SUMMARY

• Conversant with Corporate Finance and Portfolio/Asset Management, including financial statement analysis, financial modeling and asset allocation, etc.
• Thorough understanding of legal structures of various client types: financial institutions, corporate, quoted companies, private companies, funds, SPV’s etc.
• Solid understanding of the financial instruments including Equities, Fixed Income Instruments, Derivatives (Future, Option, Swap, Forwards), and Alternative Investments (REIT, Hedge Fund, ETF, Mutual Fund)
• In - depth knowledge about the framework of risk management along with various reporting, regulations and compliance process, such as Basel II and III, Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), Anti-money Laundering Act (AML), Know your customer (KYC), and Dodd-Frank Act/ Volker Rules
• Ability to use tools such as Access & Excel to manage & manipulate large volumes of data
• Extensive experience in various phases of SDLC cycle involving analysis, requirement-gathering and eliciting efforts for application development projects involving Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Waterfall processes
• Experience in conducting various Requirement Gathering techniques like Joint Application Design (JAD), brainstorming sessions, requirement reviews, system walkthroughs and customer interviews for various business processes.
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.
• Professional with SQL skills for retrieving data, data mapping and data analysis
• Proven skills with different types of documentations, including BRD and FRD, Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, Customer requirement Documents
• Ability to use UML to create workflow, UC diagrams, activity flow
• Excellent communication skills and people skill, problem solving skills, and good team player with outstanding interpersonal skills as well as leadership.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Suite
• Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint
• Project
• Access
• Publisher
• Outlook
• Visio
• UML
• SQL
• SSIS
• SSRS
• QC
• Rally
• Rational Suite
• Rose
• Requisite Pro
• Clear Quest
• ERWIN
• QC
• JIRA
• Market pricing data
• Actimize
• Mantas AML. AML Research Tools: LexisNexis
• Factiva
• World-Check
• Subversion (SVN).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE in the existing architecture and performed Gap Analysis and created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the Business Process and various Business Scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Gathered business requirements fromtraders, portfolio managers, hedge fund managers, and risk management group to identify and map detailed current processes and develop and document theBRDandUser Stories.
• Identified Use cases and wrote Use Case Specifications and created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagrams) in MS Visio
• Conduct analysis onTrading Lifecyclein front-office to back office systemsanddocumented with diagrams
• Worked with developers to develop and documenttechnical specificationsof system document
• Assisted Risk Management Group infinancial and Risk analysison calculation ofPV, and other key trade metrics (e.g. Breakeven Rate)
• Acted as liaison betweenmanagement and development team for Requirements andQA testingduring theUser Acceptance Testing(UAT)phase and involved in user interfaces, requirements and data modeling sessions
• Created user manuals and provided training to business users as part of the change management process

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understood the AML compliance requirements by interacting with compliance department, and SME experts in the laws/act of compliances
• Lead the team in requirement gathering and which included interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders, BU, and compliance department and SMEs.
• Studied the existing KYP/CIP system and prepared the test data for the CDD and EDD based on the inputs.
• Studied the data mapping and created data mapping documentation
• Prepared the report publishing frequencies and the media in which it shall be published (SharePoint), also prepared the document for filing frequency and filing format of the SARs, CTRs to the regulatory agencies and internal systems
• Understood the business logic, User requirements and test-objectives to develop test plans, test cases, and test case execution using Test Director.
• Tested the application manually by executing Test Cases in Quality Centre prior to Automation and Involved in automated testing and Performance testing using QTP and Load Runner.
• Participated in Bug-Review meetings with software developers, QA engineers, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives, provided solutions to existing bugs.
• Conducted UAT to make sure that all the user requirements are catered by the application.

Confidential, New Heaven, CT

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted detailed and comprehensivebusinessanalysis by working with the client, store managers, supervisors, and end-users, to identify system and operational requirements and improvements.
• Assisted client in development ofbusinessrequirements, including identification of opportunities for improvement and optimization of businessprocesses
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Analyzed and documentedBusiness requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of thebusiness.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Create specifications to be used by developers, project managers, quality assurance engineers, technical writers, and software architects in constructing the product.
• Track and maintain Stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest.
• Reviewed development plans, quality assurance test plans and user documentation to ensure correct interpretation of original specifications.
• Maintained a close and strong working relationship with teammates, developers, testers and management staff

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements management, coordination of development tasks and system integration testing and UAT for Basel regulatory reporting.
• Played a key role in establishing regulatory reporting requirement for Basel and published BRDs with report definition.
• Prepared the work of the existing (AS-IS) process for the reporting and proposed the (To-BE) process. Responsible for data analysis, identifying gaps, and authoring data dictionary, published end to end flow of the positions data into Basel II data warehouse from product streams including TCP (loan products), AFS/HTM (Fixed income bonds), OTC derivatives and Repos.
• Facilitated data quality checks and ensured correction of data quality issues from source systems and improved reference data sourcing for facility, counterparty and other relevant attributes.
• Accurate processing of accounting transactions and all related tasks to achieve the agreed business goals.
• Ensure the delivery of a high quality, client-focused service to external clients.
• Implement changes to accounting techniques ensuring compatibility with procedures and controls using new accounting developments as input.
• Ensure all assigned activities are performed within the set time line as per the KPI.
• Applying basic tools like MS Excel & MS access for customer engagements.
• Developed specifications to build Basel reporting data store and collaborated with offshore technical team on Oracle database design and implementation.
• Built a summary batch reports and ad-hoc report generation capability with customized Business Objects implementation.
• Documented a summary report with EAD, RWA, EL by LGD buckets, RWA by product type, trend, explain analysis, counterparty trend summary with EAD, RWA, EL by PD with monthly trend, top 10 RWA/EAD by facility ID.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed financial research, analysis, and reporting of Fixed Assets data. Strong knowledge and experience with fixed assets including leases, tax-related fixed assets issues and business combinations
• Monitored and analyzed Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and financial ratios and implemented improvements for Fixed Asset processes
• Maintained Fixed Asset register using internal bank system module with experience in writing queries and reports
• Conducted complex financial analyses to provide information and recommendations to management. Provided written analyses and interpretation of results
• Processed and validated invoices, provided coding to finance, obtained line management approvals and reconciling billing discrepancies
• Reviewed monthly accruals for accuracy and helped identifying automations and process improvements
• Supported audits by various agencies by providing information as requested
• Communicated accurately with fellow associates and management at all levels