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Mina Nodaros

Douglaston,NY

Summary

Mina Nodaros is a highly accomplished Compliance Officer and Applications Manager with extensive experience in the Banking and Brokerage Industry. Mina possesses a strong background in Compliance Regulations and Policy mappings, Information Technology and Operational Support, demonstrating expertise in analytical problem-solving, project planning, and leading large teams.

Equipped with strong problem-solving abilities, willingness to learn, and excellent communication skills. Poised to contribute to team success and achieve positive results. Ready to tackle new challenges and advance organizational objectives with dedication and enthusiasm.

Work History

Compliance Risk Management Officer - Vice President

Citigroup
  • Served as a key member of the CAO Transformation team, responsible for establishing a comprehensive framework for mapping laws, rules, and regulations to enterprise-wide policies, training programs, and risk control assessments.
  • Conducted in-depth analysis to identify and remediate coverage gaps between US laws and regulations and internal policies and training materials, ensuring comprehensive compliance monitoring.
  • Led the monthly validation process between the ICRM Training Course Library and Tier 1 Laws, Rules, and Regulations mappings, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of training materials.
  • Developed and maintained a comprehensive mapping file of Tier 1 and selected Tier 2-5 regulations to training courses, encompassing both ICRM and non-ICRM training requirements.
  • Designed and implemented a robust validation process for training information, generating discrepancy reports and creating audit artifacts to support milestone audits.
  • Verified the accuracy of regulations reported in the Regulatory Inventory system, identifying and communicating any up-tiering or down-tiering impacts to reporting requirements.
  • Proactively communicated discrepancies and updates to training mappings to key stakeholders, ensuring alignment between training materials and regulatory requirements.
  • Managed the communication and distribution of regulation updates to ICRM Course Owners, ensuring the development of relevant and up-to-date training content.
  • Disseminated updates to the mapping file to ICRM Reg Leads, Reg Leads, and Course Owners, fostering transparency and collaboration across teams.
  • Prepared and presented the monthly Non-LTI course checklist to the ETF training forum for review and approval, ensuring alignment with training standards and requirements.
  • Participated in working group meetings to define business requirements for automating the training to policy linkage process, driving efficiency and accuracy.
  • Contributed to the analysis and development of automated linkages between regulations, policies, and training materials, streamlining compliance processes.
  • Provided valuable insights and analysis for Milestone Closure summaries, collaborating with BFCC to ensure comprehensive review and sign-off.
  • Played a key role in the analysis and reporting of RIM missing controls remediation efforts, addressing compliance gaps related to 32 Tier 1 US LRRs across all business lines.

Applications Manager – Vice President

Citigroup
  • Managed the interview process and onboarding of onshore and offshore consultants.
  • Conducted weekly release meetings with application developers/managers to discuss system changes and reported issues to management.
  • Gathered business requirements and provided full project life cycle estimates (level one to level three) in man-month efforts.
  • Interacted with business areas regarding daily issues, production support outages, and collaborated with Incident Management & Production Support teams.
  • Managed the conversion of the legacy mainframe formatting component of the Smith Barney 1099 application and Citi Global Checking and Letters into OpenText Exstream.
  • Collaborated with other system areas on multi-system/cross-platform application development projects during the MSSB and Broadridge Conversion, covering Unit, SIT, UAT, and production environments.
  • Managed Citi Global checks, Tax Reporting for all yearly 1099s, and client statements.
  • Developed online checkout for FRSS tax statements on Citi Velocity.
  • Managed the development and maintenance/processing of TES Confirms.
  • Managed backer updates for TES Confirms and reported any breaks or changes to the process.
  • Developed and implemented the E2E Confirm Reconciliation report for ICG operations and regulatory reporting, reporting any breaks in the TES file and validating distribution codes.
  • Created check payments for Citibank clients, collaborating with checking businesses on check formatting, logos, and signatures for print vendors.
  • Developed an online check entering system on CitiVelocity for Citi Business Landlord checks with a maker/checker process.
  • Reviewed PTSW Project Documentation and Programs to ensure compliance with CITI standards and budgets.
  • Participated in the yearly budgeting process by creating and entering projects with forecasting numbers in PTSW, balancing headcounts.
  • Worked with KPMG auditors annually, providing requested information for supported statement/tax/confirm applications.
  • Reviewed Multi-Project Forecasting Reports to ensure adherence to staff headcount (FTEs) for all managers.
  • Conducted mid-year and year-end staff reviews in GTMS and Goals in Workday. Worked with the KPMG auditors on a yearly basis and supplied requested information for the statements /tax /confirm applications supported.
  • Review the Multi Project Forecasting Reports on an ongoing basis to ensure that we are within our Staff’s headcount (FTE’s) for all Managers under the Sr. Manager.
  • Responsible for performing mid-year and year-end staff reviews in GTMS and Goals in Workday.

Project Leader / Assistant Vice President – (Client Communications/Document Systems)

SMITH BARNEY INC.
  • Developed a strong working relationship with the business owner and product manager of the Smith Barney client statement processing system (5 million statements per month).
  • Gathered monthly statement enhancements, executed volume tests for statement verification before production runs, and managed printing, mailing, loading to CMOD for archival, and E-Delivery of statements.
  • Managed all aspects of 1099 and year-end summary document changes, coordinated monthly volume tests and checkout, and oversaw the printing, mailing, loading to CMOD, and E-Delivery of over 6 million 1099s.
  • Developed new client communication correspondences, including Tax Letters, CPI New Change of Address Letters, and CPI AVP Letters.
  • Managed enhancements to Salomon Confirms, including backer changes, splitting confirms based on distribution, creating daily reports, suppressing confirms based on input codes, and monitoring daily loads to CMOD and print/mail.
  • Created technical documentation for projects and provided support for daily production and monthly statement jobs.
  • Conducted mid-year and year-end staff reviews in GTMS.

Programmer Analyst/Systems Analyst

Shearson Lehman Brothers
  • Analyzed and programmed (CICS and Batch) the Financial Consultant Profile System (FPIP), which housed broker personal information.
  • Analyzed and wrote specifications for compliance reports (margin reports, numbered accounts, offshore accounts, penny stock accounts, etc.) used by the Compliance team for branch audits.
  • Implemented programming enhancements for the Branch Information System (BIS).
  • Created audit reports of client portfolio scenarios for Coopers and Lybrand's annual audit.
  • Analyzed, designed, formatted, implemented, and managed the printing and mailing of the TRAK 401K statement.

Education

BBA - Management Information Systems

Pace University – Lubin School of Business
NY, NY

Skills

  • Java, Cobol, Cics, DB2, Vsam, MQ Series, MVS, IBM Utilities, JCL, File-Aid, DF Sort, SAS, Business Objects, Cognos, Changeman, Infoman, Pan Valet, Expediter, Intertest, Batch Intertest, PTSW, SDLC Workspace, Planview, TRS, Microsoft Office (Excel(Vlookups), Word, PowerPoint), Microsoft Projects, and Visio Flowcharting
  • Compliance monitoring
  • Operational risk assessment
  • Risk reporting
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Problem-solving
  • Attention to detail
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Reliability
  • Organizational skills
  • Team leadership

Timeline

Compliance Risk Management Officer - Vice President

Citigroup

Applications Manager – Vice President

Citigroup

Programmer Analyst/Systems Analyst

Shearson Lehman Brothers

Project Leader / Assistant Vice President – (Client Communications/Document Systems)

SMITH BARNEY INC.

BBA - Management Information Systems

Pace University – Lubin School of Business
Mina Nodaros