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Redmond, Washington, Us

• Drove MVP, system integration and go-live of Financial Services Industry Cloud solutions with pilot customers; defined persona and user scenarios to drive feature engineering, product roadmap, and backlog prioritization; partnered with legal, marketing and finance team on press release and Go-to-Market.• Optimized the product release and geo expansion processes for Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services; built effective customer feedback loop and internal stakeholder communication channel to unblock regional compliance and engineering constraints, leading to faster net new market growth with minimal engineering resources in a compliant way.• Launched payment hardware security modules "Azure Payment HSM" in Azure cloud to gain billion-dollar competitive edge and successfully onboard payment card industry leaders onto Azure; built customer pipeline and customer feedback loop to shape product design and testing in availability and resiliency, disaster recovery, data residency, latency and PCI DSS compliance.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Accelerated banking and insurance customers' cloud adoption by providing support in engineering, compliance and regulation, and influencing, coordinating and driving consensus across legal, marketing, sales, engineering, finance and cloud capacity planning teams; drove new features from ideation to launch, from initial market analysis to field enablement; Support SOC, ISO and customer audit.• Led cross functional initiatives; built Compliance Program and successfully won the first two large banking customers to adopt Azure China under the highly stringent China regulation and fierce competition from local cloud providers; drove immutable storage feature engineering for Azure Blob Storage to gain competitive advantage (SEC 17a-4) and increase Azure consumption revenue.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed the pricing processes and SEC reporting for over $100 billion investment portfolios including Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives, FX and venture investments to ensure the valuation of the investments are reasonable and in compliance with audit requirements. • Analyzed pricing variances, established new product pricing methodology and pricing hierarchy.• Streamlined and automated the pricing review processes by using VBA, SQL and Power BI to enhance the efficiency and data quality by 70%.

Managed the financial forecasting and planning processes that provide senior management with analytical tools to establish goals and measure performance. Partnered with business leaders in market and credit risk, accounting, business initiatives, treasury, compliance and audit groups to develop input, key assumptions and business scenarios for long-term financial planning. Delivered 5-year rolling forecasts and conduct sensitivity and scenario analysis, trend and variance analysis, and ad-hoc strategic analysis. Communicated forecast results, recommendations, and additional insights to senior leaders and other key stakeholders.• Significantly improved productivity, efficiency, and accuracy of Bank’s $35 billion financial planning processes by implementing a sophisticated quantitative model, automating and reengineering the existing processes and building robust controls, reducing the forecast cycle by 25%.• Successfully managed organization-wide projects such as DFAST stress test and business merging forecasts under intensive time pressure to enable FHLB Seattle to accomplish high-impact business initiatives.• Created sensitivity and scenario analysis to identify key drivers for P&L, determine the optimal funding mix, and develop comprehensive and complex financial model to support the long term strategic initiatives, capital and business plans.• Managed the implementation, maintenance and optimization of quantitative model QRM to significantly shorten the turnaround time of 5-year rolling forecasts and close the previous exam and audit findings.• Managed and improved controls associated with data integrity, key inputs, business rules and assumptions used in forecasting.

Managed the capital markets transactions for the Bank’s investments, mortgage loans, debt and derivatives portfolios ranging from $10 billion to $25 billion. Key contributor in leading the group through the Bank’s downturns by proactively taking on new responsibilities, automating financial analysis and reporting processes and coaching the staff. • Re-engineered the current processes and existing controls to improve efficiencies and assure the integrity of the Bank’s financial information, resulting in 30% decrease in month-end close cycle with higher accuracy.• Built a margin analysis model to measure the hedging impact on hedged portfolios and identify any significant variances in yield trends to senior management.• Provided oversight on valuation of derivatives and hedged items and worked with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve any exception items identified through FAS133 trend analysis.• Developed and maintained Access databases and queries to calculate level yield, perform structured financial analytics and generate financial reporting data.

• Maintained the investment system for investment portfolio and hedging activities and created monthly and quarterly analytics for decision makers.

Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Business And Economics