SUMMARY:

• Sr. Business Analyst Energetic, versatile, and results - oriented professional with strong qualifications to support a variety of businessand technical projects involving systems, requirements, and business analysis, test development, end-user support,and technical and functional analysis.
• Skilled at working effectively independently and collaboratively as part of a technology team in demanding environments to complete projects on-time.
• Utilize well-developed interpersonal skills to establish productive working relationships with end-users, team members, and all levels of management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Statistical Packages: SAS 9 (SAS/BASE, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/STAT, SAS/SQL, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ODS, SAS/EG

Databases: Teradata, MS-Office, MS Access, SQL Server, MySQL

Operating System: Windows

Core Banking Applications: Fircosoft, ACBS, FlexCube, ICRS, IRDC, C-IRIS and Oracle Business Intelligence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst/Scrum Master/Risk Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintain Confidential Internal Control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, and any issues identified by Compliance division, Global Sanctions Unit and external regulators.
• Liaised with the Business Transformation and the IT teams to develop the implementation plan
• Interfaced with stakeholders and felicitated communication between business and IT.
• Prepare and Execute Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test Case Document for System Integration Testing based on functional and Technical Specifications to ensure End Product Quality.
• Proficient in using Agile Scrum methodologies, performed roles of Scrum Master following sprint/standup sessions and used Excel extensively to write user stories, analyzed the Iteration Burn Down charts and reviewed defects.
• Created Process Flows and UML diagrams using MS Visio and MS Office.
• Identified and documented the Business Rules that would affect the application.
• Updated the requirement documents as per the Process Change Requests.
• Participated in Defect Review & Enhancement meetings to clarify requirements.
• Performed Business functionality testing, which involved testing of all core functions of the application. Organized and executed the System Integration Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Documented various documents like Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirement Specification, and Use-Case Specification Documents.
• Managing schedules while working with multiple offshore, offsite and onsite teams.
• Scheduled daily defect review and progress meetings to walkthrough of the defects and document all issues, functionality gaps and new functionality needs.
• Monitor the daily changes to credit rating, SIC codes, model codes, probability of default, maturity to ensure accurate RWA calculations
• Create SQL queries based on ad-hoc report requirements for internal analysis.
• Worked as a Business tester for system upgrade including coordinating UAT testing efforts with IT and QA team to monitor defects closely until resolved.
• Involved in creating Initial Requirements documents for Ring-Fenced reporting.
• Worked on creating a web portal for maintaining customer rating details including the Business Requirements and Technical Requirements documents.

Environment: CCAR, BASEL, SQL, Visio, Agile, HP Quality Center, MS Office.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

Risk Reporting Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Author Functional Specification Documents for the 3 projects under Enterprise Information Technology.
• Create User Stories and Acceptance Criteria as per the priority of the feature in Product Backlog.
• Work closely with Product Owner to define "Definition of Done" for the User stories.
• Conduct Sprint Backlog refinement sections to determine what is to be worked in the next coming sprints.
• Perform User Acceptance Testing.
• Perform the role of Scrum Master by facilitating SM roles Daily Stand meetings, Sprint Refinement, Sprint Demo Sessions.
• Have experience working with offshore teams
• Work closely with Project Managers to get the necessary Documents in Project Management Tool (PMUWS) for document approvals.
• Part of Defect review meetings to clarify ambiguities.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Display excellent capacity to bridge the gap between the technical team and the business, take ownership of projects, support project goals and objectives, and work effectively with individuals across the company.
• Full responsibility for maintaining security system access for user access groups, rotating 24 hours on call for level 1 system issues, and troubleshooting level 2 IT helpdesk tickets for various payroll and benefit issues.
• Demonstrate an informed knowledge of business area to resolve problems, develop solutions, support complex business processes, and work effectively with others to align technology solutions with business strategies.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple projects simultaneously, served as SME/lead liaison with stakeholders and team to ensure product performance, and monitored project deliverables during development through implementation/live production.
• Identified, tracked, and reported defects and project constraints, created test scenarios and routine system audits, assisted with UAT testing, and partnered with training department for user training of system modifications.
• Applied strong knowledge of applications, software, databases, and systems to create SQL queries, spreadsheets, and Visio models needed for multiple reports for reconciliation utilizing Access, Excel, Visio, and Oracle.
• Recognized consistently for outstanding results including several promotions within QA department, serving as a trusted resource to all stakeholders, and understanding business needs to support new systems/modifications.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Confidential Sanctions Officer

Responsibilities:

• Review daily sanctions alerts in the Payments queue within Fircosoft to ensure rational documentation for clearing name matches and escalate issues /risks to compliance division in a timely manner
• Ensure regulatory adherence to various sanctions programs and work with the lines of business to identify control gaps and/or remediation
• Maintain Confidential ’s Internal Control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, and any issues identified by Compliance division, Global Sanctions Unit and external regulators
• Participate in KYC remediation projects as requested by the stakeholders and ensure that the reporting meet the quality required and is delivered in a timely manner
• Perform OFAC/Sanctions check on various different requests using World-Check and ensure that the results are delivered in a timely manner to the requesting stakeholders
• Generate and provide daily Oracle/BI report for total transaction volume and the transactions caught in filter to the unit head and management
• Performed Data entry and conversions, data validation and corrections.

Confidential

Clerk

Responsibilities:

• Recording and organizing loan information.
• Performed Data entry and conversions, data validation and corrections.
• Preparing the monthly balance sheets of checking account customers.
• Handling deposit and withdrawal cash is the primary work of the clerk. Along with that clerk also undertakes the receipt of checks, drafts, dividend warrants, and pay orders.
• Payment clearance works like Verify checks, issue demand drafts, etc.
• Maintain a daily record of balance.
• Perform various back office works like receipts collection, ledger maintenance, balance tally, data entry, issue ESI stamps, typing other necessary bank information served to the customers, etc.
• Issue check books after authentication of clients.
• Played a significant role in the marketing of financial products of the Bank such as loans, mutual funds, deposits, schemes, etc.