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Manisha Danish

 

PROGRAM MANAGER │PROJECT MANAGER

 

Program/Project Manager with excellent understanding of Risk Management system, Regulatory, Compliance, Operational, Technology and IT Risk, Custody Business, Credit Risk and Liquidity Risk Management working on Basel program. 

 

CORE COMPETENCIES

 

Ø  Overall 12 years of IT industry specially finance and Banks

Ø  Good Domain understanding of Risk Governance, Legal and Compliance, ITRSM, Wealth Management, Advice Planning, Financial Services, Portfolio Management, Mutual Funds, Infrastructure Risk, Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Basel Accord and Mortgage Banking

Ø  Experience working on Derivatives, Prime Brokerage, Commercial loans, Capital Markets, Money Market, Securitization and Security Financing under Basel Architecture

Ø  Experience as Hiring Manager and Managed team of direct reports

Ø  Experienced in managing projects in Pure and Hybrid Agile environment

Ø  Good understanding in the Business Workflow of Banking, Mortgage and Financial industries

Ø  Experience with Regulatory Reporting e.g. FSA 47, FSA 48

Ø  Interacting with stakeholders, customers and users in gathering requirements, understanding deliverables and defining the project roadmap as per business need

Ø  Extensive Documentation Skills for SDLC documents like Project charter, Project governance etc.

Ø  Dataflow analysis using use cases, dataflow diagrams and activity diagrams

Ø  Worked on Fixed income securities and Liquidity Risk Management

Ø  Thorough understanding of SDLC and Water flow and Agile Process

Ø  Good understanding of UAT Environments, SQL queries, and different tools like Toad, MS SQL Server Management Studio, DDQL, Spot fire and Putty

Ø  Done GAP Analysis to reduce errors and speed end-to-end processing. 

Ø  Excellent communication, facilitation and mentoring skills

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

METHODOLOGIES: SDLC, Agile- SCRUM/KANBAN Methodology, Waterfall

MICROSOFT PROFICIENCIES Expert Level: Access, Excel, Project, Visio and Word

TESTING TOOLS: QC, Load Runner, QTP and ALM

CHANGE MANAGEMENT TOOLS: JIRA, ALM

BUSINESS MODELING TOOLS: Microsoft Visio, Signavio- BPM

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C, C++, SQL, Visual Basic, Java, HTML, dBase

DATABASES: Oracle 8/8i, MS SQL Server 7.x/2000, SQL Server 2007

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

JPMorgan Chase and Co.                                                                                                          2017 – 2018

Vice President - Project Execution Manager/ BA QA Manager - Control Systems Technology Controls

Technology Controls (TC) delivers streamlined and consistent solutions supporting JPMorgan Chase’s Controls and IT Risk agendas with a focus long –term productivity, quality and innovation across JPMorgan Chase. The disciplines within the organization are oversight & Controls Technology, Cloud Controls, Identity & Access Management, IT Risk & Controls, and Third-Party Risk Management.

Control Systems Technology provides strategic application development & production support across three client portfolios: Oversight & Control, Technology Controls and select Compliance Programs.

 

 

 

As a Project/ Program Manager the key responsibility is to assist the delivery of key software development programs as well as business management activities, work closely with key stakeholders to meet the goals of successful project deliverables as well as effective financial management including alignment of finances, deliverables, allocations, governance and controls. 

 

Key Highlights:

•       Highly experienced to drive the disciplines associated with project and financial management

•       Managing projects, running project status meetings, create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, creating required reports, escalating issues, developing and managing project plans, identifying risks and mitigation strategies, any other tasks related to project management

•       Assisting with financial management activities including resource planning, financial forecasting, annual budget planning

•       Managed project of 7.5 mil and program of 17-20 mil.

•       Ensure programs and underlying projects are delivered on time, on budget and on specs

•       Well versed with Agile Scrum methodology

•       Ensure all stakeholders are aware of major changes of direction, priorities and cross impacts

•       Ensures effective compliance with Scope, Change Control and Tollgate processes across the Program  Managed team of 12 direct reports

•       Managed Project Managers with a dotted-line reporting relationship 

•       Hiring Manger for BA, Manual and Automation QA, well experienced with the hiring process, requirement opening, sourcing and offer progress

•       Conducts agile workshops for stakeholders, product owners and feature team to improve the agile process in the team

•       Mentoring, coaching and assist with the development of less experienced team members

•       Responsible for development of requirements documentation and targets accordingly

 

Goldman Sachs                                                                                                                           2015 – 2017

Vice President - Lead PM-Technology Risk Management and Governance 

FTRC (Firmwide Technology Risk Committee) Executive Summary and Status report is a critical monthly report provided to FTRC members and senior leadership across the firm including the CIO of Goldman Sachs. The report contains important technology risk metrics used to manage and monitor technology risk across the firm. As a lead PM/BA, my primary responsibilities were to execute on automating and industrializing the FTRC Report.

 

Key Highlights:

•       Individually involved in gathering business requirements, managing project plans, coordinating activities with developers, and setting the overall automation and industrialization strategy for the reporting

•       Leading project management activities, project management of implementation, user, developer engagement, system design, requirements gathering and setting overall strategy scope of reporting

•       Effectively communicating project’s objectives to users and ensure objectives are being met.

•       Understand the technology risk landscape

•       Understands firm’s business and of the financial services industry

•       Understands technology risk concepts, including controls and control frameworks, technology risk domains, risk measurements and methodizes

•       Managing multiple projects with high quality and timely delivery of product

•       Hands on and detail oriented and performing any additional duties as assigned or requested

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JP Morgan Chase                                                                                                                       2014 – 2015

PM/BA - Control Systems Technology Controls. Corporate Technology- Infrastructure Risk and Security Management.

•       Perform interviews with business stakeholders to determine IT business requirements and translate them into specifications for complex technical projects

•       Analyzing and understanding requirements for reporting in SharePoint environment for Legal and Compliance

•       Conduct Data analysis and created Data Mapping document which helped migrating reporting data from one source to another for creating a Consolidated Reporting Platform to serve the COO office of JPMC

 

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

 

TIAA CREF FINANCIAL SERVICES                                                                                    

BA/PM Coordinator - Unified Desktop Analyst 

The project is known as the UNIFIED DESKTOP PROGRAM, which is TIAA’s overarching internet solution.  It’s focused around business processes such as onboarding process for setting up a plan for a new client.  It’s a transformation of advisory solutions, leveraged by Wealth Management individuals, Call center, nonprofit institutions like schools and hospitals.  The audiences are people that have invested in retirement plans. 

 

J P MORGAN CHASE

Sr. Business Analyst/Data Analyst 

The Data Quality Business Analyst will perform key analytical and data research functions within the Data Quality team. This role will perform in-depth research, root-cause analysis, and proactive data monitoring for data quality issues relating to mortgage systems. The analyst will focus primarily on data extraction, data analysis, data lifecycle documentation and documentation of remediation options.

 

BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH

IT Business Analyst/ Data Analyst 

Electrum the main technology infrastructure that processes Prime Brokerage data including margin calculation, Basel CEM process, and Basel IMM EAD calculation. Electrum platform receives eligible margin loan (EML) securities position data from various source systems, namely CASC, BUCS/CBAR, AP/ Broadcort, and GMI.  Electrum also receives Prime Brokerage OTC trade-level data from Arctic.  Information gets processed (e.g. securitization and netting) and sent to ARCTIC and ECRIS for Basel calculation. As part of PB Data Governance and Control requirement, a rigorous and robust reconciliation process is needed between the Source systems/ Sub ledger and Electrum, Electrum to ARCTIC, and ARCTIC to General Ledger.  This includes the build out of the automatic reconciliation, reporting structure, reconciliation break resolution, and escalation process.  As a Business/Data Analyst I specified the requirement for the reconciliation process between Electrum and the source systems, and Electrum to ARCTIC.  These requirements covered both Basel CEM and IMM processes. 

 

IT Business Analyst/ Data Analyst

•       Worked as Migration Manager for Liquidity Risk Management Technology

•       Worked on different UAT Environments for analyzing the data before and after the upstream migrations and changes

•       Working knowledge of SQL Queries Using DDQL, SPOTFIRE, and TOAD

•       Hands on experience with the Linux server called PUTTY for managing the FTP files

•       Regulatory reporting FSA 47 and FSA 48 to UK team

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L&T - CITIGROUP, NJ                                                                                                             2010 - 2012

IT Programmer Analyst Application Programmer Analyst 

•       Citi’s Information Security Review Process (ISRP) is a cornerstone of IT Risk Management and Secure Software.

•       Development Life Cycle (SDLC).  ISRP was designed to provide a comprehensive method for ensuring that Information Security risks to its Information Assets are clearly identified and well-understood by the asset owners, thereby improving the IS posture and compliance with Citi GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance including Citi Information Security Standards (CISS), legal/regulatory requirements and other applicable policies, standards and technical requirements.  It aims to provide business and functional IS requirements along with the requisite methods to identify security vulnerabilities throughout the asset life cycle and ensure appropriate risk treatment while reducing the number of application vulnerabilities in Citi’s Production environment.

 

IT Business Senior Analyst 

•       CitiDirect® for Securities provides easy browser access to their trust, custody, fund and cash account information over the internet. One of its products is Transfer Agency Reporting. The transfer agent is a company responsible for maintaining the back-office operations for a financial instruments and/or transactions management. Citi as a custodian provides transfer agency services to their clients.

 

BLUELINE                                                                                                                                 2009 – 2009                                                                                                           Software Services

•       The BASEL2 project developed a Credit Risk Analysis System which is a management-reporting tool to provide information about the capital usage and the respective limit variances, for Citizens Bank, based on the rules of the Basel committee. This system delivers Capital Adequacy Report by processing the capital engine calculations and accepting economic values and reference data from distinct engines.

 

ZNA InfoTech                                                                                                                             2006 – 2008

Business Analyst- Project 2 

•       Basel II Capital Accord requires banks to measure Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Market Risk, and Interest Rate Risk quantitatively. As per the accord, State Street is required to internally rate counterparty at the legal entity level and maintains a Central Risk Data Repository (RDR). This repository which is like a warehouse creates a snap-shot of data needed for risk computation across

•       Enterprise at pre-defined time intervals. Information from this application will contribute to generating the corporation’s economic capital, as required by SR99-18 and Pillar II of Basel II. This system shall also support the requirements for generating the regulatory capital calculation as per the Basel II accord. Business Analyst- Project 1 

•       The scope of the project was to develop an application using HTML and Java which enables the company to purchase goods or services from suppliers.

•       The application creates a record of the details and the amount that the company has to pay to the vendors in the form of a receipt. It maintains the invoice slips of the goods purchased and makes entries in the companies' database. It than processes the check and make cash payments to the companies while making appropriate entries. It also reconciles the payments done by the company and reviews the invoices, and finally produces monthly financial reports for the company.

 

EDUCATION

 

Master’s in computer science and Information                           

Bachelor’s in computer science and Engineering