Manager Project
Resume:
Cristian Relly Melnic
*** ***** ***, ********, *** Jersey, 07029
*******@*****.***
phone : +1-862-***-****
Professional Summary
o Over 20 years of trade finance experience with exposure to all facets of the business o Skilled as implementation and project manager in both, the banking and software industries. o Business Analyst – Gap analysis, Development of operating procedures, Workflow analysis, Optimizing trade flows .
o Managing teams on both sides, banking and vendors . o Supply chain finance experience
Work Experience :
1. February 2007 – present
BT Systems, New Jersey, United States of America Trade finance software company
Position : Vice President –Regional Manager North America Operations Duties
- responsible for managing and directing all development activities of BTS as they pertain to North America operations division
- responsible for operations expense management, global enterprise management, and building business and client relationships.
- oversees daily activities ensuring adherence to deadlines and quality standards as well as regulatory requirements.
- develops and implements new processes and procedures to improve operating efficiency and ensure timeliness and accuracy of the Company’s work product.
- When required, modifies existing procedures and analyzes complex operational problems which often require research and input from other business operations experts provides operational guidance to the operations, development, and business unit managers that report to him
- responsible for performing internal controls, ensuring satisfactory results, and ensuring that operational controls and procedures are adhered to
- provides critical input to financial forecasting and budget planning with the chief financial officer, and implements new procedures and policies for technical personnel in different business units
- responsible for creating standard maintenance procedures for North America clients as well as creating service-level agreements for specific clients based upon their individual requirements.
- Conversion to/from other trade finance back office systems . Involved in analysis of those systems and writing specifications
- Implement trade finance back office with several other front end systems like S1, Tiger . Involved in analysis of those front end systems and document the specs .
- Pre-sales activities, also performing Demo
2. July 2001 – February 2007
Complex System INC, New York, United States of America Trade finance software company
Position : Trade Operations Analyst/ Project Manager Duties :
- analyze projects and maintain current clients
- gather data and propose improvements to management related with the full cycle of Import/ Export Letter of Credits, Standbys, Letter of Guarantees, Incoming/Outgoing Collections, Funds Transfers, Reimbursements
- review completed projects and make recommendations to management to ensure the goals are met are programs are compatible with those in use
- analyze Detail Design Documents
- Construct and implement user acceptance and system integration test plans
- analyze technical migration service
- conduct functional /trade finance trainings
3. September 2000- July 2001
Smart Stream technologies – Vienna, Austria
Trade finance software company subsidiary of Bank Austria AG Position : Trade finance analyst
Duties :
- supported installation of trade finance software onsite
- performing Trade finance training
- performing software Functional training
- creating and maintaining Project Plans
- creating GAP analysis for clients and banks
4. October 1999 – September 2000
Societe Generale Bank- Bucharest Romania
Trade Finance division
Position : Trade Finance Project Officer
Duties :
- analyzing projects
- analyzing trade finance products and compatibility with the software
- performing trade finance and software functional trainings
- installing trade finance system into bank’s network
- maintaining trade finance system
5. February 1997 – October 1999
Societe Generale Bank- Bucharest Romania
Trade Finance division
Position : Trade finance Officer-
Duties :
- testing trade finance software functionality
- settings accounting entries for all trade finance products
- develop correspondence for all trade finance products
- setting up the system
- create all swift messages
- customize Universal Client maps
- maintaining trade finance System
6. January 1994 – February 1997
Societe Generale Bank- Bucharest Romania
Trade Finance division
Position : Trade finance Officer
Duties :
- to issue/amend/pay an Import Letter of Credit
- to issue/amend/pay an Export Letter of Credit
- to check documents under Import/ Export Letter of credits
- to analyze the exposure limit for the banks involved in business
- to issue/amend/pay Import Collections
- to issue /amend/pay Export Collections
- to issue/amend/pay Guarantees
- to establish credit lines with factors under export Factoring
- to buy/pay commercial documents from/to customers under export factoring
- to maintain the limit exposure for the clients under export factoring
- to buy/pay financial documents from/to clients under forfeiting Education :
1. Polytechnic University – Mechanical Faculty – Bucharest, Romania, Bachelors Engineering degree – specialty : Industrial robots 2. Economics Academy Study – Finance Faculty – Bucharest, Romania MBA Financial degree – specialty :Financial Banking and Accounting List of project implementations
North America USA and Canada :
- Bank of America/Merrill Lynch – New York
- Israel Discount Bank – New York
- Brown Brothers Harriman – New York
- BBVA USA- Houston, Texas
- Citizens Bank – Boston, Massachusetts
- Fulton Bank – Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- The South Financial group – Colombia, South Carolina
- Suntrust Bank- Atlanta, Georgia
- Union Planters Bank- Miami, Florida
- Fifth Third Bank – Cincinnati, Ohio
- Laurential Bank - Montreal, Quebec
- Toronto Dominion Bank - Toronto /Montreal
- Desjardins Bank – Montreal, Quebec
Europe
- Banca Comerciala Romana – Erste Bank – Bucharest, Romania
- Raiffeisen Bank – Vienna, Austria
- ABN Amro – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Santander Bank – Madrid, Spain
- BBVA – Madrid, Spain
- Caixa Geral de Deposito – Lisbon, Portugal
- Eurobank – Athens, Greece
- Sberbank – Moscow, Russia
Middle East/Asia :
- Housing Bank Trade Finance – Jordan
- National Commercial Bank – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- National Bank of Kuwait – Kuwait City, Kuwait
- ABN Amro India – Chennai, India
- Royal Bank for Scotland – New Delhi, India
Africa :
- Rand Asia – Johannesburg, South Africa
Central and South America :
- BBVA Mexico – Mexico City
- BBVA Colombia – Bogota Colombia
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