Oleg Usoltsev 63 connections

Current key achievements:
1. Elaborated investment strategy of private equity and venture investments for Ukrainian market and rationalized the structure of the investment portfolio;
2. Defined the stocks investment approach to pick up value and growth stocks. The approach has been used to create the select value stocks portfolio which includes stocks traded on NYSE, AMEX, LSE and Xetra;
3. Improved international environment and global financial market analysis approach, which I use now to identify systemic sock events, their feasible propagation chain and relevant business and investment opportunities stemming from these shock events;
4. To complete the previous task I have refined the data analysis approach to identify the relevant and valuable data pieces, to reduce the information noises and concentration scale;
5. Based on the analysis of the activities used to overcome the financial crisis 2007-2008 and revive the banking system and real economy, I came up with the high-level operating model of the organic growth of an investment company, which is based on the synergic combination of hedge fund, private equity fund and investment bank operating models. This is a complex task requiring further analysis and elaboration of the relevant business strategy and its tactical implementations.

I managed and worked as a senior business analyst in the following projects:
1. OPAL™ Data Warehouse was built to consolidate and store trades data from the front-end systems and third-party post-trade pre-settlement systems for future analysis of the trade lifecycle. Data from the data warehouse is supplied to the IBM Cognos BI;
2. OPAL™ Business Process Management system was built to automate, monitor and analyze client issue resolution workflows. Comprehensive reporting functionality was built on top of the system to generate reports on the issue management efficiency.

I managed and worked as a senior business analyst in the following projects:
1. OPAL™ Client Relationship Management system is used by 1500+ business users all over the world to track and efficiently manage client issues, and to support their trading activities. It included the comprehensive workflow management component to manage the issue resolution processes;
2. OPAL™ Data Warehouse was built to consolidate and store trades data from the front-end systems and third-party post-trade pre-settlement systems for future analysis of the trade lifecycle. Data from the data warehouse is supplied to the IBM Cognos BI;
3. OPAL™ Business Intelligence system was built to slice and dice the data stored in OPAL™ Data Warehouse, to analyze different key performance and risk indicators through scorecards and dashboards. It also included the comprehensive reporting functionality for the OPAL™ CRM system;
4. Trades Netting system was built to aggregate trades and do buy side against sell side netting. Netted trades are sent to the third-party external system for settlement purposes. It was built to reduce trade settlement costs per client;
5. Fixed Income Trade Settlement system was built to manage fixed income trade flows between front-end, back-end and third-party settlement systems;

My responsibilities were to analyze and negotiate the business requirements, to elaborate functional specifications and communicate the business knowledge to my tech team. I was also engaged in the project management activities to coordinate the functionality development process and report on its progress to the customer’s business team. I also participated in pre-sales with OTP Bank and consulted internal tech teams on the subject of financial and market research automation.

The research production platform was built to support 500+ business users. It provides the functionality to analyze financial and market data and automate the process of creation and publication of research reports. My responsibilities were to analyze and negotiate the business requirements, to elaborate functional specifications and communicate the business knowledge to my tech team. I communicated with business and tech team located in London, New-York and Bangalore.

I participated as a business analyst in the following projects:
1. Cost accounting in the Department of Metrology. The project was to elaborate the cost accounting and settlement methodology, and implement it in the SAP R/3 system, the Controlling (CO) component;
2. Cost accounting in the Department of Rail-Way Transport. The project was to elaborate the cost accounting, settlement and planning methodology, and to implement it in the SAP R/3 system, the Controlling (CO) and Project System (PS) components;
3. Optimization of the period-end closing. The project was to implement the period-end closing workflows in the SAP R/3 system, the SAP Schedule Manager, as they were defined by the Department of Accounting Optimization, and support the period-end closing in the system;
4. Integration of the SAP Solution Manager. The project was to roll-out the SAP Solution Manager to manage SAP implementation projects;
5. Human Resources Reporting. The project was to implement reports for the Department of Human Resources in the SAP R/3 system, the Human Resources (HR) component.

My responsibilities were to manage contracts (maintenance of the social realm buildings and constructions), plan expenditures in the social realm and to manage relevant investments in the SAP R/3 system.

I participated as a business analyst and software developer in the following projects:
1. The order management system was developed for the provider of logistics services. The system was used by 5+ users to manage client orders, to control order execution costs and create simple managerial reports with trend analysis features. System was integrated with the 1C system (accounting) to feed it with the accounting data;
2. The order management system was developed for the retail company. The system was used by 10+ users to manage supply orders. The system was rolled out across four distribution branches located in one city. The simple reporting functionality was developed that allowed creating managerial reports. System was integrated with the 1C system (accounting) to feed it with the accounting data;
3. The management information system was developed for the wholesale company. The system was used by linear managers of the company to create financial and warehouse reports. The system was equipped with the dashboard to monitor key performance indicators. The system was integrated with the 1C system (accounting) to feed it with the accounting data.