Project Manager Senior

Patricia Nist Santoro

Whitehouse Station, NJ *********.*******@*****.*** 973-***-****

SKILLS

Regulatory Compliance

Large-Scale Global Initiatives

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Analysis / Problem Solving

Risk Management / Controls

Working Group / SteerCo Management

Data Analysis / Reporting

UAT Coordination / Execution

Project Governance / Structure

Swift /Fedwire

System Migrations / Integrations

Project Costing / Budgeting

Team Building / Management

Confluence/JIRA

SDLC/ Project Plans

REGISTRATIONS

Series 7

EXPERIENCE

BNP Paribas November 2023-Present

Senior Project Manager Finance Implementation Projects

Coordinate with IT and internal stakeholders across Finance & Tax to ensure on-time quality delivery of 10-12 open projects

Establish and conduct meetings to communicate objectives, expectations, project roles, status updates, track open issues, and work with all groups and clients to resolve issues as required.

Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path items while ensuring project quality

Collect and analyze user requirements and business processes.

Lead project postmortems and communicate lessons learned in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Senior Project Manager DRIVE Team (Contract)

Manage and lead assigned projects to completion with delivery of agreed objectives. This will require working closely with all functions - Front office, Operations, Finance, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk etc.

Assist in structuring projects, create and maintain governance syndicated by all parties.

Ensure clear communication of goals, risks, efforts involved, as well as on the progress of the remediation initiatives and upcoming project.

Transcend Street Solutions Senior Project Manager / Client Implementations March 2022-September 2023

Led all project activities for Central Clearing Program (CCP) Central Module and client implementations for the firm

Partnered with clients to implement modules within their internal systems including planning, UAT, defect resolution, and prod releases

Acted as SME for integrating new CCP initiatives within the firm’s platform and with clients

Developed and managed budgets for all CCP changes and client implementations.

Wells Fargo Regulatory Execution Lead January 2021-March 2022

Headed cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality results for complex change initiatives focused on exceeding business expectations

Developed, implemented, and oversaw governance routines for project execution, management and budget reporting, and business readiness

Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders to obtain resources, influence outcomes, address conflict, and ensure alignment with Wells Fargo strategy and policies in tandem with business line objectives

Riverside Financial Group Director November 2019-January 2021

Provided securities / trading analysis

Consulted with attorneys regarding ongoing compliance and litigation support issues

Prepared exhibits used during arbitration and mediation hearings

Citigroup

Senior Vice President- Program Management June 2010 – November 2019

Managed portfolio of projects for agency and prime stock loan including tracking and maintaining budgets for all initiatives

Delivered new stock loan system both agile, iterative, and waterfall methodologies

Led middle office, operations, and technology teams to replace legacy Trade Life Cycle and settlement systems including swift and fed wire changes, improving efficiency and delivering $6.2m in saving per annum

Senior Vice President-Project Manager

Directed prime finance business and technology teams in building out CCP initiatives including CME, ICE, LCH, and EUREX

Represented Citi as Industry Lead on CCP implementation working groups

Developed and ran test cases for all front, middle, and back office teams

Vice President – Product Development

Designed and implemented web portal and reporting for OTC derivative clearing

Supervised new product approval process for all new CCP’s

Demonstrated systems and capabilities with the sales teams, resulting in clients joining the initiative using Citi as a clearing agent

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Director October 2008-June 2010

Oversaw the payment and settlements division of DTCC trade information warehouse

Led multiple industry working groups and provided industry expertise

Performed business development and project management roles onboarding buyside clients to DTCC warehouse initiative

EDUCATION

Marist College Bachelor of Science, Business Administration / Finance May 2001

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