SUMMARY

• 9+ years of Business Analysis experience with the ability to work independently and manage business expectations with a delivery - focused approach to work; ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with senior and junior business sponsors, as well technical specialists.
• Extensive experience in analyzing and requirements gathering and writing system functional specifications including use cases.
• Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models.
• Experience on working in Commercial Lending in a bank or in IT projects with a bank.
• Extensive experience in Investment Banking and loans and has specialized in the areas of Securities Trading (Stock Trading, Fixed Income trading, Equities and Derivatives trading), wealth management, Cash Management, Money & Capital Market Instrument, Treasury and risk management.
• Expert knowledge of finance industry, capital markets (Primary market & secondary market), Asset management/Portfolio, Risk management/Wealth management, Retail private banking and Investment banking, Anti money laundering (AML).
• Experience in Investment Banking, under various processes of F&O Brokerage, Etrading middle office & Marketing Support within financial offshoring / outsourcing space
• Good Knowledge of various financial products like Stocks, Bonds, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Collateral Mortgage Obligation (CMO), and Fixed Income Instruments.
• Knowledge with investment banking regulatory reporting regulations like Basel II Accord
• Extensive experience in conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, Data Analyses, Data Mapping Gap Analyses, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risks Analyses, and Risk management.
• Deep understanding the knowledge of Risk analysis, Securities (Stocks and corporate bonds) and their valuation, Portfolio Management (risks and returns) and analysis, Asset Allocations Bond pricing, Financial Derivatives, Cash flows, financing structure, Capital Management, Stock Valuation, Amortization, etc. Experienced in securities trading on different products.
• Strong experience in RUP Business Modeling process.
• Good knowledge of relational database management system.
• Acted as a liaison between the business and the technical team in the areas of Software Design and Development Life Cycle and Web based technologies.
• Experienced in requirements gathering, software analysis and design, documentation and communication of business design on complex business requirements.
• Followed the Agile methodology, RUP Rational Unified Process and SCRUM in the project development
• RUP engineering disciplines such as Business Modeling, Requirements, Analysis and Design, Implementation, test, Deployment. Supporting RUP disciplines such as Configuration Management and Change management, Project management, Environment, Iteration Modeling.
• Proficient in developing Analysis Model, Use Case Diagrams, Behavior Diagrams, Class Diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose for business process.
• Experience in interacting with business users to identify information needs and initiating process changes, Requirements gathering, and strong in authoring Use case diagrams using UML and use case specification documents (USD).
• Proficient in user acceptance testing (UAT), unit, integration, functional, load, regression testing
• Adept at preparing business requirements documents (BRDs), functional requirements specifications (FRS), system requirements specifications (SRS), defining project plans, and delivering project/status reports.
• Extensively used Modeling Tools to develop business process models, use case model, process flow diagrams and UML diagrams that include activity, state, sequence, Collaboration, Class, Entity relationship and Business Process diagrams.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills, which facilitated a high level of collaboration among co-workers in a team-oriented environment.
• Strengths include multitasking, handling Multiple Projects, designing and handling complex business solutions, creating design documents, writing user manuals and guides.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of addressing relevant facts and recommending solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: Portfolio Accounting System, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Dream Weaver, FrontPage, MS Project, MS Visio, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Rational Rose and Load RunnerLanguages: FpML, XML.

Data Bases: Microsoft Access, My SQL, DB2, Oracle (SQL Queries). Change Management Tools Service NOW, IBM ClearCase

Version Tools: Visual Source Safe, CVS, SVN (Subversion), JIRA (Issue Management).

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP, NT, 2000, 98 & 95, Linux, UNIX, MacOS.

Processes/Technologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Scrum, Agile, Waterfall, Clear case, Req-Pro, Use Cases, Workflow Process Flow and UML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD's) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Managing all aspects of the data Processing department in terms of Punching, Coding, Data Validation, Processing into Tabular reports
• Provide front line support for all trading activity including execution, clearing, settlement, and post trade analysis
• Provided inside sales support to foreign exchange traders by assisting in trade entry, settlement information entry, and new client documentation
• Advised management teams through capital raising process to optimize positioning and valuation, as well as implementation and execution
• Coordinate all Securities Lending projects and system enhancements to maximize efficiency and process improvement
• Managed in the strategy and planning phase of a middle-back office Fixed income and Derivative application (Finder) upgrade for an Insurance management firm.
• Recruit, hire, train and supervise Administrative, Finance and Preschool staff
• Worked as a business analyst to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Securities and their Valuation, Asset Management, risks and returns, Bond Pricing, MBS, ABS, Derivatives (repos, interest rate swaps), Money Market Instruments and used strong knowledge of financial statements, cash flow, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Budgeting, trade capture application, risk management, and Investment Accounting.
• Managed software artifacts for the suite of investment products such as Online Banking and Brokerage, BIDS, Insurance etc
• Understood Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Wealth Management, and Sales and Marketing
• Responsible for business system analysis of customizing the BPS Risk Management product with involvement through the whole SDLC
• Worked with Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Equities, Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing.
• Proficient in writing SQL queries for data analysis and validation
• Worked on Risk analysis, Securities (Stocks and corporate bonds) and their valuation, Portfolio Management (risks and returns) and analysis, Asset Allocations Bond pricing, Financial Derivatives, Cash flows, financing structure, Capital Management, Stock Valuation, Amortization, etc
• Extracted data from Oracle database with MS Access, and performed SQL query, data analysis and verification.
• Evaluated Competitors offerings and products including fixed income and derivatives
• Involved depth understanding of Credit Risk management for the application
• Conducted UAT to confirm that all derivative products can be successfully processed through stages of the trade life cycle
• Facilitated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Pegan System Administrators and Business Users, documented any issues or defects and eventually got sign off from the right parties.
• Created relationships in Requirement Traceability Matrix linking Business Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional Requirements to Systems Requirements.
• UAT testing performed along with call center managers to make sure that application meets their requirements.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing
• Led and conducted JAD sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design of the system.
• Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources to successful completion.
• Assisted to develop the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based on Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), .NET, Oracle, Crystal reports, IBM Mainframes, RUP, UML, SQL, SWOT analysis, GAP Analysis, Win Runner

Confidential

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Managing Data modeling project from Logical design and implementation of Sybase Database
• Identified source systems, their connectivity, related tables and fields and ensure data suitably for mapping.
• Strong usage of Subject Matter expertise in Fixed Income, Equities, Equity Swaps, Equity Finance, Stocks Trading Cycle, Portfolio Analysis, Asset management, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Derivatives (Options-Including Vanilla and Exotic and Futures/Forwards), Credit Derivatives, Interest Derivatives, Alternative investment, Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing
• Responsible for creating and reviewing business requirement documentation, functional specifications, project schedules and test plans
• Extensive experience in all aspects of consumer and real estate loan origination, underwriting and collections. Training and some experience in commercial lending, including financial statement and cash flow analysis.
• Worked with the SME, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering requirements and data transaction information related to Capital Markets - Online Brokerage, IVR trading, Conventional Brokerage, Orders, Trades Executed and SPS Orders for reinvestment agreement to write global specs
• Expertise in development of High level design, Conceptual design, Logical and Physical design for Database, Data warehousing and many Distributed IT systems
• Prepared for GAP Analysis; identified and documented improved areas to meet capital requirement regulations for Basel II Compliance.
• Monitored and ensured that requirements translate into viable lending business solutions by preparing statements, records, use cases and reports
• Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database.
• Utilized Commercial Lending banking application and was responsible for the design and process flow of the system.
• In-depth interaction with Primary markets, Secondary markets and mortgage backed securities and asset backed securities for requirement gathering.
• Monitored and ensured that requirements translate into viable lending business solutions by preparing statements, records, use cases and reports
• Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database.
• Utilized Commercial Lending banking application and was responsible for the design and process flow of the system.
• Enhancing supporting documentation (policies, frameworks, standards, methodologies, and modeling documents) to demonstrate compliance with the Basel II Accord.
• Identify customer marketing opportunities by applying data mining models and writing advanced T-SQL stored procedures and queries.
• Establish documentation for Agile methodology for implementation with a very water-fall-centric development team.
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with Stakeholders and Project directors
• Converted various SQL statements into stored procedures thereby reducing the Number of database accesses.
• Worked in mainframe environment and used SQL to query various reporting databases.

Environment: DataStage BASIC language Expressions, SAP SD, SQL Server, Windows NT 4.0, Visio, Sybase, UNIX, Java, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, IBM DB2, Dbase3, Erwin, MS Access, XML Files, MVS, IMS.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reconciled discrepancies efficiently and in a timely manner for customers. Tracked and maintained accounts to identify any discrepancies. Conducted research and investigation of all discrepancies.
• Facilitate Bloomberg Terminals to identify the key data needed to be analyzed, build out the interface/data repository and build out the reports.
• Refined the Statement of Work (SOW) process for the legacy product that was subsequently adopted as the process for all other products
• Responsible for assisting clients in resolving various network and systems management problems using ITIL.
• Analyzing, interpreting, updating & maintaining various asset class i.e. Equity, fixed income, Funds, Derivatives, Money markets, Corporate Action events, etc and effectively communicating with internal and external clients to deliver functional requirements like GUI, screens and interface designs
• Coordinate JAD sessions with the stakeholders, end users and SME, to determine the critical business processes and identify key functional requirements.
• Interact with the project team to define system objectives and scope, and identify constraints and the measures of success for the CRM system to be developed
• Facilitate ITIL so that IT services are aligned to the needs of the business and support its core processes. How to use IT as a tool to facilitate business change, transformation and growth.
• Gathered data requirements for the CRM system by interacting with the users and data administrators.
• Consult with developers to manage the state systems through SDLC and to deliver as per SOW with integrated solutions in an agile approach.
• Involved in GAP Analysis, Risk Analysis and Technical Feasibility study with the technical leads and other SME's.
• Detailed user story and documented the product requirements and the workflows
• Created and managed all the requirement artifacts in CaliberRM.
• Performed Functional and UAT testing before the system went live. Managed change requests using JIRA.

Environment: MS SQL Server, MS Visio, MS Project, UML, HP AML, HPQC Mobile web App

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Business team to gather business requirements, wants/ needs concerning the project and documented the requirements i.e. BRD.
• Involved in SDLC including requirements gathering, designing, developing, testing, and release to the working environment. Developed and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Performed thorough GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing software functionalities with the new business requirements.
• Performed business process mapping for change requests and new requirements.
• Attended meetings with the SMEs and technical lead to discuss the enhancement issues and bridge the gap for future design modifications.
• Responsible for gathering requirements (BRD), writing functional specifications (FSD) and use cases for the application.
• Analyzed, documented and managed requirements as well as changes to requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Developed use case diagrams, use case models and class diagrams based on UML methodology.
• Prepared the Regression Test list for the QA Team.
• Conducted UAT in the final phase of software development process to check the functionality of the software.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, Oracle, SQL, MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Visual Source Safe, Test Director, Quick Test Pro (QTP)