Summary:

• 6+ years of broad experience in financial industry analyzing business requirements, transforming the business processes and enhancing the business capabilities.
• Enormous experience with business process setup using Use Case Modeling, Business Process Modeling, Change Modeling, Data Modeling, QA testing, RUP, Agile and UML.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and Joint Requirement Planning sessions with excellent inter-personal communication skills.
• Proven track record of resolving skills by providing solutions and requirements to the stakeholders and developers.
• Excellent data collection skills, analyzing, communicating the requirement to senior management and documenting skills.
• Proven track record for ability to interact on individual levels with Senior Business Managers, Business Users, Project Managers, Technology developers using my inter-personal communication skills and collecting requirements.
• Excellent knowledge and experience with all asset types and enormous knowledge of Fixed Income Securities such as bonds, treasury bills, commercial papers, repos, options, futures, forwards.
• Strong Subject Matter Expert in Fixed Income Assets, Investment Management, Investment Banking, Risk Analysis and Risk Management.
• Understanding and in-depth experience of complex financial products such as Fixed Income Instruments, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives and currency swaps.
• Strong experience using financial accounting systems, reporting systems and fund reconciliation applications.
• Familiarity with industry standards such as SOX, GAAP, Investment Performance.
• Experience in Root Cause Analysis, GAP Analysis, Feasibility studies, SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis using ROI, TCO methodologies, Financial Analysis deriving IRR, NPV and DCF.
• Excellent documentation skills creating Business Requirement Document (BRD) and translating the requirement into Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Experience creating Business case development, Process mapping, UML diagrams.
• Experience working on the launch of latest software implementation with good knowledge of SQL and Oracle database.
• Excellent knowledge in MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Rational Tools.

Education:

• MS - Financial Management

Experience:

Confidential,King of Prussia, PA Feb 2008 - Present
Business Analyst:
Confidential,Global Investment Services is a leading provider of processing, technology and business services to global investment industry.
Project 1. Feature based Authorization maintenance tool was a web based application to develop authorization levels for the combination of FOREX users to amend or cancel the foreign currency trade entry, placing market orders and placing/modifying/deletion/closing a stop loss limit on an open position.
Project 2. Worked on application known as Modify Account Composition (MAC). This tool was a web based application to adjust the target asset allocation, investment composition based on client’s credit risk analysis within current business risk model.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and developed use cases for SDLC using Agile methodology.
• Developed and processed business mapping, activity diagrams, functional software specification and requirements documentations.
• Researched As-Is workflow with current business model and risk assessment in context to the new application.
• Documented requirements to support the design and development for ETL process to support FOREX load automation for a new data mart.
• Formulated strategies and defined SharePoint web components, web services.
• Created Class for interaction and general SharePoint site structural templates for varied business users.
• GAP analysis for defining the current state of reporting practices and set of proposal to improve reporting tools and reporting metrics.
• Co-ordinate, initialized and facilitated Joint Application Development seminars for Business Requirement gathering and analysis.
• Collected high level of requirement gathering by interviewing various stakeholders including investment bankers, fund managers to achieve basic information and to narrow down further requirements.
• Secondary business requirement model to understand and achieve need of end business users, establishing process work flows, diagrams and data mapping through MS Visio and MS Excel.
• Achieved final approval and validations of business rules and processes with users and management.
• Worked actively on fixed income securities such as bonds, treasury bills, repos, commercial papers and derivatives such as options contracts, future contracts and forward contracts.
• Developed Prototypes to make an efficient SDLC model.
• Enhanced the working capabilities of technical team and business users with informing them of cross-functional requirements.
• Continued decomposition of sub-functions for granting better understanding of workflow process.
• Created user-friendly reporting by understanding and integrating graphical and tabular reports to provide more inclusive view of investment portfolio.
• Prepared use case scenarios using MS Word, PowerPoint for better presentation and understanding of the application.
• Actively partnered with system architects, technology developers for business and technical queries and coordinating with QA testers to ensure all specifications and requirements are correctly translated into system design and functioning.
• Developed Test Strategy and Test plan to ensure the Test cases reflect business user requirements.

Environment: Windows NT Server, Oracle, SQL, HTML, Agile, UML, SharePoint, MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Access, MS Visio, MS DOS, Test Director, Load Runner, IRise 7.0.

Confidential,NY Nov 2006- Jan 2008
Business Analyst:
Facilitated Pre-trade and post-trade analysis by developing Master Trade Analytics and Capture Engine. TACE analyzed market data upstream and stored bulk data of real-time and historical quotes, corporate actions information for equities, fixed income securities making it a central database for identification, analyzing and ensuring compliance quicker and easier.
Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering using various interviewing sessions, surveys, JAD sessions.
• Organized Joint Requirement Planning sessions to collect business requirements and to elaborate discussions on factors affecting project to study operational feasibility analysis, Technical feasibility analysis, cost benefit analysis.
• Prepared project schedule using Gantt Charts in MS Project displaying project target dates and deliverable dates.
• Provided solutions for issues created by business users researching market data, process logs and data interfaces.
• Analyzed FX rates, fixed income instruments and equities for validating prices, corporate action information and coupon payment information against market systems such as Bloomberg.
• Conducted GAP analysis to enhance the current application platform as and when required.
• Created Class diagrams and Entity Relationships Diagram for designing databases.
• Documented Interface Controls consisting of flow charts, sequence diagrams, use case diagrams, functional decomposition diagrams.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro to maintain a Traceability Matrix.
• Prepared AS-IS document to provide a snap-shot of current organizational scenario.
• Prepared TO-BE document after analyzing business requirements and proposing new set of business processes.
• Prepared Business Requirement Document detailing each business needs.
• Translated business requirement into functional requirements and captured them in USE cases.
• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) method for identifying business requirements.
• Worked with QA team in developing test cases.
• Created Use Cases and Activity diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Worked with technology developers to understand application functions and its limitations.
• Communicated cross-functional scenarios and requirements between business users and developers for a better tool.
• Logged the changes within project as and when required and graded them as per business requirement.
• Integration of TACE with risk analytics system to ensure real time risk awareness at every point.
• Incorporated Transaction cost analysis ledger to TACE for continuous feedback on each strategy.
• Interviewed Quantitative analysts to understand the trading model repository (TMR). Analyzed integration of TACE and TMR.

Environment: MS Visio, UML, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Agile, SQL, Oracle 8.0, Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, ASP, Mercury Test Director.

Confidential,NY Mar 2005- Oct 2006
Business Analyst:
Project at DB was to cater the fixed income investment through creation of tool for Bond search by ticker/cusip and quote center, generating reports attributing the bond ratings from S&P, Fitch, Moody’s. The tool also provided with calculation of trading price and total value of corporate bond, Treasury bond, municipal bond and savings bond. The tool had the capability to allow customers to trade online with fixed income securities.
Responsibilities:

• Used RUP methodology at every phase of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Assessed various risk types and developed test scripts based on risk types and factors to analyze securities.
• Interviewed financial business users and traders on Fixed Income desk to document their requirements.
• Translating Business Requirement Document into functionality with technology developers.
• Presentations on benefits of portal systems and Enterprise Repository to business users.
• Created Simulation Tool to price fixed income derivatives portfolio in coordination with financial desk.
• Collected business user requirements through various surveys, interviews and JAD sessions.
• Ensured business needs are recorded in organized manner through structured approach and grouping information on relevant business processes, business rules.
• Defined project needs per use cases, activity diagram and sequential flow.
• Conducted business modeling, data modeling and object oriented modeling efforts to develop application architecture using Rational Rose.
• Created Process Flow analysis, functional decomposition diagrams, data flow analysis through Entity Relationship diagrams using MS Visio.
• Used Rational Project Console for maintaining project glossary.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking and change control procedures.
• Used Rational Clear Case for configuration management and version control.
• Active involvement in analyzing Test Plans and Test Cases with QA team before implementation of new features.
• Coordinated between technology developers and testers to facilitate user acceptance testing.

Environment: RUP, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS SharePoint, Oracle, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case.

Confidential,IL Nov 2002- Feb 2005
Business Analyst:
Worked on Mortgage Application for ABN Amro Bank. Project comprised of initializing mortgage loan origination process beginning with customer registration to title transfer process. The mortgage lending system was required to perform all functions including Account set-up, escrow account, loan appraisal, credit history, assessing customer income and title verifications. I was required to prepare a functional specification documents for mortgage appraisal and credit verification by gathering information from various internal and external parties.
Responsibilities:

• Understanding the present business practices and re-defining existing practices at its best level.
• Interacted with various stakeholders through interviews, surveys and facilitated JAD sessions for better understanding and adaptability.
• Created functional and technical requirements documents and conducted use case analysis.
• Used Rational Rose to create a use case diagram and sequence diagrams.
• Created use cases in MS Word and MS PowerPoint based on UML methodology.
• Assisted in designing User Interface web structure of the application.
• Facilitated helpful discussions between Business users, developers and QA analysts successfully through effective problem resolving skills.
• Validated Business practices and rules with appropriate user approvals and sign-offs.
• Assisted in providing with cross-functional knowledge to developers and business users.
• Closely worked with developers on business and technical aspect of application, helping in designing the application.
• Ensured all the specified requirements are correctly translated and assessed by testers using appropriate test cases and test scripts.
• Conducted front end tool testing to verify requirements are effectively mapped with business application.
• Identified areas of risks assessment, monitoring and having controls in place.
• Ensured business application satisfied user and management expectations.
• Formulated Excel spreadsheet to provide market analysis for analyzing scope for currency trading.
• Conducted end user testing of application using in-house testing tool and test cases.

Environment: SQL, Rational Rose, Rational Pro, Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 8.0, MS Project, HTML, MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel.