SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated, proactive, results driven, versatile project executive with 12 years of experience working in financial services industry with a focus on project management, process analysis, data governance, data controls and analysis. Delivered excellent results working across various business - lines and functional groups to drive large-scale regulatory, finance, risk, business transformation and technology projects.
• Experienced in managing diversified teams of professional on mission critical projects in the financial industry using traditional as well as agile project management methodologies.
• Data Integration and Business Migrations
• End to End Data Controls
• Data Visualization and Dashboards
• Data Governance CDO
• Financial Data Warehouse
• Business Transformations and Automations
• General Ledger Accounting Systems
• Operating Model Development
• Strategic Risk Management Platform
• Change Management
• Traditional and Agile Project Methodologies
• Process Analysis and Optimization
• Conceptual understanding of Big Data and HDFS

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows Vista/Window 7/Windows 10
• SQL
• UML
• HTML
• SQL Server
• MS Access Requiste Pro
• Caliber
• Bloomberg
• SharePoint
• MS Visio
• Microsoft Project
• Quality Center
• Tableau/Qlickview dashboards
• MS Access
• Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint
• SDLC
• Scrum
• RUP
• Six SigmaReport Builder
• Business Objects
• Essbase
• ERP PeopleSoft
• Oracle
• SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing a cross border team of project managers, business analysts and quality assurance analysts to successfully implement large scale strategic projects.
• Led a Firm-wide program for two major risk stripes to meet the regulatory requirements mandated by FED/OCC under Confidential 239 Basel Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting.
• Completed current state assessment in collaboration with the reporting leads, risk management and technology to identify areas of improvements. Developed action plans and managed through remediation.
• Developed Firm-wide Risk Operational Control Standards around lifecycle of data for implementation across the Firm-wide technology and risk reporting domains.
• Led analysis of Firm-wide Risk Reporting current Operating Model environment to identify gaps, and propose strategic solution to improve data quality, data aggregation processes and introduced reporting best practices.
• Reviewed existing inventory of reports and rationalized the reports based on report objectives and the needs of key risk stakeholders.
• Automated collection, aggregation and reporting mandated under the Dodd Frank Act (Volcker Rules).
• Automated Volcker Risk reporting and analysis framework via build out of a high performance cube supported by a Tableau dashboard solution for variance analysis, trend analysis and data visualizations.
• Developed a data quality identification, tracking, managing and escalation platform to support the Chief Data Office. Helped developed the data governance process.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Investment Bank Infrastructure projects including planning, budgeting, vendor management and resource optimization.
• Delivered a strategic solution to consolidate global ledger platforms into a Balance Data Mart (BDM) and decommission the legacy balance sheet repository.
• Planned and delegated project work and monitored progress via weekly project meetings and communicated progress to applicable stakeholders.
• Provided project/program management leadership to ensure optimal project governance.
• Served key business clients including balance sheet team, IB Treasury and IB risk. Understood their needs and developed a global Balance Data Mart for improved Balance Sheet Analysis and accurate reporting.
• Ensured thorough testing and validations of key functionalities to be delivered as part of various.
• Maintained closed collaboration with technology throughout the projects. Ensured excellent working relationship with business partners especially Central Balance Sheet team, IB Treasury and key LOB partners.
• Escalated issues which required business sponsor’s support in ensuring necessary engagement from LOBs to make Libra Decommissioning a success.
• Worked with Treasury Services product controllers to standardize and automate Business Events Balance Sheet which was prepared based on the underlying business drivers by aggregating the operational accounts linked to each business driver. As part of this project I led cross product working sessions to build consensus among product controllers to standardize business events across all products.
• Worked as a finance project manager on the Global Custody Foundation Program (CFP). This program was aimed at rationalizing existing Treasury and Cash Management architecture by divesting redundant systems and investing in the target systems to consolidate multiple positions and settlements, assets servicing and cash processing platforms to a single target solution.
• Reviewed Internal Demand Deposit Accounts (IDDA) population and identified financial and regulatory risk exposure due to account classification discrepancies. To remediate these discrepancies developed a detailed training document which was assigned to all TSS controllers as a mandatory training.
• Performed thorough analysis of existing liquidity products and provided recommendations to enhance controls in order to minimize risk and maximize revenue share.
• Collaborated with Product Controllers, CFOs, and Operations to identify and analyze business challenges and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Worked on major migration initiatives including legacy Confidential ledger system conversion to target SAP ledger, and FDW (Financial Data Warehouse) for MIS and regulatory reporting.
• Prepared key project documents including Project Charter, Business Requirements, Functional Specs, Testing Strategy, Conversion Strategy, Communication Strategy, Training Strategy, and detailed conversion plan.
• Worked with Retail, Commercial and Investment Bank Lines of Business for multiple projects involving application integration and system migrations. This work entailed complete end to end conversion activities to ensure conversion takes place in a well-controlled manner.
• Developed testing strategy and work with technology and business users to finalize the test cases for Integrated Systems Testing and User Acceptance Testing respectively.
• Helped testing team in preparation of test plan, test cases and test scripts based on the business and functional requirements collected from the users.
• Assisted users in developing and implementing UAT testing strategies and conduct walk through sessions for newly established business functions.
• Conducted a thorough review of Valued Holdings systems, a repository for WSS (Worldwide Securities Services) regulatory reporting, to ensure effective control and accuracy of assets pricing methodology.
• Reviewed and analyzed all systematic and manual sources feeding custody data to trading warehouse and funds control repository for Confidential . Identified sources of errors and inconsistencies and implemented enhanced controls.
• Analyzed the cash proof process and underlying reconciliation to identify any gaps or control issues.
• Prepared an end to end flow of custody systems identifying underlying data attributes and how these attributed are transformed through various systems before they end up in the central repository for regulatory reporting to external entities which includes FED’s and OCC. Data feeds for this effort included client positions, client reference data and market data feeds.
• Conducted transaction testing in collaboration with Internal Audit team to ensure accuracy of source data for Treasury International Capital reports including TIC, BL-2, BL-1, BC, BQ-2, BQ-3 and SHLA and SHCA annual surveys.

Confidential

Business/Data Analyst (Consulting)

Responsibilities:

• As a Business Analyst I was part of a team which was responsible to create a reporting environment that would deliver the highest compliance, regulatory and MIS accuracy standards in order to meet regulatory requirements.
• The project entailed to create a strategic reporting environment that allows GCBM (Global Capital and Balance Sheet Management) team to align its work flow so that a central analyst team can use one process and one data source for Compliance, Balance Sheet, Risk and MIS Capital reporting.