1. Silvina M. Lopes
(980) 430-9406
smlopes2@yahoo.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
• 10+ years of experience across multiple areas within the financial industry:
Foreign Exchange
Compliance/Anti-Money Laundering Investigations
Derivatives Operations
Accounting
Syndications Loans
Middle & Back OfficeManagement
Nostro reconciliations
NAV/Open-end funds and close-end funds
Letter of Credit/Standby letters of credit: Import and Export
• Analytical and Organizational Skills:
Negotiations
Multi-tasks
Process improvement
•Tools:
Microsoft Office involving, Excel, Powerpoint and Access
Midas Plus, Opics, Calypso, MTS, Side-view, B-swift, Buffet, BOX Payment Tracker, CMR, ACBS, LIQ, ClearPar and Hogan
• Foreign Language Skills:
Fluent in Portuguese and conversant in Spanish & French
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Iconma- Bank of America | 2016 to 2017
Credit Services Rep II (Syndication Loans- Assignment Desk Agent
Handled complex customer problems for assigned accounts of various credit-related products and loan syndications.
Organized assignment activity in the secondary market when Bank of America is the Administrative Agent of a syndicated loan.
Served as the primary point of contact to ensure Loan Syndication & Trade Association, Inc. guidelines are complying.
Conducted a detail review of the documents for completeness and accuracy.
Ensures effective follow-up and tighter control for forward-looking monitoring of pending assignments.
Managed and maintained balance position of each Credit Portfolio to prevent any overselling of the funds.
Staged and executed deals in ACBS, ClearPar-(Markit) and Loan IQ.
Coordinated closing activities with all parties involved, includingloan funding and booking calculations.
Complete closing process, ensuring all fees and expenses are accounted for, all exceptions and outstanding items are identified
and the file is complete.
Wells Fargo – International Group | 2006 to 2016
Senior Securities Operations Service Specialist III (Foreign Exchange Investigation Department)
Identified, researched and analyzed financial transactions relate to (AML) and reports violations or suspicious of any unusual
occurrences.
Reviewed and performed manually OFAC (Office of Foreign Asset and Currency) scanned of all receipt of funds prior to execution
of trade.
Prepared documentation pertaining to any suspicious activity, suspected financial abuse and reported to compliance department.
Performed investigation research on all incoming transactions using FX investigation protocol to ensure that procedures have
been followed and there was no impact to customer or financial loss to the business.
Monitored assigned Nostro accounts by investigating all breaks in a timely and aggressive manner to prevent company losses and
customer impact at same time maintained past effective age transactions below departmental thresholds.
Performed detailed analyses to detect transactional and relationship patterns, trends and abnormities across multiple
businesses/products.
Ensure that policy Violations are documented and resolved before month end and key controls are being followed.
Stayed current on Nostro Relevant information.
Analyzed Terms and Conditions of each assigned accounts per each currency’s countries.
Managed to obtain a monthly fee reductions from several correspondent banks on straight through process transactions where
the company saved approximately over 50,000.00 of monthly expenses.
Acted as an escalation point for more complex cases.

2. Bankers on Call-Lehman Brothers | 2005 to 2006
Senior Financial Specialist (Settlement Department)
Investigated all post settlements and any related breaks on the assigned Nostros accounts.
Escalated any discrepancies with Mid Office, and Trader or Management Team.
Contact counterparties and customers on failed payments.
Smith Barney - Citigroup | 2004 to 2005
Senior Financial Specialist (Derivatives Operations)
Responsible for daily process of various products included derivatives such as Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Cross
Currency Swaps, Forward Rate Agreement and Options.
timely manner and cleared up non-reconciled items.
Investigated inquiries and cleared up non-reconciled items.
GE Capital -Treasury Department | 2000to 2004
Treasury Analyst(LongTerm Funding)
Effectively Managed Foreign Exchange operational loss accounts to under threshold of $100,000 yearly by identifying gaps in
operational risk and introduced a procedure which was used to cross train newly hires employees.
Generated rates into system for generation of cash flow and preparation of MTM analysis reports, Foreign Exchange and
Derivatives P&L reports.
Performed Net Asset Value on the open-end funds and close-end funds.
Assisted in preparation of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives P&L Reports by applying Cash Flow Method or Fair Value included
recorded of sale at time of trade using spot rate, revalued transactions at end of year using spot rate and recorded transactions at
settlement date or delivery date.
Confirmed issuing of Commercial Paper, Foreign Currency, Options, Forward Rate Agreement, Non-Deliverable transactions and
all types of derivatives.
Managed and reviewed the process of transactions documentation included hard copy of Confirmation and Novations (Master
Agreement) into system.
Tifanthaler Construction Company | 1997 to 2000
Full Charge Bookkeeper (Accounting)
Handled a full cycle of accounting duties, such as coding, entering the vendor’s expenses invoices, running checks, billing
customers.
Prepared bank deposits, ensured that the correct general ledger accounts are debited or credited properly.
Processed employee timesheets, ran payroll and prepared monthly and quarterly tax returns.
Managed all of company's banking inquiries, including reconciling monthly bank statements and monitoring a cash flow.
Prepared and entered journal entries for accounts such as, fixed assets and depreciation.
Analyzed the trial balance and made necessary adjustments and corrected discrepancies accordingly and submitting to the
controller for approval.
Prepared a balance sheet and income statement and submitted to the controller for review and approval.
EDUCATION
 Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT in Year 2008 - Bachelor of Science (BS) in Accounting