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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Consultant, KForce (current engagement)• Wells Fargo, new enterprise case management system implementation Consultant, Financial & Data Analytics • Data Analytics development for a local leading law firm• Created processes to clean, control and stage business data for on-going analytics and reporting • Developed meaningful dashboards and reports for business owners (MS Excel & Power BI)Consultant, Senior Business Analyst• Cargill, engaged in projects relating to the agriculture supply chain and derivative commodity trading.• Served as lead BA on global Derivatives Trade Surveillance vendor selection (Market Abuse Regulation – MAR) • Performed enterprise gap analysis and BRD of Cargill’s global derivative ecosystem as basis for the MAR vendor selection• Involved in several projects related to regulatory derivative commodity trading efforts.• Experience in waterfall and agile project environments.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Responsible for all aspects of U.S. Bank’s MSR/Pipeline market risk hedging analytics. Supported the Senior Risk Manager with risk management reporting, data integrity and internal and external reporting. • Responsible for capital market Value at Risk (VaR) and related risk reporting. Supported model validations and implemented enhancements. Implemented various iterations of model monitoring of VaR oversight.• Oversaw market data and internally sourced inputs that fed our VaR and risk models.• Responsible for Market Risk reporting to senior management and regulators.

Supported Advisory and Fund Investment Managers with extensive research and analysis. • Maintained and enhanced the Consolidated Financial Database which is the foundation for the internally generated stock equity research.• Lead the Internal Research Management Systems management project which compiled 10 years of 4,700 research documents into a cutting edge management system which integrated market data.• Was responsible for all stock and fixed income projects involving more complex financial data and concepts. Assisted other departments with various equity and fixed income compliance and risk measures as part internal board reviews.

Black River Asset Management, a subsidiary of Cargill, is an independently run global asset management company with more than $6 billion in assets under management, offices in ten countries and more than 20 years of worldwide investment experience. Black River is Cargill’s former proprietary trading operation, Cargill Global Capital Markets.Supported the long/short equity team in a business analyst role; facilitating solutions to achieve their goals in their investment, operational and cross-functional objectives. • Designed and automated a comprehensive top trade report that helped principals and portfolio managers to assess and manage risk for the long short equity funds. Streamlined the process, reducing the time invested to producing the report from 4 hours to only 30 minutes a week.• Collaborated with our fund administrator to design an FX balances report which incorporated investment market values versus their respective spot or forward currency hedges. The output of this report was the foundation for our periodic currency hedging process and our real time performance estimates. Daily estimate variances went down to immaterial levels after implementation, whereas prior they could have spike as high as 3 basis points.• Created several novel reports comparing steel and coal prices to various equities that were used daily by the portfolio manager and were credited with directing his focus and decision-making, and ultimately contributed to generating over $40 million in trading profits over five years. • Designed and implemented trade capture process that reduced beginning and end of day report processing time and decreased trade breaks. Allowed portfolio managers more time to analyze holdings, risk and market data prior to market open.

Provided functional leadership, analysis and support on investor accounting and reporting issues.• Initiated and developed a Net Return Report that provided an analysis of the daily performance of all funds. The report, nicknamed the “Joel Report” became a valuable tool for decision makers and client managers. • Led High Water Mark/Performance fee automation for all Black River funds and Cargill Managed Accounts. Implemented a process which delivered an accurate fund performance fee estimate on the second business day after month end, previously only available on sixth business day. This provided management with more accurate daily and month end NAV's and better asset allocation information.• Spearheaded the initiative to replace an antiquated Investor Allocation system with an integrated, scalable system designed to reduce manual processes while improving accuracy and timeliness of data. Performed technical due diligence, and worked with diverse stakeholders to secure buy in. Identified options and made solid recommendations based on thorough analysis.• Recognized by the head of investor reporting as the go-to person for analysis and reporting needs. This was symbolized by the presentation of a “1-800-CALL-JOEL” t-shirt at an employee recognition event.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

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Master'S Certificate In Business Analysis, Business Analysis

Master Of Arts Graduate Work, International Relations And Affairs

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), German Studies/Accounting