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Gisela Salvo

Manager
Singapore

Summary

Detail-oriented credit risk manager with a passion for accuracy and efficiency. Extensive years of experience in analyzing complex data sets through SAS. Skilled in credit risk analytics, loss forecasting, and collections reporting.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager

Standard Chartered Bank Singapore
09.2014 - Current

2019 - Present

  • Responsible for managing loan impairment (LI) forecast for Wealth and Retail Credit Risk.
  • Coordinate Corporate Plan process and forecast cycle for Wealth and Retail Credit Risk.
  • Responsible for tracking expenses and cost forecasts.
  • Provide loan impairment and cost inputs for country committee.
  • Ensure timely submission of loan impairment to Group Risk. Collaborate with Collections and Credit Risk Management for inputs and feedback.
  • Prepare detailed commentaries for latest forecast versus budget, highlighting key insights and variances.
  • Conduct gap analysis between current loan impairment process and Group's policy.
  • Lead preparation of evidence of compliance for BCBS 239.
  • Extract credit data using SAS.

2014 - 2019

  • Supported Collections operations and Credit Risk by furnishing data requests and developing new reports as per requirement.
  • Utilized data from diverse sources to develop integrated views, empowering data-driven decision-making processes.
  • Performed segmentation analysis and data-driven analysis using SAS to formulate new strategies for Collections team.
  • Managed successful migration of Collections reports to offshore team, ensuring seamless handover and overseeing report preparation for several months.
  • Ensured all appropriate MIS were generated accurately and within timelines to support activities: monitoring credit quality, and early identification of problem areas.
  • Automated BAU reports, saving man-hours and allowing for more focus on ad-hoc requests.
  • Ensured data integrity by implementing maker-checker process for reports, reducing errors impacting customers.
  • Managed generation of credit data marts for cards and loans which were used to generate credit reports.
  • Coordinated with multiple countries on retail data for IFRS9 project, ensuring accurate ECL model implementation.
  • Participated in UAT for Retail Loan System enhancement, contributing to successful delivery.

Collections MIS & Analytics Associate

DBS
01.2014 - 08.2014
  • Ensured timely and accurate submission of department's daily and monthly reporting of portfolio and credit loss performance to management
  • Tracked and analyzed portfolio performances to track the efficiency and effectiveness of collections strategies
  • Collaborated with team supervisors to analyze portfolio segmentation shifts, leading to improved decision-making processes.

Business Analyst, Global Merchant Analytics Reporting

American Express (Thru APAR Tech and Nsearch)
03.2009 - 12.2013
  • Supported the UAT process for Microstrategy, ensuring smooth testing and implementation
  • Translated business requirements into SAS programs to test the reports in Microstrategy
  • Collaborated with project managers to define project requirements, resulting in the successful and timely delivery of multiple projects
  • Collaborated with technology team to improve data availability, access, and report logic, accelerating defect resolution process
  • Provided technical support to web report users, investigating and resolving issues related to data, logic, or application, ensuring minimal downtime and high user satisfaction
  • Generated customized reports for senior management, meeting specific user requirements, improving decision-making processes.

SAS Programmer, Information Management - Datawarehouse

Scope International (Thru Suvin Tech)
10.2007 - 06.2008
  • Developed SAS programs to automate data processing based on business requirements
  • Provided support in producing technical specification of the project
  • Performed testing on SAS programs developed.

Collections MIS Officer

Citibank
01.2006 - 10.2007
  • Developed and enhanced SAS programs to generate reports for Collections MIS
  • Monitored the performance of the risk mitigation programs of the credit card portfolio
  • Generated credit card inventory and flow rates
  • Ensured low delinquency rate by providing timely and accurate MIS
  • Worked with Collections management to track the performance of collections strategies.

Research Analyst, Customer and Market Research

United Coconut Planters Bank
03.2005 - 12.2005
  • Prepared questionnaires/survey forms
  • Performed one-on-one/in-depth interviews to gather data for small-scale studies
  • Prepared data structures and report formats
  • Gathered competitive product/market information, resulting in draft reports that met established formats
  • Encoded the data and run analysis using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences).

Statistician

Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
09.2002 - 08.2004
  • Developed accurate price tracking reports for agricultural commodities, enabling informed decision-making
  • Provided agriculture price trend analysis.

Education

BS Statistics -

University of The Philippines, Diliman
Philippines

Skills

SAS Programming

Credit Risk

Collections

Credit Loss and ECL

Forecasting

Data and Reporting

Time Management

Problem-Solving

Adaptability and Flexibility

Attention to Detail

Training

  • Tableau - Unlocking Insights with Analytics, SMU, 04/2021, 04/2021
  • Data-driven Decision Making, Hyper Island, 07/2021, 07/2021
  • Python for Analytics (online), NUS, 08/2021, 11/2021

Timeline

Manager

Standard Chartered Bank Singapore
09.2014 - Current

Collections MIS & Analytics Associate

DBS
01.2014 - 08.2014

Business Analyst, Global Merchant Analytics Reporting

American Express (Thru APAR Tech and Nsearch)
03.2009 - 12.2013

SAS Programmer, Information Management - Datawarehouse

Scope International (Thru Suvin Tech)
10.2007 - 06.2008

Collections MIS Officer

Citibank
01.2006 - 10.2007

Research Analyst, Customer and Market Research

United Coconut Planters Bank
03.2005 - 12.2005

Statistician

Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
09.2002 - 08.2004

BS Statistics -

University of The Philippines, Diliman
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