SUMMARY:

13years of experience working as businessanalyst, implementations, requirements gathering, software development, on several global capital markets, investment accounting, investment management, front - office trading system implementations, BRD, business requirements gathering, risk management, derivatives and Regulatory reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, RUP, Scrum

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose

Project Management Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, Rational Requisite Pro, SharePoint.

Business Application: Web Sphere, MS Office, Visio, Adobe, Crystal Report

Testing: Load Runner, Confidential, Software Application, Testing Life Cycle

Bug Reporting: HP Quality Centre, JIRA, Rally, Clear Quest

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2014/2012/2008 r2, Oracle, SQL, Microsoft Access, DB2

Operating System: Windows 2003/2012 Advanced Server, NT & Windows 9x, Linux

Data Modeling: Microsoft Visio 10.0/11.0, Erwin, Microsoft Office Tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed flows of the current state and future state to understand and communicate the requirement for enhancements. This helped obtain stakeholder buy in and secure the required funding for the project.
• Effectively translate stakeholder requirements into tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, use cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, and data model diagrams, which were used by Software engineers and QA teams to develop and assure consistency with client expectations.
• Created a detailed end-to-end high-level test plan with intraday/end-of-day flows and regression tests which was used by all stakeholders to understand the testing.
• Gathered requirements from multiple cross-functional and cross-location teams for building flexible yet robust solutions.
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisted in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines
• Translated business requirement into Technical requirements and system specifications.
• Supported the Project manager in planning, executing, controlling and closing phases of projects.
• Provide technical support on data related issues to perform UAT testing for mobile applications.
• Worked extensively with GUI team for designing the screens and assisted in developing screen shots and prototyping of the user interface and usability testing.

Environment: MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access), Agile/SCRUM, MS Project, MS Visio, HP ALM QC, Confluence, JIRA, Bloomberg, PAM for Investments, SQL .

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as business analyst to support the redesign of the Mortgage Asset Management System.
• Performed data analytics with emphasis on credit scoring, credit risk, behavioral models, loan loss and general purpose risk/profitability models by brainstorming.
• Identified, understood and documented business needs for new market risk and credit risk module or re-usability of an existing module by performing a GAP analysis.
• Generated Business Requirements Documents (BRD) by using MS Visio.
• Developed requirement reports for day-to-day Retail Banking needs for Opening Account, Online Banking.
• Documented Test Plan, Test cases and performed functional and stress testing.
• Communicated the capabilities of the product suite to development engineers, test analysts, technical writers, trainers and other staffs.
• Attended to Sprint Planning Sessions and released backlog.
• Created the test environment for Staging area, loading the Staging area with data from multiple sources.
• Tested all the applications and transported the data to the target Warehouse Oracle tables, schedule and run extraction and load process and monitor sessions and batches.

Environment: SQL, Loan IQ, ACBS, MS Visio, HP Quality Center Access, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Rational Rose, Waterfall, Agile, MS SharePoint.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote business requirements and interviewed portfolio managers and traders to implement.
• Hedge fund seeks to take long positions in undervalued and under-followed international equities.
• My responsibility is to map and test data requirements for futures, options and other derivative instruments into existing trade order management system and back-office accounting.
• Documented pricing methodologies for the funds unitization including fixed unit allocation, fluctuating unit allocation, cost distribution and daily balance method with back-office accounting for NAV, Pnl and reporting.
• Created cash flow models for Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Currency Forwards, Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swaps, Equity options, Structured products, Currency Futures, Options, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and indexes on commodity futures, i.e., the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) and the Dow Jones Commodity Index (DJ-AIGCI) and diagram swap accruals, payment cash flows, and settlement scenarios to show gains and losses of hedge.
• Documented how the following applications will be used in the hedge fund initiative.
• Fact Set, Derivative Solutions, Thomson PORTIA, Macgregor Fixed Income Order Management and DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation).

Environment: Agile, XML, XSL, XSLT, Java, Web sphere, Visual Basic, MS Excel, Microsoft Visio, PL SQL, Oracle 9i, Unix, WinNT, Confidential & Test Director.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements and assessed of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes, data, data attributes and security master database.
• Asset classes covered include Interest Rate Derivatives, Confidential derivatives pricing, Equity Swaps, and Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Foreign Exchange Swaps, and Equity options, Swaptions, Foreign Exchange Options and Equity/Index Derivatives.
• Recommend strategic initiatives and analyze OTC derivatives protocols and practices around DTCC, SWIFT, Swaps wire, Wall Street Systems for treasury and asset management documentation; FpML, Advent Geneva Global Portfolio Accounting System, DerivServ, and ISDA.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Opera V3, Toad, SQL Server, PeopleSoft, HP Quality Center, Visio, JIRA, Doman, COBRA

Confidential, Knoxville, TN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership in creating and managing the Applications and Programming team for an equity options trading firm at Confidential .
• Developed and enhanced the Risk Management System and Automated Trade Execution capabilities using VB, VBA, ActiveX controls, Access, Excel.
• Actively used Bloomberg APIs, AT, Micro hedge, Redi, and other financial real time data feeds to develop short-term price prediction mechanisms for equities.
• Successfully designed, back-tested and implemented a variety of proprietary Derivatives trading models based on input from quantitative research team these models underwent rigorous testing standards on and off-floor before being used to generate real-time revenues.

Environment: Oracle, PL SQL, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, DOORS, Mercury

Confidential

Trading Desk Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed applications to track risk exposure, trading positions, Endurrithmic models designed to capture best execution; and Confidential simulations, arbitrage, and spreads and due diligence for traders on the Foreign Exchange trading desk.
• Utilized Excel spreadsheets and real-time trading floor applications such as Devon, Sun-Gard, DTN, Bloomberg and Reuters to manage risk exposure for the foreign currency trading room.
• Client/server transactional platforms utilized.
• Responsible for analysis of derivatives, futures & options, foreign exchange and securities risk management.
• Communicated with trading partners through e-mail and spreadsheet reports for position limits and trade Reconciliation.

Environment: SQL, Loan IQ, MS Visio, HP Quality Center Access, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Waterfall, Agile, MS SharePoint