SUMMARY:

• Proven Project Manager/Business Analyst with over fifteen years of experience in Brokerage and Banking Industry, particularly in Compliance.
• Hands - on project management and business analysis experience with span of control over 10+ person groups, up to $2M budget.
• Extensive expertise in Anti-Money Laundering domain, Confidential Reporting and Transaction Screening, Confidential, Confidential Risk Assessment, KYC (Know Your Customers), Registration, and other financial areas. Strong team and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate ability to lead and complete projects on time and within budget constraints, fit well into diverse teams, learn quickly, work productively, take initiative, and professionally interact with business users.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NYC

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• SDLC practice both Waterfall and Agile methodologies including Scrum.
• Define processes and tools best suited to each project. Move between agile and waterfall approaches, depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Business communications. Gather and document business requirements, create Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Charters, conduct Architecture review sessions to gain the stakeholder’s approval.
• Oversee design and technical solutions. Lead sessions for Business process modeling, project design to develop best technical solutions for business needs. Structure and manage project in order to comply with Confidential SDLC standards.
• Lead development and tracking of project plans utilizing Microsoft Project as an integrated scheduling and resourcing tool. Work closely with on-shore and offshore development teams towards timely project deliverables, provide early course correction and enhance the planning/scheduling/resourcing practices.
• Create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, used cases, system design, UI design, data mapping, data modeling/design, application security design.
• Oversee project estimations and resources staffing according to skill sets required to complete project. Track project expenses against budget.
• Liaise with end users, vendors and Compliance PMO team, as well as other teams across the bank to ensure that deliverables meet stated objectives.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute SIT and UAT, work with QA/Development Team Identifying and managing project issues. Conduct manual testing for software functionality and business logic, lead defect review sessions and track the resolution with development, QA and Business teams.
• Produce and communicate all associated Confidential and status reporting, including critical path analysis, cost and schedule variances to actual performance to provide escalation management, change management to keep project delivery commitment.
• Produce weekly status reports and Dashboard views to Senior Management.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed numerous projects to implement, upgrade, and maintain Confidential Anti-Money Laundering System (v1.1, 4.1, and 5.7).
• Confidential Brokerage Fraud and Risk Management ( Confidential ) Product uses data mining and pattern detection techniques to monitor account transactions and customer activities for suspicious behavior; provides alert management and generates analytical reports of money movement transactions activity; enhances existing surveillance by generating alerts via scenarios based on customer, account, and transaction data that is stored in the Confidential Data Mart.
• The project involved heavy interactions with Confidential Vendors, Legal and Compliance business analysts and technology managers from many areas of Confidential ; testing of data ingestion process, as well as UAT of the Final product, including web-based User Interface.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed development of Control Reporting System to validate technology controls within the Confidential surveillance system ( Confidential ) at key data acquisition and transition points.
• These controls provide data integrity indicators in support of continuous improvement of data quality and of surveillance system effectiveness.
• Nine remedial technology controls are required over the full Confidential surveillance path; each must be supported by a corresponding Confidential Operations process.

Utilized: Oracle, Informatica, Autosys, Business Objects (SAP) BI/Reporting tools.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Introduced a level of global standardization; automated the collection and reporting of Confidential Compliance End-To-End Case management Confidential Globally, including Prevention (Know Your Customer alerts), Detection (Alerts Generated, Alerts Inventory) and Reporting (Case Management and SAR) cycles; improved quality and consistency of data; and reduced the time and effort to compile and report Confidential .
• Created a flexible process and data repository that allows for multiple automated load processes integrated with manual processes to create monthly Confidential reports while maintaining static historical data for trend analysis and Confidential analytics.
• Implemented a Business Intelligence tool (QlikView) to allow greater focus on analysis, review, and decision making. Enabled Global/Regional Compliance to analyse data looking for trends and hot spots.
• Determined effective and ineffective policies and procedures and measured the success of the bank in managing risk.

Utilized: QlikView Business Intelligence Tool, Data Warehouse technology(Oracle), Ab Initio ETL Tool, VBA Excel, Autosys.