Experience

• Royal Bank of Canada

  Audit Manager

  • Led or participated in a number of audits such as Capital Markets, Alternative Assets, Global Arbitrage, Global Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Broker Dealer, Funds Transfer Pricing, and Credit Provisioning in the US, Canada and the UK and issued findings related to the adequacy of the operations of these businesses
  • Audited the compliance with the SOX requirements for the Capital Markets New York, Capital Markets Toronto, Term Deposit, Product Finance, Corporate Treasury, Finance London, New York Branch and Credit Provisioning

• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions of Canada

  Manager, Deposit Taking Group, Conglomerates

  • Responsible for assessing the soundness of businesses such as Capital Markets, Retail Banking, Wealth Management etc.
  • Assess the control functions such as Internal Audit, Risk Management, Finance, Compliance, AML, Corporate Treasury and Technology & Operations
  • Lead or participate in the quarterly monitoring of the financial institution assigned
  • Assess the adequacy of the acquisitions/mergers proposals by the financial institutions
  • Lead or participate in meetings with the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Internal Auditor, Group Heads of businesses and members of the Board for the financial institution assigned
  • Successfully led a special project on Information Security for the Supervision Sector and provided training to enhance the awareness of information security requirements for the group
  • Led the US Small Business, Real Estate Secured Lending/HELOC, US Commercial Real Estate and Canadian Commercial Real Estate, Internal Audit Function, Canadian Dollar Offer Rates reviews
  • Participated in a number of other reviews Compliance, Structured Interest Rate, Commercial Lending, Mergers & Acquisitions etc.

• TD

  Senior Auditor, Investment Banking

  ·Audited in Canada and the US the Front Office (Trading Desks) of Global FX and FX Options, Global Equity Derivatives, Global Interest Rates Derivatives, Global Credit Products Group New York, Corporate Bond Trading and Global Fixed Income. Issued findings related to the operations of these trading books
  ·Audited the Middle Office of the Global Credit Product Group for New York operations, London Eurobond Underwriting, Market Data Integrity for the VaR calculations and Compliance Reporting for the AML and issued findings

• University of Toronto

  Faculty Member

  Taught Corporate Finance, Investment Management and Futures & Options courses in undergraduate business programs.

• Wilfrid Laurier University

  Faculty Member

  Taught Financial Management and Investment Management in undergraduate business programs.