Client Focus - A big five Canadian bank
Facilitated the transition of interbank rates (IBORs) to nearly risk-free rates (RFRs) through the creation of an IBOR transition roadmap with key workstream milestones and indicative program structure. Conducted impact assessments of the overall portfolio of products in capital markets and corporate treasury to identify impact on products, portfolios, and business units while establishing product inventory. Executed a coordinated strategy to transition impacted products, processes, and systems, along with internal and external communication plans and key recommendations.

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Working with firms across Canada, the US and the UK on LIBOR/BRR projects in various capacities as program and project managers, developers and test leads, our team has partnered with enterprise and business groups including Treasury, Strategic Delivery, Risk, Retail and Wealth Management, Corporate Lending, Capital Markets Front and Back Offices, Technology for systems integrations and development, and data governance alongside the Chief Data Officer, in impact assessments, project plans, BRDs and FRDs, data mapping, oversight and reporting, and stakeholder management.

Client Focus - Two international swap dealers and a US swap dealer
End-to-end delivery of a solution to exchange variation and initial margins for non-centrally cleared derivatives. Provide overall program governance and structure in addition to project management, business analysis, and change management across various works streams including market and counterparty risk, collateral, client documentation, legal, compliance, client onboarding and front office across multiple jurisdictions: US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and LATAM.

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Engaged in FRTB with multiple clients over the past few years, we’ve managed project executions, conducted business and impact analyses, and developed target operating models (TOM) for the Standard Approach and Internal Model Approach. We’ve lead business process and data mapping initiatives to determine current and future states within market risk departments. Through technical market data analyses and quantitative impact studies, we’ve administered rigorous testing, model validation, and risk metrics to guide clients through regulatory deadlines on the new Standardized Approach.

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Leading several clients in support of their Volcker 2.0 programs, we assisted with decommissioning Volcker risk metrics, covered funds, and compliance and conduct risk. Oversaw change management initiatives between IT, business units and compliance, and facilitated consensus from impacted business lines to define project plan and timeline objectives. Provided support in the execution of changes to clients’ Volcker trading desk, risk metrics, policies and procedures, conduct risk, and systems modifications. Built detailed requirements and documentation, updated procedures and policies, and created the functional requirements for system changes with our team of project managers, business analysts, business system analysts, and developers.

Client Focus - A major Canadian bank
In response to audit findings from FINTRAC and OSFI, provided program and project management support for large-scale remediation projects in key lines of business including Global Sanctions and Canadian Banking. Executed audit remediation, electronic funds transfer reporting, large cash transaction reporting, customer risk rating and name screening, and TOMs (target operating models) development.

Client Focus - A major FBO for Fed Remediation
Extensive remediation for regulatory exam findings, and the successful design and implementation of a TOM (target operating model) built on three foundational pillars: Automation, 2nd Level Control, and Data Governance that resulted in the closure of all legacy FRB exam findings within the FBO's Finance department.

Client Focus - A big five Canadian bank
End-to-end delivery of eight projects focused on external reporting to FCA, CBI regulators, and EU clients. Delivery included technology built using Kanban methods in an Agile framework, and changes to front, middle, and back office operating models in both Toronto and London headquarters.

Client Focus - A major Market Maker
Created all BRDs (business requirements documents) and FRDs (functional requirements documents) for Reg YY and Reg W reporting through the development of a state-of-the-art dashboard to automate manual quarterly reporting. Established User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and implemented the system for business users.

Client Focus - A major international bank
Led a business transformation and process re-engineering of the global standards for AML-KYC-Financial Crime Compliance which included policies and procedures, business processes, and people and systems. Managed the remediation efforts for all legal entity hierarchies and created the KYC profiles for all local accounts, including risk rating, KYC, screening, and refreshing customers based on the new global standard. Drove the analysis and fine-tuning of AML transaction monitoring rules such as cash, profiling, high-risk geography, funneling, and credit cards to address global and local regulatory requirements. Created data integrity assessment reports for AML monitoring systems and facilitated communications with technology and business lines to understand current state source and target system environments, process flows, and data structures.

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Working with multiple clients on the implementation of Actimize for AML and trade surveillance, including the implementation of Trading Hub, upgrades and Nasdaq surveillance systems.

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With multiple global clients on the vendor assessment for E-Comms surveillance solutions, we facilitated complete requirements for the integration with Behavox for the development of adapters for ingestion of various written e-comms data sources from email, message systems and chat platforms like Office 365, Skype, Bloomberg, WhatsApp, and voice communication sources like RedBox, Cisco, and Nice systems.

Client Focus - A major Financial Institution
Facilitating the migration of a Swaps Based Dealer from a Standardized Model approach to a Models Based approach, and assisting with business process optimization including requirements gathering, BRD (business requirements document) preparation, and the development of mock-up schematics and workflow diagrams to solicit user input and feedback. Conducting 3rd party fintech vendor platform evaluations and proofs-of-concept development. Engaged with multiple lines of business from Front Office, Quantitative Risk and Analytics, Middle Office, Market Risk Infrastructure, and IT, in support of data models and data dictionaries, along with UAT coordination, user training, and project management oversight.

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Supporting multiple investment firms, including a leading global Financial Services Firm in using Acadiasoft for SIMM calculations, sensitivities and models, including execution of data source mapping, data flow documentation and critical data identification to test and validate models, ensuring compliance with Margin Rules standards.

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Managing the equity model risk across the model lifecycle, including model validation, ongoing performance evaluation, and annual model reviews, along with risk mitigation for valuation, model limitations, capital adequacy requirements and strategic decisions. Guide stakeholder relations to facilitate consensus between the various lines of business, while assessing risk profiles and developing controls to balance theoretical accuracy and pragmatic implementation.

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Engaged in Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) with multiple clients over the past few years, we’ve managed project executions, conducted business and impact analyses, and developed target operating models (TOM) for the Standard Approach and Internal Model Approach. Lead business process and data mapping initiatives to determine current and future states within market risk departments. Through technical market data analyses and quantitative impact studies, we’ve administered rigorous testing, model validation, and risk metrics to guide clients through regulatory deadlines on the new Standardized Approach.

Client Focus - A major international bank
Created the first proof of concept for using predictive analytics, AI, and data science methods to analyze trade data for operational risk within the office of the COO of the Capital Markets division. Received significant recognition from the CAO to apply similar methods to utilize AI and machine learning initiatives for further opportunities within the banking enterprise.

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Engaged in multiple initiatives to deliver front-to-back process reviews for securities impacted by the T+1 settlement timeline, including the development of a risk-weighted gap assessment to help meet the targeted 2024 industry implementation deadline. Executing current state assessments for process and procedural gaps in manual and automated processing, and identifying areas of heightened operational, regulatory, and financial risk in manual processing, along with mitigation and resilience planning.

Client Focus - Two major Canadian banks
Managing the execution of Calypso Collateral Management Module and Colline implementations in support of OTC Derivatives, Repo, and US Securities lending line of businesses while assisting in project planning, business analysis, strategy development, and software configuration.

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Collaborating with clients to modernize their fixed income technology platforms by optimizing vendor platforms (ION) and driving automation through modern DevOps practices (AWS & Terraform for IaC), our template is being adopted firm-wide across all lines of business, including their enterprise and cloud engineering groups. From a FICC trading perspective, implementing best practices and standards, including the development of a RACI matrix to support trading strategy.

Client Focus - A major broker dealer
Conducting a comprehensive evaluation of current reporting processes for all regulatory reporting requirements (including Order Audit Trail System (OATS), Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) reporting, Blue Sheets etc.). Developing a target operating model (TOM) for regulatory reporting to improve the transparency and accuracy of transaction reporting to regulators. Enhancing automation of manual processes, data consolidation and validation, and establishing a control framework to reduce reporting risks.

Client Focus - A global Capital Markets firm
Leading a multi-year, multi-million-dollar business transformation for the expansion of a structured notes and equity derivatives business division. Overhaul legacy systems, manual processes and operating models, while modernizing technological infrastructure. Conducting a current state assessment to define a target operating model (TOM). Managing complete project execution including program and project management, business analysis, functional testing and multi-vendor implementation.

Client Focus - A major broker dealer
Oversaw the formulation and implementation of RENTD and RMH methodologies, and created policies and procedures for monitoring Volcker compliance. Delivered all BRDs (business requirements documents) and partnered with internal IT to create FRDs (functional requirements document) while developing testing strategy and UAT functions, including ongoing assistance with IT implementation.

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Migration of all European and North American money market (MM) products, fixed rate contractual funding deals and European callable deposits to Calypso, while establishing connectivity to a swap execution facility (SEF).

Client Focus - A big five Canadian bank
Leading a significant post-acquisition integration program across retail banking, capital markets, wealth management and asset management divisions in the acquisition of a Canadian subsidiary of a global financial institution. Collaborate with the executive team for overall program status and deliverables on the migration of technology across systems, operations, trades and clients services. Managing complete program oversight including project management, business and data analysis, and addressing issues and dependencies across multiple business lines and functions: regulatory reporting, compliance, finance, market data and client onboarding.

Client Focus - A major Canadian bank
Designed a full-scope end-to-end program for complete transformation of real estate, technology and operation initiatives in several global real estate portfolio locations (New York, Chicago, Toronto, London, Hong Kong and Calgary). Oversaw the design and delivery of requirements, resources, and organizational change, including the build out of six state-of-the-art trading floors and twelve collaborative and client-facing banking floors, totaling over 400,000 square feet, while ensuring the smooth operation of daily business. Managed swift redesigns, redevelopment of operating models and unique ways of working to navigate through the challenges of the pandemic.

Client Focus - Tier One Investment Bank
Surpassing timeline expectations, led a comprehensive technology integration and testing initiative for the acquisition of a fixed income broker dealer. Partnered with management to define strategy, design a governance framework, and ensure key stakeholder engagement. Developed a high-level test plan to validate all systems and procedures, and ensured sufficient testing resources allocation for established timelines. Established a standardized approach to optimize workflow for test cases, test execution and end-to-end documentation.

Client Focus - A global investment bank
Executed the integration of compliance functions and systems encompassing trade surveillance, control room, and CRM for the post-acquisition integration of a US equities-focused firm.

Client Focus - A big five Canadian bank
Led a multi-year, multi-million dollar data remediation program that covered all source systems within finance, risk, treasury, AML and compliance. Conducted root cause analysis identifying data quality issues, and partnered with business, operations and source systems to implement fixes, monitor progress and successfully close the remediation of issues.

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Working with global banking teams to enhance the data quality of reports using Power BI and Tableau dashboards across various domains including: AML, Trade Surveillance, Capital Markets, Finance, Credit Risk and Auditing. Conducted a thorough GAP analysis between systems to systematically identify data inconsistencies impacting the reporting process. Built interactive visuals with drill-down, and slice and dice capabilities for analytics, and summarized management dashboards for executive teams.

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Designed and developed complex data pipeline and integration solutions within capital markets, using Kafka, NiFi, Python, Datastage, and Tableau. Implemented data profiling and quality checks resulting in a 30% reduction in errors, and conducted data integrity validation, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Created and maintained data models to support business and analytical needs, and implemented automated data quality checks with a 95% accuracy rate.

Client Focus - A fintech company
Assisted with the modernization and advancement of technology infrastructure and data platforms for a client that issues billions of dollars in loans per year. Reduced new environment setup time from over a month to under an hour, cut costs by 70% and achieved operational efficiency exclusively on Amazon AWS.

Technology Implemented: Amazon AWS utilizing Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Hadoop, Oracle.

Client Focus - A tech start-up
Created a custom platform using Kubernetes, enabling the dynamic generation of client tenants within a hosted SaaS platform. Ensured infrastructure and solutions were adaptable and scalable to multiple cloud providers.

Technology Implemented: ArgoCd, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, GKE, EKS, Terraform, VPC, EC2, SQS, Kafka and many more.

Client Focus - A global investment bank
Working with key stakeholders to modernize fixed income technology platforms by optimizing vendor platforms and driving automation through modern DevOps practices, our template is being adopted firm-wide across all lines of business, including their enterprise and cloud engineering groups.

Client Focus - A legal educational platform
Eliminated regular service outages, got uptime in the “5 9’s” (99.999%) and fully automated the development of the team’s deployment process to reduce time to market while ensuring accuracy and consistency of deliverables and services to meet the requirements of state and national board certifications.

Technology Implemented: Amazon AWS utilizing RDS, SQS, SNS, EC2, VPC, Cloudfront, S3, SSM, Jenkins, CloudFormation, Ansible, AWS CodeDisplay.