Capital Market Business Analyst Resume
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Charlotte, NC
SUMMARY
- 9 years of experience including Derivative Middle/Back Office Operations, Trade P&L and Valuations, Business Analysis, Project Management, Object Oriented Analysis and Business Process Re - Engineering of web- based and Client Server applications.
- Strong subject matter expertise in Bonds, Fixed Income, Stocks, Derivatives, Currency Trading, Options, Dividends, Mutual Fund order and execution and nonfinancial transactions
- Worked on several Vendor based and Proprietary Trading and Risk Systems implementations. Vendor systems include Calypso, Murex, Wall Street.
- Excellent project management skills including planning, scheduling and monitoring with experience in requirement gathering, Gap Analysis, Risk Analysis, Effort Estimation etc.
- Worked to create and launch public and internal web sites, including corporate intranet. Implemented SharePoint and enterprise database tools
- Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having understanding of various phases like Requirement gathering, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall and Agile.
- Proven expertise in creating test plans, UML diagrams, flowcharts, screen mockups and systems requirements specifications.
- Excellent business communications skills in writing System Requirements document, Systems Design Specification and System Requirement Change Request.
- Excellent skills in Training, facilitation, knowledge transfer and maintaining performance metrics.
- Outstanding ability to work with Global and Cross Functional Teams
- Strong motivation and ability to work in a fast paced team and deadline oriented environment.
- Excellent documentation skills in creating BRD and translating it into detailed Functional Specifications Document and Data Models.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
COMPUTER SKILLS: MS Office XP, MS PowerPoint, MS Projects, MS Visio, MS Outlook, SQL, PL/SQL, Quality Center, Enterprise Architect, Bloomberg, Trade web, Truex
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Charlotte NC
Capital Market Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Created functional requirements document for Company’s major strategic initiative Calypso Trading System upgrade from Version 7 to Version 12 project. Requirement Document included Derivative Trade Lifecycle, Trade Valuations, Static and Market Data, Upstream and Downstream interfaces for FX, Rates and Credit Derivatives. Conducted clarifications sessions with various Trading Desks, Middle Office and Back Office teams, Reference, Static Data teams and various external vendors including Bloomberg, Market wire, Trade Web, DTCC. Financial Instruments included Interest Rate Swaps, Swaptions, Basis Swaps, Credit Default Swap, CDSIndex, Foreign Exchange and various Rates and Credit Structured Products.
- Work with various business partners including Market Risk, Model Validation, Middle Office and Finance to explain various Risk measures generated using the internal derivative valuation models for various assess classes including Interest Rate, Credit, FX, Bond Products, Counterparty Credit on daily basis
- Designed Greeks based P&L attribution process for Rates and Credit for Volcker Rule requirements. Determine Risk measures and Static Data to be used for various Rates and Credit products.
- Work on STP (Straight through Processing) project between Calypso and various SEFs (Swap Execution Facility) including Bloomberg, Trade web, Truex. Create mapping/data conversion documents for FIX and FPML messages between SEFs and Calypso
- Wrote Documentation on Internal workings of Quant valuations models, Pricers in collaboration with various Quant teams
- Wrote business and Functional requirement documents related to various Dodd Frank initiatives including Swap Data Repository(SDR), Volcker, Fed Liquidity, Make Available to Trade (MAT), Mandatory Clearing and Canadian Reporting
- Researched various issues related to Daily P&L Reports, Stress, Var, Market Data including Discount and Forward Curves, Volatility Surfaces and Cash Flows. Created design document for Derivative Trade Lifecycle
- Participate in various Strategic discussions between Front Office Technology, business users and other external teams including accounting, middle office, back office to clarify business requirement and to identify technology solutions related to Data Migration, Data Flow from front to back, Confirmations etc.
- Obtain Status updates for technology tasks from Developers and provide weekly updates to Project Management Office (PMO) Team
- Own defect management process for Front Office Technology. Perform testing of various defect fixes and manage updates in Quality Center for defects related to NPV and various other Pricer Measures including Delta01, MM01 and Static Data.
- Create and distribute Daily Defect Status Report to the team and proactively follow up with developers to receive updates on defects.
- Create various Functional and Technical Documents for different areas including using Calypso’s Risk Reports, Configuration of Front to back office XML messaging etc.
Confidential, Charlotte NC
Vice President, Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Interfaced with Stakeholders, SMEs across multiple business groups and regions for gathering business requirements related to Enterprise wide web based Issue Management Tracking System based on .Net Application and SQL Server Database. System was used to capture, monitor and resolution of any Issues, Emerging Risks identified during reviews by External Regulators, Auditors or by core business users across the enterprise. Utilize Scrum Software Development Methodology.
- Assisted Product owner with creating user stories and with the maintenance of product backlog. Maintain burn chart for each Iteration and Final product Release.
- Work extensively and closely with offshore and onshore development team to translate business requirements within user stories into system requirements.
- Created a Project Plan for tracking all deliverables and resource allocations. Set up daily calls with various groups to identify daily tasks and status updates. Estimated work efforts and budgets in executing various Operational Risk and Compliance related application initiatives.
- Coordinated with Line of Business representatives to determine the BAU process schedules and Service Level Agreements post Go-Live
- Tested the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance and validation of stories. Demonstrate the development of newly added features to the stakeholders and proactively work with them to obtain sign off for each iteration
- Produced various Data Migration Strategy, Data Conversion and Data Mapping documents for the migration of legacy Issue Management Systems to newly created Enterprise wide system and in building upstream and Downstream Data feeds.
- Designed initial Logical Data Model and assisted Database Admins by creating database tables and views
- Identified project risks. Designed and implemented project status reports and communications.
- Conducted various Executive Level Presentations to gain funding for various initiatives and provided project status updates. Continuously worked with Stakeholders and product owners to identify various system enhancement opportunities.
- Formed detailed UAT and QA test plans, managed system testing and preserving testing documentation.Coordinated and facilitated the execution of Quality Assurance and User Acceptance testing utilizing Quality Center.
- Owned issues resolution process and worked as a liaison between Business teams and Development team for clarification of the business requirements and change controls
- Wrote SQL queries to determine the business rules for data conversion
Confidential, Tennessee
Business System Analyst (Consultant)
Responsibilities:
- Communicated with on-site and offsite stakeholders, SME’s and Clients for requirements gathering.
- Utilized Enterprise Architect (EA) to document Business and Functional Requirements
- Created use cases to effectively communicate the client’s member experience and data exchanges between client and Healthways
- Facilitated JAD sessions to collect requirements from and prepared business requirement that provided appropriate scope of work for the developers
- Involved in gathering, documenting and verifying business and Functional requirements.
- Conducted Gap Analysis to identify potential gaps in data exchange process between client, Healthways Account team and downstream applications.
- Performed Data conversions for converting data from Legacy SQL Server to Oracle 11G database
- Coordinated and facilitated the execution of User Acceptance testing
Confidential, New York, NY
Senior Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Documented current business processes and related gaps for capturing and settlement of Fixed Income & Derivatives transactions for Murex Trading system implementation initiative
- Led the exercise of creating and executing UAT testing plan for Fixed Income and Derivatives including Interest, Credit and FX
- Created UAT Scripts with various test scenarios that included test data and expected Results. Led the team of three UAT Testers. Documented Consolidated Testing Results in Quality Center and distributed QC Defect Report to various Stakeholders on daily basis.
- Met with client groups to determine User Requirements and Goals, thus converting User Requirements into Business Requirements and User and Functional Requirement Specification.
- Worked as an Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes, and communicated enhancements/new features to stakeholders.
- Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and information needs, and ensured that critical requirements are not missed.
- Coordinated work plan between project manager and client with MS Project.
- Delivered effective presentations to the stakeholders to demonstrate latest Application Development
- Prepared Asset securities pricing sources Matrix helping company to tackle pricing issues in an organized manner
- Documented daily procedures for Asset Securities Pricing group
Confidential
Senior Middle Office Analyst/Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Assisted Derivative Prime Brokerage trading desk with capturing and processing of various derivative transactions including various Interest Rate, Credit Risk, Foreign Exchange and Equity utilizing company’s deal capture system
- Worked with Portfolio Margin VAR based models for FX, Credit and Rates products
- Led team of three members for new Margin/Credit Risk platform implementation project (Migration from existing Margin/Credit Risk platform to newly developed platform). Provided daily status updates to various stakeholders, created/maintained project plan.
- Managed UAT and parallel testing for various system enhancements initiatives. assisting company in enhancing controls and process efficiencies for daily settlements and trade execution processes
- Processed and approved cash and security movements related to Collateral and transaction Settlements utilized company’s Treasury system
- Efficiently managed a team of four members within the group for a year, provided proper delegation of duties and provided performance feedback at year end review
- Presented Derivative prime brokerage business model to various internal groups and external clients including various hedge funds and Investment banks
- Confirmed and executed settlement dollar amounts for early terminated and existing derivative transactions with company’s hedge fund clients utilizing company’s derivative settlement system
- Communicated with internal groups including Derivative Prime Brokerage Sales and Traders, Legal, Compliance, Credit Risk Officers, Information technology on resolving issues related to clients’ on-boarding, trade execution and maintenance
- Performed daily and monthly trade reconciliations between trading and sales trading books ensuring the trade booking accuracy for Derivative transactions
- Interacted with Clients, Custodians, Other prime brokers and internal accounting groups in resolving current and aged Settlement breaks