SUMMARY

• Lead BA/ PM for Big Data Visualisation Report Portal for Risk & Compliance involving disparate systems .
• Lead BA for doing impact analysis, process flows, data gap and map analysis and high level system design changes for EU - Brexit project involving FINMA, EBA and UK Regulator (FSA).
• Involved in identifying risk exposure, measurement and monitoring in regulatory domain for CCAR ( SPOT and Projections) and Basel .
• Designed and implemented inhouse developed statistical model for General Credit Risk (GCR) and Standardised Specific Market Risk ( SSMR) for CCAR SPOT and Projections involving products such as Banking Book Bonds, Open Trades, Commercial Lending,Other Assets, Private Equity, Debt and Equity positions .
• 20+ years of experience in Business Analysis, DW Implementations, Product Customize Consultation, Project Development, Application Implementation, Product development across domains such as Capital Market, Treasury, Asset Liability Management, Retail, Corporate Credit, Credit Risk, Credit Rating, BASEL II, Basel 2.5, Basel 3 Regulatory Reporting, Global Data Warehouse (GDW) and Data Mart ( DM)
• Risk and Finance analytics SME with 20 years of Global Financial, Banking, Risk and Regulatory capital reporting experience
• Lead BA for for strategic sourcing of FR Y 14 A ( all sub schedules) and 14 Q sub schedules namely E (Operational Risk), F (Trading), G (PPNR), H (Wholesale Risk) and Schedule L (Counterparty Risk) for CS Holding USA Inc for CCAR.
• Expert in design and implementation of inhouse developed statistical model for CCAR SPOT and Projections involving products such as Banking Book Bonds, Open Trades, Commercial Lending, Residential Loans Other Assets, Private Equity, Debt and Equity positions. Developed and implemented PD, LGD and Risk Pool Models as part of Basel implementation.
• Rich experience in identifying and establishing business processes, collecting, analyzing requirements and conducting business workshops with user groups.
• Proven expertise in translating business requirements into a meaningful and effective logical data model by utilizing business skills.
• Bridge the gap between business and technology by translating business requirements into technical terms for the development team.
• Liaise with users / stakeholders as BA lead for project deliverables, timelines ensuring client satisfaction.
• Exceptional interpersonal, relationship management and team leadership skills.
• Business collaborator focused on maximizing efficient interaction between people, process, and systems.
• Manage and train BA’s on specific applications and domain business knowledge.
• Expert in agile methodologies, SDLC, Waterfall methodologies, and best practices.
• Skilled in planning, architecting, developing and delivering complex financial systems
• Proven abilities in Business Analysis, Consulting, Data Gap analysis, user support and communications and an extensive background in the full SDLC life cycle from initiation/ estimation of Book of Work till delivery and Post-Implementation signoff.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a deadline driven and challenging environment with strong analytical, business and project management skills.
• Support development and QA team, closely liaise with build team and actively participate in Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Go-Live
• Acquire new business by presenting POC to internal clients on Calculation Engine, RWA logic and Finance Data Portal
• BA/PM for Machine Learning Projects in Tax Compliance area for UK IC VAT
• Managing and leading team members; guiding team members during the project, till final delivery.
• Actively involved in business development by conducting sales demo/prototype to internal clients for BASEL II, Basel III, Investment and Treasury products
• Conducting resource estimation, identifying resource requirements, Training needs, finalizing business partners and preparation of Project Definition Document ( PDD), Stakeholders Analysis and Risks
• Updating Internal and Project stakeholders on project status, risks, Issues, project milestones, providing supplier splits etc...
• Prepare Project status, KPI, milestones and project reporting to Steering Committee
• Responsible for product development by collecting jurisdiction specific requirements, coordination with development team in BU and follow up delivery schedule for major enhancements / new releases.
• Testing the functionalities and providing feedback on effectiveness of changes.
• Imparting training to internal clients on BASEL II, 2.5 and 3 and 4, treasury and supporting technical team in terms of business logic, functions during training and walkthrough with clients
• Published articles in India’s leading business newspapers

TECHNICAL SKILLS

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server

ETLTools: Informatica and BDI

BI Tools: OBIEE, Tableau & Qlik

Data Model Tool: ERWIN

DB Tool: Toad, PLSQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Bridge the GAP between business users and development teams .
• Collect functional requirements by conducting business workshops
• Review BRD’s and provide feedback for enhancement of documented requirements
• Prepare functional specification document and walk through with NY and APAC users
• Define interface files / specifications for data acquisition from source systems
• Walk through of FSD with developers of COMET/STAR team in APAC and NY and coordination with development teams
• Prepare Traceability matrix to identify the gaps in functionality
• Interaction with source systems for Data Quality Issues (DQI), analyze the issues in detail
• Discussion with business users on the results of the analysis and suggest optimal provide solution and timeline for the fixes
• Define business /technical specification document for statutory / internal STAR web reports/ BO reports
• Clarification of issues raised by functional testing team on scope, issues and calculations
• Support UIT/FT team for testing and provide clarification for issues raised by testing team
• Handling Change Requests (CR’s) on Banking Book, Trading Book securitization exposures along with Basel III Book of work.
• Coordinate with Development team for the fixes that arise due to issues raised by testing team and reject the issues based on FSD scope.
• Conduct additional testing on complicated logic UAT environment and review the issues identified with users
• Support UAT and analyze the issues raised by business users
• Extend support for production issues raised by users on rotation and analyze the root cause for remediation
• Interface with development teams for prod issue resolution and decide on the timeline depending upon the severity
• Estimation of efforts for new projects ( Book Of work ) and CR’s pertaining to Basel and other projects
• Identification of additional sourcing requirements and conduct data gap and map analysis in terms of reporting
• Automation of capital computations for sovereign / corporate treasury exposures in all three regions
• Conduct BA check out for all monthly releases before handing over the environment to users for Basel 2.5 and 3
• Conduct data analysis in Prod Parallel or production environment for Basel 3 CSAG and Basel 2.5.
• Review with users for any potential issues
• Interface with upstream system owners for any sourcing issues and liaise with internal development teams for remediation
• Engage in acquiring new businesses and converting them into Book Of Work.
• Coordinate with stakeholders on deliverables, deployment and discussions as PM
• Generating Project Status Report and maintain cost plan, Issues, Risks and supplier splits in One PPM.
• Update Steering Committee on the key achievements and milestones of the project

Confidential, Ohio

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To work across various initiative teams to identify the existing current processes in various asset categories
• Asset categorization for various products of PNC in tune with US FINAL RULE
• To work across various initiative teams to identify the existing current processes in various asset categories
• To map existing processes versus US BASEL final rule requirements and identify the gaps
• To recommend measures and suggestions based on identified gaps
• Conduct workshops with users to identify business requirements for canned and adhoc reports for BASEL II regulatory compliance requirements

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed current business processes of internal rating system for Credit Card (Application score and Behavioral score ), Credit Approval and documented the recommendations on improving information processing systems
• Reviewed existing facility rating system for corporate clients and suggested improvements in terms of drivers, categories, parameters and methodologies
• Documented country specific BASEL II requirements, regulatory reports requirements by conducting workshops with business users
• Documented Wholesale Credit Risk jurisdiction specific functional requirement based on the guidelines of Confidential .