SUMMARY:

• Good understanding on Capital market such as Equities, Equity Derivatives Fixed Income - Corporate Bonds, Government Securities, Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMOs), Asset-Backed Securities (ABS), Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDOs).
• High Level of Expertise in the Financial Industry; Capital and Money Markets, Equities, Risk, Fixed Income, Derivatives and Banking (Retail, Private, and Investment).
• Excellent Financial Product knowledge in Equity; Fixed Income (CDs, Treasury Bonds, Corporate Bond, Municipal Bond, Money Market, Repo); Structured securities, Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options,SWAP.
• Working knowledge about risk management models Basel III and CCAR, Dodd-Frank reform and Credit Rating.
• Highly proficient in preparing Business and System Use Cases and supporting all the documents with UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Process Flows using UML modeling tools such as MS Visio.
• Strong knowledge in the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) of data into a data warehouse and OLTP/OLAP systems.
• Solid experience in creating Wireframes, Storyboards, and User flows, Process flows and Site maps.
• Extensive knowledge of Agile Scrum, Waterfall, and Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodologies with expertise working with tools such as Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, ERwin Data Modeler, and Mercury Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in developing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), User Stories, Use Cases, Test Cases, Test Plans.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Business Analyst/ Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified and documented Use Cases from the business and systems requirements
• Developed documents and translated high level business requirements into detail system specifications.
• Elicited and analyzed business problems and defined the scope of activities required to address issues, including requirement definition, process review, impact assessment and operational streamlining where necessary.
• Extensively worked in configuration of IHC Reporting System and other in-house reporting software /systems.
• Identified business, system and functional requirements by conducting detailed interview with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts (SME).
• Participated in data modeling, data analysis and requirement documentation of product types and map data from respective source systems to Target systems.
• Developed detailed level process maps to facilitate requirements gathering and conducted strategic review of all deliverables and process flow to identify technology gaps driving project forward.
• Interacted with the Project manager in planning, executing, controlling and closing phases of projects.
• Implemented Income Statement, Balance Sheet, OTTI (AFS&HTM securities), CCR and PPNR schedules.
• Ensure data integrity and accuracy with other regulatory submissions (FR Y-14A, FR Y-14Q, etc.)
• In-depth analysis between reporting requirements and available data attributes; coordinate for requisite data gaps
• Extensively carried out UAT test plans, test scenarios and test cases and supported the execution of testing plan.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Project Plan for the new applications to capture potential conflicts with existing process and downstream systems.
• Managed the implementation of Investortools Perform FPC (For Private Clients) Portfolio Management System for the Municipal Bond trading desk including Treasuries as a Business Analyst.
• Analyzed and designed customized data feeds to populate Perform with trade and securities data from diverse databases and the Security Data Master.
• Conducted formal one-on-one meetings to analyze existing trade process with business users.
• Developed business requirements for proprietary bond allocation models to be processed on Perform.
• Managed end-user and vendor interaction for the migration project including senior officers and portfolio managers.
• Mapped a complete end-to-end pricing data and trade flow -- a first for Grosvenor Capital Management.
• Developed an application to facilitate speedier new security set up in the enterprise security master.
• Developed Use Cases for Pricing and other market data flows and transmission of analytics data from a data mart.
• Developed a knowledge base of routine production incidents that involve user support for an offshore support team.
• Responsible for project planning and allocation of resources both onsite and offshore.

Confidential, New York, NY

Jr. Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Discussed and reviewed the enhancements required to build internal systems.
• Interacted with portfolio analysts and asset managers to finalize the Business Requirements for the application.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules, information needs and insured that critical requirements are not missed.
• Performed the requirement analysis and identified the access level for different Supervisory Tiers.
• Assisted the stakeholder meet its overall strategy to implement a more efficient way to meet regulatory and compliance reporting requirements by studying and researching the FINRA rules.
• Documented the'current state'and'future state'of the data extraction and enrichment process and performedgap analysis.
• Proposed bothstrategicandtacticalsolutions towards fillings the gap for supporting trade monitoring solutions.
• Discussed the KYC (Know Your Customer) with users and risk management team to create sample report templates depicting the same.
• Performed operationaltrade activity analysis involving front/middle/back office to identify and rectify regulatory compliance (FINRA rules, BAS&AML policies) and internal fraud weaknesses.
• Produced the visual models for the application and created user stories.
• Explained the users and senior management thecurrent design challengesin supportinginternal systemsfor USA.
• Worked extensively with various cross-functional teams to help identify alert assignments and user supervision classification features and functionality.

Confidential

Manager Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Rotated through various departments of an 80-person company, studied and applied strategic business operations and management methods and gained subject matter knowledge on key water-purification products
• Delegated responsibilities to multiple teams facilitating the design, construction and installation of a whole water-purification system for a 50,000-person steelwork company; identified client needs, procured resources, managed and monitored client satisfaction and streamlined/expedited project execution and delivery
• Facilitated completion of three projects as part of a 10-person team, including replacement of a $100,000 component
• Revised and formatted a 100-page quality safety management manual and edited system documentation
• Analyzed and evaluated client receivables to ensure proper billing and payment accuracy