SUMMARY:

• Around 12 years of experience in Business and Financial Analysis and management for financial systems
• Extensive experience with Regulatory reporting, Treasury solutions, trading systems, project management & target operation models. Business and financial analysis proficiency:
• Expertise in requirement gathering, project documentation, liaison for business and technology, gap/ impact analysis on as - is and to-be states of processes, target operating models, management on project deliverables, user acceptance testing, obtaining business signoffs and stake holders
• Extensive experience with project documentation like Project initiation and completion document, Business and Functional requirement documents, Activity diagrams, Traceability matrix, Project plans and status dashboards, Test plans, / generic troubleshooting manuals, Performance reports/dashboards
• Strong knowledge and experience in regulatory reporting processes (e.g., liquidity risk reporting: 4G, 5G, BASEL III US NPR, LCR, NSFR, capital planning: CCAR); trading and analysis of fixed income securities ( corporate bonds, muni’s, T-bills, ABS, MBS, CMOs, and CDOs), equities, FX (analyzing impact due to bid-ask spread annual roll over analysis), commodities, derivatives (futures, options, forwards, exotic options, swaps, interest rate derivatives, and credit derivatives (CDS and TRS); Options pricing models (such as Black-Scholes, Binomial, Trinomial), risk analysis using Greeks in options trading strategies & replicating option pay-offs
• Experience with risk analytics, asset allocation models, portfolio rebalancing systems and analysis of models of valuation of a firm and projects as the whole and its equity, financial statements analysis; worked with analyzing the intrinsic worth of securities (such as stocks, bonds and options, capital budgeting (using NPV, IRR and Discounted Cash Flow) and developing investment diversified models
• Ability to manage cross team functions
• Estimate and plan implementation of task sets, coordinating efforts across teams, creating project plans and following it by having regular status meetings with teams across on a daily basis
• Outstanding problem solving, strategic thinking and data analysis skills, strong focus on teamwork and achieving team goals, result oriented, fast learner and excellent communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Analytical and presentation tools/softwares: MS Excel (Expert-Macros design) for Rapid application development as interim solution, MS Word/ PowerPoint / Access / Project, MS Visio, SQLClient, Thunderhead

Reporting tools: Experience in Business Objects, Adhoc reporting

Financial Software Tools: Reuters 3000 Xtra, Power Plus Pro, Bloomberg

Programming Languages: C/C++, Macro Assembler, Embedded C, Visual Basic

Statistical softwares: MatLAB, Stat graphics

Database: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Business Analyst as CCAR BHC/IHC consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Work as lead functional analyst closely with the developers to define, design, build & test the solution for CCAR IHC submission
• Managing and maintaining functional requirements in partnership and collaboration with the business and obtaining sign-off
• Responsible for delivery of functional solutions, conducting tailored walk-through and obtaining sign-off
• Liaising with the program/project managers, business and other stakeholders as appropriate as the business/functional counterpart for the solution
• Act as an SME on the CCAR Forecasting & Aggregation platform(s) in various capacities, strategy meetings, and product development opportunities
• Responsible for working with the developers to ensure correct understanding of requirements, and then owning the functional delivery end to end. Defining testing requirements together with the QA team
• Work with the Data Architecture teams to identify missing or non-strategic data, providing requirements to data sourcing teams
• Work with Stakeholders during UAT to ensure reports meet requirements and ensure all deliveries are signed-off
• Managing the functional strategic roadmap, communicating to stakeholders along with implementation lifecycle of the program
• Establish & operate within the governance (decision making) structure for the program and manage/escalate issues and risks
• Supervise & assist design & development of program-level roadmap, ensuring sufficient business benefit is realized each phase
• Perform specific analysis/design efforts and construct responses for consumption at senior stakeholder levels
• Ensure projects are in compliance with product specifications, audit standards and required documentation

Confidential, Getzville, NY

Vice President - Treasury Liquidity Management Program

Responsibilities:

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• Building & presenting pro-forma of analysis, provide analytical models with to-be scenarios with comparative results
• Co-ordinate closely with stakeholders (Treasury operations, Regional Treasury and Financial Reporting Officers) and subject matter experts to address business requirements and align to deliverable technical solutions or tools
• Co-ordinate and facilitate requirement-gathering sessions with subject-matter-experts (SME), gap analysis for BAU versus target deliverables, walk-through on defined solutions highlighting As-Is and To-be processes and documentations & review on BRD/MDD (Business Requirement Document/ Minor Development Document)
• Participated in User acceptance testing for automation implementations
• Co-ordinate operational process change management, approvals and iterative implementation of agreed upon solution
• Conducted analysis on business problem & provide technical or analytical solutions and/or models to aid BAU enhancements
• Conducted requirement-gathering, formal technical Reviews and Walkthroughs with stakeholders, and act as key liaison between business & technology team. Maintained detailed project plan documentations & user test scripts on SharePoint
• Facilitated data validations by providing technical tools and templates (using MS Access/MS Excel/Business Objects) with extensive interaction involving technical team to deliver fixes or change as required
• Provided production support on automated processes and in corporate enhancements via change management

Confidential, New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement-gathering sessions from subject-matter-experts (SME)
• Analyze the data gathering process, participated in Formal technical Reviews and Walkthroughs with stakeholders, developers, managers and other analysts
• Conducted Gap analysis to estimate the benefits of the new system versus existing system
• Provided support in development of detailed project plans, work assignments, target dates etc.
• Co-ordinate with technology analyst for business and techonology impacts and gaps
• Build the Project Initiation Document (PID), Project Request form (PRF), Project Completion form (PCF), Business Requirement Document, FRD, Project plans, Continuity of Business (COB) and Test scripts as part of project documentation
• Elicited requirements using the following methodologies: Business Users interviews, Cross Functional team (XFT) meetings, JAD Sessions, and Requirements Walkthrough sessions
• Assisted in designing HLD (highly level design) and LLD (Low level design) with the architects
• Helped build the Graphical User Interface of the system working with UI interface designers
• Assisted in creating Entity Relationship Diagrams in the Database Design
• Acted as the key central liaison between the business owners and development team - to manage project issues
• Worked with data testing and analysis for data mapping and transactional data reporting
• Assisted in Testing and Deployment planning - partnered with testing team for building Master Test Plan, developing test cases, test scripts for various testing stages that include Functionality, Usability, Regression, Incremental, Compatibility, Integration and User Acceptance Testing for business sign offs
• Worked with the Production Support team, in providing and technical support to the users.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Formal technical Reviews and Walkthroughs with stake holders
• Conducted Gap analysis to estimate the benefits of the new system versus existing system
• Interacted with the Sales and traders’ team in testing the system, and finalizing the UI
• Worked with the Technical Architects team to define user interface design guidelines, and performed usability engineering to finalize system UI for trade blotter and back office interface
• Provided strategic support in development of detailed project plans, work assignments, target dates etc.
• Extensively created Use cases, Process flow diagrams and class diagrams using MS Visio
• Conducted weekly meetings with the clients to review functional specifications and resolve open issues
• Worked on documentation for Business Requirement Specification, System requirements, Data mapping documents, system interface layouts, system flow diagrams, high level server configuration changes, data model changes, database changes along with user guide and manuals
• Assisted testing team in understanding the business rules and the system development
• Interacted with the Database team and performed Queries
• Managed the project using JIRA by planning sprints that includes task and stories estimation, determining the release candidate, tracking the development and deployments on weekly status meetings
• Developed Test scripts and participated in System, Integration and UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Arranged demo sessions as and when necessary including collecting feedback as change requirements
• Worked with the Production Support team, in providing and technical support to the users
• Conducted project end review sessions with the developer team and present the upper management to discuss the progress, hurdles/blockers, improvements/decommissioning and redesigning the application development methodology as well as resource allocations and future deliverables timeline management
• Worked on maintaining template for automated document generation using Thunderhead

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with front office (traders), middle office (risk, BUC) and back office (settlement, operations), system architects, and technical developers to document current operating processes and workflows
• Developed, documented, and analyzed ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ process flows covering all the functionality to satisfy business requirements and thereby defining scope and objective of the identified product development needs
• Active role in resource allocations - partnered with the business PM for resource leveling
• Analyzed issues, risks, and recommended solutions to minimize impacts by risk tracking and identifying portfolio performance measures, management process & strategies).
• Documented the business process through Business Requirements Document, System requirement specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications
• Conducted Requirement transfer sessions to ensure the end-product is sync with business requirements and extensively created use cases, workflow, sequence & activity diagrams using Rational Rose
• Created detailed Use Case Specifications Document and UML Diagrams
• Conducted weekly meetings with the clients to review functional specs and resolve open issues
• Performed GAP analysis around identification of business rules, business & system process flows, user administration, requirements, and assumptions
• Created numerous data mapping documents by identifying data sources, target systems and business/transformation rules for custodian feeds, market and data vendors feeds
• Extensively used SQL Queries for Data Analysis - validating VaR results from reporting data, validating performance calculations in Risk Engine etc.
• Assisted in Test staging for Ad-hoc, Usability, Regression, Integration, Build Verification, Incremental Integration, Security, Database, Compatibility, User Acceptance and Performance Testing

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Building Operations Supervisor and Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Manage the building operations that include ongoing events, coverage of assigned duties, supervising target service level, supervising associated issues and devised strategies to turnaround operations effectively
• Participated in strategic and target operations processes
• Manage team of event supervisors and assitants to ensure prompt and efficient deliverables
• Quick onsite decisions for effective operations as well as emergencies
• Handled part-time employees, optimized the time by assigning duties and prioritizing their responsibilites
• Periodic assessment of performance of employees
• Supervised security of building and periodic management reporting for daily activities and active role in analysis for operations targeted to revenue generation
• Implementation plan for target operation models and business logic and documentation of execution
• Effectively managed student management committee as head

Confidential

Executive - Business Development and Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in SDLC for various HMIS modules and change management by gathering business requirements, document project scope, provide functional specifications, and coordinate implementation of modules or system upgrades across designated group of healthcare institutions
• Enhanced the direction of Marketing, Business Development and Service management for Hospital Management Information Systems (HMIS) requirements for the company. Developed and maintained a strong focus in strategy development
• Developed and implemented a go-to-market plan. Oversaw all marketing, advertising and team activities as lead
• Implementing marketing strategy and organized tasks, worked with deadlines, customer relations, recorded and analyzed customer - strategy incompatibilities. Assessment of marketing opportunities, Risk management, Strategies for development and retaining clientele, Conflicts handling and customer feedback management
• Worked with team, handling team issues, participating in programs for efficiency improvement, communication link setup, networking with businesses, analysis of demand and service level requirements, optimize performance
• Evaluated customer research, market conditions, competitor data and implemented marketing plan changes

Confidential

Research Engineer - Industrial & Project Development

Responsibilities:

• Project comprised of structural unit generating flux around the metal rope thereby inducing signals that are sent to a receptor
• Combined C, C++ and Embedded C program code on designated microprocessor and DSP processes received signals and calculate compromised strength of rope and transmit data to remote receivers in control centers. Signals for Alarms are triggered for different threshold breach classes to microcontrollers that are interfaced to other control units.
• Worked in team and development of embedded programming, designing model and tracking efficiency
• Soft skills such meeting deadlines, presentation skills, innovative thinking, making effective use of resources, and efficient communication helped successfully delivering the project