SUMMARY

• A Business Analyst with over 14 years of experience in the field of Finance Industry, Capital Market, Mortgage Industry, Insurance Sector, Retail Banking, Custody, Investment Banking etc.
• Thorough knowledge of financial and investment management industry in diverse areas such as Risk management and analyses, Portfolio management, Fund accounting, Fixed income instruments, MBS, and amongst other major aspects of Investment Banking and Investment Management.
• Excellent knowledge of industry standard methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process as per Rational Unified Process (RUP), CMM (Capability Maturity Models) and Rational Tools used during various phases of RUP.
• In Depth understanding of the AS - IS and TO-BE business processes and experience in converting these requirements into technical specifications for preparing test plans.
• Excellent Analytical skills to understand the business process and Functionality, Requirements and to translate them to system requirement specifications.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, design and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions to converge early toward a design acceptable to the customer and feasible for the developers and to limit a projects exposure to the forces of change.
• Proficient in customizing already existing business practices, workflows, activities and deliverables. Preparing graphical depictions of use cases including Sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, use case diagrams including the business workflow.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and understanding of Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), BASEL II, and Tax accounting rules.
• Hands on experience with investment systems including vendor trading systems or trade order management systems, such as Bloomberg etc
• Experienced with various asset types including in-depth knowledge of Fixed Income securities and derivatives.
• Project experience with commercial and retail banking, investments, FX Trading, brokerage and mortgage industry.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements through user interviews and interactions with various subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Analyzed business requirements using requirement arbitrage process and assigned appropriate priorities to each requirement.
• Responsible for identifying the data requirements, analyzing them and preparing data mappings and data dictionaries.
• Involved in developing project charter, project plans and in identifying the major milestones and tasks along with the schedules.
• Effectively conducted the JAD sessions and finalized the user requirement specifications.
• Translated the user requirements specifications into functional specifications and prepared the business process models, data flow diagrams (DFD) using MS Visio.
• Effectively managed the requirements and requirement change requests during various phases of project life cycle and initiated a repository to store change requests for future considerations.
• Involved in preparing the test cases for functional and integration testing with detail expected results and outputs. Also involved in business continuity / disaster recovery testing.
• Reported the defects using Clearquest with analysis details so as to assist the developers to fix the defects faster.
• Performed database (RDBMS) validation using SQL and TOAD and also used MS Excel.
• Compared and analyzed the daily data feeds and managed the retirement of the older application which resulted in increased estimated earnings by around $275K/quarter.
• Developed the UAT test plans, test scenarios and test cases, mapped each requirement for effective test coverage and conducted User Acceptance Testing.
• Developed and maintained the Issue / Defect matrix and provided the status reports to the project team members during the defect resolution meetings.
• Actively participated in Release management and deployment processes including the Operational readiness testing and production testing.
• Prepared user training plans and provided end user training and presentations prior to the production dates and was involved in planning of deployment and post-deployment strategies.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and maintaining relationships with clients as they pertained to new enhancements, GAP analysis, monthly reporting, and current expectations.
• Responsible for the gathering of requirements, from clients, completing business analysis, and writing of the Data Dictionary, Preliminary and Final Function
• Wrote Functional Specifications for a large domestic fixed income system.
• Responsible for the management of the software process from requirements gathering, documentation, management approval, client approval, development, to testing and final presentation to the client.
• Defined program and project goals, objectives, products, services, constraints, assumptions, risks and facilitated processes by working with the project team, sponsor, and stakeholders to baseline the scope of the work and enable development of the plan.
• Conducted user interviews at both in-house and client locations.
• Monitored and assisted in designing and development of Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Acted as the liaison between the business (Fixed Income- General Ledger) and the technology area to implement software upgrades, create new reports, document business use cases, conduct user acceptance testing, and design future enhancements for the trading platform.
• Worked closely with traders, portfolio managers, the equity and fixed income support team, project managers and developers to enhance functionality and to correct problems with fixed income, equity and derivative trade related systems
• Worked with Portfolio Management/Accounting system and handled Corporate, Municipal, Treasury, Agencies and High Yield Traders.
• Worked with Fixed Income Trading System: Bloomberg Portfolio System and handled Corporate Bonds, Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), Asset Backed Securities (ABS), Inflation-Linked Treasury Bonds (TIPS), Municipal Bonds, Warrants and Preferred Stock,
• Work includes enhancement topics such as: Uploads, downloads, Auto Pair off of Financing (repurchase agreement / Repo) transactions, and the calculation of Interest, Expense, Accretion, Amortization & cost of carry, as they pertain to Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) and Management Reporting

Environment: Rational Rose, RUP, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Visio. ETI Extract, Data Junction.