PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Present Consultant / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of three Finance Change business analysts through teh five phase delivery of Risked Based P&L reporting capability for teh pilot business, Securitized Products, which generates teh largest percentage of teh firm’s US International Holding Company (IHC) trading P&L, and also for teh Systematic Market Making Equities business
• Conducted business requirement gathering workshops to gain consensus amongst project stakeholders including Product Control, Front Office, Quantitative Strategies, Risk Management IT, Finance IT and others
• Drafted business requirements, performed functional testing and data validations, and coordinated user acceptance testing and business onboarding to resolve Federal Reserve - mandated Matters Requiring Immediate Attention (MRIA), Matters Requiring Attention (MRA) and meet teh enhanced P&L reporting capabilities required of teh firm’s US IHC under teh Dodd-Frank Act
• Developed strategic reporting requirements for US regulatory reports including FR-Y9C, FFIEC-031, FFIEC-002, and CCAR
• Reconciled and prepared as a tactical contingency solution, teh Loans, Other Assets and Fixed Assets balance sheet data used for jump off point data for CCAR 14A Report’s line of business projections and for Basel III Risk Weighted Asset and Capital Supply calculation and reporting
• Gathered and documented business requirements to automate teh above tactical contingency solution via a sequence of automated data processing jobs, teh CCAR Data Viewer application, which also serves as a reconciliation and adjustment tool, and teh related CCAR 14A Offline Database
• Drafted key operating procedures for critical processes of teh June 2015 hybrid legacy / strategic report preparation approach undertaken as StRIDe Program delivers certain schedules via teh strategic platform while others remain via manual legacy preparation processes

Confidential

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Migrated P&L and Balance Sheet reporting for global Loans businesses booked in Loan IQ off of inconsistent reporting processes and onto teh standardized strategic Product Control reporting solution as part of a front to back project including simultaneous migration to teh strategic sub ledger and posting account rationalization
• Provided experience-based subject matter expertise on successfully implemented and fit-to-purpose regulatory-driven projects for teh Product Control and Financial Accounting Departments
• Led a series of Finance rotational analysts in gathering and documenting business requirements and functional specifications, and reviewing system specifications to help ensure teh accurate and complete capture of all business and functional requirements through to teh technical implementation
• Gathered information to build process flows and perform data analysis on sub ledger, ledger, P&L, trade detail, and reference data with teh goal of establishing teh effort required to further integrate additional internal legal entities into teh firm’s strategic control and regulatory framework
• Coordinated QA and UAT test cycles, designed and executed test plans, test cases, and UAT-phase user testing templates, established critical success criteria, documented and prioritized issues raised by UAT testers, communicated UAT statuses to teh user base and other project stakeholders, escalated risks to project management

Confidential

Change Analyst & Commodities Line Controller

Responsibilities:

• Executed daily and monthly line controller responsibilities for both teh Power and Global Arbitrage Trading businesses including production, validation and risk attribution of daily and month-end PNL, significant trading PNL commentaries, reconciliation of FOBO breaks, and revenue and balance sheet account ownership signoff
• Established consensus and signoff on PC-driven changes from functional groups across teh bank including Front Office, IT, Operations, Financial Accounting, Risk Management, Treasury, and PC
• Provided subject matter expertise on teh Endur commodities trading and risk management system, delivering solutions across teh business that extended beyond either my line controller or PC business analyst responsibilities
• Prioritized, drafted business/functional requirements, tested and implemented both tactical and strategic changes to systems and processes teh within teh Commodities and PC environments

Confidential

May 2008AVP Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements, drafted functional specifications, tested and implemented new trade feeds and fee calculators into a system designed to calculate and report major components of teh firm’s trading costs for purposes of improving expense efficiency and increasing expense awareness in teh front office
• Interacted with a global group of traders, TA’s, divisional CAO’s/expense line owners, product controllers, teh P&L reporting system group, teh Expense & Sourcing division, upstream data providers, and downstream data recipients to gather business requirements, resolve data issues, expedite informational/reporting requests, and provide production support for teh system.
• Reengineered teh business processes of an invoice management system used to allocate US Equities brokerage and exchange fee invoice amounts across teh firm’s trading desks, increasing process efficiency and decreasing timerequired to approve and pay invoices
• Analyzed and supported client production and implementation issues for teh Endur/Findur system for financial/commodity trading, risk management and operations
• Liaised between client contacts and specialized subject matter experts as a generalist first level of support

Nov 2005Support Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Managed head office help desk, providing support and consultancy for over 250 clients domiciled in teh EMEA region using teh Opics Treasury & Capital Markets System
• Trained and supervised six EMEA and three APAC helpdesk analysts on product support procedures, customer service skills, and Researched, and resolved client reported issues for system applications including Deposits/Loans, FX, Swaps, FRA’s, Caps/Floors, Fixed Income, Repo’s, Equities, SWIFT/Settlements, nostro/cash management, multi-currency accounting, and core system processes.
• Designed and tested applications for teh Opics Treasury & Capital Markets System as per both client specifications and internal product planning