SUMMARY

• Over 12+ years of professional experience as a Business analyst in Implementation/Design, analysis/ Development, Data Modelling and managing the projects in the Investment Banking, Finance domain including Capital Markets, Trading, Equities, Fixed Income.
• Core experience in Implementation/Design, analysis/ Development, Data modelling and managing the projects in Banking, Financing Services and Capital market Domains.
• Proficient and experienced in Requirement Management (Elicitation, Requirement Tracing, Analysis & Design and approvals etc.), Stakeholder Management, Release Management
• Ability to interview Business stakeholders to fully understand the business needs in order to create Business Requirements (BRDs), Functional Specifications (FRS), Wireframes Design, Business & Systems Process Flow Diagrams, and document Business Rules.
• Thorough understanding and hands - on experience on trading system and trade life cycle-trading order initiation, pre-trade compliance checking, trade execution, clearing, settlement, settlement position reporting, SWIFT, position risk reporting custody and client reporting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Lean, Waterfall, Iterative, Spiral, DevOps, Agile Frameworks Scrum, Kanban, Six Sigma

Languages & Scripting: C#, CSS, Java Script, JQu ry, XML, XSL, HM, XSLT

Frameworks: ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, WPF, WCF, Windows & Web Services.

Financial Skills: Cash Equities, Bonds, Money Market, Trade Life Cycle, Data, Reconciliation, Derivative (Future Options)SWAP (IRS, CDS, FOREX, Currency & Equity), Nostros, Risk management & Regulations, Corporate action, Trade Life Cycle,Reconciliation. Capital Market, Asset & Wealth Management and Investment Banking

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MS Access

Reporting Tools: Crystal reports, Excel, SSRS

Development Tools: Visual Studio, MS Project.

Requirements Management: Requisite Pro, DOORS, Confidential ClearCase, Lotus Notes

Analytics Tools: Zoho Analytics, Grow, Clear Analytics, SAP BI, MicroStrategy, Confidential Cognos Analytics

Project Management & Product Owner: Project Planning & Execution, Time-Cost & Quality management Life Cycle and Scope Management, Stakeholder Management ROI, Resources, Integration, Change Control & Governance. Data analytics, data modelling, financial system reporting, and project management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr Capital Market Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Road Map, Planning and monitoring, Requirement Gathering for Corporate action and Securities borrowing and Lending world.
• Support execution of financing strategies for debt and equity transactions based on financing plan, the company’s financial performance, capital markets environment, and other relevant considerations
• Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories.
• Articulated product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams.
• Responsible for timely delivery. Defining test approach for user stories, handled team support issues.
• Validating the sprint delivery, scrum team on functional domain, BRD, FRD.
• Created & delivered swap presentations to give to customers contemplating entering into an interest rate derivative to educate the customer on derivatives & their particular deal.
• Product handled as Securities borrowing and lending with Asset Management and wealth Management.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst / Capital Market

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering, Analysis, specification and validation for SDLC and Project Management Lifecycle (PMLC).
• Served as a liaison between business team and the project team by assisting the business in identifying, understanding, and documenting their business needs.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Developed relationships with commercial lenders and portfolio managers to educate, quote, and sell derivative hedging solutions.
• Assist with and ensure successful quarterly and year end audits directly with stakeholders for requirements gathering and developing various decision-making Dashboards.
• Gathered business, system, and functional requirements by conducting detailed interviews with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts SME’s.
• Identified and developed Use Cases from the business and systems requirements and documented high level and detailed Use Cases to include all the functionalities of the new system.
• Gathered the functional and business requirements by conducting JAD sessions and participatory Design Sessions involving major leads from the Technical Department and Used JIRA to track bugs and issues and complete functional tasks.
• Optimized stored procedures in to extract, transform and load to ensure reporting infrastructure was maintained according to current service level agreements

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/ Capital Markets

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the full project lifecycle phases including requirements gatherings, development and quality assurance develop functional test plans, execute and review results of test plans to ensure the system meets user community requirements.
• Provide analytical and modeling support for pricing and trading of mortgage securities - Including maintaining and improving existing models as well as developing newer financial models for further support and new projects
• Involved in various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Assisted users during User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in highlighting the key problem areas to be addressed with Risk Analysis and accurately documenting the potential risks with respect to different time frames.
• Created and maintained the process documents for the project to be used for collaboration with developers, project manager on SharePoint.
• Proficient use of SQL (Teradata) to manipulate and analyse large volumes of data for key reporting and analytics projects. Data warehouse Project end to end implementation.
• Worked on advanced technologies such as SQL Programming, SSRS (SQL Server reporting system)
• Ensured (using SCRUM and AGILE) appropriate, complete and timely team of all documentation, tracking and reporting metrics.

Confidential, BLOOMINGTON, MN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Applied Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodologies to design Communication Diagram, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagram and ER diagrams.
• Worked on JIRA and Confluence for User stories and document management.
• Coordinated and tracked project releases and progress using Jira.
• Performed Unit and Integration testing with the development team as well as with user.
• Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing of the application using QTP, Quality Center and Jira.
• Assisted with user testing of systems (User Acceptance Testing) developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.