Professional Summary

• 8 years experience on SDLC Models- Agile Scrum and Iterative Waterfall
• Proven ability to manage big to small consulting project activities that address and resolve key performance issues within the areas of finance, technology, resource planning, and organization
• Experience with Security Data Financial Analysis, Basel II III Accord for Compliance / Risk Management, GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley SOX , Dodd-Frank and Bloomberg
• In-depth understanding of anti-money laundering procedures and laws and document and report all findings in case management software.
• Effective at interviewing all stakeholders analyzing business requirements translating those requirements, into concise functional, non-functional requirements
• Created RTM by mapping requirements which is efficient during change management
• Create Pre analyze estimates, follow-up for funding post analyze estimation, resource allocation. Project Plan creation and clarity maintenance
• Proficient in requirement elicitation techniques like facilitating Joint Application Development JAR/JAD sessions, Interviewing, Questionnaires, Brainstorming
• Experience in preparing test data, creating test strategy, creating test cases, performing unit test, SIT and UAT, creating Test reports
• Extensive knowledge of Business Process Modeling and working experience in converting business requirements into UML diagrams also, managing and tracking those requirements
• International work experience with global offshore-onshore development models to coordinate project resources and work schedules to ensure consistent timely
• Proficient in using SQL and excel for data extraction, data analysis, reporting and testing
• Experience in Data Mapping across systems and building templates for Customized Dashboards
• Strategic and analytical thinker that consistently resolves ongoing issues or defects, often called upon to consult on problems that have eluded resolution by others

Technical Skill Set:

• ETL tools - Ab-Initio, Informatica, Business Objects XI 3.5
• Databases - IBM DB2, Oracle 8i/9i, MS SQL Server 2000/2008
• Languages - Unix, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, UML, Windows 9 x, MS .Net Framework
• Compliance Framework Tool - Fiserve
• SDLC Methodologies - Agile, Waterfall
• Tools - IBM Rational Rose, Clarity, HP Mercury Quality Center, Test Director, Toad, SQL Server Management Studio, SVN, Clearcase
• Software - Share Point 2013, MS-Visio, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Team Foundation Server, Balsamiq, JIRA

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform Gap analysis of the as-is and to-be processes
• Manage Change Requests to meet the end state requirements
• Identify high level business and information system requirements and provide input on efforts to evaluate functionality and develop strategies
• Interact with software vendor development team to provide requirements
• Perform unit, system configuration and system testing for the core Financials Management System modules
• Work with various teams across the organization for an integrated solution with Management, Accounting and External vendor
• Conducting sprint sessions to get daily updates and status
• Prepare sizing and timelines for the project completion
• Prepare and updating status report on the progress

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interact with business team to streamline the requirements and needs
• Create Visio flows of the requirements for correlation of the business logic and existing system, created Project charter, Requirement documents
• Interact with various teams Impact analysis and engagement
• Review controls for regulatory framework and update new controls when necessary
• Liaise with the business, compliance and legal, as appropriate, to update, develop and implement controls to mitigate risks to the business and address regulatory changes
• Collect and examine financial statements and documentation
• Risk Management - Initiate and maintain risk register, contribute to mitigation strategies for SEC/FINRA regulatory risk assessment work with Compliance team leads to identify risk
• Extract data from tables, compare data across tables and validate data flow
• Co-ordinate with offshore team to prepare the technical design flow and development efforts
• Support the identification, assessment and reporting of risk related to fraud
• Research suspicious transactions identified from various sources and identify fraud patterns
• Prepare testing strategies, test cases as well as perform end-to-end testing

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Include data profiling, system business analysis, user interaction to understand requirements, preparing requirement documents
• Undertake research for the root-causes of Incidents and thus ensures the enduring elimination of interruptions
• Facilitate alignment of business needs with the technologies and third party vendors
• Work with business to review AML's Transaction Monitoring Suspicious Activity Reports SARs
• Monitor and review customer account transactional activities and make recommendations for further review or closure
• Update the organization about current AML related industry standards, procedures and practices
• Review the integrity report for Vendor and customer payment and timely processing invoices of the vendors
• Review and process alerts on fraud detection systems and recommend follow-up. Effectively analyze, compile, organize and interpret data from multiple sources
• Prepare transformation rules, actively engaging the Database team in the database schema design, designing the ETL system
• Co-coordinate the development efforts of offshore team

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Scrum Master to prepare and monitor burn-down charts for the successful completion of tasks within the time-boxes
• Follow numerous regulations from the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act FATCA to revisit the client acquisition and relationship management processes
• Responsible for the successful planning and execution of projects supporting cash management activities such as information reporting, controlled disbursements, wire transfer, ACH, internal transfer, check management, stop payment, imaging, and special reporting
• Conduct research that utilizes internal and external public and private databases to compile a portfolio of information on funds transfer and or check instrument products/transaction
• Create functionality test cases for 100 screens and end to end scenarios
• Prepare and conduct validation sessions to ensure all cases are identified
• Document and maintain the implementation plan
• Drive the status update sessions and tracking milestones

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate and coordinate meetings with client to get the requirements and rules needed.
• Analyst Team Lead at offshore
• Assist SCRUM Masters in facilitating daily SCRUM meetings, Sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings
• Interact with development team in offshore to transform the requirements to technical logical modules, moderating and approving the development modules
• Prepare the transformation rules, to relate the business entities with available data marts and data stores
• Coordinate with tech team in developing the transformation rules, database creation, DB architect engagement and coordinating the interface