SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Middle office, product control, PNL attribution, trade support & business analysis professional with 6 plus years of experience in fixed income derivative products including interest rate swaps, basis swaps, inflation swaps, equity swaps, muni swaps, muni bonds, tender option bonds, treasuries, CDS, ABS, MBS, equity options, FX options, FX forwards, margin calls, corporate actions & succession events
• Exposure to middle office projects related to middle office & back office as well as settlement workflows for daily PNL & risk reporting & MTM reconciliations, trade capture & trade bookings, daily cash & position reconciliations, bi weekly calls for the LCH in accordance with the new Dodd Frank rule
• Strong experience with applications for investigation & explain of flash to actual p& l differences, confirmations with the counterparty on T+3 basis, margin requirements with the counterparty & margin call notices when required
• Strong background in reconciliation tools for intraday control monitoring for all coupons, assignments, novations, unwinds, control & monitoring of the transactions & positions in the front office systems that make sure all the trades are booked correctly with no cash or position breaks
• Knowledge of Summit trade capture systems, Bloomberg, Markit, DTCC, swapswire, Impact bond positioning & settlement system, Intellimatch
• Excellent communications skills, ability to communicate with all levels of management effectively, team oriented & team player, detail attentive, time management

09/09 Present Confidential, New York, NY

• Assisted with business process analysis & documentation for the interest rate swaps desk, BRD, FRD, execute functional & regression testing cycles, define test cases & scenarios, prepare test script & expected results, perform testing & raise defects against expected results
• Gap analysis, coordinate & support user acceptance testing, develop & manage the UAT run book, coordinate daily UAT calls, provide regular testing status & progress update & manage testing change requests
• Resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team, worked with the project management lifecycle models, assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, special projects as necessary
• Provided the risk analysis for the end of the day PNL, trade capture & trade bookings for all coupons, assignments, innovations, unwinds, control & monitoring of the transactions & positions in the front office systems

12/08 07/09 RBS (Associate, Contractor) Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

• Tested cycles & execution in functional through to UAT testing in a project lifecycle for the credit default swaps desk, define test cases & scenarios, developed & managed the UAT run book, coordinate daily UAT calls
• Resolved the daily PNL breaks & settlement breaks as well as any trade capture & trade booking issues or amendments in collaboration with the settlements team & the front office
• Resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team, worked with the project management lifecycle models, assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, special projects as necessary.

06/08 12/08 (Sr Specialist) Confidential,New York, NY

• Worked on project activities to ensure high quality results within defined time for the equities prime services desk and budget schedules, participated in meetings at the project level, provided continuous feedback on project status
• Worked with project management lifecycle models, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team
• Assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, resolved the daily PNL breaks & settlement breaks as well as any trade capture & trade booking issues or amendments in collaboration with the settlements team & the middle office, special projects as necessary.

01/08 - 06/08 (Associate - Contractor) Confidential,New York, NY

• Trade capture & trade bookings for all coupons, assignments, innovations, unwinds, control & monitoring of the transactions & positions in the front office systems including corporate bonds, high yield & distressed bonds, emerging markets credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, ABS, MBS, CDO’s
• Gap analysis, coordinate & support user acceptance testing, develop & manage the UAT run book, coordinate daily UAT calls, provide regular testing status & progress update & manage testing change requests
• Worked on trade capture & trade booking issues & amendments as well as the daily PNL breaks & settlement breaks in collaboration with the settlements team & front office & sales
• Resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team, worked with the project management lifecycle models, assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, special projects as necessary.

09/02 05/04 (Associate) Confidential,Stamford, CT

• Acted as an escalation contact for complex or sensitive client issues for the securitized products group, engaged in new design discussion and document workflow, logging of bugs and enhancements, managed entitlement requests and maintaining master user list
• Resolved the daily PNL breaks & settlement breaks as well as any trade capture & trade booking issues or amendments in collaboration with the settlements team & the front office & sales, assisted in FIN 46 reporting
• Resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team, worked with the project management lifecycle models, assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, special projects as necessary.

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Political Science, Accounting Part II,