SUMMARY:

Senior Capital Markets professional with a wide product knowledge and a deep understanding of financial data processes and flows. Recent career focus on BA/PM hybrid consulting roles in change management for banks and other large financial organizations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Strong Excel skills including basic VBA, V Lookups, modeling, creating Pivot tables, etc.

Proficient in PowerPoint, Access, Bloomberg, SQL, Visio, SharePoint and many others

Adept at building presentation materials

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Main project: replacing multiple pricing engines for the Muni business with a single Python - based system.
• Lead and coordinate the development work for a team of 7 developers deploying a new pricing engine that supports legacy data requirements.
• Ensure correct and reliable UAT and Production data delivery for downstream consumers including: Market Risk, Middle Office, Regulatory processes, Margin Calculation, and more.
• Represent the Muni Tech group in PMO and Senior Management project portfolio updates.
• Drive other Capital Markets projects to update pricing feeds, trading system product capability, and other business needs of the Front Office, Regulatory reporting teams, or other drivers.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop business requirements for a multi-product surveillance engine for the Capital Markets unit.
• Create logical models for data required for Order, Execution, and Position regulatory reporting for OTC and exchange traded derivatives.
• Apply product knowledge to interpret use and validity for data by product.
• Control data scope through applied product knowledge and detailed requirements interpretation.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead business analyst for change group conducting in-depth analysis of current state pricing flows across the business. Rationalized ten pricing feeds used by multiple business units. Developed process flows for a centralized pricing warehouse. Products covered included Equities, Fixed Income, and Derivatives.
• Developed mapping to create discrete curve and volatility surface objects using observed and interpolated pricing to support risk modeling functionality in the warehouse.
• Performed Data Model setup and UAT testing to deliver a completely functional pricing data warehouse.
• Built operational risk controls in anticipation of regulatory changes.

Confidential, New York, NY

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead business analyst for change team charged with changing the structure of reporting and ownership rollup of securities for the entire Sales & Trading division prompted by the Volcker Rule.
• Analyzed and documented ownership structures of securities data across Finance, Risk, Front Office, and Operations. Created presentation material to explain complex structure issues to senior management.
• Investigated and validated business reasons for existing structures. Determined which structures would be supported in the future state and which could be amended and revised.
• Wrote a comprehensive 90 page Business Requirements document for a firm wide reorganization project.

Confidential, Bridgeport, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Mapped databases used for firm wide loan operations data. Explanation and clarification of data flows and relationships between databases for management review.
• Identified redundant, risky, and critical database structures. Advised on new structures to streamline and fortify operational processes.

Confidential, Mt. Laurel, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted in depth analysis of P&L process for Mortgage Origination desk. Created front to back P&L reconciliation and new methods of retaining and distributing P&L reports.
• Interviewed operations and accounting teams to capture process flows. Coordinated client process input to create and implement process improvements.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager and Business Analyst for Volcker Rule-driven projects including replacing Broadridge Impact with proprietary operational risk system for Convertible and High Yield businesses.
• Numerous projects for Fixed Income and Credit Derivative products, with a focus on P&L, Risk, pricing, and journal entry systems and processes focused on front to back trade data flow throughout the bank.
• Managed large testing groups for multiple rounds of software replacement and integration projects.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Covered and improved Independent Valuation Review processes reporting directly to global head of Credit Product Control. Increased the automation of portfolio return netting in Valuation Commentary process.
• Developed and implement processes for identifying loan aging issues, price testing populations, and other initiatives in Global Credit and Whole Loan trading for assets across currencies.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Hedge Fund P&L Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Primary P&L analyst for Tiger Asia funds. Served as a team leader in explaining client P&L to firm senior management.
• Dissected portfolios to attribute gains and losses intra month.
• Guided junior analysts in the examination and description of fund positions for senior firm management.
• Covered clients trading a large array of product types including equities, CDS, currencies, metals, and Corporates.
• Performed daily and monthly P&L on large client books.
• Worked closely with quantitative group for Mark to Model of Level 3 assets per FAS 133.
• Partnered closely with clients to ensure accuratepricinginfo and resolve related issues.
• Collaborated with client front office and management, operations, technology and other groups on a daily basis.

Confidential, New York, NY

Middle Office Associate

Responsibilities:

• Served as a tester for implementation of SwapsWire at the bank and numerous in house processes for the US Dollar Swap desk.
• Managed process review and documentation project for a group of approximately 35 middle office analysts.
• Supported the operational aspects of pricing, inventory, risk, and cash settlements for one of the largest Swap desks in the world.
• Participated in special projects for the group, including the development of in-house software tools.
• Investigated valuation differences between predicted P&L andriskmanagement system.
• Modeled OTC swap trades to ensure accurateriskand valuation. Compared the marketerpricingmodel to the traders’ pricingmodel to reduce bookrisk.
• Business Analyst for integration project of multiple reporting systems into a centralized client statement generation system.
• Investigated and rectified booking issues for MBS, corporates, munis and equities.
• Corresponded with firm portfolio management and outside custodial entities to resolve account reporting issues.
• Participated in monthly QC process reviews of customer account statement issues. Escalated serious process issues to management to help effect resolution.

Confidential, New York, NY

Risk Manager

Responsibilities:

• Primary trader for a portfolio containing a large number of single equity option positions.
• Managed all aspects of a diverse portfolio of derivative positions including: evaluating value-at-riskand valuation in real time, P&L, hedging operations and clearing issues.
• Interfaced with firm traders to evaluateriskissues and enforce parameters.
• Developed and implemented stock and option execution policies
• Spearheaded firm initiative to trade and manage stockriskin pre and post market trading sessions.
• Attended to all aspects of exercise, assignment and expiration-related issues.
• Performed comprehensive analyses of trading activity, brokerage billing and Value atRiskreporting.
• Resolved complex reconciliation issues in numerous financial asset classes through analytic problem resolution.
• Actively searched options markets to spot mispriced contracts to trade focusing primarily on earnings disappointments and other negative news situations.
• Generated close to 100% ROE with tightrisktolerances.
• Opened, closed, and resolved issues for several books with dozens of positions.
• Analyzed and monitoredriskin a large number of derivative market maker positions in real time.
• Assessed derivative positions on an individual and portfolio basis. Interacted closely with clearing firm personnel and traders to resolve clearing and position reporting issues.
• Enforcedriskparameters for floor traders.
• Determined option exercises.
• Traded stock andderivativesfor floor traders’ accounts when appropriate.
• Accounted for and processed equity option market maker trades in a hectic environment.
• Reconciled clearing firm sheets to firmriskmanagement position reports. Rectified erroneous trades intraday, eliminating a significant source of P&Lrisk