Experience

Adaptive Financial Consulting

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Business Analyst / Consultant

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  Online Trading Platform (MENA Brokerage) • Design, develop and implement mutli-platform (web & mobile) trading platform. • CFD and Spread bet with various underlying assets (FX, Commodity, Indices, Futures, Treasuries, Equities) • Elicit requirements form client. • Work with UX/UI design team to develop the user journey and product designs. • Documenting requirements and test cases • Work with development / QA teams to deliver requirements. Online Trading Platform (MENA Brokerage) • Design, develop and implement mutli-platform (web & mobile) trading platform. • CFD and Spread bet with various underlying assets (FX, Commodity, Indices, Futures, Treasuries, Equities) • Elicit requirements form client. • Work with UX/UI design team to develop the user journey and product designs. • Documenting requirements and test cases • Work with development / QA teams to deliver requirements.



Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst / Delivery Lead / Product Owner

  • Oct 2017 - Mar 2022

  Product Owner | Electronic Trading Technology • MiFID II RTS 6; Self-Assessment and validation process definition, coordination and implementation. • Control and limit breach/utilization message publishing to central monitoring application. Delivery Lead | Global Markets Operations Technology Working in the Collateral Operations Technology team as PM/BA my role involves the following: • Project management (Agile) and business analysis for two collateral operations workstreams; Collateral Operations Reconciliation Automation and Collateral Exception Management System. • Collateral and margin reconciliation between front office, finance and payment systems. • Requirements gathering from banking and markets operations, predominantly in the collateral management and control environment. • Writing of Business Requirements Documentation, Functional Specifications, Test Documentation, Project Planning and reporting. • Workshops and Business Process Engineering • Preparation of test data and cases as well as execution of quality assurance testing. Coordination of user acceptance testing • Delivery planning and implementation. • Regulatory project involvement (requirements, analysis, testing): - Broker Dealer Separation - Deposit Interest Retention Tax (DIRT) - US Withholding Tax - Brexit • Day to day business and technical support. • Vendor Management. Show less



BNY Mellon

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Jun 2017 - Oct 2017

  Finance / Regulatory Change Management Working on the AnaCredit (Analytical Credit Dataset) regulation imposed by the ECB as data analyst my role involves the following: • Analysis of current processes to identify sources of data. • Working with legal and compliance to define scope of requirements and request derogation where possible. • Writing of Business Requirements documentation, current and target operating models as well as functional specifications. • Sourcing and mapping of data attributes from various systems, databases and environments. • Initiate / suggest business process change where required. • Preparation of sample and test data / test cases. Acceptance criteria. • Work with development teams and external vendors to develop proposed solution. • Engage with and report to senior stakeholders and sponsors. • Work alongside (as sources of data and with major overlap) other projects like IFRS9, FINREP. Show less



Deutsche Bank

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Aug 2015 - Jun 2017

  Market Risk IT Pricing Model Risk Control programme, which is a BaFin driven regulatory programme. Through analysis, design and development and working with Front Office, Product Control, Finance (and others) enhancing the capabilities of the bank in respect of: Pricing Model Dispersion • Working with the Front Office automate the identification and reporting of trades which use alternative models for pricing. • Streamlined and optimized various manual and user automated (Excel and Qlikview) processes and rules. These rules were subsequently implemented into the Risk Database allowing quicker and reliable (auditable) processing. Ring Fence • Created a report to identify and monitor a list of trades on a legacy ring fence list (manual, Excel) during remediation. Daily MI reports generated showing progress. • A new ring fence application (GUI) was developed with enhanced capabilities which can be better managed / audited. • Assisted with migration and testing of existing ring fence rules into new system. • Implementation of a new strategic reporting solution using SAS Visual Analytics. • Re-created existing CSV reports in new reporting solution. CVA Models • Assist model valuations group in definition of CVA model taxonomy. • Define current “as-is” processes and propose future state of trade, valuation and model usage data. • Data mapping into existing risk database processes. Temporary Model Approval • Defined and implemented a system where provisional and exceptional temporary pricing model approval can be done in order to enable quicker time to market for new products / models. • This system included automatic daily reporting and limit monitoring on temporary model approval. Dormant Product /Model • Report to Identify and highlight dormant product model usage in order to enable decommissioning. BAU • MI Reporting using SQL and Excel / PowerPoint. • SQL and VBA scripts for reporting, analysis and issue resolution. Show less



Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager

  • Dec 2014 - Aug 2015

  Credit Risk IT Project managing minor works and build the bank projects for production applications in Credit Risk IT. Where required business analysis and hands-on support / development: • Data quality management, monitoring and reporting application. Pre and post risk simulation data quality management and workflow management. • Pre-deal checking application. Pre trade, real time limit and exposure management. Investment Banking and Wealth. • Credit risk engine equity derivatives feed on boarding. Netting / exposure management system feed onboarding. • Transitioning all development teams / projects onto Agile methodolgy. Show less



Credit Suisse

• Switzerland
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  Credit Risk and Reporting Gather and analyse business requirements. Validate end to end processes with the aim of achieving operational optimization as well as BCBS compliance. Produce business and functional requirement documentation. In order to comply to / align with BCBS principles the project aims to: • Define a resilient yet flexible infrastructure for risk data. • Ensure consistent sourcing of high quality data (Risk, Market and Reference data). • Design and introduce methods and processes for effective and timely data analysis and review to enable sign-off and/or adjustments. • Implementation of analysis and reporting tools for both dynamic and pre-defined reports (Regulatory and MI). • Elimination of disparate user processes. • Reduce overall process time of data through automation and optimization. Show less



Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Jul 2012 - Apr 2014

  Credit Risk IT (Jul 2013 – Apr 2014) Part of a team creating a credit risk data quality and business analytics reporting platform that aims to meet the upgraded strategic risk architecture reporting capabilities and Basel III requirements defined as part of the exposure analysis and reporting programme of work. Core responsibilities include: - Engage with change management and business owners to elicit / define requirements. - Data sourcing, definition of transformation and ETL of trade system and risk engine data. - Definition of workflow processes and design used for monitoring. - Working with development team in the development of solution. - Engaging with and assisting the test teams with test preparation, execution and investigation. Cash, Collateral and Liquidity Technology (Jul 2012 – Jun 2013) As Data Business Analyst (Data) on the Cash, Collateral & Liquidity (CCL) Programme, contracted to perform data analysis to source and onboard data from various systems. With the aim to create a real time operational data cache to aid the business in projecting, monitoring and actively manage Funding, Intraday Liquidity as well as assessing Cost of Income. Core responsibilities include: - Engage with end-users and business owners to elicit requirements and priorities. - Data sourcing and definition of trade, cashflow and reference information fed in from external systems including front office, settlement and payment. - Homogenising feeds from various formats including XML, text and proprietary formats - Reference data definition, mapping and sourcing. - Definition of logical data model to be used as centralized trade store. - Data migration planning, preparation and execution. - Test case definition, development and data preparation. Show less



HSBC

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Nov 2010 - Jun 2012

  Invited on two occasions to play a key role in the design and delivery of change management projects covering inbound and outbound accounting processes across the UK, EU, US and Asia. Inbound activities covered the analysis, definition and documentation of inbound feeds, process and data mapping, sourcing and enrichment for Trade (XML/MQ based), Valuation and Settlement (flat files). Instruments included IR Swaps, Swaptions, FRA, Bond Options, Cross Ccy Swaps, Exotic Options, Structured Products, FX Options, MTN’s, Loans & Deposits, Structured Equity Derivatives. Outbound activities included analysis, definition and documentation of outbound accounting event reports, reconciliation procedures and reports. Show less



SunGard Financial Systems - now part of FIS

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Consultant, Banks & Corporations

  • Apr 2008 - Nov 2010

  Project led the end-to-end design and delivery of major investment banking and corporate projects involving extensive client engagement, requirements gathering, scope definition, strategy formulation, business case presentation and budget management. Defined and managed the deployment and integration of IT capabilities into the business in a manner sensitive to and compatible with business operations. Managed change requests, risks, assumptions and dependencies, including escalation and resolution of service incidents and complex live risk issues. Delivered client training – strengthening capability of change management processes. Defined and planned data cleansing, migration and reconciliation activities. Transferred business critical reports during system implementation process. Multinational projects included Bristol-Myers Squibb (Ireland) BinckBank N.V. (Netherlands), Tetra Laval (Switzerland), HSBC Equipment Finance (UK), and Eskom (South Africa) Show less



Microgen

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Nov 1996 - Apr 2008

  Senior consultancy assignments included the Royal Bank of Canada (UK), UBS (Jersey), Industrial Bank of Kuwait, HIFX plc (UK), Industrial Development Corporation (Kuwait), Industrial Development Corporation (SA), United Mizrahi Bank (Israel), Northern Rock (UK), and Merrill Lynch IPBG (UK) Senior consultancy assignments included the Royal Bank of Canada (UK), UBS (Jersey), Industrial Bank of Kuwait, HIFX plc (UK), Industrial Development Corporation (Kuwait), Industrial Development Corporation (SA), United Mizrahi Bank (Israel), Northern Rock (UK), and Merrill Lynch IPBG (UK)



AFA Systems

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Implementation Consultant

  • 1996 - 2004