- Career History
SMBC (EMEA Data Office) Dec 2023 – Aug 2024
Data Governance Business Analyst (AML Transaction Monitoring)
- Drove consensus on data governance by design and priorities while addressing key issues, ensuring stakeholder buy-in by leading the bi-weekly working groups (~7 people), using PowerPoint presentations
- Resolved data quality issues, leading to informed decision-making and process improvement for the programme.
- Liaised with a range of business and IT stakeholders to reconcile and align data and identify and prioritise 80 Data Elements (DEs), then catalogued and implemented in a Strategic Data Management tool (Collibra).
- Pioneered ingestion of technical lineage within Collibra to ensure compliance with BCBS239.
- Advocated for data team’s strategy and achievements to the wider department (~200 audience) in an auditorium.
- Complied with audit request by delivering lineage creation (from Datawarehouse) in JIRA in an agile environment.
- Streamlined project risk management by logging risks and assumptions, enabling management to address critical issues and dependencies.
Trooli (
PMO)
Oct 2023 – Nov 2023
Sales Data analyst
- Developed into a newly created position, handling uncertainty and lack of structure.
- Led the full implementation of a new system (Monday.com) by learning solo and training colleagues for immediate testing and within 1 week. Documented the process leading to improved reporting for management.
- Delivered Key performance indicators (KPI’s) for the sales team to investors, reconciling from 5+ sources by collaborating with 3 departments in a two-day frame.
- Improved sales commissions review process and eliminated errors with controls in place for end-of-month sales commissions calculations in Excel.
NOMURA (Finance)
Sep 2012 – Apr 2015
Financial Resource Management Associate
- Identified and escalated risks and concerns to global PMO to enable timely resolutions and mitigating potential disruptions to the delivery of a Basel 3 global regulatory project.
- Conducted and visualised financial resources analysis (liquidity) with sensitivity analysis to create reports for senior management for compliance and optimal resource reallocation.
- ICAAP – facilitated data manipulation and cleansing and basic modelling for regulatory requirements compliance.
Finance Graduate:
Sep 2010 – Sep 2012
Corporate Reporting Financial Reporting: Monthly and quarterly Bank of England regulatory reporting and internal reporting for financial statements, using financial systems.
Treasury Planning and Analysis: Produced and delivered global liquidity dashboards for 4 regions for Tokyo Head office and regulatory reporting to the FSA (liquidity limits compliance and avoiding breach fines). Repurposed dashboards for senior management.
Jun 2008 – Aug 2009
Finance Placement Student: Reconciliations to Bloomberg and accounting systems to deliver daily P&L reports to 3 trading desks; produced daily trading market results snapshot through liaising across finance, quantitative analysts and the front office. Online training on derivatives
- Additional Experience
English Language Coach - Freelancer Aug 2015 – present
- TESOL qualified, university of Arizona online course
- Coached clients to pass exams, succeed in interviews, improve career opportunities and boost confidence.
- Enhanced quality and content of the sessions by integrating AI
- Facilitated communication between clients through translation.
- Launched 3 x Udemy courses with 4k+ students with an average rating of 4.5.
Management Consultant - | Performance Test Executives –
part time Feb 2021 – Oct 2021
- Guided a growing engineering business for more efficient business execution aligned with the business strategy.
- Legal assistant – Sheila Garcia – real estate lawyer Oct 2019 – Feb 2020
Coordinated legal work ensuring timely daily deals execution. Brought in 2 French speaking clients
