SUMMARY:
Seeking a position to implement and enhance my knowledge in derivatives business domain with proven experience in Investment Service Management systems.

• Lead derivative application analyst with Investment Service Management and off shore manager with proven leadership, business process modeling, and process re-engineering, functional and technical skills as demonstrated by highly successful delivery in all aspects of Information Technology system. Consistently achieve on-time delivery and high level of customer satisfaction in technically complex and challenging environments.
• Have an extensive work experience in a multiracial and multiethnic work environment, on-shore off-shore model, analytical, detail oriented and can deliver under pressure.

EDUCATION:
MS, Finance.
MBA.
BS

Certification:
Business Analysis Certification 2009

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston OCT’07-cont
Lead Derivatives Business System Analyst

• Primary task is to support FINDUR derivatives trading application with in the organization.
• One of the major tasks is resource planning and cost management.
• Supporting trade life cycle (front-middle-back, credit risk, ALM, market risk management office) for day to day functions and give appropriate rights within the systems to as per the group responsibilities.
• Helping management for the FINDUR, HMA audit process for SOX.
• Suggest better process control management for FINDUR application from System side for effective business flow.
• Creating the process for the new curves and taking the proper approval from MRM before going to live.
• Migration project to Win XP from Win 2000.
• One of the senior team members for Data Clean-up project.
• Support quarter end dry run testing for the FINDUR application.
• Co-ordination for the different projects and work request for the different business sides.
• Provide lead level guidance to the analyst for preparing business requirement documents.
• Track and maintain Work Requests using ClearQuest, the Work Request Management System (WRMS).
• Utilize and improve the existing processes for software problem identification, escalation, and resolution. Regularly review and revise project processes to ensure accurate and timely results.
• Create progress and completion reports for project management on a weekly basis. Work closely with management to keep track of the status of project and draft strategies for the near future.
• Co-ordinate/Facilitate proceedings of various projects.
• Prepared test case/scripts and test plan for various projects.
• Conduct and execute Regression testing for projects.
• Provide inputs to the project plan so that project plan exactly reflects the status of the project.
• Troubleshooting and resolving any implementation issues data feeds, reports, batch processing, etc.
• Work closely with Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provide feedback accordingly.
• Support the PMs in project management activities.
• Review documents to ensure correctness.
• Review test plan to ensure that testing resources are optimally utilized.
• Interact with the business for training the end-users.
• Lead for the developing on shore and off shore model for IT Derivatives for MFC.
• SME from derivative side for US Subs Re-org.
• SME for FINDUR upgrade project from version 6 to 8.2.

Process Improvement:

• Storing the value of beta and sigma every day for proper risk calculation.
• Reconcile HMA (Hedge Matching Application (FAS 133)) ~ FINDUR and reduce the notional gap.
• Implementation of FAS 157 ~ Q1 -2009.
• Suggested partial DV01 report for IRS to reduce the risk exposure.
• Implement the privilege matrix as per the team to line up the SOX regulation.
• End of the day process improvement.
• VA Hedging process enhancement.

SME - US Subs Re-org

• Leading and managing the testing effort of the USSR project.
• Work with the PMs on various project management activities.
• Manage and negotiate the scope of the project to meet deadlines.
• Develop project plans and schedule.
• Develop overall test plan for the project.
• Assist with resource planning and proper utilization of resources.
• Assign and guide resources on various tasks.
• Conduct and support UAT.
• Guide and lead other resources throughout the project.
• Review various documents that are developed by project resources.
• Work with managers of other areas to conduct proceedings.

SME FINDUR Upgrade

• Coordinator between onsite and off shore team for FINDUR parallel testing.
• Develop plan for FINDUR stress test and successfully test the result and submit the findings to Project team.
• Guide and lead other resources throughout the project.
• Review the test plan and suggest the necessary changes for system prospective.
• Conduct the UAT with shared service team and create the test script for their functions.
• Assist to implement the UAT with Business stream.
• Ensure the Citrix environment for the Asia users.

Manager Offshoring

• Coordinator between onsite and off shore team for MFC Investment division for Test Center of Excellence.
• Key person for knowledge transfer process.
• Develop point to point schedule for off shore activities.
• Assist to create the plan and execution for off shore activities.
• Carried out cultural training for onsite and off shore team.
• Clearly define the time lines for deliverables from Onsite and Offshore and communicate during the status meeting.
• Keep updated team with the feedback on deliverables and area for improvement to achieve greater and faster results.
• Set a mile stone for on the basis of your knowledge transfer process.
• Develop testing strategy for different projects and work request for off shoring initiative.

Lead Variable Annuity Hedging Asia Project

• Trade Capturing, Curve Setup, Portfolio setup, Creation and Creation of Workflow Which will get Live Feed Automatically.
• SQL, Queries Definition and Scripts Analysis from Tech Stand Point.
• Risk Engine Setup for Risk Calculation for ASIA.
• Portfolio Creation, Setting up Legal Entities and checking other Party Requirement for ASIA.
• Setup up User & giving Permission based on the Profile and Nature of Work.
• Workflow Design and creation based on the Business User Requirement.
• Worked on MDO Setup and Market Data Distributor which will help to get live feed from Kobra.
• Testing Performance of Batch and During two different Time Zones.
• Comparison and Analysis of Reports as per Business User Requirement along with Coordination with peoples at different Time Zones.

Confidential,BOSTON MAY’07-SEP ‘07
Sr Business Analyst.

• Interact with internal and external clients and corporate clients in order to obtain timely resolution of queries.
• Gathering the requirements from the business users and turn those requirements into Business Related Document and Functional Requirement Documen.
• Writing Use cases and Test Cases for InvestVal and BANQUO project.
• Identified opportunities for business process improvement, process re-engineering and initiated efforts to make improvements
• Support the DPA application and InvestVal Application. DPA consists of IRS, CDS, TRS and Futures.

Projects Handled:

• Banquo Note Price Calculation Automation
• InvestVal: InvestVal is a workflow management tool that automates many aspects of EPU Calculations and DI Valuations for Asset Management.
• Inflationary factors for Real Return Bonds for BGI: This project will enable BGI to receive daily Canadian Real Return Bond Inflationary Factor data through a secure tab-delimited FTP file.
• Hedge Fund Derivative Platform: (This Project is for BGI): BGI is one the biggest client of IBT. Aladdin is the trading system that BGI have and DPA is for IBT. This is for BGI FPML mapping project to DPA. It involves the mapping for IRS, CDS and Swaptions. It’s on initial stage and currently working with BGI for data element and field reference part also checking DPA in relation with FPML messages.
• Enhancement for DPA: The bank’s Derivative Processing Application (DPA), has modules for the processing of four derivative types: Swaps, Futures, Options, and most recently Contract for Difference (CFDs).
• Derivative Pricing Database: Derivatives pricing currently provides prices for over 12,000 derivatives among multiple clients and counterparties. The types of derivatives valued include, but are not limited to Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Swaptions, Options, Total Return Swaps and Commodity Swaps.

Confidential,Chicago SEP ‘02- mAY ‘07
Sr Business Analyst Team Lead

The project involved the development of system aimed at improving the analytical approaches for pricing, trading, hedging, risk management and performance assessment of fixed income instruments through simulations and parametric models, its specially created for BofA named as IRP ( Interest rate Products ) and Advantage ( newer version of IRP ) . The system monitored and computed duration, convexity, swap, credit and option adjusted spread of fixed income securities to guide dealers on relative value trading and portfolio allocation. The system offered scenario analysis that permitted traders and trading management to observe the effect of theoretical trades/yield curve shifts on their portfolios.The system was developed using C++ object-oriented programming methodologies within a fully distributed client / server environment. The object-oriented bi-directional API allowed users to receive data from and send data to external systems / spreadsheets in real-time. It ran on Sun Solaris platform and used Sybase as database.

• Managing Team of two associates and sixteen associates at India team with onshore and offshore model.
• Communicates and works directly with the trading desk on risk and P/L issues.
• Work closely with Technical development teams to communicate business requirements and priorities.
• Work with Executive management team to strategically manage implementation plans.
• Portfolio setup and maintenance of Accounting Rules.
• Running various reports on both a daily and monthly basis as ad hoc request.
• Interact with internal clients and corporate teams in order to obtain timely resolution of queries.
• Analyzed existing procedures and reported to management to improve productivity.
• Updating the derivatives business reports for upper management for the US D / CAD and Peso account.
• Prepare sub part of the BRD for to create a dynamic database that incorporates real time changes and created a correction probability matrix to enable internal users to reduce processing time in technical problem solving, use of the system I-CDAS for getting the information of the recent transactions of BofA with its clients. This I-CDAS is unique complicated product of BofA, which automatically update its database with ten minutes interval with Derivative Products, this product is for a part of the Settlement and Payment Clearing System.
• Assisting trade support, muni-desk, accounting department, client service department, CDS department, front office trade support for the settling the trade related issues with proper investigation with client confirmation.
• Part of special project at BA Corp for Debt Hedging Long Haul Accounting with BASEL II( under development ), under the long haul accounting methodology, the relationship between the debt and derivative instrument must be measured on a periodic basis. It also entails upfront effectiveness testing. The net of the changes in the debt and derivative will impact PNL as hedge ineffectiveness.

Projects Handled:

• Suggest to deliver reset advise to corporate counter part through java technology based trade document database called DRUM for more detail oriented database, back office management approve it and successfully handled enhancement of the project in timely manner, recent users are F/O, M/O and B/O of IRS, CDS, MBS, TRS gps, this helpful during SOX implementation process. This process falls under operational risk category under BASEL II.
• Successfully delivered TAS (Trade Amendment System), bridge between trading desk and middle office, helps F/O and M/O on required adjustment in trades, which generate electronic documents with user identification, very helpful during audit purpose, this system generated with SQL. This process falls under market risk category under BASEL II.
• Take the business needs from M/O and B/O users for system called Pre Payment Tracker (PPT), which helps to back office confirmation users to post the payment discrepancies, which are widely used by Chicago, London and Tokyo users, which reduce the emails and have database to track those issues.
• Completed special projects as requested by upper management. Assisting to manager for CPT (Cost per Trade) and Day one Nostro Break Six Sigma Project.
• Identified opportunities for business process improvement and re-engineering and initiate efforts to make improvements and one of the team members of the suggestion group for new developingCash Management Application.
• Part of test plan group for the back office new payment generation system called Meridian.

Confidential, Chicago Sep ‘01 JuL ‘02
Business Analyst.

ABN located at Madison St Chicago, and my project involved the development of system aimed at improving the analytical approaches for pricing, trading, hedging, risk management and performance assessment of fixed income instruments through simulations and parametric models

• Executed P/L analysis, Risk reconciliation and preparation, G/L reconciliation.
• Communicated and works directly with the trading desk on risk and P/L issues.
• Analyzed existing procedures and reported to management to improve productivity.
• Worked with end users to identify business requirements.
• Acted as mediating link and fulfilled roles as Customer Liaison as well as technical Liaison.
• Performed requirement sessions with Business users. Writing functional specifications.
• Identified research, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Interacted with management, system analysts and technical developers for successful completion of set project goals.
• Assisted in the creation of the annual agency guide by creating graphs, time series plots, balance sheets and trading recommendation for agencies.
• Part of the training for functional roll for developing a web based application to display the curve and to make it accessible to analysts.
• Part of the team to create a dynamic database that incorporates real time changes and created a correction probability matrix to enable internal users to reduce processing time in technical problem solving.
• Citigroup Limited, INDIA Jun ‘98 Jul ‘01

Business Analyst

To analyze and prioritize the scope of business requirement before translating the system requirement is the main goal of this group. It reports directly to FX group at Mumbai and Singapore trading desk. My task is to get business requirement from supporting groups facing to direct clients in order to seek requirement justification, make business requirements documents (BRD)and explain the requirements to the technology groups.

• Articulated business requirement for the Indian Ocean Consumer Bank FX desk enhancements and option pricing engine for FX barrier options. The enhancements were aimed at providing barrier options functionality to International personal banking (IPB) and global consumer banking (GCB) customer segments and entailed development of a new system called “Option Pricer” to provide the pricing on demand.
• Analyzed the regional requirements related to the treasury systems: Regional Citiplus (System for storing and processing Term Deposit deals), Treasury Convergence System ( System for processing FX Options), Universal Rates Server and FOX ( FX options systems)
• Provided regional support by doing gap identification and analysis, cost analysis and prepared BRD (Business Requirements Document) for the implementation of EBS (Enhanced banking system) treasury systems for consumer banking operations. EBS provides a complete suite of banking systems required to support Citibank banking operations. The initiative is aimed at system andprocess standardization and regionalization.
• Conducted the FX Margin Trading Platform evaluation study to standardize the regional Margin Trading system for the Asia Pacific region. The Task involved discussing with the business users, Citibank ITO (International technology Organization) and the external vendors to evaluate the options for meeting functional requirements, scalability, reliability and integration with existing Citibank systems.
• Identified opportunities for business process improvement through various meetings with business users and developers and initiated efforts to make improvements.
• Made presentations to business users and other stakeholders outlining system changes and expected benefits.
• Created Business flow diagrams and work flow diagrams in MS Visio.
• Acted as liaison between Information Systems group and Business User group.
• Documented test plans and test cases and established testing guidelines and procedures for unit and integration testing.