SUMMARY:

• Versatile Senior Business Analyst with extensive Investment Banking and Capital Markets experience
• Senior Business Analyst with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing, and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes
• Nine years as a proprietary trader in Fixed Income, FX, Repo, Equity and Debt Syndicate underwriting. Transitioned from trading to technology immediately following the 1998 Russian financial crisis, which sparked a panic throughout global markets as the devalued ruble severely impacted global trading, and froze assets.
• Strong front - office functional and operational background fosters ability to bridge between trading desk and technology groups in order to ensure technology solutions meet business objectives
• Sixteen years of BA experience at writing clear and detailed requirements specs.
• Experienced in gathering and prioritizing requirements, performing extensive analysis and documentation in the form of the Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and Use Cases for effective system implementation
• Experienced in analyzing and defining Business Process Modeling and managing UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Experienced in traditional SDLC (Waterfall Project Management), with knowledge of Agile software development methodology
• Adhere to BABOK (Business Analysis Book of Knowledge) Standards
• Accustomed to fast pace and multiple projects, fulfilling priorities and meeting deadlines while maintaining high customer service levels and tight financial controls
• Excellent communication, facilitation and elicitation skills. Creative and flexible problem solver who identifies inefficiencies in a process and drives change
• Created and conducted demonstrations and training for senior management and end users
• Familiarity with rules such as Reg. SHO, Reg. M/105, Reg. NMS, Rule 605/606, Front Running, Side by Side, Limit Up/Limit Down, Large Trader, TRACE reporting, OATS, CATS - which can result in sanctions if violated.
• Familiarity with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) concepts such as offshore accounts, fraudulent wire transfers, large deposits, unregistered or microcap securities, shell companies, KYC, DTC clearing, OFAC, Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) filings, the Patriot Act, and FINRA Rule 3310. Attended BAE Systems AML panel discussion.
• Excellent knowledge of Bloomberg and other relevant market and analytical software
• Prime Brokerage front office trading experience, provided Latin American and other Hedge Funds with financing, execution, custody and reporting services
• Fixed Income instruments included: Brady Bonds, US Treasuries, US Treasury Futures, local currency T-Bills (Turkey, Lebanon, and Ukraine), EUR corporate and government debt, Russian MinFins (Ministry of Finance), Russian Prins (Principal bonds), and Russian Corporate Debt (Gazprom, TATNEFT and City of Moscow). Also, traded French Government Bonds of all maturities (OATs, BTFs, and BTANs), German BUNDS, United Kingdom GILTs, Ireland PUNTs a nd bonds of some Commonwealth nations including South Africa and India
• Foreign Exchange instruments included: Spot, Forwards, NDFs, Currency Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, and Currency Options
• Wallstreet Suite provided treasury management trading, and settlement software solutions and services for workflow, control, and productivity for corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, forex trading, and back office operations
• GLOSS (Gloss is a real-time, multi-currency, transaction processing engine which automated the trade processing of the full lifecycle). Gloss processed trades executed in 90 different countries and provided connectivity to over 250 custodians (internationally)
• Extensive experience with the full trade lifecycle. Order initiation and delivery and order routing. Order matching and conversion into trade. Affirmation and confirmation and Clearing and Settlement
• Extensive experience with integration and maintenance of fixed income and equity trading system
• Experience with integration and maintenance of static data feeds
• Experience in dealing with APAC, EMEA and AMER regions
• Developed runbooks for maintenance and testing purposes
• GIFTS (Global Integrated Funds Transfer and Telecommunications System), GIFTSWEB was a comprehensive anti-money laundering OFAC, e-banking, and customer relationship management payment system. GIFTSWEB has extensive functionality to meet regulatory requirements of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Asset and Control (OFAC), The Federal Reserve Bank, and the USA Patriot Act of 2001
• Swift Messing (Transactions-MT540-MT549), (Reporting-MT900,910,935,940,941,942,950, MT535-MT537), ( Corporate Actions-MT564-MT568)
• Corporate Syndicate including IPO and secondary equity and debt offerings, leveraging corporate relationships, research and sales distribution capabilities
• Relationship building including developing new client relations and managing all existing relations
• Extensive experience with Word, Excel, Project, Visio SharePoint and Power Point,
• Worked closely with project managers and business users to gather, analyze, refine and formalize requirements
• Conducted JAD and brainstorming sessions with the business users and stakeholders
• Developed detailed FRDs based on the BRD, incorporating business process flow diagram(s) and use cases
• Used SQL extensively for extracting billing code data from various databases
• Designed, developed and implemented test plans and test cases
• Presented detailed requirements, specs, and test cases to obtain stakeholder sign-off
• Oversaw testing of existing and new functionality in Phoenix to ensure that the application functioned as specified in the BRD/FRD, use cases, and design.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant/Senior Business Analyst

• Worked directly with external NetX360 clients, including Barclays Wealth Management and Citibank
• Led JAD brainstorming sessions with business users and project managers to formalize ideas and gather preliminary requirements for a Business Valuation Assessment (BVA)
• Presented Statement of Work (SOW) to clients and division supervisors for sign-off
• Created KYC functional documents and refined Compliance business requirement specifications to overhaul the business process that hosted day to day client onboarding
• Analyzed the requirements data, and created BRD/FRD for sign-off from both division supervisors and external clients
• Designed process flow diagrams using Visio
• Presented BRD/FRD for sign-off by both division supervisors and external clients
• Collaborated extensively with business and technical colleagues to deliver optimal business process solutions, in line with corporate priorities
• Designed, developed and implemented test plans and test cases
• Oversaw testing of existing and new functionality in NetX360 to ensure that the application functioned as specified in the BRD/FRD, use cases, and design.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

• Headquartered in Windsor, CT, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, SS&C provides the global financial services industry with a broad range of highly specialized software for information management, analysis, trading, accounting, reporting and compliance, including:
• Global Wealth Platform (GWP), a retail wealth management software suite of products designed to support all asset classes and portfolio types to provide maximum flexibility to run clients’ accounts and wealth management accounting
• GWP retail components include modeling, trading, portfolio accounting, client communications and workflows. Lightning is a web-based processing for fixed income capital markets which automates a range of processes, including, trading, sales, funding, accounting, risk analysis and asset/liability management
• Wrote clear and detailed requirement specs and test cases and obtained signoff from stakeholders
• Ensured that the implementation of GWP and all new ancillary applications met the needs of the business, and workflows functioned properly
• Supplied, configured and troubleshot computer software, including financial/accounting, management and industry-specific software
• Designed and improved workflow procedures from front office to back office for foreign exchange and fixed income trading
• Assisted clients with financial reporting, bookkeeping and regulatory compliance
• Conducted staff training, and needs analysis
• Managed and tested FX Spot and FX Forwards in production and test environments for the entire trade lifecycle
• Created the Foreign Exchange Guide for use by internal and external users
• Created the Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) Guide for use by internal and external users
• Presented sales demonstrations via WebEx when needed to assist salespersons
• Extensively used SQL for accessing and manipulating database systems
• Ability to collaborate with peers in both business, and technical areas, to deliver optimal business process solutions, in line with corporate priorities
• Designed, developed and implemented test plans and test cases
• Developed runbooks for maintenance and testing purposes
• Wrote BRDs for Unidentified Large Trader Report, Unidentified Large Trader Report for Prime Brokerage and Employee Trading Front- running

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

• Implemented and configured a STP Treasury Management Software System (Wall Street Systems Suite)
• Managed and tested the full lifecycle for SWIFT messages in production and test environments to ensure connectivity to custodian banks
• Documented system bugs and delivered reports to R&D for recommended system changes
• Ensured that the implementation of the Wall Street Systems Core Banking platform and all new ancillary applications meets the needs of the business, and workflows functioned properly
• Led review sessions for completed business/functional requirements with key business users focused on gaining consensus and final business approval
• Participated in the development of User Acceptance Test planning documentation, including test plans and scripts, based on business and functional requirements
• Facilitated UAT execution phase and worked with business stakeholders and project managers to obtain user acceptance test signoff
• Provided Capital Markets subject matter expertise to the IT team throughout the project. Reviewed development and test deliverables as needed
• Participated in internal status meetings with both local development teams as well as integrated sessions with Global team
• Collaborated with peers in both business and technical areas to deliver optimal business process solutions, in line with corporate priorities

Confidential

Senior Configuration Business Analyst

• Converted small business to Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 is a subscription plan that includes access to Office applications plus other productivity services that are enabled over the Internet (cloud services), such as Lync web conferencing and Exchange Online hosted email for business, and additional online storage with SkyDrive

Confidential

AVP, Senior Business Analyst

• Managed software and configuration changes on Test and Production environments for fixed income and foreign exchange front office trading systems. Systems supported were WinFITS, APEX, Altair, Sierra, Merrill FX and Pioneer Sales Workstation (PSW) for the entire trade lifecycle
• Analyzed causes of production problems and developed methods for improvement
• Resolved all trading issues by coordinating with clients, dealers and internal units
• Assisted in planning and support of User Acceptance Test
• Provided Capital Markets subject matter expertise to the IT team throughout the project. Reviewed development and test deliverables as needed
• Extensively used SQL for accessing and manipulating database systems
• Designed, developed and implemented test plans and test cases
• Developed runbooks for maintenance and testing purposes
• Extensive experience with integration and maintenance of fixed income and equity trading system
• Experience with integration and maintenance of static data feeds
• Experience in dealing with APAC, EMEA and AMER regions