Paul Buansi

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EDUCATION Darden Business School- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

MBA – General Management with concentration in Finance

Clark University, Worcester, MA

B.S. in Mathematics & Computer Science

Project Management & Consultancy Skills

•Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Professional (822367) with several years’ experience in Risk Management and Analysis including banking/financial operational and system risk, financial/data modelling, quantitative analysis and Program/Project Management (Waterfall/Agile), Business Systems Consulting for Banks, core-banking system architecture

•Specific Experiences: Payment Systems SWIFT/Wires/ACH/RTGS (6 Years), ERP (5 Years), Banking Industry Architecture Network-BIAN (7 years)

Banking/Finance (10 Years), ETL (7 Years), Business Process Documentation/Review (5),

Risk Management (5 Years). Tools: Sharepoint, PPRT, RAID, Rally, Clarity

•Data Governance tasks include data policy, data standardization, review and recommendation of best data practices, Data Management using ETL Tools, Data Visualization

•Experience with a proven record in corporate finance, credit risk, Capital Markets, Risk & Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Financial Reporting, Operations and Risk Data Reporting/Analysis

Professional Experience

12/22- 09/23 Bank of America, Charlotte, NC Lead Project Manager – Risk/Payments

•Identified, analyzed, communicated policies/procedures and documented Operational, Reputational, Regulatory risks within the payments systems (SWIFT, ACH, Wires, etc.), group

•Documented processes, identified system gaps, RCSAs-Self Assessment, MRAs, performed risk assessment, managed vulnerabilities as well as remediation of issues/risks, Business Continuity risks

•Led research on uses of encryption (data at rest/motion/transit) and executed projects within the

Corporate Risk Change Management (CRCM) team as part of the broader Strategy, Planning and Governance functions, made a series of presentations to members of the management forum

•Worked with SMEs to document Self-Identified Severity 1,2,3 Issues, Audit Issues, Low Risk Monitors, for North America, LATAM, India and EMEA- remediated 10 vulnerabilities during the period

01/22-12/22 Wells Fargo Bank, Charlotte, NC Senior Project Manager

Managed SWIFT ISO 20022 payments project within the COO unit at Wells Fargo. Tasks included:

•Coordinated and executed SWIFT ISO 20022 deployment, between WF, SWIFT and counterparties, and integration with Credit Card payments, core banking architecture (BIAN)

•Supervised project managers responsible for Sparring Partner TSP, Transaction Management Pilot (TMP) and Community Tests

Managed Dodd-Frank regulatory initiatives within the COO group.

•Analyzed complex business organizational systems to automate Dodd-Frank reports

•Worked with business analysts, developers, and testers to automate regulatory reports.

•Identified project risks and documented project dependencies, planning/forecasting

01/20-12/21 Axon Information Technologies, Charlotte, NC Senior Project Manager

Managed a $9.0 million project budget for the implementation of the GITMIS3 integrated tax system,

•Identified and documented risks as well as mitigating factors

•Supervised the integration of turnkey systems called GITMIS system, TIN application and GeReg system of the Registrar General Department.

•Reviewed and probed business requirements to refine business rules and cardinality

09/19- 08/21 Ministry of Finance, Charlotte, NC Senior Program Manager

•Managed a $8.0 million project budget on Hyperion system implementation

•Identified the project risks to avoid delaying project completion as part of risk mitigation.

•Determined the project resource, prepared and implemented budget as part of financial control

3/18 – 3/20 Bank of Sierra Leone, Charlotte, NC ERP Consultant/Project Manager

Managed a budget of $12 million for an end-to-end implementation of OEBS ERP system (Oracle E Business Suite). Roles also involved data analysis tasks. The following were highlights of my tasks:

•Performed functional Needs Assessment for Oracle Cloud,

•Reviewed and documented “As-Is”, “To-Be” (Future Processes) and Gap Analysis plans that became the go to artifact for the project

•Defined management reports on completed data migration, organizational change management

•Performed data profiling and mapping as part of data migration exercise to support the ERP project

04/16- 05/17 Bank of America, Charlotte, NC Senior Business/Data Analyst

Worked on the FILDS Barcadi System Adoption project to automate the validation of profitability of Credit Cards using customer data based on Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). My tasks involved:

•Worked as part of an Agile-Scrum team to create user stories and participated in daily sprints

•Used Rally tool to track user stories as they passed through the SDLC process as well as participated in grooming the backlogs from initiation to completion

•Participating in testing using SQL, Excel Macros and MS Access as my team performed data validations on the finished product.

•Presented monthly reports on data analysis, trend analysis, and variances.

06/13 – 04/15 US Treasury Department, DC Lead OTA Consultant

•Advised Bank of Tanzania, Central Bank of Burundi and EL Salvador on business processes required to procure and integrate core banking systems on SWIFT, ACH RTGS, Mobile Payment

•Worked on the following modules, GL, Fixed Assets, AR, AP, Cash Management, Loans, Expense Core-HR, HR Admin, i-Procurement, i-Supplier, Self Service, Time & Labor, etc.

06/12 – 03/15 GCNet, Accra- Ghana Senior Project Manager

•Managed a $62 million project budget on the implementation of the eGov/TRIPS project

•Supervised a headcount of 50 FTEs during this period,

•Setup a data governance team to advise the project team members on strategies to design and implement data migration strategies for transferring customer data from legacy systems to the newly developed GeReg and TRIPS application.

07/09 – 03/12 ARB Apex Bank, Accra-Ghana Program Manager

US Government Millennium Challenge Project to modernize systems and core banking systems

•Advised the bank on strategies to migrate customer variable/static data from legacy systems to the Oracle 10i database that interfaced with the newly installed Temenos T24 core- banking Apps

•Developed Business Requirements Documents (BRD) for the project

06/04 – 06/09 Bank of Ghana, Accra-Ghana Program Manager

•Managed a $32.0 million project, including documenting processes and the setting up of a PMO

•Supervised the implementation of the IMPACT 05 Project at the Central Bank of Ghana.

•Supervised the implementation and integration of the T24 core-Banking Application, Oracle Financials ERP (all modules/BI tools), Treasury Module, Vault Management System and Interface with SWIFT, ACH, EFT and RTGS

•Managed implementation of the integrated Security Management (ISMS) Policies and change management initiatives leading to certification of ISO 27001 at the bank.

Other Experiences

10/99-06/04 Bell Labs.,/TELCORDIA Naperville, IL Project Manager/Developer

•Developed the Product Suite implementation plan and associated Work Breakdown Structure

(WBS) and coordinated with Business Process, Change Management, Business Integration Test,

•Setup a data governance team responsible for Data Management Organization teams

•Setup a Project Management Office in Pretoria South Africa to oversee the implementation of the iCare/Flo-Through Project at Telkom South Africa and communicated project status to HQ in NJ.

•Designed, tested and managed computer software that controlled No. 5ESS-2000 Switch

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