SUMMARY:

• Around 12 years of extensive experience in the field of Business Analysis, P&L reporting and financial reporting systems.
• Coordinate the monthly business close process working with the regional controllers.
• Maintain monthly reporting documents and database feeds for all products supported.
• Prepare monthly presentations and variance analysis.
• Analysis/identification/and summarization of reporting issues including preparation of reports and other supporting schedules for review by senior management.
• Proficient at interacting with business users to identify information needs and initiate process changes, create Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), User Requirements Specification (URS).
• Ensure that business requirements are structured using industry standard analysis techniques such as Data Flow and Object Modeling, Case Analysis, Work - flow Analysis, and Functional Decomposition Analysis through interviews, workshops and/or existing systems documentation or procedures.
• Expertise in Regulatory, Market Risk, Basel (CCR) and Management reporting.
• Expertise in Equity, Fixed Income, Private Equity, FX Products and Management reporting.
• Excellent in performing Gap Analysis, Risk Analysis and Feasibility Analysis to check the compatibility of existing system infrastructure with new business requirements.
• Monthly review of transactions, supporting documentation, detail general ledger, financial statements, balance sheet analyses, journal entries, and other supporting schedules/calculations prepared by regional businesses.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills. Experience in working with business users, technical teams as well as senior management.
• Strong analytical skills and core knowledge of finance/accounting.
• Assisting with new product analyses as they relate to compliance with GAAP and Bank regulatory requirements and AML requirements.
• Assisting with Data Privacy/Compliance requirements to support Client data reporting.
• Project Management experience managing global projects.
• Prepare presentations/user documentation and training for business users and senior management
• Perform ad hoc analysis and special projects, and lead projects through completion
• Advise line operations and development personnel in the identification, research, evaluation and presentation of specific recommendations to senior management on new products and business opportunities.
• Pursuing Data Analytics coursework in Regression Analysis and Machine Learning.
• Aspiring in Certification for Financial Risk Management (FRM coursework)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools & Packages: Tableau, CA PPM Clarity, Jaspersoft Reporting, Hyperion System 11+ (Essbase Reporting & Planning for Budgeting, Forecasting), Business Objects XI, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Tools, Microsoft SQL Server / SQL Plus, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, Workforce Reporting and Macromedia Captivate

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/2000/NT/98

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, Team Track.

Communication Skill:

• Strong project management, organization, planning and coordination skills
• Effective communication skills
• Critical thinking and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Comfortable interacting with all levels of management
• Ability to meet deadlines, manage multiple tasks and work independently

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating and establishing Program Management Framework Guidelines across all divisional portfolios within Clarity (CA PPM). Collaborating with Group Strategic Change Management (GSCM) and other teams in assessing programs and providing feedback on improvements in a consolidated manner to improve portfolio management execution and project delivery experience.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define and refine service offering of PPC Management Information (MI) function in line with team strategy
• Evolve the PPC MI reporting suite, including the new PPM Clarity offerings
• Effectively manage assigned reporting, ensuring appropriate review, prioritization and delivery
• Review and Analyze complex data sourcing processes in order to obtain the required data from providers
• Design and ensure appropriate control checks, quality assessment of reporting
• Creating customized reporting (using Business Objects) across different sectors in an effort to provide timely and accurate information to assist stakeholders (Operating Managers) in controlling the new Access Security Model across Clarity (CA PPM).
• Working collaboratively with Portfolio Liaisons, Data Quality Analysts, Management Information, and other Investment Governance Stakeholders to ensure internal controls are in place.
• Supplying high quality, timely, and standard materials for Portfolio Managers for regular and ad hoc updates to ensure a high standard of information within Program Management Tool.
• Providing support for the IT portfolio, highlighting performance and quality assessment, and providing resolution where standards are lacking throughout a Program Lifecycle Report status to senior management, analyze execution risks and ensure timely completion of projects
• Design reporting dashboards using CA PPM Jaspersoft Advance reporting tools
• Design reports using Tableau, CA PPM data visualization interface
• Help facilitate project/enhancement governance and prioritization
• Support existing portfolio of applications through small enhancements and bug fixes

Confidential, NY

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on several Product Control related data and reporting initiatives in the recent past. P&L Attribution reporting, GL reconciliations, Consolidated Mart reporting.
• Involved in Basel 3 initiative for the bank- RWA calculations (Standardized Approach), MIS Reporting and delivering a Centralized Datamart solution that support various stakeholders and business groups/divisions.
• Market risk and Credit Risk reporting for IHC on a strategic reporting platform. Involved as a SME/lead analyst SA-CCR/NIMM (Standardized Approach to Counter-party Credit Risk) requirement from the regulators.
• Lead Geo-distributed teams of business analysts, developers and testers located in New York, London, Singapore and India.
• Report status to senior management, analyze execution risks and ensure timely completion of projects
• Focus on Trade Source Consolidation & Reporting, MIS and P&L Systems, financial reporting, operations reporting and settlement systems reconciliation, for equity and fixed income products.
• Deals with consolidation of four-legacy systems; all a part of a strategic vision of a unified data warehousing and financial reporting system
• Design reporting dashboards using in-house tool
• Design Market Risk reports for various products using Tableau, OBIEE & HTML 5 data visualization interface
• Help facilitate project/enhancement governance and prioritization
• Support existing portfolio of applications through small enhancements and bug fixes

Confidential, NY

Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identifying scope, business and functional requirements and defined roles and responsibilities associated with business processes.
• Preparing Business Hierarchies for P&L reporting and defining business rules for the same.
• Performing Impact Analysis/Implementation plans to estimate the effects of business process flow changes to P&L reporting.
• Performing gap analysis, designing new process flow and documenting the business process and various business scenarios and activities from conceptual to procedural level.
• Monthly review of transactions, supporting documentation, detail general ledger, financial statements, balance sheet analyses, journal entries, and other supporting schedules/calculations prepared by regional businesses.
• Coordinate the monthly business close process working with the regional controllers
• Analysis/identification/and summarization of reporting issues including preparation of reports and other supporting schedules for review by senior management.
• Creating various reporting reports in Business Objects and Hyperion Essbase.
• Work in planning and forecasting for Alternative Investments (AI) and assist in the requests from ICG (Institutional Consumer Group) teams.
• Consolidate the data for the Weekly Outlook Deck for ICG and Holdings Planning teams. Analyze and explain the variances (vs. prior week, prior quarter, forecast etc)
• Administer assistance with various process improvement opportunities to enhance the efficiency of the financial reporting cycle and increase the informative value of content provided to senior management.
• Partner with the regional COOs to manage the budget associated with regulatory projects, meticulously tracking and managing expense synergy initiatives to ensure alignment with expense budget opportunities.
• Serve as a liaison with key departments such as controllers, GPO teams, ICG P&A, client management and the COO office to build strong lines of communication for maximized performance.
• Successfully manage a team of resources in New York, London, Mumbai and Costa Rica while monitoring for top productivity and efficiency.
• Prepare weekly detail expense outlook for AI and explain any significant variances
• Analyze expense trends working with Expense Management Team in CitiCorp
• Coordinate the monthly Flash process working with the controllers.
• Conduct project meetings.
• Meet with project team(s) regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines.
• Meet with appropriate personnel for periodic reviews of prototypes and final products.
• Coordinating the monthly headcount reporting process for Private Bank Business using Workforce Reporting..
• Participate in the undertaking of Risk Control Assessments (RCA) across all asset classes, documenting results and communicating findings to Business Management.
• Monitor the implementation and remediation of control deficiencies identified from RCA
• Facilitate the Dispensation and Risk Acceptance process
• Track Operational losses and conduct root cause analysis on high impact events. Provide recommendations to improve or remediate the applicable processes and/or controls
• Maintain Internal Control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators
• Conduct project meetings.
• Meet with project team(s) regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines.
• Meet with appropriate personnel for periodic reviews of prototypes and final products.
• Use Microsoft Project to manage schedules, deadlines, and resources and collaborate on the project.

Environment: Hyperion Essbase System 7 and 9, MS Visio 2003, MS Project 2003, MS Office Tools, Business Objects, Quality Center, Test Director, Macromedia Captivate, Workforce Reporting, & Citi Marketplace.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Major responsibility was gathering requirements, documenting them, and improving process efficiency.
• Identified scope, business and functional requirements and defined roles and responsibilities associated with business processes.
• Prepared initial draft of FRS with business rules.
• Performing gap analysis, designing new process flow and documenting the business process and various business scenarios and activities from conceptual to procedural level.
• Performed Impact Analysis/Implementation plans to estimate the effects of requirement changes.
• Develop and maintain requirements management processes. Provide requirements management support to project teams and work closely with requirements practice lead to support practice rollout.
• Performed gap analysis, designed new process flow and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities from conceptual to procedural level.
• Conducted JAD sessions to meet client requirements on business side and team members on technical side.
• Involved in highlighting key problem areas to be addressed with Risk Analysis and accurately documenting potential risks.
• Creating various reporting reports in Business Objects and Hyperion Essbase.
• Assisting with new product analyses as they relate to compliance with GAAP and Bank regulatory requirements.
• Create new user entitlements workflows, entitlement products in- house tool “Citi Marketplace”.
• Developed various test cases and plans for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Developed demos of the application use using Macromedia Captivate software.
• Project Management Skills - Managing a team of 5-7 team members. Coordinating with Technology team (Quality testers/Developers) during Development and UAT testing.
• Conduct project meetings.
• Meet with project team(s) regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines.
• Meet with appropriate personnel for periodic reviews of prototypes and final products.
• Coordinating the monthly headcount reporting process for Confidential Systems using Workforce Reporting.

Environment: Java/J2EE, MS SQL/ SQL Plus, Workforce Reporting, Oracle Hyperion Essbase System 7 and 9, MS Visio 2003, MS Project 2003, MS Office Tools, Business Objects, Test Director, Macromedia Captivate, Citi Marketplace.