SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of IT & Management experience in Banking, Insurance, and Investments as Business Architect in Financial Services & Investment Management domain.
• Excellent understanding, analyzing and documenting skills of Business Requirements (BRDs), Functional Specifications (FRDs & NFRs), and Detail Function Design Documentation DFDS.
• Experience with PMO techniques such as RAD, Waterfall, Spiraland RationalUnified Process (RUP)usingRational Rose, Requisite Pro and Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Experience in UML based methods for product/project development using tools like Visio, Rational Rose to create Use Case Models, Class Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, BPM with BPMN and Sequence Diagrams.
• Good knowledge of RDBMS with experience in Data mapping, modeling, analysis & reporting. Good experience in anchoring the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and performed Database Testing Manually using SQL Queries.
• Followed SDLC policies and procedures, coordinate with Business Partners, Technical Analysts and Developers to identify and define specifications, indicate areas of system impact and communicate project status and needs.
• Experience in interviewing business users & SME’s providing recommendations to resolve issues for various business/technical groups & defining strategic solutions to business problems in a multiple project environment.
• Experience in developing detailed functional specs through JAD sessions, interviews, on site meetings with business users & development team. Skilled in advance Excel functions and full line of MS Suit.
• Experienced with Fixed Income Products like Treasury (Bonds, Notes, and Bill), OTC Derivative, Mortgaged Backed Securities (MBS), Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO), Asset Backed Securities (ABS).
• Extensive experience in Investment Banking, Credit Risk, Retail/Commercial Banking, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Portfolio Management, Web - based applications, Cash Management.
• Experienced with financial instruments Equity, FI, FX, Derivatives, Structured Product. Good understanding of the Portfolio Management, Risk calculation, InvestmentStrategies, Asset Allocation, and Financial Statements filing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL Server 7.0, My SQL, Pl SQL Developer 9.0

Documenting Skills: BRD, FRD, NFR, DFDS, User Storise, Use Cases, BPMN

Project Management: RAD, RUP, Waterfall, Iterative Waterfall, Spiral, Agile, Agile Scrum

Modeling tools: UML, Rational Rose, MS Visio

Operating Systems: SWIFT, Windows NT/95/98/2000 & XP

MS Office Tools: MS-Excel, Power Point, Word, MS-Access, MS Visio, MS Project.

Financial tools: Facets, Market data, Bloomberg, Reuters, Calypso

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Systems Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Writing BRDs, and User stories and reviews managing release
• Conducting weekly overall status meeting and post release feedback session.
• Conducting weekly Business meeting and UAT
• Agile dashboard management and conducting sprints meetings

Confidential, Enfield, CT

Business Architect Lead

Responsibilities:

• Documented requirements to address business’s needs to capture Unitized Values (UVs) for Pooled Separate Investment Acc (SIA), Sub Advised Fund, ETF, and Fund of Funds, SAA, MF Investments Fund, and Money Market Fund.
• Elicited and gathered requirements to transmit Dividends and Expense accruals and NAV’s of Direct Mutual Funds as well as UV’s for R1 to R8 classes of Collective Investments to BIF for distribution to other downstream applications.
• Reviewed the existing E2E process flows for the Day 1 activities and created new E2E process models for new day one plus scope. Edited and highlighted the updates to the existing E2E for any impacted features within the Capability.
• Identified requirements, which need further elicitation from the business, would be elicited as part of regular JAR sessions for each work packet. Base lined the Master Data Dictionary against the DFDS in consultation with Business and BC’s.
• Prepared Elicitation plan with estimates on the efforts required to elicit the requirement and complete all assigned tasks. Identified and Recorded deviation to the estimate status deviation tracker and shared weakly with the Resource Manager.
• Participate in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements, functional requirements and data specifications for Business Objects (BO) Universes and Reports.
• Updated Existing data dictionary with Confidential data elements and values. Published RC’s, DD and use cases from.
• Assisted the testing team with writing test plan, test scripts and test cases for Valuation track in iG (in-house requirements management system). Performed user acceptance testing (UAT), conducted training for stakeholders and reported to the developers if any error occurred
• Generated requirements for moving Individual Participants or group of Participants to different plans (401, 403, 457) or Sponsors or Adaptors. Set up high-level parameters to manage various business rules and constraints.
• Identified the business need to set up Plan level and Global level parameters for Transfers, to process Transfer of funds.
• Documented requirements (BRDs, FRD and NFRs) in Requirements Management Tool. Created use cases and updated the existing use cases in iG to ensure all the high-level level requirements were covered to meet the business needs
• Reviewed DDM, Cross capability items, CR logs, Scope log, and Review log with the consulting BC’s and the business to understand the scope and initiate the work packet kickoff with the vendor (Sapiens) and the stake holders.
• Assisted with Document and Test Scenarios for creating System Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing. Participated in Bug Triage meetings with Developers, Users and Project Manager.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported Equity Derivatives desk, have very good understanding of structured products, their risk, hedging and P&L. (Index options, Digital, barrier options etc), successfully delivered many time sensitive projects and pricing analysis.
• Wrote SQL quarries around Book-pricer, a pricing and risking application used by trading and risk managers. Also, used excel extensively to analyze large data set.
• Identified the business needs and translated into various documents (BRD, FRD, DRD, NFR) to assist the development team with the development of structured products pricing application Sparx used by equity sales, structuring and trading.
• Participated in weekly walkthrough and inspection meetings to verify the status of testing and produced regular progress reports for Leads and Project Managers.
• Involved in requirement gathering using Visual Paradigm, which included interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders. Involved in all the waves to make sure documented functional requirements are met.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Business Research Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Detailed user needs, program functions and steps required to develop or modify systems generating financial models to value maritime assets facilitating the top management in generating recommendation for asset purchase and disposition.
• Used SQL queries for access database for understanding different field names and character specifications.
• Generated artifacts (BRDs & FRD), current and proposed process flow diagram, and BPM for as-is & to-be processes.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified business needs for the PMS system designed to manage several major equity portfolios, overseeing funds investment and wealth management.
• Gathered Business Requirements and consolidated the approved requirements to traceability matrix on the project site. Created and updated the existing use cases to ensure the completeness of high-level BRs with respect to business needs.
• Performed reviews for business artifacts (BRD’s, FRD, and NFRs) for the PMS system by conducting review meetings (JAR and Pre-JAR sessions) with various stakeholders. Captured the review comments and recorded the review sessions.
• Updated the review comments provided in the session on to the review log. Updated requirements based on review comments. Send the artifacts for approval to the business. Sent requirements package to vendor for consumption.
• Used SQL queries for access database before typing use cases for understanding different field names and character specification.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planned & Implemented Transition of F&A processes from Ireland to India, working closely with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure all mandatory values and configurable values are captured in the requirements and in the business glossary.
• Served as SME for end-to-end F&A: First Notice, Assignment, Evaluation, Settlement, Recovery and File Review.Performed GAP analysis for the application by analyzing the AS-IS and TO-BEbusinessprocess.
• Partnered with claim service teams to understandbusinessobjectives, technical and integration requirements based on all functional areas of the F&A processes.
• Participate in JAD sessions to provide inputs around mandatory fields. Gained buy-in of leadership and executed the project under budget, adhering the timelines.
• CreatedFlow Charts; Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams using MS Visio.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed repeatable products launch strategy that ensures the organization is ready to successfully release, transition current customers, implement, and support the launch of a new or revised product.
• Created internal documents and training materials for new products and features and Implemented training program for small to middle-size market enterprises across UK.
• Setup banking platform and assist with full range of banking services, generating annual revenue of $700K and expanding the team from 4 to 12 members.
• Conducted smoke testing and GUI testing to ensure the crucial functions of a program such as the login account details and the payments page work correctly.
• Conducted back end testing using SQL queries to check the payment files were generated correctly.