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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Supporting Payment Operations· Completed a bank wide analysis of payment risk through use of RCSA, Issue Management and Operational Event loss data.· Created an inventory of manual payment initiation applications bank wide.· Refocused and aligned a new enterprise procedure, focusing on standardizing expected controls around manual payments.· Supported and enhanced the data reporting an thematic analysis of the Enterprise Payment Systems Business Committee.· Supported remediation of multiple regulatory identified Issues.· Liaised with senior leadership for agreement on control gaps and roadmaps to remediate for payment risks.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

CIB Operations Process Review & Enhancement• Created and established the Move Money Program for CIB Operations.• Acted as point of contact for regulatory engagements with OCC and FRB. • Spearhead implementation of short-term and long-term strategies to achieve control goals in our payment processes.• Review and Implemented Move Money policies and operating procedures. • Cultivated and maintained positive working relationships with employees, executives and other stakeholders.• Coordinated work across departments to keep teams on track with our Move Money road maps.• Acted as a business owner for payment and reporting applications, establishing governance around UAT testing and releases• Developed and coordinated trainings to ensure team members understand company policies, organizational procedures, identify red flags and review fraud trends that are happening across the industry.• Led as a liaison for Complaints Management to the larger organization• Led the remediation and monitoring efforts for global sanctions gaps in our primary payment processing application• Established and enhanced our Medallion stamp governance program to ensure proper tracking and risk reduction.• Point of contact toxic combinations and enhanced entitlement review • Championed the creation of an incident monitoring

Charlotte, North Carolina

Process Review & Enhancement Team

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Operations Control Group

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Support the US and Non-US Equity Electronic Execution business Trade bookings and allocations of equity products for clients with Direct Market and Algorithmic Access using a variety of confirmation methods including Oasys, Omgeo CTM, FIX allocation, Univista, Bloomberg, and Swift • Assist with on-boarding new clients and coordinate with all sales and support groups.• Monitors daily exception reports related to money breaks, risk exposure, and trade reconciliation • Liaison between traders, clients, counter parties, and back office to solve trade issues • Review and amend the static data systems to ensure accurate trade capture • Monitored and processed option transactions• Spearhead efficiencies through streamline and automation alternatives

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Merrill Lynch Account Payable/Receivable (4 Direct Reports)- Ensure accurate logic in charging our clients and traders Section 31 and FINRA TAF fees as well as proper billing, payment, and regulatory reporting.- Investigate SEC/TAF fee discrepancies both internal (Client/Traders) and external (Exchanges/ECN’s/Contra Street Brokers).- Monitor accuracy of payments of CMTA Options Step-in trades and for both Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith (Clearing 0161) and Merrill Lynch Professional (Clearing 0551).- Produce trade break statistics for all of trading operations (Street breaks, Suspense account breaks, Commission breaks, CMTA payments).- Review and submit commission payments to MLPFS floor brokers- Monitor offshore team of 6 associates for CMTA research/billing.Merrill Lynch Professional Trades Processing (3 Direct Reports)- Responsible for monitoring and processing daily option, equity and fixed income trade files from our client base that includes specialists, market makers, and hedge funds- Liaison to clients regarding specifications for trade file submissions - Responsible for the daily reconciliation, processing, adjusting, and client notification of intercompany breaks- Resolve out of balance items and escalate discrepancies to appropriate department

Charlotte, Nc

- Responsible for management of Merrill Pro Equity Clearing services in Charlotte- Professional Equity clearing team for the listed exchanges and correspondent market- Conducted research and implemented resolutions to issues causing daily breaks- Approved journals and SPO charges- Collaborate with upper management for the development of projects etc. - Work together with individuals of my team to set yearly objectives, and Mid Year and Year End performance reviews.- Conducted conference calls with Client reps to implement and fix new business.

Jersey City, Nj

- Daily reconciliation of all NYSE and regional exchanges T1 through T3- Accurately research and resolve all equity breaks related to suspense accounts, average price accounts, trading accounts and allocation accounts- Interact with trade support, sales traders, house traders and support personnel in resolving breaks before the market opens- Review and respond to trade issues for all BCC introducing firms- Balanced and maintained the firms Section 31 fees to be paid to exchanges and reimbursed by clients- Collected and paid bills via all the regional exchanges and ECN’s- Reimbursed BCC clients for unnecessary fees- Maintained a balance and breakdown of the account for quick overview- Developed macros and updated the procedure manuals to better enhance the desk I worked on

Contracted to Compaq and Cadbury & Schweppes-Computerized inventory of all electronic assets used by employees-Minor software updates on inventoried computers-Completed projects in N.Y., N.J., I.L., G.A., T.X., L.A., and Canada officesContracted to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of NYC-Computer inventory and physical lockdown on all equipment used by employees

-Data input for daily sales using Microsoft Excel-Assisted Brokers in client information by compiling and organizing sales data.-Phone management and client interaction