Business facing Business Analyst working on a multi year delivery solution to a Risk recording application approaching the end of its life cycle.Activities include:- collating requirements from the Users and ensuring these meet the needs of the banks risk policies and standards.- Work closely with the application vendor by producing wireframe proof of concepts as to how the screen functionality should look from an end user perspective.- Work closely with QA teams to ensure completeness over testing scripts.- Writing test scripts to be used by the business users and creating dashboards to track testing progress- Sit on the execution forum which tracks project deliverables and provide updates to our senior stakeholders.- Deliver weekly updates to each of the departments locations - Produce a newsletter which serves as the project comms and provides updates to how the project is progressing.- assist the department with any BAU queries they have with the existing application - brainstorm solutions which are required as part of regulatory or framework requests.

Contract role cut short by exploring a better long term career progression opportunity. - Assisting a commercial bank with CBPR+ and ISO20022 readiness.- Automating Bloomberg fx feed for the Amsterdam office to address an open operational risk and settlement issue. Mapping of incoming values to outgoing XML file which fed the trader blotter for approval. -Updating BRD documents as required - Chairing and planning of strategy to be adopted to purge a reporting database to aid performance and user experience.

Opportunity that arose following a last minute relocation. Working with a Tier 1 Bank, I am an Equities Front Office Business Analyst working on several solutions to improve client connectivity and the platform application used by the trading desk. - Lead BA/PM responsible for documenting the ‘As-Is’ and ‘To-Be’ processes and functionality required to decommission an ageing application.- I designed what the future state of the replacement application could look like and through the creation of wireframes was able to take the stakeholders on the journey of what a successful implementation would look like and factored in all feedback into final requirements.- Plan the Global BoW and work alongside the Program to agree key delivery milestones and document potential risks.- Host Stakeholder engagement calls which provided a platform for those to track progress of their requested delivery items and ensure that action items are picked up and prioritised by development teams.- Participated as Scrum Master following a delivery model change which saw the team embrace agile methodologies and moved to feature based delivery for the application. Duties included working with Product Owners and Developers to ensure that the backlog was refined, story pointed and prioritised.- Contact point for both EMEA and NAM trading desks with the emphasis being on ensuring requirements where captured and added to the backlog as well as provide delivery updates. - Troubleshoot client connectivity issues by reviewing incoming FIX messages and work with Development teams to understand the cause and provide necessary updates.- Regional BA responsible for ensuring that data quality issues encountered post migration were being addressed. Due to staffing constraints this quickly became a global ask which led to creating a dashboard to visualise all requests and working with developers and Compliance led items being delivered on an agreed priority.

Senior Consultant assisting a Tier 1 Financial Services client with their MiFID2 data cataloguing solution.- Analysis of MIFID2 reporting data and mapping back to the booking models- Creation of new booking models where necessary- Requirements gathering for a new pre production testing environment solution- Stakeholder reporting engagement.

Lead BA for a Financial Services company with the emphasis on automating a Data Sourcing workstream publication of Filings submissions and the migration of on premise data to an AWS Cloud Solution.- Requirement gathering for the ‘To-Be’ state for 44 markets.- Overseeing requirement needs for 7 Development teams globally based tasked with delivering the solution. - Attending sprint planning sessions to ensure that User stories are sizes and prioritiese accordingly.- Ensuring weekly progress reports are delivered to Senior Management- Played a key part in the design documentation for a replacement UI which was to be used for capturing of Filings submissions.- Overseeing UAT and providing testers guidances as to expected outcomes. - Performing SQL based tasks to extract information from the database.- Training of new BA’s.- Supported delivery of an Enhanced Due Diligence solution.

- Successful delivery of a solution which enabled 5 divisions within the bank identify and trace Critical Data Elements (CDEs) from point of entry to the division to the Risk Report. - Provided detailed gap analysis on data quality vs required controls which enabled the off shore team to be able to track data accuracy and completeness.- Provided Senior Stakeholder daily reports tracking progress and blockers.- Chaired daily and weekly working groups with the business areas to identify key systems and agree ownership of the CDEs assigned.- Produced visual displays showing full data lineage of content along with key controls for each division of Credit Suisse.- Tracked progress and reporting via the Tableau dashboard to ensure the roadmap to success was complete.- Maintenance of RAID logs and reporting of risks identified and brought to resolution.

- Lead in a delivery solution of a new £2m leverage lending credit platform facility and accompanying mobile app for a Tier 1 bank.- Requirements gathering for FRD and BRD preparation showing the ‘As-Is’ and ‘To-Be’ state. This involved generating process flow maps depicting how credit approvals were currently approved as well as creating user stories which enabled IT Architects to create the solution.- Use of data modelling to analyse and ensure that underwriting standards, credit ratings and loan approval calculations where accurate and complete for the new platform.- Worked closely with IT teams to ensure that the data warehouse servers were correctly migrated from a legacy server to the cloud.- Wrote and overseen the UAT testing cycle. Tracking progress in ALM I worked extensively with IT and FO (JSON files/SQL scripts fed correctly, bug detection/resolution & environment stability) and fellow junior BA’s based in Poland and India to ensure Testers were able to complete testing quickly and efficiently.- Capturing updates and Change Requests on JIRA/Confluence and perform relevant GAP analysis.- Manage stakeholder expectations by providing regular status updates and maintaining a RAID log tracking issues to completeness. - Involved in delivering Credit Risk Management Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment and Monitoring tools to comply with IOSCO requirements.- Additional scoping requirements for T24 platform enhancements for the Transfer Agency business.- Provided a UX solution which involved reviewing and rewriting existing functionality for deleting credit limits at both a counterparty and organisational level.

- Following Agile methodologies I attended daily scrum sessions with PMs and Business Architects to discuss sprint output and ensure User stories and Release Notes were accurately reflected on JIRA.- I created and maintained Reference Data used for Cash products, FX, Fixed Income, Equities and Stock Borrow Loans and trained offshore testers on the XML message output to ensure accuracy and completeness- Perform gap analysis and close out any defects following sprint release.- Worked extensively on SWIFT messaging outputs and formats for multiple asset classes. Specifically the MT1n, MT2n, MT3n, MT5n,MT6n and MT9n series.- Ensured client had solutions to ensure their FO knew their Potential Exposure, Collateral amounts and Trading Limits for their counterparties.- Overseen and acted as a lead tester for netting solutions and general settlement of custody and transfer agency activity during UAT.- Worked on a MiFID2 & SFTR solution enhancements and Financial Transactions Tax solutions used by Brokerages Houses and a Tier1 bank.- Provided strategic solutions for a client’s credit risk platforms to enable clearing through various clearing houses (LCH US, LCH UK, CME US).

- Compilation and distribution to key internal stakeholders of key reports such as CASS PS14/9.- Use of analytics to calculate unit costs, expenditure and P&L for each business approver.- Analyse the week on week variances per age bracket on the balance sheet and work with the Operations, Middle Office, FO, Legal and IT teams to ensure correctly reported. This included settlement, credit and default risk exposure.- Created process flows highlighting operational practices which were then used to identify areas causing delay in settlement and worked with Operations and MO teams to analyse the risk impacts.- Contributed to the building out of the in-house reporting dashboard, similar to Qlikview.- Performed analysis on how CLS accounts were being reconciled following a $250bn bloat on the balance sheet. Accounts were reconciled incorrectly in USD meaning they were open to exchange rate risk and manual intervention. By ensuring correctly reconciled saw an elimination of this risk.- Solution enhancement ideas provided for inhouse Flexcube system regarding trade capture. - Co-chair a weekly meeting with Operations and Middle Office to understand manual processes and gather requirements for IT to provide time estimates and costs into automation.- Building and maintaining key working relationships from AVP to MD level.

- Overseeing settlement of 18 currencies for 64 member banks and Custodians took place in a timely manner to ensure liquidity within the FX market.- Reconciliation of accounts using Intellimatch- Managed risk by assessing market volatility by implementing currency haircut changes and monitor both member trading and currency limits.- Booked FX Swaps over Reuters with member banks.- Using Qlikview to ensure project delivery reporting was correctly displayed to management.- Ensuring project enhancements were collated on JIRA.- Reference Data maintenance for existing and new member banks.- In charge of on-boarding new members, performing full KYC/AML and additional compliance checks in the process.- Requirements scoping, BRD & testing scenarios creation to enable me to successfully solely project manage and deliver ZAR to the banks contingency currency programme, forging key stakeholder partnerships with the Federal Reserve Bank of South Africa in the process. RAID log maintenance and change requests were tracked accordingly.- Simulated credit risk exposure involving several members not being able to meet their obligations in certain currencies and analysed the impacts this would have on settlement.- Assisted with parallel testing of CCPs using CLS and LCH to clear their transactions. This included design of the screen layouts and reconciliation and return of statements from CLS member accounts and LCH.

- Worked single-handedly with the technology team to ensure the confirmation requirements of a platinum client were met. - Personally forged key stakeholder relations with the Front Office and removed the ‘Us and Them’ culture that existed.- Use of Intellimatch for reconciliation of cash accounts and review of automatch levels.- I worked closely with the Credit Risk team to compile loss reports and frequently had to present to Senior Management issues encountered and created a process template which the team could use in future.- Ensuring trades were captured and reported in a timely manner- Running and performing basic SQL queries on the Dev environment to ensure key enhancements could be implemented which impacted clients. This removed a dependency on IT and was a learning opportunity.- Use of JIRA and Quiklik to track projects and log changes.- As part of a project initiative I improved STP levels of trades booked on the e-platform by 10% by analysing confirmation preferences and reducing the number of postal confirmations generated.- Processing of Third Party, custody and transfer agency payments- Ensuring MTM valuations were correctly marked for OTC trades.- Worked extensively on SWIFT messaging outputs and formats for multiple asset classes. Specifically the MT1n, MT2n, MT3n, MT5n, MT6n and MT9n series.- CHAPS, BACS, Target, SEPA payments knowledge

- Forged key stakeholder relation with Blackrock and was their single point of contact for agreeing trades.- I delivered lunch and learn presentations on SWIFT messaging and payments to the Glasgow campus to educate just what happens when positions are agreed.- Fixed Income and Asset Servicing settlement- Use of Intellimatch for reconciliation of Cash accounts.- Matching FX trades using TLM.- I reduced the volume of Nak’d SWIFT messages from 3000 a day to 30 a month by analysing data and working with the reference data teams in Singapore and implemented a new process of support- Use of ALM and JIRA for logging testing evidence and change requests.- I was solely in change of the RMA exchanges in Glasgow which enabled payment messages to be exchanged correctly.- Worked closely with a colleague in designing a new system layout to make agreeing netting positions easier and pitched the idea to Managing Directors to obtain necessary funding.- Ensuring MTM valuations were correctly reported.- CHAPS, BACS, Target, SEPA payments knowledge which was used for making third party, transfer agency and custody payments.

- Single point of contact of MM capturing and settlement for Dublin and Luxembourg Branches of Citi- Asset Servicing and Fixed Income processing- I delivered MIS updates daily to key stakeholders and managed their expectations with clear and concise communication- Matching of FX trades using TLM.- Reconciliation of FX Cash accounts using Intellimatch.- Testing upgrades for flexcube versions ahead of migration to main London system.- I provided a key contribution to the automation of MM Settlement within Western Europe by collating all the SSIs and worked with IT to ensure implantation.- Daily settlement of FX settlements and custody payments requiring CHAPS, BACS, Target payments knowledge