Nicholas

Executive Summary
·Strong experience of project lifecycles and business analyst, project and test management methodologies
·Extensive experience in all asset classes and broad product knowledge
·Recent projects in regulatory compliance transformation, controls, transaction and post-trade reporting
·Can communicate across the business, simplify complex issues and unite stakeholders 
·Adept at working with third party technology partners and managing vendor relationships

Skills and Experience
·Asset class: Commodities / energy, equities, fixed income, FX, and commercial real estate
·Regulation: EMIR, MiFID2,MAR, Federal Bank Reserve Consent Order, legal entity restructuring, MiCA
·BA & Documentation: Requirements gathering, Visio process flow mapping, business requirements (BRD), frameworks, policies, procedures, Terms of Reference, workshop presentations, training materials, test plans
·Project/change mgmt: Project planning, delivery estimation, RAID tracking, status reporting, programme messaging, stakeholder pushback / conflict, embedding, sustainability planning, training, Agile and Waterfall
·Test management: Planning, scope definition, defect management, MI reporting, SIT / UAT coordination, Quality Center, JIRA
·Controls: Gap analysis, design / implementation, 1LoD / 2LoD, effectiveness assessment and facing audit queries
·Trade life cycle,Booking, STP, exchange traded, OTC, futures and options
·Trading applications              UnaVista ARM, Iress PWM - Xplan (wealth system - OMS), Trading Technologies (DMA), MarkitSERV, Scila Trade Surveillance 
·Compliance & systems: AML, ESG, KYC, financial crime, PEP-sanctions screening, PRA periodic risk assessment
·Tools: Visio, MS Project, SharePoint, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL