Silvina MoreiraLopes

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Charlotte, North Carolina

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Industry Expertise:

Foreign Exchange

Compliance/Anti-Money Laundering Investigations

Derivatives Operations

Accounting

Syndication Loans

Middle & Back Office Management

Bank Nostro reconciliations

Letter of Credit/Standby letters of credit: Import and Export

Analytical and Organizational Skills:

Negotiations

Multitasks

Process improvement

Tools:

Microsoft Office involving, Excel, PowerPoint and Access

Midas Plus, Opics, Calypso, MTS, Side-view, ORCA, CMR, ACBS, Loan IQ, Clear Par, DRUM, V-Master, Hogan, Unix and PEGA, Fortex, Meta 4 and Meta 5 IGs, LMAX and Scope.

Foreign Language Skills:

Fluent in Portuguese and conversant in Spanish & French

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Trade Support 09/2020 to 12/2023 Advanced Markets, Charlotte, NC

Monitor Trading platforms upon the opening of the Market.

Ensure that all Stock Symbols (Ticker Symbols) such Commodities, Foreign exchange and Futures are reflecting correct pricing quotes and are being stuck in the queue with no impact to counterparties if so, mitigate the risks on timely fashionable.

Perform daily reconciliation of Trades from Trader platforms against Server platforms.

Run Regulatory and Compliance, DTCC, Risk Analysis report for varies subsidiaries.

Monitor Trading platform for any margin liquidation and notify counterparties when their accounts reach Margin Ratio threshold before it is liquidated.

Perform reconciliation of outtrade accounts to make sure all are in balance.

Business Control Specialist 10/2020 to 08/2022 Talent Bridge, Inc – Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Provided efficient turnaround on requests for correspondent bank credit approval on trade transactions.

Developed and deepened relationships with internal clients and business partners in a professional manner.

Implemented transaction pricing in conjunction with authorized approvers to ensure TFF usage and pricing is appropriate for the risk reward.

Facilitated Global Trade Exposure Management system database updates on limits and pricing.

Identified issues and initiated enhancement requests to support changing business requirements.

Provided routine and ad-hoc reporting to support trade in managing and growing the business.

End User Tester Analyst 01/2020 to 08/2020 INT Technologies – Wells Fargo Bank, Charlotte, NC

Responsible for planning and the execution of quality assurance testing for implementing MTS 5.0 and subsequent bundles.

Prepared executed and performed manual test scripts for all MTS functionality, and Regression test including FED, SWIFT, and Interfaces as well as analyze the results.

Validated and confirmed all the steps involved in execution of scripts as a failed or passed.

Ensure script passed the entire process queue such as Risk, Verification, OFAC, Exception and Payment Queue.

Created numerous test scripts with OFAC hit phrases and false positives and executed them.

Analyzed the results to ensure the OFAC filter worked as expected.

Analyzed, identified, and documented software issues.

Interacted with ACI and Interface support staff for additional information or problem resolution.

CVA Middle Office UAT Analyst 11/2018 to 08/2019 Apex System – Wells Fargo Bank, Charlotte, NC

Monitored daily trades filter in Trade platform and built CVA in a different book of Dealers and Non-Dealers portfolio.

Performed Morning and Evening risks and generated P&L reports.

Created and executed test scripts designed to test and upgrade all products, processes, and functionality.

Participated in User Acceptance Testing related to system enhancements.

Captured and documented UAT test results and communicated results to management and business partners.

Supported the System Migration for CVA Middle Office team in Capital Markets.

Capital Markets Institutional Operations Support Analyst II 04/2018 to 06/2018 AeroteK Inc – Wells Fargo Bank, Charlotte, NC

Supported the Real Estate Capital Markets, Asset Backed Finance, Commercial Operating Asset Finance and whole Loan Trading businesses within Wells Fargo Securities.

Reviewed all business unit requests for loan activity: funding, pay downs, collateral changes, interest rate resets, etc. and post entries within loan system.

Reviewed and reconciled both cash and general ledger posting, including loan principal, interest and fee accruals, and fee and cost amortizations.

Kept the business unit informed on any trades or prices that need attention.

Provided solutions to operational problems and suggested improvement to workflow.

Interfaced with multiple business partners including Trading, Finance, Risk and Technology while ensuring that the operational risk associated with the business is being mitigated.

Operations Specialist III 08/2016 to 03/2018 Iconma Inc – Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Reviewed trade blotter reports from different regions for any new trade, assigned trade, or failed trade caused by an event. If a new trade or an assignment is located, search for the term sheet and novation’s consent.

Conducted a detailed review of the documents received for completeness and accuracy, drafted a confirmation or novation according to ISDA documentation procedure and released it to the counterparty.

Communicated to Front Office of any discrepancy encountered prior to drafting of confirmation or novation documentation.

Reviewed incoming counterparty confirmation and closed the booking as executed or sent.

Prepared letter of Non-Call Notice and Buyer Step-Up Notice sent to counterparty.

Managed and maintained balance position of each Credit Portfolio to prevent any overselling of the funds.

Completed closing process and ensured all fees and expenses are accounted for, all exceptions and outstanding items are identified, and the file is completed.

Oversee the syndication Loan: responsible for execution of assignment and recorded all assignments activities to the system of record Loan IQ (ACBS) when Assignment Desk received trade information form ClearPar 3rd parties Trade Settlement System or via email.

●Trade intake:

oReviewed list from Par Desk closer

oConfirmed Data in Clear Par

oConfirmed Settlement Date Coordinator (SDC)

oChecked counterparties signature and admin details and ensure Tax forms loaded.

●Staging

oStaged the trade in the ACBS by entered new trade information in Assignment Staging Screen

oSelected the facility listed on the Assignment & Assumption

oAdded buyer and seller information: Requested new lender setup if applicable.

oObtained proper tax documentation if applicable and tax documentation is received not trade is effective.

●Completed staging checklist.

oIf required, obtain affiliated letter or borrower’s consent for new lender in deal.

oMade sure seller is not over selling and global outstanding amount is correct on Assignment & Assumption

Checked trade in Pending Status in ACBS awaiting is auto-posting at end of the day.

Completed/ sign-off on trade as Agent.

Selected Settlement date in Clear Par

Release from Prep and Signed trade in Clear-Par

Assignment & Assumptions made effective in ClearPar once signed.

Checked Signature Blocks filled by counterparties and Agent and signature blocks filled by agent and borrower if required.

Senior Securities Operations Service Specialist III 06/2006 to 01/2016 Wells Fargo Bank, Charlotte, NC

Identified, researched, and analyzed financial transactions related to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and reported violations or suspicions of any unusual occurrences.

Monitored in house application called B-Swift to receive incoming wires messages sent by its correspondent banks. These wires came in the form of MT103 and MT202. Once the wires are identified as valid funds belonging to FX’ clients.

Reviewed and performed manually OFAC (Office of Foreign Asset and Currency) scanned of all receipt of funds making sure that transactions are false positives prior to execution of trade and forward to Front Office for booking trades.

The Trades than passed to Back Office for confirmation and wires settlement to final beneficiaries’ account domestically or internationally.

Processed wires via Swift Alliance or MTS system in the form of MT103 or MT202 swift message.

Communicated with the correspondent bank via Swift Alliance and MTS to obtain authenticated information when requested for any additional information regarding wires sent out or received into the bank system.

Prepared documentation pertaining to any suspicious activity, suspected financial abuse, and reported to compliance department.

Monitored assigned Nostro accounts by performing investigation research on all breaks using foreign exchange investigation protocol to ensure that procedures have been followed and there was no impact to customer or financial loss to the business and maintained past effective aged transactions below departmental thresholds.

Participated in special project during merger and acquisition: tested products such as Derivatives Securities and Foreign Exchange using Calypso application.

Stayed current on Nostro Relevant information and analyzed Terms and Conditions of each assigned accounts per each currency’s countries which managed to obtain a monthly fee reduction from several correspondent banks on straight through process transactions where the company saved approximately over 50,000.00 of monthly expenses.

Acted as an escalation point for more complex cases.

Senior Financial Specialist 05/2005 to 01/2006 Bankers on Call - Lehman Brothers, New York, NY

Investigated all post settlements and any related breaks on the assigned Nostros accounts.

Escalated any discrepancies with Mid Office, and Trader or Management Team.

Contacted counterparties and customers on failed payments.

Senior Financial Specialist 06/2004 to 05/2005 Smith Barney – Citigroup, New York, NY

Processed confirmations of various products included derivatives such as Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Cross Currency Swaps, Forward Rate Agreement and Options using various applications such as Calypso, Infinity and FX-Press.

Investigated inquiries and cleared up non-reconciled items.

Treasury Analyst 08/2000 to 06/2004 GE Capital, Stamford, CT

Effectively Managed Foreign Exchange operational loss accounts to under threshold of $100,000 yearly by identifying gaps in operational risk and introduced a procedure which was used to cross train new hires.

Generated rates into system for generation of cash flow and preparation of MTM analysis reports, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives P&L reports.

Performed Net Asset Value on the open-end funds and close-end funds.

Assisted in preparation of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives P&L Reports.

Confirmed issuing of all types of Equities derivatives products such as Share Swaps, Index Swaps, Share Options, Index Options and Share Variance Swaps.

Ongoing communication with Front Office, Business Unit, and other Depts: Settlement Team, Corporate Action, Trade Processing, and Risk management

Provided status of all trades for client which are Unaffirmed by the contra party included detailed statuses of all failing trades.

Conducted research on reclaims, large amount of trade booked and settlements.

Performed reconciliation on broker-to-broker transactions and performed research on all failed Broker to Broker transactions.

Notified clients of status of all failure and resolved transactions by midday.

Followed up of any aged transactions and resolved before SLA.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Accounting 12/2008 Quinnipiac University, Hamden CT

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