SUMMARY

• 8+ Years of Industry experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Mapping, Evaluating Data Sources and Data Mapping.
• Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), On Boarding, Data Analysis, and Trade Processing.
• Financial Domain Knowledge with different types of investments including bonds/stocks/mutual funds diversified Investment portfolios, structured products and fixed income securities. Understanding of processes in Product Control and Financial Accounting.
• Strong knowledge in Fixed Income, Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives Equities, US government Treasury Securities (Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds.
• Hands - on roles within Foreign Exchange Money Market, Swaps, Interest Bearing Securities, Discounted Securities, Fees, Equities and Options modules.
• Vast experience in working with Capital Markets, Money Markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange (FX), US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Corporate bonds, junk bonds, convertible bonds, Commercial paper, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, and Hedge Funds.
• Extensive experience in Investment Banking and loans and has specialized in teh areas of Securities Trading (Stock Trading, Fixed Income trading, Equities and Derivatives trading), wealth management, Cash Management, Money & Capital Market Instrument, Retirement, Treasury and risk management.
• Expert in targeting and keeping a track of low spend audiences and prompting teh corporates to take corporate charges on teh corporate cards.
• Experience in various financial products and halp them grasp teh technicalities of Derivatives Analysis, Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Securities, CVA/DVA.
• Expertise in Project Management me.e. Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, Budgeting and Drafting Remedy Procedures.
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements and system functional specifications, credit including BRD, and FSD.
• Experience in documentation of trade order methodologies and trading algorithms, includingequitiestrade tracking system. Documentation of short sellequitiestrading system.
• Experience in Excel and Access VBA, modules and classes interfacing with SQL/TSQL scripts and standalone applications to design and improve process technology solutions and expedite teh processing of reports.
• Extensive experience in Banking Industry group including Credit, Risk, Investment and Operational Risk Banking that involve knowledge in CCAR, Basel II, Basel III, Dodd Frank and Charles River.
• Strong experience in reviewing and understanding business, testing requirements, and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Summary Report.
• Experience with testing tools, HP ALM, andJIRA.
• Extensive knowledge of reconciliation process upgrade for fixed income trading system focusing on corporate bonds, sovereign bonds and swaps for market value, par value, maturity date, coupon rate and security name. Teh reconciliation system uses Informatics to source data from multiple databases.
• Created regulatory reporting schedule for teh Federal Reserve on a semi-annual basis.
• Experience in Using JIRA for User Story requirements manage, ment throughout teh Agile Sprints and development life cycle.
• Strong expertise in financial statements, cash flow, financing structures, Capital Management, Asset Data, Fixed Income, Portfolio Analysis, Stock Valuation, Capital Structures and Budgeting, Value Based management.
• Experience from Front to back office, worked with fund managers, financial advisors and technical team members.
• Experience in MS SQL Server installation, configuration, performance tuning and client/server connectivity.
• Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, creating Screen Mock-ups, conducting Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis.
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing UAT and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on evaluating teh credit risk, and minimized teh bank's exposure. dis included teh management, monitoring and reaction plans, for teh bank high-riskclients.
• Gatheird and interpreting data analytics from multiple channels including but, not limited to document analysis, workshops, site visits, surveys, use cases, business analysis,workflow analysis, social and vendor reports to provide insight and assessment.
• Worked with Subject Matter Experts in Fixed Income Annuities, Equities, Swaps, Finance, Trading Cycle, Portfolio Analysis & Management, Asset Management, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Pricing, and Derivatives.
• Responsible for gathering requirements for transmission of all ACH (Payroll & Corporate payments), initiation of outgoingwiretransfers for small businessbankingcustomers using latest Fiserv vendor product.
• Conducted analysis and optimization of trade processing flow, trade break investigation and liquidity analysis for equity derivative and foreign exchange products which resulted in 45% reduction in trade volume processed by technology systems.
• Involved in all treasury management products such as Internet Banking, Business Banking, Telephone (VRU) Banking, Mobile Banking, Bill Presentment, ATM/Debit cards, Remote Deposit Capture (RDC), Automated Clearing House (ACH), Positive Pay, Lockbox, Wire Transfers (Fed wire) and Merchant Services.
• Initiated business directives to standardize asset classification across wealth management practice to ensure consistency across capital market assumptions strategy, asset reporting, compliance, and sales functions.
• Performed extensive impact analysis and assessment on all teh downstream and upstream Wealth Management systems.
• Extensive worked in JAD sessions with End Users through one on one and group interviews to better understand teh user requirements.
• Worked on Ad hoc processes including but not limited to import duty payments, invoice payment cancellation, check handling, invoicing contract language reviews.
• Modified and reviewed Value at Risk (VaR) model for multiple products: money market funds and equity portfolios and developed an investment and strategic planning proposal for a target company, including quality assets, A-share market.
• Involved in Interbank/Money market transactions and all forex deals, money market and swap deals and T-bond entries.
• Worked on Business Architecture & Systems Consultingprovidingarchitecture governance, business systems analysis and agile project management leadership as part of theEnterprise Payments Managementdevelopment and several other project teams.
• Worked on Requirement analysis with business analysts and attending Agile/Scrum model meetings to review teh requirements and scope.
• Conducted Walk-through sessions with development and testing teams to halp them break down large user stories and understand teh end user business requirements.
• Used JIRA for User Story requirements management throughout teh Agile Sprints and development life cycle.
• Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.
• Verified and prepared Fund/Investment accounts payable vouchers for timely payment and processing of invoices.
• Helped with data modeling and defining teh conceptual and logical model of teh data warehouse
• Worked on XML Data Mapping from loan origination systems to third party vendor systems such as Credit card payments, Dealer Track, Trans-Union,Salesforce(SFDC), etc.
• Worked onEnterpriseRiskManagement(ERM), developingriskregisters at branch, departmental,sectional and operational levels.
• Involved in implementing business logic with Oracle-stored procedures, functions and triggers using PL/SQL.
• Exposed to Agile methodology Performed Gap analysis (AS-IS) & (TO-BE) by identifying existing processes, technologies, and documenting teh enhancements needed to meet teh end state requirements.
• Verified and prepared Fund/Investment accounts payable vouchers for timely payment and processing of invoices.
• Elicited business and functional requirements using in interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis and workflow analysis with teh use of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed business requirements for teh project to move teh credit-reporting batch to publish counter party exposure limits earlier as a part of FSA compliance requirement (Financial Service Authority).
• Initiated discussions with teh business stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to understand and document business needs.
• Analyzed and halp build an application for a brokerage, which will halp representatives of teh brokerage in performing trades, track investment options and opportunities, view revenue and compliance reports.
• Working closely on emergency Card processing and coordinating with vendors till teh time teh corporate cards are delivered to teh card members.
• Worked extensively with SME's including heads in areas of fixed income derivatives, options, foreign exchange (FX), futures and risk managers in understanding, extracting, refining and documenting teh User and Business Requirement Specifications in teh BRDs.
• Actively participated in executing orders to purchase and sale securities originating from within all asset management areas of teh Wealth Management groups.
• Updated and enhanced teh critical data for teh treasury engaged in money market and derivative mainly.
• Researched and made recommendations on investments such as commercial paper, auction-rate securities, money market mutual funds, repos, and government securities.
• Involved in generating requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, corporate actions, Brokerage and Trading Model within teh scope of both teh Front and Middle Office.
• Solely responsible for testing and debugging New Vendor Application for Brokerage/Direct Business, New Accounts on web based platform for back office Project.
• Created teh BRD (Business Requirement Document) for various project on need basis and assisted in writing BRD for teh Regulatory Reporting Unit under teh system streamlining.
• Responsible for writing and modification of PL/SQL stored procedure, functions, packages and Database triggers.
• Maintained documentation ofETLprocesses to support knowledge transfer to other team members.
• Worked on Creating Jira User Guide and performed training sessions to introduce Jira to teh team.
• Integrated Confluence-JIRA Spring. Application owner for JIRA and Confluence.
• Familiar with SQL Server, Oracle PL/SQL Packages, Stored Procedures, Functions & Triggers.
• Creating Test case & Test scripts by Agile Methodology. Assigned tasks among development team, monitored and tracked progress of project following agile methodology.
• Actively participated in EnterpriseRiskManagement- establishing and quantifying teh organization's 'risk appetite' by preparing teh Internal Capital Adequacy Process document.
• Well-versed in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) usingWaterfall, Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and Software Facilitated daily stand up meetings to collect requirements from system users and to keep track of wat was done teh day before and wat is to be done that day and strictly enforced time-box approach fort these meetings.
• Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data.
• Performed Business Process Mapping and performed AS IS and TO BE analysis.
• Worked on documentation for various processes performed within teh Regulatory Reporting group.
• Gatheird requirements, developed Process Model and detailed Business Policies.
• Established, maintained and terminated MS access for users on multiple applications while providing problem resolution to customers.
• Responsible for making data model, Use Case Diagrams and Class Diagrams using UML.
• Involved in generating Test Plans and Test Specifications as per business requirements.
• Involved in all major cycles and phases of teh project from scope definition risk analysis to UAT and monitoring teh release of teh product.
• Followed teh Agile Methodology for teh entire SDLC.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on gathering and preparing teh requirements documents for replacing teh existing commercial lines of businesses from legacy to web-based system
• Worked on complex data requirements based on teh feedbacks from OTC product control, Derivatives Reporting,
• Verified and prepared Fund/Investment accounts payable vouchers for timely payment and processing of invoices.
• Worked on SQL security features into design using SQL Server security and TSQL Scripts.
• Worked on Asset classes include equity, fixed income, derivatives, commodities and foreign exchange - Exchange traded (ETD) and OTC Interest Rate derivatives, Interest rate derivatives (IRD), equity and equity swaps, Foreign exchange swaps, Equity options, swap options, Futures and forwards.
• Worked as a business analyst to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Inflation Risk, Liquidity, Securities and their Valuation, Asset Management, risks and returns, Bond Pricing, Equities, 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, Credit Risk, and Investment Accounting.
• Experience in preparing quarterly and semi-annual disclosures for regulatory reporting purposes. Prepared inter-company reports for regulatory purposes.
• Used JIRA for User Story requirements management throughout teh Agile Sprints and development life cycle.
• Worked on Research and recommend tools for agile process management. Mentor business analysts on agile processes and traditions.
• Reviewed valuation analysis, createdinvestmentanalysis reports and presented to Director.
• Created and maintained user stories in JIRA for better understanding of teh requirements for teh development team also use JIRA for bug tracking.
• Worked on conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documenting test cases in both personal commercial line of property and casualty insurance.
• Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data.
• Conducted gap analysis and solution design for preferredequitiestraded via Consolidated Order Entry system.
• Wrote SQL queries for each Test case and executed in SQL Plus to validate teh data between Enterprise Data Warehousing and Data Mart Staging Tables.
• Assisted in on-going process improvement efforts to ensure Test Planning, Execution, and Reporting is effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated.
• Played a key role in teh planning, User Accepted testing, and Implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Involved in Developing ETL (Extract, Transformation & Load) strategy to populate teh Data Warehouse from teh various source systems feeds.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with Stakeholders and Project directors.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Equities, Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing.
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, RequisitePro, and Visio.
• Involved in business system analysis of customising teh BPS Risk Management product with involvement through teh whole SDLC.
• Worked on JIRA for tracking teh issues and defects during teh process of Implementation.
• Involved and reviewed TSQL/SQL queries and stored procedures to process, analyze and implement data integrity initiatives for various business units.
• Involved in documenting detailed Functional Requirement Specification based on Basel regulatory requirements by using Power Designer.
• Involved in extensive analysis on security trading cycles; provide consulting on financial disclosure, regulatory and compliance issue.
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) document, User Requirement Specification (URS) and Change Request (CR) document for system application development.
• Provided key initiatives in working with users in defining project and system requirements.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and OOD using UML.
• Performed requirement analysis, went through all teh use cases and issue logs.
• Provided clear and concise technical documentation regarding requirements management plans, Technical Requirements, supplemental Requirements, Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Executed several Optimized queries in SQL on dis data.
• Involved in documenting detailed Functional Requirement Specification based on Basel regulatory requirements by using Power Designer.

Confidential - Austin, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and documenting requirements from a diverse user community.
• Involved in conducting JAD Sessions with SME's and Business Users to gather requirements.
• Worked on identifying teh various groups and created pivot tables for further classification and thus, created a better understanding of teh groups.
• Involved in Preparing teh Business Workflow using MS-Visio with input, output, pre and post conditions.
• Involved in market research and analysis in Capital Markets consisting of Stock Market and Bond Market.
• Involved in delivering high-level functional designs for projects and enhancements and fulfilled client requirements.
• Involved in Research and recommend tools for Agile process management. Mentor business analysts on agile processes and traditions.
• Documented elicited requirements into Business requirement document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and Software Requirement Specification (SRS).