SUMMARY

• 21 years of experience in Banking and Financial services industry serving major clients like Confidential.
• Extensive experience in analyzing and documenting business requirements and functional/non - functional specifications
• Extensive work experience in AGILE, RUP, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Deep understanding of the securities lending agency and dynamic margining business working with Risk and Operations.
• Skilled in validation and testing complex scenarios for the maintenance of Quality Standards in projects
• Lead and coordinated full QA process lifecycle for QA Integration, UAT and regression testing activities
• Extensively used Requirements Traceability Matrix to track requirements during QA testing phase
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with stake holders and system users to uncover the latent defects in the system.
• Supporting Fixed Income applications involving backoffice clearing and settlement systems for most of the fixed income derivatives, such as Repo's, Tri-Party, Buy-Sell Back, Options, Cash, Govies, Futures, Forwards, RMBS, CMBS, Structured Products.
• Heavily involved in testing Fixed Income applications writing test cases, test plan and deployment and process models around the test cases for UAT and implementation procedural guides for user references.
• Constantly innovate and improve infrastructure for improving efficiency in execution of operational activities.
• Experience in handling UAT plan and procedures and reporting status updates during the process of UAT to the participants involved across various teams. Experience working on global applications using good presentation skills, tools and diplomatically well-versed to work in a diverse cultured environment managing teams with diplomacy.
• Escalate the risk and key issues to global product heads for resolutions and updating various businesses and IT heads globally of these updates. Work with Infrastructure management US, Europe to set global standards, controls, and best practices for production environment.
• Familiar with IMPACT and FinancePro for fixed income (Cash, Govies, and Repo) trading and processing, clearing and settlement, account & finance books GL.
• Handling Securities lending Agency and Margining business for Custody and Broker clients using tools like Syncova and sourcing information from Global One and Loanet.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst - Securities Lending

Responsibilities:

• Handling various requests of Front Office Risk teams for various initiatives towards collateral management and collateral validation, margin allocation, risk workflow process using Advent - Syncova.
• Deep understanding of the securities lending agency and dynamic margining business working with Risk and Operations handling multiple Tri-party Agency and Bi-party Agency business using Advent Syncova.
• Working closely with Global Treasury, Business services globally and FED / Legal department and supporting IT program management, business analysis newer initiatives.
• Gathering and managing market data for all the offices USA, EMEA and APAC . Interacting with Front-Office and Mid-Office - Regulators, Finance desk on a daily basis.
• Handling reference data (instrument static, market data, Bloomberg prices) for all asset classes and schedules that helps Risk credit, liquidity, and capital verification process from back office operations prospective.
• Partner with the business and IT colleagues to develop longer term Financial Reporting solutions. Build and manage synergistic relationships with relevant business partners.
• Closely handling data requests on a daily basis working on IT end to create a robust business process to streamline third party Ratings, Exposure data and vet it with market indicators to drive IT.
• Expert in ADVENT SYNCOVA - handling collateral validation and collateral management business for Tri-party and Bi-party business.

Confidential

Senior Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with all LOB’s to facilitate Risk based LCR and 4G architecture to meet FED guidelines for US, Europe and APAC.
• Managing Collateral data specific to REVERSE REPO, REPO, REPO BUY SELL BACKS, EXCESS PLEDGES and REPO MARGIN for supplemental and collateral schedules for Regulatory Reporting.
• Handling all upstream feeds and business processes to make sure the available collateral coverage for various products across all business services is correctly calculated for risk coverage from BASEL III guidelines.
• Process and estimate new client requests, prepare proposals, determine implementation schedules, translate strategies into action plans.
• Monitored version control and defect tracking activities using HP Mercury, Documentum and SharePoint.
• Created and managed project templates, use case templates, requirement types, and traceability matrix.
• Generated regression and functional test cases in accordance to the Test Approach Document.
• My role is to lead business operations and IT team on large, multi-functional efforts and work in a matrix reporting environment.
• Working as a liaison between Compliance, Front Office users, Securities Operations, Treasury and the senior management to deliver timely requirements and detailed analysis of the various project timelines, scope.
• Partner with the business and IT colleagues to develop longer term Financial Reporting solutions. Build and manage synergistic relationships with relevant business partners.
• Interacting with BackOffice and Operations and Development on a phase by phase basis of the project to make sure the deliverables are met and the project changes are being tested from a functional prospective throughout the product life cycle.
• Responsible overall for operations for back office operations and IT management and budgeting.
• Managing SQL in various databases for reporting, data mining, data capture and various user ad-hoc requests from time to time during the complete SDLC lifecycle of the project.

Confidential, NJ

Senior Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engaging Front office trade flow to back office operations on a timely basis throughout the scope of the various projects.
• Process and estimate new client requests, prepare proposals, determine implementation schedules, translate strategies into action plans.
• Managing projects specific to Fixed Income REPO, CASH business from an IT and Ops prospective.
• My role is to lead business operations and IT team on large, multi-functional efforts and work in a matrix reporting environment.
• Managing Compliance initiatives like Dodd-Frank, Large Trader, FATCA and others from a BA/PM/PMO prospective.
• Maintaining and updating process flows and documentation (BRD, FSD, and mapping documents) in accordance with the changing SOA standards.
• Working as a liaison between Compliance, Front Office users, Securities Operations, Treasury and the senior management to deliver timely requirements and detailed analysis of the various project timelines, scope.
• Managing SQL in various databases for reporting, data mining, data capture and various user ad-hoc requests from time to time during the complete SDLC lifecycle of the project.

Confidential, NJ

Senior Lead Business Analyst - FI, EQ and Asset Management

Responsibilities:

• Engaging Front office trade flow to back office operations on a timely basis throughout the scope of the various projects.
• Process and estimate new client requests, prepare proposals, determine implementation schedules, translate strategies into action plans. My role is to lead business operations and IT team on large, multi-functional efforts and work in a matrix reporting environment.
• Managing projects specific to Fixed Income REPO, CASH business from an IT and Ops prospective.
• Creating Current and Future state diagrams and process flows, BRD, FSD and mapping documents for business and supporting technology teams.
• Being a liaison supplying business knowledge and functional recommendations and evaluation input to technology development teams.
• Providing functional support and guidance to developers, collaborating to satisfy the technical vision while balancing functional usability needs like JAD sessions, User design reviews and UAT procedural guide
• Assisting and managing supervisory approved training programs for the growth of IT teams to synergize the bridge of knowledge from business end.
• Handling product controller related IMPACT based VAR features and VAR reports for P and I calculations using Rate and Factor changes for various kinds of Fixed Income products.
• Using IMPACT and feeding information from a Sec ops prospective and sending confirms and prospectus based daily, monthly statements or reports to RISK IT and other downstream systems.
• Working as a liaison between Compliance, Front Office users, Securities Operations, Treasury and the senior management to deliver timely requirements and detailed analysis of the various project timelines, scope.
• Partner with the business and IT colleagues to develop longer term Financial Reporting solutions. Build and manage synergistic relationships with relevant business partners.
• Interacting with BackOffice and Operations and Development on a phase by phase basis of the project to make sure the deliverables are met and the project changes are being tested from a functional prospective throughout the product life cycle.
• Managing SQL in various databases for reporting, data mining, data capture and various user ad-hoc requests from time to time during the complete SDLC lifecycle of the project.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Product Controller & Sr. Business Analyst Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engaging Front office trade flow to back office operations on a timely basis throughout the scope of the various projects.
• Working with the Fixed Income Product Controllers gathering requirements for daily and monthly reporting purposes.
• Develop high level Business Requirements Document and Functional specification documents for all the enhancements or changes on the REPO desk.
• Defining and co-ordination timelines and scope project plans for REPO and MBS desk. Being a liaison between the Finance team and the senior technology managers to deliver timely requirements and detailed analysis. Managing SQL in various databases for reporting, data mining, data capture and various user ad-hoc requests from time to time during the complete SDLC lifecycle of the project.
• Handling reference data for various fixed income products for price verification process from back office operations prospective.
• Managing SQL in various databases for reporting, data mining, data capture and various user ad-hoc requests from time to time during the complete SDLC lifecycle of the project.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engaging Front office trade flow to back office operations on a timely basis throughout the scope of the various projects.
• Leading all IT and business operations initiatives on the trading floor reporting to the Mid office MD managing Management Reporting, Fund Accounting, Market Data, Back Office Operations, Production Support and newer business initiatives for Front Office Traders and Mid Office Operations Support teams.
• Delivering Projects quickly analyzing some of the Fixed Income business of Confidential ’s Fixed Income division handling the US Treasuries and Govies desk covering CASH and REPO desk business requirements, doing UAT/Regression.
• Handling the steps in the life cycle of the project from trade entry through clearing and settlement to the BackOffice IMPACT system (ADP/ICI). Interfacing with client counterparts to determine custom reporting requirements and with internal developers/analysts.
• Gathering and managing market data for all the offices USA, UK and TOKYO . Interacting with Front-Office and Mid-Office on a daily basis.
• Handling reference data for various fixed income products for price verification process from back office operations prospective.
• Partner with the business and IT colleagues to develop longer term Financial Reporting solutions. Build and manage synergistic relationships with relevant business partners.
• Managing SQL in various databases for reporting, data mining, data capture and various user ad-hoc requests from time to time during the complete SDLC lifecycle of the project.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Product Manager, Prime Brokerage/Wealth Management

Responsibilities:

• IMD billing system is primarily responsible for handling the fee calculation for Private Wealth Management Clients of Confidential . The Fees charged to the client is based on the value of asset s managed. Private Wealth Management Customer representatives use the system.
• Interacting with Front-Office and Mid-Office on a daily basis.
• Interacting with BackOffice and Operations and Development on a phase by phase basis of the project to make sure the deliverables are met and the project changes are being tested from a functional prospective throughout the product life cycle.
• Excellent team leader managing people and resources strategically always sharing knowledge and ideas and participating in every aspect of the project from design or gathering business requirements to debugging.
• Managing SQL in various databases for reporting, data mining, data capture and various user ad-hoc requests from time to time during the complete SDLC lifecycle of the project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SOFTWARE PACKAGES/SKILLS DATABASES/RDBMS: Ms-Office (Excel, Word, Visio, Projects, PowerPoint), Business Objects, Use Cases, Bloomberg, SYBASE, ORACLE (PL/SQL), MS-ACCESS, SQL-SERVER, ICI/ADP (IMPACT), FinancePro, PeopleSoft, Business Objects, COGNOS, ADVENT-Syncova.

BUSINESS AREAS: CREDIT, LIQUIDITY, MARKET RISK MANAGEMENT AND ANAYTICS, FIXED INCOME, WEALTH MANAGEMENT, EQUITIES, LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE, REGULATORY, BASEL III, SECURITIES LENDING - DYNAMIC MARGINING, COLLATERAL MANAGEMENT, COLLATERAL VALIDATION.