SUMMARY

• Business consultant wif approximately 20 years of experience in teh capital markets /alternative investments industry serving hedge funds and banks in teh areas of operations, accounting systems implementations and process improvements.
• TEMPHas held various roles wif Alternative Investment firms wif multi strategies including merger arbitrage, distressed debt, long/short equity and fixed income.
• Leverages his broad noledge of trade life cycle and operations to assist technology enablement, business analysis and project management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Advanced Excel
• Access
• Word
• PowerPoint
• SharePoint
• Advent Axys
• Advent Geneva
• Eagle Star
• SEI Trust
• Bloomberg
• SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided upgrade services of Advent Geneva portfolio accounting system from version 8.0 to 16.1
• Installed upgrade patches
• Ensured accuracy of trading and reference data migration (fixed income, equities, derivatives)
• Perform regression testing and quality assurance to ensure accuracy of historical reference and trading data
• Logged issues in Jira and monitored resolution to completion

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Business Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Member of a high performing team assisting client in complying wif US regulations to create an Intermediate Holding Company (IHC) as part of Foreign Bank Enhanced Prudential Standards (FBEPS)
• Developed workflow diagrams detailing repo trading activity using Visio
• Liaised wif stakeholder to create business & functional requirements documents (BRD’s & FRD’s)
• Participated in creating & executing front to back test cases and documenting results
• Tested repo trade settlement and bilateral and central clearance

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited business requirements from SME’s via observations and interviews
• Developed and executed test scripts for user acceptance testing (UAT) and maintained all related documentation on Share Point
• Worked on multiple work streams including corporate actions, securities pricing, cash transfer and trade flows
• Logged all discovered defects and tracked to resolution by performing regression testing

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported Advantage Fee software upgrade efforts for Fortune 100 banks and wealth management companies
• Created comprehensive library of use cases of teh system
• Worked as a single point of contact for client to provide technical solutions to client requirements.
• Developed use cases and executed test scripts and maintained all related artifacts
• Performed duties of assistant project manager responsible for managing QA efforts for a major international bank
• Design and implement reporting metrics and presentations for internal and external meetings
• Performed defect tracking and status reporting to clients, senior management and developers

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Associate/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed exception data to identify root causes and patterns for cost basis breaks between data processed in teh legacy system and teh newly developed and deployed reporting system.
• Recorded, tracked and prioritized outstanding production issues and escalated production problems to senior management utilizing SQL queries and advanced Excel skills
• Performed regression testing and validation in order to ensure teh proper implementation of logic, code and rule changes.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created & utilized SQL queries for data analysis to research and resolve reporting issues
• Performed P&L analysis of investment products including exchange - listed Equities, Options, Futures, Fixed Income, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default and Total Return Swaps, Equity OTC Options, FX transactions
• Coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT) efforts
• Managed a project for a prominent family office to eliminate manual processing and reconciliations resulting in substantial increase in operational efficiency
• Performed Excel data analysis of trade life cycle of securities to verify cash flows and related events (dividends, coupons, amortization, accretion)
• Elicited requirements via observation and shadowing which were used to create detailed BRDs
• Developed training materials and provided classroom instruction on best practices
• Managed integration of multiple systems and performed related systems integration testing (SIT)
• Reconciled trades at tax lot level to using advanced Excel (pivots, lookups)

Confidential, New York, NY

Implementation Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned client from Advent Axys to SunGard VPM
• Performed parallel testing from go-live date to sunset of teh old platform
• Performed implementation of Advent Geneva Portfolio Accounting System
• Coordinated user acceptance testing (UAT) wif client staff

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior ABS/MBS Product Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and tested systems enhancements wif programmers
• Developed process to eliminate daily reconciliations which resulted in substantial time savings and error elimination
• Documented procedures and workflows for all members of teh Income Unit
• Process trades and settlement for high net worth clientle
• Reconciled trades between in house system, custodian and DTC