SUMMARY:

• Senior Business Analyst /PM with 15+ years’ experience leading large global Business.
• Provided exceptional experience and value to the users.
• Aptitude for quickly learning systems/ processes.
• Combining qualitative insight, data informed analytics, and creativity with hands on execution to deliver innovative solutions in collaboration with provided teams and partners.
• Effective in fostering collaboration and consultative relationship with senior management.
• Recognized by peers, subordinates and senior leadership.
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines.
• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results
• Strong CCAR and DFAST Knowledge
• Strong knowledge on Data Reconciliation
• Strong on Financial Data Analysis
• Strong on Data warehouse/Data Mining
• Strong in ETL and Testing

PROFICIENCY:

Big Data Management

Banking and Capital Markets

Regulatory & Compliance

Business & Financial Analysis

Agile & Waterfall SDLC models

Innovations/Process Improvements

Data Governance

Business Intelligence/Trade Life Cycle

Executive Dashboards

OTC Trading

SOX Control/Audit

Risk Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: BI Tool, ETL, SharePoint, SQL Server, Microsoft Office 2013, MS Azure, Data Virtualization, Cubes, Service Now, Agile Scrum, AXIOM SL, Visio, Balsamic, Tableau, Impala, Java, Oracle, PEGA 5.5, XML, SOA, API, Mainframe, DB2, Web Services, Cloud, .Net, Cognos, FTP, HP Quality Center, QTP, Toad, Silverlight, Xuber, JIRA, Rally, Kanban, Denedo Platform 6

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PM/ Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• CCAR, Timely and accurate risk data for effective reporting
• Consistentunderstanding of customer across multiple products and functions
• Lead the drive to Improve Financial and Regulatory Reporting: Provided more timely and accurate reporting, ensured alignment with regulatory requirements of SIFI, enabled reasonable response to regulatory deadlines and inquiries
• Ensured alignment across external reports, e.g. FR - Y9C, FR-Y14 (A,M,Q), 2052a, LCR
• Responded to BASEL III requirement for detailed data supporting regulatory Audit Brought Operational Efficiency, Agility, and Insight to CIT’s data
• Consistent data sourcing and clear accountability, ensuring data hubs
• Reusable content lowers cost of integration and helps eliminate duplicate reconciliations
• Identified the requirements forRegulatory Reporting working with Reg. Business team
• Directed the transition of legacy data applications to a single class A - Data warehouse
• Worked extensively on data migration
• Worked on SOX Audits
• Lead the requirement discussions to document analyze and translate functional and non-functional business requirements into project specifications, business process diagrams and workflows.
• Big Data analysis support for business users and other stakeholders involved in the creation of business requirements
• Participated in Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Scrum Meetings and other agile activities
• Established IT controls in conjunction with overall enterprise governance.Achieved Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Lead the requirement discussions to document analyze and translate functional and non-functional business requirements into project specifications, business process diagrams and workflows.
• Big Data analysis support for business users and other stakeholders involved in the creation of business requirements
• Created and guided inputs to develop test strategy and functional test cases
• Acted as a subject matter expert.
• Built interactive dashboard using Tableau
• Dependencies (RAID) log as a part of incubation deck with PowerPoint
• Strong Analytic and Graphic design skills along with strong Written Communication Skills.
• Expert level of PowerPoint and Excel working knowledge of finance technology and IT systems
• Monitored and reported project progress through project plan & weekly status reports (WSR)
• Assisted Product Owner with Backlog grooming, User Story development and prioritization
• Participated in Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Scrum Meetings and other agile activities
• Create /update project deliverables, artifacts and technical specifications in accordance with client requirements.
• Creating SQL Queries, Analyze SQL Server Database. Query database to extract set of data for the required condition to support the analysis and manipulate using excel to arrive at a conclusion
• Working sessions of sprint demos to business users and training the users and identified trainers.
• Responsible for rollout support and transition to application support desk team.
• Understand business strategy and identify technologies that will improve and enhance organization's business goals
• Working on change requests review and approval by the Change Management.
• Conduct Gap Analysis between the existing application to overcome in the newly build application

Sr. Business Analyst / PM

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created product related presentations and prepared the demo scripts to be presented to executive and senior management
• Managed coordination and Governance with Business users internationally and Trained users for rollouts
• Documented Lessons Learnt and created Best processes out of it
• Worked on SQL
• Data Migration from old SICS Systems to Zuber
• Worked with senior executives from business side in US/Canada/Singapore/Bermuda
• Worked closely with Development/QA/UAT/PreUAT/Infrastructure/Architecture teams
• Managed Parallel Testing/Security Testing/User Acceptance Testing and Pilot UAT

Data Analyst

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Strategy creation for contingency planning and risk mitigation
• Worked on end to end Trade life cycle
• Scope planning and managing change control activities at program and work stream
• Reports the project progress and contingency planning to senior management and or stakeholder as appropriate
• Handled entire end to end project with all integrated cross functional projects
• Big Data Analysis and Data Mapping
• Maintain the project plan and hitting the milestones in MPP
• Ran Weekly Touch point, Wrap up, Checkpoint, Escalation meetings
• Worked on Business Readiness and End User Readiness
• Scheduling of all meetings/workshops, setting agenda/rooms.
• Document minutes and key points in the meeting. Share the minutes and next steps with all the participants
• Prepare action log, issue log, lessons learned tracker and best processed, stakeholder matrix, risk log
• Report financial performance throughout the project lifecycle
• Worked on FIX protocol
• Worked on OTC Trading
• Worked closely with Development/QA/UAT/PreUAT/Infrastructure/Architecture/NFT teams

Business Analyst

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Maintained project plan in MS Project
• Drafted functional requirement specifications (FRS) demonstrating current process and modified procedures for various GAPs identified during the requirements gathering sessions. Conducted functional requirement gathering sessions with business users to define key business requirements. Release Management
• Prepared workshop material and track the entire planning phase
• Coordinated workshop with various teams and stakeholders by setting meeting, rooms, agenda and all the required infrastructure
• Defined communication Strategy with IT/Business and Stakeholder
• Managed the projects and requirements, DFA Initiatives, CCAR Initiatives
• Designed specifications for transforming the data from the Stress Test runs to be consumed for CCAR. This included both Internal and Federal Scenarios.
• Worked on stress scenarios like a. Identification of key risk drivers for the portfolio, depending on Markets and geography, b. defining severely adverse scenarios, c. Translation into portfolio parameters etc.
• Worked with several CCAR Scenarios, which included Global Market Shocks, Adverse, and Severely Adverse etc.
• Designed reconciliation framework for regional reconciliation between Primary Trading Systems and Risk/Settlement Systems. Created requirements for reconciliation between FO trading systems and risk systems
• Provided expertise in the areas of analysis and design for DFA 165e, (Single Counterparty Limit), DFA 619 (Volcker Rule). Through understanding of all risk metrics (VAR, PE, EAD etc.)
• Use report templates or create new templates, customize for regulatory reporting
• DFAST Testing
• Participated in the implementation of enhancements to Stress Testing models, methodologies.