Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager
| | | | | | Industry Focus: | Accounting & Finance, Information Technology, Management & Business | | Job Title: | Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager | | Experience: | 10 15 Years | | Looking For: | 1099 Contractor, W-2 Contractor, Permanent Full-Time | | Visa Status: | U.S. Citizen | | Salary: | $150000 - $200000 | | Education Level: | 4-Year College Degree | | Security Clearance: | Active Top Secret/SCI | | Relocation: | Any Location | | Travel Preference: | 50% Travel | |
Phillip Green
Senior Business Analyst - Project Manager – Derivatives, Securities, Commodities, Financial Markets
Commodities, Futures, Options, Bonds, Equity, OpenLink Endur, gMotion, TriplePoint, Middle Office Futures Trading, Sungard Energy trading risk management systems Senior Business Analyst. Sophis, Murex, Calypso, Charles River, Wall Street Sytstems, Trema, Latent Zero and Advent Geneva. Commodities, Futures, options, swaps, crude oil, crude products, natural gas, Equity Swaps, Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Structured Products, commodities.
Fortis Investments Brussels, Belgium January 2008 – present
Project Lead/Senior Business Analyst Contractor/Consultant
OTC Derivatives Project – Derivatives platform Implementation of vendor solution, short-listed to Murex and Calypso
Write Detailed Business requirements documents (BRD) and assessment of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes for front, middle and back office, reference data, data attributes and security master database. Asset classes covered include Interest Rate Derivatives, OPUS derivatives pricing, Equity Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps,Foreign Exchange Swaps, Equity options, Swaptions, Foreign Exchange Options and Equity/Index Derivatives and Structured Credit Derivatives.
Authored “road-map†and assessment and integration requirements with Swapswire, DTCC, DerivServ and Bloomberg pricing data. Implementation project plans and business requirements for Calypso, Murex, Sophis Risque, Sophis Value.
Recommend strategic initiatives and analyze OTC derivatives protocols and practices around DTCC, and Advent Geneva Global Portfolio Accounting System’s RSL reports and instrument coverage including cliquets, CFD’s and first to default for Fortis BankSWIFT, Swapswire, FpML, DerivServ, and ISDA.
Shell Trading Houston, TX September 2007 – January 2008
Senior Business Analyst Contractor /Consultant
Openlink Endur v. 8.x
Business requirements and assessment of current Openlink Endur v.5 to implementation of Endur v.8 and integration with AcuRisk, Nucleus, Triplepoint, Advanced Analytics, performance evaluation for remote locations, Cash Month Position Management, tactical tradebook, SENA, TPORT, Endur center of excellence workflow requirements, Cash Month PnL Reporting, assessment of Openlink replacing DealView, meet with OLF developers for review sessions, integrate Nucleus into Endur and write extraction requirements; review dBase logic and Endur GUI. gMotion, Deal management, Deal Entry, Deal Capture and Deal modeling and transaction history, power, gas, scheduling, front office and mid-back operations experience. Daily Volume cuts and Price Changes, position monitoring, scheduling, tactical tradebook. Write short charter for financial reconciliations and build roadmap for Openlink Endur 8.x implementation, testing and extraction of Nucleus archived and real-time data.
Bank of New York One Wall Street, New York City, NY November 2006 – September 2007
Project Lead/Senior Business Analyst Contractor
OTC Derivatives project
Business requirements and assessment of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes, reference data, data attributes and security master database. Asset classes covered include Interest Rate Derivatives, OPUS derivatives pricing, Equity Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps,Foreign Exchange Swaps, Equity options, Swaptions, Foreign Exchange Options and Equity/Index Derivatives.
Recommend strategic initiatives and analyze OTC derivatives protocols and practices around DTCC, SWIFT, Swapswire, FpML, Advent Geneva Global Portfolio Accounting System, DerivServ, and ISDA.
Wachovia Bank/Evergreen Investments Charlotte, NC July 2006 to November 2006
Senior Business Analyst -- Contractor
Long/Short Hedge Fund Derivatives Senior Business Analyst
Wrote business requirements and interviewed portfolio managers and traders to implement a new International Small Cap Long/Short Hedge Fund. The hedge fund seeks to take long positions in undervalued and under-followed international equities. BA responsibility is to map and test data requirements for futures, options and other derivative instruments into existing trade order management system and back-office accounting.
Created cash flow models for Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Currency Forwards, Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swaps, Equity options, Structured products, Currency Futures, Options, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and indexes on commodity futures, i.e., the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) and the Dow Jones Commodity Index (DJ-AIGCI); diagram swap accruals, payment cash flows, and settlement scenarios to show gains and losses of hedge.
Documented how the following applications will be used in the hedge fund initiative:
Fact Set, Derivative Solutions, Thomson PORTIA, Macgregor Fixed Income Order Management and DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation).
JP Morgan-Chase (Bank One) Columbus, OH March 2006 - July 2006
Senior Business Analyst -- Contractor
Latent Zero Implementation Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst
Tasked with documentation deliverables for the Latent Zero asset management front office trade order management system. Integration documentation for JP Morgan and Charles River stock trading algorithm tools for both asset and funding desk. Created test cases, test plans for Charles River compliance rules for the algorithm tools. Documenting all asset classes and instruments that portfolio managers and trade desks will be trading. Reconciliation from trade order management system to portfolio accounting system Advent Geneva. Implementing interfacing Check Free Trade Flow to clients, SWIFT and Accounting systems
Latent Zero Capstone suite consisted of Sentinel, Minerva and Tesseract. This application was complemented by Yield Book, CMS Bond Edge and Salerio and CheckFree Trade Flow.
Documented trade order lifecycle for all instruments: equities, equity options, structured products, equity derivatives, Fixed Income, treasury bonds, Auction Rate securities including corporate and municipal bond debt instruments, Variable rate Demand and Prefferred, Dutch Auction Securities, OTC derivatives, energy derivatives, Structured products, Money Market instruments, FX, mortgage-backed securities, Asset-backed securities, alternatives investments, Collateralized Debt Obligations and the agencies (e.g., FNMA, GNMA, and FHLMC).
BP (British Petroleum) Naperville, IL August 2005 - Feb 2006
Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst (Contractor) Triplepoint and Openlink Endur Analyst
Requirements gathering with trade control analysts and traders to consolidate data repository for reporting BPs crude oil and products Futures & Options, hedges, swaps and Volumetric Exposure on the New York Mercantile Exchange up to regulatory bodies (NYMEX trade regulators and FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) regulators. Reconciling positions in Openlink Endur v5, v8, Allegro, Entegrate, Triplepoint and Nucleus for commodity trading and risk management.
Responsible for business user review sessions, requirements gathering, UAT test scripts, project planning and resource planning.
Responsible for reviewing structured transactions for embedded derivatives and hybrid instruments inherent in he host contract; determination of FAS 133 compliance and hedge effectiveness testing, Net Settlement, Items Excluded from the Definition, Definition of a Commitment, Fair Value Hedges, Cash Flow Hedges and the Short-Cut Method.
Fifth Third Bank Cincinnati, Ohio Aug 2004--Aug 2005
Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst -- Capital Markets
Requirements gathering and project lead on initiatives to implement Straight-through processing (STP) for the Asset and Funding Trading Desks integrating Bloomberg Gateway and Bloomberg Portfolio Order Management System to SunGard Middle Office Manager and SunGard InTrader applications. Charles River (CRD) gap analysis review sessions for order management selection. Charles River compliance module for Money Market fund and Rule 2a-7, eligible securities, ratings and alerts, warnings and exceptions documentation.
Managed project from initiation to close. SME for bank-traded Fixed Income products including Mortgage-backed securities, Asset-backed Securities, Equity options, Interest-rate and Credit swaps, structured products, TBAs, new issues, CMOs, agencies (FNMA, GNMA and FHLMC), Foreign Exchange and Interest-rate Swaps.
Effectively use PMO (Project Management Office) methodology to initiate, design, build, test, implement and close on capital budget expenditure projects, successfully and on time, while analyzing risk and issue impact on the project.
Straight-through processing project on Asset and Funding Desks. Requirements gathering. Lead review sessions. Instruments: Equities, fixed income, mortgage-backed securities (MBS), asset-backed securities (ABS), CMOs, CDO and the agencies FNMA, GNMA and Freddie Mac. Reference data workflows, FAS 133 for Hedge effectiveness testing, securitization and structured products and Derivatives Solution. Cedit derivatives, commodities, futures, options, FX.
Sungard InTrader, Wall Street Systems, Bloomberg TOMS, Bloomberg POMS, Reuters, QRM (Quantitative Risk Management), Charles River Trader, Charles River Manager, Charles River compliance. RFP author for Charles River OMS evaluation.
Key Energy Midland, TX Sep 2002 -- Aug 2003
Project Manager/Business Analyst Treasury Systems
Project Manager responsible for successfully integrating applications and software systems and data marts impacting the Treasury Management system of Key Energy services, including front office and back office, P&L, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and General Ledger departments.
Designed and implemented business intelligence universes for Business Objects and Cognos for Treasury Management data analysis applications.
Reviewed vendor and software applications criteria for enterprise-wide roll out of new Treasury, cash and accounting ERP. Project manager on contract negotiations and statements of work from vendors.
Drafted design methodology for Treasury and cash management applications based on PMO methodology and computing industry standards.
Project Manager responsible for Disaster Recovery testing and readiness and Business Continuity test plans and documentation.
Kirkland & Ellis, LLC Chicago, IL Nov 2000 -- Sep 2002
Senior Applications Developer/Senior Business Analyst
Performed integration of cost recovery applications on client/server computing platforms, UNIX and the AS/400. Application development including SAS Infinium ERP financials, Equitrac cost recovery system, Rippe & Kingston, Right Fax and Microsoft Excel for spreadsheet reporting.
Development of software applications for firm revenue maximization using Microsoft SQL, MS Excel, Visio, ShowCase OLAP cubes.
Assist law firm end-users in applications such as Carpe Diem, iManage, Documentum, Right Fax, Lexis/Nexis database, MS Word, MS Excel spreadsheets and Rippe & Kingston accounting software.
Used Infinium Interactive Trial Balance for queries and reporting analysis. Developed auto cash applications for AR department.
Developed MS Excel reporting environment deploying spreadsheets and Excel cubes for finance and accounting department end-users.
Successfully developed application that discovered data programming error that was costing the firm over $1 million dollars a year in unbilled revenue.
Established corporate finance data repository for cost recovery reporting.
Participated in application development seminars and conventions in Chicago area.
Pactiv Corporation Lake Forest, IL Dec 1998 -- Nov 2000
Senior Business Analyst and Project Team Lead
Successfully automated financial reporting for Accounts Receivables and Payables department (implemented 100 financial reports utilizing AS/400 Query and SQL on AS400 in six months). UNIX and client/server transactional platforms with Oracle as the accounting system of record. Performed DBA duties of monitoring performance, managing users and loading and exporting data.
Reconciled AR and PL balances for accounting and determined total obligations and vendor payments through report analysis and queries using client/server, SQL and AS/400 Query and ShowCase.
Set up and maintain security profiles and passwords for the financial ERP system and AS/400. Responsible for business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives.
Implemented Infinium reporting and data extraction utilizing AS/400 Query, Show Case, Cognos and MS Excel spreadsheets.
Sysco Food Corp of Chicago Des Plaines, IL Nov 1997 - Dec 1998
Manager of Data Center and Client/Server Operations
Projects successfully managed included over $500K ERP financial conversion project
Administration of all client/server, ETL tools (Ascential/Datastage) and AS400 ERP financial systems for over 200 local and networked end-users.
Developed curriculum, SOP and documentation and trained end-users on usage of financial systems.
Extensive AS/400 queries, SQL and Business Objects reports of financial data for management.
Assisted accounting department in processing of Obligations, Cash Receipts and Applications as technical liaison to AR and Payables departments.
Managed team of AS/400 computer operators and programmer. Team lead on ERP projects (Infinium) and developed Currency Management spreadsheets for finance and sales departments. Responsible for business continuity, disaster recovery and security.
Fuji Bank of Japan, Chicago, IL Nov 1996 -- Nov 1997
Risk Analyst -- Trading Desk Business Analyst
Developed applications to track risk exposure, trading positions, arbitrage, and spreads and due diligence for traders on the Foreign Exchange trading desk. Utilized Excel spreadsheets and real-time trading floor applications such as Devon, Sun-Gard, DTN, Bloomberg and Reuters to manage risk exposure for the foreign currency trading room. Client/server transactional platforms utilized.
Responsible for analysis of derivatives, futures & options, foreign exchange and securities risk management.
Communicated with trading partners through e-mail and spreadsheet reports for trade
reconciliation. Remitted S.W.I.F.T. data for trade balancing.
Developed reports and Excel queries of Fixed Income securities trading and processing with emphasis on US Government securities (both outright and Repo) for bank management. Responsible for P&L reporting, confirmation with trading partners, and end-of-day reporting of positions.
Performed analysis on historical trade position data, trading trends and tendencies and opposing trade positions for fraud detection and trading limit violations. Reconcile F/X, wholesale, spot, ask and bid, cash and Euro positions.
Clarified the responsibilities of both dealers and brokers regarding collateral substitutions in Repo transactions and promoted best practices in the Repo markets for the bank.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chicago, IL Apr 1991-- Nov 1996
Trading Floor Project Manager
Successfully led and managed included extensive report creation of out-trades, trading and security violations. Responsible for investigative reporting, trading floor access and security, creation of passwords and security profiles. Analyst responsible for client/server and transactional processing. Led team of enforcement and risk personnel.
Created applications to link databases and trading floor applications through Reuters, Devon, Dow- Jones Telerate, Bloomberg and Sun-Gard for real-time views of commodities, futures & options, precious metals, Eurodollar, Interest rate, S&P 500 Index and Commodity Index futures and options; Treasury Bonds futures, Treasury Bill futures, Grains and Agricultural commodities, foreign exchange and derivatives for trading floor enforcement and operations.
Developed applications to track risk exposure, trading positions, arbitrage, and spreads and due diligence for traders on the Foreign Exchange trading desk.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts, Communications Studies (Incl) University of Detroit-Mercy
Computer Science Program, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
De Paul University College of Commerce -- Certificate, Financial Markets & Trading, Futures and Options 1995
Series 3, (Commodities Futures Exam) National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), 1995
Six Sigma Green Belt, 2005
Charles River Development, Charles River Investment Management System compliance, Burlington, MA 2005
Project Management Institute (PMI), Dayton, OH chapter, 2005
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