Alice Au
GROWTH FOCUSED VP
Meticulous Data Analyst who undertakes complex assignments, meeting tight deadlines and delivers excellent performance; highly productive achiever who works well with minimal supervision; applies practical knowledge in corporate finance and financial markets with extensive experience at JPMC; excels in implementation, planning, and analytics; reduces company expenditures by automating and standardizing work processes; operates with a strong sense of urgency and thrives in a fast-paced setting.
170 Mills Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10305
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EXPERIENCE
Adecco, New York, NY — Business Analyst
OCT 2020 - Present
●Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP): Value in Resolution projection of Balance Sheet, Capital, and Liquidity for a financial institution with market cap of 26.6B USD, planning jump-off-point/solvent wind-down, focus on Material Legal Entities
Pandemic, New York, NY
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
●Learned Python programming language via Coursera, and Spanish via Duolingo
●Practiced & perfected: Banana chip muffins, Blueberry yogurt muffins, Steamed brown bread, Ma Lai Go, & Milk buns
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY — Product Reference Data Project Manager VP
MAR 2017 - MAR 2020
●Implemented the tracking template for project plan tracking with tasks/milestones in gantt chart with compiled requirements gathered from interviews with key stakeholders across the firm
●Communicated effectively the findings on data analysis/gap analysis on legacy and industry standards, ISDA vs EPS strategic product types, presented summary to managers and peers; received excellent reviews/feedback from 4 judges
●Implemented strategic product usage by Market Risk Pack Reporting, standardized and tagged to QR model usage, awarded special comp $11k
●Gained approval on 2021-22 budget for EPS (Enterprise Products & Services thus maintained staff: 2 Associates; 3 VPs; 1 ED; 1 MD) program by presenting solution proposals to resolve gaps, next steps, and implementation plan
●Designed and implemented controls report, tracked and reported to steerco the KPI weekly/monthly metrics (used Tableau and excel) on implemented strategic product exceptions, performed data analysis
●Substantiated product taxonomy as ref data by delivering the product glossary (approx 200 instruments) on derivative product taxonomy
●Developed plan in collaboration with partners to reduce outliers from 30 down to zero or 100% mappings implemented for FX Cash, FX Options, and Commodities assets, as a result of data analysis
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY — Market Risk Business Analyst
OCT 2014 - MAR 2017
●Implemented in the Market Risk engine the data mining to display more sensitivities, risk measures to better assist with decisions on capital, liquidity, funding and to comply with Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) via business/functional requirement documentations (created BRD & FRD), supported by data analytics and testing
●Collaborated effectively with the application developers and business partners under tight deadlines in a highly pressurized environment, in VAR production support and project delivery of auto-reconciliation reports, 100% successful deliveries by target dates; supported by data analytics and testing
●Designed & delivered to Market Risk Reporting clients the illustration on data lineage within systems, 100% successful as measured by feedback from happy client
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY — Market Risk Reporting Hierarchy Manager VP
OCT 2007 - OCT 2014
●Manager of seven people for hierarchy change and control
●Closed out Action Plan items in VAR Model Infrastructure Review Keys by partnering with Market Risk & Governance team on Consent Order; supported by business and data analysis
●Satisfied the challenging Risk Finance Oversight & Control on the Fed (FRB) Exam 2014 by providing qualitative and detailed narratives; 100% successful as measured by feedback from happy client; supported by business and data analysis
●Identified and resolved unclassified VAR, Default Exposure for Firmwide Risk, Country Risk, Volcker, and Basel reporting, by coordinating hierarchy updates
●Implemented auto-process/data analytics job into the Market Risk engine that resulted work reduction to five seconds, from 40 minutes of daily manual work into JPMC application
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY — Financial Analyst, Regulatory Reporting
DEC 2005 - OCT 2007
●Manager of summer program intern
●Attested controls by delivering monthly (12 / yr) reconciliation results to Accounting, MO, Finance partners
●Closed 1 major IRFE issue by implementing change in case study
●Managed project IRFE Linked-Deal 2006, analyzed approx. 100 samples
●Led testing development on innovation
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY — Financial Analyst
●Swapsback Project, Senior Accounting & Controls
●Middle Office/Trade Support
JPMorgan Chase, London, UK — Financial Analyst
●Accounting & Financial Analyst, London, UK
Lloyds Bank, New York, NY — Financial Analyst
EDUCATION
New York University (NYU), New York — Bachelor of Science (BS)
Double Major: Marketing And International Business
JPMC Training, New York — Certificates of Completion
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Data Visualization - Building Data - Driven Stories for VP
Derivatives - Markets
Equities Derivatives
Bond Markets
Commodities
University of Michigan
May 2020
Python for Everybody (Getting started with Python)
PROJECTS
Enterprise Products and Services (EPS) product taxonomy — Program offers a standard product listing
For internal/external reporting firmwide across functions and LOBs (line of businesses) to reduce costs of legacy product maintenance, for added controls, & increase reporting accuracy.
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) — Order for standardization and common approach
Delivered daily auto-reconciliation reports as part of controls agenda to meet BCBS standards for bank capital, liquidity and funding within CIO business
Swapsback — Migration of derivatives from systems heritage Chase to JPM
Merged all derivative positions from systems IRFE (Chase) to Kapital (JPM).
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Business Analysis
Data Analysis
Requirements gathering
Project Management
Metrics Reporting
Reference Data Hierarchies
User Testing
Client relations
Middle Office
Operations
Procedures Documentation
People Management
Finance
Accounts Reconciliation
Cash & Derivative Accounting
Derivative transaction lifecycle
Microsoft
Visio
Tableau
Python basics
AWARDS
2018 Bonus of $11k