SUMMARY

• Lead/Senior Business Analyst and finance professional with over 14 years, experience working in the financial sector with a consulting background. Extensive exposure to the business and software development side of business systems.
• Experience with capital markets, asset management, corporate & retail lending, risk and regulatory reporting, finance, accounting, BI, treasury and mortgage lending in the financial sector.
• Experience coordinating with developers and testers through the SDLC (Waterfall and Agile) of multiple projects including business process engineering, design, development, testing and deployment
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels in an organization with experience reporting to C - level executives as well as managing inter-department relationships
• Expertise in requirement gathering, prototyping and the documentation of business and system needs via Scope documents, Use Cases, Workflows, Wireframes and Software Requirement Specifications
• Extensive experience with data management for automation of reporting processes for risk, finance and regulatory reporting functions.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• System Analysis & Design
• Agile / Waterfall / Scrum
• MS Visio & Office Suite
• Requirement Gathering
• Use Cases & User Stories
• Finance & Accounting
• Gap / Attribute Analysis
• Risk & Regulatory Reporting
• ERP Implementation (Oracle/Sage)
• Project Mgmt & Facilitation
• CRM Sales Force/ FinOne
• Data Warehousing / ETL/ SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I am responsible for defining requirements for the integration the Trade and Accounts functions of Options Xpress with Schwab
• Lead for writing user stories for trade capabilities on Schwab platforms for equities, options, futures, futures options and fixed income
• Gathering requirements across multiple data sources including quote data, buying power, risk management and customer centric data to ensure that developers have the right data elements identified for development
• Responsible alongside the Scrum Masters to ensure backlog grooming, sprint planning and retrospectives are a success.
• Defining Epics and coordinating creation of User Stories with acceptance criteria for development for a team of 12 development and QA resources under the Agile development cycle.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Monitored data coming from capital market trading platforms for derivatives, equity and fixed income products.
• Managed and countered impacts of upstream changes for different initiatives like balance sheet optimization and new business initiatives in order to ensure risk reporting is not affected
• Supporting enhancements and production issues on the regulatory reporting platforms
• Testing changes for data mapping and migration projects within the risk and regulatory space using SQL on a Toad platform

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and researching data streams coming from NT’s asset management systems like Fund-master, GMI and GDS systems to compile data dictionaries as well data mapping
• Finalizing global posting rules for equities, fixed income, swaps, futures, repos, entitlements, REIT’s and several other asset classes for NT’s trustee business.
• Worked with Trading, Compliance, Accounting, Custody operations for gathering requirements

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gap Analysis and matching of attributes between various repositories used for risk, MIS, liquidity and regulatory reporting for deposits, loans, equity and fixed income products
• Researching and understanding data implications of accounting entries and worked with the data architect to devise the to be flows of data from source systems
• Working on MIS reporting changes and working with the BA Leads to document mapping changes for data coming from different source systems
• Documented AS IS state of GL, legal entity and cost centre allocation process from source systems like GMI (for derivatives), Loan IQ, DDA, ABLE, VLS, ALS and Paymentech to mention a few
• Documenting and evaluating requirements from CCAR, Basel and Accounting SME’s on current state and future desired state for the converged data staging area

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading the track for re-engineering the insurance benefit verification process in coordination with pharmacists/business and streamlining the process to establish patient’s eligibility for reimbursement, medication prescription and continuous care.
• Project status follow up in the waterfall methodology with CoPilot team members to facilitate functional requirements while also acting as the liaison between technical designers, developers and client. This included scheduling and coordinating client update and review meetings.
• Led a team of 6 developers, testers and one BA for developing Caremed’s core application

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with the PMO to establish document and process templates to cover different types of development cases based on corporate banking group’s requirements. Performing project cost/benefit analysis (CBA’s), creating detailed project plans and assigning and managing resources from inception to deployment.
• Acting as both the project manager and the lead business analyst for a series of ongoing projects for DIB. This also included running SCRUM sessions, anticipating and proactively adjusting development activities for resource and time over and under-allocations, requirement gathering and documentation, product backlog mgmt, burn-downs and sprint planning.
• Creating documentation including Software Specifications Requirements (SRS) documents, Scope/Vision Documents, Business Rules Documents, Traceability Matrices, Workflow Diagrams, Data Details Document, GUI Wireframes etc.
• Revamped the Business Intelligence Reporting platform: Coordinated and led a team of analysts/developers/testers throughout the SDLC by revamping the Business Intelligence reporting platform. Worked with Data architects on the logical and conceptual data models. Subject Matter Expert for maintaining data integrity, dashboards, performance reporting and analytics used by C Level executives and business heads.
• Customized Sales Force as a CRM which included lead creation, prospect conversion, eligibility and documentation evaluation, credit check, approval and then loan document creation functions. This involved documenting processes, user roles, policies and logic workflows and putting each functionality into production after detailed User Acceptance Testing (UAT’s)
• Implemented AML/KYC applications like WorldCheck and was involved in AML/KYC training to ensure messages are consistent and aligned closely with the compliance objectives
• ERP Implementation of Oracle Flex-cube: Gathered requirements from Subject Matter Experts in finance and corporate banking during the implementation of Oracle ERP Suite within the bank. The ERP Suite was successfully implemented and put into production in 2009.

Confidential

Credit Initiation Approval Manager

Responsibilities:

• Initially worked as a credit analyst, rising up to credit initiation manager & team lead at Confidential, a leading provider of retail mortgages, Led the commercial mortgages credit Initiation department and then later branched out into portfolio risk management, credit policy and process re-engineering for real estate lending and collection systems.

Confidential

Financial Controller

Responsibilities:

• Headed a team of 4 staff with project portfolio of US$ 50Million. Successfully managed key financial functions which included financial reporting, analysis, cash flow management, annual budgeting & monitoring, long term business plans, contract negotiations, tender & bidding management, liaison with internal & external auditors, long term & short term financing arrangements and system implementations.

Confidential

Auditor/ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handled multiple client audit engagements and assessment of business and audit risks which utilized Confidential ’s audit methodology.
• Client portfolio included companies in the manufacturing, FMCG, logistics and hospitality sectors.