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Grace Donnelly

Botany,NSW

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Westpac Group
08.2020 - Current
  • Key responsibilities include: Digital Procurement Program (Coupa) Implementation of an enterprisewide procurement system
  • Gathering and documenting Finance requirements in the Finance Requirements Document (FRD) /Confluence
  • Performing detailed analysis on the current state v future state procurement Operating Model
  • Providing regular communications on weekly progress to key stakeholder groups in Finance, i.e
  • Tax, Fixed Assets and Financial Systems Management Teams
  • Presenting the Finance view in Coupa design workshops
  • Sale of the Westpac Lenders Mortgage Insurance Limited business to a 3rd party LMI provider
  • Ensuring full-scale operations, from a Finance perspective, are in place between Westpac Consumer Bank and the 3rd party LMI provider upon completion of sale
  • Understanding the impact of the sale from a Finance perspective
  • This involves understanding the current state finance processes (and some business processes within the scope of the project) to assess the impact of the sale to each of these processes and to the General Ledger
  • Analysing the upstream impact of the Finance changes required
  • Understanding in detail the impacts to the General Ledger and the reconciliation process
  • Understanding the data flows from origination/product systems through to the general ledger and reconciliations tools used
  • Developing a solution to incorporate Finance changes required that are not accommodated for in the upstream solution
  • Documenting the impacts/solutions in the form of future state requirements in the Finance Requirements Document (FRD) for each key area impacted, e.g
  • Finance & Account, Tax, Reconciliations & Payments, Technology
  • Understanding the project test approach and the finance involvement in this to ensure the finance requirements are met
  • Providing walkthroughs of the FRD to key stakeholder groups (15+) from which sign-off is required
  • Regular stakeholder engagement with the teams most impacted by the changes required
  • Managing expectation of the senior stakeholders within the project by providing regular status updates and timelines of Finance deliverables.

Senior Business Analyst

NAB (MLC Wealth)
03.2020 - 08.2020
  • Key responsibilities include: MLC Separation Program
  • Performing and presenting detailed reconciliations and analysis of the Net Fund Flow (NFF) data reported internally and externally in MLC to senior management as requested by the MLC CFO
  • Developing new Governance documentation to support the implementation of a new reporting tool, GL WAND, which will supersede Business Objects
  • Performing analysis on existing account and products hierarchies in Oracle GL to ascertain if some of these hierarchies can be decommissioned in advance of implementing the new GL WAND reporting tool.

System Accountant, Projects

Rabobank
06.2018 - 12.2019
  • Key responsibilities include: New Financial Reporting Architecture Project
  • Process Improvement / Ledger clean-up project
  • Delivering change in Finance by standardizing local processes in Sydney to align with the global processes, e.g
  • Balance Sheet and P&L Certification processes
  • Creating and posting manual journals to PeopleSoft GL, following deep dive analysis into GL data, in order to remove matured/legacy trades in the GL, with the aim of improving data quality as well as enhancing the performance of the system
  • FutureTech Programme
  • Implementation of a core banking system
  • Understanding the implications and requirements from a Finance perspective of implementing a new core banking system T24 RaboDirect (RD)
  • Analysing accounting glossaries for all products in this system to ensure accounting journal entries for each product's life cycle are correctly and accurately reflected in T24 RD
  • Designing and developing processes to comprehensively test and reconcile the T24 RD PeopleSoft GL data post migration (from Thaler) to ensure from an accounting perspective all entries in the GL are complete and correct which is imperative to the Finance reporting obligation
  • Performing functional testing on the T24 RD PeopleSoft GL data
  • This involves designing and developing a process that verifies the T24 GL data is in line with the AEG (accounting entries generator) functional specification based on T24 RD test case scenarios
  • Engaging in regular communications with Finance across a variety of issues and providing them with detailed and summary analysis of testing for their review/sign-off within challenging deadlines
  • Liaising with Head Office in Utrecht on daily basis in order to co-ordinate data processing to ensure this data is received locally in a timely manner and limit the impact of the time difference.

Business Analyst

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia
10.2017 - 04.2018
  • My role as a Business Analyst/Project Officer on the Economic and Financial Statistics (EFS) project team in the Regulatory Reporting space involved the following key responsibilities: Performing waterfall reconciliation analysis between product system data and the General Ledger
  • Performing gap analysis of source system data against the requirements of the EFS suite of returns
  • Understanding the product system data output and output data from Axiom (Regulatory reporting platform being used to generate the EFS suite of returns) to identify deviations from the expected results from Axiom.

Regulatory Reporting Analyst (Liquidity)

Bank Of Ireland Group
03.2015 - 05.2017
  • My role in the Bank evolved significantly from product preparation to a consolidation and analysis type role in relation to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding ratio (NSFR)
  • In particular, the role afforded me the opportunity to gain exposure presenting key liquidity data and ratios to key stakeholders in the Bank, e.g
  • Treasury and the CFO
  • I also gained experience in some other adhoc projects on the team allowing me to diversify my skillset and experience
  • Key Responsibilities included: Consolidating all product files from across the team in order to prepare the monthly/quarterly Group and UK PLC returns (LCR/NSFR) ensuring all returns are submitted to the Central Bank of Ireland within the specified deadlines
  • Preparing the monthly/quarterly MI packs distributed to key stakeholders, i.e
  • Director of Regulatory Reporting Control & Operations, Treasury and the CFO
  • Providing detailed analysis and balance sheet rationalisation for the monthly/quarterly MI packs outlining the key drivers of the LCR and NSFR ratios and monthly/quarterly movements
  • Presenting in a clear and concise manner these monthly/quarterly MI packs to the key stakeholders i.e
  • Director of Regulatory Reporting Control & Operations, Treasury and the CFO
  • Ensuring all reporting controls have been prepared, reviewed and signed-off prior to the returns being submitted
  • Managing and completing regulatory information requests and other ad hoc projects as required
  • Assisting in developing solutions as a result of changing regulatory requirements and taxonomy updates
  • Providing training to colleagues/new members of the team in relation to product file preparation
  • Scheduling monthly team meetings to communicate key drivers of the ratios/movements to all team members.

Regulatory Reporting Analyst (Captial)

Bank Of America Merrill Lynch
11.2013 - 02.2015
  • My role as Regulatory Reporting Analyst afforded me the opportunity to gain extensive experience within the regulatory environment & specifically in the prudential reporting requirements of Merrill Lynch International Bank Ltd for the Central Bank of Ireland under the current Capital Requirements Directive (CRD)
  • Key responsibilities included: Preparing of Daily Capital Estimate Requirements for Merrill Lynch International Bank (MLIB)
  • Preparing the Quarterly (FINREP) & Semi-Annual Regulatory Returns for submission to the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI)
  • Participation in the Monthly Control Framework
  • Participation in the completion of ECB surveys as part of their Single Supervisory Mechanism.

Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Rabobank
11.2012 - 06.2013
  • Key responsibilities included: Preparing the Regulatory (in accordance with IFRS) and Management suite of reports for the Paris branch of Rabobank, which included P&L, BS and liquidity reporting, ensuring reconciliation to the Paris branch GL
  • Investigating any unusual or unexpected balances/accounting entries
  • Ensuring timely submission of returns to the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank N.V)
  • Chairing the monthly conference call with the Paris branch to discuss open items/issues that arose throughout the month and formulating a remediation plan for these issues.

Audit Senior (Financial Services)

EY
09.2008 - 05.2012
  • The position of Audit Senior afforded me the opportunity to gain experience working with companies of varying size, background and industry (Funds and Banking)
  • Key responsibilities included: Performing full audit of investment funds, from planning through to wrap-up of the engagement
  • Delegating and reviewing tasks assigned to junior members of the engagement team
  • Providing technical guidance and advice to junior members of staff
  • Managing several engagements simultaneously to ensure they are ready for manager/partner review as per agreed timelines
  • Ensuring timelines agreed with client are adhered to
  • Performing control testing on fund administrators to assess if controls were operating effectively
  • Liaising onsite with clients to obtain relevant information in order to resolve any queries
  • Investigating all audit issues to arrive at a solution or proposal
  • Preparation of reports detailing issues found and recommending corrective and preventative actions to resolve them.

Education

C -

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (AC

BA Accounting and Finance Honours Degree -

Leaving Certificate Results - 480 points (All higher level) -

Skills

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • European Computer Driving License (ECDL)
  • PeopleSoft GL
  • SAP
  • Reggae
  • Arctic
  • JCash Launcher
  • Drum
  • Credit Studio
  • T24
  • Business Objects

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 10/12/86
  • Nationality: Irish

References

References available on request

Interests & Achievements

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Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

Westpac Group
08.2020 - Current

Senior Business Analyst

NAB (MLC Wealth)
03.2020 - 08.2020

System Accountant, Projects

Rabobank
06.2018 - 12.2019

Business Analyst

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia
10.2017 - 04.2018

Regulatory Reporting Analyst (Liquidity)

Bank Of Ireland Group
03.2015 - 05.2017

Regulatory Reporting Analyst (Captial)

Bank Of America Merrill Lynch
11.2013 - 02.2015

Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Rabobank
11.2012 - 06.2013

Audit Senior (Financial Services)

EY
09.2008 - 05.2012

C -

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (AC

BA Accounting and Finance Honours Degree -

Leaving Certificate Results - 480 points (All higher level) -

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