PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Detail - oriented and performance driven Financial Business Analyst / Technical Project Manager with 20 years of diversified experience in finance, business analysis and project management. Balance metrics-driven decision making with subjective analysis. A systematic planner and goal achiever.
• Strong domain expertise in Credit Risk Analysis, Monitoring and Basel Risk Reporting.
• Expertise working on projects related to Comprehensive Capital Analysis & Review (CCAR), Confidential, Dodd-Frank Act, EMIR, and MiFID,
• Expertise in working with various finance products like IRS, CDS, MBS/ABS, Fixed Income, Equities, Security Financing Transactions like Repo, Reverse Repo etc.
• Proficient in using MS-Excel for extensive data analysis.
• Proficient in Analysing client’s requirements and processes through document analysis, interview, workshops, and workflow analysis. Expertise in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for gathering business requirements.
• Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.
• Proficient in creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), prototyping, creating use case diagrams and using data modelling tools like ERWin, Visio.
• Conduct 5+ level of testing including functional, integration, regression, user acceptance and production assurance tests.
• Highly motivated team player with proven Communication, Organizational, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.

SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE:

Tools: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Visio, Rational Rose, DB Visualizer, JIRA, ERWin, TOAD, DB Artisan, Informatica, SharePoint, Tableau

Programming Languages: Java / J2EE, Spring, PL/SQL

Databases: Sybase ASE / IQ, Oracle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst / Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 8 developers and BAs to analyze and deliver automation of the manual process.
• Conducted multiple cross-functional meetings to define the process and document business requirements.
• Communicated directly with tech teams of CCPs to investigate and analyze the various feeds provided by them, performing gap analysis and creating enhancement requests.
• Identified and analyzed business problems and defined the scope of activities required to address issue including requirement definition, process review, impact assessment and operational streamlining where necessary.
• Defined system specifications based on the business requirements gathered by prototyping and JAD sessions.
• Processed trade feeds from multiple upstream systems like Kondor, Calypso, etc. Performed post-trade activities like validation, enrichment, security master lookup, etc. This helped integrating front-office operations to back-office activities.
• Developed and documented use cases from the business and systems requirements.
• Lead data modeling, data analysis and requirement documentation.
• Conducted data verification and comparison of automated versus manual dataset.
• Implemented enriched trade / margin / exposure feeds for multiple downstream reporting applications.
• Conducted system testing by SIT and UAT to deliver the product meets the requirements.
• Supported the Program manager in Initiation, planning, executing, controlling and closing phases of projects.

Environment: Agile, JIRA, MS Excel, MS Visio, PL/SQL, Oracle, Sybase IQ, DB Visualizer, Java, J2EE, Spring, Unix shell scripting.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 5 people to analyze and deliver MLE exposure calculation.
• Estimated effort required to implement the project using Program Complexity Model.
• Conducted multiple cross-functional meetings to define the process and document business requirements.
• Defined system specifications based on the business requirements gathered by prototyping and JAD sessions.
• Lead data modeling, data analysis and requirement documentation.
• Developed and documented use cases from business and systems requirements.
• Conducted system testing by SIT and UAT to deliver the product meets the requirements.
• Supported the Program manager in Initiation, planning, executing, controlling and closing phases of projects.

Environment: Agile, JIRA, MS Excel, MS Visio, PL/SQL, Oracle, Sybase IQ, DB Visualizer, Java, J2EE, Spring.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive data analysis comparing current numbers to proposed numbers from combined fin-risk feed.
• Resolved fin-risk differences which existed for 5+ years.
• Ensured that RWA, EAD calculations are not impacted with the feed changes.
• Ensures that maximum Potential Exposure are in-line with the existing numbers or differences are explainable.
• Conducted system testing by SIT and UAT to deliver the product meets the requirements.
• Obtained 20+ approvals from various risk management teams to release the application.

Confidential

Responsibilities :

• Defined and drafted systems scope and objectives through research in combination with an understanding of business requirements and industry standards.
• Planned and defined system requirements via use cases and test plans.
• Performed in depth analysis of credit limits and exposure data across multiple systems to bring them strategically at one place from their respective systems for automation.
• Created UML diagrams such as activity diagrams and process flow diagrams to elaborate the new processes using MS Visio.
• Defined and created ETL specifications involved in data loading and movement during data staging using ETL tool.
• Finalized content of the reports and test scenarios.
• Coordinated daily activities with the IT developers, QA, product teams and project management group.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Object model (Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram and Activity diagram).
• Prepared functional, technical specification documents, test cases.
• Created user interface using Flex 3.5. Used Easy MVC framework to implement interactions between the model, client and controller.

Confidential

Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities :

• Using Program Complexity Model, estimated efforts required and prepared project plan.
• Outlined architecture and design for the module.
• Performed functional requirement analysis for various projects from different stakeholders.
• Developed server side code using Java / J2EE, spring, JDBC.
• Created user interface using Struts, AJAX and Spring Framework.
• Outlined strategy for Exception handling between business and web tier.