Philip Green
001.312.731.0965 (Chicago)

+44 7941915991 (London)

e-mail: derivativestradingdesk@gmail.com

 

Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst


Expertise: 12 years senior project manager, senior business analyst, functional architect, implementations, requirements gathering, software development, on several global energy trading risk management, derivatives and regulatory reporting, data migration projects

 

Domains: Capital Markets, Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Treasury, Front Office, Global Equity Finance, Oil and Gas, Commodities, Energy Trading Risk Management, Futures and Options, Securities, Wealth Management, Investment Management, Trading, Risk, Compliance, Cash & Liquidity, straight-through-processing (STP), Collateral Management, Data Migration, Run the Bank, Change the Bank

 

Products and Asset Classes: Exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Repos, Barrier Options, Warrants, Cleared OTC IRS, repos, fixed income, bonds, futures, options, FX, NDFs, CFD, Structured products, equity, Interest rate derivatives, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, Brent and Platts benchmark crude, oil and gas contracts, gasoil futures, futures, options, commodities

 

Regulatory: Dodd-Frank, FATCA, EMIR, SOX, Volcker Rules, Tax, FAS 133, FINRA, CFTC, CDR, MiFid, Regulatory Reporting, ERCOT, Basel II, Basel III, Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), Financial Services Authority (FSA) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

 

Systems: Global One, Openlink Endur v8, v9, v11, Calypso v.14, Murex 3.1, Sungard, GMI, Charles River, Wall Street Systems, Openlink Findur, Smartsoft, SAP Oil & Gas Upstream, SAP Oil and Gas Downstream,, Summit, Commodity XL, Allegro, SolArc Right Angle, Fidessa, Latent Zero, Portia, Bloomberg TOMS, Bloomberg POMS, Simcorp Dimension, Lombard Risk Colline Collateral Management, ThinkFolio, Blackrock Aladdin, SAP Treasury, SAP Liquidity,Cash Management, Fimatrix,

 

Technology: SQL, TOAD, HP Quality Centre, FixML, FIX, FpML, Squirrel, JIRA, Kanban

Daiwa Capital Markets, Europe Ltd London, UK March 2010 present

Sr. Project Manager, Capital Markets Finance and Operations Technology Responsibile for Finance & Treasury reporting, risk and Target Operating Model delivering a Cost of Carry 2010 project of $USD 16mm to give the bank global reports on funding costs of Positions and trades. To build a centralized system on a nTier Architecture that calculates funding on all positions of the firm. The new Cost of Carry platform for trade capture, pricing and risk encompasses the regulatory initiatives:

Dodd-Frank Title 7 (Swaps and OTC Derivatives)
Basel II and Basel III Capital adequacy and stress testing
Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
Fund Transfer Pricing
Volcker Rule capital investments requirements

Liquidity Asset Buffer -- will be such that it can handle any trade types across all product types. Project managed the Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Limited and global institutional custody clients adaptation of the Pillar 1 standardized approach to credit risk and operational risk and disclosures on capital and risk management.

The new funding database will calculate funding on a daily basis and Structured products financial instruments workflow for nested and interdependent payoffs or features. Responsible for hands-on project planning, reporting, authoring business requirements, operational risk, business analysis, functional specifications, development and implementation of the new Cost of Carry compliance file extracts, compliance import/export process, compliance batch process and compliance End of Day/End of Month security prices.

 

Managing a team of business analysts and Developers, JIRA issue tracking product, bug tracking, issue tracking and project management this role also required close liaison with Business personnel to Division Head level in Product Control, Front Office, Compliance, Treasury, Derivative Middle Office, Global Equity Finance and Settlements.

Business Analysis and Project management and Change Management for projects in the Equity Finance, Algo Trading and Derivatives middle office. Migrating 2.11 to MX3 for FX options. Migrating all FX products into Murex for model validation, pricing and hedging of complex FX and exotic financial products and Charles River (CRD) for our compliance rules (Money Markets and Fixed Income) and portal out to algorithmic brokers. Authored RFP and RFI for the SunGard Clearvision Tokyo-hosted solution and interfacing Blackrock Aladdin for the Daiwa India Fund. TIBCO middleware for messaging bus and checking against securities traded and value date.

 

Produce and analyze daily VaR and EOD reports on the output of the VaR model for London, Hong Kong and Tokyo as needed; develop and maintain a limit reporting system, initiating action in the case of breaches; develop and maintain a Value at Risk measurement model and (if required) an Incremental Risk Charge model; obtain independent validation of the VaR and IRC models.

Documentation and testing of equity and equity derivative processing - such as Credit Derivatives, FX Swaps, Spots and Forward FX, NDFs, CCy, CDS, Structured MTNs, Options (FX, Bonds, equities), Money Markets (including CD, CP), Deal Payments, Loan Origination, ETF's, CFD's Warrants, Futures, Options, Callable Bull Bear Certificates (CBBCs). Extensive implementation and requirements, functional specifications of front office Horizon and Murex systems for Global Equity Finance.

 

Fortis Investments Brussels, Belgium January 2008 March 2010

Project Lead / Consultant - Fortis Bank, Brussels, Belgium

Process Re-engineering for Calypso FO (Front Office) Configuration Documentation; Calypso Catalog and Products and Asset Classes and the Calypso to NPB (Nostro Posititie Beheer) and P&L Attribution. Colline collateral management and ALGO for OTC Derivatives and Listed ETD Derivatives Project using a Derivatives platform Implementation of vendor solutions, short-listed to Murex and Calypso.

 

Write upstream and downstream interface documentation, SQL data modelling for all Sophis products, Sophis, Swapswires, T-Zero, Murex MxML, Murex Balance Sheet Management, Decalog and FIBIS (Structured products (primarily Equity options).

Collateral management of OTC and Exchange-traded products), COLLINE and ALGO,

Project experience (Coll Mgmt system replacement and data migration, Colline (Lombard Risk) process specifications, interfaces, workflows, design , specification and testing of reporting solutions, Data model and testing.

 

 

Create custom "end of day" calculations in the simulation framework, and modified canned calculations in Endur for M-T-M, Cash Month, P&L granularity, and compliance required by trading and risk control analysts. FED, CHIPS, SWIFT, Foreign Currency payments procedures documentation.

 

Global Portfolio Accounting System's RSL reports and instrument coverage including cliquets, CFD's and first to default for Fortis Bank, SWIFT, Swapswire, FpML, DTCC DerivServ for OTC Derivatives, and ISDA.

Configured trade capture and risk management system Calypso WebICE and (Openlink Endur) as the system of record for Natural Gas financial and physical trading.

 

Authored business requirements for LDI liabilities replication framework consisting of Risk Reporting matrix, matching LDI NPV of liabilities through Zero-Coupon Swaps, Credit Spread, Duration Matching and Return Portfolio and Swaps in combination with bonds and pooled funds solutions.

Shell Trading Houston, TX April 2007 - January 2008

Senior Business Analyst Contractor /Consultant

Performed assessment of current Findur Treasury and Openlink Endur v.5 to implementation of Endur v.8 and directed integration with AcuRisk, Nucleus, Triple Point, Commodity XL, Advanced Analytics, performance evaluation for remote locations. JIRA issue tracking product, bug tracking, issue tracking and project management. Conduct training on Endur modules Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office & Operations for commodities trading, risk, supply & distribuiton and Treasury Management.


Prepared Cash Month Position Management, tactical trade book, SENA, TPORT, Endure center of excellence workflow requirements.

Led integration of Openlink Endur v. 8.x business requirements.

Exposed to the following commodities: Crude oil, Natural Gas, LNG, heating oil, Naptha, Distillates, Natural gas liquids: including ethane, propane, butane and condensate.

Bank of New York New York City, NY Janurary 2006 - April 2007

Project Manager /Senior Business Analyst Contractor

Gathered business requirements and assessed of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes, reference data, data attributes and security master database.

 

Asset classes covered include Interest Rate Derivatives, OPUS derivatives pricing, Equity Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Foreign Exchange Swaps, and Equity options, Swaptions, Foreign Exchange Options and Equity/Index Derivatives.

Recommend strategic initiatives and analyze OTC derivatives protocols and practices around DTCC, SWIFT, Swapswire, Wall Street Systems for treasury and asset management documentation; FpML, Advent Geneva Global Portfolio Accounting System, DerivServ, and ISDA.

Wachovia Bank/Evergreen Investments Charlotte, NC June 2005 - Janurary 2006

Senior Business Analyst -- Contractor

Long/Short Hedge Fund Derivatives Senior Business Analyst

Wrote business requirements and interviewed portfolio managers and traders to implement a new International Small Cap Long/Short Hedge Fund. The hedge fund seeks to take long positions in undervalued and under-followed international equities. BA responsibility is to map and test data requirements for futures, options and other derivative instruments into existing trade order management system and back-office accounting. Documented pricing methodologies for the funds unitization including fixed unit allocation, fluctuating unit allocation, cost distribution and daily balance method with back-office accounting for NAV, Pnl and reporting.

 

Created cash flow models for Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Currency Forwards, Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swaps, Equity options, Structured products, Currency Futures, Options, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and indexes on commodity futures, i.e., the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) and the Dow Jones Commodity Index (DJ-AIGCI) and non-dollar Bond transactions on SimCorp Dimension's investment management software; diagram swap accruals, payment cash flows, and settlement scenarios to show gains and losses of hedge.

 

Documented how the following applications will be used in the hedge fund initiative:

Fact Set, Derivative Solutions, Thomson PORTIA, Macgregor Fixed Income Order Management and DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation).

JP Morgan Chase Columbus, OH December 2004 - June 2005

Program Manager / Implementation project manager -- Contractor

Findur Treasury and Latent Zero Implementation Sr. Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Tasked with documentation deliverables for the Latent Zero and Openlink Findur interfaces to Bancware for Treasury, Cash Instrument Transaction and Fund Transfer pricing, ALM and asset management front office trade order management system. Integration documentation for JP Morgan and Salerio stock trading algorithm tools for both asset and funding desk, and Asset Liability Management (ALM). Created test cases, test plans for Charles River compliance rules for the algorithm tools. Documenting all asset classes and instruments that portfolio managers and trade desks will be trading. Reconciliation from trade order management system to portfolio accounting system, and calculating NAV and pricing of assets on Advent Geneva. Implementing interfacing to DSTi's HiPortfolio and Check Free Trade Flow to clients, SWIFT and Accounting systems. Defined requirements for the Eagle Investments systems Eagle PACE data warehouse data mapping.

 

Latent Zero Capstone suite consisted of Sentinel, Minerva and Tesseract. This application was complemented by Yield Book, CMS Bond Edge and Salerio and CheckFree Trade Flow.

 

Documented trade order lifecycle for all instruments: equities, equity options, structured products, equity derivatives, Fixed Income, treasury bonds, Auction Rate securities including corporate and municipal bond debt instruments, Variable rate Demand and Preferred, Dutch Auction Securities, OTC derivatives, energy derivatives, Structured products, Money Market instruments, FX, mortgage-backed securities, Asset-backed securities, alternatives investments, Collateralized Debt Obligations and the agencies (e.g., FNMA, GNMA, and FHLMC).

BP (British Petroleum) Naperville, IL April 2004 - December 2004

Senior Business Analyst (Contractor) APR Project (Automated Positions Reporting) Openlink Findur (Treasury) and Openlink Endur

Requirements gathering with trade control analysts and traders to consolidate data repository for reporting BPs crude oil and products Futures & Options, hedges, swaps and Volumetric Exposure on the New York Mercantile Exchange up to regulatory bodies (NYMEX trade regulators and FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) regulators. Reconciling positions in IST Trade Control for APR (Automated Positions Reporting) for market and supply crude (WTI, Brent, others), heating oil (HO) and unleaded gasoline (UNL). Data, futures, options positions, position limits, EFP and Swap deals.

 

Responsible for business user review sessions, requirements gathering, UAT test scripts, gap analysis, data consolidation, benchmarks, metrics and attributes for Automated Positions Reporting.

Responsible for writing specifications to build data store, data assumptions, Dimensions, data fields specific to entity (hedge group), deal information fields (Market vs. Supply, Deal type: Wet, Paper, EFP, Swap); future specific and Option specific data (NYMEX open interest, IPE, OTC, option delta), and EFP specific, Swap, Market, Supply Crude (crude grade, WTI, Brent, Dubai, EOR, WOR crude categories) and product specific requirements.

Fifth Third Bank Asset Management Cincinnati, Ohio December 2002 - April 2004

Sr. Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst -- Capital Markets

Requirements gathering and project lead on initiatives to implement Straight-through processing (STP) for the Asset and Funding Trading Desks integrating Bloomberg Gateway and Bloomberg Portfolio Order Management System for data mapping trade tickets on securities and derivatives on the asset and funding desk to SunGard Middle Office Manager and SunGard InTrader and Wall Street Systems treasury application. Authored Charles River (CRD) gap analysis review sessions for order management selection. Charles River compliance module for Money Market fund and Rule 2a-7, eligible securities, ratings and alerts, warnings and exceptions documentation.

Managed project from initiation to close. SME for bank-traded Fixed Income products including Mortgage-backed securities, Asset-backed Securities, Equity options, Interest-rate and Credit swaps, structured products, TBAs, new issues, CMOs, agencies (FNMA, GNMA and FHLMC), Foreign Exchange and Interest-rate Swaps.

Fuji Bank of Japan Chicago, IL Janurary1999 - Janurary 2002

FX Trading Desk Sr Business Analyst

Developed applications to track risk exposure, trading positions, algorithmic models designed to capture best execution; and Monte Carlo simulations, arbitrage, and spreads and due diligence for traders on the Foreign Exchange trading desk. Utilized Excel spreadsheets and real-time trading floor applications such as Devon, Sun-Gard, DTN, Bloomberg and Reuters to manage risk exposure for the foreign currency trading room. Client/server transactional platforms utilized.

 

Responsible for analysis of derivatives, futures & options, foreign exchange and securities risk management.

 

Communicated with trading partners through e-mail and spreadsheet reports for position limits and trade

Reconciliation. Remitted S.W.I.F.T. data for trade balancing.

Authored requirements where an FX conversion is required in respect of US-booked trades, the FX deal is executed directly with the US FX execution desk and all intercompany/backtoback trades with Japan are executed in the appropriate base reporting currency (USD).

 

Developed reports and Excel queries of Fixed Income securities trading and processing with emphasis on US Government securities (both outright and Repo) for bank management. Responsible for P&L reporting, confirmation with trading partners, and end-of-day reporting of positions.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chicago, IL April 1994 - January 1999

Senior Business Analyst, Futures and Options, Exchange-traded Derivatives, OTC Derivatives, Eurodollar, S&P, IMM (FX) and Agriculture Futures and Options pits Trading Floor Sr. Project Manager

 

Successfully led and managed Clearing for Listed and OTC Derivative and Equity Options, extensive report creation of out-trades, trading and security violations. Responsible for investigative reporting, Position Limits, trading floor access and security, creation of passwords and security profiles. Analyst responsible for client/server and transactional processing. Led team of enforcement and risk personnel.

 

Created applications to link databases and trading floor clearing of Futures, options derivatives, transactions and margining applications through Reuters, Devon, Dow- Jones Telerate, GMI, DTCC, NSCC and GSCC for real-time trade matching, Bloomberg and SunGard for real-time views of ETD's, FX, commodities, futures & options, precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium physical and cash settled), Eurodollar, Interest rate, S&P 500 Index and Commodity Index futures and options; Treasury Bonds futures, Treasury Bill futures, Federal Reserve Fed Funds Rates, Grains and Agricultural commodities, foreign exchange and derivatives for trading floor enforcement and operations. BRD specs for Globex 24-hour Asian and European markets electronic trading system and spot quote prices.

 

Developed applications to track risk exposure, trading positions, arbitrage, and spreads and due diligence for traders on the FX trading desk.

 

 

EDUCATION

De Paul University Chicago, IL, 1993 - 1995

Certificate in Financial Markets and Trading in Finance - College of Commerce, 4.0 Grade Point Average

 

B.A., Communications Studies University of Detroit-Mercy Detroit, MI

Certificates

Chartered Institute Securities Investment (CISI), London, UK - Certificate in Financial Derivatives, Feb 2011

 

Computer Science Certificate Program, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

De Paul University College of Commerce - Financial Markets & Trading, Futures and Options Program, 1995

Series 3, (Commodities Brokers Futures Exam) National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), 1995

Six Sigma Green Belt, 2005

UML, (Unified Modeling Language) and RUP (Rational) Development Object-oriented development 2005

QRM Quantitative Risk Management training, Chicago, IL 2005

Charles River Development, Charles River Investment Management System compliance certification, Burlington, MA 2005

Project Management Institute (PMI), Dayton, OH chapter, 2005

Available: 13 January 2014

Citizenship: American

Limited Company: Green Derivatives Trading Desk, Limited (registered England, & Wales), United States