - New York, New York

Business Analyst / P.M.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in implementation of an application for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis.
• Worked wif teh SME across functional lines to ensure dat budgets and forecasts are created and reviewed for accuracy -- assist across functions to ensure dat spending is aligned wif strategic initiatives.
• Setup and maintain Oracle Applications modules of Receivables, TCA, Payables, Fixed Assets, GL, Cash Management and Trade Management
• Implements / modifies / updates / troubleshoots departmental audit tools/systems and provides guidance to Internal Audit staff. Provided training and support to user areas, in and out of Internal Audit. Maintains and modifies audit management software suite settings and access control.
• Prepared daily settlement sheet and provides payment entry information for clients and enters this information into teh bookkeeping program.
• Prepared Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and other documentation required for teh delivery of teh enhancement.
• Maintained accounting records in PeopleSoft system, including a detailed monthly close list and balancing of transactions wif all sub-ledgers (Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, cash management, manpower interface, etc.).
• Monitored actual results of financial data against plans, forecasts and budgets.
• Assisted in establishing, maintain and documenting billing reconciliations, policies and procedures.
• Ability to draw out teh importance or relevance of emerging trends in capital markets
• Partnered wif Private Bank Credit Risk Management and Technology teams throughout all phases of teh project life cycle.
• Performed/reviewed balance sheet account reconciliations wif teh assistance of GAAP and other software applications.
• Analyzed financial information detailing assets, liabilities, capital and prepared balance sheet, profit & loss statements along wif other reports to summarize current and projected financial information.
• Kept abreast of latest developments as they affect GAAP (General Accepted Accounting Principals) and teh Firm’s standards and policies.
• Processed all mandatory corporate action events such as include dividends, stock splits, mergers, spin-offs, etc. as well as and Voluntary dat include tender offers, exchange offers, subscriptions, etc.
• Prepares balance sheet reconciliation and margin trend analysis. Assists wif audits by providing supporting records and documentation.
• Validated and posted entries from sub ledger into general ledger accounts, while adjusting journal entries for errors. Prepares balance sheet reconciliation and margin trend analysis. Assists wif audits by providing supporting records and documentation
• Responsible for eliciting, analyzing, specifying and validating teh business needs of project stakeholders, be teh sponsors, requestors or end-users. includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to convey to teh Scuff development throughout teh SDLC (System development life cycle)

Confidential - Jersey City, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented and analyze existing operational risk management processes, systems and data flows to understand how teh necessary systems and tools can better support them.
• Assisted wif weekly Treasury Report preparation by collecting international cash balances, downloading necessary yield and rate details and saving all back up to teh network drive
• Partners wif stakeholders, leadership, program management, and developers to ensure comprehensive understanding of Agile methodology
• Played a key role in teh deployment and implementation for teh Serve platform’s expansion into global markets.
• Ran and distributed all prior day reporting for various departments, collect all month-end statements and provide to accounting as requested
• Gathers, analyzes, and drafts requirements in teh form of business requirements, functional requirements, system requirements, gap analysis, data mapping, use cases, flow charts, and workflows to be used by architectural design, development, testing, and project management teams.
• Support clients and Service Delivery group by providing information relating to Broadridge & Impact processing issues along wif various activities related to upgrades and Conversions.
• Wrote business and functional requirements (BRD s and FRD s), including use case development.
• Worked wif stakeholders to elicit requirements necessary to solve a problem or achieve a objective and transform requirements into specifications.

Confidential - New York, New York

Expense/Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Provided assistance wif SQL Server processes, building infrastructure and maintaining virtual environments to aid you in completing new system installations and configurations as well as wif troubleshooting problems wif application servers and client installations.
• Calculated net trade settlement amounts and preparation of wire transfers needed for settlement
• Support teh Vendor’s analysis of existing data feeds and current data systems, data conversion and integration solutions required to support business processes
• Understands applicable business applications and Information Technology industry requirements. Develops project definitions, planning, test plans, verifies results of testing and develops basic documentation when implementing changes to application systems and installations or conversions to new systems
• Performed some treasury functions including cash reconciliations as well as handling wire responsibilities for operating distributions, capital distributions and capital calls
• Experience in and willing to participate in day-to-day testing activities along wif leading test team
• Reviewed alerts on teh system and follow standard AML investigation process as defined by operations procedures to ensure teh testing of systems functionalities has a deep perspective of an analyst requirement.

Confidential, New York, New York

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, &developing, teh construction of teh claims database utilizing teh appropriate technology solutions (MS Access) wif user friendly, front end data capture by business users. Main objective of database is for trade capture for recurring dividend payments, and to generate business metrics.
• Document and complete detail mapping specification and rule definitions to support key data sourcing activities.
• Created and maintain technical documentation as it relates to specific database applications.
• Worked alongside of I.T. Division to develop functional and technical design specifications for system.
• Training new users in conversion and implementation of teh applications / systems.
• Processed manual entries to client’s accounts such as reverse/debit charges coz of wrong rates, duplicate announcements, or wifholding tax.