Beshtarna Mehta
Brampton,ON
Summary
Resourceful Project Manager with over 12 years years of expertise in organizing business operations, oversight and resource management to achieve smooth flow and project operations. Attentive to detail with experience in coordinating projects, programs and improvements.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
AVP- Senior Project Manager
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
10.2019 - Current
- Project lead for building a new tool comprising of existing governance routines
- Communicated business concepts and expected functional behavior to developers and other stakeholders
- Continuous focus on enhancing the tool by upgrading added features for enhanced usability
- Preparation of help guides and one pager reference materials for the operations team and arrange a series of training sessions ensuring end user viability
- Promoted and led performance enhancement culture by actively coaching and mentoring direct reports
- Identified issues with production, workforce and material sourcing and implemented successful solutions
- Spearheaded cross-functional initiatives across departments to achieve business goals
Director- Sr. Project Manager
Morgan Stanley Advantage Services
12.2016 - 07.2019
- Lead the project of on-boarding 8 new reconciliations within a span of 1 year for various global regulations
- Working closely with IT, change teams and middle office teams to arrive at tactical/strategic remediation to the existing flaws in our reporting system
- Developed project timelines from kickoff through production and provided training to operations teams .
- Continuous focus on enhancing existing tools and building new metrics for multiple operation, compliance and other senior stakeholders
- Preparation of presentations for senior management and global planning sessions showcasing process, people, project updates
- Modeled management and organizational skills and multi-tasked and prioritized in deadline-driven environment
- Improved end of day global metric for showcasing important numbers to senior stakeholders
- Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts
- Applied problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting regulatory operations and goal achievement
- Monitored industry trends, keeping current on latest changes and competition in industry
Consultant- Project Manager
Ernst and Young LLP
03.2016 - 12.2016
- Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions
- Aligned closely with business owners and employees to gather information and gain operational insight.
- Collaborated with teams to define, strategize and implement marketing and web strategies
- Improved performance, hiring practices and management systems to facilitate success of client's organization
- Prepared presentations to explain revisions, enhancements and process improvements of organization's systems and programs.
Junior Project Manager
Barclays
04.2014 - 03.2016
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements
- Improved business direction by prioritizing user requirements and implementing changes based on collected feedback
- Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis and outlined sensible solutions
- Coordinated project meetings and confirmed relevant stakeholder awareness of tasks, goals and project timelines
Operation Analyst- Junior Project Manager
JP Morgan
04.2011 - 03.2014
- Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis and outlined sensible solutions
- Derived conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver software and applications according to specifications for usability, performance and functionality
- Collaborated with various teams within business and technology to ensure satisfactory product delivery
- Handled project management role for capital market projects, directing staff in successful completion of tasks.
- Successfully lead a system migration project to transition data capture from a legacy system to a new in-house application
- Experienced in creation and execution of test plans, test cases and test scenarios based on business requirement and system specifications
- Expertise in trade capture and reference data which involves updating reference data for booking derivative trades into the system, manually and electronically
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Commerce
University of Mumbai
06.2006 - 07.2009
Skills
Project manager supervision
Project Management
Business analysis
Team Management
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Certified Product Owner
05-2022
AVP- Senior Project Manager
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
10.2019 - Current
Certified Scrum Master
07-2019
Director- Sr. Project Manager
Morgan Stanley Advantage Services
12.2016 - 07.2019
Consultant- Project Manager
Ernst and Young LLP
03.2016 - 12.2016
Junior Project Manager
Barclays
04.2014 - 03.2016
Operation Analyst- Junior Project Manager
JP Morgan
04.2011 - 03.2014
Bachelor's Degree - Commerce
University of Mumbai
06.2006 - 07.2009