MEHNAZ FAROOQUI
Jersey City
Summary
Versatile and focused Program manager with a track record in driving teams to deliver high-profile initiatives in regulatory space for financial services focusing on innovative technologies such as AI and cloud in the data governance spectrum. Adept at: Program Management Product Management Data Quality Governance Communication Management Stakeholder Management Vendor Management Process Optimization Financial management Resource Management
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager, Data Strategy
Citigroup
Jersey City
07.2020 - Current
- Data Strategy Program Governance: Aligned deliverables reporting to book of work requirements, created weekly stakeholder program status reports and mobilized teams to execute within timelines and schedules. Created program roadmaps and dashboards for Citi's Consent Order and regulatory compliance initiatives to depict overall RAG status, progress of milestones (Business critical milestones, regulatory business critical milestones) (Dev complete, SIT complete, UAT complete, Prod parallel complete, production checkout complete) dependencies on other systems/workstreams, benefits and managed risks/ issues. Reported program status to executive committee monthly cadence and steering committee quarterly cadence as point of contact between different communication channels and ensured accurate, timely, complete and consistent data through metrics (KPIs/KRIs) based on efficiency, scalability, productivity and cost efficiency to score-carding portfolio of applications.
- PMO Governance: Collaborated with stakeholders (Operations, Production Support, Infrastructure, SMBF Technology, Cloud and AI enablement technology partners) to drive organizational tech mandates (such as exiting from legacy tech stacks Talend, LSC CI/CD deployment pipelines, Bitbucket repos to new tech stacks Scala/Python, LSE, GitHub) for cost efficiency and reduction of infrastructure vulnerabilities and enable GitHub Copilot adoption across the portfolio for AI enablement for developer productivity. Interfaced with production support on OCC dry run issues pertaining to regulatory compliance applications and other incidents (MIM incidents (sev1/sev2/sev3) and priority incidents (P1/P2/P3/P4)) as needed and ensured annual COB testing mitigated occurrence of any production incidents. Tracked deployment issues resolution progress through heatmap reports. Interfaced with project managers to ensure artifacts for SDLC adhered to Citi guidelines and reduced PMQC issues for agile/iterative development projects in the Project Tracking System through creation of program playbooks.
- Fintech Transformation: Articulated benefits for regulatory compliance initiatives for enhancements such as transition of cross-border payment messages for markets products from MT (legacy text) to MX (ISO 200022 XML) in accordance with SWIFT digital payment guidelines and decommission of legacy product processors for markets, services and banking managed segments/businesses and migration to newer systems to reduce technical security vulnerabilities, cut high maintenance costs and ensure compliance.
- Technology Re-platforming: Partnered with Technology to build scalable, API-driven systems for deposits, loans, Cash, Debt products, SFT, derivatives and created data and process flow diagrams for application functions in the front-to-back Olympus programs, depicting data onboarding feeds from upstream (Reference data systems (DSMT, AMC, PMC, SMC, HMC, CMC), SORs/trade booking systems (Nimbus, EXG and Product Processors) to Olympus authorized re-distributor data-warehouse to downstream systems such as Risk and Finance systems (Genesis, GLRS, Optima) with emphasis on controls such as data quality checks(DQ) for data accuracy, End of Day Marker (EODM) for data completeness, End of day SLA for data consistency, reconciliations (GRU) for data accuracy. Tracked data gaps identified in the front-to-back flow and ensured business logic was implemented to address data concerns in DCRM tool. Integrated 300+ data flows from 30+ systems (payments and settlements systems) with the firm-wide strategic data platform.
- Communications Management: Managed quarterly townhall presentations for the Data Organization laying emphasis on data concepts and data domain hierarchy (L0 and L1 data domains) from Data catalog aligning them with business functions establishing the firm-wide strategic data platform as next-gen financial reporting platform for FR Y-15 (schedule G for Counterparty Credit Risk.) and other risk reports.
- Product management: Collaborated on initiatives such as active-active architecture implementation for regulatory compliance applications, procurement of PROD servers and associated hardware costs approvals and POC on AML and Trade Surveillance applications' co-location to Olympus Hive (PROD NY and PROD NJ clusters).
- Financial Stewardship: Aligned projects to approved investments requests and mapped resources to projects for budgetary purposes using blue-dollar (PTS) and green-dollar (actual rates) costs to forecast/project costs for staff (FPC, T&M, FTE) for a ~20 mm annual portfolio and developed CPI ratios.
Program Release Manager, Release Management
Moody's Investor Services/Ratings
New York
09.2017 - 01.2020
- Program Governance: Prepared milestones, risk logs and action items to onboard and integrate a third-party system "Flexera" that tracks on-premises, SaaS and cloud software licenses/hardware assets with Moody's internal systems and processes to optimize technology spend by identifying unused licenses and unused Saas subscriptions.
- Release Management: Drove release management activities and engaged with application development, Infrastructure and production support teams to manage CI/CD deployment automations for Salesforce.
Business Analyst, Risk Management
Bank of America
Jersey City
08.2015 - 06.2016
- Program Governance: Set directions to address risks and issues in regulatory risk programs managing liquidity risk system for cash outflows, deposits and collateral. Developed executive presentations to outline program RAG status, financials, risks, issues and system dependencies. Created development progress reports to track completion status of milestone SDLC life-cycle activities such as requirements complete, analysis complete, Dev completion, SIT testing, UAT, prod parallel activities and production checkouts across program deliverables along-with milestone challenges. Interfaced cross functionally with project leads and managers to generate detailed status reports and created robust project artifacts.
Program Manager/PMO, Regulatory Risk
Barclays Bank PLC
New York
07.2014 - 01.2015
- Program Governance: Drove the execution of multiple projects for the global Dodd-Frank IHC program and created IHC implementation governance decks with metrics to measure progress of the program such as IHC creation to manage capital, liquidity and risk governance (computation of CET1, LCR, NSFR) for US subsidiaries' operations.
- Data Analysis: Analyzed product data across a wide range of asset classes from the banks' balance sheet and mapped to financial reporting requirements for Fed's FR Y-9C report for the IHC, for Schedule HC - Consolidated Balance Sheet and Schedule HI - Changes in Equity Capital. Collaborated with Treasury to create management reports for senior management, risk steering committee and the board from data in financial reports such as FR Y-15 for actionable insights and CFO attestation.
IT Business Analyst, Regulatory Compliance
Maxima Consulting Group
New York
08.2008 - 01.2015
- Contracted through Maxima consulting to direct business activities of fortune 500 financial services clients.
- Supported complex business initiatives and programs associated with Dodd-Frank regulatory rules, IHC financial reporting requirements, KYC/AML, client onboarding, Basel II /III.
Business Analyst, Enterprise Program Management Office
DTCC
Jersey City
11.2011 - 12.2013
- Client Onboarding Transformation: Anchored a strategic change program to automate the client onboarding experience (AML/KYC) of clearing member firms of NSCC clearing house/central counterparty (CCP) and developed roadmap and business requirements in the form of process workflows. Engaged with IT, legal, compliance and infrastructure partners to evaluate enterprise processes and create milestones to migrate from legacy mainframe applications to advanced platforms.
Product Manager, Compliance and Risk
State Street Bank and Trust
Boston
08.2009 - 09.2011
- Product Management: Spearheaded end-to-end execution of several projects in Basel II/Basel III program through each SDLC phase and communicated and presented project status of counterparty credit risk system to stakeholders in compliance with BCBS239 requirements including risk metrics such as EAD, PD, LGD across lenders and borrowers. Detailed counterparty credit risk exposures to lender and borrower after MTM valuation calculation by credit risk systems. Managed collateral management application for the Agency and Trust business and updated program status for its middle-office functions based on daily MTM valuation and securitization and collateral allocation (via ABS, MBS, CLO) by buy-side investors/lenders, initial margin/variation calculation automation both for borrower and lender for OTC derivatives, SFT (repo, securities lending) trades for mitigation of counterparty credit risk and collateral substitution by borrower/issuer/sell-side.
Business Analyst/Quality Assurance Analyst, Alternative Investments Technology
Credit Suisse
New York
08.2008 - 05.2009
- Program Governance: Prepared alternative investments book of work and presented tactical/strategic solutions devised for the programs in this portfolio to stakeholders. Prepared dashboards depicting capital committed by LPs to private equity funds and their risk-adjusted performance evaluation through KPIs such as ROA (Return on Assets) and NOI (Net Operating Income). Detailed costing for book of work programs evaluating actual costs versus budgeted costs to determine cost overruns.
Technology Analyst, Investment Banking and Merchant Banking Technology
Goldman Sachs
New York
02.2007 - 05.2008
- Data Analysis: Developed user interfaces and prototypes to aid development activities. Acted as a single point of contact from the application teams to create progress reports on application defect triage. Ensured traceability from QA test plans to business requirements. Performed data analysis and produced mapping specifications depicting the data flow from source to consumers detailing the ETL processing and business logic implementation.
Education
M.S - Computer Science
SUNY Binghamton University
Binghamton, NYB.E - Computer Science
Ramaiah Institute of Technology
IndiaSkills
- FR Y-9C
- FR Y-15
- CET1
- LCR
- NSFR
- BCBS239
- Dodd-Frank IHC
- Liquidity Risk Systems
- Counterparty Credit Risk (EAD, PD, LGD)
- MTM Valuation Controls
- Data Reconciliation (GRU)
- End-of-Day Controls
- SWIFT MT and MX
- Cross-Border Payments
- Active-Active Architecture
- Cloud Migration
- Data Warehousing (Olympus)
- Hadoop
- Kafka
- Hive
- Starburst
- Tableau
- Qlik Sense
- Citi Stylus
- Citi Assist
- GitHub Copilot
- Python
- Java
- SQL
- JIRA
- Confluence
- ServiceNow
- Informatica
- Salesforce
- Talend
Certification
- Scrum Master Certification (CSM), 06/01/20
- Project Management Institute (PMI): PMP Certification, 03/01/09
Personal Information
Title: PROGRAM MANAGER
Timeline
Program Manager, Data Strategy
Citigroup
07.2020 - Current
Program Release Manager, Release Management
Moody's Investor Services/Ratings
09.2017 - 01.2020
Business Analyst, Risk Management
Bank of America
08.2015 - 06.2016
Program Manager/PMO, Regulatory Risk
Barclays Bank PLC
07.2014 - 01.2015
Business Analyst, Enterprise Program Management Office
DTCC
11.2011 - 12.2013
Product Manager, Compliance and Risk
State Street Bank and Trust
08.2009 - 09.2011
IT Business Analyst, Regulatory Compliance
Maxima Consulting Group
08.2008 - 01.2015
Business Analyst/Quality Assurance Analyst, Alternative Investments Technology
Credit Suisse
08.2008 - 05.2009
Technology Analyst, Investment Banking and Merchant Banking Technology
Goldman Sachs
02.2007 - 05.2008
M.S - Computer Science
SUNY Binghamton University
B.E - Computer Science
Ramaiah Institute of Technology