B rian M. Perez
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W ORK EXPERIENCE:
Oct ‘10 - Present
Bank of America Merrill Lynch New York, NY
Senior Financial Analyst, Global Wealth & Investment Management
Major Highlights Include:
Forecasted and budgeted revenues, expenses, client balances, client flows, and other metrics for GWIM International Finance
Developed enhanced management reports that communicated insight and encouraged discussion about business drivers
Established analytics, variance reports, charts, and graphs to depict and analyze revenues, expenses, allocations, headcount, and KPIs
Analyzed variances, trends, risks and opportunities, performance against budget/forecast/targets, key busi ness drivers and sensitivities
Designed and created a strategic platform to provide increased transparency on revenues and expenses, particularly allocation s
Utilized Vision / Essbase to create weekly/monthly expense reports and P&Ls and provided variance analyses for management review
Built templates, consolidated submissions and maintained budget presentations for senior management and provided timely, impa ctful and
transparent financial analysis of budget submissions
Assisted with development of various presentations and ad-hoc reports and analyses and contributed to strategic projects as needed
Reviewed monthly expenses to ensure that expenses are booked correctly and work ed with the accounting team to make any necessary reclasses
Jan ‘09 – Sep ‘10
Geller & Co. New York, NY
Senior Financial Analyst, Client: Bloomberg, Product: Tradebook LLC
Major Highlights Include:
Provided value-added daily, weekly, and monthly sales and management reporting for Bloomberg's electronic trading platform, Tradebook LLC
Participated in the budget and reforecast planning including projections for monthly revenues, expenses, volumes/headcount
Utilized Bloomberg terminal to research and compile key metrics on exchange and trading volumes/rates across US equities, int ernational equities,
futures, options, and FX products in order to compute market share and asset class performance
Created a weekly and monthly financial package for board of directors and for other senior level management reporting purpose s
Performed top-down/bottom-up customer analyses to understand customer profitability and determine customer pricing and accommodat ions
policies
Liaised with traders and sales reps to provide transparency on weekly and monthly sales revenue reports
Jan ‘07 – Feb ‘08
Morgan Stanley New York, NY
Financial Analyst, Global Wealth Management Group
Major Highlights Include:
Provided value-added FP&A for all consulting based projects within GWM Operations
Presented monthly project dashboard to senior management on project transparency
Reconciled budgets and analyses within Morgan Stanley’s GWM for vendor management reporting purposes
Interacted with team of project managers across other divisions in order to query, understand, and e xplain all financial variances
Oct ‘05 – Jan ‘07
UBS AG New York, NY
Analyst, Global Wealth Management Group
Major Highlights Include:
Processed daily confirmation advices including F/X, fixed income amendm ents and loan payment schedules
Handled bank correspondence for clients including statements, confirmation advices, retained mail, credit cards, checkbooks, checks, proxies, and
fund prospectuses
EDUCATION & HONORS:
Sep ‘01 – May ’05
Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY
B.S., Economics / Applied Mathematics & Statistics
COMPUTER SKILLS:
MS W ord, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, SharePoint, Bloomberg Terminal, Oracle, SAP, Vision / Essbase, and Hyperion