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New York, Ny, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

Senior Consultant for one of the Top US Banks in their Finance Data Transformation team leading Data Governance and other strategic initiatives.Product Owner of the Finance Dictionary/Glossary and Data Quality lead across asset classes/products working closely with Data Souring,Data Services,Data Controls,IT and Change Management teams.Additional responsibility as the Program lead for both BCBS 239 Capital and Liquidity workstreams ensuring data is prioritized and we are meeting stringent timelines.

Greater New York City Area

Client: BNY MellonBusiness Consultant working for one of the largest Fortune 500 global bank in their Operations group assisting them in their Enterprise Resiliency initiative which spans across monitoring Disaster Recovery events,reviewing business continuity plans,incident management playbooks based on new framework,additional collaboration with vendors and other third party testing.Role also demands working directly with the ERO(Enterprise Resiliency Office) to support business services framework and assisting with Change Management process for the three assigned priority business services.

Greater New York City Area

Client: BNP ParibasProject and Program management Principal Consultant in Financial Services working for one of the top French bank assisting them in Remediation across all asset classes and data quality around Guarantees in the capacity of a Senior Business Analyst.Recent engagement I am tasked with includes overseeing the creation of a new tool for digitalizing/automating an internal process for Portfolio management team used for tracking capital commitments for their new/existing clients.Also created data dictionaries,process flow diagrams for Current state(As-is)and Target state models(To-be) and performed gap-analysis between existing and target systems.In addition,was involved in RFP stage for external vendor selections.

Greater New York City Area

Clients: Morgan Stanley | Pershing | Citi BankSenior Consultant within the Banking Services practice responsible for driving strategic initiatives within the firm for US/Global financial institutions. Few key project responsibilities in multiple roles involved:- Deposit Product Delivery Manager responsible for supporting the team in developing and driving consumer and small business deposit product delivery ensuring flawless execution of change management efforts and on-going review of deposit product quality meeting Audit,Operational Risk and Control guidelines.Led the effort of product analysis across different LOB delivering analytical solution to the clients, which set new business records in engagement.- PMO/Business analyst overseeing a major platform conversion project resulting in cost savings $1M+- UAT Manager responsible for in-time delivery of the Project, coordinating UAT among all stakeholders, managing Ops Testers from client side, preparing and communicating UAT status reports and Metrics to Higher Management, liaison between Ops and IT, in charge of escalating potential issues, overseeing UAT using JIRA tool and providing post production support.- Sr. Business Analyst for implementation of strategic OFAC screening Gap Remediation measures on cash wires notifications sent by agent banks globally, as part of the OCC Compliance initiative of the firm.Heavily interacted with AML teams to monitor/flag transactions.

Brooklyn, Ny

Program Manager/Senior BA responsible for developing and managing the Rolling settlement application, maintenance and enhancement budgets thus delivering cost savings of 10% year-to-year 2013 vs. 2012. Key responsibilities included:- Working with Business, Compliance, and Technology partners to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and implement Rolling settlement system and process enhancements for new and maturing loans.- Liaise with broker/dealer management team on product rollouts, system enhancements and billing to drive efficiencies.- Providing input to the strategic roadmap for incremental system enhancements, including an integration strategy, Life-cycle, and transactional platforms.- Providing input to business cases / models for proposed projects and change initiatives, including estimating direct / indirect benefits, impact analysis, and costs; track realization of benefits.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Senior Business Analyst spear heading the effort of migration to new TRADECOMM system retiring mainframe systems 26% under the program budget of $32.4M. Directed and negotiated terms with various vendors to build the current UI for the TRADECOMM application.Key responsibilities included:- Supporting the development of various project plans, integrated multi-generational plans, and change management plans for system and process enhancements.- Working with functional partners to understand the impact of changes to standards and processes, providing impact assessments, and facilitating requisite system enhancements.- In collaboration with functional partners, assist in the facilitation of global prioritization processes to evaluate and prioritize business requirements and change requests

Boston, Massachusetts

Business Analyst responsible for leading the effort of integrating a global investment servicing business system into client’s network, which involvedsubsequent retirement of tools in global business environment and migrating into the clients owned tools and utilities.- Managed integration of 17 specific work streams to a US Data Center improving operational performance in terms of redundancy, providing costsavings of 20% in support of integration strategy.- Spear headed transition of over 140 applications, application enhancements, service requests and application monitoring to BNYM staff in US (30%) and offshore (70%).- Improved the efficiency and increase transparency of the firm's global, consolidated reporting systems- Implemented and design interactive on-line dashboards that allow for analysis and reporting

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

- Spear headed credit check and loan approval mechanisms managing $10M portfolio, which grew 8-12% discovering new businesses.- Created and managed BRDs and FRDs for strategic global and local programs maintaining RAID logs and stakeholder management plans working closely with SMEs and counterparts to formulate Target Operating Model (TOM), User Interface document (UID) and user manuals.- Managed, tracked and monitored portfolio risks in addition to defining test strategy and maintaining RTM throughout the SDLC lifecycle.- Responsible for building and managing a robust software quality assurance practice to ensure a seamless omni channel Loan processing application for customers across all channels.- Collaboratively work with internal and external teams while focusing on testing mission critical and complex multi-tier software and web and mobile applications. - Created and improved QA testing methods using TMap and Next methodologies, identify and implement test automation solutions, and establish and execute performance testing best practices for all omni-channel initiatives.