SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Risk & Compliance leader with 8+ years of experience in the implementation of OFSAA solutions for banking industry. Strong domain skill set coupled with an encompassing experience in product management, presales and product implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Governance Risk and compliance (GRC) suites of Oracle Financial Software Services.
• Expertise in understanding Governance Risk and Compliance business processes and reporting for financial institutions, Liquidity Risk Management Forecasting, Basel regulations, General Ledger business processes and it’s reporting, Credit Risk management reporting.
• As a Business Analyst in Oracle, I have worked in the following fields:
• Implementation of OFSAA’s Governance Risk and Compliance suite for banks in North America and Asia
• Functional lead in OFSAA’s product management team for various releases of GRC suite
• Understanding and implementation of Basel regulations for banks in North America and Asia
• Solution Design and Development of OFSAA’s LRM forecasting solution
• Implementation of FFIEC 101, GL Reconciliation & Credit Risk Management Reporting for banks in North America
• Implementation of Governance Risk and Compliance suite for banks in North America and Asia
• Functional lead in OFSAA’s product management team for various releases of GRC suite
• Solely handled presales activities for numerous prospective clients in terms of product demonstrations and proof of concept
• Expertise in
• Understanding Operational Risk framework, risk reporting standards, and orchestrating business process reviews for financial institutions. Implementation of Operational Risk solution for multiple financial institutions across Asia and North America by understanding their governance, operational risk and compliance requirements based on Basel guidelines, local regulatory framework and industry best practices.
• Understanding of the core functionality of Credit Risk - Basel regulations (Basel II and Basel III) and best practices for banking and financial institutions. Implementations of US Basel rules applicable for banks and generate reports to be submitted to the banking regulator (Federal Reserve Board).
• In-depth understanding of the principle of General Ledger reconciliation with knowledge of the accounting practices and its components. Hands on experience in reconciliation of bank’s assets, liabilities, expenses or income items in their GL system with their source systems
• Understanding of OFSAA Liquidity Risk Management Forecasting solution requirements, architecture and design.
• Basel, LRM Forecasting and GRC engine configuration: Configuring and customizing OFSAA for its various offerings like ERM Enterprise Risk Management and GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance suites.
• Excellent business requirement gathering skills. Proficiency in requirement documentation in terms of use cases, business requirements document, process flows, test cases and testing scripts. End to end system testing experience for ERM and GRC suites of OFSAA product.
• Expertise in understanding Bank’s source systems and defining controls and quality checks on data from the bank’s risk data warehouse and source systems
• Excellent requirements management skills and coordination capabilities with client and development team. Extensive experience in handling large groups
• Strong academic background with Post Graduation in Management (specialization in Finance) from ICFAI Business School; one of the top management institutes in India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed product requirements and performed detailed analysis of the best fit solution in OFSAA product in terms of system architecture and data model
• Lead the functional design of the requirements. Converted business requirements into functional design document with continuous collaboration with OFSAA product management team.
• LRM Forecasting engine configuration: Configuring and customizing the OFSAA solution for liquidity risk forecasting
• Preparation of test cases, test data, testing scripts and scenario documents describing overall test strategy across all testing phases.
• Demonstrated LRM forecasting solution architecture and design to prospective clients including GE Capital
• Conducted for internal team members and senior management of the solution being developed.

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Define business requirements based on US Basel III Regulations; FFIEC reporting schedules for Counterparty, Capital and Equity portfolios.
• Detailed analysis of the best fit solution for the finalized business requirements in OFSAA product in terms of system architecture and data model
• Conversion of business requirements into requirement documents with continuous collaboration with the bank’s business and technical teams
• Solution designing, architecture and configuration of the business requirements within the OFSAA framework. This includes solving complex data issues, and advising on data sourcing and data quality issues
• Data Lineage activity i.e. mapping OFSAA staging area to banks source systems /enterprise warehouse
• Preparation of testing strategy and test cases describing overall test scenarios across all testing phases.

Confidential

Functional Reviewer/ Lead

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements and implementation review: Business process understanding and analysis of requirement for CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce)
• Review of the data model used: analysis regarding optimum usage of the existing data model
• Review of OFSAA Metadata - measures, dimensions, business processes and rules based on the requirements
• Review of data quality rules created in the OFSAA system and comparing it with the business requirements
• Requirement gathering and analysis for RBI 2013 (Basel III)- Confidential framework guidelines for product enhancement.
• Understand and analyze differences between RBI 2007 (Basel II) and 2013 (Basel III) guidelines and perform gap analysis between RBI 2007 guidelines and OFSAA solution. The modules covered are Credit Risk Mitigation, Securitization, and External Credit Assessments modules.

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Define business requirements based on US Basel Regulations
• Lead the team in defining and analyzing business requirements for Credit Risk GL Reconciliation, FFIEC101 Reports, and Management Reports for the bank and its legal entities
• Detailed analysis of the best fit solution for the finalized business requirements in OFSAA product in terms of system architecture and data model
• Conversion of business requirements into requirement documents with continuous collaboration with the bank’s business and technical teams
• Solution designing, architecture and configuration of the business requirements within the OFSAA framework. This includes solving complex data issues and advising on data sourcing and data quality issues
• Data Lineage activity i.e. mapping OFSAA staging area to banks source systems /enterprise warehouse
• Basel engine configuration: Configuring and customizing the OFSAA solution for calculating regulatory capital
• Configuration of Data Transformation and Data Quality rules using OFSAA Framework
• Preparation of test cases and scenario documents describing overall test strategy across all testing phases. End to end testing of the solution both from technical and functional aspects
• Conduct user for the client to make them conversant with the developed solution and reports

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead the functional aspect of the implementation in its full life-cycle by playing the challenging role of the lone business analyst
• Understood and analyzed client’s business requirements with respect to the Basel II regulatory guidelines. Single point of contact between client team and development team
• Created comprehensive design documents and functional specifications for the client
• Performed detailed analysis of the best fit of the requirements in OFSAA product
• Solution designing and architecture of the business requirements within the OFSAA framework. Used the OFSAA platform for customizing and configuring client specific requirements
• Analyzed data requirements: understanding of bank’s data requirements, determining the Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) logicand data flows
• Preparation of test cases and scenario documents describing overall test strategy across all testing phases
• Performed end to end functional testing and comprehensive data quality testing: creation of test data, execution of test batches in OFSAA and validating test results
• Conducted done to date demonstrations and of the configured solution to the client for signoff
• Provided to project managers, business, and technical teams on the configured solution
• Analyzed deviation of client’s requirements from the OFSAA’s solution on a regular basis and provide feedbacks to the product team

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Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Commenced the requirement gathering through detailed discussion and product demonstration
• Prepared comprehensive business requirement document and mock ups detailing the functional and reporting requirements
• Performed gap analysis to analyze the difference between the bank’s requirements and the current solution to graph the time and effort required to carry out the implementation
• Designed and executed test plans and scenario based use cases to ensure that the business requirements and functional specifications are tested and fulfilled
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing and carried out user to facilitate the business users understand and get equipped with the solution

Confidential

Business Analyst/Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed product requirements gathered from various sources like market needs, competitor products and global team members to arrive at the new product enhancements
• Detailed the requirements in the form of business requirement document, functional design document and system mock ups
• Interacted with the technical team to communicate the new requirements and worked closely with them in terms of solution designing and architecture of the business requirements within the OFSAA framework
• Performed end to end functional testing and comprehensive data quality testing to ensure the development is in line with the stated requirements
• Prepared extensive user manuals for the solution
• Conducted product s for internal teams and senior management
• Understood and built report specifications for the solution

Confidential

Business Analyst/Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understood and analyzed client’s requirements for product demonstrations and proof of concepts
• Documented and communicated requirements to the technical team
• Analyzed client requirements to create report specifications