SUMMARY

• Project Manager and Business Analyst with over five years of combined experience in financial forecasting, system design, mitigation of audit & control risk, Anti Money Laundering AML, Banking Regulations improvement of efficiency within financial & supply chain operations, and working with financial derivatives
• Knowledgeable experience in gathering user and Business Process Requirements (BPR), creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), and use applied statistics, and data integration to create business modules and financial modules
• Experience in running & facilitating JAD sessions, Requirement Workshops, UAT sessions, writing test scripts and scenarios, while working on projects using various SDLC methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum
• Knowledgeable in various BA techniques such as GAP Analysis, Impact Analysis, Risk Analysis, Stakeholder Analysis, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, and Process Flow Charts, and modeling Business Process

Areas of Expertise

• Able to quickly adapt to new technologies and business skills, and execute in dynamic work environment by having knowledge in SQL, Oracle Hyperion Essbase reporting, QuickBooks, People Soft, WebEx, MIDAS, Passport 2008, Kuali Financial System (KFS), Visio, MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook)
• Experienced in various tools like Quality Center Control software (AML), SharePoint, Client On Boarder (COB), Nigel, Center Process Workstation (CPW), LEO, MIDAS, Cognos, Markit, Mint, Bloomberg, Passport 2008

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understood the Business Logic, User Requirements & developed design & User Interface Specifications and reports for users and clients in order to improve the efficiency within the databases with respect to AML and GAAP
• Wrote User Stories to capture requirements and provide acceptance criteria and wireframes to capture functional and business requirements based off the Agile approach in order to perform Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis
• Performed daily tasks and ad - hoc assignments in regards to KYC on any support documentation or regulations reference needed from users and clients while creating financial budgets, financial forecasting, and GL updates
• Collaborated with the IT tools team to achieve and meet their financial objectives by formulating business plans, calculating capital assets, writing business and user requirements, preparing annual budgets, scheduling expenditures, and analyzing variances in order to achieve business goals based off of tight deadlines and ad hoc action demand
• Collaborated with the IT tools team to achieve and meet their financial objectives by formulating business plans, calculating capital assets, writing business and user requirements, preparing annual budgets, scheduling expenditures, and analyzing variances in order to achieve business goals based off of tight deadlines and ad hoc action demand
• Performed the as-is and to-be analysis by interacting with front office to gather requirements, writing test scenarios, participating in UAT testing, creating processes and work flows. Operated as the liaison between IT development team and business users by working on financial derivatives, fixed income, and financial securities
• Took lead on project planning and management of internal resources for credit risk replacement by communicating with subject matter experts (SMES). Helped formulate strategies to improve business and operational processes by coordinating with market’s CIO for public funds, mutual funds, derivatives, and fixed income securities
• Performed daily communication and coordination with multiple departments in order to distribute various cost, update any red flags, analysis GAP & Impact analysis, and progress summary reports throughout the project life cycle for senior management to evaluate project performance while following the Basel regulations
• Extensively worked in operations and on ad hoc assignments while monitoring, auditing, and reviewing mutual funds, OBO accounts, company accounts, and legal entities on any flaws or material misstatements. Communicated directly within KYC and investing parties to rectify any discrepancies in order to reduce market risk in capital assets
• Monitored and reported transaction operations within the department as well as created and worked on Dodd-Frank and EMEA files to ensure credibility and regulations while optimizing efficiency by analyzing, reconciling, and modifying client COPER ids by utilizing multiple database in order to reduce credit risk
• Wrote User Stories to capture requirements and provide acceptance criteria and wireframes to capture functional and business requirements based off the Agile approach in order to perform Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis
• Performed daily tasks and ad-hoc assignments in regards to KYC on any support documentation or regulations reference needed from users and clients while creating financial budgets, financial forecasting, and GL updates

Confidential, Franklin Township, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between application development and business unit to provide analytical and technical support to business users and vendors by ensuring business requirements, project scope, and business process are met
• Coordinated and communicated among vendors and business users in order to mitigate risk and review & monitored expense and financial statements by negotiation creating and forecasting budgets, risk analysis, invoice payments, service presentations, quarterly charts, and data analysis graphs for company services and goods
• Created mockups and wireframes for developers to present updated reports and maintained functional specification & technical specification documents to capture updated changes to new existing requirements for the Process of Sales (POS)
• Gathered and prioritized requirements as per Agile approach while also implementing Waterfall approach for certain mature sales projects by performing GAP & Impact analysis to specific demographics regions based of supply & demand and participated in contract negotiations based off quarterly sales and inventory analysis