SUMMARY

• 9 years of professional and diversified experience as Business Analyst in the Financial Services Market and Liquidity Risk
• Strong working experience in Capital Market Risk Management System , Corporate Finance and Treasury..
• Partnered with various teams Traders, Risk, Finance and Treasury.
• Experience in building and supporting Financial Risk systems
• Strong Knowledge of Trading life Cycle Order management, Clearing and Settlement .
• Strong experience in Financial models for Equity, Fixed Income Convexity, Duration, Attribution, Greeks
• Strong Knowledge of Risk Management Practice and models Value At Risk -VAR, CVAR, MVAR...Monte Carlo Simulation and Black Scholes
• Strong experience with Stress and Back Testing
• Strong experience with Finance and Risk Reporting applications
• Strong data analysis skills and spreadsheet modeling - proficiency with SQL, Excel, VBA
• Strong experience in gathering, analyzing and implementing requirements.
• Strong experience in Business process reengineering, Business modeling and analysis
• Strong documentation skills BRD/BRS, Technical Specifications, Users Manual..
• Strong Experience with full project life cycle SDLC.
• Strong Experience leading Requirements gathering and QA Testing phase
• Strong Experience leading Conducting User Accepting Testing UAT
• Bilingual fluent in French

SKILLS

• Modeling Tools UML, BPM, OOAD, RUP, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
• Programming Languages SQL, Excel VBA-Macro
• Database Management Systems MS SQL Server, Access, Oracle
• Tools MS Tools, TOAD, SQL Developer, Quality Center
• Environments Citrix, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst part of the IT Corporate Finance and Treasury and Capital Market Team enhancing, maintaining and supporting the Trading P L and General Ledger Applications. I was also involved in various projects such as the new mortgage product line stand up, Encompass new Origination system , Citrix and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

• Partnered with the Risk, Finance and Trading business users for requirements gathering
• Daily support and maintenance of Trading P L and General Ledger GLS applications
• Actively in the daily and Month-end duties require for Market Risk activities and reporting P L, VAR, MSR, MTM, and Management Reports .
• Involved in all phases of the company new Mortgage Origination system: Encompass and new line of mortgage product projects
• Extensive testing and users training for all projects included IT projects such as Citrix and Virtual Desktop Environments implementation
• Lead UAT for Business partners.
• Took the lead on projects, with minimal supervision, as needed.
• Participated in process review and enhancements

Environment: Toad, SQL Developer, Quality Center, Citrix, VDI, Linux

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Sr. Business Analyst working on various projects from Content Management System to Financial Systems. The scope of one of them was building a reporting system for the Field of Finance and Budget Department of the Confidential. The system will allow users to access data and perform financial data analysis and generate sophisticated reports for a more productive environment.

• Performed budget analysis and forecast
• Supported group with monthly and quarterly variance analyses as well as annual budget preparation
• Responsible for coordinating the budgeting and monthly accrual process with the Accounting Department
• Assisted in the preparation of budget versus actual reports on a monthly basis
• Maintained and post financial reports
• Assisted with data accumulation and spreadsheet preparation associated with ad hoc analyses
• Involved in the consolidation and reporting process of the budget
• Worked on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Facilitated /interviews with clients and development team for requirement gathering.
• Led JAD sessions with clients and development team to analyze and validate requirement,.
• Managed a team large offshore team of developers.
• Moderated project status meetings and provide regular updates to Senior Management and Stakeholders
• Completed Business/Functional Requirements Documents BRD and obtaining approval from key stakeholders
• Performed data modeling and validation
• Completed User Acceptance Test UAT plans, perform and coordinate UAT tasks
• Obtained approvals for requirements documents, test plans and test results from the business owners and stakeholders
• Maintained project issues lists
• Participated in process review and enhancements

Environment: RUP, Rational Suite Requisite Pro, Rose, Clear Quest, Clear Case , Excel, Access, MS-Word, MS-Power Point, SQL, BPM tools

Confidential

Business Market Risk Analyst

Confidential is one of the world's largest investment management companies. The company serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. As senior business analyst, I was working in the Confidential portfolio management team, traders, and Risk Management and Compliance officers to lead various project activities from analysis to post implementation support and maintenance.

• Provided daily reporting and monitoring of Market Risk information
• Performed risk calculations including VaR, Stress Testing, Risk Sensitivities, Limits, etc.
• Participateed in the development of market risk stress testing program
• Supported front office on portfolio changes and trading strategies
• Assisted in the preparation of market risk policies and procedures
• Provided support on ad-hoc risk analysis projects as required
• Performed business analysis and requirement gathering for various Product Management initiatives and projects Risk Systems
• Engaged actively in implementation of Fund Characteristics and Performance Attribution for Vanguard Fixed Income Funds including requirement gathering, data analysis and system implementation including testing and user validation
• Requirement gathering and mapping data flows, identify existing data repositories to source holding and other data such as prices, security master and market data
• Requirement gathering for design and implementation of new data repositories needed for implementation of the attribution system
• Requirement gathering for implementation of data interfaces to external portfolio systems
• Analysed input and output data sent to and received from the analytics systems
• Defined requirements for storing fund metrics and attribution
• Completed User Acceptance Test UAT plans, perform and coordinate UAT tasks
• Obtained approvals for requirements documents, test plans and test results from the business owners and stakeholders

Environment: Rational Suite Requisite Pro, Rose, Clear Quest, Clear Case , Agile, Excel, Access, MS-Word, MS-Power Point, SQL

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals. The organization provides superior asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, and treasury services through a worldwide client-focused team. .

• Prepared Business Case
• Maintained and enhanced the internal Risk System used to support the trading and reporting needs of the Vanguard
• Supported the development team in the technical implementation of FPR VaR calculation for Independent Amount, for Dodd eligible clients as well as for select Non-DF clients
• Partnered with Business Quants to capture all requirements necessary to properly model risk factors and sensitivities for different products, and normalize their use by FPR
• Ensured that technical implementation meets all requirements
• Engaged development teams and business analysts to ensure data quality, pre-calculation processing, and proper consumption by FPR
• Coordinated Integration testing and User Acceptance testing
• Validated end user Data Quality and Usability
• Conducted all phases of testing including UAT and wrote all related documents
• Ensured project deliverables meet business requirements and industry best practices and standards.

Environment: UML, RUP, MS Visio, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Microsoft Office 2008, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS SQL Server 2008.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential developed for AIG is an online system for claims and risk management information for Confidential line products. The system provides real-time information on claims, payments and adjustments' activity to identify trends and make timely decisions to manage workplace safety, and reduce loss costs.

• Executed the responsibilities of the Reinsurance Business Analyst according to policies, procedures and standards
• Worked with the modeling team to gather data from various source systems, primarily using SQL, and integrate that data
• Aggregated profit center exposure and carry on various validations to ensure consistency and accuracy of the data
• Prepared data for catastrophe modeling/risk analysis using MS Access, SQL, and other data analysis/conversion tools
• Used SQL to run queries on multi-relational database tables within EDM/RDM type files produced by modeling software to build, verify, and produce various portfolio analytics
• Communicated portfolio analytic results to the CAT Modeling Team
• Worked with profit centers to increase data quality, modeling standard, and efficiency
• Established continuous communication with the business users.
• Identified and documenting business requirements
• Produced detailed systems requirements.
• Performed data analysis including data mappings, data feeds, etc.
• Worked closely with the developers to implement the systems requirements.
• Maintained project plans and submitting project status reports.
• Created and executing test plans and test scripts
• Performed quality assurance testing of systems and solutions.
• Facilitated the user acceptance testing UAT phase of each assigned project.
• Coordinated the implementation of user change requests.
• Assisted in the development of application documentation and user training programs.
• Coordinated the release of new applications and functionality
• Delivered an excellent communication and team work with all members of the project team, throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle to meet the business objectives

Environment: Rational Suite Requisite Pro, Rose, Clear Quest, Clear Case , Excel, Access, MS-Word, MS-Outlook, MS-Power Point, Erwin.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential is a leading provide of management and technology consulting services for the Confidential government in intelligence, and civil markets. The company also provides technology consulting services to some private investment firms. The Risk Management and Early Warning RMEW system was built to improve the client's risk management services and early warning for an efficient wealth management process. The RMEW system is comprised of the Team Connect Legal Matter Management and a document Management solutions.

• Supported the risk analytics, compliance and operational processing
• Developed financial models underpinning the risk management analytics
• Enhanced the Risk systems with regards to the Basel II regulations, Risk and Compliance and Technology.
• Gathered information from the High Level Management and Technology Department.
• Conducted Various Research work on Financial Risk Assessments. Responsible for FX derivatives, futures options, foreign exchange and securities risk analysis.
• Provided project level analysis, project documentation requirements, use cases, sequence diagrams, future state proposals etc
• Interacted with the wealth management team to understand their daily task and gather their requirement.
• Worked with various key stakeholders of the projects to identify and finalize the requirements
• Collaborated with clients, end users, and developers and ensured technical requirements are thorough using standard tools and modeling techniques
• Created mockups and prototypes for the JAD sessions
• Created Business Requirements Specification Document BRD and the Functional Specifications Document FSD
• Designed Business Process Model Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Collaboration diagrams
• Documented detailed analysis of end-to-end business processes, functional design, workflow mapping and action items, issues and ensured information is accurate and complete.
• Created the Requirement documents and traceability matrix using Requisite Pro
• Created design document with more detailed and technical information on the requirements.
• Evaluated selection, develop strategies, project and implementation plans based on thorough research and input from stakeholders.
• Resolved conflict with business units to overcome conflicts in requirements and arrive at common feasible solution.
• Responsible for managing and documenting business process re-engineering.
• Used Clear Quest to maintain and track the requested enhancements and changes

Environment: Agile, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS Project, Oracle, SQL, UML

Confidential

Business Financial Analyst

Confidential is an investment firm with global reach, providing investment products and services to individuals and institutions in many countries. Prudential's products include retirement plans, Insurance products and all types of investment plans. The company was in need of a website featuring personalized information to its helps clients to manage their investment effectively.

• Evaluated the financial reports such as income statements, cash flow statements, and balance sheet of the project and performed an analysis on how the finances will impact the project operations
• Performed ratio analysis, cash flow, capital position, collateral adequacy, financial trends, and competitor analysis
• Presented the financial data analysis in clear and compelling ways and made recommendations for action by synthesizing the financial information and the trends.
• Exposed in asset classes including Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Foreign Exchange.
• Evaluated the financial reports such as income statements, cash flow statements, and balance sheet of the project and performed an analysis on how the finances will impact the project operations.
• Acted as a liaison between the business, data and the technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Covered all aspects of the front office processes including modeling, dealing, and order generation.
• Extracted the business requirements from various sessions with business leads and maintained them using Requisite Pro, tracing them all the way to the system artifacts.
• Created executive-level PowerPoint presentations
• Created activity diagrams, use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams and data flow diagrams in UML using Rose and Visio.
• Involved in User Interface UI analysis with the business team to validate accuracy.
• Wrote Functional and Non-Functional requirements and created the Functional System Design document FSD .
• Involved in GAP analysis in the identification of business rules, business and system process flows, requirements and assumptions.
• Partnered with the technical team in research and resolution of system development issues and process problems.
• Coordinated with prudential's Strategic Advisors in assisting clients with liability management and asset allocation development.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing UAT and verified performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues.

Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, RUP Methodology, UNIX, Windows.