Barry Cooper Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Managing Director in the Financial Services Office (FSO).Supports Financial Crimes Compliance Technology in the US, including technology transformation and innovation, product development, analytics and model risk management services across the financial crimes and regulatory compliance domains.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Greater New York City Area

• Program Manager of $5M (annual) client onboarding budget and $4M regulatory program budget (focused on KYC). Additional $3.5M support and business enablement budget • Manage global team of 10 business analysts / project managers and responsible for 50+ developers’ capacity. Headed entire team of 20+ members and $25M during 8 months of manager’s leave•­ Onboarding and maintenance platform ensures regulatory checks (i.e. KYC, MIFID, Uncleared Margin, FATCA, Finra 4210, etc..) are transparent, orchestrated, and completed with maximum automation. Encompasses the firm’s accounts and legal entity databases and documentation and contract repositories. Fully integrated end-to-end onboarding workflow (with STP data and document persistence) inclusive of counterparty creation, business, credit, and legal approvals, reg reviews, and account creation. • Plan and execute on a book of work which balances rolling out a new platform, retiring legacy apps and delivering against regulatory and internal audit deadlines­• Engage daily with MD stakeholders and serve as group coordinator for annual budgeting • Manage small enhancement prioritization and own Level 2 and Level 3 business support • Thought leader in platform design, contributing to repeatable, scalable solutions including our entitlements model, workflow design (Pega 7 based), and profile based account creation. • Standardized functional requirement artifacts and establish a living inventory of requirements (field / rules inventory) that all new requirements conform to for consistent and accurate artifacts. • Major contributor to our regulatory program framework and artifacts that standardize development around basic principles of “in scope”, “excluded” and “complete” to comply with regs• Established a monthly platform-wide release schedule. Optimized the team’s use of Jira to prioritize and track work items• Helped refine our data governance and serve as approver of new attributes

Global project manager / lead business analyst for:• Client and account master re-engineering• Institutional client onboarding initiative

Designed and implemented all aspects of platform to improve trade and position data quality from the front office to the back through the use of MIS reporting and issue management.

Small projects coordinator tasked with process re-engineering operations process through rapid implementations. Successfully launched MS Dynamics and SharePoint workflows to support client reference data ops and IT teams.

• Manager of data and technology projects to integrate Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Divisions

SME in the firm’s client and counterparty (legal entity) hierarchies used by Risk Management, Capital Markets, Finance, Legal, and Investment Banking. Responsible for projects relating to the improvement of data integrity and the promotion of enterprise technology. Work closely with teams responsible for compliance programs. Managed India-based Data Quality team performing client and counterparty data remediations

• Project manager (SDLC) for development of technology based tools to improve operating efficiency of Global Investment Banking Division (1000+ users). Products included Microsoft Office-based add-ins and intranet systems.• Managed strategic relationships with Investment Banking Division’s private software developers and market data / research vendors including FactSet, Thomson Financial, Reuters, and DealMaven.• Trained incoming bankers on firm’s technologies including: intranet, document management system, news and market data resources, and project staffing and tracking. Developed online education materials (Flash based)

• Representative assignments:­ - $1 billion acquisition of 44.24% minority interest in BellSouth Carolina PCS LP by Bellsouth following the joint venture to form Cingular Wireless ­ - Advised Sprint (FON and PCS) on three debt and two equity offerings equaling $14 billion­ - Worked as lead analyst directly with the corporate development team at SBC Communications on project leading to SBC’s $16 billion purchase of AT&T (in 2005)• Proficient with the following financial tools: financial modeling, comparable company trading analysis, comparable transaction analysis, discounted cash flow analysis, purchase price ratio analysis, scenario/sensitivity analysis• Stanford Recruiting Team Captain – Served 3 years in position of organizing analyst recruiting effort. Screened resumes for interview slots, conducted interviews, and mentored candidates through recruiting process

• Conceptualized and researched ideas for the magazine; verified statistics and fact-checked articles • Bylines: “Pulling Rank” (new men’s tennis ranking system) and “Forgotten, But Not Gone” (defunct sport leagues)

Ba, Economics / Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Varsity Cross Country and Track teams (member 1997 NCAA Champion Stanford Cardinal Cross Country team), Writer.

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