Olga Berenshteyn ad4c7i@r.postjobfree.com 347-***-****

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Business Analyst and Project Manager with a software development background, focusing primarily on Front-to-Back solutions for Fixed Income, Derivatives, Risk, Finance (P&L) and other business areas in financial services industry. Good understanding of the Treasury business, Risk and Finance functions within investment banking. Experienced in Requirements Gathering, Product Strategy and Roadmap definition, Change Management, Business Development, Functional Testing and UAT support and full SDLC as well as Agile methodologies. Strong client servicing and client management skills.

EXPERIENCE:

Bank of New York Mellon, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst/PM Consultant Oct 2019 – Dec 2022

Gathered requirements from Middle Office and Operations teams, created BRDs; assisted in mapping FX Forwards, Repos, Equity Definitions and other financial products to Summit.

Member of interest rate derivatives team for IBOR transformation worked on modernization of BNY’s interest rate and FX curves. Tasks included curve construction, working with rate server team, Summit upgrade and further developing G11/G24 currencies for exchange and bi-lateral trades.

As part of the IBOR transformation worked exclusively with Middle Office to revamp hedge and explained P&L reports leading to greater operational efficiency. Re-doing portfolio risk bucketing along with evaluating monotone cubic spline for forward curve smoothness and less risk leakage.

Built discount configuration tools using Summit to simulate and provide the impact analysis for Front Office for all different variations in new discounting methodology including SOFR.

Lead analyst on bank-wide Single Name CDS initiative for trade capture for both investment grade and high yield credit entities, including valuation and hedging and working with technology to import default probabilities (EOD load process).

Worked with Asset servicing team on providing new netting procedures at both business and coding levels.

Technical work included review of distributed servers, parallelizing intense P&L calculations, review of XML and SQL bespoke works and caching of data visa-a-vis Summit system.

Natixis, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst/PM Consultant Nov 2017 – Jun 2019

Coordinated BAs and IT teams during Front Office and Back Office implementation of the major accounting system and Summit, work included pricing, valuing and configuring financial instruments.

Project scoping and planning, progress reporting, identification and management if issues/risks and communications. Identified pain points, proposed and implemented solutions for improving workflows and efficiency. .

Collaborated with the users to determine business requirements, including the identification of any potential issues or functional omissions; defined and documented the business requirements and detailed specifications for IT development teams.

Developed test cases and validated test results during user acceptance testing; trained end-users.

Barclays, New York, NY May 2015-Jun 2017

Senior Business Analyst/PM Consultant

Business analyst and Project manager for Risk and Finance Change Management team, with focus on regulatory related projects such as CCAR Global Market Shocks (GMS).

Prioritized business requirements, identified the scope, assisted with functional requirements and testing including process flow and use cases review and validation. Created detailed technical specifications.

Identified and documented risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies providing status update on progress.

Facilitated project meetings across various groups; highlighted, escalated, tracked and resolved issues.

Generated management reporting including milestones, metrics, project plans, accomplishments and issues for senior stakeholders.

Commerzbank AG New York, NY Sept 2010-Sept 2014

VP.

Assisted Front and Back Office of the Bank with Summit Trading Systems implementation projects including:

Using Summit and Excel models for trade capture, pricing and valuations including functional analysis, Risk and P&L calculations for interest rate derivatives and fixed income instruments.

Created Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Specifications (FSR) and Technical documents for developers, interacted with users from Front, Middle and Back Office staff to understand requirements and create comprehensive solutions.

Responsible for conducting, leading and coordinating software development activities including key design decisions for technology and process workflows for new and extending systems.

Supervised and guided IT Business Analysts and Development staff acting as a conduit between IT and business managers claims on projects, deadlines, problem solving, risks, deployment, etc.

Utilized SQL for reporting and queries.

Finestra Inc. New York, NY Mar 1998-Sept 2010

Senior Business Analyst, Consulting Services Group Feb 2009-Sept 2010 Business Analyst for on- and off-site of Summit client implementations including:

Summit architecture and system configuration setup for leading Investment Banks.

Developed technical specifications based on requirements gathered from business users.

Designed, developed and implemented custom functionality using Summit APIs.

Utilized SQL for reporting and queries. Resolved technical issues for Summit clients.

Developed and implemented an eToolkit application for a major trading firm to perform market data load and other functions between Excel spreadsheet and Summit.

Leveraged strong knowledge of Summit static data and experience with the full trade workflow from front to back.

Senior Software Developer, New York, NY Mar 1998-Feb 2009

Developed, assisted with testing and documenting some of the essential Summit components for various financial instruments.

Developed comprehensive accounting User and Development training materials for internal training program including detailed examples and lab exercises.

Managed the Support Team.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

M.S. Computer Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, GPA 4.0.

Specialized in parallel processing programming and algorithm design including involvement in fundamental research in parallel processing. Programmed in C*, C, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog and C++.

B.S. Applied Mathematics, Moscow State University of Transport (MIIT).

NY Institute of Finance, Fixed Income Professional Certificate, 2014

NY Institute of Finance, Certificate in Financial Risk Management, 2013

NYU School of continuing Studies Certificate in Financial Risk management, 2001

PUBLICATIONS

“An NC Algorithm for Depth-First Search of Graphs with Bounded Genus,” DIMACS Technical Report 94-29, Co-authored with Dr. Justin Smith. Paper presented at DIMACS Conference, November 1993

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS SUMMARY

Microsoft Office Suite: including Excel, Word, PowerPoint. Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Databases: Working knowledge of Sybase, Oracle

Programming Languages: C++, C, UNIX Shell Scripting, XML, Visual Basic, Java

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