Professional Excellence Summary:

• More than 10 years of experience in IT and Financial domain.
• Strong business analysis and database management skills.
• Working knowledge of capital markets - derivatives, Rates products Swaps, Securities and Loans and FX product.
• Excellent track record of managing global development and test teams spread across multiple geographic locations.
• Awareness and adherence of ITIL process Problem, Incident Change management .
• Extensive experience in the complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Decisive, Creative, Self-motivated, Action oriented and results focused professional.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, interpersonal and business facing skills, written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-orientated, collaborative environment.

Technical Skills:

Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Unix, Autosys, SCRUM, Agile, JIRA, Shared Point, MS Visio, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, integration testing and UAT, Aqua Data Studio, Eclipse

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: Technical Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• The role involved working closely with IT/business mangers, test teams, and business stakeholders to ensure the successful scheduling, quality assurance and implementation of change to the Production environment.
• Acting as representative for the technology team in project meetings with Risk business partners, championing business requirements and ensuring that solutions meet the required standards for the business.
• Performed Requirement Gathering from users via face-to-face discussion and group workshops, Gap analysis was performed to determine the performance of current system changes and desired change, documenting, and approving the difference between business requirements and current capabilities.
• Queried database-using SQL to validate clients accounts data during testing process to ensure changes has been applied correctly.
• As part of user acceptance testing phase, created and executed test scenarios to confirm if the new transition change has been implemented correctly as per functional specification
• Effectively overseeing the implementation of new systems and enhancements to existing systems.
• Feasibility checks on new system solutions were executed by running business procedures as per the new business requirement.
• Created user documentation called wiki for future references and provided user training and ongoing support on the new system.
• Mentor mixed onshore and offshore team of 6 during the support phase after new migration/release.

Confidential

Role: Market Risk Senior technical BA/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• My role mainly includes Requirement Gathering and Analysis Job shadowing MRA activities for firmwide/broker dealer reporting and interviewing other users such as front office IT and modellers , interacting with development/test team during documentation and implementation process.
• Liaise with stakeholders to understand business priorities and requirements
• Analyse and model relevant requirement processes and document as is process. Assist the project team in designing a to be process.
• Demonstrated the impact of procedures and their effect at business. Critically review and recommend changes to processes in part or in their entirety. Example: The compute cost of the pricing engine on which VaR and Stress testing results of firmwide positions were calculated by overnight batch was delayed due to duplicate configuration. During the analysis, the long running impacted positions were identified and configuration was corrected after required business and risk managers' approval.
• Occasionally was involved in defining the project plan and other project related documents/deliverables.
• Was involved in user acceptance testing to confirm if the new changes have been implemented according to agreed requirement.
• Reporting to senior managers and other stakeholders on critical production issues and application changes in a timely manner.
• As part of adhoc run, requirements were gathered from MRA for London holiday processing and developed procedures after feasibility analysis and were reviewed, agreed by users and IT risk managers. Signed off procedures were then executed by the offshore system analysts to sustain BAU.
• Participated in setting up stress testing scenarios for Basel 2.5 and 3 runs to calculate banks capital and other regulatory runs as part of parallel runs.

Confidential

Role: Market Risk Technology Business analyst

• Verifying data used for risk calculation from various trading desks for Broker Dealer Business
• Timely availability of simulation results from overnight risk calculation processes
• Analysis of issues related to asset data used for risk factor generations and product category wise risk exposures.
• Analysis and investigation of incorrect risk measures VAR, Stress Test, Default scenarios, Greeks for various market traded products.
• Daily interaction with financial modelers as part of resolving incorrect risk exposures identified.
• Monitoring of various End of day report runs required for risk analysts for ASIA, Europe USA.