Simon Ray

About Simon Ray

20+ years Operations Management/Project Management/Business Analysis experience, within the derivatives/banking industry. Extensive regulatory reporting expertise in CFTC, SEC, CSA, EMIR, MiFID. Experienced Senior Operations manager with extensive knowledge of managing a highly regulated environment. Implementation of controls and operating model structure to manage and mitigate risk. Extensive experience in implementation and management of data quality and data lineage for regulatory data. Implementation and management of regulatory reporting accuracy and completeness controls. Change Management and Project Management professional with expertise in implementing regulatory change (e.g. CFTC Rewrite, UPI, EMIR Refit). Experience Operations manager who manages global teams. Practical hands-on experience delivering medium to large cross-functional waterfall and Agile software projects. Flexible judgement when applying the best model and approach within the overall road-map for complex software programs. Providing change management to support new business initiatives and new product development.Extensive experience implementing and utilizing Kaizen and DROIT reporting tools. •Project Planning •Resource Allocation •Team Leadership •Talent Development •Strategy Execution •Quality Assurance •Software Development •Agile •JIRA

Experience

1. Director, Regulatory Implementation Product Specialist

   Bank of America

   Nov 2024 — Present · NY, US

   Manage diverse administrative functions for a very large, complex department and business unit. Management of budgeting, personnel processes, audit/compliance, and coordination of certain projects, associate training, service quality, process improvement, business continuity, and communication. Ensuring that Global Markets has Risk Ratings, Internal Control Framework and Manual Data Provider, and Quality Assurance process in place.

Education

• New York University

  Project Management

  2005 — 2006

• Scrum Alliance

  Member, Certified Scrum Master

  2012 — 2012

• Columbia University

  Information Systems

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Rup Methodologies
• Settlements
• User Acceptance Testing
• Derivatives
• Middle Office
• Fixed Income
• Program Management
• Swaps
• Excel
• Agile Modeling
• Stakeholder Management
• Visio
• Commodity
• Agile Project Management
• Project Management
• Options
• Financial Services
• Commodity Markets
• Full Sdlc
• Commodities
• Electronic Trading
• Securities
• Pmo
• Dodd-Frank
• Settlement
• Change Management
• Process Improvement
• Equities
• Capital Markets
• Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Microsoft Excel
• Problem Solving
• Operations Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Trading
• Investment Banking
• Bloomberg