SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience as Senior Business System Analyst in the financial and banking industry supporting clients to implement business functionality accurately and efficiently.
• Work experience in Risk Control, DFAST (Dodd Frank),CCAR and other regulatory reporting process.
• Extensive interaction with Senior Level Managers (Finance, Risk Management, the Businesses, Technology, andInternal Audit) and external (Regulators, consultants, industry affiliations, etc.) to implement ICAAP Framework.
• Full SDLC experience including Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing for Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Have intimate knowledge of the line of business data to ensure Instruction changes have minimal impact to CCAR Schedule.
• Analysis and design of CCAR (FRY 14A schedules of Income statement and balance sheet), FRY 9C (few schedules), report requirements in AXIOM.
• Domain experience includes knowledge of CCAR, FRY9C, Basel I,II,III.
• Identify and procure potential business opportunities around CCAR by developing client relationships in the regional / t international market while focusing on delivering state of the art solutions.
• Planned, developed, managed and executed CCAR/DFAST Audits covering, FRB MRIAs, strategic CCAR implementation, Model Risk Management, 14A / 14Q filing as well as Wholesale Advanced IRB, Retail Advanced IRB, Traded Products, Risk Weighted Assets (RWA), for compliance with the U.S. Basel II.
• Experience in Financial Markets domain - Investment Banking, Capital markets, Wealth management, Brokerage, Trading Systems and Client Reporting.
• Expertise in requirements gathering through JAD sessions, user interviews, workshops, and repository research with Business Owners, Business Users, SMEs and specific stakeholders.
• Exceptional ability to create, comprehend process-level and system-level documents including Functional Specifications, Project Scoping, Project Planning, AS IS vs TO BE analysis, Gap & SWOT Analysis.
• Experience in process modeling using Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams/Process Flow Diagram, Collaboration diagrams, swim lane flow charts, Activity & Class Diagrams.
• Highly experienced in creating the requirements artifacts, Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirements Specification (SRS), Use-cases, Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Technical Requirements Document (TRD) and Change Requests Planning (CRP).
• Hands on experience in creating Agile process artifacts user stories, burn down charts, Story boarding etc.
• Through understanding of Data warehousing concepts including OLTP, OLAP, Data Marts and reporting.
• Skilled in Data Modeling (Conceptual, logical and physical models) and creating Entity Relationship diagrams.
• Familiarity with White box and Black box testing including functional testing, unit testing, integration testing (UAT), smoke testing, system testing (SIT), and Workflow Testing and regression testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and created Business Requirements and Functional Requirements for 14Q/A Actuals for various schedules.
• Part of team responsible for the Management, execution and submission of CCAR reporting.
• ManagedCCARprogram deliverables documentation.
• Created and implemented an End-to-End CCAR Project Plan, reported progress against outputs to develop high quality stakeholder management updates for senior management forums and steering committees.
• Maintained library of CCAR related documentation.Assisted in creating an access database, which maps the 14Q/A MDRMs to the FRY9C MDRMS using GL and SL account information.
• Involved in the meetings to identify the scope and timeline change of the data, after the recent merger and acquisition between Confidential and Citi National.
• Monitored CCAR calendar and prepared proactively for upcoming meetings and classes.
• Assisted the 14A Projection team in the analysis for PPNR schedules - PPNR Submission, NII, and Metrics.
• Interacted with different businesses in Confidential to identify the source of the data in order to satisfy the requirements of PPNR schedules for FRY14Q and FRY14A.
• Coordinated with Finance & Regulatory Report Automation Project (Dodd Frank and Call Reporting Process) designed to enhance production efficiencies while decreasing operational risk by using automated reporting application AXIOM SL.
• Determined alternative approaches to Basel I regulatory capital calculations allowing significant capital savings.
• Coordinated data inputs and deliverables with partners within the Finance organization responsible for other components ofCCAR(e.g. receivables volumes).
• Compared logic and acceptance thresholds for edit check changes from FRB to Axiom implementation; communicated discrepancies to Axiom for upgrades.
• Created different types of reports in Axiom - Control Report, Adjustment Report, Manual Upload template.
• Reviewed advantages and disadvantages of Fed Basel IIlRWARules versus Canadian OSFI Rules.
• Currently involved in testing of FRY9C reports in Axiom - Executing test cases and reporting defects.
• Identified and established processes for monitoring of the data qualities. Ensured the correctness and prevented invalid data values.
• Assisted in creating data repositories for compliance with data governance policies and standards.
• Created documents, mapping tables and issue list for all processes - manual and automated.
• Documented the manual upload process for Axiom team for different schedules - 14Q/A.
• Collaborated with developers on effort to develop Axiom reporting for schedules.
• Established data quality process, governance, and issue tracking process tools.
• Worked with business and IT partners to remediate identified gaps using both manual and automated solutions.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD's) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Experienced in conducting JAD sessions with excellent inter-personal and conflict resolving skills.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Comparing tables to analyze the data elements and identifying the common data types that can be centralized in the master table.
• Conducted End to End functional testing and UAT testing.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Lead contributor of BASEL I, II, III frameworks, FFEIC 101 (RWA) Risk analysis, comprehensive Capital Analysis, CCAR, CCAS, Documentation, Implementation of Moodys Software Calculation (EAD, RWA, LGD, PD), oversee all aspects of Moodys Software implementation and deployment UAT, Validate data feeds into RDR.
• Worked closely with User to understand the requirement, and with Developer to understand the functionality ofCCAR14 A process.
• Updated of BRD and FSD requirements documents for Basel 2RWAcalculations.
• Lead to the creation and execution of a process to populate the FR Y-14Q (quarterlyCCAR), the present/historical portions of the FR Y-14A templates (annual CCAR), the semi-annual Quantitative Impact Studies (BIS), and the annual FR Y-15 templates (fka Macroprudential Supervisory Group data collection exercise).
• Worked as part of the AXIOM team on the business rules and the change requests when there were changes from Dodd Frank.
• Implemented the Comprehensive Cost and Requirements System (CCaR) software program across the AFRL laboratories in one year supervising personnel and planning the implementation process.
• Act as a lead source for managingCCARModel dev process for AFS/HTM work stream.
• Responsible for executing on project management efforts forPPNRand balance sheet projections over nine quarter horizon
• Collaborated with Enterprise Risk Management and Regulatory Capital Policy to devise strategy to meet requirements of Basel II Capital Accord and present such strategy in person or via memoranda to senior management and Federal regulators.
• Assisted external consultants in the development of an improved Balance Sheet projection model for use in strategic decision making.
• Created suite of Excel models used monthly for analysis and verification of Basel II results in Production environment.
• Reviewed Pre-Provision Net Revenue (PPNR) team forecast results and Risk Weighted Asset (RWA) forecast results with Global Business teams.
• Advised IT teams and external vendors in the implementation of required system enhancements and defect fixes.
• Constructed templates and manual process for quantitative Basel II Pillar III disclosure tables.
• Participated in requirement gathering from all areas of the business and provide tactical and strategic deliverables.
• Familiarity with White box and Black box testing including functional testing, unit testing, integration testing (UAT), smoke testing, system testing (SIT), and Workflow Testing and regression testing.
• Adept in multi-tasking and handling multiple tasks/projects at the same time.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Performed UAT, document and track all errors/bugs.Worked with the users to do the User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Participated in JAD sessions with project stakeholders to capture business rules, processes and system requirements for the online customers interface website project.
• Experienced as a Business Analyst in using the iterative software development life cycle principles of Rational Unified Process to manage, develop and test distributed client/server, internet and intranet applications on heterogeneous environments.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Extensive experience in gathering, managing and documenting business and functional requirements, communicating effectively with upper management, developers and QA engineers.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Sequence, Activity diagrams in Enterprise Architect, MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walkthroughs, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, brain storming and JAD and JAR sessions.
• Interviewed SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions, created Use Cases, work flows, screen shots and Power Point presentations for the Web Applications.
• In depth knowledge of SDLC and implementation of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) in all four phases of a project: Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition.
• Expertise in understanding and supporting the client with Project Planning, Project Definition.