PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT
- I have over 20 years of experience as a BA/PM in Tier-1 Investment Banking and Asset Management, with a strong technical background supporting these functions. I possess a deep understanding of financial products and have led the analysis process, including requirement gathering, functional specification preparation, test case development, implementation, signoffs, and business demonstrations.
- I have served as a Lead Business Analyst and Technical Project Manager, overseeing the decommissioning of legacy systems and the implementation of vendor trading platforms.
- Additionally, I have worked on Greenfield development projects and significant extensions to the functionality of existing systems, including the Centralized Data Distribution System, Collateralized Lending Repo Trading System, Risk-Based Valuation and Pricing System, e-Trading Order Routing and Execution System, and High-Frequency FX Options Trading System.
- I have strong technical expertise in MS Office products and SQL scripting and have successfully delivered numerous MI reporting systems using BusinessObjects, Tableau and Power BI.
- UBSF.O. Data Technical Business AnalystAugust 2024 - November 2024 (3 months)London, UKManagement) Project: Credit-Suisse Integration Programme• Work as a Reference Data Specialist within Core Engineering, Data & AI (CEDA) Integration team focusing on Credit Suisse (CS) Application Decommissioning Programme.• The focus of the programme is to review and self-assessment of some 4,500 applications including Record and Information Management (RIM), Planning and Prioritisation to complete Migration, Integration, Decommissioning Credit-Suisse (CS) applications to UBS Data Centres (DC).• Review and assessment of Investment Banking (IB)/Non-Core Legacy (NCL) Banking/Finance applications used within Wealth Management.• Integration, Migrations, Change Projects, Stakeholder management, Agile, Risk Management, Requirement Gathering, Gap Analysis, RAID logs.
- CitigroupRisk Business AnalystJuly 2022 - October 2022 (3 months)London, UKProject:Annapurna Programme• Worked as a Controls Implementation Specialist in the Front Office, supporting the Annapurna Programme.• Tasked with designing and executing a multi-phase strategy for processing risk controls in the first Line of Defence.• Demanded a robust grasp of traded products in Markets and associated control principles.• Required solid comprehension of process analysis, design principles, and the establishment of effective controls and processes.• Implemented and supervised Operational Risk Policies, technology, and Governance Processes to minimize losses from internal process failures, inadequate controls, and emerging risks.• Independently assessed and addressed root causes of Operational Risk Losses by challenging historical and proposed practices.• Oversaw Processing Risk Governance, Metrics and Analytics, and Process Design, ensuring compliance with firm policies in collaboration with 1 LOD businesses.• Reviewed and challenged KPI/KRI/Corrective Action Plans in compliance with Operational Risk Framework.
- HSBC GBMF.O. LIBOR Transition Senior Fixed Income Business AnalystDecember 2021 - June 2022 (6 months)London, UKProject:FI-IBOR Transition Programme• Worked on the IBOR Programme, aiming to replace the LIBOR benchmark with the new SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) benchmark for USD Loans and Securities.• SOFR, based on US Treasury repurchase transactions, is expected to replace USD LIBOR as a global benchmark rate.• Transitioning new trades to new Risk-Free Rate (RFR) Indices.• Shifting trade discounting from Overnight Index Swaps (OIS) to the new RFR.• Migrating trades from LIBOR to RFR discounting.• Worked in an Agile IT delivery environment, ensuring Trade Pricing, Present Valuation (PV), and Delta Risks Basis Point Value (DV01) aligned with moving curve strategies from LIBOR to SFOR discounting.• Conducted comparative analysis of Baseline (LIBOR) versus Target (SOFR) results to address issues raised by Product Control, Traded Risk, and Front Office desks.
- Level-3 Data Technician CertificateJust IT Training Ltd2024Level-3 Data Technician Certificate
- PhD, Mathematical Modelling of Constitutive Relationships of ConcreteCity University1985PhD, Mathematical Modelling of Constitutive Relationships of Concrete
- M.Eng, Structural EngineeringSheffield University1980M.Eng, Structural Engineering
- B.Sc. 2(i) Honours Degree, Civil and Structural EngineeringHertfordshire University1979B.Sc. 2(i) Honours Degree, Civil and Structural Engineering