SUMMARY:

• Detail oriented, dedicated Analyst with national and international work - experience, strong, diverse background in System-Maintenance and -Design, Finance, Planning, Reporting and Analysis.
• Upholds highest level of professional and personal ethics; well-versed in regulatory requirements. Proficient in using multiple information technology tools and applications so to reach top-priority business and corporate goals

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: MS-Office 2010 (all applications), MS-Access 2010, SharePoint, HP-Quality Center, WebAmmo, Peregrine, SQL Server querying, Adobe Editor, Business Objects, Monarch, QuickBooks-Enterprise Solutions, NextGen, GreatPlains, NetSuite, iGL, Hyperion, Microsoft-FRx, T24, Olympic, Avaloq, IMB-400 platform, Straight-Through Processing (STP), Cobol- and Java-based platforms, System as a Service-platforms, InfoPort Imaging

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate/document current manual credit scoring process and formulate detail business requirements for automatic Scoring Decision Engine
• Charted and documented ‘Special Assets Department’ and ‘Servicing department’-functions and - workflows and drafting comprehensive business requirements serving a sub-ledger to sub-ledger data-migration
• Designed vision and proposed rules through writing business requirements allowing development of an ‘Online Banking’-application
• Advise senior management on ‘Financial Processing’ and ‘Servicing’ department transition/relocation
• Formulate business requirements to adapt loan origination system complying with the federal Fair Lending ‘Equal Credit Opportunity Reg. B’ Act
• Analyze manual Customer Credit Application process and writing business requirements for end-to-end automation/development
• Fine-tune federal Small Business Authority (1502) report and define/specify METRO 2 Credit Bureau report and processes
• Identified sub-ledger to delinquency repository system data variances proposing interface enhancements
• Coordinate and control across division the User Acceptance and Regression Testing effort prior to Loan Origination Systems core- and admin-release deployments

Confidential, San Diego

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided Financial Control subject matter expertise and acted as mediator bridging the technical- and business-end of Stakeholders
• Assessed growing/expanding Prescription Drug Plan (PDP)Business Model and advised on seamless integration with applied and new technology
• Analyzed existing finance and operational workflows and advised on potential enhancements
• Assisted in planning and designing a new core application
• Diagrammed 'Current' process definitions for 'To-Be' process definitions serving Business Case discussions
• Wrote Functional and Technical Requirements and -Specifications to interpret and define business rules so to: process Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential - and Confidential -fee, Plan to Plan and Coverage Gap transactions specified comprehensive Aging Reports by Insured Members and Line of Service, Accrual-, Exception- and Variance-Reports defining purpose, justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters facilitate the building of automatic Cash- and Underwriting-Statements and -Reports to meet business needs improving internal Explanation of Benefits reports development
• Assisted in specifying reports and performing Integration- and Acceptance-Testing for new ASO (Administrative Service Organization) models sold under the PDP Business Model
• Formulated Test Cases Scenario to facilitate User Acceptance and guarantee Stakeholder Approval

Confidential, San Diego

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided high level consulting service to Confidential personnel to allow the development of the latest generation of commercial loan processing application
• Analyzed and formulated specifications for commercial lending clients and their business needs
• Formulated requirements, managed and monitor commercial lending feature enhancements
• Advised staff on all managerial levels on complex/new banking and fiscal regulation issue to be solved through information technology and changed systems functionalities
• Collaborated with developers and subject matter experts to establish and formulate the technical vision
• Analyzed tradeoffs between usability needs and performance
• Formulated user requirements and technical specification
• Designing presentation templates for project and executive meetings
• Translated commercial lending and general banking knowledge and experience to write workflow and program specifications
• Guided general users, managers and executives through define concepts
• Facilitated interface development, parameterization, code-merging, and testing
• Performed diligent business requirement analysis and formulated development scripts to specify user interface design and data conversion methodology
• Evaluated and documented the quality assurance test results and monitored the performance of newly developed modules within the application as end-user
• Communicating with off-shore, international and national stake holders

Confidential, Miami Beach

Business Analyst and Comptroller

Responsibilities:

• Planned, implemented and Quality Assurance tested accounting system implementation
• Spearheaded updating of the on-site billing package
• Designed and developed MS-Access database for cost accounting/MIS and data warehousing
• Directed financial accounting functions to ensure timely and accurate reporting of clinical financial information
• Developed and implemented policies and procedures according to Confidential and US GAAP to ensure HIPPA, Medicare and Confidential compliance
• Enforced timely payment of current liabilities, proper control and recording of cash/check Co-pay receipts
• Designed MS-Access database to record and monitor fixed assets and automate depreciation calculation
• Automated monthly Call report securing the Line of Credit
• Drafted the monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements, cash flow report and analysis of variance in accounts, ratios, investment analysis, fee collections and charges
• Implemented QuickBooks Enterprise, replacing time-consuming manual record keeping
• Reviewed third party operational and medical equipment contracts about current market competitiveness and renegotiated conditions with suppliers
• Met on regular basis with auditors, lenders and third party agencies to guarantee proper systems control and accounting
• Drafted the annual capital and administrative budgets as well as financial and credit policies of the clinics for discussion and approval
• Directed the preparation of statistical information and reports for management, physicians, government and agencies
• Directed, forecasted and analyzed the impact of special projects, new services and the benefits of a possible affiliation.
• Reviewed current operational procedures (Diagnostics, HR, Billing and Collection) and recommended enhanced operating procedures.
• Supervised the selection and of departmental personal
• Initiated performance evaluation and recommended merit increase, promotions and disciplinary actions
• Implemented biweekly meeting to discuss Finance, Accounting and HR issues in open forum
• Launched documented, and testing platform for all staff to: have accurate CPT Current Procedural Terminology applied by the billers and to increase HIPPA compliant billing and collection practice and to guide practitioners to complete valid fee tickets with accurate Procedure and Diagnose Codes
• Guided the Compliance Officer though timely Practitioners Credentialing and License renewal process
• Drafted IRS K-1 and compilated Corporate and Partnership Tax Return

Confidential, Miami

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Daily intra-company Requisitory /Change Management tool maintenance and business process change documentation
• Provided strong link between the Finance team, the Letters of Credits, Bank Guarantees team, the Payment team and IT
• Liaison between the Confidential team, the Confidential, Switzerland software supplier and the Chenai, India Helpdesk management
• Defined business rules, proposed workflow alterations, core- system changes and applied parameter and table maintenance
• Analyzed FedWire error log to specify vital changes to the payment module
• Analyzed variances in the Balance Sheet, the Off Balance Sheet and Memorandum Balance Sheet to specify necessary changes to the system
• Analyzed differences in the MS SQL Server application and specified changes necessary to the system-tables to guarantee accuracy of the MIS
• Acted as mediator between the Technical (programmers) and Business end (users) breaking down the communication barriers between stakeholders and developers
• Bridging the Business Owners needs and the Developers skills guaranteeing that the needs of all system users was met
• Deliverables:
• Converting workflow changes into program change specifications
• Describing business processes
• Charting product booking and evaluation processes (Derivative products, Foreign Exchange products, Hedging products)
• Interpreting stakeholders needs and translate into programmable specifications
• Financial-, control-, evaluation-Reports change, alteration or modification specification formulation
• Systems upgrade and module implementation planning and test script designing
• Formulated pre-implementation test scripts and post-implementation Quality Assurance ‘snap-check’ controls
• Managed the IRS 1099-xxx and IRS 1042-S project to automate form production and reconciliation

Confidential

Senior Accountant/Financial Analyst/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assistant to the COO taking minutes at Board Meetings and monitoring department Head’s allocated tasks progress
• Designed and developed comprehensive internal website with MS-FrontPage detailing operational/financial procedures and directives
• Directed the AVALOQ core-banking system implementation project budget and forecast
• Supervised the Project designing, planning, implementation matrix and briefed the Board of Directors about possible deviations or delays.
• Supported internal audit team in setting up guidelines for internal control ‘snap-checks’ and assisted external audit company during regular and extraordinary audits
• Launched mainframe systems EOD/M/Q/Y processing
• Formulating, documenting, numbering and sampling Confidential, UK and US GAAP accounting procedures
• Monthly interest receivables and payable accruals monitoring and client account/safe custody fee processing
• Guided the Corporate Events Dept in diarizing Security Events (Coupon Payments, Maturities)
• Stepped in as Managing Substitute for Finance Companies, Brass Plate Companies and Trust accounting and settler/beneficiaries reporting
• Proposed annual budget and directed monthly forecasting process
• Calculated and reported Key Performance Indicators (Product Return, Revenue Analysis of Client Investment Portfolios and Fund Management to Senior Management and the Board
• Spearheaded the team automating Confidential (weekly Liquidity, monthly FX- and Securities Positions and Bulk Risk) Confidential reporting
• Facilitate implementation of automatic SWIFT messages processing
• Directed Reconciliation Team in implementing application for automating NOSTRO/VOSTRO account reconciliation
• Performed preliminary analysis and managed blueprint paper for Confidential + Confidential (Offshore Disclosure Reports) mainframe modules design
• Assisted in planning and implementing the KYC standalone application
• Designed and formulated internal compliance and accounting procedure for SOX (Sabanes-Oxley)

Confidential, New York

Financial Controller

Responsibilities:

• Developed Trading Blotter for charting and squaring daily foreign exchange positions to prevent Risk Exposure
• Co-designed a Microsoft tool allowing accurate monitoring and reporting of Fiduciary rollovers and maturities
• Directed Confidential and Confidential Reserve legal and statutory reporting
• Facilitated daily Interest Rate/Foreign Currency and Securities Trading Risk management
• Represented the finance department in the bank branch’s merger with Confidential
• Managed Confidential and local ( Confidential, Confidential ) Stock Exchange reporting Reduced monthly operating expenses $20K through the implementation of an online risk management tool and enhanced blotter for traders.
• Eliminated time consuming and expensive reconciliation errors by streamlining the accounts department and purging dozens of sub IT systems.
• Signed off the Annual Financials and recommended footnotes for the Annual Reports
• Worked diligently and closely with external auditors to guarantee neat less transition of business to Confidential