Investigation & Monitoring Card Scheme Documentation and Payment Industry Changes, to ensure compliance with Regulatory and Business Requirements. Summarising the salient points of these changes to management, circulating the relevant information to various internal teams & customers. Providing a focal point for questions; responding to ad hoc queries & information requests. Performing in-depth analysis and data visualisations to answer and inform Business Decisions.Utilising both business & technical investigative skills to identify potential data gaps from a technical viewpoint & raising change requests to ensure that the Omnipay Platform keeps abreast of changes in Card Scheme Regulation. Proactively drive change & innovation, responding to business opportunities as they present themselves, responding dynamically to client requirements. Championing changes requests from high-level business requirement phase, finalising technical requirement and signing off on the Post Implementation Review Designing & documenting solutions, working with a dedicated team to ensure the proposed changes are implemented within the scheme timelines. Acting as an intermediary between Business & Technical Teams for both testing & project work to ensure the successful project completion, ensuring deliverables & targets were reached.Familiarity with working within a multidisciplinary team on various new developments. Experience working with external consultants & auditors, Involvement with a variety of project teams and leading project streams, to provide important information, Business analytics & complete critical testing within tight reporting deadlines.

Business Focus:- Requirements gathering for the reporting & modeling of Credit Risk for complex financialproducts under the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), including Securitisations, Resecuritisations & Credit Risk Mitigation. Presenting & documenting these findings & validating results back to the applicable regulatory guidelines.- Design & creation of user-specified reports, presenting key Regulatory Capital & Credit Risk Data. Offering analysis & scenario testing when applicable. Utilising both business & technical investigative skills. Summarising salient points & relevant data. Identifying data gaps from a technical viewpoint and raising Capital Saving measures from a business perspective. - Provide training in- Moody’s Fermat Calculation Engine (incorporating Credit Risk & COREP reporting) & SQL training to both accountants & risk analysts, enabling business users to query & validate information in a database.Change Control:Experience tracking & coordinating changes in a database system for UAT testing within a quarterly change cycle. Liaising with Business & Technical people to promote the correct testing & validation of data, ensuring compliance with Basel Documents & CRD rules. Documenting sign-offs for SOX, as well as audit compliance for both internal & external auditors.Project Work:- Leading project streams to provide important data and complete business critical testing within tight reporting deadlines. Acting as an intermediary between Business & Technical Teams for both testing & project work to ensure an open, productive communication between each stream. Enabling milestones to be adhered to in a transparent, timely manner with deliverables/targets unambiguously reached.- Providing a robust future friendly solutions for user requests for data & emergent regulatory requirements, including updates to CRD, COREP & internal reports.- Providing a focal point for ad hoc business & technical questions

Business Focus:- Reporting Credit Risk Data under Irish (Financial Regulator), English (Financial Services Authority) and Polish (Narodowy Bank Polski) Regulations for monthly & quarterly reports. Finalising Reporting to the various Regulators for COREP, IRR and NBP COREP formats as well as internal Bank Reports.- Responsibility for validating and cross checking the constituent inputs to finalised Reports.- Ad hoc testing of Regulatory Capital & Credit Risk Data Changes. Offering analysis & insight for user testing, providing test cases to ensure changes were adequately tested. - Testing of specific changes to the Fermat Database and documenting the regression testing undertaken ahead of the migration of these changes into the live/production environment. - Chairing of monthly Conference Calls with colleagues from English & Polish subsidiary banks, keeping abreast of upcoming regulatory changes and tracking the progress of issues pertaining to specific reporting & data requirements for these subsidiaries.- Providing a focal point for business & technical questions and the provide first line of support to colleagues with questions pertaining to Basel II rules and Fermat Calculation Engine.Change Control:Liaise with the business to formulate changes for UAT testing within a quarterly change cycle, requesting both business changes and technical improvements to the Fermat Calculation Engine. Project Work:- Create a tool to automate the validation of COREP reports, to enable monthly reporting deadlines to be meet. This project was completed through my use of SQL, VBA and Excel- Document Data Flow Diagrams for Credit Risk Reporting and COREP Reporting.

Change Control:- Overseeing Change Control Process ensuring Change Requests were logged and actioned appropriately within the given timelines- Administration of test scripts for system upgrade testing, logging of defects and issues and monitoring defect resolution. - Maintenance of critical business documentsRegression Testing:- First Line Regression Testing of new system ahead of migrating business users to new system.- Help Business Team transition to the updated system, by providing support, impact documentation, functional specification documents and training as required.