SUMMARY

• Experience of 14 years in Finance Domain and 7 years of I.T experience as a Business Analyst developing business processes and system solutions for Banking and Financial Industries in Basel Risk management
• Experienced in OTC derivatives and Trade Life Cycle management and straight through processing of Trade Clearing processes.
• Considerable Expertise in FpML 4.2 and 4.4 standards and Trade Notification standards for OTC Derivatives.
• Considerable knowledge of Dodd Frank act reporting requirements and driving automation efforts in realizing the same.
• Considerable experience in onboarding OTC derivatives for straight through processing by automating trade capture, trade processing, client / management reporting
• Experienced in the automation of Report generation to report exceptions to Management and Accounting.
• Worked on various software development methodology like Waterfall and Agile methodology
• Financial & Functional Business Analyst with Analytical skills in understanding the business process and translating business requirements into system functionality requirements. Excellent technical writing skills to create Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), Nonfunctional Requirements Document and Use Cases Specifications.
• Strong process modeling using UML (Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, etc.)
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, design and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions.
• Subject Matter expertise (SME) in OTC trade portfolio reconciliation, CSA and ISDA setup, trade confirmations, Collateral Valuation and Collateral Margin calls for OTC trade portfolios.
• Working Experience with Collateral Management, Novations, Risk Metrics, Trade Cycle Management, Trade Reconciliation, Anti Money Laundering and KYC Pre - check, Client Onboarding - Setup - Portfolio Management - Reporting and Termination, Trade Clearance and Settlement, Cash - Bond Valuation & Settlement, Central Counterparty Clearing and settlement of collateral.
• Working Experience with systems like TriOptima, Colline, GV Collat, Algo, RADAR, WINS, Remedy, DTCC, Market wire, ICE as well as trade booking systems like SUMMIT, CALYPSO, and MUREX used by various Investment banks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To take responsibility for Gap analysis, Requirements Gathering, Functional Specifications, Migration, and Identification of Interfaces.
• Requirement Gathering, Functional Analysis Gap Analysis and Product Fitment.
• Responsible for Product Implementation, customization details, parameterization etc.
• Understand the impact of change that might have on the product / operations and be able to guide the team accordingly in day- to-day treasury operations (Fixed Income, Treasury, Derivatives, Lending), MIS, along with knowledge of General Ledger, P&L and Balance Sheet.
• To provide functional clarifications on the subject matter.
• Define and document process flows, and train the testing team and end users
• Create test plans, coordinate testing, and implement plans to test business and functional processes.
• Must handle parameterization of Summit modules and Summit FT implementation or upgrade project
• Provide functional support for UAT during implementation / release.
• Supports and manage the day to day activities of the business analysis team.
• Responsible for functional testing of assigned modules.
• Responsible for training of other junior business analysts within the team.

Environment: Summit FT, Markitwire, Visio, MS Project, SAP - Sub ledger,Numerix

Confidential

Business Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducting GAP analysis with expertise in different business areas, application wide analysis and proposal of solutions.
• Performs feasibility analysis, scopes project, recommends alternative solutions, project strategy, and deliverable prioritization.
• Responsible for high level implementation plans, data and process models, cost estimating, cost benefits analysis, and return on investments.
• Conduct Stake holders meeting for all requirements and JAD meetings with IT for development of issue and strategic changes by providing functional overview.
• Responsible for the creating DBRD and High level functional Requirement documents. Complete involvement and review of Designs development done by IT.
• Manage complete resolution cycles of data feed issues including analysis of the issue and identifying fix, implementing and testing the changes, updating functional specifications and releasing changes into production.
• Accountable for UAT / Regression / Functionality testing and Impact analysis from End to End for all new changes and developments. Follow up with business stakeholders and operation users for getting functional signoff to release changes to bank’s production environment.
• Providing Weekly Status to Senior Management regarding the BRAGG Status of the Projects.
• Monitor and escalate any issues which may cause delay in the Project completion.
• Responsible for Timely completion of Projects and within the Regulatory Audit / Compliance Regulations.

Environment: Summit FT, Markit Wire, Markit Trade Manager, Colline, SQL, Visio, Project, Netting Models, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Inflation and Asset Swaps, FpML 4.2 and 4.4.

Confidential

Collateral Consultant - BA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible & Accountable for the trade reconciliation, Margin call clearing & security settlement process for all CP’s under the new EMIR & Dodd-Frank regulations for OTC derivative & Repo Portfolios.
• Preparation of daily consolidated statements reporting encompassing OTC derivative & Repo margin call disputes, OTC derivative & Repo clearance & security settlement activities.
• Provide accuracy and transparency to the client in the margin call process by monitoring and analyzing statements and interpreting and complying with the legal agreements.
• Contacting external clients (and possibly internal clients) to agree on collateral/margin movements across multiple requirements/obligations while ensuring all transfers are eligible under the appropriate legal document
• Monitoring & escalating the collateral settlement fails in a timely and accurate manner to Credit/Risk Management, Collateral Risk Management and Operations.
• Responding to client inquiries, as and when needed, coordinate with the appropriate Front/Middle Office as well as the core processing area in order to facilitate resolution.
• Identifying and resolving client disputes related to both collateral and trade settlement discrepancies.
• Responsible for Creating & UAT testing for new products and change developments as needed, ensuring changes meet the business and client needs under EMIR & DFA regulations
• Documenting the functional & business requirements related to new changes and provides procedures for audit and compliance approvals.
• Developing a complete understanding of Bank policies and departmental controls and procedures.

Environment: TriOPTIMA, ISDA / CSA, Dodd Frank, Bloomberg, Visio

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working with the lead BA in Identifying and forming focus groups of business users and clientele consisting of Senior Executives from hospitals and individual practicing physicians for business requirement documentation based on specialty and years of practice.
• Facilitating workshops with senior executives of the hospital industry to outline key IT changes to support a new product and IT harmonization effort
• Developing scope, business requirements and facilitated JADs to build product to support new sales of EMR product as business for Technofina Services.
• Agile approach, developed prototypes and application, in concert with development of project.
• Working with the lead BA to deliver feasibility study for procurement of new cloud service solution to be used in the development of the EMR product for managing healthcare standards and compliances per HIPAA regulations.
• Coordinated between On-shore and Off-shore team during the requirement gathering and development phase.
• Designed workflows per recommendations of physicians and performed requirement mapping during development.
• Conducted JAD sessions in collaboration with PMO, stakeholders, Developers and users.
• Working with the lead BA to perform evaluations based on surveys from various physician groups using currently available EMR products in order to document pain points and identify solutions.
• Performed AS-IS and TO-BE analysis of current products and expectations of users and stakeholders.
• Working with the lead BA to Develop Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace the relationship between business and functional requirements to test cases. Prepared and executed different Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Working with the lead BA to Create Story boards to best understand user scenarios and created documents with use case scenarios for developers from a system perspective.
• Coordinated UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with the QA team for creation UAT Plan, Test Cases and UAT summary report as part of the standard Project deliverables documentation and involved in the project release implementation process.
• Tracked R&A and completion of tasks by creating and circulating updated R&A matrix after each meeting and taking status reports every week.

Confidential

Transition Analyst & Collateral Margin Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible and Accountable for Transition and migration of Asia Pac Margin call Process from Singapore to Bangalore.
• Experienced Subject Matter Expertise in Collateral Management and OTC derivative trade portfolio Reconciliation.
• Good Knowledge and understanding of OTC derivative trade life cycle from booking till settlement.
• Knowledge with Derivatives trading and clearing processes from middle and back-office perspective.
• Responsible for timely Issuing and handling of all Margin Calls for clients in Asia Pac region - New Zealand, Australia, Tokyo, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taipei by the team.
• Responsible for Validating all the Margin calls and collateral settlement instructions issued by the team.
• First Level Approver for checking and validating margin calls above 25Mn.
• Daily Valuation of client Portfolio Mark to Market and collateral held by SG.
• Issuing of Daily Margin calls and settling collateral - Cash and Bonds based on risk to SG. Also includes Calculation of Collateral - Bond quantity and value for the margin amounts and issuing of Settlement instructions for collateral settlement.
• Experience in Bond Substitution and Settlement and also worked on settlement of Coupons, Interest on bonds and various currencies.
• Handled Daily Reconciliation of OTC Derivative portfolios and resolving of MTM disputes, Legal Entity Breaks and unmatched trades on all the OTC derivative portfolio of clients.
• Investigation and fixing of breaks on new trades, novated and missing OTC Derivative trades both in Rec systems (TriOptima & Algo) and also trade booking Systems (SUMMIT, CALYPSO, FINDUR, MUREX).
• Handled various issues related to trade work flow, trade Confirmations, cash management and Swift fund tracking.
• Advising on the negotiations of new clients to Legal and Risk from CLM prospective and Setting up Credit Support annex and ISDA agreements for new clients on boarded.
• Preparing of Audit reports and handling client adhoc requests.
• Identifying and Understanding the underlying business need to be addressed for project requirement through meetings and conversations with stakeholders.
• Organizing, specifying and modeling the requirements to ensure they are complete and unambiguous.
• Discussing and understanding the process from business users to prepare the requirements map to suit the business needs.
• Writing and documenting all the requirements in a proper format and share them with stakeholders for more clarity and approval.
• Conduct meetings with project and IT teams to list out all the systems and functionalities (technical designs) required for the transition.
• Gathering the IT requirements and also the time span for the changes and getting the same approved by Stakeholders.
• Conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, design and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions.
• Creating Business and Process Functional Requirement documents.
• Creating process flow diagrams for the better understanding of IT team.
• Continuous follow with IT teams regarding the developments, dealing and fixing any breaks in the flow.
• Handled Technical and system setup for the Migration liaising with the IT teams.
• Training the new team with the systems and process migrated from Onshore.
• Handling any day to day issues in process / system breaks in offshore.
• Making sure that the transition is smooth and everything is according to the plan before the go-live date.

Confidential

Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for daily OTC Derivative Portfolio Reconciliation for Fed 16 Clients.
• Worked on Collateral trade disputes regarding MTM Validations, Missing Trades and LE breaks.
• Responsible for the preparation of portfolio reconciliation summary to Client Service Representatives.
• Preparation of daily Dispute summary for all clients to Senior Mgmt.
• Handled Novations of JPMC with counterparties and London Clearing House.
• Querying and Resolving of Counter Party disputes regarding the Portfolio issues.
• Help CSR’s to resolve the Counter Party disputes related to Collateral Calls.
• Responsible for Fed 16 Unmatched trades project >60 days and also for delegation of tasks between junior team members.
• Investigate and find the root cause for the trade breaks and to fix them.
• Review of OTC derivative confirmations for each trade and approach the concerned team for fixing trade booking issues.
• Single Point of contact (SPOC) for handling all the issue causing disputes in FED-16 client portfolios.
• Responsible for setting up and tracking of daily and weekly conference calls with all FED-16 clients for resolving the breaks.
• Preparing of various reports related to Aged unmatched project for Senior Management & for FED Committee.
• Responsible for creation of BO Reports and uploads in TriOptima and Algo.
• Gained Experience in handling trade confirmations systems like DTCC and Swapswire.
• Provided training on CSA and ISDA agreements and terms, REPO trades, RPA’s, Trade Splits, and Credit Events.
• Awarded as “Extra Miler” for Excellent Performance & FED Project Handling for 2009 (Awarded on 09-Feb-2010).

Confidential

Client Service Transition Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Recruited as a part of the team which is responsible and accountable for Transition and migration of Client Service process from NY to Bangalore.
• Acted as a Product specialist for Quant & Active equity and Channel specialist for Public’s & Taft Hartley clients within Bangalore Client Relationship Management team, working closely with the regional Client Relationship Management teams.
• Gather data for Institutional client reports from various GSAM teams and systems & provide complete Client Service on reporting front as per client requirements.
• Acted as a liaison for Legal and Compliance teams regarding Client Onboarding & Client Termination/Liquidations
• Responsible for new client set up, finalizing client portfolio and the reporting requirements.
• Assisting the Client Relationship Managers (U.S) with the day-to-day client requests (Adhoc Tasks like Client Audit requests, Assets Summary report with Holdings and NAV details, RFP’s & Questionnaires).
• Responsible for setting up Quarterly Portfolio Reviews with clients, CRM’s and Portfolio Managers.
• Responsible for preparation of Quarterly Questionnaires for all clients with the portfolio performance data.
• Was a part of second round transition to move to a client aligned model from New York to Bangalore in 2008.
• Also successfully Transitioned Account Implementation & Ongoing Tasks from New York to Bangalore in 2009.
• Successfully taken over the Board reporting Process for Sub-advised Clients from New York and Prepared Board Reports for Sub-advisory Clients for the Board of Directors meetings.
• Act as an admin for RADAR Tool. Monitor and Update the tool with the client data (contacts & correspondences, Mandate details) and their requirements.
• Also Acted as PPM admin. Worked with Legal, SIG team and Account Implementation teams to get the Private Placement Memorandums & Limited Partnership Agreements for various Hedge funds and Mutual funds and distribute them to the clients globally excluding Japan as and when they require.
• Was part of 7 member team sent to US for migration of Client Services process for the first transition and I have handled the Second & third transitions alone.
• Collected all the data required from business users and CRM’s for preparing the migration plan.
• Created a road map and plan for the transition and list out all the tools and systems required to set up the process in offshore.
• Set up meetings and discussions with various operational teams to learn their extent of role in supporting the CS team.
• Liaise with Onshore and Offshore Operations teams together to help them understand the exact support required.
• Creating Business and Process Requirement documents with each and every data provided and trained by business users.
• Liaising with offshore IT and project teams to get the systems and tool setup. Making sure that there are no environments, citrix issues or firewall issues in migration of the process. And also checking for Legal and compliance approvals for the migration of the process.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, design and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions.
• Played key role in the creation & development of ICR tool - Institutional Client reporting Tool. Helped the Tech Team in planning and designing the tool.
• Played instrumental role in the creation & development of WINS - Workflow Initiation & Navigation System enhancement project and assisted in UAT testing. Tested all the scenario’s required for the development of the tool before the code freeze and also post the release.
• Provide the status reports to the stake holders and the onshore business users.
• Extensive testing on the ICR tool in the live environment to check all the functionalities are working perfect without any breaks.
• Provide business user support on various technological developments to the Institutional Client Reporting systems & tools.

Confidential

Research Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Trained and Experienced in analyzing the financial statements of companies listed in NYSE, TSE, AMEX.
• Responsible for the research and updating of Actuals reported by companies in Thomson tools.
• Interpreting the forecast & outlook of the companies for future year in comparison with Market movement and Market Sentiments.
• Handled Quality checks, Training and Team meetings.
• Played a key role in performing feasibility study for identifying new process that can be migrated, learnt the process from the on-shore partners and then successfully transitioned them.
• Responsible for identifying and valuating the Key Performance indicators for Pharmaceutical clients.
• Have been awarded for Good Performance and Quality in 2006.
• Involved in the creation and testing on Thomson One tools and products.
• Also was involved in testing of Base-line tool while migrating it from NY.