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SUMMARY:

  • Investment Strategy - Successfully managed to launch the Whole Loan-yield enhancement strategy that resulted in $4 billion AUM for the Fixed Income group
  • Bloomberg AIM Implementation-Installed the Bloomberg AIM Trading Platform, and the CRD Trading Platform
  • Moody’s MPA Implementation-Managed the Enterprise Credit Risk System Installation with Moody’s Risk Module are based on BASEL and CCAR compliance with scenario analysis on Macro Market and Counter party exposure risk
  • Agriculture Vendor Compliance System-Started and completed the in-house built Agriculture Management System for Agriculture and Timber Investments
  • Private Equities and Private Debts- Installed Vendor system E-Front to house both as portfolio systems
  • Commercial Mortgages-Participated the CM conversion from Summit to vendor system Provenir
  • Reporting Projects- Participated in Reporting projects with Oracle OBI and Tableau systems
  • FAS 157 Valuation Project- Managed the FAS 157 valuation project
  • Brand Website-Successfully managed the fully functional Brand website launch for the Unilever account
  • Digital Transformation-Fully understand and achieved the user journey and digital transformation projects for selected clients
  • Charles River Implementation and enhancements-Requirements gathering with stakeholders, Created test plan, test scripts for QA and UAT cycle

SKILL:

JIRA, Confluence, NeoXam

Charles River Trading System

MarketAxess, Eagle Pace

E-front, PIMS, PAM, Portia

Barclays POINT, Yield Book

Intex, SQL, Bloomberg AIM, Bloomberg GNET

CAMRA, Trade Web, FX-match

Merrin Trading System

Crystal reports and all Microsoft applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Managing Chubb’s strategic Harmonization projects
  • Define project plans and determine the best course of action to achieve goals and expected deliverables.
  • Define and manage the Change management program and provide regular communications to North America General Counsels
  • Work with key client resources to identify project requirements, tasks, dependencies and risks.
  • Provide regular communication of project status and issues requiring escalation to all stakeholders.
  • Ensure project objectives are met by monitoring and measuring progress regularly to identify variances from the plan and take corrective action as necessary.
  • Schedule and facilitate project team meetings to ensure all deployment requirements are effectively communicated to team members.
  • Work with Product Owners to effectively communicate solution requirements and associated priority as part of sprint planning process.
  • Maintain an issues list and communicate key issues to project sponsors and key stakeholders.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for GEMINI Change and Release Program
  • Managing the GEMINI-Equity Portfolio/Trading(PM TOOL/Charles River) Business Acceptance Testing process
  • Working closely with TDM and LIO team to ensure data integrity and systems stability
  • Participating Business Acceptance Testing cycle
  • Creating and managing the daily testing status dashboard to stakeholders
  • Developing and implementing Change Management process for GEMINI program
  • Managing the Impact Assessments process for work streams
  • Facilitating Impact Assessments review session with stakeholders
  • Reviewing workflow diagrams to ensure completeness
  • Preparing readiness reviews for Senior management
  • Communicating program status, performance, milestones, dependencies and issues
  • Managing the elevation process with Technology to ensure successful launch
  • Creating Post plan during and post elevation
  • Developing a change management strategy based on s situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups being impacted by the change
  • Managing work-plan activities, reporting status, and assisting business unit-designated change resources to stay on plan
  • Effectively identifying potential people/process/technology risks and developing a specific plans to mitigate or address concerns
  • Actively involving in Portfolio Migration activities with Front office, Investment Operations and GDM team

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Elicit requirements and operational objectives by using interview sessions
  • Conducted document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions
  • Created use cases, scenarios, task and workflow analysis
  • Served as Product owner proxy for stakeholders in a Agile delivery environment
  • Created user stories and participated in Sprint planning with Scrum team
  • Managed and lead on the Enterprise Business Strategy project for selected clientsServed as Program Manager on the “brand” websites project for Unilever AccountCreated and presented pitch deck for Global Markets clientsPlan and executed the BASEL FRTB rules implementation for clients on Fixed income and Equities business.Facilitated FUSION sessions with clients on delivery of multiple projectsWorked as Lead Business Analyst capacity to implement the Fiduciary duty rules for major financial clients.
  • Used Excel pivot and v-lookup to slice and dice data for in-depth analysis and provide solution based on root cause.

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Determines and analyzes current state processes and system landscapes and architecture
  • Elicit requirements and operational objectives by using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
  • Worked with the Fixed Income Portfolio Manager team for requirement gathering to customized the trading platform.
  • Served as Product owner proxy for stakeholders in a Agile delivery environment
  • Created business requirements document for Bloomberg AIM implementation
  • Created user stories and participated in Sprint planning with Scrum team
  • Interfaced with business owners(Front Office, Back Office and Investment Accounting) to understand their needs and secure appropriate project buy-in/sign-off throughout Life Cycle
  • Facilitated meetings with business users, IT team and vendors on issues related to project deliverables
  • Responsible for defining the key identifiers for each data mapping/interface
  • Designed and implemented data integration modules for Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) functions.
  • Used data analysis techniques to validate business rules and identified critical/low quality missing data in the existing enterprise data warehouse.
  • Used Excel pivot and v-lookup to slice and dice data for in-depth analysis and provide solution based on root cause.
  • Serve as the conduit between the customer community and the software development team throughout the project life cycle
  • Identify opportunities for improving business processes through information systems and/or non-system driver changes
  • Translating and simplifying business requirement to drive the design or review of test cases
  • Created QA and UAT test plan
  • Managed daily testing calls to discuss testing results and defects
  • Participated in QA testing and UAT testing as users
  • Lead in discussion and implement process re-engineering based on project scope

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Managed te implementation of Bloomberg that replaced the CRD trading platform
  • Managed and Worked with Business Operations to document Security description data and pricing data as Bloomberg AIM electronic trading platform requirements.
  • Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, use cases, scenarios and workflow analysis
  • Created use case diagrams to explain the flow of events and how different software systems interact with each other
  • Used Excel pivot and v-lookup to slice and dice data for in-depth analysis and provide solution based on root cause.
  • Worked with stakeholders to design and set up individual blotter within the workflow monitor for CRD
  • Configured blotters based on individual desk and based on group functions included Compliance, Data Management, Front Office.
  • Gathered requirements from Corporate, Structured product, and High Yield bond desk for the Bloomberg Trade system integration.
  • Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements
  • Worked with the business to understand new business requirements which can be interpreted by a technical team of developers and provide assistance/guidance throughout the delivery period.
  • Developed test plans, test strategy and test cases; assist in helping other BA’s and QA’s (onsite and offshore) to performed system integration testing and User Acceptance testing
  • Managed resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.
  • Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
  • Served as Product owner proxy for stakeholders in a Agile delivery environment
  • Created user stories and participated in Sprint planning with Scrum team
  • Partnered with business group and project manager to monitor the project plan to ensure successful completion of the plan activities and delivery of the project schedule.
  • Excellent level of knowledge & experience using both Waterfall & Agile development methodology.
  • Wrote Project related documents such as project charter, Business Requirements and milestones schedule.
  • Created 4 Block report for Senior Management Reporting quarterly basis.
  • Created QA and UAT test plan
  • Managed daily testing calls to discuss testing results and defects
  • Participated in QA testing and UAT testing as users
  • Lead in discussion and implement process reengineering based on project scope

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst/Consulting

Responsibilities:

  • Managed the analytical aspect of client relationships to provide marketing, product and strategic analysis and reporting
  • Partnered with Account Management to work with their client contacts
  • Analyzed data from various sources such as the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Operational Data Stores.
  • Worked closely with product development team to continual development and enhancement of product platform.
  • Served as Operational and Risk subject matter expert to focus on external clients need on addressing data quality issues.
  • Focused on business requirements for Charles River, Bloomberg, and Data hubs implementation.
  • Synthesized analysis findings and communicating to financial institution partners in order to drive further understanding of the consumer lifecycle and growth of their customer base.
  • Set and tracked project milestones for all participated projects.
  • Wrote business requirements documents and solicit buy-in from business users and approve from management
  • Used Excel pivot and v-lookup to slice and dice data for in-depth analysis and provide solution based on root cause.
  • Wrote Project Charter documents and drafted process flows for front office and back office for trading life cycle and data requirements for each asset classes.
  • Served as Product owner proxy for stakeholders in a Agile delivery environmentCreated user stories and participated in Sprint planning with Scrum team
  • Projects included Central data hub system, electronic trading platform and reporting(Business Intelligence) platform
  • Created QA and UAT test plan
  • Managed daily testing calls to discuss testing results and defects
  • Participated in QA testing and UAT testing as users
  • Lead in discussion and implement process re-engineering based on project scope

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Participated in all activities related to achieving SOX and SAS 70 requirements to enable internal and external auditors to form an opinion on the regions internal controls.
  • Responsible for documentation of key valuation processes (including risks and controls) Perform controls evaluation and assessment.
  • Managed appropriate data governance activities within Data governance committee to access operational risk profile and reporting.
  • Managed the fixed income pricing team for daily pricing activities and reconciled all pricing differences.
  • Supported appropriate documentation and analysis of operational risk scenario; point of contact for events escalation to Enterprise Risk Committee.
  • Identified, created and monitored appropriate key Risk Indicators to proactively identify exposures or control weakness.
  • Used Excel pivot and v-lookup to slice and dice data for in-depth analysis and provide solution based on root cause.
  • Collaborated with technology staff to translate business requirements for departmental projects.
  • Provided guidance during technology testing and implementation for departmental projects.
  • Created UAT test plan
  • Managed daily testing calls to discuss testing results and defects
  • Participated in UAT testing as users
  • Lead in discussion and implement process re-engineering based on project scope

Confidential

Assistant Vice President, Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Participated in implementation and development of Eagle Pace system; ensuring the integration of all data warehousing and control reporting processes.
  • Involved in the UAT and QA testing on Eagle PACE and CRD process flow in risk perspective for Fixed income and Equities data.
  • Investigated data discrepancies within Eagle PACE and CRD QA environment.
  • Worked with the business to understand new business requirements which can be interpreted by a technical team of developers and provide assistance/guidance throughout the delivery period.
  • Set up pre-trade compliance rules and resolved data issues within CRD environment.
  • Supported certain risk reporting requirements between the Operations department and the Client Service team.
  • Used Excel pivot and v-lookup to slice and dice data for in-depth analysis and provide solution based on root cause.
  • Coordinated and tracked the execution of enterprise operational risk efficiency initiatives.
  • Developed performance metrics, operational plans and process improvements including benchmarking.
  • Monitored implementation of established Process work flow between Eagle Pace and CRD implementation.
  • Re-designed processes and procedures within the Data group to achieve more efficient results.

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Created and managed the Security Data integrity operation unit.
  • Interpreted data from primary and secondary sources using sourcing hierarchy
  • Used Excel pivot and v-lookup to slice and dice data for in-depth analysis and provide solution based on root cause.
  • Compiled and validated data; reinforce and maintain compliance with corporate standards
  • Developed and initiated more efficient data collection procedures
  • Instituted the proprietary Data warehousing with Bloomberg data stream.
  • Set up Corporate, Structured security master data in the system
  • Managed the compliance oversight for various accounts through Bloomberg Compliance module.

Confidential

Fixed Income Portfolio Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Managed accurate cash positions in all active accounts.
  • Reconciled daily on cash, equity, fixed income, and index futures trades position.
  • Liaised with Senior Portfolio Manager, Trading, Legal/Compliance, Sales/marketing.
  • Performed daily trade settlements with custodian banks and brokers.
  • Processed monthly Mortgage factor pay down.
  • Processed corporate actions and prepared client statements monthly.
  • Participated operational projects for centralized integration initiatives.

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