SUMMARY

• 7+ of years of experience with in - depth knowledge of business processes in Confidential industries with good experience working on Revenue Recognition & Forecasting tools like Revpro for Revenue Management, Contract Management, and Accounting & Reporting Purpose.
• Develop User Acceptance Testing and specifications with guidance from AML Compliances.
• Extensive knowledge inequities, Fixed Income (Bonds, Convertibles, T-Notes, T-Bonds), Derivatives (Options, Futures, Forwards, Swaps), Money Market Instruments (T-Bills, Commercial Paper), Mutual Funds, Portfolio Management, Commodity etc.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR), OFAC reports, Currency Transaction Report (CTR).
• Expertise in conducting GAP, SWOT, Impact, Cost-Benefit, Root Cause, Feasibility Studies, Risk Analysis and As-Is and To-Be Business analysis.
• Utilize tools such as ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), JIRA, Rally etc
• Review and maintain traceability between business requirements and the functional specifications.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Scrum Meetings and other agile activities.
• Experienced with facilitating Scrum Ceremonies as a Scrum Master and expertise in stimulating the adoption of Scrum Rules, Managing Impediments, Conflict Resolution and fostering Self-Management and conducts daily scrums in the absence of Scrum Master.
• In depth knowledge of Global Equity
• Trading Marketplace and clearing infrastructure and Repo Trader experience in Global Investment Bank
• Oversees s operations teams and provide a high level of service to Capital Markets business group.
• Good understanding of Equities Transaction Data and associated data model.
• Explored & originated new business opportunities through marketing activities and contribute to the growth of the Supply Chain Finance business in terms of assets, market share and revenue
• Maintain timely and accurate trade information for equity trading desk.
• A throughout understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as RUP, Waterfall, Agile with hands on experience in all of them including but not limited to the various concepts such as Requirement Gathering, Creating functional / non-functional specification documentations in close working with Finance, legal teams and engineering teams.
• Employed the proper elicitation techniques according to each project environment such as interviewing, questionnaire, brainstorming, focus group and cost/benefit analysis.
• Actively used Joint Requirement Planning (JRP)/Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering and brainstorming ideas.
• Proficiency in creating business process models using business process management notations (BPMN ) also Experience with documenting processes in the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
• Experienced in documenting requirements using Unified Modeling Language (Use Case and Activity Diagram) also building business Process Flow Charts using tools such as Visio and Rose.
• Skilled at reviewing test cases making sure they are in accordance with requirement and assist the overall testing process by activities such as Change and Defect Management and conducting User Acceptance Test.
• Proficient with financial modeling software and spreadsheets.
• Knowledge of project collaboration tools, including SharePoint.
• Experienced in data analysis, validation, cleansing and collection and reporting from various sources including databases, manual flat files, and external websites using T-SQL and PL/SQL queries.
• Efficient at conducting UAT (user acceptance testing), Functionality testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing, Operation Readiness testing and Regression testing. Technical skills:

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and Iterative

Documents: BRD, FRD, SRS, RTM, User Stories

UML: Use Cases, Activity, sequence diagrams, flow charts, Knowledge of Oracle data integrator, data relationship manager financial data management

Testing/Tracking Tools: Jira, Manual, ALM, Thunderhead 6.0

Windows Tools: Microsoft Office- Advance word, excel, PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Visio, MS Project

Languages: SQL, .Net, XML.CSS

CRM: Salesforce, Financial Data Management

Data warehousing: ETL Process, Process Mapping, Tableau

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Miscellaneous: Smart draw 2008, power designer, Just in mind

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct and Lead the Stakeholder Workshops, Focus Groups, JAD with stakeholders from diverse Functional Groups (Marketing, Finance, Payroll, Point of Sales, Facilities, and Infrastructure) for Elicitation of Business Requirements.
• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) for streamlining the team’s development activities.
• Consulted with users, resolved problem to meet specific technical and business needs.
• Validation and Verification accountability for all the deliverables of s/w development projects.
• Support the promotion of the Supply Chain Finance business internally within the bank.
• Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the deliverables of a project.
• Analyzed business requirements to develop functional and detail design specifications of the application
• Managed the workflow process using SDLC methodology and Iterations.
• Maintained the operational functions of the AXIOMSL Regulatory Reporting System and other financial reporting system.
• Worked using JIRA to document epics, user stories, risks, issues, defects.
• Created and updated process models using BPMN templates and related software.
• Assesses and effectively manages all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure activities are in alignment with the bank's and unit's risk appetite and risk management framework.
• Supporting & assisting the CRM Manager with the budget planning process and marketing plan development
• Working with the wider marketing team to ensure there is inspiring and relevant content for use within CRM programs
• Used the Office extensively which included MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project, MS Visio for various documentation and analysis reports.
• Developed good understanding of Financial Instruments, Asset Allocation, Commodities, Bonds, Corporate Bonds, equities, derivatives and Money market instrument, Fixed Income, Credit and Market Risk.
• Responsible for scheduling tasks and assigning tasks to the developers and task managers as per the project plan.
• Prepared Test Plans and Test cases, detected bugs in the system, prepared the Defect reports using Test Director and interacted with developers for Debugging.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers. Coordinate and lead use case reviews with application development teams, SOA architects, developers and QA teams

Environment: UML, Oracle, PL/SQL, Java, Visio2003, Visual Basic, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Project, QTP, Windows NT and UNIX

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing of the system with the system architecture and the development team, supporting the technical team in the product development and delivery process and translated the business requirements into Functional Specification Document (FSD). Followed the Agile methodology (SDM) for the entire SDLC.
• Interviewed business area experts, IT experts asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams across organizational lines.
• UpdatingKYCdocumentation in line with theAMLguidelines interacted with Developers for fixing the bugs and make sure to close the resolved bugs and issues using JIRA.
• Use business process modeling and analysis (BPMA) tools, as well as methods and standards, such as Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), to fully obtain information about what capabilities the business needs and leverage more graphical techniques for facilitating communications.
• Developed BPMN flow in VISIO and documented user stories.
• Experienced in conducting Gap Analysis, Impact analysis, ROI analysis, SWOT analysis and Cost benefit analysis
• Exposed to and worked with Subject Matter Experts in Fixed Income Annuities, Equities, Swaps, Finance, Trading Cycle, Portfolio Analysis& Management, Asset Management, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Pricing, Derivatives.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships across Capital Markets Trading and its business partner and Possess a strong understanding of the financial services industry and global capital markets products
• Performedpre-analysis of the user requirements,assignedpriorities andtranslated the requirements to functional specificationsandmapped the requirementsto appropriateGAAPrules.
• Assist in the day-to-day repo finance trading across the Repo funding books.
• Utilized Agile Scrum methodology and conducted Daily stand up meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review meeting, and Sprint Retrospective meeting.
• Determined the velocity of each sprint and created the Sprint burn down chart, storyboards and Product Backlog and managed Requirements churn.
• Followed UML based methodology using Rational Rose for creating Business Cases and Use Case Models after assessing the status and scope of the project and implementing technology based solutions that will meet their strategic business processes needs.
• Facilitated the test process by using bug tracking tool JIRA. Demonstrated advanced knowledge of SharePoint, Windows, and Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access.) and ability to consolidate data from multiple sources.
• Project Management experience in digitally-enabled, product-oriented businesses with proven track record of managing complex, highly technical projects across functions and business lines.
• Thorough knowledge and experience with both waterfall and agile/scrum methodologies.
• Ability to balance structure and flexibility, with a drive toward results and accountability.
• Identified Use Cases from the requirements and wrote Use Case Linked business processes to organizational objectives, identifying opportunities for business process improvement and involved in the performance of cost/benefit analysis.
• Execution of PL/SQL on oracle table in order to view successful transaction of data. lso Coordinated with QA testing between QA staff, developers, and stakeholders .
• Maintained strong working relationship with various business groups such as project technical/development team and external clients throughout the development process of the credit card processing system.

Environment: AGILE (AUP), ASP.Net, VB.Net, SQL, PL SQL, MS SQL Server, JSP, XML, MS Visual Basic, MS WordMS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Visio, Win Runner, Test Director, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, Windows XP/NT, MS Project

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed the detailed GAP analysis in the efforts of understanding the existing system and prepared the GAP analysis document
• Gathered the requirements through preparing questionnaires and facilitating JAD sessions
• Prepared the Business Requirements Document (BRD) after analyzing the requirements and translated the business requirements into functional requirements.
• Creating functional /non-functional specification documentations in close working with engineering teams.
• Interacted with Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office and Quantitative team to identify the any enhancement that can be done while understanding the Business processes
• OrganizedAMLtrainings for employees to enable them to identify and report any money laundering activities. Actively involved in Currency Transactions (CTR), Suspicious Activity (SAR) and Non-Compliance Reporting.
• UpdatingKYCdocumentation in line with theAMLguidelines interacted with Developers for fixing the bugs and make sure to close the resolved bugs and issues.
• Performedpre-analysis of the user requirements,assignedpriorities andtranslated the requirements to functional specificationsandmapped the requirementsto appropriateGAAPrules.
• Designed the Data Mapping sheet to come out with right fields that are required from particular database to support the various reports such as required by Analysis and Decision support team
• Prepared the Use Cases, Object Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams in MS Visio to signify the system workflow.
• Conducted risk analysis and developed mitigation plans.
• Worked with tools and Documentum to acquire and analyze the data required to create reports and document tracking.
• Assisted the QA team to develop the test plan and test cases to perform the testing and also involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Environment: UML, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Project, Mercury Quality Centre, Documentum

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Determined cost of operations by establishing standard costs; collected operational data.
• Executing cost allocations and preparing cost center reports and tracking cost of project.
• Identified financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Forecasts and Budgets - set-up reporting formats, including links to sub-schedules; input submissions from Operating Departments; prepare variance analyses to prior Forecast/Budget.
• Improved financial status by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management.
• Involvement in Data Mining/dimensional Modeling, Data Extraction/ Transformation/ Loading (ETL), OLAP operations like rollup, drill down, slicing/dicing, pivoting using BI tools and Business Intelligence Reporting using Tableau.
• Recommended actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; studying proposed changes in methods and methods and materials.
• Increased productivity by developing automated accounting applications; coordinating information requirements.
• Protected operations by keeping financial information confidential.
• Maintained technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing publications.
• Contributed to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.