SUMMARY

• 8 years’ experience in Business Analysis and Financial Analysis with Capital markets/Treasury
• Robust experience with investment strategies and trading systems and project management Project Management and Business Analysis:
• Expertise in facilitating and conducting Client Workshops and Requirements Elicitation Sessions with various stakeholders to help determine solutions to business problems
• Proficient in obtaining consensus and sign - offs on Business Requirements and documenting requirements to produce deliverables such as Business Requirements Document (BRD), System Requirement Specifications (SRS), business modeling diagrams (UML) and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Assisted Quality Analyst team in creating Master Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Cases for System Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing Expertise in employing SDLC methodologies such as Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, and UML (Use Case Diagrams, Activity, Sequence, and Class Diagrams) and proficient in working with data management team for data mapping and referencing in PL/SQL environment
• Sound Experience in GAP Analysis through Swim lane diagrammatic representation by identifying existing technologies and documenting the future enhancements to meet the end state system requirements and further analyze them and aid in the new Business process modelling(BPO)
• Ability to understand Data objects and the relationships to understand and contribute towards risk and compliance data record keeping using RSA Archer Solutions
• Strong knowledge and experience with trading and analysis of fixed income securities (Bonds, ABS, MBS, CMOs, and CDOs), equities, derivatives (futures, options, forwards, exotic options, swaps, interest rate derivatives and and FIX messaging structures, and integration of market data feeds such as Bloomberg and Reuters, understanding trade life cycle and custodial banking
• On the job working experience on options pricing models (such as Black-Scholes, Binomial)
• Good understanding of risk analytics (VaR using Monte-Carlo simulations, historical and variance-covariance methods), in terms of holdings, hedging, contributing risk variables and metrics towards portfolio management (such as beta, liquidity risk, market exposure risk, re-investment risk, systematic and unsystematic risk, country risk, etc.), including a firm grounding on compliances (BASEL III, FINRA, CCAR, Patriot act, AML, Volcker Rule, SOC 2) needed for GRC conformity and IT risk and compliance
• Holistic understanding and experience in capital markets niches(Advisory, Capital raising, Risk management, Global trade and banking)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista,Linux,UNIX

Programming Languages: C/C++, Macro Assembler, Embedded C, Visual Basic

Tools: MS Word, MS PowerPoint,MS Access, JIRA,MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, Thunderhead, TOAD, RSA Archer solutions

Financial Software Tools: Reuters 3000 Xtra, Bloomberg

Analytical Softwares: MatLAB, Stat graphics

Database: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, Sybase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acting as an implementation specialist for projects taking end to end ownership of business analysis, Project management and Functional testing activities for the projects assigned.
• Exhibited Stakeholder management skills and ensure timely progress of the projects and at times assisting development team clear any issues, bottlenecks etc.
• Exhibited working knowledge of SWIFT MT54X (MT540, MT541, MT542 and MT543), MT54Y (MT544, MT545, MT546, MT547), used for securities settlement.
• Domain expertise in custodial services, particularly in Securities Settlement.
• Very good working knowledge of various messaging Standards including SWIFT, FIX, XML
• Very good working knowledge of asset classes like Equities, Fixed income (And Variants), FX, Repos and their functionalities.
• Good working knowledge of MS Office, MS Visio
• Solid understanding trade life cycle and its nuances with custodial banking and investment banking
• Worked with market data feeds (from Reuters, Bloomberg) for reference data and market data and mapped them to the tender tracking database for pricing information
• Exhibited a Proactive and target driven approach in achieving successful implementation of projects within defined timelines.
• Working knowledge of SFTP, Secure transport, Secure Email modes of communication establishing bridge between Confidential and Client

Environment: s: Waterfall, MS Visio, UNIX, J2EE, E SQL, HTML Bloomberg, FIX, Quick Test Pro, MS Office, Visio

Confidential, NY

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as primary point-of-contact between the client and the technology team, gathered requirements from various users such as Portfolio Manager, Traders and SMEs, analyzed and evaluated these requirements to develop solutions also forming a liaison between treasury and technical team
• Facilitated Project Management activities to achieve project milestones such as developing project initiation document, identifying project deliverables, estimating time and cost, resource allocation risk plan
• Worked on a cross asset front to back solution with personalized reporting for trading with emphasis on risk management and performing gap analysis, risk analysis and IT risk auditing and other GRC needs using RSA Archer 5.5
• Conducted requirement elicitation sessions to gather user requirements and was responsible for design, development and ownership of BRD; translated requirements to the system specification document
• Identified security incidents; failed or deficient internal controls; and exceptions that require attention or escalation and solved them within stipulated time frames with RSA Archer Issues Management plug in
• Executed financial analysis using Solver; what-if analysis, macros, pivot tables & charts using MS Excel
• Worked with database designers in data modeling and constructing ER Diagrams, by continuous involvement in transition from business data to database models.
• Created data mapping document by mapping data fields for defining data flow between data source and target along with business rules and assisted development team
• Documented external regulatory obligations and help establish a systematic review and approval process for tracking changes to those obligations, understanding the business impact, and prioritizing a response with RSA Archer 5.5
• Worked with the QA team in developing project test plan and test cases for conducting Black-box testing, functional testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing, performance testing, load testing, and sanity testing
• Managed defect tracking life cycle by identifying defects, classifying defects (severity and priority), logging defects, generating summary reports to ensure quality software
• Created and maintained several Use cases with IT risk and compliances with their corresponding dependencies to solve using RSA Archer GRC Controls Monitoring

Environment: s: Waterfall, MS Visio, UNIX, Java, J2EE, .Net, HTML, Oracle 9i, MS Access, TOAD, MS Project, Bloomberg, Quick Test Pro, RSA Archer solutions, MS Office

Confidential, MD

Senior Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited Business Requirements from users (Clients) based out of diverse locations in the US and Europe and documented those in Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Managed the project using Agile(Scrum) methodology planning meetings which includes task and stories estimation, determining the release candidate, tracking the development, weekly departmental meeting for interconnected middle office and front office systems.
• Assimilating and help solve the daily open incidents from the dashboard and ability to classify events into critical and non-critical risks using RSA Archer GRC 5.2
• Creating meta data logs to check the risks that could potentially affect the existing architecture and linking them efficiently to the organization’s risk register using RSA Archer GRC 5.2
• Defined program and project goals, objectives, products, services, constraints, assumptions, risks and facilitated processes by working with the project team, sponsor, and stakeholders to baseline the scope of the work and enable development of the overall plan with due diligence to GRC configuration
• Managed to effectively link and conclude on various data objects for several incidents and documented how the incidents can potential impact a variety of risks and compliance controls within the organization using RSA Archer GRC Platform
• Acted as the central Point of Contact between business users and various third parties to manage the requirements phase progress and to obtain closure on all pending issues
• Conducted intensive Gap-Analysis to ensure the gaps were documented and tracked for future releases
• Helped build the Graphical User Interface of the system working with UI interface designers
• Assisted in the documentation of SOC2 compliance as a part of technical audit
• Acted as the key central liaison between the business owners and development team - to manage the Analysis phase progress and to obtain closure on all pending issues
• Owned the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) as the single point of contact throughout the Project Lifecycle and worked on MS Project (Gantt Chart) to schedule and track the activities
• Liaised with QA and Tech Leads during the testing phase of the project; all defects were routed and verified through me before those were re-assigned to the developer
• Reviewed the test cases for compliance with requirements, and assisted defect management teams by conducting user acceptance testing.
• Worked with market data feeds (from Reuters, Bloomberg) for reference data and market data and performed data integration and mapped the data to target database resulting in retrieval of data using SQL

Environment: s: Agile(Scrum), MS Visio, Java, J2EE, .Net, HTML, Oracle 9i, MS Access, TOAD, MS Project, Bloomberg, Quick Test Pro, RSA Archer 5.2, MS Office

Confidential, CT

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created requirement documents by transforming the business requirements into functional requirements, identifying the impacted systems and by providing business and technical solutions for the problems.
• Participated in Formal technical Reviews and Walk through with end users, developers, managers and other analysts.
• Conducted Gap analysis to estimate the benefits of the new system Vs existing system
• Managed the project using JIRA by planning sprints that includes task and stories estimation, determining the release candidate, tracking the development as scrum master, weekly departmental meeting for interconnected middle office and front office systems.
• Worked with the Technical Architects team to define user interface design guidelines, and performed usability engineering to finalize system UI for trade blotter and back office interface.
• Extensively created Use cases, Process flow diagrams and class diagrams using MS Visio
• Conducted weekly meetings with the clients to review functional specifications and resolve open issues.
• Worked on documentation for Business Requirement Specification, System requirements, Data mapping documents, system interface layouts, system flow diagrams, high level server configuration changes, data model changes, database changes along with user guide and manuals.
• Provided inputs towards the creation of the GRC charter and technology plan by working with integrated management system using RSA Archer
• Interacted with the Database team and performed Queries.
• Helped in developing QA Test plans, created Test cases, Test scripts and participated in System, Integration and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Arranged demo sessions as and when necessary including collecting feedback as change requirements.
• Worked with the Production Support team, in providing training and technical support to the users.

Environment: s: Oracle, Sybase, TOAD, UNIX, XML, JIRA

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Build the Project Initiation Document (PID) as part of preliminary project scope research
• Defined and proposed solution to the core problem- the lack of systematic procedure in assigning incoming bonds and their offering quantities to slices and tiers; analyzed slice classification criteria to allocate eligible Bond Re-offerings into each of these slices and depicted the flow of offerings
• Elicited requirements using the following methodologies: Business Users interviews, Cross Functional team meetings, JAD Sessions, and Requirements Walk through sessions
• Documented the Functional and Non-Functional requirements by creating the Functional Specifications Document (FSD) and obtained the sign-offs from Business
• Assisted in designing HLD (highly level design) and LLD (Low level design) with the architects
• Helped build the Graphical User Interface of the system working with UI interface designers
• Assisted in creating Entity Relationship Diagrams in the Database Design
• Acted as the key central liaison between the business owners and development team to manage the Analysis phase progress and to obtain closure on all pending issues
• Responsible to track, capture, manage and communicate the requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) which helps in controlling numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables for a project throughout its Life cycle and worked on MS Project (Gantt Chart) to schedule and track the activities
• Liaised with QA and Tech Leads during the testing phase of the project; all defects were routed and verified through me before those were re-assigned to the developer
• Worked with market data feeds (from Reuters, Bloomberg) for reference data and market data and mapped them to the tender tracking database for pricing information using SQL
• Assisted in Testing and Deployment planning - partnered with testing team for building Master Test Plan, developing test cases, test scripts for various testing stages that include Functionality, Usability, Regression, Incremental, Compatibility, Integration and User Acceptance Testing
• Worked with the Production Support team, in providing training and technical support to the users.

Environment: s: Java, C++, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Quality Center, Autosys, Green Package Reports, MS SQL Server, MS Visio, HTML