Shah Mir

Corporate Banking Analyst

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. • Full-time

May 2023 - Jun 2026 • 3 yrs 1 mo

- Designated first point of contact for Automated Clearing House (ACH) Payments, specifically ensuring smooth daily trade operations and ACH Positive Pay/Fraud Mitigation service. - Led monthly UATs for Global E-Banking & ACH applications, identifying ISO 20022 updates to report alongside NACHA formatting rules. - FedWire ISO 20022 Upgrade (the global compliance standard for financial messaging adopted by all U.S. Banks). Transformed decade-long data on ACH, Wire, FX, Corporate Credit Card, and Check Disbursement services into meaningful numeric visual outputs to aid in presenting to senior bankers on a monthly basis. - Led and self-conducted User Acceptance Tests (UATs) after designing 75-100 custom test cases on a quarterly basis, corresponding with Mizuho’s ACH services vendor updates, increasing efficiency by 75%. UAT cases covered routine regression testing for Business-as-Usual functions and for unique UI/UX deliverables. - Conduct slide deck review and report to internal product & sales teams, and the credit research team on a bi-weekly basis, and to all Banking & Treasury Executives on a monthly basis. Qualitative input from all Product Managers is compiled and consolidated for future enhancement requests, IT, or software vendor-related updates.

U.S. Tax Analyst

Allen & Overy • Part-time

Feb 2022 - Nov 2022 • 9 mos

- Reviewed and matched tax codes across Federal & State tax policies, flagged discrepancies based on historical data, and processed refunds or payments owed to IRS under supervisor oversight. - Revised corporate tax filings for a law firm, as well as returns for foreign employees with non-U.S.-sourced income, under the supervision of in-house Tax Accountants.

Data Analytics Intern

LLC • Part-time

Dec 2021 - Feb 2022 • 2 mos

Consolidated & entered lead-inspection data for 35+ apartment units in Microsoft Excel, recording inspection dates, findings, inspector notes, and remediation status; produced summary tables for compliance tracking.