SUMMARY

• Expert in drafting business data architecture, business processes, functional flows and controls.
• Partnered with workstreams; built consensus and prioritized business procedures and delivered data governance framework, taxonomy, data lineage and roadmap for target architecture migration; and appraised senior leadership on compliance and controls.
• Experience defining procedures for independent liquidity risk management, risk appetite framework and capital stress testing under Fed’s Enhanced Prudential Standards (EPS) and business data governance under BCBS - 239 as recommended by external advisors.
• Coordinated with tech teams for target architecture preparation and migration.
• Experience leading, and working with, the PMO for finance, risk, regulatory compliance and trading.
• Performed project initiation and baseline estimation; and led planning, execution/monitoring and control activities.
• Steered global teams to deliver concept-to-implementation initiatives costing $3 - $20 M.
• Proactively assessed regulatory requirements; continuously analyzed exposures, risks, assumptions and opportunities; proposed mitigation for short-term and longer term; and coordinated for budget/funding, approvals and next steps.
• Analytical and detail-oriented to condense large information for audience-specific summary.
• Skilled in interpreting complex rules to distil requirements and establish end-to-end traceability for business and functional needs.
• Hands-on when required, and served as a ‘point contact’ between business and technology.
• Participate in PMO forums to assess tollgates, build consensus and execute/control project tasks. Leveraged industry standards and best-practices for initiation, planning, execution, change-control and closing.
• Liaised with senior leadership, Legal and corporate stakeholders to moderate forums with external advisors, the Boston FED and IT vendors.
• Rich knowledge in data warehousing, BI and Data modeling; Past experience in hands-on business analysis and IT delivery to automate technology processes; Leading test strategy for structured and unstructured data including Big data
• Quantitative skills in machine learning; Implemented business-driven logic to identify data outliers for establishing Data Quality metrics.
• Performedone-time migration ofongoing projects into Project 365 environment
• Automated project reports to show individualtask and resource level information with options to integrate for overall summary
• Experience leading automation of program levelreports to showresource utilization across large related projects to facilitatedue diligence on project level “Schedule Compression” for efficient resource balancing.
• Assisted senior leadership and the Global Portfolio Management team to aggregate portfolio level spending in corporate verticals.
• Passionate to keep abreast of tools, technologies and best-practices, and learn from others for continuous improvement and value addition.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Microsoft Office 365, MS Project Online, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, JIRA, QC, VersionOne, Collibra, Axiom SL

Technologies: MS Access, Oracle, SQL/PL-SQL, Excel Macros/VBA, Informatica, Java, Business Objects, Power BI, Tableau Architecture & Standards, Taxonomy, Gartner Methodology, COBIT, TQM, Six Sigma, and CMM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Director

Responsibilities:

• Lead global reporting and automation for the U.S. PMO - integrate regulatory projects’ performance data to generate metrics on operational risk. Coordinate with work streams to define roadmap, milestones, expectations and delivery success criteria.
• Define business procedures, processes and controls; Identify key data elements for regulatory and business tasks; define governance, roles & responsibilities, business data architecture and mapping to functional processes and technology deliverables.
• Define target architecture model to integrate regulatory project data, controls and reporting for operational risk management.
• Coordinate with stakeholder groups; build consensus and prioritization to migrate and conform with target architecture.
• Currently engaged in creating vision for 2019 and beyond.

Confidential, New York, NY

PROJECT MANAGER/BA

Responsibilities:

• Led projects through initiation, planning, executing, control and closeout; created roadmap, milestones, tasks and project plans, and partnered with stakeholders to build consensus to implement change management and continuous data/process improvement.
• Created business cases, discussed/ratified with the PMO, stakeholders and senior management to establish projects on BCBS-239 phase-2, instrument data enhancement and CCAR processes on securitized exposures.
• Delivered automated CCAR processes to forecast stressed input parameters for exposures on structured products and determine stressed RWA and regulatory capital for future quarter to produce disclosure data for FR Y-14 A.
• Conceived and implemented enterprise data management strategy, processes and workflows for BCBS-239 compliance on data governance, IT infrastructure and risk data aggregation - established roles & responsibilities, and led procedures, workflows and technology deliveries along with controls to ensure senior management ownership.
• Led team to define testing strategy for scalable distributed data solutions using Hadoop to validate data import from various internal and external market data on structured financial instruments. Validated MapReduce transformations, and data load into HDFS.
• Working with external vendors to implement Collibra suite of tools for data governance.
• Participate in senior data governance forums for proactive preparation and readiness on regulatory disclosures and risk controls. Leading an operational team to continuously measure, monitor and report effectiveness of data governance tools and the BAU, and identify opportunities for process and data quality enhancement along with management reporting and dashboard.
• Guided and delivered an effective SharePoint site for knowledge sharing, BAU support and evidencing for process compliance.
• Currently engaged in analyzing GDPR requirements and opportunities to extend RDAR Data Governance tools for data privacy.
• Managed simultaneous projects incorporating cross-project dependencies, performed resource balancing and integrated reporting.
• Leasing with external advisors and SMEs to keep abreast of industry best-practices and tools for data management and governance.
• Scoping Key Data Elements for regulatory Data Governance and BCBS-239
• Scalable metadata framework and IT tools for data lineage and what-if studies
• Effective quality metrics to define, measure, monitor and control data quality (DQ) on financial instruments data
• BAU controls for proactive detection of, and process remediation for, DQ issues along with management dashboard using PowerBI
• Collibra tool for cross-business data governance
• Addressing cross-regulatory and competing policies on data retention

Confidential, Stamford, CT

PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Led Finance PMO initiative from conception to compliance with the U.S. Final Rule on Enhanced Prudential Standards (EPS).
• Performed current state analysis and liaised with external agencies to assess regulatory gaps on business procedures and data processes, maintained a living-breathing rules tracker document) to serve as a blue print for IT deliveries.
• Captured requirements for independent liquidity risk management process to meet U.S. Risk Committee requirements to comply with EPS regulation. Drafted business data architecture leveraging risk management processes, risk appetite and liquidity buffer framework. Identified roles & responsibilities, and mapped to individuals to establish RACI chart for project deliveries and target operations.
• Defined models, policies & procedures, governance and roles/responsibilities for target architecture migration to establish what data to collect and how to store, arrange, integrate and use within impacted workstreams and various systems.
• Designed and automatedprocesses for resource utilization reporting across projects (BCBS-239, BASEL3 RWA andIndependent liquidity process) to continuously identify resource balancing opportunities.
• Assisted senior leadership and the Global Portfolio Management team (UK) with automated reportsto aggregate projects’ spending across unrelated capitalprojects within corporate verticals for the calendar year.
• Partnered with external advisers (PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP ), vendor partners, SMEs and senior stakeholders to review BCBS-239 requirements, leverage industry best-practices and peer-bank experience to define scope, functionality, business/IT involvement and success criteria for BCBS-239 deliverables from capital adequacy and liquidity perspective.
• Worked with CIO team and the leads in risk areas to establish the scope of data (Key Data Elements), and delivered governance and IT processes to facilitate business-controlled data governance for data quality, metadata and data lineage.
• Extended BCBS-239 framework for qualifying High-Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA) on Liquidity buffer for the US Operations.
• Defined data quality process and metrics to measure, monitor and improve quality for ‘fit-for-purpose’. Successfully implemented data governance to track key data through lifecycle stages, propagate workflows, ensure business ownership, and provide evidencing.
• Collaborated with data privacy and information security to leverage data governance capabilities for EU DPD/GDPR requirements.
• Developed and implemented risk mitigation and compliance strategies including live data collection data analysis, internal controls and red flags, test strategy, RWA Framework for securitization and wholesale credit using country risk classification (CRC) values.
• Facilitated cross-functional initiatives with resource providers to implement processes/tools/roadmaps to transformation management.
• Built a SharePoint site to accommodate growing workstreams and business subgroups to serve as central location for housing artifacts. Integrated technology deployment process with SharePoint to store deployment and reference artifacts for necessary future evidencing.
• Served in a project management capacity to take new technology and process improvement solutions from concept to final implementation, while building consensus and support among all relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborated with the leadership on core functions and BAU infrastructure enhancement to achieve permanent problem resolutions.
• Independent finance PMO process for U.S. Operations as required by EPS regulations.
• Successful deliveries for BCBS-239 compliance - Architecture and automation for Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting.
• Business Data Architecture, representing elements of business and their interaction, to align people, processes, data and technologies.
• Business-driven Data Governance framework, roles & responsibilities, tools and procedures
• Synergy on data governance combining CCAR and liquidity buffer data
• Effective metadata model across IT for data lineage and dictionary, and interface with Incidence Management process
• Consistent strategy for validation of business procedures and testing of technology components
• Joint sessions with the Boston FED to incorporate feedback into BCBS-239 program
• Optimal (SOX like) BAU controls for proactive detection and mitigation of data issues for senior management oversight.
• Negotiated online data retention policy for business support and IT cost-cutting
• Successful BAU hand-off and training for end-users

Confidential, New York, NY

PROJECT MANAGER/SENIOR BA

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders on IT roadmap for compliance, risk management and prioritization.
• Reviewed current state of RWA calculations on credit risk exposures, performed gap assessment for compliance on regulatory capital - establishing internal processes for establishing credit risk ratings and PDs and defined business data architecture.
• Built prototypes and automated process for US BASEL 2.5/3 to establish RWA and capital for market risk and wholesale credit risk.
• Automated CCAR production 14-Q process to forecast securitization stressed results using baseline data, scenario specific user input
• Created prototype, functional design and data flow diagrams to forecast stressed market value of major liability funding portfolios under Severely Adverse CCAR scenarios. Created SQL interface for integrating the results with overall PPNR framework.
• Analyzed M&A deals on counter-party consolidations and RWA; served as liaison between OASYS trading desk and technology teams.
• Led various project initiatives - system builds/tests and deployment, reconciliation and data masking.
• Scalable and easy-to-query SharePoint repository structure
• Enhanced Oracle data model on PCI/DSS requirements to address production data privacy issues due to migration of card services.
• Recognized for disclosure data readiness for FFIEC 101/102 and user-driven CCAR framework.
• Counterparties consolidation framework proved handy for cross-regulatory initiatives - SCCL and Recovery and Resolution Planning.
• Data reconciliation system delivered was very useful to enhance Central Security Master (Golden Source of financial instruments).

Confidential, Stamford, CT

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Project managed global initiatives to continuously assess feasibility of potential M&A deals, PnL and Credit profiles of counterparties.
• Provided visibility on risks and rewards in dollar amount which was instrumental on decision-making for potential M&A deals.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Led IT roadmap, initiatives and prioritization and delivered projects on derivative trading, Treasury and reference data.
• Delivered business data architecture to facilitate consistent processes and procedures for instrument reference within Treasury.
• Collaborated with business units and IT to facilitate consistent technology data framework across trading, risk and treasury reporting.
• Delivered a complex, scalable and configurable generic data reconciliation (RECON) system on hedging appropriation.
• Employed firm’s propriety algorithm and mathematical model to establish counterparty risk ratings, PD and reference data.
• Architected data and information security processes to facilitate cross-border movement of sensitive data. Analyzed security requirements - access, data loss and masking; and built database procedures to identify, prevent, monitor and log unauthorized accesses.
• Created SQL scripts to flatten Peoplesoft employee and LOB data with multiple levels of hierarchy to feed ETL process.
• Recognition for a generic/scalable reconciliation tool - used across businesses for KYC/counterparty ref data, trading data, etc.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR/PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Led global teams for Legal/Compliance IT addressing jurisdiction specific challenges on data privacy and application security rules
• Negotiated competing regional requirements to build consensus on prioritization and maintain a Book-of-Work for IT delivery
• Enhanced data model to integrate newer client/prop trading systems/instruments for DW/BI solutions - trade surveillance, AML, audit.
• Partnered with Traders, Auditors and COO to investigate root cause of data quality and trading exceptions reported by internal audit.
• Delivered BI and reporting tools to create summarized reports with drill down and drill through capabilities to understand granular data underlying an aggregated result. Utilized the framework to report - as an example - trade data summarized and product group with ability to drill-down into lower hierarchies though sub-groups a to eventual product to depict trade surveillance exceptions.
• Performed RFI/RFP, surveyed market information, and conducted demo/review/comparison for Actimize, Mantas, and other tools.
• Re-engineered existing AML infrastructure to evolve a hybrid of inhouse technology and Actimize case manager for workflow.
• Overhauled Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) process for efficiency, scalability and visibility. Implemented designs to reduce False Positives as upstream as possible, and capture SAR metrics to trigger workflows for AML data stewards to action/own the red flags.
• Delivered BI tool for AML business to explore patterns in historical data, and work with IT to factor their findings in SAR process.
• Set-up off-shore operations as part of managed service; addressed cross-border data movement requirements.
• Recognition and Award for efficiency (false positives and auditability) and annual TCO reduction (~ $400,000) on AML infrastructure.
• Data obfuscation process to facilitate cross-border movement of sensitive data to support off-shore operations.
• Proactive support for Audit and intelligence on trade surveillance transaction