Kieran Fahy

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MA *****

acdia1@r.postjobfree.com

617-***-****

SUMMARY

. Accomplished professional with continuing success in achieving fiscal and

organizational objectives through analysis of business processes,

procedures, and methods, chiefly in the financial arena.

. Extensive experience operational management business plan evaluation,

fund/portfolio accounting, investment management, fixed

income/equity/derivative trading and settlement, reporting, GAAP, HGAPP,

NAIC & CGAPP.

. Excellent at interacting with broad-based populations, including C-level

executives, managers, staff, vendors, clients, contractors, and related

stakeholders.

. Managed large diverse staffs in various management positions including a

staff of over twenty four, including managers.

. Fluent with SOX and other Compliance related reviews.

. Verified .NET and SQL results provided by the developer to ensure

acceptable results.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

State Street Corporation

October 2013-

Present

IT Director, RFP Sales Support

. Maintain and coordinate the IT content information with our repository,

(SharePoint), and within the Global Knowledge application, Lexicon,

(Qvidian 9.1 Version, which is used for tracking and updating RFP

progress with direct sales team which improves forecast accuracy,

advanced sales analytics, improve sales effectiveness and to prove

marketing impact on revenue.

. Manage the execution of RFP submissions and completion process from an IT

perspective, working with global RFP teams, (US, Canada, EMEA, Latin

America and APAC).

. Review and coordinate appropriate responses with IT Subject Matter

Experts within time allotted timeframes.

. Manage and execute Client Questionnaires completion for final submission

to sales team for presentation.

. Coordinate all information received from existing/new clients RFP's with

Sales Lead to ensure the appropriate questions/efforts are allocated to

designated areas for time responses.

. Coordinate with Relationship Managers that our collaborative IT

responses, to specifics client questions, are appropriate for type of

business being bid on, (Full Service, Accounting Only, Custody Only,

Reporting etc.).

. Review and analyze if the reporting standards are compatible with current

services offered via the client service web portal and the capabilities

for customized real time reporting.

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL July 2008

-September 2012

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

. A financial services company providing financial planning, life and

health insurance, investments and other services.

. Responsibilities included:

. Partnering with business/technology areas to ensure that

technology/process solutions were delivered/supported to meet needs of

business partners and appropriate level of quality based on risk.

. Worked with B2B, Sub-Custodian Banks and IT to setup FTP sites for

transmitting reports and trade related items securely. After completion

of FTP site, tested, (with mock reports/trading information), to ensure

that the sub-custodians had the ability to pull the information from

their designated FTP site.

. Provided guidance to business and IT to facilitate a cohesive project

plan to execute through the SDLC approach and the UP/RUP to define the

functional requirements and its content.

. Used Data Modeling for most projects to obtain a clearer

picture/understanding of potential changes or enhancements to establish

a potential working model to start writing specifications

. Worked to automate the FX process from sending manual FX trades via fax

to one of our sub-custodians. The automation allowed the front office

traders to execute trades directly via Bloomberg where the Sub-

Custodian's pick up in a secure environment.

. Plan/managed business requirement's effort needed on projects to support

business needs including change management of business requirements and

estimating business requirement's effort through data modeling using

current practices to accurately identify the holes/gaps in their process

which will enable the project team to rebuild a streamlined process.

. Facilitated/Ran strategy sessions to incorporate an agreed upon technique

that best suits the client needs for specific projects and initiatives.

. Worked directly with Front/Middle Office in Wellesley MA and Toronto

Canada to incorporate TOMS, (Trade Order Management), to eliminate the

manual input of all transactions, (Buy, Sell, FX and Treasury).

. Utilized Agile and Waterfall methodologies for all projects. Worked

extensively with Agile as it adhered to the environment, (Investments),

to be able to change at a moments notice depending on situation and

additional needs by client or re-define scope.

. Worked with developer/client to develop web based, (WEBI), for reporting.

This would allow the client to produce specialized reports derived from

the core accounting platform.

. Identified/assisted in process re-engineering, improvement or replacement

of business processes and associated technology.

. Applied business requirements gathering techniques to develop business

requirements, understand relationships and facilitated communication

between business and technology areas.

. Analyzed and leveraged current practices that have already been

introduced, agreed upon, tested and is currently working in the

production environment to minimize and control budget, (if possible).

. Facilitated/performed business requirement gathering sessions/risk

assessment and business requirement examinations for business partners,

(Marketable Securities, (GAAP>UGAPP>CGAAP), Bond Edge and Derivatives),

to streamline current processes associated with GL feeds to Oracle for

following applications, PAM for Securities/Mortgages, SUMMIT (Derivatives

Accounting Platform), Enterprise, Plexus, Enterprise BondEdge and MRI.

. Wrote and coordinated testing with stakeholders and SME's, (Subject

Matter Experts). Conducted testing where applicable, (regression/unit

testing), to help with overflow of testing efforts by the SME's.

. Managed delivery of projects through

initiation/planning/analysis/design/construction/deployment, and post-

project review.

. Coordinated all Compliance related initiatives related to Marketable

Securities, administer monthly/quarterly SOX reviews for all business

partners in US and Canada to ensure adherence to corporate and industry

guidelines.

. Coordinated with Business Unit and IT Governance to review, enhance and

develop Service Level Agreements, (SLA).

. Directed and facilitated Business Continuity and Pandemic plans.

Last Projects: Blackrock Integration to Pam for Securities. Pricing,

Custody and Oracle accounting methodologies. Combing 2 instances of pam

for securities, (US and Canada), into on cohesive data base.

BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, INC.

November 2007 - March 2008

Sr. Business Analyst

A leading full service outsourcing provider for global financial industry.

. Department liaison to Solicitation, Sales and Client Services regarding

client data for developing Mutual Fund Proxy solicitation strategies.

. Monitored progression of solicitation campaigns for proper, proactive

communication between all parties for escalation to alternative

solutions.

. Oversaw facilitation of broker non-vote/revocation process when

necessary.

. Identified echo voting opportunities, provide executive summary to advice

appropriate team members.

. Performed Call Center Data Consolidation, staff forecasting and cost

allocations for specific campaigns.

. Developed automated analysis solutions/risk controls to facilitate

continued business growth.

. Partnered with Sales/Client Service to acquire new proxy solicitation.

Monitor industry/client trends.

JP MORGAN CHASE May 2007 -

November 2007

Fund Accountant Specialist

Perform daily NAV calculations and daily proofs for Multi-Managed funds.

EAST COAST EQUITY

October 2002 - April 2007

Mortgage Originator

STATE STREET CORPORATION May 1990

-April 2002

A US based financial services holding company founded in 1792,

headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in major financial centers

worldwide.

Project Management Officer: Business Project Services

2000 - 2002

Served as liaison to IT, SQA, Clients, (Direct/Indirect) and End Users for

quality control and system enhancements to be initiated by project team.

Developed gathering strategies for project analysts to follow in order to

complete a Business Solution Document. Worked directly with business unit

management to define/interpret/clarify scope of projects. Hand

selected/managed individuals for specific assigned projects, which included

a project directive to streamline Germany's SWIFT messaging which included

but not limited to developing mock up's for MCH, (Multi Currency Horizon),

for new enhanced processing for Germany's cash processing to allow for

German special characters. Initiated directive to develop core Cost

Benefit Analysis to be adopted by entire division. Performed GAAP analysis

for various countries, (France, Portugal, Netherlands and Switzerland), for

our European Service Platform project.

. Process Improvement Committee (Chairman)

. PMP Focus Group (Performance Management Process)

. Training Committee

. Business Recovery Committee (Chairman)

Operations Officer: Capital Markets Group

1998- 2000

Managed six-member client service management team responsible for the

settlement of various investment vehicles via MCH, (Multi Currency

Horizon), Intrader, (Sungard based accounting/reconciliation platform),

(Equity, Fixed Income, Securities Lending, FX), through DTCC, FED, NCSS and

GSCC (Government Securities Clearing Corp.) and Euroclear. We executed

billions in FX transactions daily which was a manual process until we

started Section 20 trading via Bloomberg Directly involved with transition

to Broker Dealer. Trained, coached and groomed staff to comply with all new

procedures. Performed semi and annual Performance Appraisals of all

employees.

Client service manager U.S. Custody services/mutual funds

1996- 1998

Managed 24 member client service department responsible for providing

specialized custody services for a diverse worldwide client base; services

included U.S. dollar cash and securities processing, U.S. dollar income

tracking and reporting and NRA (Non-Resident Alien Tax). Responsible for

settlement, reporting and tracking of Cap Stock transmissions. Reviewed

daily SWIFT messaging for accuracy via MCH, ( Multi Currency Horizon).

Work directly with CEO/COO to successfully transitioned Rochdale Investment

Management to a Mutual Fund environment. Trained, coached and groomed staff

to comply with all new procedures. Performed semi and annual Performance

Appraisals of all employees.

MARS & WELCOME FUND GROUP, Canary Wharf, London England

1995- 1996

Advisor Representative/Auditor

Investment manager services,

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR SERVICES, Public Funds, (Calpers) 1993-

1995

Advisor Representative

Management Accountant, International Securities Operations (ISO)

1990-1993

EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & COMPUTER SKILLS

Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration, Kennedy-Western University,

Cheyenne, WY

Proficient in MS Office, Lotus Notes, Visio, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook

and other various application.

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