SUMMARY:

• Extensive Systems / Business Analysis, Project Management, Risk Management and Operations experience in Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Asset Management along with additional experience as an innovative Information Systems professional.
• Experience supporting Mutual Funds, Fund of Funds, Regulatory, Equity and Equity Derivatives, Credit derivatives, Fixed income, Operations, Back Office projects, programs and applications.
• Have extensive knowledge of building front to back trading systems. Involved in Regulatory, Dodd Frank, Basel II and Compliance issues for Rates, Credit, Equities.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment. Strong product knowledge, Risk / PnL calculations knowledge of various Fixed Income and Exotic products.
• Detail oriented, with a proven ability to successfully contribute to company objectives. Strong analytical ability along with excellent oral & written communication skills.
• Extensive experience with project lifecycle. Strong team - building, leadership and stakeholder management skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the delivery of the Expected Positive Exposure (EPE) for measuring derivative exposure as categorized to the advanced method in the Basel Accord for Futures and Options - Equities, Currencies, Commodities, Interest Rate and Bond, Credit Derivatives and Interest Rate Derivatives. This is for Credit Risk and Market Risk Business.
• Worked on Market Data, Reference Data, Product data and Collateral data for Listed and OTC Derivatives.
• Analyzed the results of Stress testing of the portfolio and Stress Testing the portfolio for shocks to commodity prices, equity prices and yield curves.
• Project Manager for the implementation of Regulatory Requirement for changes to Initial and Variation Margin Rule for Uncleared Derivatives for Phase I counterparties. The main products traded were Inter Rates Derivatives and Exotics, Treasury and Commodities.
• Wrote the Business Requirements and Functional Requirement for the Regulatory Margin rules for Uncleared Derivatives.
• Implemented the calculation of Initial Margin using SIMM (Standard Initial Margin Model) by providing trade level sensitivities to external vendor AcadiaSoft.
• Managed the Upgrade of the Collateral Management system TLM from SmartStream. Worked closely with Operations business line on the Operational Process re-engineering for their reconciliation, clearing, settlement and reporting issues.
• Managed the implementation of MarginSphere for Margin Clearing through MarginConnect- Adapter for connectivity to Collateral Management System TLM provided by AcadiaSoft.
• Stake Holder Management - Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operations, Treasury, R&D, Finance with Working Groups and Senior Management updates to CFO, COO and CEO of the company.
• Involved in the BHC project (Bank Holding Company) for Mizuho Financial Group Bank Holding Company providing transaction level details from Apollo and Collateral Management System.

Confidential,New York, NY

• Was involved in the support of Charles River and Cognos Reports providing Level 2 and Level 3 support in fixing issues with overnight data and batch runs.
• Managed the relationship between IT and Portfolio Managers, Equity/Fixed Income and Commodities traders, Risk team and Research Analyst for business requirement and changes requested by the business users.
• Run the prioritization of business requirements for Cognos Reports and changes to Charles River Application
• Worked on gathering requirements for changes to Charles River Application and changes to new or existing Cognos reports.
• Involved in the implementation of the Risk Attribution System - BISAM and was involved in getting all data feeds and looking at data quality from various in house system into the BISAM database.

Confidential,New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the Legal Entity Regulatory Americas program (ANC Remote Booking / Capital Calculation) for Migration of Rates, Credit, Equities, Prime Swap OTC and Hedge products from Legal Entity CSI to CSSU.
• Managed the project plan for the Front Office, Operations, Product Control, Risk, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Collateral, Infrastructure for the CSSU migration program.
• Created presentation for senior management and provided regular project status updates to the Steering Committee.
• Business Analyst for the Credit Front Office IT team and did analysis for the Implementation, project plan for Corex- a market data aggregator and transformer from various sources like Tradeweb, CreditEx, BondPoint, EuroTLX and providing unified message formats to its consumers and the New system for the sales trader for Request for Quote - EDeN implementation.
• Worked on the total cost of ownership program for decommission of legacy application for cost savings over a period of years.
• Industry initiative for implementation of new credit product Credit Index Futures.
• Involved in the SEF Swap Execution Facility industry initiative for Dodd Frank.

Confidential,New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the Dodd Frank Implementation.
• Managed the Implementation of the Vendor Solution for the SDR Reporting.
• Project Manager for the onboarding of New FCM for Clearing for Credit Rate and FX.
• Daily Client Statements for the Rates / Credit / FX for NY and LA clients.

Confidential,New York,NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the Sophis Decommissioning Program (Global Equity Derivatives) and the implementation of Atlas and Helix.
• Manage the technology team for the delivery for the Derivatives Program.
• Analyzed the requirement for the implementation of vanilla and exotic products - Options, Varswap, Cliquets, Rainbows and IRS.
• Manage the relationship with the Traders / Equity Derivative Business / Operations / Product Control and Infrastructure teams.
• Worked on getting a global consensus on the workflow between the various End to End systems for Equity Derivatives.

Confidential,Stamford,CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on offshoring the Operation processes for the Global Synthetic Equity Business for Cash Equities\Total Return Swap, Portfolio Return Swap and Synthetic Equity Swaps
• Analyzed the Actual v/s Implied PnL breaks in GGL for the various cost centers for the Equity Derivative business and making recommendations for fixing the breaks due to Corporate Actions.
• Analyzed breaks due to Trade Booking / Missing Dividend Curves.
• Made recommendation on improving process for break resolution and reconciliations between the various systems.
• Documented the process for reconciliation between systems like Geronimo (Swaps) and Colt (Stocks) for the Hedges.

Confidential,New York,NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the delivery of all projects for Derivatives - Credit, Interest Rates, Equities and Emerging Markets.
• Business Analyst / Project Manager for the upgrade of Sophis for the Equity Derivative Desk to version 5.3.6.
• Business Analyst / Project Manager for the delivery of Summit and Calypso upgrade for the Interest Rates Desk.
• Managed the Industry Initiative team who face off to the street on the various Market and Regulatory Initiatives.
• Managed the relationship with the Derivative Business / Operations / Product Control and Infrastructure teams and to help prioritize the various projects with the Global teams for HBUS (USA).
• Managed the technology team for the delivery for the Derivatives Program.

Confidential,Jersey City, NJ

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert on various type of Fixed Income / Derivatives / Rates Product Types.
• Helped in the redesign of ARCTIC Application which is the data repository for all trades types feeding various down streams systems like Margin / Credit / Regulatory Systems.
• Involved in Data Quality and Governance Issues. Analyzed large amounts of data using SQL queries.
• Worked with Credit / Basel II / Margin / Regulatory team in resolving data issues related to Mark to Market and Static data issues related to Book Mapping / Counterparties/ Cost Centers.
• Worked on reconciliation issues with the General Ledger (GL) Accounting team between Arctic and GL.
• Involved in on-boarding / testing of new trades feeds from Fixed Income / Derivatives / Rates / FX from Confidential for integration with ARCTIC.
• Involved in writing detailed specs for on-boarding of feeds for US Listed Equities Options.

Confidential,Jersey City, NJ

• Managed the migration of various CitiDirect Applications like Treasury Vision, Poland SME, Barclays White Label to the SharePoint Portal.
• Defined the scope and managed the Performance Testing of the Portal Applications.
• Created the Request For Proposal (RFP) for Cash Flow Forecasting System and worked with various Vendor in understanding their Cash Flow Forecasting System.
• Worked with the Off-Shore Development team for development / changes required for the Treasury Vision System. Analyzed the changes by working directly with the Business user in understanding the requirements for the changes.
• Designed the UI for Poland SME Project for Payments.

Confidential,New York, NY

Vice President - Program Manager

• Worked directly with the Heads of the different Credit Trading desks and other traders on a daily basis in understanding their day to day requirement with respect to front office trading system, Reporting and Risk and PnL.
• Organized Prioritization meeting with the FO heads, COO, Middle office/Product Control, Operations, GFRM / EM Market Technology for status meeting on ongoing development and projects. Also negotiating on the different requirement for the resources available to work in the next prioritization period.
• Managed the development team, business analysis and qa team for the Global Minor Work team located in London, Singapore and New York.
• Involved in the strategy and budgeting decision of the department.
• Responsible for development / enhancements/ performance improvement / project planning of SDAPS systems which is a FO trading system / Risk and PnL / Reporting / Downstream Feed system for Global Credit Derivatives and ODC which is the FO Trade entry system.
• Involved in resolving Compliance and Audit issues with the external Audit / Compliance teams.

Confidential,New York, NY

Vice President-Business Manager / Project Manager Exotics and Hybrids

• NA Project Manager for the migration of Index Swap and Index Tranche- Credit Derivative trades from Kapital to Pyramid.
• Credit Event Manager for the Dura default Credit Event Processing for Index Swaps.
• Managed the TriOptima Cycle for Index Swap and Tranche.
• Created the Templates for the MIS reporting for the Exotics and Hybrids Trading desk for the Senior Management.
• Business Recovery Manager for the Exotics and Hybrids Business for the Credit Derivative Desks.
• Involved in the daily Risk and PnL calculation for the Credit Derivatives trades.
• Involved in Daily reconciliation of the PnL, Credit Exposure of Clients, Know your Client Process.