John W. Coverly Email & Phone Number

Financial District Nyc

Project Manager/Leader working for Citi bank in the compliance technology group. I am performing business analysis, project management, UAT and regression testing and acting as a brokerage operations SME for the technology staff. My main focus is the in house legacy mainframe to Broadridge platform conversion now taking place. In addition some of the processes I support are LOPR (Large Option Position Reporting) and Bluesheet Reporting and CDW (Compliance Data Warehouse)

Greater New York City Area

Financial services professional with extensive experience in financial services operations management with Front, Middle and Back Office brokerage expertise. Excellent communication skills, able to effectively interact with clients and all layers of an organization. Work successfully independently, as part of a team or as a team leader. Business lines supported include Brokerage Operations, Trading Systems, Market Data, and Operational Risk Management. Last project was to move Societe Generale from the Beta back office platform to the Broadridge platform. Performed business analysis, project management, acted as a SME for trade capture, trade settlement, regulatory reporting and compliance. Worked with the clients outside confirm and statement vendors to insure a smooth conversion by mapping the new file formats, assisted the clients IT group in testing the new format. Performed file mapping, wrote user guides, training guides, test scripts, test plans and as -is to be documents. Have excellent knowledge of equities, fixed income and listed derivatives.

Greater New York City Area

Executive Director at Westwater Corp, a NY based management consulting firm focused on delivering solutions to the capital markets industry.Specialties:Advisory, Consulting and technology services to buy-side, sell-side firms and broker-dealers.

Executive Director for Core Operations of the US Broker Dealer arm of the Canadian Bank.Responsible for a core operations team whose functions included trade settlements, trade processing, and trade reconciliation for Equities, Fixed income (Corporate, Municipal and UIT), Money Market, Mutual Funds and Listed Derivatives. Responsible for all aspects of pre and post trade compliance. Also responsible for a Middle Office group that supported the US-Canada cross border trading and handled all aspects of the OMGEO process including OASYS, Global OASYS and Alert. ADP/Broadridge system.• Served as the lead liaison between Capital Markets and Operations, attended the monthly steering committee.• Served as executive operations member on the risk and compliance committee.• Served as operations team lead on all new product testing and implementation.• Implemented and was team leader in the design of an Electronic Document management and Workflow System that resulted in efficiencies that reduced the groups size by 4 FTE• Served as lead operations executive with Auditors and Regulators.• Managed a group responsible for the firms reference data ( Security Master/Pricing)• Managed the listed derivatives group they were responsible for the clearance, settlement and financing for that product. • Managed the Trade Affirmation group and was the operations lead on the development of a new front end trading platform that systemically processed and validated all the domestic and cross border C$ business resulted in efficiencies that reduced the group by 3 FTE. • Team leader on executive committee after the 9/11 disaster that rebuilt and implemented the steps needed to get core operations up to full capacity in 5 days after our primary site was completely destroyed

Vice President of a Core Operations Group