SUMMARY:

• 9 years of extensive experience as a Financial Business Analyst. Possess exceptional track record at delivering new products and process improvements with strong background in statistical analysis, corporate finance and business development.
• Highly proficient at communicating requirements with different user groups, monitoring progress and delivering end - to-end solutions at scale.
• Knowledge in Capital Markets, Risk Management and Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform.
• Knowledge of Global Equity, Forex Markets, Fixed income instruments, and derivatives
• Good working knowledge on other SDLC methods like RUP, Waterfall etc.,
• Proficient in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and detailing into System Requirement Specification (SRS).
• Proficient in using UML including Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams
• Proficient in using tools for creating wireframes (UI) in SnagIt, PickPic, MS Visio and Just in Mind
• Excellent in performing GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) and Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions
• Conducted Walkthroughs to development and testing teams to ensure requirements are understood.
• Strong experience in developing and reviewing Test Plans and Test Cases, analyzing bugs, interacting with development team members to fix errors and conduct progression, régression and smoke tests.
• Experience in writing SQL queries using tools like MS SQL Server and MS Access.
• Experience in preparing and documenting User Acceptance Test (UAT), user manual and participated in Post Production Validation (PPV)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Banking: AML, KYC, BSA, OFAC, USA Patriot Act, Basel-II, SWIFT, Charles River Compliance, Regulatory, EWS, Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Market Risk, Commodities and Money Markets, SWAP, SOX, CDD, Dodd Frank.

Project Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall

Requirement Management Tool: Sybase Power Designer, Caliber, Doors

Requirement Modeling Tools: SmartDraw, MS Visio, PowerDesigner

User Interface Design Tools: SnagIt, SmartDraw, MS Paint, PickPic, Just in Mind

Database Tools: SQL Access, MS SQL Server

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Central, Silk Central, JIRA

Software: Bloomberg, Microsoft Office Suite, SAS, Case Complete.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

Sr. Risk Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with project stakeholders and business groups to evaluate business needs and data issues for risk side, and worked with the technology team to implement pragmatic solutions in a timely manner.
• Identified and documentedbusinessneeds for new marketriskandcreditriskmodule or re-usability of an existing module by performing a GAP analysis.
• Investigated and documented approvals/declines, escalation of approval requests forAMLsuitability and involved in Enhancement of Actimize solution to analyze AML data and tune alert parameters.
• Gathered Business Requirements, notional calculations of financial futures, options, fixed income and equity, and also key point of contact with business users including traders and risk managers.
• Focussed in the area of Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) Reporting, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) andDodd - FrankRegulatory Reporting.
• Collaborated with Basel II team on credit risk analysis and issue resolution.
• Worked closely with Subject Matter Experts (SME) of all applications for different types of risk control violation, including conference call and raising Jira ticket for change request release.
• Responsible for writing the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and the Functional Requirement Document (FRD) for the application.
• Worked with common money laundering schemes and an understanding of the AML legal and regulatory environment, specifically the laws, regulations, and guidance promulgated under the BSA and USA PATRIOT Act.
• Gained end-to-end understanding of thetechnologyand data infrastructures behind the daily production and reporting of allcounter-partycreditrisk (CCRT)and marketriskmetrics
• Completed Data Critical Program (DCPNP) survey for all applications under Treasury and Risk IT.
• Offered data support and checking using SQL/Query and developed complex spreadsheets using VBA\SQL.
• Involved in Privilege Accounts Downgrading (ITPA), assigned and helped developers within team to raise CRs and cooperated with Windows Team to make sure the process smoothly and successfully.
• Worked with QA team to make sure all key changes have been test in UAT environment before releasing and did post check after releasing.
• Utilize knowledge of regulatory requirements specific to Dodd-Frank Act Stress Testing and CCAR
• Developed Issue Tracker and Risk Tracker and organized regular weekly meeting to close these issues.
• Assisted testers in developing a variety of possible Test Scenarios and Test Cases to ensure that the system built according the requirements.
• Worked closely with the business users for each area within Barclays in order to elucidate the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy and offer strategic validation solutions to the business.
• Involved in Defect Life Cycle, validated and regularly monitored all the filed defects and their progress.
• Provided status update monthly to Senior Managers of progress made on all aspects of risk control and milestones achieved and shared with RTB team to improve their performance.

Environment: Microsoft office suite, SQL Server 2000, Jira, SQL, ServiceNow, Bloomberg.

Confidential, Silicon valley, CA

Sr. Risk Business Analyst / Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Interacted closely with stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts (SME) for requirements gathering and clearly documenting, and holding joint application delivery sessions across functional areas to ensure requirements covering on business values, story points and acceptance criteria.
• AnalyzeAMLrisk assessment results to identify and summarize risk themes.
• Worked with requirements analysts and subject matter experts to identify, understand, and document businessneeds for the data flow to create marketriskand creditriskmodules.
• Created and maintained User Stories by workshop, interviewing, brainstorming, 1 to 1 meeting with the business users to communicate the requirements to development and testing teams.
• Collaborated with Scrum teams for Daily stand-ups, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospectives
• Implemented ofDodd-Frankrules on Regulatory Reporting, Mandatory Clearing for Commodities and other OTC Instruments.
• Implemented Actimize Anti-Money Laundering (AML) system to monitor suspicious transactions and enhance regulatory compliance.
• Played lead role in conducting JAD/JAR sessions, got requirement specification documents including Project Objectives, Business Requirements, and Business Rules sign off.
• Consulted the business users and SMEs, helped to create Product Backlogs to prioritize features and subsequently created Sprint Backlogs.
• The Credit Risk Evaluator Project is an integrated customer - controlled platform for credit risk management. It is a powerful tool for measuring and monitoring and managing credit risk, thereby offering a broad range of analytical Capabilities and user control.
• Preparation of periodic MIS forDodd-FrankRegulatory Reportable trades.
• Hold the Daily Stand-up Meeting, documented and updated the Burn-Down Chart.
• Proficiently helped development teams to break down large user stories. Involved in various Walk-through sessions with developers and gave presentations to help them understand the end user needs.
• Performed rapid prototypingand screen Mock-up utilizing iRise.
• Experience in SAS and SQL queries to retrieve and validate data, prepared for data mapping document.
• Assisted Testing teams to build test plans, approved test cases for functional requirements verification and to check the functionality of the application.
• Collaborated with QA team to create and implement test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).Involved with the whole UAT to ensure the performance of the system and application.
• Developed User Manuals, presentations and manuals as per project specifications and timelines.
• Provided status update to the Project Manager of progress made on work products and milestones achieved and Reviewed with scrum team and BA team to improve their performance.

Environment: Agile Methodology, SAS 9.3, SQL, Oracle 9i, Windows XP, UML, iRise, MS Visio, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Dynamics, Jira

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with Business Users, Sponsors and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to understand existing system and current business process and methods to identify deficiencies and areas for improvement.
• Worked 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.
• Performed GAP analysis including AS-IS and TO-BE analysis to identify the potentials of current system.
• Met with the business users and SMEs, then created and maintained Business Requirement Document (BRD) by brainstorming and interviewing, and ensured requirements have coverage on business values, business scope, business rules and acceptance criteria of Confidential .
• Conduct Functional Requirement Work Session with Architectures and Application Teams to translate Business Requirements into Functional & Non-Functional Requirements (FRD).
• Provided detailed User Interface Document (UID) to the development and testing team for clear understanding of the new applications and system using iRise.
• Conducted Requirement Walk-throughs with the development and test teams before the development and testing phases respectively, to ensure that the requirements are accurately understood.
• Conducted JAD sessions at different stages to resolve conflicted issues among business users and developer.
• Created and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace technical requirements to their business requirements and the test case requirements to their functional requirements.
• Worked closely with the QA Team to create and approve Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Defect Tracking and Lifecycle management in Serena Business Manager.
• Performed thorough User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure all the business requirements have been fulfilled by the application.
• Actively participated in Post Production Validation (PPV) and handled issues appropriately.

Environment: RUP Methodology, SAS 9.2, MS Office, iRise, MS Visio, Oracle DB, SQL

Confidential, NYC, NY

Fixed Income Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified the areas for improvement by reviewing and analyzing the existing portfolio management process.
• Assisted other business analysts in performing feasibility and complexity analysis to identify the technically feasible functionalities and determine the level of effort (LOE) needed to build each of them.
• Documented the Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Non-Functional Requirements.
• Collaborated with stakeholders like product owners to write up and prioritize documents like user stories for product backlogs.
• Assisted SCRUM Masters in facilitating daily SCRUM meetings, Sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings.
• Prepared and documented sprint backlogs to identify and monitor the activities performed in the time boxes.
• Assisted the Scrum Master to prepare and monitor burn-down charts for the successful completion of tasks within the time-boxes.
• Formulated test case scenarios from the user stories.
• Assisted with user acceptance testing of system (UAT), developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.

Environment: MS Access, Word, MS Project, Power Designer, MS Power point, SQL Server.