Treasury Specialist

Professional Summary

A highly skilled graduate-level professional with valuable experience in identifying and addressing internal and external vulnerabilities for several business units across a multinational financial firm. A self-starter who is comfortable working in a rapidly changing business environment where risks need to be assessed and planned for. Strengths include, but not limited to being persistent and determined to achieve results in a highly dynamic, demanding and deadline driven environment.

Areas of Expertise and Competencies

Risk assessment / contingency planning

Risk evaluation

Risk indicators

Risk reporting

Self-starter

Quality control

Risk Review

Compliance

Strong investigatory abilities

Experienced user of Microsoft Office

Payment processing

Anti-Money Laundering

ACH payment processing

Foreign Exchange processing

Education

1/14-09/16 University of Maryland, University College Master of Business Administration

Baltimore, MD Completion: Sept 2016

8/03-05/07 Morgan State University Bachelor: Business Management

Baltimore, MD Graduated May 2007

Work Experience

09/18-2/20 HIG Capital LLC Co-investment Treasury Specialist, Analyst

Miami, FL

Prepare and process high volume of ACH and fed wire payments (US dollars and Foreign Exchange) for various internal and external company transactions

Provide Fed Wire and SWIFT confirmations to internal clients and accounting teams

Serve as the liaison to Internal Teams for bank reporting, payment confirmations, and troubleshooting

Respond to various requests from Internal HIG Groups and/or Auditing Teams

Review and analyze Co-investment bank statements to ensure wires were released daily

Investigate payment issues once funds are returned to HIG

Identify settlement issues based on Co-investors payment instructions and update across payment platforms if required

Prepare and review monthly cash account reconciliations and journal entries

Support bank and internal system conversions and enhancements

Document works performed and assist in the development/maintenance of departmental procedures

07/17-08/18 ICONMA/HSBC Private Banking Payment Specialist, Contractor

Miami, FL

Prepare external and internal wire transfers for USD and FX currencies while ensuring accuracy and appropriate authorization

Analyze and review USD and FX transactions in bank based systems

Identify settlement issues and discrepancies with client's payment instructions prior to instructing wire transfer in order to prevent unapplied cash

Review and investigate payment issues once funds are returned to the bank

06/13-07/17 Morgan Stanley Risk Management, Associate

Baltimore, MD

Proactively manage financial, regulatory and operational risks

Produce reporting of monthly risk reports

Establish a comprehensive testing and validation program to measure the operating effectiveness of the controls on the U.S. Banks across various teams and processes

Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing policies and procedures that might expose the firm to regulatory sanction and/or financial/reputational risk

Document controls, and ensuring there is a measurable level of oversight, validation and verification for key controls on the Banks

Perform the validation and testing function, appropriately documents results, and develops action plans for improvement

Meet with managers and department heads to review results and recommendation for enhancement

Create action plans that support the department’s processes in order to help Operations’ teams improve ineffective controls

Analyze new controls to be on boarded into the program, and successfully onboard testing for those controls

06/07-06/13 Morgan Stanley, Global Settlement Investigation, Associate

Baltimore, MD

Analyzed and reviewed Foreign Exchange (FX) transactions in firm based systems

Identified settlement issues and discrepancies with external counterparties, sales, and the trading desk to resolve fails and unapplied cash items to diminish risk through escalation

Communicated with team members globally to ensure efficient daily coverage of client activity and transfer of responsibilities

Investigated countries that the firm trades with in order to prevent/minimize the firm’s overall exposure and potential loss

Settled all cash and option premium deals composing of foreign currencies, non-deliverable funds (NDFs), and swaps

Prepared daily wire payments externally and internally, ensuring accuracy and appropriate authorization

Assumed full responsibility of communicating with banks/corporate clients/ internal clients/ and sales department in order to efficiently resolve breaks in a timely manner

Released the morning overdraft report to upper management on FX exposures

Compiled global fails report showing the firm’s internal and external breaks for FX deals which also highlights the firm’s driving exposure

Created and distributed the Reg W report which provides commentary around outstanding debit balances on the Firm’s highly regulated account to assist the Banking team to help to determine how much collateral is required on behalf of this risked account

Organized and analyzed data for month end reports that tracks volume trends whether increase or decrease

Prepared daily journal entries for write-offs, bank charges, and interest

Correspond with banks via phone/email/Swift Message (XMS) on payments, unapplied funds, bank fees, and interest

Trained and educated new analyst on FX products and investigation procedures

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