Ossie Gamaldo
Pelham
Summary
Dynamic Vice President at Wells Fargo with extensive experience in regulatory compliance and project execution. Specializes in stakeholder and change management, leading large-scale initiatives that improve customer risk profiling and ensure compliance with banking regulations. Proven ability to foster cross-functional collaboration to achieve significant results.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President, Lead Business Execution Consultant
Wells Fargo
New York
05.2021 - Current
- Successfully delivering large-scale implementation of regulatory requirements across multiple CIB businesses and processes, ensure compliance with key U.S. and international banking, financial and securities regulators.
- Drive implementation of enhancements to CIP and CDD processes in alignment with regulatory enforcement actions, improving customer risk profiling, onboarding controls, and ongoing due diligence to ensure compliance with BSA/AML requirements.
- Provide timely review and analysis of regulatory changes issued by the federal prudential and securities regulators (FRB, FDIC, SEC, CFTC, etc.) and the accuracy of such analysis produced by the team.
- Manage the implementation of regulatory requirements, ensuring they are appropriately actioned, including monitoring the progress of implementation projects and engaging with executive leadership and senior stakeholders to understand the requirements, report status and escalate where required.
- Oversee the production of data analytics, metrics intelligence and management information required ensuring appropriate internal and external reporting and oversight of the work performed.
- Spearhead Internal and External Outreach and Communications Workstreams in contribution to large-scale regulatory implementation across the Corporate Investment Bank (CIB), by providing comprehensive, timely and accurate customer and employee communications.
- Lead cross-functional stakeholder engagement to align policy implementation with regulatory and internal standards.
- Provide documentation, training and coaching, ensuring appropriate integration of net-new processes with regulatory implications.
Project Manager
Barclays
New York
01.2018 - 05.2021
- Coordinated the strategic planning and execution of complete project lifecycles for the US Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP) team.
- Supported regulatory efforts by managing timelines, deliverables, status tracking and reporting for the delivery of the US Resolution Plan as per the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
- Oversaw the US RRP Resolution Strategic Model Project, an initiative to migrate an Excel-based financial forecasting tool to a strategic, automated platform and process.
- Coordinated large cross-functional teams consisting of Liquidity and Capital Risk, US Treasury, Resolution and Recovery, IT Data and Execution and Quantitative Analysis resources to deliver the model and relevant deliverables and enhancements.
- Led and executed annual resolution capability analyses.
- Interfaced with the other RRP team leads, senior management, business units and other key stakeholders to gather resolution plan content or address issues, questions, or concerns with regard to resolution planning or regulatory direction as required.
- Collaborated with other team leads to analyze regulatory guidance and final rules to set a strategy for delivering a US resolution plan and ensure requirements are met according to regulator expectations.
Project Manager
Bank of America
Charlotte
07.2011 - 04.2013
- Supported the Finance Systems Roadmap (FSR) Project, a multi-year initiative launched in 2008 to mitigate risk in the bank's technical and operational platform.
- Managed and supported various projects related to the implementation of the largest SAP enterprise software solution, migrating key Finance processes to a single integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment.
- Coordinated with Finance and Technology to deliver the e-Ledger (SAP General Ledger solution) to the Corporate Services Line of Business.
- Managed a successful project related to the approved enterprise finance data provisioning solution, minimizing risk and variation through standardization of the enterprise data provisioning and delivery process.
Education
Master of Studies in Law - Corporate Compliance
Fordham Law
New York, NY05.2026
Bachelors - Psychology
University of North Carolina
Charlotte, NCSkills
- Regulatory Compliance
- Project Planning & Execution
- Change Management
- Leadership and Team Building
- Relationship Management
- Written and Verbal Communication
- Customer Service Excellence
- Policies and Procedures
- Risk Identification and Mitigation
- Problem Solving and Resolution
- Stakeholder Management
- Direct Sales
- Research and Analysis
- Banking Regulation
- Training and Coaching
- Jira / Confluence
- Clarity PPM
- MS Office Applications
- Various banking software
Project Impacts
Successfully spearheaded project execution and implementation of recent regulatory requirements including the cessation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), Uncleared Margin Rule (UMR), Unique Product Identifier (UPI) and cessation of the Canadian Dollar Offered Rate (CDOR), Providing project execution and business consultation for BSA/AML policy requirements across Commercial Banking and Corporate Investment Banking.
Technical Tools
- Jira / Confluence
- MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- MS SharePoint, Outlook, Visio,Project
- Various banking software
Affiliations
Volunteer, Various Organizations
Timeline
Vice President, Lead Business Execution Consultant
Wells Fargo
05.2021 - Current
Project Manager
Barclays
01.2018 - 05.2021
Project Manager
Bank of America
07.2011 - 04.2013
Master of Studies in Law - Corporate Compliance
Fordham Law
Bachelors - Psychology
University of North Carolina