Lead Senior Business Analyst (Regulatory Compliance)
Barclays Wealth and Investment Management
Total years of experience :23 years, 2 Months
• A proven track record working within a high profile regulatory change programme within Barclays Wealth and Investment Management. This included providing expertise on best practice regulatory change in a structured business analysis capacity and helping to analyse and implement ongoing regulations such as EMIR, DFA and MiFiD 2.
• Lead the gap analysis using an agile approach for MIFID 2 Transaction reporting across the Wealth, Personal and Corporate. My key deliverables comprised of current state to target state gap analysis and business requirement documentation across a multitude of business areas. Notably, working on defining transaction reporting requirements working closely with front office, operations, compliance, IB, industry groups, external consultants, third party vendors and technology teams to clarify the requirements and log, escalate and track any risk, issues and dependencies as a result.
• Key resource in driving through the analysis on various part of EMIR and DFA regulation across EMEA/APAC which included:
a) Leading EMIR Trade Reporting (Level 1 & 2)/Collateral Valuation assessment and BRD
b) Defining the target operating model for ETD individual segregated account offering
c) Defining the proposal for the strategic solution for common client reporting identifiers
d) Global Test manager on automated Avaloq solution for transaction reporting
• Acquired a strong acumen to grasp key regulatory, business and technical components swiftly. Becoming a critical resource on the programme helping to bridge gaps between business and technology which enabled key EMIR, DFA and MIFID 2 trade/transaction reporting regulatory milestones to be met.
Main Achievements: As lead BA and Test Manager was pivotal in getting UAT successfully delivered enabling business sign off for DFA and EMIR go live. This involved global SME co-ordination across various business hubs and platforms, ensuring cross geographical IT teams delivered according to the technical specification and managing the defect resolution process.
.• Working closely with the Design Authority, Operation, Risk and IT functional teams to drive out FSA requirements impacting the FICC & Equities product streams for UBS entity enablement.
• Delivered documentation for the target operating model for UBS entity enablement, specifically looking at processes and controls for Credit, Rates, FXMM and ETD businesses (incl.IPV, BS/P&L reporting and recs).
• Stakeholder management and overseeing project go-lives building clear implementation strategies and plans as appropriate for scale/complexity of change to be implemented.
• Managing projects through waterfall IT development methodologies, reporting on progress, and facilitating, specific tasks including business analysis, requirements gathering, preparation of functional integration tests, QA and UAT testing of new functionality for the quarterly GGL release cycles.
• Establishing, maintaining and communicating specific risks, issues and dependencies within the working group and programme level forums on a regular basis.
• Performed gap analysis for FSA Standard Market Risk Capital Calculation attribute requirement, looking specifically at the attributes from the Risk Management Systems and FDD model and where necessary creating functional specification for changes upstream or/and in the Finance layer.
HSBC Group PLC Senior Business Change Manager, PC Change Management 2010 to date
Global Headquarters, Canary Wharf, London
• Manage the relationship between business stakeholders, business leads, finance IT and project team, with particular responsibility for ensuring business requirements for business financial control (BFC) are clearly
communicated, relevant, understood & agreed with the business/sponsor.
• Evaluate the impact BFC target operating model (TOM) enablers will have on the business process, to ensure
this is understood, managed and that readiness is assessed throughout the project life cycle (PLC)
• Delivering the documentation of key business requirements for BFC on the strategic global rollout of front office
risk & P&L management tool (IPAC) to enable transparency and consistency of BS and P&L between FO, BO and GL systems for the credit flow business.
• Facilitate UAT of IPAC as the test manager lead detailing the test strategy for the credit flow PC business,
liaising with sponsors, business and BFC architects to ensure that requirements, test strategy and detailed
plan adhere to the BFC TOM and best practice guidelines.
• Establish, maintain and communicate RAID log to identify, track, and escalate any ongoing critical items within the working group forums and at BFC programme level.
• Formulate and liaise closely with Finance IT using analytical tools such as use case scenarios and process flow
maps to drive out functional requirements for finance IT design.
• Ensuring that the business processes are mapped in accordance to the BFC TOM, primarily being responsible for driving out the requirement and specification for the manual adjustment control process.
RBS Group PLC Manager, Senior Business Analyst (Lending) 2007 to 2010
Liverpool Street, London
• Key finance integration representative successfully liaised with current users in financial control, product
control, regulatory, statutory to determine and document business requirements for finance.
• Pivotal in defining the front to back business events process flows to accounting configuration for Loan IQ,
specifying and testing data flow from Loan IQ to General Ledger and subsequent reports from the GL to meet
internal and regulatory reporting requirements enabled early testing to be performed in SIT.
• Formulated, gathered information and documented the front to back current state analysis for lending business.
• Taking initiative for issue identification, tracking & problem solving via Quality Centre to close out BAU issues.
• Facilitated system & user acceptance testing, preparing test plans and migration plans for phases of Loan IQ and using tools such as visio process maps to illustrate the migration approach to finance stakeholders.
• Evaluated the project plan, regularly communicated issues, risks & dependencies for finance to senior level
managers in project steering committee & cross functional working groups.
• Regularly meeting key milestones for producing functional requirement documents for loan trading and loan
syndication helping to reduce any potential bottlenecks in the project plan.
RBS Group PLC Manager, Product Controller (Structured Notes) 2005 to 2007
Liverpool Street, London
• Instrumental in facilitating middle office with complex bookings in GDS & Calypso as a result developed my close
relationship with middle office, operations and settlement teams and reduced daily cash breaks by 30%.
• Being the SME on the large front to back projects such as 'Kelso' and 'ICE'. My contribution enabled the existing
complex booking model for FX and credit linked notes to change leading to the ease and efficiency of the booking process for Operations and Finance, saving two man hours daily.
• Reviewed daily production of flash PL & SOX pack including source system front to back reports and controls
helping to maintain strong robust controls in the process and maintaining a 100% record in no red SOX items.
• Facilitated the approval & review of all new structured note deals in collaboration with technical accountants
ensuring bookings are in adherence to International Accounting Standards.
• Reconciled month-end P&L, balance sheet with commentary and variance analysis and tracked to resolution.
Credit Suisse Associate, Financial Controller 2004 to 2005
Canary Wharf, London
• Facilitated the month end close process, worked on BS position checks for TRS, option and structured notes.
• Worked closely with regulatory, middle office and IT to execute the reconciliation of daily balance sheet and
P&L balances from upstream front office systems to the underlying ledger.
• Liaised with product control, operations & static change to make wholesale improvement to upstream systems.
• Directed the balance sheet and variance analytics and commentary to London and Zurich financial control.
• Reconciled Nassau branch fully funded TRS for MI reporting to senior management in Bahamas & Zurich.
• Established a stock lending & borrowing 3-way reconciliation between operations, product & financial control.
Lloyds Group PLC Assistant Manager, Financial Reporting Accountant 2001 to 2003
Gresham Street, London
• Administered complete, accurate & timely BS data to group finance with integrated changes in statutory returns.
• Scheduled monthly, quarterly multi-period trend & variance analysis with commentary to group business units.
• Implemented and formulated changes to procedures and models using financial modelling techniques using
Access, SQL and VB to improve operational efficiency for monthly, quarterly statutory and MI reporting.
• Produced flash and equity attribution reports for repos and stock lending in adherence to Basel guidelines.
• Originated monthly, quarterly intercompany reporting packs and mismatched reports and queries thoroughly
investigated and signed off within 2 working days in consultation with senior intra-group business unit heads.
Blueberry Group Ltd Group Accounts Assistant 2000 to 2001
Chelsea Harbour, London
• Reconciled bank statements, cashbook, inter-company accounts, trial balance and P&L.
• Formulated new business packs to CEO on complex business structures of active, closed and potential new
business, using my close relationship with project and account managers for value added commentary.
I have succssfully acquired an Upper Second in my Major BSc (Honors) Economics at this prestigious university. In my final year, I have was given a first class for my final year thesis on the subject of mergers and stock market returns.