SUMMARY

• A competent Business Analyst/Data Analyst with progressive experience in the financial domain with strong knowledge of Agile and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, business requirements gathering, translating requirements into technical specifications, strong problem solving & analytical skills.
• Over 10 years of IT experience as a Business Analyst and Software Developer in the Financial Industry, mainly in the banking and financial services domain.
• Specialized in developing and executing IT and business strategies in capital market, Asset management and Wealth Management, Risk management and Regulatory Reporting and compliance.
• Excellent understanding of various financial securities such as equity stocks, fixed income instruments like Mortgage - Backed securities and Asset Based securities, ETF, Mutual Funds, and derivatives including options, futures, forwards, swaps.
• Expertise with Trade activities, Trade Life Cycle, Trade exe cution, Trade Settlement, Front office, middle office and back-office operations on Equities and Fixed income Securities
• Good experience in ServiceNow Development, Maintenance, and administration.
• IT service Management (ITSM) involvement in change management, incident management.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Business Requirement Gathering, Functional specifications, verification and validation, Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies used for the design, development, user acceptance testing and maintenance of software.
• Proficient in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), Systems Requirements and Use Case Specifications.
• Expertise in producing detailed stories in JIRA, prioritizing the stories with the product owner, managing product backlog and allocation of stories to sprints based on points estimation and capacity.
• Strong experience in creating and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test plans and test cases.
• Possess exceptional interpersonal communication and organizational skills with proven abilities in cross-functional team management, customer relationship management and planning.
• Proven track record of delivering projects with aggressive timelines with limited resources.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as the sole point of contact for the stakeholders and managed deliverables within agreed timeframes and reported progress regularly to management.
• Worked extensively with Financial Advisors to acknowledge the business requirements by prototyping and meeting.
• Involved with the Scrum Master in Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming, Sizing, Sprint Retrospectives, Reviews and Daily Standups.
• Performed GAP analysis by understanding the existing system, interviewing the users, understanding business processes and the proposed application.
• Identified the Data Source and defined them to build the Data Source Views for easy access.
• Used MS Excel and SQL Server to implement data mapping, data validation, data reconciliation and data enrichment.
• Assisted Financial Advisors to conduct comprehensive reviews including asset allocation, risk management, preservation of wealth, accumulation and wealth transfer strategies.
• Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled and deliverables are produced within specified budget, quality and time.
• Created screen mock-ups and assisted the UI team in designing the UI screen layout.
• Created data flow diagrams to explain to the technical team on the business process.
• Managed Product backlog and Sprint backlog.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Consultant to Confidential, Supporting the Genesis-Data Onboarding Team, I worked closely with Offshore/Onshore Team supporting the Application in its SDLC
• Supported the application in Requirement management, understanding high level requirements and reviewing the BRD/FRD to ensure all requirements are met and submitted within timeline to meet Genesis release calendar with Genesis being one of the interfaces
• Supported the application in Pre-SIT/SIT Pre-certification process by analyzing the validation results and sending results for certification. SIT monitoring, validation and checkout, defects logging
• Supported UAT phase in monitoring, validating & manual checkout, defects logging through Jira
• Post Implementation review. Monitor process and delivery to Downstream Applications and coordinating Consumer checkout
• Analyzing data provided by Source System Olympus to LoanIQ and comparing with the flexcube data to identify and report any data quality issues
• Performed PMO activities in Program plan, milestones tracking, RAID Maintenance, Jira Management, PTS Project tracking, GPD (Genesis Portfolio Dashboard) management, weekly activities log maintenance
• Steering Key discussions through multitask stakeholders’ engagement, updating Consumers with status and coordinating Testing Sign-offs from various Consumers.

Confidential, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Order Management teams to capture requirements. Responsible for Project Management and Trading modules.
• Performed in-depth GAP analysis to understand the As-Is and To-Be business processes and functional requirements.
• Worked with Portfolio Manager, Traders, Subject matter expert (SME) to understand the business requirements, process, and workflow.
• Understood Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Wealth Management, and Sales and Marketing.
• Acquired extensive knowledge of financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)
• Designed Use case diagram, Activity diagram and workflow diagram using MS Visio to make the technical team understand the requirement and process.
• Created data mapping documents and assisted Data Modeler in resolving any issues with Data Mapping.
• Used SQL queries to retrieve and validate data from the database and ensure the quality of data received and required by the users.
• Assisted in creating Test plans and Test cases created by the QA team and performed functional testing.
• Responsible for Defect Management by tracking and reporting defects and getting them fixed.
• Traced business requirements, design specifications, and test cases using Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Oracle, UML, Windows 2010, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, SQL server

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understood the AML compliance requirements by interacting with the compliance department, and SMEs.
• Lead the team in requirement gathering and managing the requirements using JIRA, which included questionnaires, interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders, Business users, and compliance department and SMEs.
• Studied the existing KYC/CIP system and prepared the test data for the CDD and EDD based on the inputs.
• Created the data mapping from the transactional data to the Actimize tool.
• Prepared the reporting formats for the regulatory filings for internal use and helped the Actimize team to produce the SAR reports.
• Performed testing on generation of compliance reports ( SAR/ CTR ) to the regulatory agencies and internal systems.
• Understood the business logic, User requirements and test-objectives to develop test plans, test cases, and test case execution using HPQC.
• Participated in Defect-Review meetings with developers, QAs, managers and suggested enhancements to the existing application from business perspectives.
• Conducted UAT to make sure that all the user requirements are catered by the application.

Senior Business/data Analyst

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Worked on payment frauds by implementing SAM transactions management system to monitor various payments such as Swift/Wire, Faster payments, Debit Transactions, ACH/ Bulk Payments ETC.
• Worked on the various activities involving SAM implementations from IT side (e.g. sizing of currentsystem, hardware recommendations analysis, ETL changes to be made to in corporate the new.
• SAM system, educating IT team on the various activities involving SAM implementation etc.
• My engagement also involves the design recommendation of current system, headingweekly meetings with IT and support team on any Actimize issues.
• Also worked on resolving/ detecting any issues/ failures in the Actimize job and deep analysis before contacting Actimize support and resolving any issues that can be at client end.
• CDD upgrade is another project which I worked on as a BA managing the activities, documenting the various design changes to be done etc.
• Configured RCM as per user’s entitlements and authentications.
• Configuration and setting up PEP list for watch list module to screen and monitor customers who fall under any sanctions,
• Communication and interaction with IT, support and business partners for any AML relatedsupport.
• Training the IT team on various modules of SAM, CDD and Actimize in general with regards to current system and upcoming SAM-UDM and CDD upgrades.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed business area experts and documented, created UML diagrams for the requirements.
• Detailed understanding of Mortgage loan process and the documentation for the purchase, refinance and home equity loans (HELOC)
• Thoroughly understood the regulations of RESPA, TILA and HMDA and the compliances to be followed.
• Interacted with SME's to elicit business goals and defined goal-level requirements
• Created Epics, stories and Traceability Matrix (RTM) as a roadmap for the 'TO BE' system.
• Conducting JAD Sessions to resolve open issues so that the application meets the business requirements and deadlines.
• Worked with Encompass for the mortgage loan underwriting process
• Worked in a mainframe environment and used SQL to query various reporting databases.
• Worked with the MBS team on inventory reporting.
• Involved in Identifying, prioritizing and designing various test scenarios with the QAs and also facilitated the end to end UAT phase.
• Used JIRA for requirement management,lanning test p, scheduling, executing test cases, managing and tracking defects.

Confidential

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for accounts receivable, accounts payable, bookkeeping
• Responsible for preparing payroll of client’s employees
• Prepared yearly tax return for clients
• Performed journal entries of monthly bank activities and reconciliation