SUMMARY

• Possess Masters in Business administration with essential analytical, presentation & prioritization skills to analyze the gaps and suggest cost effective solutions to increase efficiency.
• Accomplished Business analyst with proven track record of identifying and documenting the process improvements in the system with an ability to translate these business requirements for technical understanding.
• Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong knowledge of technical implementations, QA processes in Agile (Scrum) framework.
• Involved in various agile ceremonies and elaboration of user stories for multiple business scenarios.
• Participated in project review meetings to monitor progress of the project to ensure timely completion and delivery of the project to the client.
• Highly motivated, positive and goal - oriented analytical approach with a great ability to build and lead teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Skills: Agile Methodology, Risk Management, Gap Analysis, Process Improvement, Analytical Approach, Stakeholder Management, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Team Oriented, Interpersonal, Effective Communication.

Tools: Rally, JIRA, Quality Center, Share Point, MS Office, MS Access, MS VISIO, XML, Salesforce.

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand the business requirements and processes through document analysis workshops and workflow analysis.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to communicate with both business and technical teams effectively.
• Able to build excellent relationship with key stakeholders and business partners.
• Elicited business requirements and documented in the form of user stories using JIRA.
• Conduct and lead Product backlog refinement and grooming meetings for the technical teams.
• Participant of various Agile Scrum ceremonies like Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Meeting.
• Work as Liaison between business and technology group and help facilitate the User acceptance testing(UAT) to expose functional/business logic problems that Unit testing and System testing might have missed out.
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems based on criticality and impact to business process.
• Maintain the project documentations using the established tools like Jira, SharePoint.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop test cases based on requirements to verify web based application by collaborating with business analysts in agile environment.
• Create Test scripts and execute functional test cases.
• Perform web service testing using Soap UI to validate data integrity and business rules.
• Create, track and follow up on Defects using HP ALM.
• Perform self and peer review of the test artifacts and attend defect prevention meetings and root cause analysis meetings.

Business/ Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting and managing meetings with stakeholders/clients to gather requirements for implementing and enhancing financial system.
• Responsible for performing gap analysis, risk analysis and monthly reporting & documenting the organizational impact due to the process enhancements.
• Created user stories using JIRA and participated in backlog refinement meetings to enhance user stories.
• Acted as a liaison between the business users and technology team to implement software enhancements, document business use cases and refine future financial system requirements.
• Worked closely with traders, trade support teams, system users and developers to identify and resolve the current fixed income, derivative trade related system issues.
• Communicated the action plans, status and priorities to stakeholders.
• Performed UAT with the business users for testing Trade cycles.
• Part of defect resolution meeting between business users and technology teams to discuss and prioritize issues raised during UAT testing
• Hands on experience with financial product systems such as trade operations systems (Bloomberg), Risk Management System (QTE), Risk and P&L System (DBrat), Middle Office System (Summit), Back Office System (GL).

Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Financial Analyst in the IB Accounting & Control Dept. for EMEA Region - OTC Derivative Business.
• Part of Global Credit Business for EMEA-London client and involved in activities such as Reconciliation of Front Office/ Risk Management System (Murex), Middle Office (Mondrain) and back office (GL) side P&L (FOBO Recs) and its detailed investigation in case of discrepancies.
• Responsible for interacting daily with Clients and technology teams to identify Trade details and its downstream system impact or feed issues if any across the entire trade life cycle of OTC Derivative products such as CDS’s & IRS’s.
• Performed month end critical activities such as posting and closing ledger accounts in specified timelines for CDS & IRS recons, preparing balance sheets for CDS & IRS and reporting it to Middle office, Monthly postings of Brokerage fees and FVP fees etc.
• Responsible for Inter Entity Reconciliation and its detailed investigation. - Worked closely with Technology team in order to automate Inter entity rec by using MS access database achieving an efficiency gain of 6 hours each month.
• Handled monthly process of GLRS which includes owning and substantiating more than 1000 GL accounts.
• Worked on an IRS REC automation project which was focused on migrating a manual IRS rec into automated rec by using TLM tool (Automated tool created for Recons) as a platform for ASIA & EMEA credit trading.
• Hands on experience on financial systems such as Murex/Kapital (Risk Management System), Mondrian (MO data) Arcordia (Accounting System), GL-Merit (Ledger Data).

Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Closure of Financial Statements on a monthly basis and reporting to NY Legal Entity Controller for Australia LE.
• Posting of Entries, Variance Analysis and Query Resolution regarding monthly closure of accounts.
• Administrator for Asia GLRS (General Ledger and Reconciliation System) for Australia Location including activities such as Opening accounts for Account Owners, assigning ownership to the appropriate account holders, handling daily queries of Account owners.