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Jersey City, NJ

SUMMARY:

  • Seasoned market risk, middle office, product control, PNL attribution in regards to delta, gamma, vega, theta, trade support & business analysis professional with 8 plus years of experience in fixed income derivative products including interest rate swaps, basis swaps, inflation swaps, equity swaps, muni swaps, muni bonds, tender option bonds, treasuries, Confidential, Confidential ’s, factor downs, paydowns, writedowns, interest shortfalls & reimbursements, ABS, MBS, RMBS, CMBS, equity options, Confidential options, Confidential forwards, margin calls, corporate actions & succession events,
  • Build different types of PDF as well as Excel reports for the senior management as well Confidential in coordination with the developers
  • Exposure to middle office projects related to middle office & back office as well as settlement workflows for daily PNL & risk reporting & MTM reconciliations, trade capture & trade bookings, daily cash & position reconciliations, bi weekly calls for the Confidential in accordance with the new Confidential Frank rule
  • Strong experience with applications for investigation & explain of flash to actual PNL differences, trade matching, clearing & settlement, confirmations with the counterparty on T+3 basis, margin requirements with the counterparty & margin call notices when required
  • Strong background in reconciliation tools for intraday control monitoring for all coupons, assignments, novations, unwinds, control & monitoring of the transactions & positions in the front office systems that make sure all the trades are booked correctly with no cash or position breaks
  • Knowledge of Summit trade capture systems, Bloomberg, Markit, Confidential, swapswire, Impact bond positioning & settlement system, Intellimatch, intermediate SQL
  • Excellent communications skills, ability to communicate with all levels of management effectively, team oriented & team player, detail attentive, time management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for business process analysis & documentation for the interest rate swaps desk, BRD, FRD, execute functional & regression testing cycles, define test cases & scenarios, prepare test script & expected results, reference data for product & pricing,
  • Data base queries using SQL
  • Perform testing & raise defects against expected results, worked with data flows for market data vendors including Markit, Swapswire, Impact, PNL/Risk, Confidential Frank initiatives, Prime Brokerage Risk & Margin
  • Build different types of PDF as well as Excel reports for the senior management as well Confidential in coordination with the developers, gap analysis, coordinate & support user acceptance testing, develop & manage the UAT run book, coordinate daily UAT calls, provide regular testing status & progress update & manage testing change requests
  • Resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team, worked with the project management lifecycle models, assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, special projects as necessary

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Partnered with business & IT stakeholders to gather, document, analyze & communicate requirements
  • Worked on Confidential Frank initiative with vendors like Markitwire & Confidential for the reporting of historical population of trades
  • Worked on fixed income products including interest rates swaps, swaptions, Confidential reference data in regards to performing reference data securities related analysis leveraging SQL queries, documentation
  • Leverage business knowledge to construct functional specifications & work with Development teams on SDLC activities
  • Coordinated with QA team to execute test cycles, constructed test data & ensure results match functional specifications

Business Analyst Contractor

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

  • Tested cycles & execution in functional through to UAT testing in a project lifecycle for the credit default swaps desk, PNL/Risk, define test cases & scenarios, developed & managed the UAT run book, coordinate daily UAT calls, reference data for product & pricing
  • Resolved the daily PNL breaks & settlement breaks as well as any trade capture & trade booking issues or amendments in collaboration with the settlements team & the front office
  • Resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team, worked with the project management lifecycle models, assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, special projects as necessary.

Sr Specialist

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

  • Worked on project activities to ensure high quality results within defined time for the equities prime services desk and budget schedules, participated in meetings at the project level, provided continuous feedback on project status
  • Worked with project management lifecycle models, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team
  • Assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, resolved the daily PNL breaks & settlement breaks as well as any trade capture & trade booking issues or amendments in collaboration with the settlements team & the middle office, PNL/Risk special projects as necessary.

Associate - Contractor

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

  • Trade capture & trade bookings for all coupons, PNL/Risk, assignments, innovations, unwinds, control & monitoring of the transactions & positions in the front office systems including corporate bonds, high yield & distressed bonds, emerging markets credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, ABS, MBS, Confidential ’s
  • Gap analysis, coordinate & support user acceptance testing, develop & manage the UAT run book, coordinate daily UAT calls, provide regular testing status & progress update & manage testing change requests
  • Worked on trade capture & trade booking issues & amendments as well as the daily PNL breaks & settlement breaks in collaboration with the settlements team & front office & sales
  • Resolved any kind of issues related to system feeds as well as system upgrades with the IT team, worked with the project management lifecycle models, assisted in defining the business & functional requirements, SDLC, UAT, business analysis, special projects as necessary.

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