SUMMARY:

• Tenured experience in the Financial Services Industry having worked as a Business Analyst specializing in Tax and Back Office Brokerage Operations in the following areas:
• Cost Basis Tax Reporting, 1099/1042 IRS reporting, Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Banking (domestic/international),
• Money Markets, Reconciliations (General Ledger and Mutual Funds - NFS/Fidelity, Thompson-Reuters/Wachovia- Confidential ),
• Mutual Funds Breakpoint analysis, Corporate Actions, Prime Custody, Clearance & Collateral Management, Derivative Collateral Management, Broker Dealer,
• Prime Broker, Business Process Re-engineering and Migrations, Compliance, Books and records, Client Reporting, Statement Preparation
• Strong Business Analyst and Project Lead experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Writing BRD’s
• Procedures
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Beta
• Legacy
• NFS/Fidelity Clearing Agent System (FBSI)
• Phase 3 various web based systems
• (E*TRADE)
• Thompson/Reuters (BETA)
• ADP
• ADP Workflow
• BPS
• Broadridge
• IMPACT
• Bond Trader Pro
• MS Word
• MS Project
• VISIO
• PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

• Currently managing six projects for Wells Commercial Banking Technology group
• Conduct weekly meetings with project teams to assure projects are progressing on time
• Communicate with project team members on daily basis
• Prepare weekly progress reports for upper management

Confidential, NYC, NY

Senior Business Analyst

• Construct professional Level 3 process maps in Visio for business units within the financial operations industry
• Review and analyze Policies and Procedures and Service Level Agreements for accuracy and compliance
• Utilize BPMN standardization to visualize Risk and Control Servicing Agreements
• Coordinate meetings with various business departments for process map alterations and improvements
• Maintain healthy workflow through SharePoint and version control in an agile working environment
• Aid project management with Gantt charts and team project tracking in Excel
• Develop technical standardization templates and documentation for onboarding and reference

Confidential,Jersey City,NJ

Senior Business Tax Analyst

• Business analyst responsible for Cost Basis, Back Office Tax Reporting and Asset Services documentation for implementationf new inhouse system combining Broadridge Impact with Citi legacy system.
• Create Current State, Future State, TOM and BRD
• Participate and monitor progress ensuring that all BRD elements are covered in FRD
• Executing test scripts in SIT and UAT
• Assisting business in creating and updating operational procedures

Confidential, Edgewood,NY

Q/A Business Analyst, Business Tax Analyst

• Researched Tax Lot and cost basis back office processing in current system
• Prepared documentation on in-house tax processing systems.
• Analyzed current data flow to aid in development of new architecture
• Created test scripts to test the newly developed tax processing system
• Lead in developing testing strategies to ensure all scenarios are covered.

Confidential,Freeport, N.Y

Consultant, Senior Business Analyst

• Confidential is an NYS Office of Mental Health License and funded agency providing housing for the mentally challenged
• As a result of the non for profit act of 2014 the agency was faced with the requirement to amend all of their financial policy and procedures as well as reviewing and amending all of the financial and organizational policy and procedures to bring the agency compliant with the new regulations.
• As the BA I familiarized myself with the regulation and reviewed the existing policy and procedures and reviewed and revised the existing policies and procedures to bring the agency into compliance with the new regulations.
• As a result of NYS Medicaid redesign I am in the process of assisting the agency with creating a tutorial educating the staff about managed Medicaid products.

Confidential, New York City

Consultant, Senior Business Analyst

• Coordinated training and wrote System Access Application Manual for the re-engineering/migration of Prime Brokerage Client facing and middle office operations between Dallas and New York office
• Project managed Counterparty Risk Assessment project in conjunction with Market Risk, Prime Brokerage Middle Office Ops and IT
• Prepared BRD to present to all parties for acceptance and liaise between Ops, Risk and IT for successful implementation of the project
• Worked towards successful implementation of Strategic Assessment/Business Process re-engineering for Utility Integration
• Assessed the operational efficiency of over 20 different lines of business, domestic and international for process re-engineering which entailed resource alignment, transition and migration the various business lines. The largest lines of business included Prime Custody, Clearance & Collateral Management, Cash & Collateral Management, Hedge Funds Services, all which dealt with various financial instruments (Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies)
• Coordinated, structured and presented re-engineering/migration plans to senior management
• Monitor the re-engineering/migration process to ensure on time completion
• Built solid working relationships with front/middle office operations
• Prepared training plans for FTE’s and facilitated training between groups
• Coordinated with Operational Control Managers to assure all compliance issues were examined before re-engineering/migration took place
• Coordinate with Finance managers to transfer budgets and head counts
• Coordinate all of the above with JPMC Businesses in Europe/ME/Asia and Asia Pacific sectors
• Reviewed departmental procedures and processes and assisted in the writing and rewriting of such documents

Confidential,Jersey City, NJ

Consultant, Senior Business Analyst, Project Manager

• Working towards successful implementation of Cost Basis/IRS 1099/1042 Implementation Project
• Participated in the review and approval process of FRD’s
• Review and compare Test Plan and Strategy to FRD and to recommend approval
• Monitor daily SIT and UAT reports from QA, review defects and provide management with assessments of progress relative to operations
• Validate functionality in production
• Tested transfer of information from system to electronic statements
• Perform daily corporate operations functions for inclusion of cost basis information to client reports and Broadridge back office G/L accounting systems

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant, Senior Business Analyst

• Worked towards the successful conversion of MSSB largest wealth management business unit (Advisory) for the Joint Venture of the world’s largest Global Wealth Managers.
• Ensure smooth coordination amongst the Operations, Business and IT departments for all conversion related issues
• Develop conversion approach documents, business requirement documents and process flows for each of the 15 sub-groups
• Drive issues to a resolution through daily meetings and calls with stakeholders
• Review and validate the accuracy of documentation including test scenarios/scripts, metrics and content on deliverables
• Create and present weekly status updates and communicate progress on an ongoing basis

Confidential,St. Louis, Mo

Independent Contractor, Senior Business Analyst

• Prepared BRD’s for Mutual Funds Break Point Dept. in preparation for AG Edwards/Wachovia Securities conversion
• Review brokers trade files for discrepancies of break point calculations
• Conduct quality control reviews of all break point discrepancies
• Identifies clients who are entitled to ROA and LOI and adjust accordingly.
• Conduct quality control of accounts converted over to Wachovia/ Confidential from A G Edwards.

Confidential

Independent Contractor, Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst

• Project manager overseeing four consultants
• Prepared BRD’s for preparation of General Ledger conversion of brokerage accounts between BNY/Mellon and Deutsche Bank
• Project entailed reconciling securities General Ledger brokerage accounts between Deutsche Securities and BNY accounts
• Researched account breaks and balancing said accounts

Confidential, New York, NY

Independent Contractor, Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst

• NFS de-conversion project between JPMorgan Private Banking and JPMorgan/Chase Private Client Services
• Documented current state processes and data mapping
• Prepared BRD’s for Corporate Actions, Proxies, Income, Reconciliations and General Ledger departments conversion
• Coordinated meetings between operational and technology departments to review and prepare said documents

Confidential,Richmond, Va

Independent Contractor, Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst

• Cost Basis short term project with the goal of improving cost basis information/tax lot accounting in back office securities system.
• Documented current state processes and data mapping.
• Gap analysis for areas of improvement within each functionality (ACATS, Mutual Funds, Credit/Margin, Trading) with the current state cost basis/tax lot process.