Valentine G. Saunders Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Took time Due to untimely death of both parent US/UK

New York Ny

Barclays Wealth and Investment – New York, NY Wealth / Treasury Product Control – Finance Monitored daily P&L for the Treasury desk. Verified trade balances and transactions by analyzing balance sheets. Consults with stakeholders to analyze, define, challenge and prioritize the business requirements, functional specifications, and operational architecture. Draft, present and obtain approval for Project Request to different business units and development group. Prepare project status reports and track project plans. Document and manage project milestones track day to day project issues and risks. Reviewed and reported on daily activity and its impact on the Balance Sheet. Develop and implement solutions for the business in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (laaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment through customization of the user interface (UI) applications. Elicit business requirements from business partners, recommend a solution, write user guides, test plans. Acquired sign-off of requirements documents and specifications via presentation and formal reviews with business partners, Created and managed project plan from the inception of requirements through implementation to completion Performed central allocation of funding through processes. Ensured control by fulfilling daily responsibilities for the desk.

Greater New York City Area

Gathered and documented requirements for restructuring Human Resources, Finance, and Compliance, Legal, BCP, Technology, Operations, and Business departments. Developed project scope, objectives, constraints and assumptions across all entities under the parent company. Gathered and analyzed information and developed recommendations to address strategic business objectives that span multiple entities, functional business units, and technology areas. Worked with entities in developing new Operation department’s processes and procedures.

Greater New York City Area

Monitored daily NAV/Loan limit exposures of existing lenders. Gathering requirements with Clients and Management team. Creating Business Requirements, Functional and Technical Documentation; PowerPoint presentations to clients and sponsors. Maintained existing, new lenders’ and borrowers’ credit limit into the program. Acted as liaison between the Trading desk and Credit in obtaining credit lines and increases. Monitored and documented processes within the Business Management Compliance Function to improve methods. Tested client implementation documentation maintenance, client review, AML.KYC, OFAC and Risk Control.

Greater New York City Area

Performed daily reconciliations for cash account, trading book, and underwriting revenues. • Maintained journal entries into general ledger; uploaded ADP entries into people Soft. Create project plans and manage resources from initiation through implementation. Maintain release cycle and roadmap for application upgrades including resource utilization. Manage project team and infrastructure resources to update project plans and drive critical path f for all projects and service agreements. Present resource utilization to managing partner and COO weekly for financial updates and transparency across business units. Analyzed and revised SOX procedures. Managed intercompany receivable and payable reconciliation, enhanced all month-end reconciliations to management reducing downtime.

Greater New York City Area

Performed daily P&L preparation and distribution to various departments. Analyzed market spreads, financing and credit rating discrepancies in the system. Reconciled Daily TBA Fails to ensure all settled trades were accrued accordingly

Greater New York City Area

Prepared Daily Domestic and International Stock Loan P&L variance to the front office. Reported Financial Resource Management P&L using MS access database queries and macros. Reconciled FX trades, pertaining to Equity Derivatives and Swaps. Performed daily FX exposure, and valuation to management regarding cross currency variances. Researched FX trades receivables and payables to clients Swap structure. Presented all outstanding write-off exposures to the trading desk with calculated Profit/Loss/Variance.

Manhattan

Performed monthly independent pricing from outside source verifying trader marks. Reviewed US Equity P&L daily/monthly for accuracy obtains explanations for abnormal gains/losses. Analyzed breaks cancel and rebuild for securities transactions price

Greater New York City Area

Managed daily P/L preparation for fixed income products in the Ledger & Sub-ledger accounts, including Corporate, Governments, Interest Swaps, CDS and Mortgage Backed products. Produced daily Flash for Front Office; monitored trading limits for all trading books; monthly-close for all accounting related issues including aging reports, market value adjustments, and estimating total balance sheet assets. Analyzed daily pricing verification for all Corporate, MBS and CMO securities in the Trading portfolio. Valuation of OTC trades, hedging on Futures and Options.• Utilized Bloomberg and Reuters to justify the trader’s marks. Prepared and distributed monthly balance sheet & P&L to senior management. Presented commentary to senior management when stop-loss limits were breached. Liaised between trading, finance and risk management.