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Resume:
Anthony G. Vernace
Montebello, NY 10901 *********@*****.***
Experience
JP Morgan Private Bank New York, NY
Project Manager / Business Analyst April 2010 - Present
Global Access Portfolios Attribution Project
Project initiated in order to provide customized daily Investment Attribution analytics to Global Access Portfolio
Managers for 3c7, UCITS and 40 Act Funds; utilized for evaluating Investment decisions and for presentation to
Governance Committees
Project Management
Overall Project Planning, Scope Definition, Issue Tracking and Resolution, Requirements Gathering, Test and
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Implementation Strategy
• Manage Vendor development of Custom Attribution Reporting
• Manage Relationship with various internal and external providers
• Presentations to Senior Management Steering Committee
Analysis and Design
Fund Accounting data feed from IFS State Street and WSS JPM to BISAM B-One Attribution Application
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including:
o Transaction Mapping, Staging Database Design, Holdings Processing and special handling of Separately
Managed Accounts (SMA) and Forward FX Contracts
Utilization of Portfolio Manager model for estimated returns to produce a daily market values for Hedge Funds
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Implementation of International Private Bank Custom Hedging requirements utilizing Brinson Attribution model
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against Hedged Benchmarks
Index data feeds from vendor provider RIMES and internal JPM systems to implement custom blended benchmarks
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including Private Bank Model Portfolios
Design of internal Database created to support multiple data providers
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Deliverables
Project Plan, Project Charter, Functional Requirements and Detailed Mapping, Test Strategy and Test Cases,
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Operating Model
Other Projects
Business Analyst
Lead testing and Investment Performance analysis validation for Single Currency project
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Created Project Plan and Functional Requirements for project to remove “lagged” pricing on Alternative
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Investments
• Support Business users in Data Quality issue detection and resolution related to Client Investment Performance
Credit Suisse Private Banking USA New York, NY
Investment Performance Analyst April 2008 – April 2010
Created Functional Requirements, operations conversion plan, workflow diagrams, exception report mock-ups, and
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test cases for initial release of the Consolidated Client Reporting (CCR) project
Serve as lead SME regarding Investment Performance, Account Composites, Transactions and Security data
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Lead analysis related to data mapping between existing Data warehouse and vendor performance engine
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Manage and train team of 6 – 12 temporary consultants on business and technical aspects of Client Reporting
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Authored Investment Performance training manual used to train existing and new employees and built performance
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database to monitor rate of return outliers
Lead weekly cross-departmental Data Quality meetings between Business, Operations, and IT
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Created numerous SQL queries and Business Objects reports to aid Analysts researching performance calculations
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Developed procedures and quality checklist for monthly statement checkout performed by Operations
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Created various Business Intelligence reports and queries related to: monthly trade volume, custodial fees,
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commissions, COD account exposure and monthly cash withdrawals
UBS Financial Services, Wealth Management US Weehawken, NJ
Senior Associate – Performance Reporting November 2006 – April 2008
Reduced time spent by Analysts on monthly performance validation by 50% by developing custom program that
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identified and automatically corrected erroneous security pricing issues
Serve as business lead during implementation of Private Wealth Management initiative including: research new
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multicurrency data feed between UBS AG Bank and UBS Financial Services, historical performance conversion,
and asset class expansion
Manage and enhance department’s Corporate Actions procedures utilizing custom vendor macro
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Research and resolve performance related inquiries raised by UBS Financial Advisors
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Lead team of Analysts to maintain quality standards for Firm’s performance reporting systems
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Advent Software Inc. Westchester, NY
Advent Wealth Services (AWS) – Portfolio Accounting Specialist June 2004 – November 2006
Data normalization and consolidation of custodial interfaces via DATAPORT including: security data translation,
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manually review of transaction data, process and reconcile market value and position files
• Update and review performance calculations in order to produce monthly and quarterly reports for UHNW clients
• Promoted to data management team after six months of manual account reconciliation
Projects
• Tested and facilitated impact of JP Morgan’s internal accounting system conversion from AM Trust to OMNI in
an AXYS environment
• Advent Custodial Data (ACD) – liaison with ACD programmers to improve quality of broker specific data feeds
Education
Fordham University College of Business Administration Bronx, NY
Bachelor of Science, May 2004
Cumulative GPA: 3.53; Concentration GPA: 3.8
Dual Concentration in Finance and Business Economics, Dean’s List
Omicron Delta Epsilon – International Economics Honor Society
Certification: Lean Sigma Green Belt 2009
Technical Skills: SQL, Business Objects, Excel VBA, FT Interactive Data, MS Office
Investment Performance / Attribution Applications : Advent AXYS, GIM II, Checkfree Caliper, Odyssey Wealth
Manager, Sunguard XAMIN, BISAM B-One
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