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Alyssa Nicole A. Buendia Business Analyst

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• Conducts extensive research and analysis of new and historical data to aid the revision of existing and creation of new methodologies for our primary content set: Corporate Activism

• Writes methodology documents covering various topics under the Corporate Activism which would guide the analysts in processing different global activism situations

• Contacts and coordinates with international law firms and financial institutions to confirm their representations to firms involved in activism situations to ensure the accuracy of the data to be published in the quarterly activism and company defense league tables from FactSet

• Initiates and aid the creation of new logic and design of new enhancements in the data collection tool that would support the activism process expansion initiatives; moreover, participates in the testing and deployment check of the new enhancements

• Acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the team’s process and provides support to Quality Control Associates and Team Leads for all methodology queries

• Coordinates with the Document Sourcing team to provide new sources relevant to the process

• Participates in methodology-related calls /meetings to ensure that current practices are in

keeping with standards and changes are communicated and rolled-out in a timely manner

• Responds to Corporate Activism methodology queries and data requests from the company’s clients

• Assists in resolving quality and training related issues

• Assists the Team Lead in the conducting root-cause analysis of the Process Knowledge Tests for Quality Control Associates and Quality Control Calibration results for data and process improvement purposes

• Facilitates the Quality Control calibration and conducts audit for activism Quality Control Associates

Education

June 2010/March 2014 AB Economics at University of Santo Tomas

Experience

December 2018/present Business Analyst at FactSet Research Systems

• Conducts extensive research and analysis of new and historical data to aid the revision of existing and creation of new methodologies for our primary content set: Corporate Activism

• Writes methodology documents covering various topics under the Corporate Activism which would guide the analysts in processing different global activism situations

• Contacts and coordinates with international law firms and financial institutions to confirm their representations to firms involved in activism situations to ensure the accuracy of the data to be published in the quarterly activism and company defense league tables from FactSet

• Initiates and aid the creation of new logic and design of new enhancements in the data collection tool that would support the activism process expansion initiatives; moreover, participates in the testing and deployment check of the new enhancements

• Acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the team’s process and provides support to Quality Control Associates and Team Leads for all methodology queries

• Coordinates with the Document Sourcing team to provide new sources relevant to the process

• Participates in methodology-related calls /meetings to ensure that current practices are in
keeping with standards and changes are communicated and rolled-out in a timely manner

• Responds to Corporate Activism methodology queries and data requests from the company’s clients

• Assists in resolving quality and training related issues

• Assists the Team Lead in the conducting root-cause analysis of the Process Knowledge Tests for Quality Control Associates and Quality Control Calibration results for data and process improvement purposes

• Facilitates the Quality Control calibration and conducts audit for activism Quality Control Associates

March 2017/December 2018 Quality Control Associate at FactSet Research Systems

• Conducts quality assurance in records submitted by research analysts in the data base, consistent with the established methodology (including projects QA, Activism Bad Data and screening workflow)

• Addressing queries from Research Analysts, new Quality Control Associates, Activism trainer and Team Lead regarding methodology related issues

• Assists the Team Lead in conducting error analysis sessions with Activism research analysts to discuss and clarifiy methodology queries and address the common errors in the database

• Participates with the design, testing, and deployment of new initatives related to the Activism Quality Control process

• Works with Shark’s Document Sourcing team to present new and potential sources of Activism disclosures to be included in the workflow

• Back up in processing different activism related corporate filings in the U.S, Canada, Australia, U.K, etc. (U.S SEC, SEDAR, ASX, Investegate-UK)

Sept 2016/March 2017 Senior Research Analyst at FactSet Research Systems

• Conducts quality assurance in records submitted by research analysts in the Shark data base, consistent with the established methodology in Corporate Activism

• Addressing research analysts’ queries regarding methodology related issues during processing and sourcing documents

• Back-up in processing different corporate filings in the U.S, Canada, Australia, U.K, etc. (U.S SEC,SEDAR)

• Works on special/clean-up projects involving historical data