EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated, result driven business analyst with experience in ideating, developing, presenting, and implementing value added solutions at all levels of business, operations and systems.
• 7+ Years of Business Process Flows & Case Tools in Capital Markets/ Equity Structured Products. Associated risk profiles (Fixed Income, Equity, and Derivatives).
• Highly skilled in gathering requirements and creating Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents, facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, rapid application development (RAD sessions, Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), developing Use Cases, Test Approach, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Been instrumental in creating a new strategic market risk infrastructure, replacing existing Market Risk systems & processes; to provide single - scalable and flexible production process for VaR (Value at Risk), aggregated risk reporting & stress testing.
• Facilitated process-wide change management from project conceptualization to testing through project delivery, Software Development & Implementation Management in diverse business & technical environments, with demonstrated leadership abilities with strong communication skills in engaging business stakeholders, SME’s, and user.
• Exposure to advanced forms of requirement gathering techniques including Mind Maps, rapid prototyping and Agile. Effectively document and communicate complex process and data flow situations - through the use of process flow diagrams and UI. Strong knowledge in data flow diagrams/ERD, system overview diagrams, decision trees, simulations, business scenarios, etc.
• Committed to highest ethical standards. Experienced Team Player and Leader with Customer, shareholder and employee focus.
• Experienced in test plan, test cases, and coordinating pre and post UATtasks

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Analysis & Tools: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, MS Projects, SharePoint, MS Visio, Lotus Notes

Case Tools: Software planner, Crystals Reports, Quality Center

Investment Banking/Accounting COTS products: Fidessa-Latent Zero, Advent Geneva, Monte Carlos, Quick Books

Programming Languages and Web designing: C, C++, Java, J2EE, HTML, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS

Data Providers: Bloomberg Data License, Reuters, Thomson Financial

Database: MS-SQL Server, Oracle 9i, MS Access

Data Analytical tools: PLSQL Developer, Pivot tables, Excel macros, Excel VBA

Diagram Skills: Use Case, UML, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Object Diagrams, Entity Relationship and Logical Data Models.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential, Brooklyn, New York

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing oversight and monitoring relating to the Vendor Management Policy. Continue tracking, reporting, and assisting in ensuring that all gap items are remediated.
• Data Analysis, trend analysis, data conversion, data masking and database restructuring.
• Provide consistent quarterly updating to the Clear and Vivid Description document.
• Ensure accuracy of distributed reports through COGNOS reporting and assist in expanding the recipients to include non-enterprise connected applications.
• Initiating a focal point, to drive Business Continuity Management issues. Assist in reviewing the Business Continuity Management action plan remediation activities.
• Instrumental in formation of a Latin America Division Repository by assimilating data from the Global Directory Worldwide, the Identity Access Management System that contains IDs and the AIG company website.
• Cost saving initiative to data-mine terminated employees in order to draft a documented procedure for requesting and disabling of telecommunication services to be concluded.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand the intricacies of the system architecture and reporting application along with the front and middle office systems that send data to the application.
• Analyzed the gaps through creating a new lending platform top level logical data models while developing and documenting the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Examined the different enumeration codes unique to the new lending model and mapped them to the equivalent code values in the portfolio reporting system.
• Mapped the portfolio reporting system data feeds to the new lending platform core database and created final source to target column mappings.
• Identified all gaps in the current feeds and potential data feeds from new lending platform.
• Liaise with the new lending system team to identify the gaps within the system and attempted to gain an understanding of any strategy in place to circumvent the same.
• Hosted meetings with reporting system business users to prioritize the gap resolution and PMO to implement the same.
• Identified audit, forex and data transmission requirements.
• Documented impact on reporting due to gaps uncovered in gap analysis activity and the changes required in reports.

Confidential, New York City

Risk /Compliance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct gap analysis for deviant processes and develop process frameworks to enforce conformance with the Enterprise BPM model.
• System Integration through adapting Advent Geneva for a transaction and accounting analysis instead of Quick Books while keeping the front ends for business users closer to the legacy system with minimal impact.
• Development of Client Dashboard within the reporting suite to provide a consolidated view of investment portfolio.
• Facilitated implementation of Finance product as a new lending platform and facilitation of client reports from that platform.
• Development of Fund based reports for invested collateral management with detailed design discussions to ensure and provide inputs on solutions that can implement all reporting functionalities in an optimum way, such as logical grouping of classes in Java design as per business use cases, designing XMLs to provide more business value and possible future projections.
• Data Analysis and Restructuring of data feeds via Performance Explorer to ensure accurate reporting of trading activity.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders to design report prototypes and write Business Requirement documents.
• Document data migration and transformation specifications for the ETL team to load feed in the central business warehouse as per required format and aggregations.
• Worked closely with Technical Lead to resolve all functional and technical queries related to data organization in the system through SharePoint.
• Participate in the estimation of project effort and create project plans
• Integration & User Acceptance Testing and prioritize defects for resolution.
• Host Defect calls to track defect resolution and follow up technical teams to provide business users high quality work products in agreed timeframe.

Confidential, New York City

Business Analyst/ Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of business analysts to drive: requirements gathering, current environment analysis, identification of gaps, establishing target operating models, and selection of appropriate technology packages to support the operating model.
• Worked on different project methodologies to influence and drive teams through all phases of project under Asset management data domains and data requirements of trading compliance and decision support systems.
• Wrote a comprehensive and detailed assessment of the current situation of the Equity Derivatives Department, to develop then submit to Board a series of recommendations that would re-start the activity of this department making them compatible with Group strategy. Supervise implementation of recommendations selected by Company's Management.
• Gathering Business /Functional requirements for revamping application used for Financial planning services, Securities Lending application and investment products purchased through 'managed accounts' which are not assessed a commission but rather are fee-based.
• Documented specifications using Aladdin to provide centralized database for maintaining financial information including positions, transactions, prices, security data and analytics.
• Experience in working on cost allocation methodologies, IFRS, Basel II reporting and regulatory reporting.
• Provided combined documents for sophisticated risk analytics with portfolio management, trading and operations tools to support a consistent, efficient and controlled investment process.
• Worked closely with Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) developing trading strategies for the purpose of investing assets directly for Managed futures funds; which will allow investors to access these trading strategies without having to actively manage individual positions.
• Analyzed and enhanced existing application used for trade capture/trade maintenance, settlement & clearance, futures, collateral management, asset servicing fees and billing processing.
• Managed and maintained quality control process to ensure that project deliverables meet the required quality standards, as well as Monitored & Reported - risks, issues and project progress at regular intervals to management and produce key documentation for distribution.
• Perform analysis on separate account holdings to identify credit concerns and relative value opportunities.
• Produce concise written research and verbally articulate credit strengths and risks to portfolio managers and traders. Document from SME’s as per industry trends and contribute to team strategy discussions.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on allocating risk equity with the following components: Credit Risk Equity, Ops Risk Equity, Value-at-Risk (VaR), Strategic Risk Equity & PP&E Equity Allocation (10% of average PP&E balance)
• Conducted functional reviews with stakeholders from Wealth Management Group to display current and create future state process maps; documented business requirements to improve the existing risk control measures on Cash Equities & Corporate actions across all Fixed Income products lines.
• Resolved and reconciled trading discrepancies and ensured settlement of stocks, index futures, interest rate futures, put & call options, mutual funds, govt. & corp. bonds, muni bonds, foreign currency, futures &commodity trades.
• Wrote documents to maintain Compliance Regulatory Reporting & Procedures, and calculated for three major components of risk: credit risk (standardized approach ), operational risk (basic indicator approach or BIA, standardized approach ) and market risk VaR (Value at Risk ) .
• Wrote Business Change Management (BCM) documents to build integrated platforms to accommodate new technologies and development methods to improve processing of derivatives and reduce operational risks. This involved business and system analysis; design, specifications and development of workflows, UAT
• Documented specific requirements with Geneva users for multicurrency platform with full support for all global instruments and transaction types, including complex derivatives such as bank debt, swaps and fixed income
• Generated questionnaire & process flow for Fund Accounting, Straight Through Processing (STP), EFT (Direct Deposit, Online Banking, Payment), Fund /Wire Transfer, Tax-Exempt Loans/Loans with Tax Benefits Analysis
• Wrote specification for upgrade and support for different groups covering asset classes
• Gathered requirements for restructuring and developing new procedures for the Securities Lending department to increase interest income, while also saving on financing costs.
• Documented for COTS implementation, version upgrade, build infrastructure security rules, mapping records layouts from disparate sources for Disaster Recovery testing and readiness and Business Continuity test plans.
• Performed GAP analysis to enhance the monitoring and reporting of control processes in Capital Markets dealings from front office (sales and trading) to middle office (product control,) to back office/operations, (regulatory reporting and compliance) as well as trade processing, including clearance and settlement. Worked with different data sets (Market risk, yield curve analysis, Value at risk) to gather and aligning documents.

Confidential, Trenton, NJ

Business System/QA Analyst - Operations and Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Compiled and reported on key process metrics of application packages.
• Escalated technical and process related risks to project management team for timely mitigation.
• Worked with OIT (New Jersey Office of Information Technology) and DCBS users to assess status of different work tracks on bi-weekly basis, evaluate process optimization opportunities, and devise strategies for formulation of extensible business intelligence architecture for the agency.
• Conducted end-to-end analysis of packages through elicitation and documentation of business requirements, functional requirements and usage scenarios, development of business process models (as-is and to-be), and system activity diagrams, technical feasibility analysis of requirements, estimation of analysis and design ROMs (Rough Order of Magnitude), and re-validation of LOEs.