Project Management

Nathan Segal

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Business Analysis – IT Development – Risk & Compliance – Project Management

Senior Business Systems Analyst, with over 15 years of experience specializing in various banking and financial information systems. Strong business knowledge of – Capital Market, Basel II, Credit risk, Market Risk investment management. . A senior business professional with a unique blend of business and technology experiences, effective at liaising between business and IT as well as communicating with integrity to all levels of an organization. Highly effective in:

Business Analysis

Workflow Design

Quality Assurance

Quality Management

Project Management

Data Analysis

Sales Force

Risk Management

Basel II / III

BCBS 239

CCAR

Credit Risk Market Risk, LRM

AML Compliance

Operational Risk

Core Banking

Insurance Management

Investment Management

SOX

Back Office Process

Operational Risk

Change Management

Highlighted Career Achievements

Develop the FRM (Financial Risk Management) practice according to the US regulation. This include – CCAR, Basel III regulation. LRM (Liquidity risk management), BCBS 239 and PPNR reports.

Built Data Warehouse and developed Fix income return analysis calculation process. Act as focal point between the business unit to the IT development team. Provide Business Specification and support the process development and the acceptance test.

Senior Consultant and team lead in KPMG. Lead the Basel II regulation validating process in major bank and Credit Card Company. Trained and mentored Junior and senior level in the IT Advisory department. Business consultant for internal audit in investment management process, writing proposal for project and managing budget.

Project Manager and Senior BA for back Office / Middle Office implementation and development project. Responsible for delivery of new development for the client, managing JAD and status meeting with the business stakeholders. Managing the project budget, managing the client account with CR (Change request) and new proposal. Direct managing of 2-3 BA and matrix managing of the development team according to the project phase.

Senior Business Analyst for several of projects from the initiation until the production. Specialized in Core banking, accounting project, Wealth management and risk management project. Strong business knowledge and ability to translate for business specification and technical specification including advising and execute the QA and testing process.

Employment Summary

Sapiens – US 2014 – Present

Matrix-Exzac / Deutsche bank / HSBC – Consultant 2014 – 2016

Malam-Payroll / Senior BA for pension fund 2013 – 2014

Bank of Israel – BA Consultant 2011 – 2013

KPMG – Senior Manager Team lead 2010 – 2011

NESS IT – Senior BA / Team leader 2007 – 2010

DANEL – Project Manager/ Senior BA 2006 – 2007

HMS / UMB BANK, FIBI Bank – Business Analyst 2005 – 2006

EDS / Leumi Bank – Business Analyst 2000 – 2005

Professional Experience

Sapiens - US - Life & Annuity BSA (ALIS) Mar 2016 – Present

Business System Analyst for Life & Annuity Policy management system – Liaising requirement of life insurance and configure the system as of the business requirement.

Writing ODS and system analysis per the client requirement.

Configure the system according to the FDS and SDS documents.

Communicate with the client for resolving issues, defect and any others concern for the system functionality.

Matrix-Exzac Sep 2014 – Mar 2016

Deutsche bank / HSBC - Project manager & Solution Architect

Senior consultant for change management in Deutsche bank- leading change management process – Quality management. HSBC – QA and Thinning for AML threshold according to the technical specification. Risk Management practice - Help with Business development for the Risk Management in Matrix – Exzac – Basel III, CCAR, LRM

Senior Business Analyst for Risk Management practice including – Basel III, CCAR, PPNR report .

Assist in Business development of new project in the practice of Risk Management and CCAR.

Solutions Architect and Project manager for a compliance department in deutsche bank NY.

Leading the department’s QA activities – Implementation of incident methodology, monitoring and keeping report of new Incident issues. Liaise between the users and the development team. Act as the focal point for QA and production problems. Reducing production Incident projects by 70 percent.

Malam-Payroll 2013 – 2014

Senior Business System Analyst – Pension fund project. On contract with Malam –Payroll to support on – site pension fund back office application. Lead a new process management within Malam-payroll site for pension clearing process.

Senior BA for a pension - wealth management Application project.

Analyze User's requirements (CR) and produce design documents.

Leading and writing the Business requirements and specification and development for the pension-clearing house according the government regulation for new clients. The development process is using AGILE Scrum methodology.

The design document includes – External interface from the pension system to the payroll system, screen design and business logic (including table design and constraint in the DB).

Data Analysis for the pension module requirement and defect via the SQL DB using complex SQL queries.

Design the payroll process of the pensioner from request, the approval and the payment execution.

Bank of Israel 2011-2013

Bank of Israel – consultant Fixed Income Data Warehouse project

On contract to Bank of Israel for a DH Fixed Income project. The project was to develop Fixed Income return analysis calculation and reporting in Data warehouse system including – Data mapping, ETL, Process flow, calculation, aggregation calculation and reporting. In this project, I was Senior BA leading the business requirement with the IT team.

Writing Business Specification for Return Analysis calculation, Duration, Modified duration, Return Curve etc. In dept using of Excel analysis for database dumps.

Design Data modeling (ETL) using DWH modeling for the fixed income instrument, cash flow, static data. Writing data mapping from the legacy system to the DWH hierarchies DB.

Advising for SDLC process for implementing of this project from the initial data upload to the controlling report and DWH data analysis.

Managing JAD and DR session for confirming the specification to the Development team.

Working with COGNOS - BI reporting for querying return analysis.

Managing and doing QA testing for the system (Acceptance test).

KPMG – Advisory 2010 – 2011

Senior financial Risk Management Consultant and Team Leader

Responsible for validating Basel II compliance regulations for two major banks in Israel, with a focus in credit risk management. (Capital Markets)

Auditing the Risk Module Package (Algorithmic) to ensure in compliance accordance with Basel 2 compliance regulations. This includes retails segments.

Responsible for validating compliance regulations for past due loans.

QA Assurance for Basel II regulation – Pilar 1 and Pilar 2.

Providing consulting to major institutions re Risk Management – e.g. avoiding fraud in investment portfolios concerning Investment Back Office applications. In depth using of Excel analysis for risk analysis /database dumps.

Direct managing of a team of a 3-auditing employee.

NESS-IT 2007 – 2010

TEAM Leaser and Senior Business Analyst provident fund project – UMB Bank

Senior Business analyst for Wealth management provident fund application development. Lead a critical modules development from the specification until the product launch.

Responsible for main module in the Platform Back Office System.

Gathering user requirements into detail design specification.

Working with development team in solving issues dealing with the specification and implementing of the system. Using Team system and test director for Quality center.

Managing a JAD sessions for each milestone in the project. Writing TSQL queries.

Team Leader for SAP CML (Consumer Mortgage and Loan and CMS (Collateral Management system) for FIBI Bank

Implementing SAP solutions Banking - Collateral (CMS) and loans (CML) for mortgage activity in Bank.

Leading BBP (Business Blue Print) for accounting process in loans (CML)in the project.

DANEL Project 2006 – 2007

CITI Bank Israel – Project Manager and Senior BA for Interment Management and Middle Office application.

Managing large project for Citibank Israel - Focusing on the financial markets specifically PD – Primary Dealership. The project involved the customization of the “DANEL -2000” system to the specific requirements of Citibank Israel. The system managed the ‘back office’ for Citibank as Treasury & Balance Sheet Management (TBSM), for example: Interfacing with the dealer system (‘E- Dealer’), managing the securities of the bank (Fixed income, Equities, FX ), executing journal entries for the GL system, and executing financial and accounting reports.

Preparing and executing project plans, Managing a JAD sessions for the project.

Managing project scope, time, effort, budget, issues and deliverables of projects.

Writing of Specifications, both High Level Design and Detail Design, for Citibank and other DAN-El clients.

Analysis of Financial Derivatives Instrument – Fixed Income, Currency Option, Future,Equities,Forward . Fixed Income, etc’.

QA and testing the development for the client (Acceptance Test). Using HP Quality center.

Preparing business proposals for various clients, e.g. analyzing and determining the software development content, the milestones to met the cost/pricing.

Writing Specifications Project for Market RISK Management, i.e. VaR,CAPM.

HMS Consulting Group 2005 – 2006

Senior Business Analyst for 2 project – GL and Accounting project 9FIBI Bank) and Basel II project for UMB Bank The project was evolved with Algorithmic Company (Canada).

Modeling of adherence to the Basel II requirements.

Managing and pursuing main Activities of the Basel II project, Gathering requirement for Market Risk functionality including reports, interface.

Participates in the design of product architecture solutions Using Algo Risk watch application.

Leading the Interfacing (internal and external) & MIS Reporting in the Project i.e. writing specifications for various trading systems interfaces.

Performs integration testing, creates testing procedures and test plan.

Bank Leumi 2000 – 2005

Business System Analyst for Core Banking project, Portfolio Management system project and Unified Accounting report system

Implement Portfolio Management Module. Analysis of Financial Instrument – FX, Currency Option, Future, Forward . etc’

G.L (General Ledger) project, Portfolio management project and Credit risk project.

Writing of configuration procedures in Unix operational systems

Analyzing Credit Risk & Capital Adequacy for Leumi Bank

Education

Master in Business Administration (M.B.A) Specialized in finance.

Major in Finance & Information Systems 2003-2006

School of Management, Rishon LeZion Israel

Accounting Studies 2002-2003

School of Management, Rishon LeZion Israel

Master in Public Administration (M.P.A.) 1997-2000

Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Major in Public Administration and Public Policy

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) 1993-1996

Tel Aviv Universty, Tel Aviv, Israel Bachelor in Middle Eastern Studies – Graduated with Honors

Diploma

DATA Analyst Platform by - Naya college 2014

BI Analyst - Ness Technology College 2010

Financial Risk Management. Market risk, fixed income, and Credit Risk Basel II regulation.

The Israeli Financial Institute The course 2009

Information Systems Analyst John Bryce, Tel Aviv, Israel 1999-2000

Member of Business Analyst chamber of Israel

Industry Knowledge

Basel II, III

Risk Management

Core Banking

Investment management

Compliance and Regulatory

(CCAR, PPNR)

Credit Risk, Market Risk, LRM

Management Consulting

Government

SOX 404, ITGC

GL and IFRS report.

Policy Insurance

SAS 70

Technical Skills

MS Office Suite expert

Data Warehouse

(Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

HP Quality Center, JIRA

Business Objects

Salesforce

MS Project & Visio

IBM Websphere

SharePoint

J2EE/Java/JavaBeans/EJBs

DBMS: Oracle, DB2

Lotus Notes/Domino

SQL Server, SQL Developer

ACL, IDEA

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