Senior Analyst Resume
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
Senior AnalystResponsibilities:
- 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
Senior AnalystResponsibilities:
- 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
Senior AnalystResponsibilities:
- 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