BUSINESS PROFILE:

• Business Analyst with over 7+ years of diversified experience in the Finance, Commercial and Retail Banking, Investments, Trading and Brokerage domain.
• A team player with excellent written and oral communication skills. Hands - on management experience developed and established through a variety of cross-functional team assignments.
• Adept in conducting interviews, questionnaires, surveys, brainstorming and JAD AND JAR sessions.
• Knowledge of Advanced Business Process Modeling and efficient at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements.
• Experience in designing business models using UML diagrams- Use Case Models, detailed Use Cases, Sequence and Activity Diagrams.
• Experience in Facilitating meetings to resolve operational or technical issues. Served as an interface between technology teams, support teams and business units.
• Created GAP Analysis Reports, transformational planning from current AS-IS situations to target TO-BE situations.
• Experience with Data Analysis, Defect Status Reporting, Process Mapping and Change Management.
• Proficient with MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio and experienced in Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Experience with Rational Tools including Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose.
• Practical experience in Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodologies to drive projects including creation of RUP artifacts (Project Charters, Vision Documents, Iterations Plans, and Supplemental Specifications).
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the various phases likes Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Knowledge of Content Management System (CMS).
• Understanding of SDLC methodologies such as Agile Software Development, Joint Application Development (JAD), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Scrum and Waterfall.
• Knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Basel II, CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), Six Sigma and PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge) to improve business processes and provide better quality and productivity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: RUP, SCRUM, Agile, JAD, RAD, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.

Skills: SDLC, UML, etc.

Industry Standard: SOX, SIX SIGMA, CMM, etc.

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server, etc.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ Vista/7, Mac OS

Defect Tracking: Test Director

Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project MS Visio MS SharePoint, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro

FINANCIAL SKILLS:

• Strong experience in Cost reduction and expense control in facilitating various companies to optimize its operation and result.
• Familiarity with Reporting Standards such as GAAP, FASB & SEC.
• SWOT, ROI, Debt and Equity Financing.
• Knowledge of financial statement & ratio analysis, Experience in Project management, Financial Modeling, Mapping & Reporting of various industry sectors.
• Understanding of reference data providers such as Bloomberg Terminal.
• Knowledge of Interest Rate Risk and Credit Risk, Market Risk related to securities and measuring risk using metrics such as VAR, and Stress Testing.
• Knowledge of capital markets.
• Fixed Income Securities as Treasury (Bonds, Notes, Bill), Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO), Asset Backed Securities (ABS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from users and risk professionals.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the operations and the technical team and resolved process issues throughout the project cycle.
• Participated in each phase of the SDLC following RUP methodology and conducted project analysis.
• Facilitated numerous Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to create design documents and system specifications for applications.
• Used MS Visio to document work flows, business processes and interactions of different systems.
• Developed project plans and test scripts for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Regression Testing.
• Provided analysis and interpretation of UAT results.
• Identified and created all necessary Business Use Cases from requirements, created UML Diagrams including Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Involved in managing the project scope and designing project plans.
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Provided hands-on project schedule management using MS Project during the various stages of the project.
• Involved in the Front Office Investment Banking activities, such as research, risk management, ROI analysis.
• Identified and documented various steps of a trade processes that results an electronic record to support the SOX compliance.
• Understood business processes related to Asset Management, Portfolio Management, Investment Banking, Hedge Funds, ETFs, Capital Markets, Equity Trading and Settlement, Fixed Income Trading, Derivative Trading and Settlement.
• Analyzed research on operational procedures and identified opportunities for improvement with an emphasis on automation and efficiency.
• Supported Jr. Business analysts in developing business models.
• Documented the project authorization by preparing the Project Initiation Note and Project Closure Report.

Environment: Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, RUP, UML, SQL, MS Office, MS Project, Crystal Reports, Windows Vista, MS Office Suite

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the SMEs and stakeholders to get a better understanding of business processes.
• Conducted JAD sessions with clients and the project group to gather Business Requirements, prepare Use Cases and identify Functional Specifications in order to provide better client satisfaction.
• Developed Business Requirement Document following the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology, which ensured clarity and avoided ambiguity.
• Modeled the AS-IS system and performed Gap Analysis for the existing system in order to map it to the To-Be system.
• Prepared Project plan and Scope document along with the Project Manager using MS Project to identify deliverables, schedule tasks and assign resources.
• Created Activity diagrams and Use Case Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Analyzed business processes to link them to Team Objectives, Performed Critical Path Analysis and Identified Opportunities for business process improvement.
• Participated in Bug-Review meetings with software developers, QA engineers, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives, provided solutions to existing bugs.
• Used Quality Center for Storing Requirements, Bug Tracking and Reporting activities.
• Performed Feasibility Analysis, Risk Analysis and Gap Analysis on vendor/third party tools.
• Maintained documents for change request and implemented procedures for testing changes,
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose/MS Visio to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Assured that all Artifacts are in compliance with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and system requests and prepared Requirement Traceability Matrixes (RTM) to track such requirements.
• Documented the project authorization by preparing the Project Initiation Document and Project Closure Report.
• Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews.
• Used SQL for data extraction.
• Gained knowledge about mutual funds, money market funds, ETFs, stocks, options, margin loans, fixed income, CDs, Bonds and Bond Funds, Annuities.

Environment: Windows XP, RUP, UML, SQL, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Test Director, Rational RequisitePro

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst - Finance

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP Analysis to analyze the current system and worked with internal users to help define system requirements.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements to be included while developing the software.
• Conducted JAD/RAD sessions with business users, stakeholders, brokers and traders to collect their changing business and functional requirements.
• Scheduled meetings with users, SMEs and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and improve the process.
• Identified and managed issues, risks, constraints and change requests for projects as well as those applications that could affect projects resulting in successful implementations.
• Created new detailed functional specifications for development team. Modified existing function specification documents to match the changes requested by the end users. Established and maintained direct lines of communication with the developers to effectively monitor and track the changes implemented.
• Reviewed Test Plan for integration between modules.
• Created and executed test scripts in Mercury Quality Center for defect tracking and effectively communicated the defects to the developer team.
• Created and managed Project Plans, provided status updates to executive management and provided oversight during entire life cycle of projects.
• Maintained and kept track of stakeholders request for enhancements and changes using Unified Change Management tool (UCM) such as Rational Clear Quest.
• Assisted with user testing of systems, developed and maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentations are in place.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing.
• Designed the procedures for getting the data from all systems to Data Warehousing system. The data was standardized to store various Business Units in tables.

Environment: RUP, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, Test Director, ClearQuest, Mercury Quality Center

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Designed Use Cases Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams to provide the development team with a better view of the requirements.
• Developed Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams.
• Functioned as a liaison between the business line and the technical team.
• Developed test plans and executed test cases for System Testing.
• Generated simple reporting solutions by using MS Excel.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing, and created test cases.
• Prepared Return on investment analysis (ROI) to evaluate the financial impact to ongoing projects.
• Prepared Cost Benefit Analysis to control changing requirements and Scope Creep.
• Prepared series of documents like Requirement Traceability matrix, and Change Request form.
• Conducted Gap and Fit Analysis to verify whether proposed functionality is attained.
• Prepared defect status report and mitigation plan.
• Collected Business Requirements (BRD) from Business owners for applications that are owned and need to be bundled and converted them to hardware required and documented them in functional specification.
• Prepared AS - IS and TO-BE analysis of the functionality of the online application system prepared and presented the Project Charter and related workflow documents to the client and the development team using Ms Visio and MS Project.

Environment: Waterfall Model, Windows XP, SQL, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Mercury Test Director and Rational ClearQuest