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New York, Ny, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Leading cross-functional teams responsible for connecting banking and functional divisions with innovative and trusted data solutions, ensuring scalability and alignment with enterprise data strategy. Lead data strategy design and implementation, to drive value realization and engagement across the organization.

Buffalo, New York

➤ Led innovation efforts to transform and standardize market risk reporting model, streamlining and eliminating bespoke practices; reduced inventory by 35% by simplifying practices and eliminating reliance on manual process analysis by 30% in last 24 months. ➤ Established and chaired Market Risk Data Quality Steering Committee, implementing VaR sign-off and expedited T+1 global reporting by 4+ hours while streamlining VaR reporting to true T+1 by region. ➤ Created KPI and reporting metrics to measure and quantify improvements and challenges experienced in risk system infrastructure and related impact on timeliness of market risk analysis to global senior stakeholders and clients. ➤ Successfully completed and submitted 10 annual CCAR cycles for Citi’s Market Risk portfolio. ▪ Coordinated and closed 2 regulatory MRA’s and maintained sound Internal Audit Rating throughout 20+ reviews (2020) and 35+ reviews (2019). ➤ Reduced high cost location footprint of Market Risk team from 100% to under 20% through effective hiring, location strategy planning, and training programs.➤ Led establishment of Risk Management location strategy site and collaborated with senior business management leaders to develop location to house approximately 2K FTEs. ➤ Delivered requirements for market risk model approval for Brexit related requirements in compliance with regulatory mandates. ➤ Expanded management to oversee risk control function with approximately 25 staff in NAM, EMEA and APAC. ➤ Partnered with Risk Management, Business, and Technology to develop Cognos reporting platform to serve as end-to-end utility; resulted in reduction in EUC, operational, and regulatory/audit risk.

➤ Drove prioritization focused and stabilization efforts, resulting in anchored Getzville office location for Risk.➤ Oversaw weekly management of 6 comprehensive scenarios requiring intensive reviews with senior risk stakeholders as critical focus from all regulatory agencies. ➤ Expanded oversight to include coverage of Treasury Risk Analysis; implemented and improved IRE reporting and IRRBB stress testing. ➤ Led initiative to test new forecasting model platforms for business level deposit and hedge calculations. ➤ Implemented Market Risk tier limit framework by collaborating with 100+ Market Risk Managers to develop 1.2K+ limits and 3K+ triggers required to be monitors daily; significantly improved transparency for Citi’s Market Risk and enabled agile and timely management of exceptions and issue management resolution.

Getzville, Ny

➤ Hired 25 employees and fostered atmosphere of growth, resulting in several staff gaining promotion to Senior Management roles. ➤ Developed strong foundation with new local management team, maintaining strong working relationship with clients and colleagues. ➤ Transitioned Global Equities reporting from London to Western New York office, saving approximately $1M in labor costs on annual basis.

Getzville, Ny

➤ Initiated projects and collaboration with Risk Management to enhance effectiveness of analysis. ➤ Drove process improvements to enhance timing and controls maintained throughout analysis process.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance

Economics