AMANI BABWIRIZA
Jacksonville, FL 32256
TECHNCIAL EXPERIENCE
Lotus Notes (Administration), Oasys Financial, Business Objects, AxiomSL, SAP, Hyperion, Cognos, Oasys Trade Capture
Advanced Microsoft Excel (Lookup & Reference, Charting, Pivot Tables & Formatting, VBA & Macros, SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT, Index & Match, and other advanced functions)
Solar (P&L Reporting System), Citi Velocity (Futures Online), Portfolio Management (Stocktrack Project), Clearnet (Napoli), GMI, Bloomberg, Morgan Markets,
Microsoft Access, Visio, and Outlook.
EDUCATION
CANISIUS COLLEGE (BUFFALO, NY)
MBA in Finance
MONROE COLLEGE (NEW ROCHELLE, NY)
B.B.A. in Accounting & Finance
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROSPECT 33 CONSULTING GROUP Jan 2015 - Current
Business Analyst – Deutsche Bank
Work as part of a team of Financial Business Analysts tasked with the management of technical business reporting requirements and remediation of incomplete financial data, with the ultimate goal of automating tasks that are leveraged in the production of financial regulatory reports (FR-Y9C & 041)
Act as a Business/SME liaison back to the business leadership or technical teams to influence, manage change, and educate for priority setting to ensure business requirements and financial reporting objectives are met.
Actively apply Six Sigma DMAIC principles to evaluate existing processes and key operating procedures for improvement opportunities
Partner closely with the Technology, Finance Risk & Control, Operations, Capital Adequacy, CCAR and Product Control teams to understand, improve and automate Axiom reporting requirements and processes.
Coordinate and facilitate meetings with source system data management teams, to review and ultimately identify potential data process issues and develop controls to streamline as necessary
Manage the Axiom infrastructure and ultimate production of regulatory reports including the FRY9C IHC Consolidated Income Statement and Consolidated Balance Sheet, in an effort to manually allocate financial transactions that are not automatically captured as a result of technical requirement discrepancies and/or data quality issues
Communicate and present recommendations for Axiom requirement changes to Senior Management and Financial Directors for sign off in order to commence the technical development process
Manage work groups consisting of various cross-functional teams with intent of evaluating current reporting requirements to determine feasibility with reported transactions.
Document work group results and take initiative on agreed upon requirement changes, including heavy involvement in requirement design, BRD formulation, and ultimate UAT testing
Perform quality assurance (test plans, scripts, risk analysis and prioritization of test scripts)
Track key project deliverables and milestones and update / develop corresponding scope documents and project plans
Participate in Axiom account remapping initiatives by providing input regarding the proposed account mapping changes vis-à-vis the proposed line item technical reporting requirements.
Support and perform data analysis, cleansing and migration initiatives
J.P MORGAN CHASE Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Business Analyst/ Financial Control Consultant
Worked on projects designed to promote efficiency by improving daily processes
Develop and support standardized financial forecasting methodologies
Worked hand in hand with management in areas of business analysis formulation, as well as testing and implementation activities in support of critical planning and execution of P&L reporting efficiency
Assisted the external reporting team in preparing all external reporting requirements for the Corporate & Investment Bank
Assume adequate ownership of the control agenda for EMEA Equities Desks, working with Product Control and other support teams to accurately reconcile P&L for accurate balance sheet substantiation and final reporting.
Worked with internal businesses to ensure understanding and sign off of monthly P&L
Completed monthly and quarterly balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation processes
Performed inter-entity reconciliations, identifying and subsequently correcting balance sheet items facing incorrect entities
Worked with trading desks and other support teams to ensure trade bookings agree between front and back office systems and ultimately the general ledger
Researched, monitored and ultimately escalated FX and other cash settlement exceptions and reported exposure in a timely manner
Coordinated with Product Control teams to understand underlying trading strategies and ultimately produce commentary for excessive account balance fluctuations
CITIGROUP Aug 2012 – Nov 2013
Control Process Analyst, Fixed Income Products
Continually worked with IT to recommend process improvements within our P&L reporting system in order to save time on daily BAU processes.
Develop and support standardized financial investment methodologies (e.g., ROI, EVA, and NPV)
Responsibilities include the production of daily Profit & Loss, Risk, and Balance Sheet Capital Management and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the Financial Statements, while driving the control agenda across the business.
Analyzed pay down structures of all RMBS and POA products to ensure correct accounting of all the interest and periodic payments.
Managed the product control functions surrounding the North America Government desk which includes the oversight of all daily reporting and ensuring all revenue and market risk reported is in line with overall financial standards of the firm.
Consolidated month-end final revenue data across the Global Rates & FX businesses and report to senior management
Provide daily balance sheet summaries to North America Rates Trading Desk Heads in order to better manage risk and exposure across their businesses
Researched drivers and ultimately produced periodic hedging strategy recommendations for our treasury and currency exposures
Responsible for monitoring product risk while accurately reported daily commentary on any excessively produced P&L
Conducted Price verification analysis as well as reconciled all reported P&L to the general ledger at month end
Performed daily front to back analysis to monitor and reconcile interest and financing breaks
Assumed responsibility for reconciling daily P&L, highlighting performance by the Global Rates markets for financial reporting purposes.
BANKOF AMERICA Jul 2011 – Aug 2012
Mortgage Operations Process Analyst
Conducted regular monitoring and testing of processes, controls and procedures aimed at mitigating investment risk in mortgage products
Constantly reviewed and updated work procedures to make BAU processes more efficient
Develop and maintain performance management scorecards, including metrics definition, target setting and results measurement
Develop and support standardized financial analysis methodologies (e.g., trend, ratio, volume/price, scenario planning, risk and opportunity assessment, expected outcomes, and sensitivity).
Prepared statistical reports summarizing results of monitoring and testing
Facilitate the budgeting, forecasting, business planning, and results analyses of sales, gross margin, expenses, and net profit
Assisted in the remediation of internal audit and regulatory examination findings and required corrective actions
Used statistical modeling to project investment risk and presented findings to senior management