SUMMARY:

• Enthusiast and Professional Business Systems Analyst with 8 Years of experience in Business Systems Analysis with strong knowledge and experience of Finance, Banking, Mortgage, and Insurance domains.
• Organized and disciplined team player with the ability to excel in independent positions requiring minimal supervision.
• Demonstrates strong relationship building skills with stakeholders that aid in analysis and convergence of requirements for a project.
• Involved in all phases of Project Life Cycle (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closeout) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensively worked with Capital Market domain and gained expertise in various processes (Front Office and Back office) such as Dealing, Settlement, Pay In and Pay out, executing delivery slips, Derivative instruments and preparing MIS in Capital Market.
• Experience on Portfolio Asset Management (PAM), Fixed Income, Derivatives (OTC & ETD) - Futures/ Forwards, Options, ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), Credit Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Credit Index, Linked Instruments, Collateral Management / Risk Management, Credit Risk, Cash Equities, Mortgage, Fund Transfer & Operations, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Loans, Corporate actions, Securities Lending, Commodities, Brokerage, Equities, Annuities.
• Experience capturing all aspects of Trade Life Cycle (Front Office Order Management, Trade Execution, Settlement & Clearing) through use cases & process flow diagrams.
• Familiarity with Dodd-Frank and BASEL regulations and their impact on financial markets and operations.
• Extensive experience on Mortgage and Loan Origination system: Loan Origination, Default Mortgage and Reverse Mortgage.
• Well versed in Waterfall, Spiral, Prototyping, RUP and Agile - Scrum methodologies. Worked on projects utilizing Waterfall and Agile project execution principles.
• Expertise in Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN),
• Highly skilled in writing Scope Matrix, Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD), Request for Proposals (RFP), Statement of Work (SOW).
• Expertise in eliciting requirements using the following techniques; Interviews, Document Analysis, Brainstorming, Questionnaire, Workflows, Workshops.
• Expert in writing detail Use Cases.
• Expert in creating UML Diagrams including Use Cases, Activity/State Chart Diagrams, Flow charts, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Extensively worked on Doors 9.3 for Requirements Management, Traceability Matrix, Scalability and as a Test Tracking Toolkit.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL, Data Analysis and Data Mapping.
• Expertise in assisting Testing teams with Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios, and manage defects using various Defect Tracking Systems.
• Skillful in performing GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, Risk analysis and User acceptance Testing (UAT).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Process Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio, Smart Draw

Defect Management Tools: Bugzilla, Rally

Reporting Tool: Tableau

Mail Servers: Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook

Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Project Management Tool: Microsoft Project

Gathering Techniques: Brainstorming, Interviews, Workshops, Focus groups, Document Analysis, Observations

Requirements/ Source Code Management Tools: IBM Rational Requisite Pro, Team Foundation Server, IBM Rational Doors

Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP, SOAP, Test Director, Application Lifecycle Management User Interface Modeling and Simulation Tools iRise

UML Design Tools: Visio, Enterprise Architect

Version Controlling: Microsoft SharePoint

Languages: SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created project charter, business requirements document based on the inputs received.
• Worked extensively with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) from Finance & Risk teams to understand their requirements for Trade capture, Accounting and Valuation process.
• Completely analyzed the capabilities of the trading application that involved thorough understanding of all debt and derivative instruments in scope like Long Term Debt (Fixed & Floating), Short Term Debt (CP, CD), IR Derivatives (Interest Rate Swaps, Cross Currency Swaps, Caps/Floors) and FX Derivatives (FX Forwards, FX Options)
• Responsible to setting up meetings with Business & Configuration teams to review user requirements and gather inputs.
• Conducted Gap Analysis by creating process flows highlighting the differences between the Current (As Is) environments versus the Target (To Be) environment.
• Document requirements to capture process flows, workflow structure and other reporting requirements for Transaction (TRM), Cash Management (CMM) and Accounting (ACM) modules of WSS Suite for Debt & Derivative (IR & FX) products.
• Gather and document reporting requirements based out of new trading platform
• Translated the business needs into system requirements and communicated with the business on a technical level.
• Worked with the business users and UI teams to finalize the Wireframes and Mock ups.
• Proactively managing changes in project scope, identify potential Risk, and devise contingency plans.
• Created BRD's and DFD's using various modeling tools and developed databases based on the system model following the techniques in Agile.
• Used SQL to create custom reports. Generated SQL queries and scripts to identify/update/delete records.
• Involved in formal review meetings with project teams and developers to report, demonstrate, prioritize and suggest resolution of issues discovered during testing.
• Tracked and maintained stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest

ENVIRONMENT: SDLC, WSS Suite, Oracle, SQL, Rational Requisite Pro, Enterprise Architect, MS Visio, HPQC, MS Project, MS Office

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisting the business team in Business Case Modeling
• Developed functional requirements, analyzed, documented, tracked & reported system bugs using an Agile methodology process.
• Use Case Modeling using Rational Unified Process (RUP) for preparing Functional Requirements documents.
• Coordinated with business group involved in Mortgage processing right from Loan selling personnel to executers, loan processors, underwriters and accountants to understand the process flow and interacted with risk analysts to understand the risk measures
• Developed and documented business process models for Mortgage Loan Origination, Mortgage Servicing, Loan Monitoring, Assets Assessment and Secondary Mortgage Market.
• Understanding the underlying concepts and crux of project from functional perspective in the area of mortgage backed securities.
• Played a vital role in validating test plans and test scripts Assisted the QA team in UAT and testing of the application.
• Giving project sizing for various releases of the project to senior management
• Building good Configuration management practices like having an automated nightly regression build using Quick Test Professional.
• Created Data mapping document that translated source to target data elements from existing SQL script.
• Creating PowerPoint presentations and project updates using MS Project for management review
• Performed SWOT and GAP analysis for new functionality requirements as well as prioritized them based on actual business needs.
• Facilitated JAD sessions and conducted peer review meetings periodically to keep track of projects milestones.
• Identified opportunities to use customer data to develop customer strategies and improve business performance.
• Assisted the project manager in preparing the project schedules, milestone tracking, and resource allocation using MS Project.
• Undertook project risk management and business process analysis review of the implementation of different stages of the applications.
• Collaborated with the QA team to ensure adequate testing of software, maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Organized weekly Project status and Task Review meetings and Created PowerPoint presentations and project updates using MS Project for management review.

Environment: SDLC, MS Visio, Oracle 9i, SQL, MS Access, Rational Rose Enterprise, MS Project, GAP.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Capital Market businesses to understand the architecture of the various processes and participated in a strategic decision making process about what applications needs to be decommissioned to reduce the cost.
• Elicited and gathered high level requirements by conducting stakeholder meetings, interviews and discussions.
• Framed a detailed JAD session agenda and facilitated sessions with the SMEs, process owners & stake holders and collected the meeting minutes from the session and identified various action items.
• Documents and categorized Functional, Non-Functional Requirements and Business rules.
• Assisted in defining and reviewing the Non-Functional architecture requirements for designing the wireframes.
• Developed Informatica Mappings and Sessions based on business user requirements and business rules to load data from source flat files and RDBMS tables to target tables.
• Proficiently managed client facilitation meetings to gather Interface and Business Process Requirements from Subject Matter Experts (SME's) in trading shares, equities and Fixed Incomes like bonds, and converted them into functional requirements by implementing the RUP methodology, authored the same in Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Interacted with the wealth management team to understand their daily task and gather their requirement.
• Worked with the SME, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering requirements and data transaction information related to Capital Markets.
• Worked with Fixed Income traders to facilitate technical team with functional aspects of various capital market instruments.
• Worked with Fixed Income Trading System: Bloomberg Portfolio System and handled Corporate Bonds, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Collateral Debt Obligation (CDO), Asset Backed Securities (ABS), Inflation-Linked Treasury Bonds (TIPS), Municipal Bonds, Warrants and Preferred Stock.
• Coordinating the process for users which analyzed their current business practices, user needs, and then used that information to define functional requirements and a RFI’s and Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new system.
• Analyzing data flow processes to perform data quality and data auditing for creating Contacts segments and Marketing Lists.
• Write SQL queries to perform the back-end testing of the Oracle database to ensure data integrity.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, and assisted the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Assisted in defining and reviewing the Non-Functional architecture requirements for designing the wireframes.
• Identified Use Cases from the Functional Requirements and created Use Case Narratives along with the functional specifications for each work streams.
• Involved in various walk-through sessions with developers on and off-shore and prepared presentations to help them understand the requirements and end user needs.

Environment: SDLC, Mainframes, SQL, Rational Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, UML,RUP, HPQC, Microsoft Power Point, Visio.

Confidential, Worcester, MA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).
• Employed SDLC for the purpose of monitoring the project and also followed the step-by-step procedure.
• Worked with SDLC for the purpose of evaluating the costs and also for setting up targets for the completion of project.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix in order to map the requirements effectively with the factors.
• Also implemented Change Management techniques for successfully monitoring and fine-tuning the project changes to obtain the desired production results and to meet Client deadlines.
• Developed a file of ACORD Forms used as the standards in all Property and Casualty markets, for both Personal and Commercial Lines of Business.
• Prepared Business Requirements document for the Payment system application based on the requirements gathered.
• Wrote SQL scripts for generating reports.
• Built Use cases from the requirements gathered to create use case diagrams and Use case documents.
• Used Requisite Pro for the purpose of writing use cases and also for increasing the quality.
• Extensively used Requisite Pro for customizing and filtering requirements to maximize the informative value of each requirement.
• Was responsible for providing analytical support in the Design, Development and Implementation of Project.

Environment: MS Office Suite, RUP, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Requisite Pro, UML, MS Visio, Quick Test Pro, Agile, Load Runner, Win Runner, Project Management.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and gather the functional requirements from end users for existing client data profiles including review of process documents.
• Responsible for financial planning and statement analysis for expense management; Kept track of current liabilities such as accounts payable, payroll payable and accrued payable.
• Provided assistance in implementing key financials inputs in the system and creation of automated forecasting model; performed various ratio calculations and ROI analysis.
• Supported end users with efficient technology to better analyze the monthly reporting, P&L accounts, Ledger accounts and inventory accounts.
• Created process diagrams and documentation for better understanding of the future ad-hoc projects handling strategy.
• Prepared marketing PowerPoint presentations and monthly reporting to management systems for event tracking and monitoring; Supported in variety of ad-hoc projects including event marketing material proof-readings and event scheduling and change management.

Environment: UML diagrams, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Visio, Project), SQL, Quick-books.