SUMMARY

• Seven years of experience in Business Analysis, Process Re-Engineering and Project Management in the Financial Services Industry
• Demonstrated ability to analyze financial and business activities, identify process strengths and weaknesses, including the ability to understand and describe process flows and develop creative solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Extensively worked with Fixed Income Securities, Equities, Global Depository receipts, Asset Management, Mortagage backed securities and integrated them in the system

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business analyst

• Led business process IT transformation project to transition excel based financial reporting to an automated Oracle interface OBIEE reporting system
• Responsible for participating in all aspects of product life cycle management from concept through execution for reporting system integration as assigned by management. The position required a thorough understanding of market demands and technology trends
• Identified, documented and analyzed Business Requirements through conducting Joint application development JAD sessions and performed GAP analyses to derive requirements for existing system enhancements
• Identified product ineffeciencies in key areas of the monthly reporting process including data accuracy, process time and intended functionality and provided recommendations in a pro-active manner
• Prepared the project plan and carried out the implementation through working with cross functional teams to execute the system integration and measure progress
• Worked closely with customers, both internal and external and product specialists to assess business needs and provide products that supported and met those needs
• Cultivated and screened new product ideas, assisted cross-functional teams to develop and implement new or enhanced products or services
• Accomplished significant results through reducing processing time by 50 and improving accuracy by 60
• Maintained project and action plans. Engaged cross functional teams on a daily basis to complete project and go-live 3 months ahead of schedule

Confidential

Business analyst

Confidential is a leading international banking group, with a 150-year history in some of the world's most dynamic markets. Standard Chartered is ranked among the top 20 companies in the FTSE-100 encompassing diverse businesses including Personal Banking, Business Banking and Private Banking. It banks the people and companies driving investment, trade and the creation of wealth across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Standard Chartered was focused on developing an efficient financial reporting interface for their diverse businesses through implementing financial dashboards that automated the reporting and reconciliation process.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Project insight on implementing Dashboards for the entire Bank, to consolidate and improve reporting efficiency for multitude of Businesses including Financial Markets, Asset Liability Management and Corporate Finance
• Identified and collected business requirements through conducting interviews and Joint application development JAD sessions involving all key stakeholders, businesses, operations and technical resources
• Documented business process flows, functional specifications and business requirements
• Developed the project breakdown plan based on the functionality for various modules. Delivered metrics and summary of the release to higher management
• Interviewed teams from the US and Singapore and asked detailed questions to ensure the new reporting system integration met the service level agreements
• Cultivated and screened new product ideas, assisted cross-functional teams to develop and implement new or enhanced products or services
• Tracked and reported key product development metrics while driving continuous improvement of the process
• Performed the user acceptance testing UAT and Functional Testing of the project and raised concerns, cautions and notified development teams through UAT results

Confidential

Business analyst

Confidential is the largest deposit bank in the world operating in six primary financial services sectors including custodial services, treasury services, asset management and wealth management. The client required implementation of a new integrated suite of on-line financial applications called ADR Inform aimed at enhancing the service offerings of financial information and decision-making support tools for the Global Depository securities division.

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Global Directors to identify and document business requirements and liaised with the IT team in the system implementation of ADR Inform
• Managed the scope, planning and tracking of all stages of the project to deliver a high quality business platform
• Performed the Gap-Analysis during system integration and developed use cases to handle these gaps to ensure smooth integration of the system modules and processes
• Incorporated the logic to timeline corporate actions through issuances of securities and calculated sector wise capital raisings and security transaction fees for the Global Depository receipts
• Coordinated series of meeting for getting the approval from different stakeholders for a new proposal and applied all necessary adjustments to existing product requirements documents as needed
• Worked with internal and external resources as needed to collect and track requirements for special needs, for example specific key clients and new markets
• Participated in stakeholder satisfaction issues by working with training and operations to understand issues and propose solutions

Confidential

Business analyst

Coordinated with Fixed income analysts, Portfolio managers and Technology teams to gather and document business requirements and identified key challenges in managing the system integrationStandard Poor's is a leading provider of multi asset class and real time data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, wealth managers and corporations worldwide. Its broad suite of capabilities is designed to help perform analytics, track performance, identify new trading and investment ideas. The project involved an in-house development of an application, addressing the needs to access detailed information about fixed income securities. The specific module developed was the Bond Search center that enabled customers to search for bonds online and obtain associated reports.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with key business users and the technology team for defining the project scope and deliverables
• Designed Business Use Case diagrams using RUP and Rational Rose
• Developed Use-Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, and Interaction diagrams using Rational Rose and MS-Visio
• Developed specifications for modules based on fixed income security domains like ABS, RMBS, CMBS and CDOs
• Implemented the logic for calculating Yield, Duration, Volatility, Spread, Sharpe ratio, Sortino Ratio etc. for the Fixed Income products
• Assisted users in conducting User acceptance testing UAT to test the final application, to ensure all user requirements were catered to by the application