SUMMARY

• A Financial Business Analyst with 6 years’ experience including a deep understanding of Fixed Income Products, Case Tools and Business Analysis
• Develop and support the underlying business definition artifacts (Business Use Cases), Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD)
• Excellent knowledge in SDLC including focus on requirements gathering, configuration management, test management, test automation and performance testing
• Experience in conducting Gap Analysis (GAP), SWOT analysis, Industry analysis and ROI analysis
• Hands on knowledge on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Business Process Management (BPM).
• Good knowledge about the Business Process Management Life Cycle (BPM Life Cycle)
• Used Unified Modeling Language (UML) to construct and document the artifacts of various object - oriented software intensive systems under development
• Ability to define the Business Process, check, validate and prioritize requirements in conjunction with the stakeholders, identify risk, cost/benefit analysis and risk analysis
• Strong Subject Matter expertise in Fixed Income Assets markets, Equities, Derivatives, Bonds Pricing, Trading Cycles, Money Markets, Portfolio management. Risk Analysis, Securities, Valuation, Asset Management- Risks and Returns
• Skilled in the implementation of business practices like Project management, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Business Process Streamlining (BPS), Process Optimization, Process mapping, Operations analysis, Supply Chain Management, Resource allocation, and Utilization
• Proficient in UAT, System testing, Regression Testing, Unit testing, integration testing
• Process maps, activity diagrams, business rules, vision, stakeholder requirements, UML diagrams and Use Case specification using MS Visio, MS Project
• Extensive experience in ITIL, involving implementations and outsourcing initiatives. Proven strengths include process development & process re-engineering, problem solving, solution development and ability to communicate at all levels in the organization
• Assisted in leveraging the value provided inherently by the ITIL framework and in an AGILE software development environment
• Prepared documentation for Business Continuity Planning of Business Critical Systems, i.e., Fixed Income Applications.
• Excellent Communication Skills, Work ethics, Reliable Organizational and Multi-Tasking skills, Strong Quantitative and Problem Solving skills, Analytic Skills
• Experience in writing SQL queries and optimizing the queries in Oracle and SQL Server 2000
• Experienced with Salesforce.com Security Access by managing users, changing user defaults and profile based access based on business requirement
• Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Equities, Fixed Income, US government Treasury Securities ( Confidential -Bills, Confidential -Bonds and Confidential -Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Long/ Short, Mutual Funds, ETF’s and Hedge Funds
• Have good knowledge to Track, Manage and Promote changes to Object, Field, profile, Page Layouts and other metadata updates in Sandbox
• Domain knowledge in Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Environment: s WINDOWS 95/98/NT/2000, XP, VISTA, 7, 8

CRM: Salesforce.com, Microsoft CRM

Databases & ETL tools: MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle, MS Access, Netik ETL, AbInitio

FINANCE: Fixed Income Assets markets, Equities, Foreign Exchange and Derivatives, Bonds Pricing, Money Markets, and Portfolio management, Risk Analysis, Securities and their Valuation, Asset Management- Risks and Returns, Financial Statements, Cash Flow, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Capital Structuring

Tools: / Applications MS Office2003/2007, MS Project, MS Visio, Workflow Diagrams, Business Process Models, Data Flow Diagrams, Data Mappings, Data Dictionaries, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, ITIL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Melville, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead
• Migrated Data from MS Excel to SQL Server Reporting Service using DTS and SQL loader utilities
• Worked on Risk analysis, Securities (US treasury and corporate bonds) and their Valuation, Portfolio Management (risks and returns) and analysis, Asset Allocations Bond pricing, Financial Derivatives, Cash Flows, Financing Structure, Capital Management, Stock Valuation and Business Valuation, etc.
• Helped risk department in analyzing risks for new fixed income products
• Prepared graphical depictions of Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Based Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams and creation of technical design (UI screen) using Microsoft Visio
• Worked as an Interface between the Users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the Business and IT Processes
• Participated in developing and reporting weekly/monthly project status to project sponsors or management team
• Performed data analysis and reporting using Client data after running queries in SQL for daily, weekly feeds of Client positions to check client positions in various applications of Fixed Income, Money market and Equities
• Performed Gap Analysis to compare all elements of existing "as is" with desired "to be" processes

Environment: Bloomberg, Windows, UML, MS Outlook, Enterprise Architect, Business Development, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SQL, Project Management and Risk Management

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Associate

Responsibilities:

• Managed client leads and accounts and generated customized reports for senior management using Salesforce CRM
• Performed Requirement Analysis by gathering both Functional and Non-Functional Requirements based on interactions with the Business User team to collect the Business Requirements, Processes and Data Requirements for CRM implementation
• Part of the Financial Audit team monitoring the Company accounts related to the Project
• Hands on knowledge on Financial Procurement/ Financial Reporting complying to the Federal Regulatory Requirements
• Collaborated on process to implemented ITIL enabled business support application and processes through measurement, analysis, and benchmarking, reducing wait time by 20%
• Assisted in Modeling, Integrating, Monitoring and Optimizing the processes drives a Business Worker’s efficiency and effectiveness through BPM
• Build the organization’s role hierarchy by adding the Roles as per the organization structure and created custom profiles to satisfy the organization’s hierarchy
• Performing the Risk Analysis and Cost Assessment for the Project implementation
• Created Workflow Rules, Page Layouts, Approval Process, Tasks, Email Alerts, Field Updates and Outbound Messages to manage the Workflow & Approvals
• Worked on various salesforce.com standard objects like Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Campaigns, Opportunities, Quotes, Activities, Dashboards and Reports
• Created new custom objects, assigned fields, custom tabs, components, custom reports
• Created custom Reports based on business need and associated them to Dashboard
• Customizing Company Profile, Security Controls and Communication Templates of the organization as per the organization requirements
• Performed Analysis for Territory Management and sharing settings and Created formula fields and hyperlink formula fields
• Created and maintained reporting templates in accordance to client’s needs
• Assisted technology team in modifying the company’s website and setting up website trackers, helped in generating lead base
• Worked as a liaison between clients and operations team in India

Environment: Windows 7, UML, Business Development, MS Office, Enterprise Architect, HTML, DHTML, Salesforce, ITIL, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, SQL

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project as a Business Analyst to understand the business needs and objectives of the system and interacted with the end client/ users and stakeholders, involved and gathered requirements for the integrated system.
• Worked with user group for requirement gathering throughout the planning and implementation.
• Identified the modifications required in older SQL database system, helped in generating and delivering reports to clients in 3/4th of usual time
• Worked on ETL tools including Netik and AbInitio to load data into SQL database
• Developed and managed knowledge database for production issues
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models. Developed Sequence Diagrams, OOD using Rational Rose and Requisite-Pro for requirement traceability
• Assisted the Project Manager to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet user requests and business needs
• Created VBA programs to update excel workbooks using data from MS database
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes
• Worked as a liaison between the business SME’s and the technical team, delivered weekly solutions reports to several financial and insurance institutions

Environment: Windows XP, AbInitio, MS Outlook, Enterprise Architect,.NET Environment, Netik, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel and MS SQL Server 2000