PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business and Technology Project/Program Management, Portfolio Management, Communications Management, Operational Risk Management, Applications Support, Agile Expert, Scrum Master. Financial improvement and audit readiness.
• Experienced business, finance, audit, accounting professional with global responsibilities in risk management, operations, capital markets, derivatives, foreign exchange, policy, financial statements, regulatory compliance, Dodd - Frank, AML, accounting, audit, internal controls, SOX, COSO, COBIT, BASEL, CCAR, private equity, hedge funds, fixed income, equity, liquidity, data governance, financial systems.
• Solid audit and accounting background in various areas including SEC reporting; accounting in capital markets, disclosures, Qs, Ks.
• Experienced PMO/Six Sigma-trained project and risk manager with extensive background in accounting, audit, controllership, policy, business process re-engineering, project management, systems conversions, PMO chair.
• Develop best practices, new process and system implementations, including FX, currency, credit cards, and financial services systems.
• Communicate at multiple levels, including executive and steering committees, with excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Manage multiple, complex assignments simultaneously, adapt quickly to changes in businesses. Business process reengineering.
• International business experience, including being an expatriate and traveling worldwide for business development and driving solutions.
• Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Planning & Analysis, Reporting & Consolidations, large scale transformation projects

TECHNOLOGY:

Vendor Management, Software Development Lifecycle Management (SDLC), Agile, Waterfall, Oracle, Hyperion, HFM, SAP, SAP Hana, PeopleSoft, MS products, MS Project, MS Project Server 2010, SharePoint, OMNI, MVAS, HFM, HPCM, Essbase, Hyperion Planning, SQL, Oracle Smart View, MDM, Data Governance, Hyperion ARM, Informatica, IDQ, ETL.

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Manager, Charlotte, NC

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project/Program management, Business advisory, business reengineering, technology sourcing and solutions, including Oracle, Hyperion, SAP, PeopleSoft, Salesforce.
• Managed large-scale technology/business transformative projects to enhance current state and develop future state, including data integration and ETL projects
• Managed financial improvement and audit readiness projects in private and public sector.
• Project manager over process enhancements, workflow management, data governance, architecture, and roadmap development
• Developed Hyperion Applications for enterprise forecasting and planning related processes.
• Developed new business by selling new projects within existing client.
• Managed Data Management, Data Governance, Data Quality Management.
• Managed conceptual design, system requirements, business requirements, CAT testing, developing successful client relationships, client status meetings, deployment of all phases, issue resolution, client, SDLC documentation,
• Service areas/ERP systems including but not limited to regulatory, external and internal reporting, cost and profit management, financial management, forecasting, financial modeling. Oracle Financials, SAP, PeopleSoft, CCAR, Hyperion Planning, Forecasting, AML, HFM, consolidations and reporting.

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Led SDLC projects from a Waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Responsible for maintaining budget and resource allocations within strict guidelines.
• Tracked all project deliverables to ensure on-time delivery and completion of all PMO required reporting.
• Worked with outside vendor to manage delivery of design deliverables.
• Collaborated with sponsors and business units throughout ensuring open, just-in-time communication of requirements, issues and operations risks. Scrum master.
• Led projects to enhance pubic and secure websites from planning through implementation.
• Responsible for maintaining budget and resource allocations within strict guidelines.
• Tracked all project deliverables to ensure on-time delivery and completion of all PMO required reporting.
• Worked with outside vendor to manage delivery of design deliverables.
• Collaborated with sponsors and business units throughout ensuring open, just-in-time communication of requirements, issues and risks.
• Led compliance review for CCAR to determine adequacy of capital reserves and automated reporting to regulatory agencies.
• Led projects to onboard clients to new IT platform. Managed issue resolution and brought client from a red to green status by resolving significant issues. Headed daily Scrum meetings and published daily and weekly project statuses to senior management.
• Managed data repair team, issues, resolution, reporting to senior level management weekly. Authored manual on managing data repairs.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Lead PMO managing financial systems from an operational risk perspective, pertaining to risk and regulation.
• Meeting regulatory requirements of Basel, CCAR, liquidity and capital, SEC reporting, with a focus on capturing more comprehensively the risks the bank is exposed to, creating a more risk sensitive framework, strengthening risk management, governance, and transparency. Scrum master.
• Led data governance initiatives in subject matter expert areas by implementing industry frameworks, DAMA, DMBOK, COBIT, and BASEL II. Operationalized department and developed all business content, including policies, processes, practices, strategy recommendations.
• Project manager lead on global systems implementation projects in retail, investments, credit cards. Successfully managed projects migrating SAP modules over the entire Chart of Accounts from three reporting dimensions to eleven dimensions through process mapping, including Accounts Payable, Liabilities, Revenue, Treasury, capital markets, foreign exchange. Enabled the company to report in a granular, analytical, strategic format.
• Extensive experience in accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Regulatory compliance, AML, SOX, Dodd-Frank.
• Responsible for managing the conception, planning, development and support of internal audits.
• Analyzed global LOBs.
• Developed trends, patterns to analyze these businesses strategically and get them to a “ Confidential ” state.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Led data governance initiatives in subject matter expert areas by implementing industry frameworks, DAMA, DMBOK, COBIT, and BASEL II. Operationalized department and developed all business content, including policies, processes, practices, strategy recommendations.
• Successfully managed projects to move several trading and accounting systems platforms from legacy Wachovia to Confidential platforms for retail, investments, credit cards. As a project manager, I re-engineered the business processes to ensure the accounting was accurate. Projects in interest rate swaps, forward contracts, options products and systems of capital markets, foreign exchange.
• Led projects to implement the new forward convention for derivative trading which is the current convention used in the industry. This brought the company current with its competitors. Project manager lead to work with foreign subsidiaries and offices and train them on new systems, accounting methods, and business processes. Scrum master.
• Responsible for managing the conception, planning, development, and support of internal audits and SOX reviews.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Principal

Responsibilities:

• Managed “ Confidential ” project. This project brought company to a “ Confidential ” state by developing new business processes over scheduling, buying, cost management, vendor selection, hiring, marketing and advertising. Managed daily operational and accounting functions in a more efficient manner which reduced overall operating costs by more than 25%.
• Managed a project to developed growth strategies through enhanced online, eCommerce advertising.
• Managed projects to develop human resources functions which resulted in annual growth of 15% per year.
• Managed internal audits and issue resolutions. Project manager over the negotiation, purchasing, credit contracts to reduce costs by 33%.

Confidential, New York, NY

Vice President, Finance and Operations

Responsibilities:

• Managed PeopleSoft to Oracle Financials with HFM project. Managed over 30 team members in various workstreams.
• Managed all aspects of corporate finance and operations over treasury, hedging, AUM, investments, pricing, revenue, trading operations, portfolio and account management and real estate, capital markets, foreign exchange . Created new finance department. Developed, trained, manage worldwide department. P&L, Market Risk analysis, middle, back office, front office support.
• Capital Markets experience in fixed income, equity, FX, Forwards, Options, Swaps, liquidity, private equity, alternatives (REIT).
• Developed accounting policy model. Research, develop, and implement optimal accounting and reporting policies in a rapidly changing regulatory environment (FAS 115, FAS 123R, FAS 130, FAS 140, FAS 141, FAS 142, FAS 133, FAS 155, FAS 156, FAS 157, FAS 159, FAS 167, FIN 46, FIN 48, SOP 03-3, IFRS, AS2/5, ISDA Master Agreements, FCPA, AML, Sarb-Ox 404/302, 91 BB in distressed assets, 451B CMBS Portfolio, managed entire SAS 70 process).
• Preparation of financial statements for the firm’s many investment companies, financial statement disclosures, special projects S1, S4, IPO. Developed new methods to reduce the number of misstatements in the financials. Developed new consolidation process. Filed regulatory documents 15c3-1 and 15c3-3.
• Solid accounting background in various areas including SEC reporting; accounting in capital markets, fixed income, equity, loan origination, modification, default, bankruptcies, impairments, disclosures, filing Qs, Ks.
• Created SOX department and developed all reporting tools and methodologies for reporting to Audit Committee, managed audits.
• Implemented technology platforms under BASEL and other regulatory and compliance measures to address operational risk.
• Reviewed credit risk of clients, wholesale and retail.
• Managed data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) projects.

Confidential, New York, NY

Director, Internal Audit & Business Improvement

Responsibilities:

• Developed all Sarb-Ox guidance and conducted, worldwide. Managed M&A projects/earnouts.
• Developed audit programs using Whiteboard, risk-based approach. Increased EBIT by $5.3 million.
• Provided operational, technical and strategic guidance.

Confidential, New York/New Jersey

Audit Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Heavily involved with the implementation of Sarb-Ox.
• Developed risk assessment methodology which enhanced audit efficiency/effectiveness.

Confidential, New York, NY

Manager, Corporate Audit

Responsibilities:

• Developed risk profiles/recommendations and overall risk-based audit cycle (Whiteboard approach).
• Worked with treasury on projects involving credit and foreign currency risk-based audits.

Confidential, New York, NY

Team Manager, Business Assurance Services

Responsibilities:

• SEC, regulatory report requirements, 10Q/K, S4 filings, due diligence (financial advisory), IPO.
• Highly specialized in internal controls, forensic auditing, policies/procedures, systems.
• Successfully reduced foreign exchange hedging costs by centralizing hedging, capital markets, foreign exchange.
• Managed treasury functions, including, capital markets, foreign exchange, and derivatives