SUMMARY

• Senior Business Analyst with full life - cycle implementation experience
• Extensive experience with the BIG 4 Accounting firms; defined and detailed the project scope of work and deliverables. Well versed on PCAOB, AICPA and Leading Practices methodology for Corporate Accounting and Financial Reporting.
• A detail orientated professional working independently with knowledge of Audit & Assurance based on E&Y's Global Audit Methodology (Substantive Audit Test procedures). Sarbanes - Oxley related Internal Audit services, control test work, compliance, monitoring, process improvement and reporting.
• Managed operational, financial and technological aspects of projects as per the time-lines established within project plans to meet the milestones
• Goodunderstanding of financial market instruments - equities, bonds, futures, swaps, forwards, options, and structured debt - Fixed Income Products, Treasuries, Muni’s
• Project work in areas of the transaction lifecycle including: Trade Capture, Front-Middle-Back processing flows with P&L reporting for Equities and Fixed Income Securities.
• Understanding of financial products and trade life cycle knowledge for Product Control reporting
• Well versed with Equities & Fixed Income Products Processing for P&L reporting (Trade Enrichment, Clearing/Settlement, and Position Management, Coupon Processing, Interest Accrual, Accretion P&L, and Cash Div. for Equity, Posting Sets - Sub Ledger / Trial Balance)
• Reporting requirements in domain - Market Risk, Liquidity Risk, Credit Risk, Trade Life Cycle and Position Reporting.
• Documented Project Charter, Plan, Business & Functional Requirements as per methodology (Waterfall / Agile-Scrum) for Senior Management reporting
• Project work for Big 4 Advisory Leading Industry Practices toolkit, identifying key controls, KPI (Key Performance Indicators), Use Cases, Business / Functional Requirements, Change Requests and creating scenario based test plans with subsequent testing and documentation.
• Capital markets experience working on projects with the Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office and Technology teams
• Project work using Leading Industry Practices toolkit to identify controls that help mitigate inherent operational and financial risk for following Business processes:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Business/Solutions Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Cross Functional tracks / teams setting as required for Pilot project - Process > Risk (Risks of Material Misstatements on the Financial Statements) in the Audit domain for Confidential Clara
• Documented Product requirements with Concept Deck, User stories for Process with a Risk based audit approach in accordance with PCAOB and AICPA guidance for FSA and SE Workflows
• Analyzed and documented business & functional requirements translating to reporting requirements & specification.
• Performed testing to validate that implementation meets quality standards and product specifications
• Scrum methodologies using agile tools (JIRA) for Epic, Stories, Use Case preparations and backlog maintenance
• Conceptualizing reporting requirements with wireframes / mockups for Dev team
• Identifying, tracking and managing project issues / challenges to ensure they are reported on and resolved in a timely manner.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leverage Exposure - Reviewing test strategy; test matrix and plans, test cases for regression, integration, test data planning and validation, and UAT (user acceptance testing).
• Risk Analysis and Reporting requirements for Various Projects in Treasury, Group Finance and Market Risk domains for Regulatory Reporting.
• Documented reporting requirements wrt data sourcing, processing and manipulation to meet CCAR reporting (Y-14, Y-15 & Jump off Points reports) on a single platform to integrate the components of capital planning/ CCAR FR Y-14 reports (including trading & counterparty schedules)
• Performed Initial Data Analysis in order to create high level specifications for technical teams to build on Reporting & Analytics Platform for Confidential end users / Regulatory Reporting. Providing status updates on SIT/UAT progress using tools like ALM, JIRA & MS Project
• Sourced reference data related Pricing, Accounts & Securities, Mapping requirements to data points for enriching Trade Positions and Mark to Market Pricing
• Tracking defects on a triage call ensuring the project delivers the expected value and aligned to expected deliverables.

Confidential

Senior BA / PM

Responsibilities:

• Asset Transfers/Movements & Core Custody work streams: Gap Analysis for new onboarding clients’ requirements for the potential TO BE Strategic solution
• Documented BRD, FRD and Use Cases: for a Dashboard on client notifications reconciliation project for Investor Communications department.
• Working with globally spread out business and technology teams and preparing user manuals and process documents. Tracked & managed project deliverables using project management tools on SharePoint based on Agile & Scrum methodology.
• Creating and maintaining program and project artifacts, including, but not limited to: Overall program project plan, ongoing status reports, issues logs, change management log, status report decks, budget tracking, project milestone tracking, and project charters.

Confidential

Senior BA / PM

Responsibilities:

• Documented gaps within Feeder systems in accordance with the Audit & Attestation requirements across all relevant securities above for the existing tactical solutions (DOI & CGRS applications) across different LOB’s (Asset Management, Corporate Investment Bank, PB & Hedge Funds).
• The scope of the securities spanned across all the asset classes: Equities, Derivatives & Fixed Income/Debt Securities; relevant securities include the disclosure of long and short equity positions: Borrow/Loan Street & Internal (including Cash and Cash settled OTC products).
• For CGRS reverse engineering project - deliverables include BRD and FRD for SEC reporting (16-F, 16-G filings)

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering / Data Mapping to determine the daily Unrealized and Realized Trading P&L, daily Coupon calculation for Fixed Income Products, Accretion P&L for Fixed Income products
• Calculation of Cash Dividend Income / WHT Withholding tax for Equity products; Yield to Price conversion for When Issued securities.
• Posting set changes that generate daily posting entries to the firm’s General Ledgers and Reconciliations with other downstream systems (Back Office / Stock Record systems)
• Additional requirements gathering for downstream feed and Reporting of P&L for Basel II reporting and other various key consumers of GTPL (Regulatory Compliance Systems, Counterparty Exposure Systems, Market/Liquidity Risk Systems)
• Scope of Products processed in GTPL and working knowledge of Accounting for Fixed Income Securities based on Trade events for the following structured products processed
• Intercompany reconciliation - for a given day within GTPL about 1.5 million trade messages received from various Citi trade processors. Designed the process for identifying issues on Intercompany trades received across various Legal entities on different Citi platforms (Smith Barney, Salomon, etc.)

Confidential

Senior BA/PM, New York NY

Responsibilities:

• CPC clients to upgrade with new products or services,across various Asset classes, Trading Systems for Account Opening and Maintenance work stream for Client On boarding.
• Assist in UAT testing and managing defects through H-P Quality Center.
• Coordinating and performing user acceptance testing; tracking progress towards goals established as part of the Program Management initiative.
• Designed test plans and specified functional test cases for functional and user acceptance testing.
• Conducted daily defect report meetings and presented progress updates on daily status calls.
• Executed test cases and track results using a defect log and test results reports for Dashboard reporting; SQL queries to validate reporting requirements

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Formalized business requirements into system requirements for implementation by dev team; Acting as SME for downstream systems - Standard Accounting Reports, Fixed Income Performance Attribution reports based on reference data feeds from different sources: Accounts, Pricing & Securities
• IAEP (Intraday Accounting Enrichment Project) - Reviewed test plans, scenarios, and data created by test team for accuracy and completeness.