SUMMARY

• Business Analyst/Project Manager with over 8 years of experience with strong knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile methodologies
• Experience with Financial domains including Investment Banking, Wealth management, Client Onboarding, AML/KYC regulations and Global Capital Markets (Equity, Securities, Mutual Funds, and Fixed Income)
• Highly involved in Client interaction, understanding business applications and processes with expertise in Business Process Re - engineering and GAP Analysis, developing business requirements (BRD) and transforming into detailed functional specifications (FRD/SRS), working with regulatory initiatives, data analysis and reporting
• Experience managing end to end project implementations, facilitating sessions and meetings with excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills with extensive knowledge of Risk Management, Change Management and Quality Assurance
• Understanding of Front, Middle and Back office applications, payments processing, trading systems and risk & compliance systems
• Acquaintance with broad range of technologies including business process tools such as MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, BPM (Business process management suite), Data Warehousing, Reporting Tools (SSRS, Cognos, Crystal reports) and Web design.
• Proficient knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and creating Activity, Sequence, Collaboration, Use Case, Workflows, and Data Flow Diagrams. Expert in facilitating and defining the entire Testing Life Cycle including Test strategy, Test planning, Test case preparation, Test execution and Defect management
• Exposure to advisory services for implementation of risk and compliance regulations - Dodd-Frank, AML/KYC, EMIR, MIFID, FINRA
• Pega Certified Business Architect (PCBA)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Bloomberg
• Thomson Reuters
• Morningstar and Lipper
• Workday
• Java
• Anugular7
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• GraphQL
• AWS
• SAP
• ServiceNow
• QlikView
• Tableau
• Power BI
• PEGA
• MS Office suite
• MS SharePoint
• Oracle 10g
• HP Quality Center (ALM)
• Jira
• Rally
• Altair
• Postman
• Rest API
• Soap UI
• MS Visio
• MS Project
• Cloud services
• SQL
• AML/KYC
• ETL
• Agile SDLC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business Technology Analyst

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with key stakeholders within all business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies
• Gathered business requirements to integrate ERDM with various data sources like Product Master, MIDR, Workday etc. by working closely with ERDM product owners and translated those into technical specs to assist programmers and developers
• Developed data mapping documents to support the integration of ERDM with Product Master by analyzing data from various rest end points and wsdl’s
• Demonstrated an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalized on improvement opportunities by translating complex business problems into viable functional and/or technical specifications
• Supported multiple highly complex business processes while integrating the system with various other data sources and developed wireframes for ERDM UI screens to specify platform capabilities
• Established an efficient workflow for data ingestion into ERDM from various input files by setting up business rules in AWS S3
• Worked on multiple projects as a project team member and served as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet their needs
• Assisted the product owners with creation of user stories, cost-benefit and gap analyses to aid in decisions on implementation of new ERDM features like integration with workday, customized reporting tool(power BI) etc.
• Designed and documented the implementation of Unified API - a graph QL service to consume complete ERDM data at once
• Performed manual system testing to ensure the implemented design functionality and assisted the users with User Acceptance Testing by creating defects and following up with the corresponding developers to ensure timely resolution

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects for Client Regulatory Services to serve the clients by delivering effective and efficient regulatory services at a high level of quality and control, while striving for a continuous innovative improvement to reduce firm’s overall operating costs
• Spearheaded client onboarding migration effort from legacy systems onto single integrated workflow onboarding application to facilitate end-to-end client onboarding and maintenance, ensuring compliance with all regulatory processes
• Established workflows for client data and document collection and maintenance to adhere to Financial crimes and regulations such as Dodd-Frank, MIFID, European Market Infrastructure Regulation(EMIR), Uncleared Margin rules, FINRA 4210, Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), US stay Protocol, Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR)
• Implemented robust control framework by developing four level of controls (sourcing, completeness, data quality and confidence) for reporting mandatory client data to the regulators, required by SFTR, EMIR, MIFID etc.
• Lead client data management system integration with MarkIT to receive Initial Margin segregations of the clients from the Self Disclosure Letter to determine eligibility for providing margin to trade uncleared swaps or security-based swaps in US
• Managed a project to identify and report the details of the counterparties trading securities financing transactions (SFT’s) to an approved EU trade repository (TRs) as part of the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR)
• Facilitated process automation of 33 global regulatory mailings within the firm’s AML/CIP process and established a process to track and remediate return mailings to ensure the firm is regulatory complaint
• Participated in the implementation of Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) project by developing a business model to assign a unique Firm Designated ID (FDID) for each trading account for reporting to the Central trade repository as mandated by Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) Rule 613.
• Established change control board by developing a change management process which allowed the change the bank team to formally review all the business impacted changes with a wider stakeholder group for approvals
• Documented data requirements for source to target mapping including data transformation rules to assist ETL process for data flow from various applications to the Client Reference DataMart
• Created project artifacts, requirements (business, systems, functional) documents, process workflows, test plans, operation readiness, policy procedures and provided management updates on a weekly basis

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Confidential -New York

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the enterprise application managers to coordinate and develop requirements for developing an intranet web-based application for resource allocation and tracking. This application enabled the IT managers to easily track and report to the higher management about individual project’s development progress
• Worked closely with the Business Users and technology leads to understand the scope and developed procedures to address disaster recovery and network connectivity recovery to assure that recovery procedures are effective for the restoration and resumption of critical business processes
• Captured requirements for the design and implementation of ServiceNow for the change management process. Developed change management process workflows by analyzing the existing manual work and created test plans to validate the implementation
• Spearheaded the development of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to analyze enterprise-wide application and server data. Performed data mapping and created the conceptual data models by representing the mapping using ERDs, and Process Modeling DFD’s on MS Visio for the analysis
• Conducted Business Impact Analysis to identify Recovery point objective and Recovery time objective for around 850 enterprise-wide applications and analyzed application and system configurations to determine single point of failures and recommended disaster avoidance measures while developing the data center DR plans
• Coordinated UAT, created test scripts, tracked the defects, and ensured they were fixed and retested successfully and assisted users to perform end-to-end testing of the application and obtained final signoff

Business Analyst

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Developed requirements and created logical business workflows by interacting with the business users and traders
• Performed GAP analysis for the new functionality requirements and prioritized them for development based on business needs
• Created wireframes for options trading screens and created business documents to specify platform capabilities and also translated the requirements into functional documents to assist the technology with development
• Assisted with developing dashboards (with KPI’s and KRI’s) and reporting capabilities, directly from the UI for total options, daily positions etc. and was responsible for validating STP between options trading system and middle office settlement systems
• Gathered requirements for establishing a reconciliation process for trade breaks (T0, T+1 activities) by working with the LoB to ensure data accuracy and integrity and designed a solution to cater the business needs
• Documented functional requirements, performed data mapping from source to Intellimatch formats, defined matching and exception rules and developed recon static (accounts, groups, inbox allocation rules etc.)

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a process to evaluate the client’s application and generate disclosures with specific offers and rates and participated in the end-to-end implementation of the process
• Assisted PM in setting realistic project expectations, evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and was responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, conduct GAP analysis and provided recommendations
• Involved in creating the Project templates, use case specifications, Change request form, functional specification documents, and Business Requirement documents
• Captured integrated application process flows and supported system integration upgrades/future enhancements and maintained product and system documentation as changes were implemented along the development cycle