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Massapequa, Ny, Us

New York, Ny

Cost Savings Optimization – Coordinated efforts to achieve in excess of $25M in annual net savings across client’s regional business lines. Performed value realization by confirming estimated cost savings and return on investment. Managed program activities and facilitated Operating and Steering Committee updates. Project Management – System Implementation: Global lead for a multi-year implementation of a payroll and employee time tracking system. Manage system development lifecycle, training, and rollout for each country/region. Engage with business owners, stakeholders, and program committees to report program status, drive key decisions, and determine remediation of issues and risks. Coordinated the conversion of 10K employees from non-exempt to exempt and led change management process which resulted in an updated governance structure, support model and employee communications.Sales Management: Internally, engage in forming a committee to develop a sales strategy and track and report on opportunities.

New York, Ny

AML and OFAC Screening Processes: Project lead; conducted a full-scope data validation, from the source payment system to the destinations for AML and OFAC screening for a foreign bank fined under DFS 504.Volcker Internal Control Framework: Managed team to establish testing framework to ensure internal controls met Volcker Rule requirements for trading desks.Single Counterparty Credit Limits (SCCL): Lead business project manager; coordinated efforts across business and technology lines to ensure Federal Reserve guidelines were met via an automated reporting solution.CCAR Program Office: Created a program office to manage workstreams’ adherence to regulatory requirements. Designed a target operating model that established a centralized CCAR office to manage deliverables.Project Management: Assisted front office internal consulting team of investment bank with remediation of Dodd-Frank gaps. Led the design/rollout of an improved operating model within an investment bank’s alternative investment line. Following the acquisition and merger of a major retail broker, managed team in integrating operations for advisory, performance reporting, alternative investment, and personal trust businesses from acquired company’s platform to client’s platform. Collaborated with rates technology management team of investment bank to develop a three-year strategic roadmap to align and surpass competitors.

New York, Ny

Financial Planning & Analysis: Led efforts to re-engineer firm’s end-to-end profit and loss reporting process by line of business and product. Improvements resulted in automated data feeds, segregation of duties, and enhanced control functions to ensure data accuracy and timeliness of report generation. Corporate Budget & Forecast: Managed the implementation and enhancement of a company-wide budgeting and forecasting system; led workshops, defined business requirements, confirmed design specifications, managed user acceptance testing, administered training sessions, and determined system rollout. Supervised team to run the corporate financial budgeting and planning process.

New York, Ny

Program Management – System Implementation: Managed the implementation and rollout of department-wide (sales practice unit, mutual funds) market surveillance platform.Risk Management: Coordinated Global Wealth Management’s senior management response to the Compliance Risk Assessment, a corporate initiative providing the Board and senior management with an overall assessment. Led response to Audit Risk and Review’s (ARR) examination of compliance department. Managed the review, assignment, and response to compliance items raised by business personnel via the “We Hear You” program, a company mission to improve existing processes impacting the business.

New York, Ny

Business Strategy: Member of the relationship management team that supported business development at two large investment banks, with overall annual account revenue exceeding $15 million. Designed a strategy to assist a U.S. investment services bank in identifying opportunities to increase revenue and improve profitability by offering equity products online to existing and future clientele. Business Process Optimization & Technology Implementation: Managed the design and development of a web-based new account opening and maintenance system for financial advisors and sales assistants. Conducted a current state assessment of an institutional bank’s IT testing practices. Used Six Sigma methodology to re-engineer an international bank’s end-to-end severance payment process. Results yielded an overall savings of several million dollars. Managed the design and implementation of a major bank’s web-based intranet software for tracking technology issues and performing operational trend analysis. Implemented an online legal entity database to satisfy U.S. and German regulatory needs.Risk Management: Managed an engagement to ensure that a major investment bank’s retail and private wealth management segments complied with Sarbanes-Oxley 404 regulatory standards. Managed the design and implementation of a risk measurement system required for regulatory purposes for a major international bank. This internal model assessed capital to be held against market risk.

New York, Ny

Mba, Accounting

Bba, Finance