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Yohanna Pimentel

New York

Summary

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges using my experience in supporting compliance-led projects to enhance the business lines' compliance policies, procedures, and internal controls. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. I want a position that I can continue to utilize my expertise in corporate regulatory compliance, risk management, auditing, and policy development to ensure the organization's compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Committed job seeker with a history of meeting company needs with consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

COMPLIANCE AND RISK SPECIALIST

Esquire Bank
Jericho, NY
05.2022 - 03.2023
  • Managed the internal audit process for each department, coordinating deliverables and timeframes
  • Assisted with product and service risk assessments and regulatory exams as necessary
  • Participated in the compliance and operational monitoring program by performing random periodic tests/reviews and report exceptions to the appropriate personnel for correction and/or retraining as appropriate
  • Developed, implemented, and updated compliance policies, procedures, and risk assessments to ensure ongoing compliance
  • Ensured that all activities were performed in compliance with federal, state and Bank Secrecy Act regulatory requirements.

REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON

Cross Country Realty
Valley Stream, NY
01.2021 - 04.2022
  • Advised clients on market conditions, prices, mortgages, legal requirements, and related matters
  • Promoted sales of properties through advertisements, open houses, and participation in multiple listing services
  • Attend conventions, seminars, and staff and association meetings to remain knowledgeable about real estate markets
  • Advised sellers on how to make homes more appealing to potential buyers.

OPERATIONAL & REGULATORY CONSULTANT

Synechron Inc.
New York, NY
01.2019 - 12.2020
  • Ensured that all changes to legislation and reporting requirements are identified and implemented on a timely basis
  • Evaluated company-wide compliance risk and implementing policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to mitigate risk
  • Build key relationships with regulatory agencies, external consultants and other internal risk management groups
  • Enforced the compliance program through the development, implementation and communication of the group’s goals and strategies
  • Collaborate with Compliance Technology on all matters of systems enhancement; documenting business requirements Provide advice on large shareholdings, short selling and takeover panel disclosures, including technical advice on the impact of transaction structure, sensitive industry, and M&A issues.

QA ADMINISTRATOR, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

The Bank Of New York Mellon Corporation
Uniondale, NY
01.2007 - 01.2019
  • Prepared necessary disclosures to comply with various securities holdings disclosure requirements across the globe
  • Aggregated securities holdings for over 24 Investment Management Companies that roll up to the BNY Mellon Corporation to fulfill Shareholder Reporting in 85 jurisdictions providing transparency to investors
  • Prepared, reviewed and submitted regulatory filings and analysis for Takeover Panel, Short Position, 13F, 13G, and 13H
  • Performed monthly tracking of investments in accordance with the Bank Holding Company Act Section 4 to ensure compliance with Controlled Funds monitoring
  • Resolved security master data issues in the Eagle Data Warehouse against Bloomberg and worked with subsidiaries to resolve exceptions
  • Ran ad-hoc holdings requests for upper management with stringent turnaround times in order to assess counterparty and issuer/country/industry exposure risks
  • Record meeting minutes for our monthly staff meetings.

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT II / SUPERVISOR

The Bank Of New York Mellon Corporation
New York, NY
12.1999 - 01.2007
  • Interviewed, trained, supervised, and evaluated 12 employees
  • Verified accuracy of split fees between Mellon and Dreyfus’ Funds, summarizing lending transactions, and submit reports for presentation to the Board of Directors
  • Tracked on a monthly basis charges paid by the funds to ensure compliance with Rule 12(b)1
  • Provided information for the Board of Directors regarding portfolio transactions with affiliated brokers on equity securities in compliance with Rule 17E-1
  • Authorized custodian to wire sub accounts to proper service provider Dreyfus Service Corp or Mellon HR Solutions as reimbursement for paying alliances for such sub accounting services
  • Coordinated monthly meetings with staff to update the group fund changes and general departmental updates.

Education

MBA - Corporate Finance

Walden University
Minneapolis, MN

MBA - International Business

Walden University
Minneapolis, MN

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration/Accounting

Russell Sage College
Troy, NY

Skills

  • Conducting Investigations
  • Model Development
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Work Flow Planning
  • Procedure Development
  • Risk Management
  • Project Tracking
  • Project Scope
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Quality Assurance and Control

Certification

Google Project Management Certification

Personal Information

Title: Project Manager

Projects

Sauce & Spoon Tablet Rollout

As part of my certification, I had to act as the project manager for the Tablet Rollout project. I had to prepare a Project Charter and Project Plan based on the Project Proposal and meeting discussions from the stakeholders. I also created a Stakeholder Analysis and a retrospective review and then put together a presentation, Impact Report and Close-out Report.

Equity Securities Data Automation

I was responsible for tracking each task on Jira, test outputs reports in QA and Production, write status updates from each meeting, and following up on task progress. Constantly communicating with the IT team on project deliverables and providing them with country's regulations to be incorporated into the system. 

Global Equity Aggregation and Reporting Solution Accelerator Platform

Ensured legislation and reporting requirements are identified. Evaluated enterprise-wide compliance risk and implementing policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to mitigate risk. Build key relationships with regulatory agencies, external consultants and other internal risk management groups. Enforced the compliance program through the development and communication of the group’s goals and strategies. Collaborate with Compliance Technology on all matters of systems enhancement, documenting business requirements and designing User Acceptance Testing. Provided advice on large shareholdings, short selling and takeover panel disclosures, including technical advice on the impact of transaction structure, sensitive industry, and M&A issues.

Languages

Spanish
Native/ Bilingual

Accomplishments

  • Premier Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding work in support of Dreyfus mission statements, 3D-Develop, Deliver, Distinguish, Fall 2003
  • Premier Achievement Award for demonstrating Dreyfus’ Shared Values of Integrity, Teamwork, and Excellence, Fall 2002
  • Institute of Management Accountants awarded in Accounting, Spring 1999

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

COMPLIANCE AND RISK SPECIALIST

Esquire Bank
05.2022 - 03.2023

REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON

Cross Country Realty
01.2021 - 04.2022

OPERATIONAL & REGULATORY CONSULTANT

Synechron Inc.
01.2019 - 12.2020

QA ADMINISTRATOR, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

The Bank Of New York Mellon Corporation
01.2007 - 01.2019

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT II / SUPERVISOR

The Bank Of New York Mellon Corporation
12.1999 - 01.2007

MBA - Corporate Finance

Walden University

MBA - International Business

Walden University

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration/Accounting

Russell Sage College
Yohanna Pimentel