Manager Project
Resume:
GREG MILLS
acq3ti@r.postjobfree.com
@TheBusinessMgr
Senior Business Manager
Senior Business Manager efficiently preparing budgets, reporting actuals, presenting variance analyses and reducing expenses. Particular specialties in process improvement and forensic analysis. Problem solver across business functions, combining diverse needs and competing priorities into a common framework. Highly educated (MBA, University of Michigan) and experienced in global business and technology. Certified project manager in PMBOK and PMI methodology. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt trained. Inventor on multiple US Patents.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Budgets and Financial Reporting Process Improvement Business Analysis
Risk and Issue Management Change Management Team Building
Requirements Management Expense Reduction Program Management
Project Management Product Management Establishing PMO
EXPERIENCE
HSBC SECURITIES, INC., New York, NY 2014-2015t
Expense Manager, Risk & Compliance – Contractor – via Panache Global Resources
Saved over six figures in 2014, another six figures in 2015, finding incorrect billing of indirect expenses.
Documented “current state” of indirect expense billing process, created new simplified management reporting, reduced the number of steps needed to produce reports, and created training manual documenting the new process for transitioning to employees.
Assessed strength of HSBC's coverage of OCC Large Bank Supervision factors.
Assisted with review of HSBC's conformance with OCC Heightened Standards requirements.
Reviewed numerous MRAs (Matters Requiring Attention) and HSBC's Deferred Prosecution Agreement.
Panache Global Resources, Parsippany, NJ 2013-2014
Business Manager
Reviewed resumes to assess applicants for potential consulting assignments.
US FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), Flanders, NJ 2011-Present
Business Management Consultant
Train Mount Olive High School Robotics Team (#11) students how to develop and improve their Business Plan and budget process (approx $50k budget).
Managed project plans for the 2015, 2014 & 2013 Mount Olive District FIRST Robotics Competition events spanning 3 days and attracting over 5000 spectators.
Team Queuer for 2015, 2014 & 2013 FRC events and 2015, 2014, 2013 & 2012 FIRST Lego League events.
HSBC SECURITIES, INC., New York, NY 2001 – 2011
Senior Vice President (2007-2011)
Managed all aspects of budgeting, planning, and forecasting totaling over $75 Million in IT in areas of Finance, Operations, Risk & Compliance, COBAM (Client On-Boarding and Management), Global Banking and Cross Products, including updating forecasts, preparing monthly financials, analyzing variances and correcting billing problems.
Identified priority projects and consolidated data into concise, timely and accurate status reports for Americas CIO, department heads and other senior management.
Chaired monthly global project status conference call to clarify issues, risks, time frames and to expose unknown dependencies between functions, regions and departments.
Implemented and enhanced Project Management Office functions inclusive of project status reporting as well as administration of best practices across all asset classes.
Senior Project Manager in Finance, overseeing 25 critical projects at a time including:
Basel II – Consolidated dozens of workbooks and unrelated macros into a highly automated process to report capital availability under global guidelines.
Risk-Weighted Assets (RWA) – Enhanced an application to redefine instrument definitions and weighting reducing the amount of capital needed to satisfy US regulatory requirements.
Audit Mitigation – Reduced internal audit points from over 100 to fewer than 5 in less than 6 months.
Restricted Stock Shares – Automated a complex manual process involving hundreds of worksheets to one using one relational database and report writer, reducing monthly production time by 33%.
Represented Finance and IT in new product due diligence committees to ensure new financial products would have adequate financial and technical controls so that once introduced, they were maintainable.
Trained project managers on HSBC Risk Based Project Management process (using CA's Clarity).
Wrote SOWs and administered applications for approval of on-boarding 3rd party vendors.
Annually certified in anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) requirements.
GREG MILLS
acq3ti@r.postjobfree.com
HSBC SECURITIES, INC., New York, NY (continued) 2001 – 2011
Vice President, Finance (2005-2007)
Reduced end-of-day financial reporting process by 3 hours and end-of-month process 57% by removing unnecessary steps, automating reports and managing development of a consolidated database to provide additional efficiencies for internal and external financial reporting.
Produced current state, target state and gap analyses and recommended modifications to financial reporting processes using iGrafx for Six Sigma and Visio.
Provided daily reconciliations between numerous source trading systems and HSBC’s general ledger system.
Hired, trained and managed 10 professionals consisting of BA’s, PM’s and developers.
Ensured compliance with Disaster Recovery processes, dry runs and testing
Assistant Vice President, Information Technology (2001-2005)
Created new reports using Cognos Impromptu and Powerplay as front-end reporting tools to consolidate cross-system customer, risk, MIS and regulatory reporting.
Wrote and conducted UAT test plans for reconciliation processes and to ensure data integrity.
EBS DEALING RESOURCES, INC., New York, NY 1995 – 2000
Director, Electronic Broking
Created non spot-FX instrument electronic trading products (forwards, swaps, FRAs, FXAs, ERAs, MM, credit), to enter new markets.
Owned all credit related issues, e.g. all counterparty credit relationships, credit-affected trading patterns and analysis, meeting with executive management at Partner Banks to determine critical new credit requirements, and modification of the EBS credit process.
Initiated extensive credit program increasing transaction revenue approximately $18 million per year by increasing mutual credit between customers by combining data from disparate systems and databases.
Wrote business and functional requirements for counterparty credit system using UML in Rational Rose, applying object oriented analysis and design principles of the RUP (Rational Unified Process).
Managed projects using MS Project following CMM methodology developed by Watts Humphrey (Personal Software Process, aka “PSP”, Team Software Process, aka “TSP”) to create and implement a global electronic broking system for FRAs.
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, New York, NY Vice President, REMOS Product Manager 1989 – 1995
EDUCATION
Burlington County College, Mount Laurel, NJ
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Associate Certificate in Project Management
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MBA Masters of Business Administration, Finance and International Business
Colby College, Waterville, ME
AB Bachelor of Arts, Economics (Distinction in the Major)
HONORS
Six US Patents
8,639,607 - Conversational Dealing in an Anonymous Trading System 28-Jan-2014
7,827,085 - Conversational Dealing in an Anonymous Trading System 2-Nov-2010
7,693,774 - Credit Limit Storage in an Anonymous Trading System 6-Apr-2010
7,636,683 - Communication of Credit Filtered Prices in an Electronic Brokerage System 22-Dec-2009
7,024,386 - Credit Handling in an Anonymous Trading System 4-Apr-2006
6,343,278 - Combined Order Limit for a Group of Related Transaction in an Automated Dealing System 29-Jan-2002
MEMBERSHIPS
Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG) Technical Executives Networking Group (TENG)
Project Management Institute (PMI) Mount Olive Robotics Team (MORT) FRC #11
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