SUMMARY

• 8+ years of Business Analysis experience in Finance and Retail markets domain demonstrating drive, enthusiasm and initiative, with the ability to work well under pressure, consistently delivering quickly and accurately maintaining a high standard of analysis and insight.
• Experience in business analysis in Capital markets domain (Transaction Management, Data management, Information Delivery, Reconciliations, Trade Support, Risk Management,Securities Lending, and Equity Settlements etc.)
• Experience in reviewing test cases, test plan with IT team members and Business members.
• Strong hold on SDLC methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
• Extensive exposure to Requirement gathering, requirement specification and requirementelicitation sessions and tracking various software life cycle deliverables mapped to therequirements.
• Strong experience with SQL databases including querying and data manipulation.
• Experience in the preparation of BRDs Test plan documents.
• Test Management using QC and JIRA
• Extremely driven to attain multiple goals while maintaining thoroughness in performingassessments and documentation.
• Critical thinker with keen eye for detail, utilizing sound business judgment and high accuracystandards in completing outputs.
• Equipped with strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to accommodate and dealeffectively with diverse customers.
• Multifaceted experience in software testing and user - acceptance testing with strong database skills and expertise in writing Queries on DB2.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C
• C++
• SQL
• JIRA
• HP ALM QC
• Mainframe accounting application
• SDLC Kanban
• IBM RTC
• DB2
• Citrix communication
• Target Reporting
• SAP Business Objects
• MS Office Suite
• Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gather Requirements from Stakeholders and write user stories for Digital Alerts Service (DAS) - a web-based cloud application that enables users to define parameters by which to view and clear alerts for different transactions.
• Maintain product backlog and prioritize the backlog according to business value.
• Define and prioritize requirements and work with the engineering teams to build them.
• Partner with, and provide expertise to internal departments during the development and deployment of new, value-added platform features and functionalities and internal processes.
• Identify, assign, and track all tasks which are required for successful completion of the project.
• Approach various accounting and pricing teams to understand the process to create variety of alerts related to Trade Review, Price Change, Foreign Exchange, Corporate Actions, GL Alerts, MTM Alerts.
• Manage testing activities, Test Deliverables, Task Allocation and future release planning.
• Coordinate UAT activities for stakeholders and work with development team on the follow up items from the business during UAT.
• Conduct product demo meetings for stakeholders and provide updates on the developments within an iteration.

Business/Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the data quality of the strategic ODS data store as well as Legacy Router and review the timeliness, completeness and accuracy of the feeds with other operational and technology partners and participate in investigating any issues.
• Exposure to gain experience across all business product groups (Cash Securities, Traditional Credit Products, Derivatives) Investment Banking Operations activities (Credit Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Finance, and Market Risk).
• Perform reconciliation between credit products and the General Ledger using Business Objects reports.
• Work with Business Intelligence tool to develop numerous ad-hoc reports and provide data to Senior Management.
• Generate, distribute and present daily, monthly, quarterly and annual data quality exception reports and analysis for senior management.
• Coordinate with the technology partners in understanding the issue as well as discuss enhancements with downstream consumers and other Operations Teams.
• Partner with Project teams on new technology enhancements, create Business Requirement Document and perform test scenarios in UAT.
• Approach various Risk reporting teams, Operations, technology and Operate teams to maintain a level of client partnership.
• Manage and update policy manuals and standard operating procedure documents.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain project schedules and produce project reports and documentation.
• Review operational procedures and methods, map current business processes, define and analyze business activities, identify best practices and recommend improvements.
• Gathering and interpreting information from multiple sources and making recommendations based on analysis.
• Business process analysis including creating and interpreting process maps and flowcharts.
• Analyze current Human Resources business processes and work flows; develop alternative approaches, practices and procedures for business process improvements; facilitate implementation of new or enhanced business and technical solutions.
• Actively give ideas and involve in running service and process improvement projects within the team giving tangible benefits to the organization.
• Keep process documentation up to date at all times and be a ‘go to’ person for all queries (subject matter expert).

Associate Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interacted closely with the Subject matter experts (SME) for the functional requirements gathering.
• Worked closely with the development team to clarify and understand functionality, resolve issues and provided feedback from the UML diagrams.
• Developed and managed all the work plans, acted as the key client contact, handled all kinds of scheduling, ran all status meetings and compiled various reports.
• Daily, weekly and Monthly Management Reports to the Customers with the analysis of volumes received and processed. (Ageing Report, Open deal Report, Backlog Report and Monthly Management Report with end to end Volumes flow analysis for the particular month).