SUMMARY

• Coordinated stakeholder interviews, JAD, and story sessions across functional business areas to gather, validate, and document requirements, and ensure their needs are well expressed and understood. Depending on project and methodologies being followed this included the creation of business requirement documentation (BRD), user stories, and use cases.
• Developed functional specifications documentation (FSD) providing detailed process workflows and technical flows necessary for re - engineering existing applications or to build new application functionality. Technical documentation included mock-ups to GUI screens, reports, and files/tables required by stakeholder.
• Conducted extensive technical analysis on application including GAP analysis to assist with documenting as is vs. future state.
• Coordinated weekly status meetings with stakeholder and technology to review project progress during project life cycle. Develop and distribute status decks detailing progress metrics. Also document any necessary change requests.
• Provided level effort of work to senior management for project initiatives as well as detailed project plans and timelines.
• Acted as liaison between business stakeholder and technology groups to facilitate communication during project life cycle, and to ensure that technology understands the business requirements necessary for their build.
• Utilized SQL and PL/SQL knowledge to generate stakeholder management reports, pull data for data analysis, and to generate test data files.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix utilizing EXCEL to ensure that all test cases have been defined for each of the requirements in the requirements documentation.
• Utilized extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Visio, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, and Word during analysis phase of project for developing workflow processes and working documents.
• Worked with technology to provide expertise in building test plans during unit testing, system integration testing, and regression testing sessions.
• Worked with stakeholder to develop user acceptance test plans and assist them with building their user test cases.
• Worked with stakeholder during user acceptance-testing phase of project. Document expected and actual results of testing and provide feedback to technology and project team.
• Coordinated user-training sessions on new or enhanced application functionality. Developed stakeholder documentation to provide instruction on using and understanding new and/or enhanced application functionality.
• Worked with technology to provide end-to-end support and assist during all phases of project through implementation.
• Coordinated efforts between external financial institutions and regulatory organizations when testing with business stakeholder and technology group.
• Provided post implementation follow up to business and technology after go-live.
• Utilized JIRA for defect tracking, reporting issues, and problem resolution.
• Utilized ServiceNow (SNOW) to manage phases of change process during project lifecycle.
• Utilized SharePoint for maintaining project documentation, artifacts, test results, and user application documentation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business Analyst /Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Position, Trade and Nav files from accounting system and setting up of FTP connectivity with Blackrock to integrate files with Blackrock Aladdin system for risk and portfolio analysis.
• Implementation of Blackrock Aladdin OMS system with PAM accounting system.
• On-boarding and set- up of the IHS Markit WSO platform. Provided entitlements to teams and persons. Reconciliations of trades.
• Creation of counterparty files and setting up of FTP connectivity to deliver the various fund files to counterparty.
• Integration of OMS system Aladdin used by Athene to downstream systems for recon and Accounting system PAM.
• On-boarding and implementation of Markit Corporate Action data and Markit corporate Action Workflow solution, Mosaic.
• Migration of On-prem OMS, accounting, Recon, cash wire management, and Trade enrichment systems to Azure cloud servers.
• Back office support and migration of on-prem IVP Recon tool and IVP Cash master to Azure.
• Upgrade of On-Prem VPM 16 accounting app to new Azure VPM 18 version.
• Support of Accounting system, recon and OMS system for on time resolution of front office and operations issues.

Sr. Business Analyst/Project Lead

Confidential - New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Blackrock Aladdin OMS system for various asset classes for trading and risk analysis.
• Met with business users and defined functional & business requirements.
• Performed in-depth analysis of the system’s structure, services, and processes to integrated sterling and Lightspeed with legacy systems.
• Back office support for HIS Markit WSO platform.
• Identified the client/organizational needs and provide suitable agile system-based solutions.
• Implementation of short-sale pre-trade process, according to SEC regulation SHO, with oms systems.
• Analyzed codes to advise changes to the development team.
• Communicated with clients and inform the organization about the customer business needs and specifications.
• Made certain the user stories are good, comply with acceptance criteria, have enough business value.
• Participated in Daily Agile Scrum “Stand-up”, Biweekly Sprint Planning and Retrospective sessions and update the team on status of upcoming User Stories and helped development teams to break down large user stories for execution.
• Assisted in project documents such as Vision Document, Use Case Documents, Gap Analysis,
• Defined Functional Specification documents (FSD) and Software and Requirements Specification (SRS) Document.
• Designed Business Process Flow (as-is system) and System Process Flow (to-be system)
• Designed Process Flow diagrams using MS Visio to better understand the daily flow of the business.
• Designed Use Cases for the intended system.
• Gained knowledge of the financial domain including Equity trading, Technical analysis and fundamental analysis.

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Lead

Confidential - New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Product owner for firmwide Reference Data system PDP. Worked on providing the golden copy of reference data through the asset classes with pre-defined rules on metadata manager for data received through various vendors like Bloomberg, Reuters, OCC, Internal systems etc.
• Developed the data distribution system, Takara, to provide EOD, on-demand and real-time via APIs and EOD files.
• Migration and conversion of firm's legacy in-house back office trades and settlements system onto Broadridge's BPS and Gloss infrastructure for processing domestic and international trades and settlements. Developed SQL/PLSQL Conversion scripts from Oracle/SQL Server database structures for migrating firm's fails, settled inventory, and pending trades over to Broadridge during the conversion process.
• Implementation of short-sale pre-trade process, according to SEC regulation SHO, with oms systems and integration of locates with shot sell trades.
• Analyzed Java and C++ codes to advise changes to the development team.
• Developed current state documentation of in-house legacy trades and settlement system. Conducted GAP analysis between in-house systems and Broadridge BPS/Gloss for ascertaining requirements for future state. Worked with Broadridge project team to develop all future state documentation.
• Coordinated with project stakeholders to develop the Business Requirements Document (BRD), which defined the objectives and financial benefits to the firm for building out the Prime Brokerage business for clients wanting to trade and settle equities and equity derivative products in the domestic and international markets.
• Responsible for writing up the Functional Requirements Document (FRD) which detailed the application process flows necessary for building out the back off trades and settlements system to support the processing and settlement of equity trades in the domestic and international markets, as well as the processing and expiration of listed and index options at the OCC.
• Implementation of short-sale pre-trade process, according to SEC regulation SHO, with oms systems.
• Analyzed codes to advise changes to the development team.
• Implementation of a Global Prime Broker trade and settlement system for cash equity, convertible, and derivative businesses. Daily trade volume 20,000+.
• Re-engineering and deployment of Prime Broker settlement system to settle Prime broker trades via NSCC's Continuous Net Settlement (CNS) system. Enhancement provided $200,000 a year in settlement savings to the client, as well as opened doors to other clients who are interested in doing business with our firm.
• Re-engineering of Japanese agency trades processing interface, and Japanese Settlement system for settling US client trades in the Japanese market Project required extensive global coordination with Europe and Japan.
• Instrumental in coordinating with the Equity Derivative Group stakeholders in setting up Confidential to be a self-clearing member of the OCC. Initiative saved the firm $3 million a year in clearing costs.
• Implementation of Global Affiliate trade and settlement system for cash equity and derivatives business. Daily trade volumes 60,000+.
• Build out of firm's Global Equity Derivatives application for options trade processing and options expiration of firm, firm affiliate, and client option transactions. Daily trade volumes 10,000+.
• Deployment of several global trade interfaces for European and Asian offices. Daily trade volume 50,000+.
• Re-engineering and build out of firm's P&S trade Reconciliation process on a multi-level system platform.
• Providing data feeds for Blue Sheet Reporting, LOPR reporting, and Trace Reporting for the purpose of ensuring Nomura was compliant with rules mandated by key regulatory bodies such as FINRA and SEC.