Andrew Castello Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia

Nashville, Tennessee

OTC Settlements Manager/ Derivatives and Collateral NA Automation Lead

• Identify new process opportunities and accurately analyze and estimate new processes, quickly assessing feasibility
• Analyze, understand, and document the business processes in sufficient detail to handover to developers
• Manage opportunity identification sessions with SMEs and process owners to quantify opportunities
• Proficiently calculate automation effort and prepare proper business cases highlighting cost benefit analysis/ROI
• Design process solutions in accordance with standard RPA, LEAN, PEX, Six Sigma principles and conventions
• Ensure the realization of the desired business outcome by architecting and configuring appropriate solution proposals and tracking those through final development

• Identify and kickoff projects that target areas of process improvement/efficiency through the use lean, pex, and robotic solutionso Used our lean initiative to recalibrate the classification of offshore processes to.
• Build and maintain internal/external reconciliations and transition the final product to the appropriate team within ETDo Built daily trade reconciliations between CME exchanges and UBS to identify under and over fee.
• Manage and support offshore instrument teamo (04/16-06/16) Hand selected to participate in an offshore rotation program in Hyderabad, India, aimed at building relationshipswith our third party vendor
• Assist various ETD functions by creating and interpreting various trading, product and client reports on an adhoc basis.o Created numerous proactive control reports throughout the ETD functions to monitor specific.
• Participate in testing any change function within our GMI architecture and collect appropriate signoffs to transition to productiono Liaison between ETD and IT in testing and employing new trade flows within our trade.

• Collecting, maintaining and analyzing financial data related to monthly account activity and formatting that data into comprehensive reports specifically tailored to the needs of our clients.
• Review legal, technical and specialized financial documentation to extract and interpret pertinent language into formula driven financial models
• Build financial models to manage cash flows and maintain accuracy of fund distributions to certificate holders (bond payment modeling, tax modeling, cash flow forecasting)
• Act as liaison between the IT department and other analyst in our department by querying and creating various reports based on requests from the client.

Des Moines, IA

• Performed day-to-day analysis and support of applications, working closely with technical analysts to research and propose solutions regarding system issues and requests initiated by business partners.
• Provide daily application support including verification of accuracy of system data, parameter table maintenance and communication regarding application/system problems and changes to all end users.
• Performed monthly detail inventory reconciliation between the General Ledger and the Inventory subledger.
• Participated in the testing and implementation of changes according to test plans provided.
• Troubleshoot system problems or provided user requested reports to comply with regulatory requirements.
• Audited the promptness of efficiencies of application related activities and recommended improvements.

• Performed basic assurance reviews of assigned operations, evaluated the effectiveness of their risk management, control, and governance processes.
• Formulated applicable observations and recommendations by obtaining, analyzing and appraising audit evidence as a basis for an informed and objective opinion.
• Provided a clear direction to management by presenting noted issues, risks, and possible solutions throughout the assignment either verbally or through formal reports.
• Conducted assignments in compliance with the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and Company policies and procedures.
• Performed Sarbanes-Oxley interim and update testing on several processes throughout the company.

• Average calls per summer rep 1,388 total / 4.3 per hour totaling 5,553
• Storm claim payments issued in amounts up to $250,000
• Significant portion of 7,714 storm payments were reviewed and issued by the summer temps
• 6,158 Loss Occurrences with 11,403 UARs/claims were entered by the summer temps alone
• Completed full training on Farm Bureau’s personal package policy
• Completed full systems training on P3, LR and Workflow paperless claims system