SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of extensive experience as a Business Analyst / Business System Analyst with excellent project management skills in different domains, which includes Logistic, Asset Management and Human Resources, specialized in Finance. CFA Level II Candidates. Comprehensive knowledge in statistical analysis, Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , and Application Lifecycle Management ALM .
• Strong Analysis skills in Project Definition Document PDD and Requests for Proposal RFP
• Extensive experience in eliciting Business Requirements Business Rules from sponsors, translating into Functional Requirements Non-Functional Requirements, and utilizing Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM
• Excellent in performing GAP Analysis to check the As-Is Business Processes of the existing system with the new business requirements to develop To-Be Business Processes
• Extensive knowledge in Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN and Unified Modeling Language UML
• Strong Experience in conducting Joint Application Development JAD session with both onsite and offsite team members
• Experience in Change Management and analyzing Request for Change RFC
• Strong skill in designing User Interface UI to visually display functional requirements
• Strong SQL background, including ER diagrams, and writing SQL queries
• Strong Experience working with QA teams in Defect Management, User Acceptance Testing UAT and Root Cause Analysis
• Extensive knowledge in Corporate Finance, Accounting, and Investment Banking, such as Financial Statement Analysis, Equity, Fixed Income, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, M A, IPO, etc
• Strong knowledge in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley SOX as well as Dodd Frank Act
• Comprehensive understanding in Financial Risk Management including market risk, credit risk, interest risk as well as different hedging strategy
• Expertise in Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation
• Highly motivated and organized leader with excellent project management and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET:

• Methodologies: RUP, Agile, Waterfall
• Databases: MS Access, Microsoft SQL server, MySQL
• Software: Microsoft Office Suite include Visio and SharePoint , Matlab, SAS, iRise, Serena Business Manager Team Track , Power Designer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Business System Analyst

Role based, rather than project based position in UPS Enterprise Billing Release Management, involved in multiple projects including ER1506 Infectious Substance Category A, which is a project targeting to begin to accept shipment of Category A Hazmat domestically from next year and Integrated Asset, Change, and Configuration IACC Project, which is targeted at implementing an enterprise wide Asset Management solution to streamline Asset Management, Configuration Management and Change Management.

Responsibilities:

• Work with architectures to analyze the Project Definition Document PDD to make an initial estimation of the sizing of the project, as well as potential impacts on existing systems
• Conduct Business Requirement Work Session with Sponsors, Subject Matter Expertise, and Architectures to elicit Project Objectives, Business Requirements, and Business Rules
• Create Context Level Diagram to identify project scope and external agents data inflow and outflow
• Create As-is process and To-be process using BPMN
• Conduct Functional Requirement Work Session with Architectures and Application Teams to translate Business Requirements into Functional Non-Functional Requirements
• Identify and ensure Business Service Level Agreement
• Create Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM to maintain relationship between Project Objectives, Business Requirements, Business Rules, Functional Requirements, and Non-Functional Requirements
• Design Use Cases utilizing UML diagram
• Design Invoice Screen Mock-up utilizing iRise
• Leverage UPS Project to manage major deliverables which include Milestones, Action Items, Sign-off Tasks, Project Risks, Project Issues, etc.
• Defect Tracking and Lifecycle management in Serena Business Manager
• Design a Statistical Model to analyze the relationship between Request for Change RFC , and resulting defects, to help Senior Leadership Senior Director Level to establish threshold of acceptance/ reject criteria for RFCs.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft SharePoint, iRise, Serena Business Manager, Serena ChangeMan ZMF, IBM Smart Cloud Control Desk, Appian, Oracle Financial

Confidential

Business Analyst

The project entailed enhancement of Fraud Prevention System FPS for UBS Asset Management. This project is in Agile Environment as sponsors and business users identify and detect new kinds of fraud on a regular basis. BAs and developers need to work closely to update the Rule Engine in FPS to make sure it catches new fraud on a timely basis.

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with the Project Sponsor and Fraud Analyst evaluating the Impact of changes on the current FPS as new type of fraud is detected
• Functioned as the liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project life cycle
• Wrote user stories to define the functions the system must provide, and tracked the status of the user stories as draft, approved, tested, implemented in Rally
• Identified internal and external system requirements, design and configuration set-up
• Assisted Lead Business Analyst to conduct Daily Scrum to summarize what has been done, plan what needs to be done, and recognize impediments
• Created burn down charts to show remaining work in the sprint backlog
• Performed extensive data analysis using SQL queries
• Involved in Monte Carlo Simulation for Risk Scoring
• Identified compliance issue with regard to SOX and Dodd-Frank Act
• Assisted with QA in test environment to validate each of the user stories are tested and defects were tracked and resolved.

Environment: Scrum, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft SharePoint, UML, Windows XP, SQL Server, Rally, Microsoft Project.

Confidential

Business Analyst

The Confidential has been a strong and secure financial institution dedicated to providing quality customer service, local decision-making and a deep commitment to the communities. As a Business Analyst, I was involved in the development of fixed income search/quote center, which was a central repository that allowed customers to search for historical data and real time fixed income, calculate the price as well as understand the risk exposure and sensitivities. These may include corporate, treasury, municipal or savings bonds.

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the technical group and business users.
• Designed and authored Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications and Technical maps for Asset Management stream.
• Investigated, analyzed, defined and documented existing business technical processes within the data warehouse proposed workflow enhancements based on use case scenarios by defining process diagrams and gap analysis to derive requirements for enhancements.
• Responsible for integration of Wall Street on Demand and Nasdaq Level II streaming quotes with the front end systems.
• Identifying entitlements and access issues pertaining to specific streams and user groups and their touch points with other systems.
• Conducted extensive data analysis using SAS.
• Used Microsoft Visio to develop Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Worked with the quality assurance team so as to test different releases and to develop test plans and test cases.
• Conducted training sessions for the end users and documented various training manuals.
• Conducted JAD sessions at different stages to resolve conflicted issues among business users and developer.
• Documented the day-to-day activities, procedures, policies and their limitations, to understand the existing process and find out the gaps.
• Involved in UAT, test plans, documentation of test reports etc.

Environment: RUP, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear quest, Java, Microsoft Visio, PL/SQL. Test Team

Confidential

Business Analyst

The project entailed developing end-to-end solutions with all functionalities enhanced as per client specifications. Agents and clients wanted to execute a variety of transactions on the web, ranging from basic account opening and querying to placement of orders, redemptions and executing other transactions straight through. The solution enabled the customers to perform account transactions, select investment products, make changes to portfolio distribution, and receive statements and other documents electronically in a central platform.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with PMO office during RACI review process and release management
• Gathered, analyzed and designed the Business Requirements and Functional Requirements from user groups
• Created Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirement Documents using Power Designer
• Conducted requirement workshops among all project stakeholders to verify and validate the business requirements
• Participated in the application development meetings to clarify the business logic and provide the business scenarios to the development teams
• Prototyped the application by providing screen shots and user interfaces
• Created UML diagrams and worked extensively on Use Case modelling
• Involved in JAD sessions for resolving issues involving data processing, user interface and downstream systems interactions
• Conducted walkthroughs of the application requirements, with the development, testing and support teams
• Conducted review meetings with software test teams to ensure appropriate test scenarios have been provided for Integration and Regression testing
• Conducted user acceptance testing UAT sessions to ensure all the business requirements have been fulfilled by the application
• Implemented Software Quality Assurance development policies, test procedures and testing methodologies. Documented test scripts according to the business specifications and design documents
• Worked with the Production support team for issues reported by the user group in the production environment
• Conducted post production validations PPVs
• Prepared user manuals and conducted training sessions.

Environment: MS Office Suite, Visio, Uses Cases, Windows, Unix, Power Designer, XML, HTML, UML, Oracle, Test Director.