SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst with excellent project management skills and business analysis capacity in Banking and Finance domains, including Capital Marketing, Fixed Income, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Regulatory and Compliance.
• Extensive knowledge and actual experience in Regulatory related projects such as BASELII, BASELIII, SOX, Dodd - Frank, and CCAR.
• Strong understanding of risk control, including Value at Risk(VAR), Anti-Money Laundering(AML), Bank Secrecy Act(BSA), and Know Your Customer(KYC).
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, RUP and Waterfall.
• Solid working knowledge on Scrum concepts like Scrum Team, Product Backlog, Spring Planning, User Stories, Daily Stand-up Meeting, Burn Down Charts, and Pair Programming etc.
• Strong Analysis skills in Project Definition Document (PDD) and Requests for Proposal (RFP).
• Experience in design and documentation business documents like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Excellent in GAP analysis to identify system restrictions and potentials, and creating AS-IS and TO-BE documents and Process Maps. Identified and Created Business Process Flows using MS Visio.
• Strong Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) session with onsite and offsite team.
• Competent in creating Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams for business process modeling like Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Flow Charts.
• Experience in Change Management and Conflict Resolution at various stages of the project life cycle.
• Strong testing experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Root Cause Analysis.
• Strong SQL background, including SQL queries and ER diagrams.
• Experience in creating User Manual and conducting User Workshops to the end users.
• Extensive knowledge in Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Investment Banking, and Mortgage such as Financial Statement Analysis, Equity, Fixed Income, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, M&A, IPO etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirements Management Tools: SAP PowerDesigner, Rational DOORS, Requisite Pro

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, RUP

Languages: SQL, UML, XML, HTML, PHP, Java, C, SAS, SPSS, MATLAB, Hadoop

Business Modeling Tools: SmartDraw, MS Visio, iRise

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, SharePoint)

Defect Management Tools: Bugzilla, SILK Central, Jira, Serena

Databases: IBM DB2, SQL Server 2000, MySQL, MS Access, Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows 7/Vista/XP/95, Unix, Mac OS X

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Midtown, NY

Risk Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with project stakeholders and business groups to evaluate business needs and data issues for risk side, and worked with the technology team to implement pragmatic solutions in a timely manner.
• Worked closely with Subject Matter Experts (SME) of all applications for different types of risk control violation, including conference call and raising JiRa tickets for change request release.
• Identified and documentedbusinessneeds for new marketriskandcreditriskmodule or re-usability of an existing module by performing a GAP analysis.
• Gathered Business Requirements, notional calculations of financial futures, options, fixed income and equity, and also key point of contact with business users including traders and risk managers.
• Focused in the area of Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) Reporting, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) andDodd - FrankRegulatory Reporting, including FRY 9C, FRY 14M/Q/A.
• Understood the AS-IS and TO-BE business process and developed the GAP Analysis and performed gap remediation by working closely with developers and support team to close RCA gaps on time.
• Responsible for writing the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and the Functional Requirement Document (FRD) for the application.
• Gained end-to-end understanding of thetechnologyand data infrastructures behind the daily production and reporting of allcounterpartycreditrisk and marketriskmetrics.
• Offered data support and checking using SQL/Query and developed complex spreadsheets using VBA\SQL.
• Experience in database and SQL queries to retrieve and validate data, prepared for data mapping document.
• Completed Data Critical Program (DCPNP) survey for all applications under Treasury and Risk IT as part of general technology compliance regulations (SOX).
• Involved in Privilege Accounts Downgrading (ITPA), assigned and helped developers within team to raise CRs and cooperated with Windows Team to make sure the process smoothly and successfully.
• Worked with QA team to make sure all key changes have been test in UAT environment before releasing and did post check after releasing.
• Developed Issue Tracker and Risk Tracker and organized regular weekly meeting to close these issues.
• Assisted testers in developing a variety of possible Test Scenarios and Test Cases to ensure that the system built according the requirements.
• Worked closely with the business users for each area within Barclays in order to elucidate the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy and offer strategic validation solutions to the business.
• Involved in Defect Life Cycle, validated and regularly monitored all the filed defects and their progress.
• Provided status update monthly to Senior Managers of progress made on all aspects of risk control and milestones achieved and shared with RTB team to improve their performance.

Environment: Microsoft office suite, SharePoint, SQL Server 2000, JiRa, SQL Server, ServiceNow, Bloomberg, Axiom ControllerView

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Risk Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted closely with stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts (SME) for requirements gathering and clearly documenting, and holding joint application delivery sessions across functional areas to ensure requirements covering on business values, story points and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze risk assessment results to identify and summarize themes about market risk, familiar with market risk workflow knowledge including limits, rating, VAR, stress testing and reporting.
• Worked with requirements analysts and subject matter experts to identify, understand, and document businessneeds for the data flow to create marketriskand creditriskmodules.
• Created and maintained User Stories by workshop, interviewing, brainstorming, 1 to 1 meeting with the business users to communicate the requirements to development and testing teams.
• Understood and performed the AS-IS and TO-BEbusiness process and developed theGAP Analysis.
• Consulted the business users and SMEs, helped to create Product Backlogs to prioritize features and subsequently created Sprint Backlogs.
• Implemented Actimize Anti-Money Laundering (AML) system to monitor suspicious transactions and enhance regulatory compliance.
• Played lead role in conducting JAD/JAR sessions, got requirement specification documents including Project Objectives, Business Requirements, and Business Rules sign off.
• Hold the Daily Stand-up Meeting, documented and updated the Burn-Down Chart.
• Proficiently helped development teams to break down large user stories. Involved in various Walk-through sessions with developers and gave presentations to help them understand the end user needs.
• Performed rapid prototypingand screen Mock-up utilizing iRise.
• Experience in SAS and SQL queries to retrieve and validate data, prepared for data mapping document.
• Assisted Testing teams to build test plans, approved test cases for functional requirements verification and to check the functionality of the application.
• Collaborated with QA team to create and implement test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).Involved with the whole UAT to ensure the performance of the system and application.
• Developed User Manuals, presentations and manuals as per project specifications and timelines.
• Provided status update to the Project Manager of progress made on work products and milestones achieved and Reviewed with scrum team and BA team to improve their performance.

Environment: Agile Methodology, SAS 9.3, SQL, Oracle 9i, Windows XP, UML, iRise, MS Visio, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Dynamics, JiRa

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the Corporate Regulatory Engagement business team, LOB control teams and CST technology to understand the end to end process, data security and delivery of regulatory documents.
• Worked with architectures to analyze the Project Definition Document (PDD) to make an initial estimation of the sizing of the project, as well as potential impacts on existing systems.
• Performed GAP analysis including AS-IS and TO-BE analysis to identify the potentials of current system.
• Met with the business users and SMEs, then created and maintained Business Requirement Document (BRD) by brainstorming and interviewing, and ensured requirements have coverage on business values, business scope, business rules and acceptance criteria of Confidential .
• Conduct Functional Requirement Work Session with Architectures and Application Teams to translate Business Requirements into Functional & Non-Functional Requirements (FRD).
• Provided detailed User Interface Document (UID) to the development and testing team for clear understanding of the new applications and system using iRise.
• Conducted Requirement Walk-throughs with the development and test teams before the development and testing phases respectively, to ensure that the requirements are accurately understood.
• Conducted JAD sessions at different stages to resolve conflicted issues among business users and developer.
• Created and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace technical requirements to their business requirements and the test case requirements to their functional requirements.
• Defect Tracking and Lifecycle management in Serena Business Manager.
• Reviewed and approved Test Plans and Test Case scenarios to guarantee the changes to the system design meets functional requirements, and go through tests with QA team
• Performed thorough User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure all the business requirements have been fulfilled by the application.

Environment: Waterfall Methodology, MS Office, iRise, MS Visio, Oracle DB, Java, HTML, CSS, Serena, SQL

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Business Requirement Work Session with Sponsors, Subject Matter Expertise (SME), and Architectures to elicit Project Objectives, Business Requirements, and Business Rules
• Understood core processes of the departments to provide input on re-engineering or streamlining opportunities and analyzed operating procedures to recommend and implement improvement plans
• Met with client groups to collect user requirements and goals and utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures
• Created GAP Analysis including AS-IS process and TO-BE process
• Analyzed business requirements and turned them into Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology
• Conducted JAD sessions to facilitate discussions and come to an agreement and signed off the documents
• Created and maintained Standard Documentation Package (Business Requirements, Specification, Design, Operations, and Quality Testing Plans)
• Understood and articulated business requirements and translated Business Requirements into Functional & Non-Functional Requirements
• Communicated with Programming and Core Mainframe Servicing staff to ensure understanding of business processes and requirements to ensure the delivered system matches the specified features and functions
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to manage requirements and performed Impact Analysis when request for change (RFC) arrived. Escalated the analysis to the Change Control Board (CCB).
• Developed Test Plans to guarantee the changes to the system design meets all the requirements, and went through tests and reviewed the test evidence with QA team
• Coordinated and Monitored User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the business user and interfaced with the development and test team with regards to defect status and fixes on a regular basis

Environment: Waterfall Methodology, PowerDesigner, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Oracle DB, Java, SQL