Business Analyst

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• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver FSD, BRD, Use cases, GUI and screens.
• Prepared the Test plans, Test cases and assisted in user manuals.
• Creating PowerPoint presentations and project updates using MS Project for management review

Equity Research Analyst

Confidential

• Support research analyst to Director-European oil and gas and Equity Analyst-Oil Services.
• Coverage includes 20 European mid-cap and small-cap oil services companies like Technip, Subsea 7, Petrofac.
• Working closely with traders Director-European sales and sending them real time updates on our coverage.
• Primary contributor for our daily and weekly publication on oil market across the globe. These documents are published and available to our major clientele and sales team before the European market opens.
• Create and maintain various databases like valuation sheets, rig count and vessel day rates.
• Maintained the valuation models of all 20 companies and change them accordingly for any market news.
• Played a major part in quarterly preview document before the quarterly results.
• Prime contributor for quarterly wrap review document of quarterly results.
• Independent research: Report on the upcoming oil and gas tenders from Middle East especially from huge projects like Umm Lulu/Sarb.

FICC Research Analyst

Confidential

• Support analyst to world's leading forex analysts and generated 27 yearly gains.
• Shadow coverage to a forex analyst for various daily publications like Morning Advisor.
• Published Morning Advisor daily for Asia, Europe and US markets on G-10 currencies.
• Maintained the economic calendar, EcoCal, which consists of major economic events which can have an effect on G-10 currencies. This is published every Friday for our clientele.
• Published EM Advisor daily for Emerging market currencies before opening of the European market.
• Advised FX and metal traders the intraday levels for buying/selling of G-10, emerging market currencies and precious metals.
• Automated various databases using VBA Programming and trained other team mates on excel skills.
• Published regular technical updates like FX Technical Talking Points and Metals Daily
• Independent research: A quantitative analysis of Commodity currencies and their dependencies on various commodities.

Business Analyst

Confidential

• Gathering requirements by interviewing both in-house and external clients.
• Organized weekly Project status meetings, created PowerPoint presentations, and project updates using MS Project for management review
• Played a vital role in validating test plans and test scripts Assisted the QA team in UAT and testing of the application
• Assisted in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose and Visio
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents BRD , Functional Specification Document FSD and Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Case Conduct, User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Using detailed knowledge of application features and functions assess scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

Credit Risk Analyst

Confidential

• IndusInd Bank is a Mumbai based bank offering commercial, transactional and electronic banking products and services. Corporate and Institutional Banking is one of the 4 divisions of the bank. Corporate and Institutional division segregates further into divisions catering to Corporate and Investment Bank clients, Financial Institutions and Public Services clients, Government Banking clients and Defence clients. Our team works on various risks that the division faces due to its clients in primary sector.
• Worked with Country head - Microfinance division of IndusInd Bank. Selected areas in India using cluster sampling/area sampling techniques. Did primary research to assess the spending habits and repayment capability of microfinance clientele in India. Evaluated the prevailing levels of multiple lending in microfinance. Assessed the effect of credit risk on IndusInd Bank's primary sector loan portfolio due to multiple lending Devised a risk mitigation strategy and Indian Government used similar recommendations in 2012 during microfinance crisis.

Business Analyst

Confidential

• Primary responsibility was to gather business requirements and prepare business requirement documents and transform it to process flow documents or functional requirement document.
• Defined system requirements to Use Case, Use case scenario and Use Case narrative using the UML Methodologies.
• Developed detailed BRDs and FRDs using modelling tools following the SDLC structure.
• Developed business use cases textually and using Rational Rose, generated UML based diagrams for a better understanding of the user community.
• Developed Analysis Model that includes entity classes, use case diagram, sequence diagrams, object collaboration diagram that provided the development team a view of the requirement.
• Conducted presentations of the Q/A test results with analysis to the stakeholders and users and documented modifications and requirements.
• Developed and executed detailed unit, user acceptance, and regression test plans and test cases based on user/technical requirements.
• Owner of use case documents, test plans, test case documents and data dictionary.
• Writing and implementing SQL scripts and tuning the scripts to improve the database performance.