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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Worked as BA/PM to deliver against Bank-wide Business Efficiency (BE) saving targets within Technology Services. Required to oversee, quantify and validate a number projects across various cost saving approaches.

London, United Kingdom

Business Analyst working in Risk and Control Transformation Team. My primary objective in the team was to design and provide a metrics solution to enable management to monitor metrics on their material risks in order to facilitate the calculation of the internal CEC (control environment certificate) scores.

London, United Kingdom

Business Analyst responsible for the implementation of a new control tool for the Front Office Desk Heads to enable them to attest to the accuracy of their Market Risk values for regulatory purposes.

London, United Kingdom

Member of Single Book Management Hierarchy Project team within Finance Change, delivering a Single Book Hierarchy (for reporting consolidation) globally across Finance, Market Risk, Regulatory reporting and Front Office.

London

BA on Fortis integration project. Handling FX options, FX and MM changes for Global back office system managing payments, confirmations, announcements and workflow.

Works with project sponsors to identify requirements and define project scope on projects initiated by Global Financial Markets and Treasury. Analyzes and maps existing business processes to translate business needs into documented business requirements for target operating models. Is the liaison between business and system development personnel to author functional design specifications. Collaborates with technology to create technical specifications. Manages the co-ordination of user acceptance testing (UAT), training and implementation of approved projects. Provides on call support for business production issues in OPICS.Key Achievements • Lead business analyst on GIFT enhancement project, increasing the range of collateralized trading products available to clients for exotic OTC FX derivatives, bond and equity products.• Implemented OPICS in Jakarta to replace systems handling FX, Money Market, derivatives and equity transactions, with primary responsibility for Operations work streams.• Project managed business work stream and conducted business analysis, leading to the successful implementation of CLS for FX activity in the UK.• Designed, built and implemented the Access SMS reporting database, a key MIS tool for Global Financial Markets and Private Banking structured products reporting.• Successfully upgraded OPICS in Singapore, UK, Taiwan, New York and Hong Kong with primary responsibility for Operations work streams.

Responsible for the day to day management, motivation and development of 25 staff, within 3 shifts, supporting the front office dealings for UK, Singapore, New York, Hong Kong, and Taiwan branches. Key Achievements • Significantly improved controls following a detailed analysis of departmental procedures, leading to 40% reduction in penalty costs.• Documented the Bank wide confirmation policy and established the Confirmation Control Unit within the department.

Responsible for ensuring that new Y2K compliant system (OPICS), a trade capture to trade settlement technology solution, met all the business requirements for FX/MM activity with primary responsibility for Operations. Planned, organised and co-ordinated the UAT for FX/MM Operations. Key Achievements• Implementation of OPICS into the UK on time and within budget resulting in the UKs successful Y2k compliance.