SUMMARY:

• Certified project manager with extensive experience directing technology programs in the financial industry.
• Deep knowledge in international relations from time spent as a leader for cross - departmental Japanese teams.
• Solid track record of identifying opportunities for improvement and mitigating risks.
• Organised and detail-oriented manager that empowers team members to exceed firm expectations.
• Cut costs by Confidential by combining functions across small and large cap teams including equity trade execution, compliance, portfolio risk analysis and security/sector attribution analysis
• Designed an automated investment management workbench that reduced trade execution errors by 40% utilising real-time alerts, validation and user-defined compliance and risk parameters
• Organised a rare T+0 settlement with a Singapore based sub-custodian for a stock in “street name” to save the company
• Achieved an overnight call loan yield of 0.20% for clients by pooling discretionary cash accounts
• Implemented an internally developed automated anti-money laundering system that saved 90 minutes for each member of the cash management team
• Reduced unresolved operational incidents from 300 to under 20 within a two-month period through new Incident Management Procedures and companywide training
• Achieved a $50 per user cost savings by migrating employees from the legacy platform to Cisco WebEx

SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS AUTOMATION:

Asset management & Insurance

Internal Control & Audit

Back & Middle Office Operations

Fund Accounting (NAV)

Custody & Trade Settlement

Budgeting & Resource Planning

Dodd-Frank & Basel Compliance

Enhanced Prudential Standards

Asset Liability Risk Management

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Pre/Post Trade Execution Flow

Portfolio (Derivative) Hedging

Team Training & Development

System and user testing

Client relational management

KPI & Progress Measurement

Waterfall/SDLC

Product specialist & reporting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology Scope: Bloomberg DataStream MSCI Barra Fact Set MS Office SWIFT Jira Stata Zengin BOJ Net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technology Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Proactively monitor project milestones and critical path dates, identify and assess project variances while gathering metrics and taking proactive corrective action as required
• Owning the project outcomes and delivering the project within the agreed scope, schedule and budget while providing accurate status reporting, risk/issue tracking
• Enforced strict network access controls to improve overall security for Japan branches thereby eliminating the risk of unauthorised devices accessing the corporate networks

Confidential, New York, NY

Fixed Income Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with teams in Japan home office, technology, fixed income dealing and auditing to ensure proper information distribution to all key stakeholders involving regulatory and EPS related projects
• Gathered detailed business requirements on T+0 REPO workflow from traders to enhance liquidity
• Ensured operational compliance with Basel liquidity and capital mandates
• Provided a centralised point of communication between business users and technology for logging, categorising, prioritising and responding to reported incidents

Confidential

Representative Director

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the design, development and distribution of an equity portfolio and trading system to address specific operational workflow issues affecting fund managers and dealers
• Developed a marketing plan focused on the target market of smaller investment managers
• Secured startup capital and completed registration as a Japanese Confidential .

Confidential

Cash Management and Business Continuity Department Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established and directed a business continuity awareness training program covering backup manual disaster recovery procedures and pandemic plans
• Developed and performed Business Impact Analysis (BIA) for all business units by identifying critical operational processes with detailed risk assessment
• Oversaw operational functions for a diverse team of five Japanese officers including the execution of call loans, arrangement of collateral, deposits/withdrawals, and cash instruction approval
• Established strict access rights and specific emergency escalation procedures for officers using Zengin and BOJ-Net systems in preparation for an application audit
• Adhered to FSA “Administrative Actions” audit by revising operational procedures and implementing periodic company-wide self-testing

Confidential

Equity Portfolio Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Managed the administration of all pension and retail accounts with AUM of $6B. Addressed all client inquires as a centralised contact for the UK home office
• Developed a performance spreadsheet with Bloomberg connectivity that facilitated intra-day transactions, active weights and sector neutral comparison in real time
• Assumed responsibility of research on the Japanese economy and the funds’ relative performance to allow fund managers to focus on client centric tasks
• Coordinated an ongoing and sustainable pro-active dialogue between multi-regional business and technology teams to clearly communicate project status and agree on required actions