Anthony Vyse has over 15 years of experience in operations project management and regulatory reporting for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He currently works as a Product Owner facilitating regulatory reporting enhancements and managing a team of five across two locations. Some of his key responsibilities include understanding upcoming regulatory changes and their impact, investigating failed reporting submissions, and resolving client queries. He has a proven track record of managing teams and projects under tight deadlines while maintaining strong regulatory compliance.

1. Anthony Vyse
55 Church Way, Sanderstead, Surrey. CR2 0JU.  avyse1@sky.com  07960 567 378 linkedin.com/tony-vyse-69b81771
Vice President, Project Consultant, Regulatory Reporting Control, Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Current Role
Vice President, Operations Project Consultant/Operational Control
Regulatory Reporting. Bank of America Merrill Lynch. City. Nov’13 to Date.
• Working as a Product Owner in a change “Agile” Scrum environment
facilitating reporting enhancements and fixes alongside three technology
teams.
• Managing a team five people over two locations; London and Chester.
• Responsibility for having to understand the current regulatory environment
and upcoming changes and how that impacts BAML’s processing of reporting
submissions.
• A highly investigative role of understanding root cause of failed BAML
reporting submissions. This demands knowledge of external factors such as
regulatory rules, external reporting infrastructure (DTCC GTR), both front
office and internal reporting BAML infrastructure, and Compliance and Legal
frameworks.
• Ensuring the team follow up and resolve client reporting queries.
• Working closely with Compliance and Legal to negotiate difficult regulatory
issues.
• Compilation of statistical information for presentation to senior
management.
Work History
Assistant Vice President, Operations Project Consultant. Regulatory
Reporting. Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Canary Wharf. Oct’11 to Nov’13.
• Business Analyst as a part of the wider change team that built out the
complex reporting architecture to ensure compliance with the Dodd Frank
Act and EMIR trade reporting regulations.
• Creation of requirements documents.
• Regularly attended Industry forums. To assess and provide opinion on
BAML’s position on regulatory reporting build out, and also with regards to
specific issue resolution.
Assistant Vice President, Operations Manager EMEA Client Valuations -
Derivatives, Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Canary Wharf. Sep’07 to Oct’11.
• Managing the EMEA OTC team which was responsible for managing client
statements and queries across multiple business lines, Rates, Credit, FX,
Equity Derivative and Commodities.
• Liaising closely with Sales and Trading to ensure that client and sales
requests were dealt with appropriately within the valuations compliance
framework.
• Working closely with Compliance and Legal to ensure that any operational
risk was managed carefully.
• Attended client visits held by client service and prime brokerage teams to
represent the valuations team and assist in negotiations.
Key Skills and Strengths
• A background across Operational and Change functions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for both Derivatives and Fixed Income business units.
These include: nostro exception payment investigations, brokerage reconciliation, funding of cash accounts, international settlements, client
valuations and most recently change management working on Dodd Frank and EMIR regulatory reporting initiatives.
• A solid PO with experience of working “Agile” with three feature teams to facilitate software enhancements and fixes.
• Excellent team and individual management leadership skills.
• Strong investigative skills demonstrated through a variety of roles.
• A proven ability to work under pressure to strict deadlines in a time sensitive Compliance environment.
• An ability to make decisions quickly and effectively and support them with reasoned argument.
• Clear and concise written and oral communication skills.
• A proactive approach to work with the ability to spot problems and take remedial or preventative action where necessary.
• Excellent prioritisation, management and delegation of workload.
Education
2:1 BA hons degree Business Administration University of
Greenwich. ‘93 to ’97.
2 A levels. 9 GCSE’s. Coopers School, Chislehurst. ‘84 to ’93.
Professional Qualifications
SII IAQ “Introduction to Security and Investment” 2008
SII IAQ “FSA Regulatory Environment” 2008
SII IAQ “Operational Risk” 2008
System Knowledge
Proficient at using the Microsoft Office suite: Excel, Word,
Powerpoint, Visio, Access and Project.
Atlassian JIRA
DTCC GTR Regulatory Reporting Portal
DSMatch TIW (Warehouse) Portal
Bloomberg
Work History Continued
International Fixed Income Settlements, Banc of America Securities
Ltd. Bromley. Jun’04 to Sep’07.
Supervisory responsibility for the day-to-day work of International
Euroclear Unmatched Settlements. Responsible for unmatched
trades settling via Euroclear., failed settlements and crossborder
transactions. This involved close liaison and the forging of good
relationships with traders, other internal departments, external
counterparties and agents.
Cash Funding for Banc of America Securities Ltd. Bromley. Apr’02 to
Jun’04.
Nostro Reconciliation Fixed Income and OTC Rates and Credit Asset
Classes. Bank of America NA. Bromley. Feb’99 to Apr’02.
Cash Management. BGC (Formerly Cantor Fitzgerald International)
City Aug’97 to Feb’99.
• Cash Management responsibilities including cash payment
responsibilities through Euroclear and Paribas networks.