Employment Objective

Obtain a role in a challenging and progressive environment where my proficiency, excellent client relations and analysis skills will afford professional growth and the ability to be a valued contributor to the company's success.

Professional Strengths:

• Time Self-Management Thorough/Detail Oriented Analytic/Systematic Thinking
• Problem Solving / Initiative Adaptable / Team Player Service Orientation / Communication

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Confidential Lead Business Analyst

• Act as key point of contact for project ROMs and requirements analysis phases for Speaker Bureau
• Manage requirements elicitation Agile / JAD / interviews , documentation and review process for enhancements and product upgrades. Provide subject matter expertise during SDLC
• Coordinate with offshore teams to ensure understanding of business needs and requirements documents
• Track and escalate issues during DEV/QA/UAT cycles. Support junior BAs throughout the project life cycle.

Confidential

Business Analyst Consultant

• Analyze and document business requirements arising from Investment Accounting and Investment Operations divisions and their use of SimCorp Dimension for appropriate solution
• Research, document and develop investment reports and other solutions for Back Office users.
• Work closely with Development team during the SDLC and bridge the gap between business and IT teams.
• Manage and coordinate environment readiness and business testers for the User Acceptance Testing cycle.
• Coordinate / assist users during user acceptance testing cycle.
• Monitor test case execution according to HOOPP standards and escalate all encountered issues.
• Assist Investment staff in implementing/modifying operations procedures needed for operational functions
• Maintain business aspect of vendor relations and stay abreast of upcoming enhancements and or products.
• Participate in vendor evaluations and provide support during user reviews and RFI and or RFP processes.

Confidential

Business Analyst Consulting Consultant

• Manage multiple projects for divergent lines of business Drug Safety, Sales Operations, Medical Information and Customer Service and the business to IT relationship.
• Ensure business owners issues are prioritized, addressed and escalated accordingly.
• Manage and communicate production and project issues to senior management and project stakeholders.
• Gather user requirements using interviews and JAD sessions for multiple internal clients.
• Manage gathering, documentation and testing of ad-hoc and Business Objects reporting requirements.
• Participate in peer reviews of requirements documents for PRPC, COTS and in-house applications.
• Author UAT test scripts, UAT plan and summary results and systems commissioning reports. Co-ordinate UAT activities and provide post implementation support to business teams.
• Provide subject matter expertise to external vendors Liaise closely with external vendors to identify functional and usability gaps in the telephony system to meet current needs and future expansion.
• Disaster Recovery Testing Planning coordinator: identify business critical transactions, systems, interfaces, reports, personnel and activities.

Confidential

Business Analyst / Modis Consultant

• Manage planning and coordinating enhancement projects for an in-house collateral management application.
• Gather and analyze requirements from SMEs and stakeholders on the receipt and allocation of collateral.
• Work with on-shore and off-shore IT teams to solidify understanding of project deliverables.
• Develop and plan the execution of UAT test scripts and participate in co-coordinating release activities.
• Lead and manage UAT issue tracking. Develop and deliver user training materials.

Confidential

Business Analyst / Nexstaf Consultant

• Analyze commodity trade migration from legacy deal system Openlink to Sungard's Adaptiv Credit Risk.
• Validate vendor risk profiles against risk group's expectations mapping, migration and conversion of all commodities trade data from the front office, ensuring that trade and risk exposures remain consistent.
• Responsible for gathering, analyzing and authoring functional and non-functional specification documents. Contribute to the design and testing of commodity reporting across products, ensuring the continued transparency of positions and inventories while reducing the number of static reports.
• Facilitate requirements sessions with lines of business stakeholders to achieve consensus on credit reservation period which limited the bank's overexposure to external counterparts while ensuring limit usage transparency within ACR and across trading desks and reduce capital requirements.
• Work with vendor to customize ACR to accommodate BMO's risk management requirements. Major contributor to the development of change management documents, test plans, UAT, training materials, delivery of training to impacted user groups and post-implementation support.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Participate in implementing Calypso for the Eurobond trading platform. Work closely with multiple downstream systems stakeholders to test functional requirements against Calypso's base application capabilities, identify functional gaps and document additional functional and data requirements.
• Collaborate with vendor representatives to ensure functional gaps are addressed in product enhancement.
• Use existing documentation, business processes, and stakeholder input to analyze off-the-shelf vendor solution resulting in recommendations to address TD specific functional requirements.
• Liaise with TD client team subject matter experts and vendor to identify business processes and system requirements. Elicit and document additional functional requirements and prepare user manuals.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Assist the PM with project / product activities industry analysis, planning, gathering, clarification, documentation of requirements, design wireframes / mock-ups , UAT test plans and test cases.
• Communicate project details and milestones verbal and written to external customers and internal teams.
• Assist sales team to generate new clients by preparing product demonstrations and analyzing client's requirements through client to product gap analysis. Author training and reference materials.
• Work closely with product development team to create customized commodity trading software solutions.

Confidential

• Promoted to Analyst Fixed Income Derivatives trading floor. Manage daily position reports to traders, reconcile trader records against system reports, prepare new business and risk statements for swaps and repo traders for same day trading activity. Investigate and reconcile cash and settlement discrepancies
• Maintain open communication with the Front Office and provide support functions, prepare queries for middle office groups. Prioritize multiple tasks in a high volume dynamic trading environment. Capture derivative products IRS, FRA's, bonds, FX, futures and swaptions into deal capture and trading systems.
• Promoted to Associate Commodity Derivatives Precious Metals to manage the retail precious metal trading desk, the daily London fixing business, manage the inventory and physical business of gold and silver movement and shipment. Maintain loan clients credit limits. Manage deal capture into system Catalyst .
• Promoted to Investigation Officer 3 months the standard was 7 months . Manage Nostro / Vostro accounts. Liaise with CIBC back office / middle offices and external counter parts to investigate, reconcile trade calculation errors and manage movement of funds between CIBC locations and external counterparts.