SUMMARY:

• 9 plus years of demonstrated experience as a Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager
• Good understanding and experience in CCAR reporting
• Acted as the bridge between customer (business domain) and technical team during various projects
• Experienced in creating Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Documents and GAP Analysis document
• Excellent understanding of financial reporting, projections & planning
• Strong problem solving skills identifying root causes, creating test cases and writing documentation
• Experience in business process modeling, design, deployment, implementation, testing, user training and integration with current systems
• Proficient in creating UML diagrams such as Use - Cases, test cases, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams & activity diagrams
• Experience accompanied by technical degree, excellent interpersonal skills, professional association and handling of large international cross-border projects in US, Europe and Asia

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint
• Project
• SharePoint
• CRM tools
• OneSource
• Westlaw
• Checkpoint
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• 3D Studio Max
• Audacity
• HTML
• Rational RequisitePro
• MS Visio
• My SQL

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the development of and preparation of HNAH (BHC) and HBUS (Bank) CCAR capital planning process and the preparation of the annual CCAR submissions to the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
• Acted as Finance’s central point of contact for all regulatory reform initiatives related to the CCAR and AOP (Annual Operating plan)
• Prepared and reviewed financial review charts for plan, results of operations and financial position for management
• Facilitated effective decision making by forecasting business and analyzing financial information along with all the industry & economic conditions
• Managed the financial planning, analysis and collaborations for successful development of CCAR and AOP
• Monitored the capital position and ensured the implementation of capital management is in line with all current and new regulatory rules, including CCAR
• Collaborated with line of business (LOBs) by identifying, researching and resolving discrepancies in financial reports to improve efficiency of financial operations
• Provided analysis on different regulatory reporting such as FR Y-9C, FFIEC 031, FR Y-9LP, 14A, 14Q, 14M etc.
• Maintained communication with senior stakeholders at multiple management levels

Environment: CCAR, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Financial planning, Financial projections

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported the Project manager in planning, executing, controlling and closing phases of projects and in preparing CCAR reporting schedules
• Maintained library of CCAR related documentation and worked with stream leads to ensure documentation was compliant with required standards from CCAR
• Developed and documented Use-Cases from the business and systems requirements
• Identified and analyzed business problems and defined the scope of activities required to address issues, including requirement definition, process review, impact assessment and operational streamlining where necessary
• Worked with the development team to define system specifications based on the business requirements gathered by Prototyping and JAD sessions
• Produced project related metrics for senior management highlighting key issues
• Reviewed Test script for testing and liaised with business partners to ensure successful migrations to Production environment of key technology releases

Environment: CCAR, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Access, Use-case, BRD, JAD, Test plans

Sr. Advisor / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed business requirements
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD) as well as Functional Specification Document (FSD)
• Conduction User acceptance testing (UAT) across different offices of in US and Europe
• Drafted and documented user manuals, brochures and flyers
• Managed the country wise roll-out
• Provided trainings to different user levels
• Identified process improvement and technology needs of business area
• Managed and coordinated all future enhancements
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies and documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements
• Build the foundation for the development effort by capturing the business context (problem, current state, desired future state, objectives, business needs, and impacted user groups)
• Managed stakeholder expectations, project plans, communications and provided updates as needed
• Acted as a communication bridge between user (business domain) community and with developers & testing personnel
• Developed requirements and established traceability
• Established and maintained agreements between the customer and the project team on the changing requirements of the system (manage scope changes)
• Developed the test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements and technical specifications
• Developed test plan for QA team and helped to develop testing scenario for System, Integration and Stress testing
• Developed & tested the prototype version of the application
• Developed timelines, project step plan and managed resources for the project

Environment: International Tax, Lotus Notes Domino, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Confidential ’ OneSource, Confidential ’ Westlaw, Confidential ’ Checkpoint, BRD, FSD, UAT,

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assessed the scope and impact of business needs throughout the project, along with all the enhancement specifications
• Led the client meetings to gather all the requirements in the Inception phase and then assisted tech leads in designing architectural blueprints using UML (Unified Modeling Language) & RUP (Rational Unified Process)
• Worked with the business team to manage all the requirements, to write good use cases, to improve traceability, to strengthen collaboration, to reduce project rework, and to increase quality using Rational RequisitePro
• Conducted Joint application design (JAD) sessions with business users to analyze requirements, test cases, application life cycle and to define the key performance indicators
• Developed workflows & process diagrams based on the proposed system changes using MS Visio
• Created Use-Case models to depict Actors, Pre-condition, Basic course, Alternative course, Post-condition, Exceptions, Notes and Issues of the system
• Performed Gap analysis for modules in production and conducted feasibility study on new enhancements
• Used Microsoft Project to manage schedules, timelines and resources of the project
• Acted as a liaison between the technical team and the end users (staff and management).
• Managed all the communications between the project team and other related departments
• Created detailed Use-Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing for the application

Environment: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Rational RequisitePro, Confidential ’ OneSource, Confidential ’ Westlaw, Confidential ’ Checkpoint, UML, RUP, JAD, Use-Case, GAP Analysis, UAT

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing systems flow and revised them for the new application
• Assisted in designing the business requirement collection process using the Waterfall methodology during the SDLC
• Gathered user / business requirements by interviewing various business units
• Documented and translated all the requirements to functional specifications
• Helped in planning and scheduling of the project
• Coordinating the development of GAP analysis document and evaluated the SWOT analysis
• Analyzed requirements and created Use-cases, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams using MS Visio
• Collaborated with the Project Manager to organize training material and write user manuals
• Worked with other Business Analysts to integrate data from different back-end data warehouses
• Used MS Access and SQL to extract data from the data warehouses
• Developed the Test plan, Test conditions and Test cases for application requirement testing
• Developed the training layouts and training plans for business operations

Environment: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, GAP Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Use-cases, Test plan, Documentation