SUMMARY

• Over 7.2 years of experience as a Business Analyst in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Requirement gathering and Documentation, Use Casing, Functional specification, Business Case analysis, Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Extensive experience in Finance, Banking domain, Insurance And retail
• Extensive knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design using Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall cycle, Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Excellent knowledge of Capital Markets, Fixed Income Securities, Equities, FX, Derivatives, Mutual Funds, Over The Counter (OTC) Trading, and Portfolio Management.
• Expertise in Financial Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting and utilization of variance analysis to manage project to completion on time and within budget.
• Extensive understanding of Business Intelligence reporting tools for Risk Management, Revenue Management, Social Media, Sales, Marketing and Planning etc.
• Experience in Oracle EBS R12 in Financials (General Ledger, Accounts Receivable) and Supply Chain (Order Management, Inventory Management).
• Extensive experience in business analysis, gap analysis, cost/benefit analysis, risk analysis, testing, development of functional specifications and project planning.
• Expertise in Data Modeling, Data Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Business Modeling, Data Migration, Data Profiling, and Data mapping.
• Extensive experience in conducting Joint application development (JAD) session, Rapid application development (RAD) and requirements work - sessions.
• Exceptional problem solving and sound decision making capabilities, recognized by alternative solutions, and confident, accurate, decision-making coupled with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Excellent track record for meeting deadlines and submitting deliverables on time.
• Effective in working with business stakeholders, VP’s, MD’s, Support Managers off-site and on-site, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, Solution Architects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools: Microsoft Office, MS Visio, UML, Rational Rose

Financial Systems: Reuters 3000 Xtra, Bloomberg, Capital IQ

Financial Databases: Hoover’s, Factiva, Business Source Premier, Standard & Poor’s Net advantage

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

Operating System: Windows 95/2000/XP/2007

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, MySql

ERP Solution: Oracle EBS R12 Financials, Oracle EBS R12 Supply chain Management

Reporting Tools: Business Objects, Crystal Reports, MS Suite

QA Tools: Test Director, Win Runner, Load Runner

Financial compliance: Dodd-Frank Act, Basel 1, Basel 2, Basel 3,SOX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with Business users in defining the scope, analyzing business requirements and segregating them into high level and low level requirements for Financial Risk Applications.
• Assisting the project manager in other financial risk projects such as Global Market Database (GMDB).
• Working with Data warehouse team and source systems in preparing Data mapping documents and data models to procure the required data feeds into the Moody’s RiskFrontier Application.
• Conducting JAD sessions with users to identify the requirements and outline business rules.
• Enhancing and reengineering Business Processes and creating Business Process Flows using UML/ MS Visio.
• Assisting project manager to research on Business Intelligence reporting tools required to reduce costs, manage risks and proactively respond to the changes and needs for other financial risk projects.
• Developing User Requirements Specifications (URS, Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS)
• Assisted the database developers’ analyst with loading and manipulating the data.
• Assisted in Data Modeling, Data Analysis, Data Migration and Data mapping.
• Involved with ETL developers in data cleansing & staging them on the platform with the help of informatica.
• Assisting in preparing Business Operational Procedures document which included Environment migration plan, Disaster recovery plan, and Technical specification document for the Risk Application.
• Conducting functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, and assisted the development of User Manuals.
• Working with the project manager for planning and organizing the project activities, and in communicating with other business center mangers and stakeholders of the project.
• Developing requirements document for Data Extraction, Data Analysis and Loading process.
• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with Project Team to discuss related business and project issues.
• Working with the QA team for requirements clarification and to analyze the test results of the application.
• Creating functional and technical presentations for management and training workshop for end users.
• Working with Confidential Investment Management (IIM), Corporate Insurance Risk Management (CIRM) and Black Rock for business process governance, counterparty risk policies and procedures, credit risk exposures in investment portfolios, reinsurance portfolios and in the financial derivative portfolios.

Environment: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, SQL Server 2008, Black Rock, Bloomberg, and Eagle/Pace data warehouse.

Confidential, San Mateo,CA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE in the existing architecture and performed Gap Analysis and created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the Business Process and various Business Scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Gathered business requirements fromtraders, portfolio managers, hedge fund managers, and risk management group to identify and map detailed current processes and develop functional requirements that supported overall strategy, goals and objectives, and develop and document theBRDandFSD.
• Identified Use cases from the Functionalrequirements and wrote Use Case Specifications and created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagrams) in MS Visio.
• Conducted analysis onTrading Lifecyclein front-office to back office systemsanddocumented with diagrams.
• Worked with developers to develop and documenttechnical specificationsof system document.
• Worked with Financial Analysts onFixed Income Analysis (Pricing, Risk,Yield, Duration, and Recommended Strategy) with Excelto support trading,and reviewed with portfolio manager and traders.
• Assisted Risk Management Group infinancial and Risk analysison calculation ofPV, and other key trade metrics (e.g. Breakeven Rate).
• Worked with end users to define business requirements and needs, performed data validation, drafted procedures for steering committee approval, overseeing the implementation of approved projects and ensured that the project goals are achieved.
• Acted as liaison betweenmanagement and development team for Requirements andQA testingduring theUser Acceptance Testing(UAT)phase and involved in user interfaces, requirements and data modeling sessions.
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Created user manuals and provided training to business users as part of the change management process.

Environment: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Mercury Quality Center, Bloomberg, and HTML.

Confidential, Columbia, MO

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meetings with Subject Matter Experts for Requirements Gathering and transforming them to functional specification.
• Acted as a primary liaison between business lines, operations, and technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Conducted JAD sessions and meetings with developers, QA team, and users for communicating primary requirements, discussed different versions of requirements, queries, and clarified the issues.
• Participated in writing data mapping documents and performing gap analysis to verify the compatibility of existing system with new business requirements.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Created requirements document for Data Extraction, Data Analysis and Loading process.
• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Design UML diagrams like Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State - Diagram for project documentation using MS Visio.
• Coordinated UAT and executed environment build plans.
• Wrote SQL Queries to perform Data Validation.
• Organized and Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression, and support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Involved in defect tracking and bug management using Rational Clear Quest.
• Planned, scheduled, and controlled projects based on plans and requirements outlined by the business.
• Interacted with developers to report data related bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Provided inputs for Modification and Enhancement Requests.
• Involved in meetings, walkthroughs and creating minutes of the meeting.
• Created and submitted weekly status report to the project manager.

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, MS Office, J2EE, Java Script, HTML, Oracle, MS Visio

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Gap analysis and was involved in analysis of the technical specifications of the current system and the infrastructure needs
• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts in the Fixed Income Group, brokers, Portfolio Managers, Investment Advisors, Share Holders and IT Group Heads such as Project Managers, Developers, and Process Analysts to understand the business process, gather Business Requirements and identify enhancements.
• Gathered Requirements for the Trading System, and produced User Interface (UI) and Business Process Requirements from the initial requirement data.
• Participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements including the applications capable of supporting those requirements. Collected and documented business processes as well as business rules.
• Synthesized User Interface and Business Process Requirements and translated it into the Business Requirement Document (BRD), to be used as input to the functional design specifications.
• Gathered business requirements through JAD sessions, one on one interviews of brokers and traders, surveys, controlled brainstorming sessions, prototyping and presenting to management groups, vendors, users and the IT Group for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Designed and managed project plans and schedules
• Carried out UAT by developing test plans, test scenarios & test cases to be used in testing based on functional requirements and technical specifications and/or product knowledge along with the QA team

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, SQL, HTML, Load Runner, QTP, Dreamweaver

Confidential, Salt Lake City UT

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in website development from inception through implementation and maintenance; updated and optimized the online content to improve organic search indexing.
• Monitored and reported on multiple websites; established dashboards for various decision makers and developed, managed and provided analysis with recommendations using multivariate testing plans focused on optimizing landing pages.
• Created Project definition reports (Project Charter) which evolved from team meetings and interviews.
• Knowledge ofATG, e-commerce technology platform that supports faster site performance, more effective merchandising and easier management of multiple web sites.
• Involved in all phases of the Iterative approach of the System Development Life Cycle from Requirement phase to Implementation.
• Tracked defects using Test Director and managed them on HPQC
• Performed Smoke testing after every incremental to ensure the system was running as per design and worked closely with the development team and the business users to make sure bug fixes have been fixed before communicating with the clients.
• Created UML Diagrams (Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams) using MS-Visio.
• Participated in the Feasibility and Risk Analysis to identify the business critical and high-risk areas of the application.
• Worked closely with business, technical, design and customer service teams to exceed customer expectations.

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, MS Office, OBIEE.Net, MS Visio, DB2, SQLServer 2005, Informatica, Test Director and HPQC