Senior Analyst Resume Profile, NJ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

More than 5 years of experience in Fixed Income trading, back/middle office operations and audits
Strong knowledge of financial products, transaction processing, trade settlement, payment services such as wire transfer via SWIFT, reconciliations, reference data
Experienced in Project Management, business process engineering and software development life cycle methodologies SDLC such as Agile, including design, development, gap analysis testing and implementation of software applications
Extensive experience in business analysis, requirements gathering, documentation, implementation, user training, quality review and enhancement
Expertise in writing SQL Queries and data analysis

SKILL SETS

Core Analytical Skills	Project Plan, Functional Specification documentiom, Business Requirement documentation, DFD, ERD, Use Case/Sequence Diagrams, MS Office, MS Visio, Reports, UML, End User Documentation,
Methodologies	Agile,Waterfall, Incremental build model, Prototype model, RAD, RUP
Testing	Test Plan, Test cases, Functional, System, End-End testing, Test Director.
Programming Languages/Tools	JAVA, PERL, UML, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project, Visio, MS office Project
Database Tools	Sybase, ORACLE, Database Studio, Toad, SQL Developer, SQL plus

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Analyst

Defined the scope of the project and business as well as functional requirements by holding interviews with key stakeholders and SMEs such as Tax Ops, Cash Management and Reconciliation
Created Use Cases, activity report, and Business Rules to extract all business workflows and the critical requirements of the wire payment system
Collaborated with the development teams for the design and implementation of the FATCA rule associated with the outgoing payment wires. Created sample Wire frames for the UI design
Created roadmap and timelines for project delivery. Escalated RAID's Risk issues, Actions Dependencies as and when necessary to the senior management

Confidential

Management

Led workshop sessions across finance, operations, risk and technology to gather requirements associated with the migration of Americas trading and banking books to strategic and global book hierarchy model
Analyzed more than 1000 books to confirm their validity, associated attributes, and roll up to appropriate desks.
Prepared and maintained BRD's, FRD's and Use Cases in Requisite Pro
Defined an operating model to manage and migrate regional books to the global book management tool called Bookworm. Utilized UML diagrams such as Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence diagrams
Employed JIRA for effective Change Management and bug tracking during the testing lifecycle

Confidential

Performed extensive analysis of the current operating model and identified toxic responsibilities within the wires team as part of functional redesign of the process flow
Utilized Rational Unified Process RUP to configure process and create BRD and DRD
Created As Is and To Be process using Visio business process flow diagrams and conducted GAP analysis
Developed test scripts using SQL for functional usability testing and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM to ensure that the test cases and test plans map to business and functional requirements

Confidential

Associate Analyst

Gathered requirements from the various teams across Operations via JAD sessions and interviews.
Performed data mapping, logical data modelling for data feed, built high level logical data design and created ER diagrams
Designed Crystal reports to generate the reports for daily and monthly fails
Adopted Agile methodology to manage various facets of the project lifecycle

Confidential

Led the application analysis and design by taking into account various trade settlement scenarios, business processes and IT infrastructure.
Led the implementation to generate and acknowledge MT 500 series SWIFT settlement messages using JAVA
Managed enhancement of the infrastructure required to send/receive swift messages MT 103,202,500 series via SWIFT gateway

Confidential

Analyst

Led a team to support back/middle office systems such as Trade Entry Systems, Checkout applications, Reference Data applications, etc. Provided monthly support metrics such as number of tickets opened/resolved, SLA times to the senior management
Trained and mentored three members to instill an understanding of the financial products and business processes in order to better support the BAU operations of back/middle office
Created training manuals and quick reference guides of back/middle office systems for Operations personnel. This effort reduced the number of support calls by 30 from the operations staff
Improved tracking of daily issues and built user confidence through the deployment of a JIRA tracking system
Utilized SharePoint to improve the organization and categorization of documents related to the systems and their associated processes

Confidential

Technical Intern

Analyzed existing operating model and identified redundant processes
Designed and developed an application to track trading activity and generate Profit Loss reports using Perl scripting and Sybase database