Param Kapoor Email & Phone Number

Livingston, Nj, Us

Livingston, Nj, Us

New York, New York, Us

San Diego , Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Projects:  Volcker reporting  Trader mandate recertification  Trader mandate exceptions Dodd Frank  KYC and ACO  MAD MAR IR • Work closely with Business and Technology groups to understand the relevant Business processes and root of Business needs/concerns from end to end, to design options for appropriately sized solutions to solve the Business needs and to work with all stakeholders to arrive at consensus on these solutions.• Liaise throughout the development of solutions with the Technology and Business teams to ensure that the requirements are clearly understood and that the adjustments that inevitably arise at this level of activity are appropriately managed through the Change Control process.• Conduct periodic steering committee meetings with executive and senior management to communicate high-level project status, obtain critical decisions and guidance, and ensure continuous organizational commitment.• Interpret regulatory regulations and requirements further conducts complex analysis. Drive drafting data requirements document (DRD) by determining what data is required to fulfill the business requirements and objectives of the finance or regulatory project• Implemented SCRUM across global teams by introducing 2 Week Sprints, holding Daily Stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Tasking Meetings, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective Meetings• Interacted with the end-users, core technical and finance personnel to gather business requirements and compiling functional requirement specifications (FRS) for Global Supervisory System. • Identify and manage inter-dependencies between applications, platforms, services, and environments. Ensure smooth communication within the project team and other cross-functional teams. Interface with external stakeholders and manage stakeholder expectations as needed.• Assist with development and drive best practices for financial data reconciliation requirements across business units.

New York, Ny, Us

Projects: 871(m) IRS regulation;  Notional principal contracts-upfront payments;  Chapter 3/4/61 withholding;  Cost basis reporting; • As a project manager, supported the next phase of the Operational Tax Programme’s development and transition to a fully global programme. Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.• Accountable for planning, executing, and delivering all in-scope aspects of each project. Additional duties included status reporting and executive communication, issue/risk escalation and mitigation, and overall people management. Operations Tax project manager (work stream lead) worked closely with key project team members, technology partners, and senior-level stakeholders to ensure transparent and successful delivery.Lead key project meetings and working groups to understand workflows, processes, procedures, business needs, storyboards and create the required user stories. Build a common understanding across a diverse stakeholder group of how the project can be delivered within an Agile framework.• Worked closely with the Program sponsor to manage Senior Stakeholder engagement and expectations (typically MD & Dir level business heads). Maintained accurate and up-to-date status reporting practices, providing visibility on status against milestones, with transparency of risks, issues and dependencies. Managed conflict resolution in a rapidly-changing, high-pressure environment. Managed direct reports and third party resources. Acted as the ‘honest broker’ in resolving conflict, navigating barriers and political sensitivities. Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

Nanterre, Ile-De-France, Fr

• Designed Client reporting: Trading activity, Settled trades, Unsettled trades, Position, Cash details, Cash Balances, Dividend pending, Dividend paid, Profit and Loss, Equity Report, Transaction history, Short Stock Interest, Interest report Gathered requirements from Client services and Operations for new suite of Client’s reporting. Produced and regularly updated the project and status documentation in a timely manner, including project summary reports, project plans & associated schedules, issue and risk logs, functional specifications, technical design specifications, management status updates/reports, action log. Escalated risks and issues as necessary, developing and implementing mitigating actions in partnership with stakeholders. Created and maintained the WBS, Schedule, Project Status Document and list of Open Issues across multiple internal and external teams. Held weekly WebEx meetings with all responsible teams to get their respective status and follow up on any open issues. Analyzed prior days trading activity and ensured margin requirements / capacities were in order; prepared daily “capacity summary” and reported margin capacities as well as cash forecasting to highlight current days’ buying power and liquidity situation. Performed accounting responsibilities such as reconciling cash balances and positions with the fund administrator and prime brokers  Analyzed and updated counterparty exposure report; engaged in gathering margin, cash, swap line excess, and current assets under management figures.  Functioned as prime brokerage relationship manager and handled field prime brokerage questions, all prime brokered accounts and field investor inquiries; collaborated with client service representative and sales contacts on interest rates, margin rates, and any other ad hoc inquiries. Served as liaison between hedge funds and the firm for both prime brokerage operations support .

Paris, Fr

• Back office system migration from Phase3 (Sunguard) & Geneva (Advent) to Shadow Financials  Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platform. Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime. Created and maintained the project plan with all phases, Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, QA and Migration. Provided overall direction for establishing project requirements, priorities and deadlines, integrated project plans into Program Plans. Regulatory reporting: Bluesheet, OATS, LOPR, Corporate action module design and testing. Commission, Exchange Fee and Regulation Fee Schedules, Trade, Position and Balance reconciliation: Euro clear and Bradesco Corporate action module design and testing. Specification Writer, Implementation Support Resource and Subject Matter Advisor, engaging a diverse set of Business groups (Compliance, Legal, etc.) and Technology groups (onshore and offshore), around the world to deliver solutions for Financial Compliance/Regulatory & client Reporting need. Document current and future state business process and information flow maps. Perform root cause analysis to identify current state process inefficiencies. Work closely on an ongoing basis with both IT (DBA, QA, System Administration, and BA) and non-IT (Client Support, Product Development) teams. Develops and manages all facets of a project planning and execution including, but not limited to: project schedule/milestones, scope and requirements definition, budget, resource requirements, quality management plan, progress reports, and issue management.

Paris, Fr

• Tax Reporting: 1099 B, 1099 DIV, 1099 INT & 1099 MISC Worked with the tax team and corporate action team to plan project WBS, estimates and coordinate project tasks and timelines. Managed project plan, getting updates from all project members, recording risks and devising mitigation and contingency plans, Reporting any changes or concerns to senior management.• Geneva (Advent) upgrade to 8.5 Worked closely with Advent (Vendor) and Newedge Infrastructure team to upgrade Geneva. Reported status, issues, risks and change requests to relevant stakeholders on a regular basis, including reporting against budget, productivity, capacity, development effectiveness and others as necessary.• Trade reconciliation • Cost Basis for Equity, Equity Options & Fixed income, Bond Premium Amortization for tax reporting• Implementation of Corporation Action system (Info Mosaic) - Cash Dividend, Merger, Forward stock split, Reverse stock split, Return of Capital, Stock Dividend, Voluntary Action and Tender offers

Paris, Fr

• Multiple Projects: Took ownership and responsibility for the success of projects through planning, directing and coordinating activities pertaining to IT application development projects to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished On-time and within budget Acted as a Scrum Master and was responsible for holding all Scrum ceremonies for all the projects Created and executed change requests, development plan, resource management plan, cost analysis across multiple projects and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements Responsible for creating Yearly and Quarterly IT budgets, Cost Estimation, Cost Analysis and Resource Allocation for all projects  Created monthly Management reports and charts for Executive members in Paris, submitted deliverables and monthly invoices to receive payments from corporate office in Paris  Continuously reviewed the process and tools and proposed improvements to make the SDLC process more efficient  Managed the QA team closely to ensure the Quality and integrity of sites is always maintained Liaise with onshore and offshore teams including R&D team, Business team, Operations team, Marketing team, IT team and QA team; support and train users; documentation; monitor and troubleshoot any issues with deployed models, daily batches, properly documenting and escalating to developers or third party vendors as needed

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

• Regulatory Trade extract report – Trade activity report for FINRA Gathering data requirements and design data model for Regulatory Trade extract report Data mining and data field derivation as per FINRA and Compliance requirement Gathering business requirements on report and further creating test scenarios to make certain that testing results correspond to the business expectations Create project plan, test plan and tracked project during various phase of SDLC. Achieved almost all the project milestones during project on time. Create periodic status reports for end-users, and implementation team, visibility into the progress of the implementation Actively participated in JAD sessions from requirements gathering phase through UAT• Bluesheet report for FINRA – Create Bluesheet report as per new FINRA requirements Gathering data requirements and design data model for Bluesheet report Understood current business processes via interviewing key users in Compliance and IT department Prepare formalize product requirements and create BRDs and FRDs • Data Warehouse Project – on Teradata RFP for data warehouse vendor selection. Lead role in infrastructure/vendor selection and timeline for installations Develop and manage detailed Project plans from vendor selection to creating data marts for business Planning & scheduling of Teradata hardware and network updates on Pershing infrastructure Lead data analysis role & gathering business requirements to prepare ETL document Manage data loading from source systems (Mainframe & archive files). Testing data loading script and data load to stage EDW tables Data validation, conversion and massaging to load trade activity data into Trade data mart• Data warehouse for Trade, Account activities and Security Master (Teradata)• Bluesheet report upgrade for FINRA. Front-end e-analytics application, embedded in NETX360 for report creation

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications