EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• A result oriented professional with 11 years and 6 months of experience in Business Analysis, Testing (SIT/FT/UAT), Reconciliation, Back office & Middle office Operations, Post Trade settlements (T+2), Functional Change Management and Team Management in both Offshore and Onshore models.
• Experienced working with major clients in Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Retail Banking, Mutual Funds Services and Registers & Transfer agency.
• Hands on experience working on Trade Surveillance (Trade Monitoring) application for a leading Investment Bank.
• Proficient in analyzing the requirements for developing Back office & Middle office applications used in Investment banking world.
• Experienced working in Agile, Waterfall and Iteration SDLC methodologies.
• Proficient in analyzing the Change Requests and propose BOW tasks (Book of works) with Business and take it forward with Development and Testing teams
• Experienced working in Pre - matching and Post settlements (Clearing & Settlements) in OTC Fixed Income securities and OTC Derivatives areas
• Controlling the risk involved in settlements area for the major Intercompany/Interbank client.
• Possess good knowledge and experience of Securities Trade Life Cycle (Front/Middle/Back Office, Clearing & Settlement Operations) and management.
• Well versed in managing End-to-End Financial Accounting, Ledger postings (P&L, Control & Nostro reconciliations using TLM Smart stream), Manual payment creation, Break resolution and Error Financing Cost (EFC)
• A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, capable of thinking In-and-Out of the box, generating new design solutions and ideas.
• Serve as the liaison between all IT and the business in understanding key business processes, business data, and requirements.
• Holds Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMIF) qualification, certified from National Stock Exchange (India)
• Good understanding and knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Trade Life Cycle, Clearing & Settlements, Testing (System Integration/Functional /User Acceptance / Regression Testing), Business Analysis, Cash Reconciliation using TLM smart stream, Back office & Middle office Operations (Pre-matching & Post trade settlement) and Measures /controls required to mitigate Operational risk.
• Functional Change Management and Team Management in both Offshore & Offshore models
• Functional Knowledge about Securities Markets (Fixed Income Products and Derivatives).
• Analyze, Propose and capture the requirements for New Change Request/Enhancements from business users and driving the project throughout the SDLC.
• Well versed in preparing, presenting walkthrough presentations on the business scenarios to various audiences (Development, QA Team and System Users).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Skills: Process Mapping, AS-IS and TO-BE Maps, Use Cases, Impact analysis and Testing. Test scenario and Test case preparation

Domain Skills: OTC Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Interest Rate Swaps (IRS), Fixed Income Securities (cash settlements), Mutual Fund Services (Transaction Processing System), and Registers & Transfer Agency services.

Languages: UML, HTML, C, C++, VB and SQL.

Databases: MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows 95/2000/NT/XP.

Office Tools: MS Office 2003 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinated in Project Planning, Project Sizing, Organizing and monitoring the team on a daily basis.
• Perform analysis on existing functionalities and Test cases that could impact due to the delivery of new Change-Requests (CR Impact analysis).
• Lead weekly & monthly meeting to prioritize catalogue items and end-to-end project deliveries with the users, and Technology teams.
• Understand Up-stream and Down-stream applications and system architecture as a whole.
• Coordinate with different QA team and Mange the test environments and coordinate completeness.
• Conduct and perform System Integration Testing (SIT) and Functional Testing (FT) in respective environments. And track the status in HP Quality Center (QC) for reporting purpose.
• Coordinate and facilitate the Business users while User acceptance testing and acquire Signoff
• Perform Regression Testing post UAT and provide signoff to move code to Production environment.
• Conduct walkthrough sessions with Automation team to build regression suits for existing common functionalities.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

• Involve in requirements gather, preparation & review of functional specification document to build in a new Reconciliation.
• Configuration management and matching rule setting for Reconciliation for respective asset class per client request.
• Act as an Administrator for Intellimatch module. And analysis on L3 Production support.
• Understand/capture the new business needs from business users and provides the logic to L3 support
• Conduct a walk through with Development & business teams on BOW tasks (Book of works) covered in a Scrum and played active role in all the phases of SDLC
• Preparation of Test scenarios and perform System Integration/Functional test.
• Involve in resolving production related issues after release/Implementation of requirement.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering, development and Testing for the new Change request from business.
• Conduct walkthrough on functional requirements to the development team and involve in Gap analysis.
• Finalizing the testing approach and base-lining the test scope
• Prepared functional test scenarios/ test cases and conduct testing in respective environments
• Perform root-cause analysis on issues raised by users in Production environment.
• Review the change requests raised by Product specialist/Business users.
• Lead daily meeting to discuss on priority items with the Users and Technology teams.
• Coordinated in Project Planning, Project Sizing, Organizing and monitoring the team on a daily basis.
• Publish the Test statistics to the audience and keep the management up to date

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Detailed walkthrough of functional requirements to the development team and Business.
• Worked closely with development team to ensure the build is In-line with client’s requirement.
• Lead regular meeting to prioritize catalogue items and end-to-end project deliveries with audience.
• Coordinated in Project Planning, Sizing, Organizing and monitoring the team on day to day basis.
• Planned and coordinated SIT release with support team in Asia (China, India and Singapore).
• Coordinated with all Interface application Development/QA teams to understand system architecture.
• Prepared functional test scenarios and conducted walkthrough with Development and testing teams
• Actively involved in Test environment preparation and Management
• Communicate regularly on progresses to the users, development team and management.
• Anticipated issue and escalated to management and users as and when required.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Act as a point of contact between Development, Business and Testing teams.
• Review the test cases prepared by testing team and provide inputs if required.
• Review the change requests raised by product specialist and testing team.
• Performed CR Impact analysis on existing functionalities that could impact due new requirements.
• Tracking the test status on regular basis and reporting to the required Audience.
• Supported business users while User Acceptance Testing and Post production.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in managing Financial Accounting postings, Control/Nostro reconciliations, investigation, break resolution on TLM smart steam & client services.
• Mitigating operational risk by providing early resolution on Post settlement breaks and controlling the volume by proper delegation.
• Holds good command on Transactional Life Cycle Management (TLM Smart stream system) which is used for reconciliation in Investment banking operations world.
• Resolution of Interest and Error Financing cost (EFC) and root-cause analysis on re-occurring cash fails.
• Meeting the standards set by Client and Market Regulators and mitigating business risk.
• Identify the root cause for system related issues and bring to the notice of Global Support Desk and get them fixed.
• Conduct User Acceptance testing on enhancement release and provide signoffs.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Pre-matching, Confirmation, Exceptional handling and Fails Management.
• Processing, payments, clearing and ensuring client’s standing instructions for remittances payment are properly carried out.
• Involved in managing Financial Accounting postings, Control/Nostro reconciliations, investigation, break resolution on TLM smart steam & client services.
• Liaising with Agents and Custodians for receipt and delivery of bonds.
• Managing Service Delivery of Line of Business, escalations, capacity utilization & report risk.
• Anticipated issue and escalated to management as and when required, to mitigate Operational risk
• Worked closely with IT Support to ensure the new Changes/enhancements are in-line as expected and preform User acceptance testing.
• Coordinated with Front office, Middle and Back Office teams to understand downstream applications and prepare SOPs (Procedure) documents for the process.
• Interacting with other function heads - Sales, Trading, IT Support, Operations, Product Control, Risk Management, Legal & compliance to ensure implementation is successful

Confidential

Client Reliance Mutual Funds

Responsibilities:

• Managing mutual funds operations like daily purchase, redemption’s and switches, etc.
• To meet the investors requirements in both quality and timeliness.
• Coordinate with Custodians, Reconciliation Agencies, SEBI, Stock Exchanges and Investor Service Centers and Auditors.
• Coordinate with Development and testing team in migrating legacy to new built TPS application.
• Drafting functional requirement documents and walk-through with technology team.
• As application user, Supported testing team in UAT and production.