SUMMARY

• A passionate and experienced technology leader in the banking & financial services industry with good knowledge of Asset classes (Rates and Credits), Bonds, Credit Derivatives, Market Data and Reference Data (MarketIT, Moody’s, Fitch, S&P etc.), Regulatory and Reporting, Equities and Corporate Actions.
• Have good understanding of OTC markets and end - to-end trade life-cycle from sales to reconciliation.
• Over 9 years’ experience in preparing both Business and technical requirement documents.
• Expert in Data Integration and migration from multiple external and internal vendors for process automation
• Demonstrated ability in managing large amounts of complex data in various projects from requirement gathering, Data analysis, Data mapping, Data warehousing, documentation and KPI dashboard preparation
• In-depth knowledge of SDLC methodology and preparing, performing and co-ordinating QA, UAT tests
• Expert in Reconciliation Process Automation in - Intellimatch (iMatch); including building new Recons from requirement gathering, configuration, testing and production implementation.
• Excellent facilitation skills in conducting surveys, questionnaires, interviews, brainstorming and JAD sessions.
• Senior team member and project lead responsible for analyzing, architecting, designing and developing various cross-asset IT projects for Internal Control (IC) and Independent Price valuation (IPV) projects.
• Managed projects from inception to completion for regulatory projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

BA/BI Tools: MS Project, Visio, Crystal Reports, Namara, HP QC, MS SQL; In process Power BI & Python

Agile/Dashboard tools: Tableau, JIRA, Confluence & Isuite

Accounting Software: Oracle GL (Cloud), Intellimatch, intellitrac and QuickBooks

Database and Corporate Applications: Compass, FundServ, Panagon, Oracle AR (Billing), SPIDER, IPV, ADP

Interacted Applications: Bloomberg, MarkIT, Reuters, Sim Corp Dimension, Charles River (CRD)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Business System Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business users and developers to document and disseminate requirements for Order management System enhancements
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives
• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning for 3 Order Management Application Development team
• Works effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks
• Guides team through continual improvement process
• Help the team in functional analysis and design in development efforts
• Utilized Agile methodology to promote open, continuous communication among team and with users
• Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engage business clients to elicit business requirements and understand business objectives
• Produce business analysis related documentation, including requirements, support current and future state processes and workflows, and solution specifications to high quality standard
• Responsible for documenting business process mapping including current and future state processes, workflows and System Test Script.
• Work with business and solution teams to ensure that solutions being delivered meet business intent and provide business value
• Develop and maintain relationship with external counter parties and their credit personnel
• Log and monitor project issues from discovery through resolution for all financials modules.
• Coordinate issue tracking meeting with both business and implementation team.
• Review and produce artifacts for initiation, scope/charter, resource, WBS, risks, testing, cut-over, and maintenance/support
• Collaborate with business and information technology stakeholders facilitating the selection of solution alternatives for implementation

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Part of Independent Control Risk Management Audit team; lead and interpret data requirements including identifying business rules & relationships amongst data, identify data elements and non-functional requirements.
• Review and complete analysis of requirements to determine process automation specifications including data file elements, report specifications, application architecture set-up, data warehousing, import format mapping, import filter criteria, match rule criteria and data enrichment criteria
• Liaise with the stakeholders to syndicate results and present impact analyses.
• Facilitate meetings with Reconciliations and operational lines of business to discuss potential process changes to help streamline the automated reconciliation process
• Document detailed data requirements, required data transformations/mappings, setting up ETL connection (Recollector) and communicate business data representations.
• Partner with Technology teams to ensure data files and report design specifications meet the requirements and participate in the negotiation of solutions
• Present Reconciliations and act as a liaison for the communication of assigned changes with operational lines of business to ensure downstream business impacts are minimized and conditions for successful implementation of automated reconciliations are understood
• Configure Imatch including - Import formats in Recollector, Automatch rules, Data enrichment in intellimatch.
• Perform reconciliations and completeness checks against the General Ledger in test environments
• Coordinate and implement test plans, test cases, training strategy development, training plans, parallel test strategy and plans, and test documentation
• Create user guides and train new users on how to use vendor reconciliation application in relation to the converted automated reconciliation process

Confidential

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide business expertise to new projects and initiatives for global operational and reconciliation processes
• Coordinate early in the project stage to understand the business requirements and the changes that will affect support teams, making sure the deliverables are delivered on time with minimum impact to the production and that post project implementation will be without any issues
• Work with SWIFT messages and Prepare Project Documents for the Support staffs for new Projects
• Perform Operational Acceptance testing for all new projects and enhancements to existing Reconciliations
• Document existing processes, design functional specifications used to build core functionality
• Assist technical team lead and developers in understanding the business requirements.
• Prepare the test plan/strategies and test cases for Operations Acceptance Testing.
• Executed SQL queries to extract and manipulated data to map external data to the system