SUMMARY:

• Professional Business Analyst with outstanding track record of 6+ years’ experience in financial sectors including Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Prime Brokerage, Equities, Fixed income, Securities, Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Mutual Funds, Trading & Compliance and Risk Management.
• Worked closely with PMO and assisted in monitoring various project deliverables and involved in developing Project Plans, Project charter, project dashboards, Objectives and timelines and maintained the repository for all deliverables.
• Deep understanding of Trading Platform Building Blocks: Static Data Requirement, Market data Structures, Pricing, Model Validation, Portfolio Risk analytics, P&L, Risk Attribution
• Comprehensive knowledge of and solid experience in Derivatives including Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Equity Derivatives and Commodity Derivatives.
• Expertise in Business Process Modeling, Business Process Re - design and in designing Process Architecture.
• Extensive experience in Investment Advisory, Wealth Management Services and Product Management. plan account identifiers for Identifying and establishing retirement the Customer Profile System
• Familiar with Bloomberg Data Interface and Data Manipulation.
• Excellent understanding of US GAAP, Custody accounting and reporting, SOX and BASEL II, Compliance, Reg T, Corporate Actions and Risk analysis with solid experience in Business Process Modeling, Requirement gathering and Analysis in for financial products such as Equities, Fixed Income Instruments, Credit Risk, Market Risk Analytics, and Derivatives.
• Expertise at project charter, project plans, conducting project initiation meetings, defining the project objectives, scope, effective coordination with PM and PMO office and defining milestones, timelines and project documentations with clear who’s who.
• Hands on expertise in Data flow modeling, ER diagrams, Business rules identification and data analysis.
• Worked all the phases of Project life cycle. Project management experience; preparing project charter, risk assessment and mitigation plan, work break-down structure (WBS), Gantt chart, assigning milestones etc.
• Proficient experience in Manual and Automated Testing of GUI and functional aspects of the Client-Server and Web based Applications on multiple levels of SDLC and Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Expertise in testing Enrollment, Billing and claims processing
• Strong hands on ability to use SQL in RDBMS (SQL Server, Oracle) for verifying source data preparation and assisting of data design input and trouble-shooting. Strong knowledge of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Business Architecture.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project management life cycle (PLC) and software development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, RUP and Waterfall.
• In depth knowledge in Equities and other OTC products Trade Processing including front office, middle office & back office operations and trading life cycle (Sale, Order generation, Execution, Reconciliation, Clearing, Settlement and Books & Records).
• Extensive experience process models using UML flow charts, sequence, activity diagrams and use case diagrams and produced other design artifact using object oriented analysis technique.
• Experience preparing QA Test Plans, Test Schedules, defining testing strategies, test conditions and executing the test plans, used Mercury suite for test management and QTP for automation.
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux.

Databases: MS-Access, MySQL, SQL Server, OracleInternet HTML, XML

Automation Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational RequisitePro, DOORSBug Tracking Tools Mercury TestDirector, Rational ClearQuest,Jira

Utility Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Project, TOAD, Adobe Photoshop

Testing Tools: Quick TestPro (QTP), Test Director, Niku, WinRunner, LoadRunner.

Financial: Terminals Bloomberg, Reuters

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Tech. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).
• Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, corporate actions, Brokerage and Trading Model within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.
• Acquired extensive knowledge of financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)
• Coordinated ISG efforts to adhere to outstanding enterprise application software policies for security, audit and compliance reasons
• Developed and maintained Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance process costing models and metrics ensuring architecture compliance.
• Creation and maintenance of user-friendly internal Compliance Policy and Procedure Manual that was proven to ensure the corporation was compliant via multiple investigations from federal and state regulators, as well as state attorneys general.
• Advise the organization on profitable options, interest rates, future market behaviour, FX derivatives and currency hedges
• Review the documentation process related to derivatives contract and confirm accuracy and legality in mentioned terms and conditions.
• Lead derivatives research and analysis teams and train members on using different computer software and applications as required.
• Prepared for GAP Analysis; identified and documented improving areas to meet capital requirement regulations.
• Applied underwriting knowledge of guidelines while underwriting all types of loans including Conventional, VA, FHA, Residential and Commercial mortgage loans.
• Reviewed mortgage documentation on the Unifi Pro and Loan Origination Mortgage system and gave feedback to Business Analysts and QA testers on any challenges of the system.
• Implemented Front End to a Fixed Income Derivatives Trading System, including trade blotter and interfaces to risk management, accounting, and middle and back office
• Primarily involved in the Mutual Fund trading activities of Domestic and International Equity, Fixed Income, Money Market, and Cash Investment.
• Called upon as SME in mortgage origination procedures to assist in answering questions for Business Analysts and IT developers.
• Managed Processing team of five assuring sound quality and risk analysis of Conventional, FHA and VA loans. Coordinated all closings. Participated in Mortgage Operation setup.
• Created UAT plans with several test cases for each project to ensure that the system runs smoothly after the proposed enhancements or changes have been made.
• Worked with the SME, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering requirements and data transaction information related to Capital Markets - Online Brokerage, IVR trading, Conventional Brokerage, Orders, Trades Executed and SPS Orders for reinvestment agreement to write global specs.
• Discussed with SMEs across different businesses units to gain solid knowledge of the existing Credit Risk Calculation System and assisted in preparing an advanced Risk Assessment and ROI Management.
• Responsible for business system analysis of customizing the BPS Risk Management product with involvement through the whole SDLC
• Developed Components using Struts Framework, J2EE; Coding for Components using JSP, Java Beans.
• Developed multiple Functional Requirements definition (FRD) documents using the Microsoft standard structure and format (business sections only)
• Followed the UML based methods using Microsoft Visio to create: Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Chart

Environment: Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest), RUP, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, C#.Net, WebLogic, IPFR Services, HTML, UNIX, DreamWeaver, Adobe Photoshop, Windows Forms, Web Forms, LoadRunner, WinRunner, DOORS, Project Management.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Operational Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used SQL queries for organizing and abstracting data from MS access data bases, created reports, forms on Ms Access.
• Reconciling General Ledger accounts. Assisted with audit defense, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance, research tax issues as they arise.
• Working with the business to understand and determine system implications in terms of the platform(s), application(s) and business processes for B2B solutions.
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Accumulated system requirements from various departments like accounting, IS (Information Systems) through surveys and interviews.
• Analyze and interpret complex commercial mortgage documents, financial documents and leases.
• Worked on Integration methodologies, IBM and informatics tools. Database integration including data models, data marts for Derivatives and fixed income team
• Lead and/or Participate in OTC related projects and initiatives impacting OTC Derivatives & Alternatives, undertaking testing and other relevant components, including sign-off as required
• Represent the OTC & Alternatives group on internal Committees and working groups as required
• Support the review and execution of legal documentation surrounding OTC derivatives
• Originate mortgage loans by establishing client relationships, maintaining referral partners and marketing to potential new sources
• Researched, analyzed, gathered data, defined and developed requirement specifications for Mortgage Product, Compliance and Regulation Projects and performed testing. Responsible for Monitoring various agency updates, compliance notifications and laws. Maintained professional and effective communication with internal staff and clients providing follow through.
• Experience in project management and information technology applications with Finance industry in Commercial Banking and Mortgage Loan.
• Extensive knowledge in loan life cycle, credit risk and mortgage including MBS/CDO.
• Provided Anti-Money Laundering review of State Street/Investors Bank and Trust clients. Completed other compliance projects.
• Maintains currency in laws and regulations pertaining to anti-money laundering compliance.
• Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), wealth management and risk management.
• Understood Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Wealth Management, and Sales and Marketing.
• Primarily involved in the Mutual Fund trading activities of Domestic and International Equity, Fixed Income, Money Market, and Cash Investment.
• Documented Requirements for Activity management, Fixed Income, Asset Management Services, Client portfolio management, Order management system, Performance, Equities, Reconciliation, Transaction capture/Execution and reporting requirements for the user interface.
• Finding, filing and tracking bugs with JIRA using debugging and production databases
• Incorporated Rational Unified Process (RUP) to create Business Requirement Document Specifications using MS Visio and MS Word.
• Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income, US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds
• Worked on Integration methodologies, IBM and informatics tools. Database integration including data models, data marts for Derivatives and fixed income team
• Extensively involved with the trading activities of Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Equity Derivatives and Commodity Derivatives; and Futures including Commodity Futures Contracts and Financial Futures.
• Proficient in Financial, Banking and trading concepts such Mutual Funds, Check Processing. Worked in trading and risk environments especially on Credit. Experience in Financial products such as FICO’s Blaze Adviser.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wire Frames with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Mapped financial data, general ledger data, loss event data, transaction data and people reference data from source to target database for creating a central Risk Data Repository (RDR) as required byI reporting regulations.
• Worked on Integration methodologies, IBM and informatics tools. Database integration including data models, data marts for Derivatives and fixed income team
• Lead and/or Participate in OTC related projects and initiatives impacting OTC Derivatives & Alternatives, undertaking testing and other relevant components, including sign-off as required
• Proven previous OTC Derivatives experience in an Investment Management Company or similar environment, with experience of participating in complex projects/initiatives, building relationships and enhancing OTC process/infrastructure
• Involved in changing the functionality to calculate due date in the transaction for proxima payment terms and changed the auto adjustments package to pl/sql code instead of pro C code.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in RequisitePro and managed the concurrence of the parties involved with respect to the evaluation criterion

Environment: JSP, Oracle, HTML, XML,DOORS, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Jira, XSL, PL/SQL, Rational Rose, MS Visio, RUP, UML, MS Project, SQL, MS Access, MS Excel and MS Word

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted PMO Leadership Team with the coordination and administration of the Project Management Office including but not limited to the following activities: managing and adjusting project timeline, IT development work efforts for standardization of project implementations, administration duties, monitoring deadlines, activity and issue tracking.
• Deep understanding and experience of Investment Management, Asset Management, Prime Brokerage Services, Money and Capital Market Instruments
• Cash management practices were implemented in the project for automated clearing house, sweep accounts, and balance reporting services.
• Working with clients to better understand their needs and present solutions using structured SDLC approach.
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Acquired extensive knowledge of financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, and Commodities & FX Currency).
• Expertise in quote and trade related-data associated with equity, fixed-income, financial derivatives, currency, and other investment instruments. The term market data traditionally refers to numerical price data, reported from trading venues, such as stock exchanges. The price data is attached to a ticker symbol and additional data about the trade.
• Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), wealth management and risk management.
• Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income, US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds.
• Worked on Risk analysis, Securities (Stocks and corporate bonds) and their valuation, Portfolio Management (risks and returns) and analysis, Asset Allocations Bond pricing, Financial Derivatives, Cash flows, financing structure, Capital Management, Stock Valuation, Amortization, etc.
• Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), wealth management and risk management.
• Interaction with clients to understand a broad range of reporting requirements, and validating it with the regulatory requirements for reporting for a Prime Brokerage.
• Interacted with Business Owners, Users, and Stakeholders to identify Business System Needs, evaluated solutions for business problems, and prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• Represented the business requirements in various alternative views such as analysis models, process flow diagrams and user stories.
• Prepared Requirement specification document for Cash Management Module with the Client
• Participated in the UAT for Broker/Dealer conversion for integration using Mercury Test Director.
• Worked with SMEs of different groups to gain detailed knowledge of Treasury Services, Commercial Loans, and RSA SecurID Setup to understand the cross impacts of the system.
• Prepared Cash Reconciliation Workflow.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to define the impact of the new requirements on the existing GUI and further prepared Business Impact Analysis Reports.
• Extensively used tools such as Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, MS Access
• Worked on multiple short term projects in between and co-led teams
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate with each other, resolve problems at an early stage.
• Coordinated with the test team to check the Weekly Status and Report it to the Project Manager.
• Responsible for Interacting with the Developers to explain the proposed changes and ensure understanding of the system requirements to handle these changes.
• Generated reports using Crystal Reports.
• Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income, US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds
• Worked on Integration methodologies, IBM and informatics tools. Database integration including data models, data marts for Derivatives and fixed income team
• Collaborated with Basel II team on credit risk analysis and issue resolution.
• Involved depth understanding of Credit Risk management for the application
• Extensively involved with the trading activities of Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Equity Derivatives and Commodity Derivatives; and Futures including Commodity Futures Contracts and Financial Futures.
• Proficient in Financial, Banking and trading concepts such Mutual Funds, Check Processing. Worked in trading and risk environments especially on Credit. Experience in Financial products such as FICO’s Blaze Adviser.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.

Environment: SDLC, UML, User Count Tool, Rational Tools Suite, MS Project, MS Office, Windows XP, SQL.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a business analyst to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Securities and their Valuation, Asset Management, risks and returns, Bond Pricing, MBS, ABS, Derivatives (repos, interest rate swaps), Money Market Instruments and used strong knowledge of financial statements, cash flow, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Budgeting, trade capture application, risk management, and Investment Accounting.
• Interacted with Cash Management Division and Compliance Office to review the AML (Anti Money Laundering) requirements and provide Positive Pay service to reduce check fraud
• Worked on project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including RUP, RAD, Waterfall and Agile.
• Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income, US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds.
• Facilitated with Data Governance effort and assert best practices
• Implemented full project lifecycle phases including Requirements Gatherings, Design and Analysis, Construction, Integration, Quality Assurance, and Installation.
• Implemented and Used SWIFT messaging system to test the flow of messages from and into the new system and was also involved in ETL process.
• Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, corporate actions, Brokerage and Trading Model within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.
• Offered excellent Cash Management Services including Account Reconcilement Services, Automated Clearing House, Balance Reporting Services, Cash Concentration Services and Sweep Accounts to large business customers
• Documented Business Process Requirements with Use Cases and facilitated JAD sessions to define AS IS and TO BE IT processes for the TIERS project a conversion from Unisys COBOL to client/server.
• Facilitate with Data Governance effort and assert best practices.
• Worked with Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Equities, Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing.
• Assisted with preparation for internal audits, and Federal Reserve Board audits in fixed income.
• Worked with SQL query tools and business objects. Designing, modelling, developing and supporting Data Management Systems for fixed income FO team.
• Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income, US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds.
• Worked on Integration methodologies, IBM and informatics tools. Database integration including data models, data marts for Derivatives and fixed income team.
• Expertise in quote and trade related-data associated with equity, fixed-income, financial derivatives, currency, and other investment instruments. The term market data traditionally refers to numerical price data, reported from trading venues, such as stock exchanges. The price data is attached to a ticker symbol and additional data about the trade.
• Strong Subject Matter expertise in Fixed Income, Equities, Equity Trading Cycle, Portfolio Analysis, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Derivatives, Portfolio Management and Wealth Management.
• Documented Requirements for Activity management, Fixed Income, Asset Management Services, Client portfolio management, Order management system, Performance, Equities, Reconciliation, Transaction capture/Execution and reporting requirements for the user interface.
• Analyzed the system from both Technical and Business perspectives and prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Worked with other BAs to make an Object Oriented Model of the application and create Use Cases.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to strategize the Implementation of RUP effort in different iterations and phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Ensured all trades on futures (CME, CBOT, NYMEX) and OTC products are accepted and allocated correctly in a timely manner
• Extensively interviewed traders and front office support to understand the trade booking of equity derivative in Fidessa and TOMS (Bloomberg). Documented and analysed Converts, Structured products and Listed options trade booking model with front office.
• Conducted interviews with traders, Front office support and front office technology to understand the trading of equity derivative products and capturing the impacts on the future state.
• Analyzed the existing business process flows for Equities and Derivatives to gain understanding of the existing system and documented the business process flows for the proposed system. Business flows documented contained information flowing from upstream applications to the downstream applications and any impact made using GUI by the users.
• Advise the organization on profitable options, interest rates, future market behaviour, FX derivatives and currency hedges
• Review the documentation process related to derivatives contract and confirm accuracy and legality in mentioned terms and conditions.
• Used Test Director and HP/Mercury Quality Center for updating the status of all the Test Cases & Test Scripts that are executed during testing process.
• Create and maintain requirements, test cases and defects in Mercury Quality Center
• Provided superior client interaction to make sure all needs were met.

Environment: SDLC, Rational Tools Suite (Rose, RequisitePro, Clear Quest, Clear Case), HP/Mercury Quality Center, UML, SQL, MS Project, MS Office.