SUMMARY:

• Knowledge of capital markets including Fixed Income, OTC derivatives, MBS (Mortgage Back Securities) and Trading.
• Consultative healthcare/financial analysis and reports to corporations with 2000+ employees.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews.
• Expertise in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Non - Functional Specification Document, System Design Specification, System Use Cases, User Stories, screen mockups, and training manuals.
• Expertise in implementing Iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Scrum.
• Expertise in feasibility requirements analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation, and UML methodology.
• Experienced in creating data dictionary having the business definitions of data mapping to map the logical data elements in use cases to physical data elements (record source).
• Proficient at coordinating various technical and managerial teams to develop process and verifying adherence using the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Extensive knowledge of GAAP, financial accounting, investment banking, fixed income products and financial statements.
• Well equipped with excellent communication and organizational skills to face clients.
• Experienced in developing test plans, cases, scenarios and strategies as per the business requirements to match the functional requirements and UML diagrams

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: Rally, JIRA, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Confidential Terminal, SQL, R Programming, Tableau, Python, SAS, SnagIt, SharePoint, Team foundation server

SDLC Methodology: Agile-Scrum, Waterfall, RUP

Programming: C#, HTML, CSS, XML, Java-Script, VB Script

Web Development Tools: Visual Studio 2010 / 2012, IBM Rational Rose

Quality Assurance Tools: Test Manager, QTP, IBM Rational Functional Tester

Backend Tools: SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Access

Operating Systems: Windows XP, NT, 2003 Server, Windows 7, Windows 8

Core Competencies: Business Analysis, Analytics, Data Modelling. Corporate Finance, Financial Statement Analysis, Equity Valuation, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Financial Modelling, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Multi-Tasking.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Syracuse,New York

Business Analyst

• Conducted GAP analysis to understand AS-IS and TO-BE system.
• Gathered Business requirements to redesign and re-architecture Web based quoting engine for brokers and sales representatives, converted the same into functional requirements and authored the same in Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Used Rational Rose and UML to document requirements use cases and process flows like sequence, activity etc.
• Performed analysis on data for quality for EDI and HIPPA compliance.
• Authored Meeting Agenda and Meeting Minutes for the meetings held with the Business and the technical team.
• Provided administrative and operational support for the PMO in regards to making sure project data is easily accessible, tracking project metrics and distributing project information as needed
• Provided training to users, and involved in conducting UAT sessions to gain user confidence and approval.
• Worked closely with Senior Management to create Work-Breakdown Structure, Resource Breakdown Structure using MS Project.
• Assisted rollouts, tracked adoption and helped with production issues.
• Performed Root Cause analysis to identify and recommend test scope and test approach improvements
• Implemented ERM process framework for the organization to make sure risk are taken care of.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Conducted JAD sessions to gather Business Requirements
• Researched financial statements and order book of 200 EPC companies and prepared pitch book for the company officials
• Evaluated 300 infrastructure companies for merger, private equity and IPO based on their financial performance
• Evaluated hybrid annuity projects to find out the upcoming projects and untapped market for companies in the infrastructure segment
• Analyzed 20 private equity companies in the wind and solar sector to look for possible IPO opportunity.
• Act as business liaison to the markets group by collaborating with the analytics team to determine data and technology challenges and with Technology service providers to define and deliver appropriate solutions.
• Explored data quality of existing and future data stores through analysis of reference, quote, and trade data from vendors such as Confidential using KPI’s, scorecards and benchmarking.
• Produced requested reports and ran analytics using SAS analytics software.

Confidential

Business and Data Analyst

• Analyzed and distributed the bundled payments of pediatric and cardiologist more than $20,000 at Kohinoor Hospital
• Developed an advisory pitch for healthcare companies after analyzing industry trends, company financials, potential synergies and valuation summary using DCF approach, Market multiples and Transaction multiples.
• Created Use-Cases and Requirement Traceability matrix to organize the business needs.
• Conducted meetings and interviews with stakeholders to collect business requirements. Along with the vision document, this was used to change business requirements into system requirement specifications
• Built a PMO by creating a standard framework, processes and procedures to follow for all projects based on industry.
• High level requirements are captured and the items are tracked under JIRA, requirements tracking tool
• Created Process workflows creating an autonomous and automated analysis process.

Confidential

Business and Data Analyst

• Researched Equities and Derivatives by using technical analysis methods like oscillators, weighted averages and average directional indexes as well as fundamental analysis by analyzing the company’s financial ratios
• Designed interactive financial models in Excel using VLOOKUP, INDEX and real time data to evaluate 300 common stocks; Prepared Buy/Sell stocks suggestions reports for clients using the models.
• Analyzed the present system and performed Impact analysis
• Elicited, documented, validated and prioritized functional and non-functional requirements using interviews, JAD sessions and data analysis
• Managed Request for Proposal (RFP/RFI) documents and vendor evaluation by comparing and interviewing vendors.
• Managed User Stories, Product and Sprint backlog and created BRD and FRD using template documents.
• Created and tracked release/sprint plans with cost/resource allocations, critical path.
• Requirements were gathered through interactions and meetings and periodic walkthroughs with loan analysts, credit analysts and other potential users of the application
• Developed use cases, user stories and designed use case diagrams. Responsible for preparing Software Requirements Specification (SRS) taking functional requirements specifications as a base
• Worked on Risk Adjustment Process Improvement work flows.