Sr. Business Analyst/ Document Specialist Resume

SUMMARY

10+ years’ experience in Front, Middle and Back Office operations with extensive knowledge in all financial products including Equities, Fixed income and OTC Derivatives
Senior BA/PM with 9 years of Financial Services practice working on complex projects using SDLC and Agile Project Management methodologies.
Expert knowledge of GIPS, Advent Axys, SunGard Invest One Portfolio Accounting Systems.
Thorough knowledge of Bloomberg, and Reuters Information Services.
Experienced with Visio, Murex, Summit, Barclays POINT, SQL, ADP, Moxy, REX, and Addvantage.
Series 7, Series 31, Series 55, Series 66.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business Analyst/ Document Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Sr. BA for a current State Survey of all business areas for a Governance, Risk, and Compliance tool selection process. The tools and vendors reviewed included MetricStream and Open Pages by IBM.
Managed/reported progress to Program Manager and CCO to organize project deliverable rollouts.
Prepared recommendations to Architecture Review Board based on work accomplished and POC from Grant Thornton.
Identified/interviewed stakeholders and key business people from commercial investment banking, consumer banking and investment managers, SMEs, the systems used - such as Actimize, Aurora and Star Compliance to track compliance issues and findings.
Recommendations for solution presented to IHC Architecture Review Board and to Global Compliance Management.
Authored BRD and FRD for a new compliance reporting module.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Sr. BA for OTC Derivatives Sub-Ledger/General Ledger implementation to fulfill requirements under the Dodd-Frank regulatory regime.
Using SDLC, documented current state business processes and data mapping for front-to-back securities transaction processing and the impact to Finance, G/L, Financial and Regulatory Reporting, Product Control, Treasury and Financial Data Warehouses. Documentation included business requirements, functional specifications, test plans, test cases/scripts, test execution and project lifecycle events.
Performed data analysis and QA on OTC derivatives trade data for current manual G/L postings.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Worked with senior management and business stakeholders in analyzing existing processes to implement an OTC derivative trade capture application for Confidential and Confidential Front Office systems in order to satisfy Dodd Frank reporting requirements. Assessed how automated functions will be integrated with overall business processes and make recommendations based on analysis.
Coordinated resources located in multiple locations to deliver projects and acted as a facilitator between various teams like Infrastructure, 3rd line, other application teams to resolve complex issues and outages.
Articulated business requirements by developing specifications for business processes and systems enhancements. Document the specifications in detail in a clear, readable format for all stakeholders
Provided functional and technical testing of software versions, before they are exposed to the user base. Create, manage and coordinate test plans and test plan execution.
Create and manage test plan libraries. Reuse, refine and extend libraries to ensure regression testing is at the highest level of quality.
Determined/provided trend analysis, incidents resolutions, root cause analysis and other metrics needed to steer application related activities. Identify and provide to appropriate stakeholders.
Ensured all application related documentation and training are adequate and current.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Worked with business users to identify/resolve technical and data issues for the Confidential OTC Derivatives Accounting Application that was implemented to satisfy Dodd Frank reporting requirements.
This included trade entry, pricing, report creation, ledger calculation, and ledger posting.
Collaborated with programmers/developers to detect software bugs, created/completed test cases, and migrated solutions into production region.
Authored BRD for system enhancement that created a function to calculate financing for CFDs.
Tracked all issues effecting the application on a daily basis and reported status to PMO in a weekly conference.
Provided project management and development support to Agile procedures.
Delivered daily and weekly issue status updates to onsite client managers.
Managed offshore resources as requested by client.