SUMMARY

• Creative, detail oriented self - starter with an MBA and solid knowledge in Credit risk management, collaborative team building and in-depth understanding of the structure of the global economy. Possess excellent problem solving skills and adept at working independently and under pressure. Excellent written, oral and analytical skills with the ability to prioritize\ and develop effective strategies to deliver timely solutions that meet customer goals.
• Earned professional experience as a Business Systems Analyst with excellent understanding, analyzing, and documenting Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Business Process Flow, Business Process Mapping, and Modeling.
• Deep understanding and experience of Investment Management, Asset Management, Prime Brokerage Services, Money and Capital Market Instruments.
• Fund accounting has been applied to investment accounting, portfolio accounting or securities accounting.
• Strong knowledge of Financial Industry including Investment Banking, Finance industry including Credit Cards with emphasis on Business Requirements and Functional Requirements.
• Validated / updated documents per Basel III standards and performed regression testing of the Basel EAD model for the entire OTC derivatives for the new regulatory capital models.
• Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income, US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds.
• Experience gathering business requirements for integration points including downstream/upstream interface requirements.
• Worked on project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including RUP, RAD, Waterfall and Agile.
• Proficiency in business requirement gathering techniques, conducting JAD and RAD sessions and meetings.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, interpersonal skills, and analytical skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Senior Developer /Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Business Analyst, contribution to strengthen of Risk, Regulatory and Compliance practice.
• Contribution to strengthen and develop DW&BI (Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence) Center of Excellence.
• Gathered requirements using Use Case analysis and Developed system requirements (SFD, HLD, SRD) from business requirements (BRD) and architect approach documents.
• Created requirements and design phase artifacts using RequisitePro.
• Analyzed and maintained business and systems requirements over SOA based applications.
• Performed the data mapping for the new Web services elements between Front end, Middleware & Back end systems.
• Participated Agile-Scrum story writing secessions and wrote executable stories for the projects assigned.
• Participated in Iteration planning secessions and added the stories & Technical tasks in Jira.
• Acted as liaison between Requirements Engineers, Developers & Testing Team to determine RTM in traceability.

Confidential, Charlotte NC

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used UNIX to check the Data marts, Tables and Updates made to the tables.
• Writing advanced SQL Queries to query the data from Data marts and Landings to verify the changes has been made.
• Had exposure to Lean Sigma within the project scope.
• Worked on bond options, interest rate options, stock market index options and simply index options.
• Perform Data analysis, Backend Database testing, Data Modeling and Developing SQL Queries to solve problems and meet user’s need for Database management in Data Warehouse.
• Wholesale ECRIS, IRR, Enterprise Risk, Enterprise Capital Management data sets
• Enterprise provisioning standards, metadata and lineage
• Process controls and data quality
• Data Migration from source to Hadoop and to ETL staging
• CCAR - Post Stress test capital ratio
• Regulatory capital Calculations
• Data migration from Source to ETL stage
• Creating procedures for forecasting modeling based regulatory requirement.
• Creating required functions and integrating into procedure.
• Creating tables, loading data into tables
• Facilitated JAD sessions with management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
• Actively participated Functional, System and User Acceptance testing on all builds and supervised releases to ensure system / functionality integrity.
• Data quality check for performed migration or data load.
• Running procedure and VAPS to calculate derived values in DRV tables.
• Debugging codes and provide fixes to the procedure or function.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Sr. Business Analyst SME

Responsibilities:

• Develop and review Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirements document (FRDs) and other documents as part of the project life cycle.
• Develop business and functional requirements from stake holders and legacy code bases.
• Participate in meetings with the appropriate subject matter experts to receive specifics on requirements
• Ensure that high-level business requirements have been decomposed properly into useable functional requirements
• Process Modeling Sessions & JAD Workshops Lead efforts in identifying Analyzing, defining, documenting and translating High-level business requirements into clearly articulated, detailed functional specifications, Lead efforts in Creation of Business Process Flow Diagrams.
• Designed the project development plan based on Agile methodology of SDLC.
• Perform analysis to determine and verify business requirements and functional design
• Maintain issues lists, including minutes from design meetings
• Document functional specifications and SDLC required artifacts
• Develop and execute test plans that will ensure business requirements have been met
• Develop SQL scripts to identify gaps between legacy and current applications
• Balance the needs and foster a relationship between the business and the technology areas
• Create flow diagrams, structure charts, and other types of system or process representations
• As appropriate, utilize design tools to create mock screens and prototypes
• Assist in the organization and delivery of presentations
• Utilize standard processes, design and testing tools throughout project development life cycle
• Ensure deliverables are being met on a timely basis

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Sr. Business Analyst SME Mortgage Banking

Responsibilities:

• Defining Business & Information requirement using Agile Methodology.
• Interact with the Business team for Requirement Elicitation & Validation
• Business & Data Requirement Documentation
• Define Business Definitions & Derivation Logic for Data elements
• Work with the Technology teams and guide them on core domain concepts & Regulatory guidelines
• Worked on data Migration from EDW database to TERADATA.
• Used agile methodology for logic implementation for Mortgage Banking attributes.
• Involved in JAD sessions for defining logic and process.
• Prepared data lineage and data mapping documents
• Tested data and validated data from EDW to Teradata Migration.
• Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data
• Works directly with the project manager, technical resources, and partners to best support business needs.
• Gathers, manages, and maintains business requirements.
• Identifies, analyzes, and translates business needs into functional specifications
• Contributes to and/or reviews the technical design to verify that it meets requirements and business needs
• Provide direction for and support to testing by collaborating with the quality assurance team and with user acceptance testing participants.
• Applies and executes standard business systems analysis and system development theories, concepts and techniques and assists in the development and maintenance of standards and procedures.
• Escalates issues or decisions that have cost or schedule impacts.
• Assesses business scope risk, potential severity, probability and strategy.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a business analyst interpretation and Implementation of Basel II regulatory rules and production support. The impact of required capital changes on loan pricing; interest rate risk will be considered and updated in the system. Updating the Loan Origination System will allow users to complete their loan applications, which in turn would be gathered and verified by the system to allow the application to undergo the loan application, processing, underwriting and closing processes.
• Fully responsible and lead developer for Data Compare Tool, This will be used for internal purpose as well as by Federal Financial Regulators for Basel Program. Business and Regulators have approved this tool as standard tool for data quality check.
• Implementing the BASEL II process to set project development standards and develop the system iteratively
• Capital calculations for wholesale and Retail exposures using OFSAA.
• Support BASEL III architecture with Liquidity Ratio, Leverage ratios, VaR(value at risk) and CVA(Credit Valuation adjustment)
• Interacting with the users and internal stakeholders to gather requirements, analyzed and documented the requirements
• Participating in gathering user requirements, developing Functional and Non-Functional Requirements Specifications
• Worked on counterparty stream on CDS (credit default swaps), IR derivatives, foreign exchange, OTC, Repo, Reverse Repo, Inside Trading and Trading and investment part of counterparty for Basel III changes.
• Met with subject matter experts, asked detailed questions and documented the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical people
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) document, and Traceability Matrix document for system application development
• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases
• Prepared Data lineage document and Data validation
• I was responsible for filling Defect in Mercury Quality center (HP QC) as Data analyst.
• Used Rational Rose to generate various UML Diagrams like Activity Diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Class diagrams for a clear understanding of the requirements by the development team
• Worked extensively with SMEs in understanding and documenting their requirements pertaining to Loan Origination
• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the application
• Performed Stress testing to test the basic functionality of the application
• Created and managed Project Templates, Use Case Project Templates, Requirement Types and Traceability Relationships in Requisite Pro.
• Involved in creating automated Test Scripts representing various Transactions, Documenting the Load Testing Process and Methodology. Created meaningful reports for analysis and integrated the Performance Testing in the SDLC.
• Created Project Initiation Document (PID) and defined the scope for an over-arching Basel II Readiness project, to encompass all other Basel II projects within the enterprise
• Took lead role in creating functional specification document for FFIEC 101 reports
• Represented the business requirements in various alternative views such as analysis models, process flow diagrams and user stories.
• Created Technical specifications for the Business Objects Reporting Applications.
• Generated reports through Business Objects and further analyzed data through Excel Used Pivot tables, V-lookups and Offset functions in order to quickly and effectively generate actionable and insightful analysis
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Involved in designing and developing Data Models and Data Marts that support the Business Intelligence Data Warehouse.
• Involved in setting up different configuration environment for compatibility testing and manual testing.
• Prepare presentation slides in MS Project, which was extensively used in different JAD sessions and to track progress.
• Various versions of the documents generated during the project were maintained and managed using Rational Clear Case and performed defect tracking using Rational Clear Quest.

Confidential, San Diego CA

Business Analyst/Asst. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed functional and non-functional system requirements and constructed a conceptual design and detailed designs that align processes and technologies to achieve business objectives.
• Extracted the Business Requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD)
• Worked with data quality governance teams to ensure each work-stream and project within the Basel II framework adhered to strict data quality and maintenance standards.
• Created and managed Project Templates, Use Case Project Templates, Requirement Types and Traceability Relationships in RequisitePro.
• Involved in creating automated Test Scripts representing various Transactions, Documenting the Load Testing Process and Methodology. Created meaningful reports for analysis and integrated the Performance Testing in the SDLC.
• Created Project Initiation Document (PID) and defined the scope for an over-arching Basel II Readiness project, to encompass all other Basel II projects within the enterprise
• Involved in designing and developing Data Models and Data Marts that support the Business Intelligence Data Warehouse.
• Involved in setting up different configuration environment for compatibility testing and manual testing.