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Newark, Delaware, United States

Financial Reporting and Tax Preparation Services for Small Business in Stamford and Greenwich, CT

Globally responsible for approval process and management of UBS subsidiary limits portfolio of $150 billion. Evaluated new entities for bulk risk reporting exemption. Investigated individual transactions and supervised booking processes.-Capital: managed regulatory capital issues for parent and subsidiaries. Revised capital structures of subsidiaries for capital optimization, wrote capital requests, structured transactions to optimize regulatory capital usage, and co-ordinated… Show more Globally responsible for approval process and management of UBS subsidiary limits portfolio of $150 billion. Evaluated new entities for bulk risk reporting exemption. Investigated individual transactions and supervised booking processes.-Capital: managed regulatory capital issues for parent and subsidiaries. Revised capital structures of subsidiaries for capital optimization, wrote capital requests, structured transactions to optimize regulatory capital usage, and co-ordinated dividend payments of subsidiaries. One specific structure that was implemented saved up more than $500 million in capital. -Corporate Governance: managed regional legal structure process for the formation and dissolution of a large number of UBS entities. UBS runs more than 100 subsidiaries in the US alone. Coordinated with all other control functions such as Finance, Tax, and Legal and resolved data issues with the legal structure database. •Member of New Business/Transactions Requiring Pre-approval group analyzing approximately 6 new transaction structures weekly and imposing conditions where necessary.•Assisted in the development of booking model and transaction process for UBS MTN shelf program. Supervised and reported program usage, resolution of structural and legal issues. Program grew from below $1 billion dollars to more than $10 billion face value, with more than 60 transactions annually.•Served as Group Treasury representative in various major projects such as the set up of UBS Loan Finance, Single Broker-Dealer project and UBS Bank Mexico. Show less

•Loan Servicing and Letters of Credit: administered collateralized portfolio of approximately $3 billion. Credit review / approval of proposed loan and L/C transactions, for over 100 transactions/day. •Collateral control/reporting: managed daily over 100 limit excess/collateral shortfall/overdraft reports to regional management with global notification and follow up on open items. Watch List reporting. •Funds Control: ran regional funds control system for over 500 payments/day.… Show more •Loan Servicing and Letters of Credit: administered collateralized portfolio of approximately $3 billion. Credit review / approval of proposed loan and L/C transactions, for over 100 transactions/day. •Collateral control/reporting: managed daily over 100 limit excess/collateral shortfall/overdraft reports to regional management with global notification and follow up on open items. Watch List reporting. •Funds Control: ran regional funds control system for over 500 payments/day. •Documentation: prepared and reviewed account documents, performed ex-post executive review / approval, exception reporting, and scanning of documents in online archiving system for over 1,500 positions.•Limit setting and maintenance of all relevant credit data (static and limit data) for over 6,000 limits.•Project Manager of Regional Collateral System: Established limit controls in RCS, system enhancement, maintenance and updates, collateral maintenance, and management of regular upgrade releases. Ultimately responsible for 5 different systems, and their respective integration. •Audit/exam coordinator: helped regain the satisfactory rating from the FED for credit risk control in only 1 year. Show less

Directly managed and supervised department of approximately 55, organized in four main groups.Loan Servicing: Administration of the entire Corporate Banking loan portfolio of UBS in the Americas with approx. $15 billion in assets and $35 billion in unfunded commitments, encompassing bilateral and syndicated loans from all business areas, with over 110 agency mandates and approximately 100 loan transactions a day.Letters of Credit: Documentary and Stand-by Letter of Credit… Show more Directly managed and supervised department of approximately 55, organized in four main groups.Loan Servicing: Administration of the entire Corporate Banking loan portfolio of UBS in the Americas with approx. $15 billion in assets and $35 billion in unfunded commitments, encompassing bilateral and syndicated loans from all business areas, with over 110 agency mandates and approximately 100 loan transactions a day.Letters of Credit: Documentary and Stand-by Letter of Credit operation supporting all business areas with marketing, structuring, issuing and administrating UBS’s Letter of Credit portfolio (approximately $15 billion), tailoring transactions to customers’ needs with consistent high quality customer service.Static Data management: Limit Setting/Reporting, Collateral Control and Loan Documentation Administration: Group responsibilities included maintenance of all static customer data, processing of all approved limits in the relevant systems, disbursement control, andIT support group: Dedicate group provided IT support to the entire commercial banking area with main functions of building interfaces between systems and delivering system enhancements. •Built a fully integrated and automated process/work flow for loan processing interfacing transaction data electronically into Payments, Funding/Trading, local and global Credit Risk Reporting.•Helped structure new transactions at the administrative level to assure proper execution of loan documentation.•Direct involvement in global limit and exposure reporting project at Head Office. Replaced outdated technical interfaces with modern technology. Ensured portfolio data reported by Financial Accounting was reconciled to Credit Risk reporting data.•Consolidated Credit Administration functions from LA and Chicago offices in New York and transferred Latin American commercial portfolio of $5 billion from Zurich to New York. Show less

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