SUMMARY

• Over 7 year of Professional Experience as Business Analyst in Financial Domain and Banking sector with solid understanding of Business Requirement Gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modelling and Business Analysis
• Excellent experience with all phase of SDLC Methodologies, Waterfall, RUP and Agile.
• Subject Matter expertise in Retail Banking as well as Investment Banking, Fixed Income, Trade Life Cycle, Insurance, and Portfolio Investment Analysis
• Experience in Mortgage Origination, Mortgage Servicing, Loan Life Cycle, PMI and LTV.
• Good working knowledge of CCAR, Financial reporting internally and externally.
• Extensive working experience in multi - stakeholder projects in gathering Business Requirements and fulfilling the reporting requirements.
• Strong knowledge in capital market instruments (Fixed Income, Equities, and derivatives).
• Comprehensive knowledge of and highly applicable skills in Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, and Risk Management.
• Experience in AML tools such as Actimize systems and related topics knowledge and understanding of fixed-income trading, asset management and portfolio management applications and how they are impacted by the, Anti-Money Laundering, and Customer Identification Program (KYC/CIP), Basel compliance using industry standards and regulatory guidance, etc.
• Extensive experience in conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, Data Analysis, System Analysis, GAP Analysis, and Risks Analysis
• Experience in developing Scope/Vision Documentation, Project Plan, tracking Project Process, and managing resources to ensure successful delivery
• Expertise in Collection, Analyses, Documentation of User Requirements, as well as Organizing interviews, User meetings, Workshops and JAD sessions
• Expertise in the management of User Request Change, and handle User Conflicts
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements and functional specifications, including BRD, FRD
• Proficient in creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams etc.
• Expertise in development of Conceptual design, Logical design and Physical design for Database, Data Warehousing.
• Excellent Communication and Presentation skills; Extensive working and presentation experience with business users, software developers, senior management as well as business leaders.
• Expert in various types of testing like Black Box, End-to-End, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, and User Acceptance. Proficient in working with test management and defect tracking tool to analyze and report information about test requirements, test plans, and tracking defects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methods: Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall

Operating Systems: MS Windows, UNIX

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access

Tools: MS Office, Visio, Rational Rose, MS Project, JIRA, HPQC, Rally

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript

Statistical Packages: SAS, Rapid Miner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understood the AML compliance requirements by interacting with compliance department, and SMEs.
• Lead the team in requirement gathering and managing the requirements using JIRA, which included questionnaires, interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders, Business users, and compliance department and SMEs.
• Studied the existing KYC/CIP system and prepared the test data for the CDD and EDD based on the inputs.
• Performed analysis of CCAR requirements and User Requirements:assignedpriorities andtranslated the requirements to Functional Specifications.
• Created the data mapping from the transactional data to the Actimize tool.
• Prepared the reporting formats for the regulatory filings for internal use and helped the Actimize team to produce the SAR reports.
• Provided senior executive administrative support to Head of SRM in Investment Banking.
• Participated in change management activities as required.
• Provided portfolio management and investment support to existing portfolio companies
• Understood the business logic, User requirements and test-objectives to develop test plans, test cases, and test case execution using HP QC.
• Participated in Defect-Review meetings with developers, QAs, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives.
• Conducted UAT to make sure that all the user requirements are catered by the application.

Confidential - New York, New York

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented business requirements based on current EAO systems functionalities.
• Analyzed legacy system, identified system interfaces that may impact the new system and developed requirements specification document for both Mainframe and comprehensive web based applications.
• Helped prepare for CCAR reporting schedules.
• Prepared FRDs that help drive the design of the infrastructure necessary for the organization to meet new
• CCAR reporting requirements.
• Performed GAP analysis of current new account opening processes and compare with proposed system enhancement.
• Verified functional specification and validated interface with web based system and data conversion from legacy system.
• Collected business processes as well as business rules and ensure that applications capable of supporting requirements.
• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Project Managers, Developers and Participated in JAD session for managing requirements and to elicit Use Cases.
• Developed Use cases for Account Transactions, New Account Workflow and User Reference Data.
• Designed and Developed Use cases, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, and Collaboration diagrams using MS-Visio.
• Assisted QAs in Testing in converting Use case to test cases.
• Worked with the Quality Assurance Team to test different release and to develop test plans and test cases for Integration, System and Regression testing.
• Prepared, analyzed, modified and documented testing guidelines, procedures for User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Identified prospects for leads and referral partners to sell, originated, and processed residential mortgages.
• Coordinated team-wide efforts in the intake, processing and closing of reverse mortgage loan applications.
• Worked with account executives and brokers to expand and further develop reverse mortgages business through the wholesale division.
• Planned, maintained project progress and status through MS Project and coordinated between project managers, stakeholders.

Confidential,

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with cross functional teams in order to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements and translated those requirements into functional specifications
• Conducted requirement sessions with capital market groups like(Equity, Fixed income and derivatives), portfolio managers, compliance and operational risk teams to gather requirements and articulated the same knowledge to IT team
• Responded back timely and maintained the quality standards as per the agreed standards & Coordinated with different processes to Analyze and identified process related opportunities.
• Analyzed customer queries& investigated them.
• Interacted with Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office to identify the enhancement that can be done while understanding the business processes.
• Assisted in daily settlement operations of back office in coordination with daily transactions for middle office operations.
• Actively participated in designing the features of TEMS client alert window and UI mock-up, types of alerts like critical, non-critical, dup-contra, oversell and negative cash
• Tested Trade Cycle (Front end) for Equities, Fixed Income, Bonds, Treasuries and Credit Derivatives to verify the alerts at different stages of a trade.
• Conducted JAD sessions with the IT and QA team for a seamless design, development and production of the application
• Prepared detailed business requirements document as per business users requirements and created and functional specification document.
• Supported UAT with the necessary help in guiding them through the testing and providing them with the required information on various test scenarios.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planned, developed and implemented effective marketing communication campaigns for conferences and exhibitions.
• Participated in producing and organizing software sales presentations to potential clients.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to elicit requirements from the business owners and the technical members of the project.
• Gap Analysis for the proposed functionalities. Involved in preparing the business requirement document (BRD) using the requirements gathered by elicitation techniques. Documented the various regulations governing the financial organizations.
• Assisted the project manager in creating and documenting the Project Charter, Work breakdown schedule and the Project Scope document.
• Developed a marketing plan with managers to generate awareness of services within their neighborhood and embraced building new relationships along with fostering existing relationships.
• Evaluated and communicated research on our competition. These findings have been published to the entire company for research and examination.

Confidential

Business Development Executive- Intern

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the requirements and design walkthroughs with designers, developers and management staff.
• Analyzed and optimized the process by performing various kind of analysis.
• Collaborated with development architect and the business to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet the business needs.
• Documented and delivered Functional Specification Document to the project team.
• Involved in various financial calculations and manual validation of the results produced by the application.

Confidential

Trainee - Intern

Responsibilities:

• Perform accounting functions for one of the company's largest bank alliances
• Serve as primary interface between accounting, internal finance, and external business partner by leading formal monthly meetings, and maintaining frequent contact with bank partners and FD internal finance staff
• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations and variance/trend analysis for management
• Maintain the automated journal entry system, assisting with internal and external audit requests, and identification and implementation of streamlining opportunities and process improvements