PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of proactive IT experience as a Business/Systems Analyst with Finance and Investment Banking exposure, with emphasis on various banking and regulatory Compliances, such as AML, KYC, BSA and Trading in Retail.
• High Level of Expertise in the Financial Industry; Capital Markets, Equities, Risk, Fixed Income, Trading Systems, Trade Life Cycle & Surveillance, Derivatives and Banking (Retail, Private, and Investment).
• Excellent Financial Product knowledge in Equity; Fixed Income (CDs, Treasury Bonds, Corporate Bond, Municipal Bond, Money Market, Repo, and Eurobonds); Structured securities, Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options, SWAP (interest rate swap, currency swap, Swaptions), Credit Derivatives - CDS, CDOs, CLNs, variable rate securities, Loans, Risk, AML & KYC, Dodd-Frank/Volker Rules, and Basel II/III, MIFID I/II, CCAR.
• Highly experienced in Designing process modeling (UML) using Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Data Modeling.
• Solid experience in creating Wireframes, Storyboards, and User flows, Process flows and Site maps.
• Extensive knowledge of Agile Scrum, Waterfall, and Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodologies with expertise working with tools such as Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, Erwin Data Modeler, and Mercury Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in developing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), and a System Requirements Specification (SRS) with detailed knowledge of functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Proficient in Requirements Analysis working with techniques such as User Stories, Use Cases, Prototypes, Interviews, and Storyboards with a Strong Ability to facilitate JAD sessions, conduct UAT, GAP analysis and ROI analysis.
• Extensive experience in developing system flows, processes and tools required to manage software development projects and software rollouts, for a large-scale financial companies.
• Well versed in conducting GAP Analysis between the “As-Is” and the “To-Be” system. Performing SWOT Analysis, ROI and Cost-Benefit Analysis during project inception phase.
• Expertise in Business Intelligence, Business Process Engineering, Business Automation, Compliance Implementation and Enterprise Modeling.
• High level of expertise working with Data Warehouse, Data Mining, and ETL tools for loading high volumes of data and a smooth structural flow of the data.
• Expert in writing queries using the SQL Server to perform data analysis.
• Extensive knowledge in Data Mapping, Data Modeling, Star/Snowflake Schemas, OLTP/OLAP, and designing E-R Models; Worked with Erwin for Conceptual, Logical, and Physical designs.
• Experience in developing Test Documents, Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts while executing manually.
• Involved in maintaining Test Matrix, Traceability Matrix, and implementing Unit Testing.
• Ability to manage workload within time sensitive deadlines in addition to handling multiple projects or tasks under minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to present solutions that address requirements and mitigate risk.
• Skilled in team building, conflict resolution & escalation awareness.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Business Analyst/ KYC Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the Liaison between Line of Businesses (LOBs), Technology Partners (Source Applications) and implementation team.
• Conducted JAD sessions with business and other Tech partners.
• Conducted meetings with business to gather the business requirements, review the requirements, understood the system and workflow and converted those requirements into functional requirements.
• Chaired and attended day to day project meetings to discuss the outcome of implementation processes, testing efforts, time lines etc. Wrote and distributed meeting minutes.
• Communicated the status of project to different line of businesses and teams.
• Lead the team in IST Testing, Defect Remediation and Solution Delivery.
• Proactively monitored project, identified scope/requirement changes. Identified project impact and escalated/notified management and project team as necessary.
• Involved in data mapping and data validation and created various data mapping documents.
• Functional requirement document’s approval and signoff taken from business and other lines of businesses.
• Conducted extensive analysis of KYC data to understand the attributes, schemas and data structures.
• Maintained and created Enterprise wide test cases for Subject Matter Expert Testing, Oracle Mantas testing and Integrated Systems Testing (IST).
• Lead both on shore and Offshore teams to deliver Business solutions in a timely and efficient Manner.
• Worked closely with development and QA teams to ensure the understanding of requirements and implementation meets business expectations.
• Conducted Data analysis of customers by using QlikView and excel reports.
• Identification, logging and provide resolution of defects in ALM. Added value by anticipating needs and potential weaknesses and risks.

Environment: QlikView, SQL server, Jira, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), MS Access, MS Excel, MS Visio, Linux, Toad for Oracle 10.6, Toad for Oracle 12.7, Filezilla, Putty, Oracle Mantas, SharePoint 10.1

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

Sr. Business System Analyst

• Interaction with business partners and client to understand the problem statement, client business process and together forming the requirement and the functional specifications
• Analyze the Business requirement & solution from perspective of implementation to suggesting appropriate as well as technology-based solutions for enhancing functional efficiency of the organization and achieving business excellence.
• Preparing Business Requirement Documents, Functional Requirement Specification Document
• Conducting JAD sessions involving all the stakeholders and discuss the design solution and implementation based on the BRD and FRD
• Prepare the high level design document to specify and document the design to be implemented(HLD- High level design document)
• Reviewing all the documents with stakeholders to take their signoffs before moving to the implementation phase
• Handling various technical aspects like project documentation, system design, API design and integration, monitoring critical paths and taking appropriate actions.
• Creating SAD & related design documents
• Breaking the application into modules and create the project plan
• Preparing test data, test cases for internal unit/integration testing
• Planning and Designing test plans and ensuring that business requirements and functional specifications are fulfilled
• Extending post-implementation and maintenance support to technical support team and client.
• Coordinating with the engineering team to resolve the environmental issues (if any).
• Preparing the project estimates or SWAG bases on the requirement and design complexity
• Working close with PMO team to present, justify and negotiate the estimate with business stakeholders
• Maintaining all the project documents and updating them regularly with the new updates and enhancements in the application.
• Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines.

Environment: C#.NET, SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, HTML 5, CSS, AJAX, JQUERY, JSON, XML,JavaScript, Fiddler, DB2, HP Quality Centre, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Word, SharePoint, Adobe Photoshop

Confidential

Sr. Business System Analyst

• Conducted market research and analysis in Capital Markets consisting of Stock Market and Bond Market
• Discussed with SMEs across different businesses units to gain solid knowledge of the existing Credit Risk Calculation System and Trade Surveillance and assisted in preparing an advanced Risk Assessment and ROI Management
• Prepared for GAP Analysis and identified and documented improving areas to meet capital requirement regulations along with As-Is/To-Be process
• Facilitated in front of stake holders and project managers and explained them about the project in scope and out of scope.
• Analyzed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).
• Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, corporate actions, Brokerage and Trading Model within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.
• Co-ordinated with the SME, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering requirements and data transaction information related to Capital Markets - Online Brokerage, IVR trading, Conventional Brokerage, Orders, Trades Executed and SPS Orders for reinvestment agreement to write global specs.
• Extensively worked with financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)
• Followed the UML based methods to develop Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Involved in the structuring of the database by implementing a Star/Snowflake Schema, and designing ER diagrams, both logical and Physical, in addition to identifying the required dimensions and facts using Erwin Data Modeler and MS SQL.
• Created UAT plans with several test cases for each project to ensure that the system runs smoothly after the proposed enhancements or changes have been made.
• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing.
• Analyzed and determined information needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, data flow and storage requirements, and data output and reporting capabilities.
• Generated ad-hoc SQL queries using joins, database connections and transformation rules to fetch data from the SQL Server database systems
• Performed Data Analysis using the SQL server in addition to implementing ETL with direct correlation to the Data Warehouse and Data Marts.
• Verified the Business Scenarios on new builds to allow extended testing by the QA team.
• .Core responsibility involved facilitating manually testing during the User Acceptance Test (UAT)
• Provided analytical support in the Design, Development and Implementation of Project.
• Facilitated training workshops to ensure user acceptability.

Environment: Actimize, Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest), RUP, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, C#.Net, Web Logic, IPFR Services, HTML, UNIX, XML, DreamWeaver, Data Warehouse, Erwin, Adobe Photoshop, Windows Forms, Web Forms, DOORS, Project Management, JIRA.

Confidential 

System Analyst

• Analysis / documentation of JCL & COBOL codes in existing system for PeopleSoft team.
• KM representative: Initiatives for effective knowledge related activities within team.
• Requirement Analysis: This involves understanding the requirements, analyzing the elements that require changes and creating unit test cases/test data for the deliverables.
• Coding: This comprises incorporating new functionality to the system by making code changes to the existing programs or to give permanent fix to an existing bug.
• Documentation and process/data flow preparation in VISIO-2000.
• QC activity: MCR, UTC & Code Review and Unit Testing.