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PROFILE * PMP-certified manager for successful deliveries within finance, risk, regulatory compliance and trading. * Proactively assessed regulatory risk drafted delivery roadmap and business case and coordinated for budget, funding and approvals * Analytical and detail-oriented PM with business and IT expertise to condense large information for audience-specific summary. * Skilled in interpreting complex rules to distil information for business and functional needs specifying end-to-end traceability. Led delivery of quality requirement documents with hands-on involvement, and serve as a point contact of information. * Developed project plans, baselines (budget/schedule/resource) and critical path activities. * Continuously coordinate with business, IT and project teams to ensure SDLC tasks are aligned to baselines, controls are executed and evidences are archived. * Led project teams to collect status data to review/agree all "baselines vs. actuals" built consensus to formulate proposals for resources, budget/funding and change-controls updated plans and status pack and coordinate for review/approval and next steps. * Liaise with corporate stakeholders - central (UK) PMO, Legal & Compliance, IT security for advice and compliance w.r.t. to coordination with external advisors, the Boston FED and Offshore IT development. * Leveraged industry standards and best-practices for PMO life-cycle - initiation, planning, execution, change-control and closing. * Hands-on with work-breakdown, activities/sequencing and timelines to define project milestones, plans and baselines. * Employed waterfall and agile methodologies, as needed, using tools such as MS Project, JIRA, RAID, RACIS and Share-Point. * Implemented overarching Test Strategy - Distinguished business procedures (intangibles) vs. IT components to specify validation for quality, compliance and auditability. Implemented test-driven framework for proactive identification of issues. * Enhanced/established Key Controls for regulatory compliance within middle and front office - training, documenting and hand-off * Audit experience - worked with COO team and auditors to present trade surveillance data and events to facilitate trading audit. * Knowledge of trade life-cycle, risk management, financial statements, and major regulations for capital, liquidity, accounting, etc. * Experience with Federal disclosures FR Y-7Q, FR Y 9-C, FR Y-10, FR Y-14 Y/M/Q, 2052a and FFIEC 102. * Conducted quality reviews analyzed data to perform cleansing, prototyping and producing information and data-driven solutions. * Rich experience participating in audits on risk processes, and conducting audits on technology processes and deliveries. * Rich experience delivering Accounting applications, GL postings, financial reporting (10 Q/K) and reconciliation. * Excellent data governance, metadata, data-lineage and control skills to deliver overarching RDAR processes. * Sincere and hardworking individual with hands-on skills to guide and lead teams while taking ownership for delivery. * SME skills on Regulatory Capital for credit risk (BASEL3) and market risk (BASEL 2.5), and BCBS-239. * Excellent data analytics skills - identify patterns, outliers, and generate aggregate stats - ability to read data to tell stories. PMO - Enhanced Prudential Standards, BCBS 239 and FRTB Requirement Analysis & Project Management: * Defined program roadmap - projects/milestones, delivery timelines, dependencies. Created project business cases and led thru approval process formed project teams determined budget and presented for senior leadership approval. * Created review forums to identify Federal disclosures and deliverables for Regulation YY Led analysis and documentation of functional requirement (with hands-on involvement) on: a) Data Governance & Controls b) Market Risk Regulatory Capital (Basel 2.5) RWA for Wholesale credit (Basel 3) and miscellaneous deliverables c) BAU Controls & Audit Readiness * Leveraged existing PMO best practices to defined project teams, governance model - project working committee and program committee to interact with corporate PMO forum and Program Board, and roles & responsibilities. * Coordinated with business SMEs and work stream leads to assign project leads and form project teams * Worked with project teams to prepare/review project plans baselines (resources/time/cost) critical paths major dependencies budget/funding schedule interaction forums and risks/assumptions. Liaised with senior leadership for approval on baselines, milestones and budget/funding. * Created recurring forums for project working group and program team. Established tools for project execution and review -RAID (Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies), RACIS chart, and standard status template. * Coordinated with stakeholders/PMO to adopt project methodologies - Waterfall for SDLC and Agile for test management. * Established Project level Success criteria, review process and evidencing artifacts. * Defined overarching Test Strategy - validation framework for business procedures, and UAT for technology components * Worked with SMEs and Operations team to establish BAU controls to comply with regulations, best practices and auditability. * Coordinated with project teams to execute, change control, implement and close projects. * Worked with the Legal & Compliance team for coordinating interaction with external advisors and Boston FED. * to ensure project deliverables and controls are aligned with the corporate best practices. * Performed post implementation reviews to document lessons learnt and feedback.
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