SUMMARY:

• A result - oriented professional with 13 Years of experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Product development and Management.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in Investment banking, and financial markets/capital Market.
• 12 Yrs of experience of working in IT platforms/ applications in Capital Market industry (Such as, front office, Middle office & back office applications, order management System OMS) for equities, fixed income securities, derivative market, and commodities.
• A excellent skills in Requirement gathering, Analysis and elicitation, New Functionality development, Gap analysis, UAT environment setup and multiple software implementations.
• Performed multiple tasks and roles in Capital markets domain in Trading and Surveillance, Business Rules, Back office, Depository operations, Custodians and exchange connectivity for CTCL solution etc.
• Understanding of Corporate action life cycle, Trade Life Cycle, Commodity Life cycle with exposure to the Order and Trade Processing, clearing and settlement and post trade parameter, reporting and ledger posting.
• Expertise in preparing Business Requirement Document (BRD/BRS) and converting into business requirements to Functional Requirements Specification (FRS), Use Cases and Map Gap Analysis.
• Expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models such as Waterfall model, and Agile techniques
• Experienced in conducting and coordinating various testing cycles such as Functional/User Acceptance Testing (UAT), manual testing of UI and Web Applications and System integration testing (SIT)
• A proven initiator at using SWOT analysis benchmarking, competitive analysis, market trends and technology to improve processes.
• Worked on tools Blueprint for Use Cases, HP Quality centre, SQL, application architectures(logical) and flow, data diagrams prepared in MS Office, MS Excel and MS Visio
• Expertise in Capital Market/Investment banking (Stocks/Equity, Derivative, FIS, Commodity, and Confidential etc.)
• Requirement gathering and analysis (Business requirement specification, Functional Specification/Use cases)
• Business & data analysis
• Project Management/ Production Support and Product Development/Product management
• Client management, Demos, Business Presentations/User training/User Workshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working on enhancements in GTPL application for, reference data, (Securities, Accounts, price), trade event, Trade processing, ledger posting, corporate action items for downstream feed and upstream feed.
• Coordinated between and business users for requirement gathering and analysis, Impact Analysis and proposed solution for developer.
• Played a key role in migration of legacy system (BAFFA, Quantum, APS2) for Confidential group to Product processor (GTPL Application). Designed multiple artefacts such as- BRD, FRD, Map gap document, release notes and Post Implementation document
• Performed map gap analysis for multiple downstream system, feed mapping and prepared functional solution design document for the same.
• Develop Change Request document, business requirement, mapping documents and suggesting solution, and defining the functional solution for Requirement
• Coordinate with cross functional team for application enhancement requests, reference data feed, downstream feed (Such as TML, TPS, PRIMO, ROVER, GENESIS, Risk system etc).
• Execute System Integration Testing (SIT) and performing (UAT Testing) and evaluate results to ensure accuracy and quality of complex system changes. Also, presented the results to business users to ensure the accuracy and acceptance of results.
• Executing the SQL query to extract the results and draw the logical diagram for functionalities developed in the system.
• Performing the data analysis and gathering the requirement for the Incident Management Resolution (IMR) and managing the life cycle for issues (Called IMR) rose for GTPL Application.
• Design the Logical flow Diagram, Functional specification, Target record Layout, Feed Layouts, data analysis and carried out SIT and UAT testing for Syndicate Deal Product processor (SDPP).
• Facilitating the meetings among stakeholders in order to bring down the defects and risks and acceptance on proposed Solution, financial calculations and design.
• Working as a SME for Global Trade profit & Loss ( GTPL) Application.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement elicitation and analysis and communicating the business requirements and the proposed solutions to the development, quality assurance and project management teams and clarify any issues raised.
• Created Charts, Activity Diagrams and flow diagrams using Ms Visio.
• Coordinated between company (MIT Sri Lanka), clients and in-house solution providers (Developers, Quality Assurance and Support).
• Supporting and working on enhancements in Trading, Order management system, matching, clearing and Settlement, Market data, Delivery, CTCL Solution, Third Party Application and Risk systems of the exchange platform.
• Working on various Front ends like Trading work station, Risk Management, Exchange solution, clearing and settlement etc.
• Experience of working on FIX gateway and CTCL System
• Execution of Change Management Request CMR and request for change (RFC) and PCR Product Change Request .
• Execute functional tests (UAT) and evaluate results to ensure accuracy and quality of complex system changes
• Supporting Operational team, traders and broking firms on production issues
• Develop BRS, suggesting enhancement, testing and implementation of various enhancements in existing system (Such as Payment gateway, Auto bank transactions, Future and Options, various order types, Delivery and Demat Module etc.)
• Working on membership management module to manage all trading and clearing member data for membership team

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement elicitation, and analysis and communicating the business requirements and the proposed solutions to the development, and project management teams and clarify any issues raised.
• Requirement package and Use cases defined in Blue print tool (Requirement centre)
• Preparation of functional Specification document based on Business requirement specification ( BRS)
• Test cases review for Functional requirement of Confidential, Corporate Action and Securities Brokerage application etc
• Closely worked with founder and CEO for IT Infrastructure website development project.
• Set up new venture to identify the technical vendors to build up web portal for financial advisors
• Prepared BRS for technical vendors and co-ordinating with them for implementation
• Responsible for launching of café mutual website for financial product distributor
• Participated in building and deploying business model of the company

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Idea generation, Conceptualization Project planning and Management
• Gathered requirements through interviews, meetings, JAD sessions and existing documents from Business users.
• Prepared business documents (BRS), product specifications, process flow diagram, activity charts and modifying and executing GUI for the all application by using MS Visio.
• Prepared the product prototype (Product specifications) Product documentation, presentation and conceptualization of product ideas, architecture, and deployment strategy.
• Carried out regular meetings with Project Managers and Quality analysts to better understand system functionality in order to improve quality and Co-ordinating with the Technical team during complete Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC)
• Coordinated between various business units, participated in meetings with stakeholders and IT teams to accomplish timely product release
• Involved in Manual testing, Automated testing of GUI, Functionality, User Acceptance and Usability testing (UAT)
• Collaborated with third-party technology distributors to facilitate communication for successful project launches
• Co-ordinating and liasioning with registrars of Confidential houses like CAMS, KARVY Stock Broking for Mutual funds information.
• Designed different set of modules for Distributor Applications relating to mutual funds, insurance, ULIPs, loans, portfolio tracker, post office savings etc.
• Client interaction for various additional requirements and Designed the user manual and contributed in its development
• Dealt Copyright issues from the organization's perspective and executed the data feed policy and agreements for the International Stock Exchanges (Abu Dhabi, Johannsberg, Philipins, Malaysis Sri Lanka etc).
• Estimated cost and devised a marketing strategy for the for entire commodity web portal

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted MDs & CEO’s interviews of various leading companies.
• Budget Impact analysis for Plantation, Agrochemical and Sugar Sectors
• Hands on experience as a functional lead of content development team

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysed the factors influencing the Confidential Scheme Selection by Retail Investors
• Observing and understanding the daily sales process of Mutual funds through banks
• Promotion of Systematic Investment Plan
• Designing and administering the questionnaire for a Confidential scheme selection
• Data analysis of the questionnaire and preparation of report