SUMMARY

• Business Analysis/Regulatory reporting with over 9 years of experience supporting business solution and analyzing business operations. Aiming to utilize my strong prioritization skills and analytical ability to achieve the goals of your company.
• Expertise in Business Requirement gathering, Functional requirements gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process modelling and Business Analysis.
• Extensive experience in Financial Service industry related - Credit Risk, Market Risk, Liquidity Risk.
• Expertise in Business Processes, Process Models, Flow Diagrams, Requirements Management, risk management.
• Extensive experience in Agile delivery of software using practices from Scrum, extreme Programming, etc. and Business Process Management (BPM) methodologies.
• Skilled Senior Business Analyst and Expert in Atlassian Suite of products such as JIRA, Confluence Rally.
• Expertise in gathering requirements and developing Business requirement documents(BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD).
• Expertise in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) Sessions, workshops and interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming requirement elicitation sessions.
• Demonstrated experience in UML, created use case diagrams and user stories.
• Hands on experience in software product development life cycle (SDLC) - System Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Maintenance.
• Strong experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies. In depth knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Rational Requisite Pro in all phases of a project.
• Elicitation techniques like interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming, JAD sessions, focus groups, prototyping, cost/benefit analysis and risk analysis.
• Conducted GAP analysis to capture functionalities of existing systems and analyzed requirements of the proposed system or enhancement to bridge the GAP.
• Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, MS Access, MS Visio, technical assessment tools, Data Warehousing concepts and web design and development.
• Good understanding of basic principles of financial markets and instruments (Equity Derivatives, Cash Equities (Domestic and International), Fixed Income, Mutual funds, NAV, fund accounting.
• Responsible for Performing User Acceptance Tests (UAT) by working with internal and external users/customers and obtained delivery approval for the project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/Vista

Business Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose, Requisite pro

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, T-SQL Server, MS Access

Design IDE Tools: MS Visual Studio

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, HP QC-ALM

Methodologies: RUP, UM,aGILE

Change Management: Rational Clear Quest, Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY, NY

Sr. Business Analyst / Product Owner/ Regulatory Reporting

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the end to end analysis for Regulatory Change projects i.e CFTC rules rewrite and internal Strategic Architecture implementations
• Working with FO stakeholders, Compliance, Asset Class Business Managers and Technology in order elicit requirements, offer solutions and deliver change to satisfy regulatory demand and ensure sustainable Operational Controls
• Understanding business flows where necessary in order to define an optimal and efficient business processes
• Fully documenting scope of all related business requirements, relating to each deliverable, and ensure these are understood by business and operational stakeholders and IT teams
• Providing input into the generation of test cases to support the Test strategy and also support analysis to resolve defects.
• Working closely with the Product Owners and Architecture teams to ensure all regional deliveries are consistent with the global approach.
• Working to ensure potential gaps and issues in solutions are risk assessed, and appropriate solutions/controls are defined. Working with BAU teams to ensure there is an appropriate enduring model for data ownership, exception management, and ongoing maintenance for reporting compliance
• Establish a model that ensures all artefacts and deliveries are of a consistent high quality, timely and accurate
• Ensure that artifacts are of a suitable level, cohesiveness, and availability to be available to show to auditors, regulators, and evidence of how the bank is meeting its obligations
• JIRA management in order to capture issues and implement solution. Creating EPIC, User stories and Acceptance & Testing Criteria.
• Performing UAT testing and post production checks.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Sr. Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full end to end analysis for regulatory change project such EMIR,and internal strategic architecture implementation. Understand requirement, research and perform analysis of the complex system
• Own the requirement gathering and documentation of all related business requirement relating to each deliverable i.e BRD, Test Plan,Use Case, Wire frames, Test strategy document & UAT Test Plans, Data flow diagram, Business process diagrams.
• JIRA management in order to capture issues and implement solution. Creating EPIC, User stories and Acceptance & Testing Criteria.
• Performing UAT testing and post production checks
• Worked on Gathering requirements by interacting with business users (SME's like brokers, financial analysts, mutual fund heads) understanding their business processes, understanding their current IT architecture.
• Conducted user interviews, facilitated Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) to reduce the Scope Creep and document analysis in requirements elicitation.
• Worked with other line of business on initiative of identifying, researching, and rectifying gaps and discrepancies in Regulatory Reporting regulatory reporting application Axiom.
• Created suite of excel models used monthly for analysis and verification of Basel II results in Production environment.
• Assisted in development of business plans to support the CCAR process and stress testing requirements while working with the business to assess and challenge the assumptions and forecasting approach.
• Worked closely with business unit, government agencies, and compliance department to screen existing clients and analyze the risk of new clients.
• Created the SQL scripts for demonstrating the prototypes and for verifying the result sets.
• Conducted and participated in walkthroughs to discuss certain issues with the development, design team and QA team.
• Prepared FRDs that help drive the design of the infrastructure necessary for the organization to meet new CCAR reporting requirements.
• Developed MS Access models to track the monthly accounting balances, compute lease payoffs and track the details of accounts within the leasing department.
• Constructed templates and manual process for quantitative Basel II disclosure tables.
• Worked with finance and directors on brokers/agencies not in compliance to determine if commissions should be held.
• Communicated client’s business requirements easy-to-understand data and process models.
• Provided input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications.
• Created and maintained Business Use cases and System Use cases, Use Case diagrams, Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams throughout the SDLC.
• Provided updates, status reports regarding assigned tasks and other compliance matters.
• Built scoring logic / engines to support audit workflow from engagement creation to completion.
• Responsible for data mapping of feeds from several reference data systems, including Bloomberg, to several in-house applications.
• Created and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace technical requirements to their business requirements and the test case to their functional requirements.

Confidential, Whippany NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements for regulatory change project and internal strategic architecture implementation. Understand requirement, research and perform analysis of the complex system requirement/capabilities and provide solutions.
• Strong project coordination skills with Front office, Stakeholders, Compliance, Asset Class Business Managers, Project Managers & Tech Business partners in order to elicit requirement, Offer solutions & deliver change to satisfy regulatory demand & ensure sustainable operational controls.
• Worked on Part 43 real-time reporting and Part 45 transaction and valuation reporting to DTCC Data Repository (U.S.) LLC (DDR)
• Own the requirement gathering and documentation of all related business requirement relating to each deliverable.
• Ensure quality deliverable for projects- Requirement gathering, functional specification, functional test cases and user document.
• Conduct external and internal client prospects and client interview to gather business requirement and convert these to necessary documentation for development teams.
• JIRA management in order to capture issues and implement solution
• Providing input into the generation of test cases to support the test strategy and support any analysis to resolve defect.
• Hands-on experience with technology required to document business analysis artifacts such as process flow diagrams, data modeling tools and query tools.
• Performing UAT testing and post production checks from Business side.
• Managing BAU deliverable on regulatory reporting for EMIR
• Worked on various projects for HKMA and MIFID regulation.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Effectively translated high-level business requirements into detailed functional Specifications and made changes to the specifications accordingly.
• Coordinated with the Technology team to provide a solution as per the Business Needs and drafted test cases and coordinated testing progress using Mercury Quality Center.
• Used Share point to share information, schedule meetings, and organize files, create/modify/delete use cases and to coordinate with stakeholders.
• Involved in creating and updating functional specifications to document existing functionality of the application.
• Worked with the project managers by contributing effective solutions and performed business and system level analysis, and provided documentation for deliverables.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Stakeholders, and User Interface Leads, QA analysts to discuss issues and to resolve them.
• Provided suggestions to User Interface Leads on converting the use cases into Wire frames and facilitated the UAT team during test script preparation to clarify application functionality.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects through complete life cycle from requirements to implementation.
• Computing resource requirements and planning for smooth go live of the process
• Did an initial UAT testing of the client system and highlighted various gaps to initiate rectification of the system
• Interpreting CSA ISDA docs for key information and feeding the same into the client system for FX, OTC and
• Cross product, post which exposure and margin calls are made with this information
• Liaising with Credit risk team, Business representatives, legal for language queries.
• Resolving queries raised by Margin managers & Disputes team
• Currently working on UN-cleared margin Regulation I.e. Margin Requirements for Non-centrally cleared
• Derivatives
• Extending training to team members in preparation for uncleared margin regulation by EMIR/CFTC.
• Documented system functionality through abstract UML artifacts (e.g. domain/object models, use case diagrams, state charts, etc).
• Communicated the capabilities of the product suite to development engineers, test analysts, technical writers, trainers and other staffs.
• Coordinated with user group for the User Acceptance Testing and wrote test plans, test scripts and test scenarios.
• Participated in software design reviews, testing, configuration control, and reporting and planned and executed functional test cycles using manual and automated testing techniques.
• Conducted the full life cycle testing including system, regression, integration and post implementation testing.
• Managed the submittal of necessary documents concerning real property management, operations, maintenance, and capital improvement projects.
• Responsible for all pre-and post-go live business requirements and proper documentation. Managed project list of IT department to prioritize deliverables. Set up and reviewed testing, training and documentation on all modifications and enhancement.
• Identifying entity types and then assigning attributes to those entities (Data Modeling)