EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished IT/Financial Services professional with 11 yrs.
• Having solid and diverse experience. Proven ability to learn quickly, assess problems, and initiate corrective action.
• Well - versed in Capital Markets, including Trading Systems, Risk Management, Portfolio Management, Compliance and Production Support.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, high-stress situations, requiring attention to detail and skillful follow-through.

SKILL:

• Aladdin
• PRISM
• Green Package
• Portfolio Construction
• BlackRock Solutions Investment Software
• Agile/Scrum
• Charles River
• Red Alerts
• Waterfall
• Windows XP
• MS SQL Server 2005
• MS Office
• SharePoint
• UML
• HTML
• XML
• ASP
• VBScript
• SQL
• PL/SQL
• HP ALM 11
• Wireframe
• Adobe Xd
• Axure
• ConformIQ

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential ; New York, NY

Associate - WMT Management

• Assisted with the business case, requirements elicitation, fitgap analysis and preparation of functional design documents
• Created, maintained, and automated advanced excel reports around financial and resource reporting
• Proactively identified key issues, roadblocks, and process enhancements and communicating solutions to senior management
• Approve funding and work on requirements of different departments (like Real Estate Investment Management, Wealth Management, Asset Management).
• Served as the primary liaison between the business and the development team

  Facilitating organizational change management strategies/plans, approaches and tactics with different business units

• Modeled systems, user interface design, prototyping, creating decision tablestrees and data flows
• Adhered to corporate policies and procedures e.g. SDLC, Data Governance, etc.
• Assisted in and communication of the program standards and actions
• Ensured that business needs are met in a disciplined and consistent manner
• Investigated issues by executing queries, synthesizing analysis and translating the details for presentation to business partners
• Helped to coordinate the completion of corrective actions to resolve issues
• Gathered, verified requirements to a testable level functional and nonfunctional

Confidential ; New York, NY

Analyst Intern

• Provided radical transparency around management teams to help clients determine whether management will create or destroy shareholder value. Products aim to seamlessly supplement clients' investment process.
• CEO CHANGE RESEARCH. The only service that holistically examines executive change. Integrated our proprietary information including extensive interviews, background diligence, and analysis of relevant past CEO changes, with fundamental analysis to assess a CEO’s probability of success and impact on future stock performance.

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Agile Business Analyst/PM

• Created key metrics and presentations for the company and senior management.
• Gathered requirements and communicated with Financial Advisors and external vendors on regular basis to meet client needs.
• Enhanced key strategic financial applications to Confidential platform with concentration on ultra-high net worth clientele.
• Project documentation, project briefs, end stage reports, highlight reports and business cases.
• Lead and participated in client calls and communications as a subject matter expert on the implementation approach, and data interfaces.
• Risk and issues management, quality checks. Project communications, checkpoint meetings, project board meetings and communications plans.
• Managed project teams, both external suppliers and internal staff.
• Prioritized production issues and debugged or trouble-shooted those issues. This enhanced the application and decreased time for the business depending on the issue
• Created and maintained high level specifications and designed technology aspects of the systems in accordance with client specifications.
• Validated business rules and all artifacts with users, approval and sign off, updated and modified progress and resources allocation.
• Designed the UI (web interface) of the application, along with prototyping.
• Coached tech masters and business users on tools developed on the Confidential platform.

Confidential, New York, NY

Compliance Analyst

• Worked with the European team and the US team to successfully implement Aladdin system.
• Established business analysis methodology using agile dynamic systems development process.
• Processed Agile, RUP, SDLC/Waterfall.
• Interacted with Portfolio Managers and Traders to resolve trading issues and/or violations.
• Lead conference calls with the global team (Team= Liquidity Fund Mgrs., ARA Fund Mgrs., Fixed Income and Equity Managers) and various other levels of management to discuss progress and to ensure that daily issues were addressed.
• Validated BlackRock portfolio holdings and positions against Charles River equivalents.
• Worked with Blackrock on the development of a platform to support order creation, trade execution and portfolio management.
• Worked closely with the Vice-President of Guideline Monitoring Team to ensure Fixed Income, Equity, Alternative Investment violations appearing on the daily violation reports have been investigated and correctly identified as valid (reportable/non-reportable) or invalid.
• Followed the Agile methodology for elicitation and representation of requirements based on interaction with the business process owner, SME’s and the development team. Participated in daily scrum
• Implemented platform for CML, Direct Equity Invt. and Real Estate Securities Investment.
• Ran test (buy-sell) trades within and in excess of compliance rules to ensure response viability. Did portfolio rebalance (buying-selling securities) to ensure portfolio is in Compliance and the % NAV is positive.
• Ensure that all portfolio rules falling out of Compliance were investigated and corrected by external vendor with regards to coding and were followed through on for final resolution
• Monitored and lifted flags for real time trades wrongly deemed out of Compliance.
• Worked to develop relevant test scenarios, system regression Test Plans and scripts and ensure the test results correspond to the business expectations
• Worked with Quality Assurance to test Compliance rules associated with transitioning from Charles River Trading Platform to Aladdin Investments Software
• Investigated and reported validity of any discrepancies resulting from side by side testing.
• Worked with the PMs to review Client Investment Guidelines and reconcile against Charles River rule descriptions.
• Rewrote Compliance rule descriptions for BlackRock programming based on Client Investment Guidelines.
• Worked with the DQM (Data Quality Maintenance) and Benchmark team to resolve data and benchmark issues.
• Worked closely with the Vice-President of AWM on PM final sign-offs and related testing of the new and revised rules.
• Run test trades within and in excess of compliance rules to ensure response viability.
• Created testing procedures and directed the team to achieve desired goals by implementing those procedures.
• Worked on Regulatory rules (40 Act, 2a7 rules and Dodd-Frank) to resolve issues related to the assigned funds (Liquidity, ARA, etc.)

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Project Manager /Business System Analyst

• Conducted comprehensive Business Analysis by working with end users and other stake holders to identify the system, operational requirements and proposed enhancements.
• Elicited business requirements from business users and subject matter experts.
• Worked extensively through Agile development methodology by dividing the application into iterations
• Participate in Daily Agile Scrum "Stand-up", Biweekly Sprint Planning and Retrospective Sessions and update the team on status of upcoming User Stories.
• Defined and documented requirements, wrote BRD, functional specifications, and performed business analysis, data analysis and data mapping.
• Responsible for managing the data migration to the system.
• Ran basic SQL Queries.
• Provide functional walkthroughs with business users, development, and testing teams.
• Created and executed test scripts in HP Quality Center for defect tracking and effectively communicated the defects to the developer team.
• Production Support Lead for eMoney, Red Alerts.

Confidential

Project Manager/Business System Analyst

• Interviewed SMEs and recorded requirements. Coordinated and prioritized outstanding risks and enhancement requests based on business requirements to ensure timely delivery.
• Designed and developed business requirement collection approach based on the project scope, SDLC Methodology and the client environment.
• Analyzed and documented system requirements and supplementary requirements like complying with industry standards such as ISDA CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) and NFA (National Futures Association).
• Products included options, swaptions (caps, floors, digital and Bermudan options) and exotic products.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Project Manager/Business System Analyst

• Performed analysis of business and system requirements and data to develop functional and non-functional specifications, user interfaces and reports.
• Created design documents that included UML Diagrams, scheduling and batch process control, graphical user interface layouts, report layouts and technical analysis plan.
• Provided hands on support for all test phases working with QA team. Assisted the national operations team working with Confidential and Confidential terminal. Used FPML/XML for processing OTC derivative flow.

Confidential, New York City

Business/Compliance Consultant

• Reviewed, tested and validated over 7000 Compliance rules (consisting of internal, statutory and regulatory rules based upon domestic and international investment guidelines).
• Ran test trades within and in excess of compliance rules to ensure response viability.
• Ensured that all portfolio rules falling out of compliance were investigated and corrected by external vendor with regards to coding and were followed through on for final resolution.
• Monitored and lifted flags for real time trades wrongly deemed out of compliance.
• Reconciled Charles River trading reports with BlackRock equivalents.
• Reconciled compliance rule descriptions against Confidential guidelines.
• Participated in daily conference calls with the global team and various levels of management to discuss progress and to ensure that daily issues were addressed.