SUMMARY:

• More than 5 years of experience in Fixed Income trading, back/middle office operations and audits
• Strong knowledge of financial products, transaction processing, trade settlement, payment services such as wire transfer via SWIFT, reconciliations, data
• Experienced in Project Management, business process engineering and software development life cycle methodologies (SDLC) such as Agile, including design, development, gap analysis testing and implementation of software applications
• Extensive experience in business analysis, requirements gathering, documentation, implementation, user, quality review and enhancement
• Expertise in writing SQL Queries and data analysis

SKILLS:

Core Analytical Skills: Project Plan, Functional Specification documentiom, Business Requirement documentation, DFD, ERD, Use Case/Sequence Diagrams, MS Office, MS Visio, Reports, UML, End User DocumentationMethodologies: Agile,Waterfall, Incremental build model, Prototype model, RAD, RUP

Testing: Test Plan, Test cases, Functional, System, End - End testing, Test Director.

Programming Languages/Tools: JAVA, PERL, UML, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project, Visio, MS office Project

Database Tools: Sybase, ORACLE, Database Studio, Toad, SQL Developer, SQL* plus

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CT

Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined the scope of the project and business as well as functional requirements by holding interviews with key stakeholders and SMEs such as Tax Ops, Cash Management and Reconciliation
• Created Use Cases, activity report, and Business Rules to extract all business workflows and the critical requirements of the Confidential
• Collaborated with the development teams for the design and implementation of the Confidential rule associated with the outgoing payment wires.
• Created sample Wire frames for the UI design
• Created roadmap and timelines for project delivery.
• Escalated RAID’s(Risk issues, Actions & Dependencies) as and when necessary to the senior management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the migration of trading and banking books to a strategic single book management hierarchy system whose remit is to ensure that risk, finance, front office and other regulatory functions aggregate and report data accurately and consistently
• Led workshop sessions across finance, operations, risk and technology to gather requirements associated with the migration of Americas trading and banking books to strategic and global book hierarchy model
• Analyzed more than 1000 books to confirm their validity, associated attributes, and roll up to appropriate desks.
• Prepared and maintained BRD’s, FRD’s and Use Cases in Requisite Pro
• Defined an operating model to manage and migrate regional books to the global book management tool called Bookworm. Utilized UML diagrams such as Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence diagrams
• Employed JIRA for effective Change Management and bug tracking during the testing lifecycle

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive analysis of the current operating model and identified toxic responsibilities within the wires team as part of functional redesign of the process flow
• Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to configure process and create BRD and DRD
• Created As Is and To Be process (using Visio) business process flow diagrams and conducted GAP analysis
• Developed test scripts using SQL for functional usability testing and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure that the test cases and test plans map to business and functional requirements

Associate Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from the various teams across Operations via JAD sessions and interviews.
• Performed data mapping, logical data modelling for data feed, built high level logical data design and created ER diagrams
• Designed Crystal reports to generate the reports for daily and monthly fails
• Adopted Agile methodology to manage various facets of the project lifecycle

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the application analysis and design by taking into account various trade settlement scenarios, business processes and IT infrastructure.
• Led the implementation to generate and acknowledge MT 500 series SWIFT settlement messages using JAVA
• Managed enhancement of the infrastructure required to send/receive swift messages (MT 103,202,500 series) via SWIFT gateway

Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a team to support back/middle office systems such as Trade Entry Systems, Checkout applications, Data applications, etc.
• Provided monthly support metrics such as number of tickets opened/resolved, SLA times to the senior management
• Trained and mentored three members to instill an understanding of the financial products and business processes in order to better support the BAU operations of back/middle office
• Created manuals and quick guides of back/middle office systems for Operations personnel. This effort reduced the number of support calls by 30% from the operations staff
• Improved tracking of daily issues and built user confidence through the deployment of a JIRA tracking system
• Utilized SharePoint to improve the organization and categorization of documents related to the systems and their associated processes

Technical Intern

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing operating model and identified redundant processes
• Designed and developed an application to track trading activity and generate Profit & Loss reports using Perl scripting and Sybase database
• Obtained in JAVA and ORACLE database
• Monitored and resolved production cycle job failures in data loading through ETL tool and PL/SQL procedure calls through diagnostic troubleshooting