Cathy Bromberg Email & Phone Number

Morristown, Nj, Us

Morris Plains, Nj, Us

Reporting to the Global Head of Cyber Risk Management, I lead a cross-cultural team performing risk assessments of 1,000+ vendors annually, managing a growing portfolio of business critical vendors and AI products. Focused on streamlining workflows, enhancing security standards, and integrating cross-functional processes to reduce risk and improve efficiency.• Led the insourcing of the global Vendor Risk Management (VRM) program achieving $3M in overall saving, while ensuring continued exceptional service to the business units, and despite the 60% increase in vendor volumes due to the ViacomCBS merger.• Implemented a consolidated 24/6 global vendor risk assessment function serving 19,000+ employees, combining cybersecurity, privacy, and PCI risks, and leveraging multiple technologies to improve business user experience while mitigating risk across the global organization and ensuring compliance with domestic and international regulations. • Redesigned and operated a fully manual risk assessment function to combine Viacom and CBS VRM capabilities, in preparation to the implementation of the automated workflow.• Enhanced vendor risk assessment capabilities to include AI-specific risks, in response to the 30% growth in AI product usage across the global organization.• Streamlined partnerships with the global Legal and Sourcing teams to increase the adoption of the VRM program, achieving 34% increase in vendor risk submissions that led to the identification and mitigation of approximately 1000 vendor risks annually.• Integrated VRM processes into the Incident Response program to capture Supply Chain risks, enhancing the identification and response to incidents impacting the organization’s vendors.• Led a team assessing the risk over 300+ exceptions to the global Information Security policy every year, with final approval authority.

Worked as primary interface between Business and Technology to elicit, analyze, validate, document, communicate, and manage functional requirements and functional design for Card Services. Understood business problems and opportunities in the context of requirements and played active role in providing direction, oversight, and coordination to functional requirements management activities across project lifecycle. • Met technology and business needs by defining, analyzing, evaluating, and designing large and complex system requirements. • Identified and coordinated requirement inputs from different stakeholders, analyzing and validating business requirements for completeness and consistency.• Translated business requirements into specific functional requirements, data flows, user interface definitions, business rule definitions, and use case specifications. • Developed high-level designs by documenting and communicating functional requirements and assumptions to project teams and collaborating with Systems Architects.• Prepared functional design by analyzing requirements, constructing diagrams, studying system capabilities, and writing specifications, leading functional design reviews and obtaining approval from Business and Technology.• Worked with System Architects, providing initial high-level project estimates and Project Managers, confirming alignment of requirements management plan with overall project management plan.• Participated in development and maintenance of project traceability matrix, tracking requirements across project lifecycle and acceptance test plans ensuring test outcomes were meeting project requirements.• Participated in Agile training for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Technical Leads, facilitating efforts to transition to Agile / Scrum methodologies.

Served as Lead Business Analyst for principal credit calculation (Monte Carlo Simulation engine) for firm’s OTC Derivative trading portfolio, with about 95% (1.5 mil+ transactions) of firm’s total external derivative population. Responsible for full project lifecycle including capturing detailed Business Requirements, Project Scope, Assumptions and Dependencies, defining Project Plans, tracking Milestones, constructing Test Plans and Test and Use Cases, providing Analysis, Training, Quality Assessment, and monitoring Project Deliverables.• Partnered with CPG Front Office and IB F&BM Risk Controllers, reporting P&L, Billing Charges, CVA, Peak & Average exposures.• Performed on-boarding into SAMPRAS new commodity products: Physical Oil & Coal, Base Metals, Precious Metals, Energy, Power, Physical/Natural Gas, Softs, along with new tier1 and tier 2 curve setup (with QR, CPG FO) for products on-boarded. • Collaborated with CPG Front Office and QR teams, creating calibration parameters (Coal, Oil, and Power/Gas Liquids) and quarterly correlation matrix testing in SAMPRAS. • Liaised between business leads and technology teams to identify, assess, and document business requirements, recommending business priorities, and advising business on options and risks.• Provided relevant Test scenarios, working with testing team to develop System Integration test (SIT) and UAT Scripts, ensuring test results corresponded to business expectations.

Supported Global Credit Risk projects for Economic Credit Capital Program as Lead Business Analyst. Delivered complex, mathematically intensive, quantitative applications to Global Credit Risk Management Organization to measure unexpected loss and capital reserves. Provided functional and technical support throughout all project phases. • Partnered with Quantitative Research, Risk Reporting, and Finance clients, addressing requirements, issues, risks, costs, and benefits of Credit Risk system solutions.• Led implementation of technology solutions to meet business needs by working with multiple software development teams.• Identified and documented user requirements relating to Economic Credit Calculations, translating into detailed specifications. • Planned project deliverables with software development teams, creating business process flows and designing test plans and use cases. • Coordinated and validated User Acceptance Test results, facilitating implementation of new functionality through documentation and demonstrations.

Performed as Lead Analyst for Global Operations, supporting Citigroup application software suite distributions over global corporate network. Mentored junior analysts within Distributed Client Services, Global Deployment, and Engineering Services.• Coordinated testing and implementation phases for changes and enhancements of systems and applications, managing all phases of application deployment cycle.• Managed projects that required problem resolution services for large organizations, liaising between Business and Technology. • Analyzed and presented internal and external SLA metrics to upper management, identifying and presenting areas for cost reduction and process improvement.• Utilized root cause analysis to expeditiously address and resolve globally reported issues, documenting solutions into Knowledge Base.• Prioritized client requests in order of operational and business impact, providing coordination and logistic support for mission-critical deployments across multiple departments• Worked on application packaging of in-house and 3rd-party software to be used in Standard Operating Environment using Batch Scripting; conducted process gap analysis for implementation processes across IT infrastructure teams and development / deployment engineers Completed Business Training ProgramJuly 2000 - April 2002

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems / Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Executive Certificate In Business Analysis

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