TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary Skills: Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodology, Requirement gathering - Functional and Nonfunctional requirements, User Stories, Use Case preparation, Test Case Preparation, Process flow design, As-is & To-be Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Feasibility study, UAT, Root cause identification, TLM 2.8, Openlink-Endur, SQL, SWIFT, JIRA, Visio, BPMN

Process knowledge: Reconciliation (cash & positions), OTC confirmation, Fixed Income Settlements, KYC, AML

Product knowledge: Derivatives (Equity, Commodities) Fixed Income, Basics of Money Markets & Capital MarketsRegulation: Dodd Frank, MIFID II, and EMIR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant - Client Statement Renovation

• Implementation of the change strategy for Confidential Institution Securities Group client statements across North America, Europe and Asia locations as part of the renovation initiative driven by regulatory mandates.
• Worked with the change management team at the New York and India office to implement changes to security statements driven by regulation (Dodd-Frank)
• Conducted workshops/interviews and questioning sessions to gather requirements from SMEs and various business functions/entities to create process maps and change projections
• Identified and managed key stakeholders (Including Directors/Group Actuary/Division Heads and SMEs) and ensured that the target operating model met sign-off requirement and regulatory obligations
• Created and maintained control logs, procedures and process/data flow documentation (for both current operating model and target operating model)
• Lead daily stand-up meetings to track the progress of the project and facilitated BA, QA & Developer collaboration to define iteration parameters
• Carried out remediation management (to resolve failures as well as data quality issues) through discussion and agreement with Business and Capco team members
• Liaised with development team and end user for location specific defect resolution, tracked and resolved quality issues and updated RAID logs
• Coordinated UAT efforts that included creation of test scripts and documenting test results to ensure that there were no ‘Show stoppers’ prior to every regional sign-off

Confidential

Project Lead

• Responsibility included interacting with the technical team for customizing the solution based on client business needs to automate reconciliation processes
• Documented business and systems needs for stock and cash reconciliation (analysis of flat file/SWIFT MT950, MT571 source to tool dataflow)
• Identified primary and secondary attributes, created match rules, match passes, pass-lists, initiations by eliciting information from SME’s, Internal and external stakeholders, constantly engaged with ETL (Extract Transform and Load) configuration teams to ensure cohesion with the design plan and functionality
• Escalated issues and risks to the program manager and other stake holders wherever necessary
• Coordinated the end user testing process and documented test results and ensured project deliverables were consistent and met expectations in terms of quality
• Prepared detailed procedure manuals and provided user training to ground resources

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Automation of the Front to Back office transaction processes using an in-house tool (Backend-NXG, Frontend-Alise & Eole, MS Excel).
• Analyzed existing processes and identified opportunities for improvements and shared findings with the project and process managers to reach an agreement on projected enhancements
• Conducted detailed study of the as-is process, dataflow, DTPs and created a book of work based on agreed delivery timelines
• Identified and automated manual and repetitive reports using Macros for MS Excel
• Functioned as a liaison between ITEC (information technology team) and finance teams (operations) for enhancement/customization of tool outputs and managed the book of work for fixed income derivative operations
• Collaborated between the Business and the QA team on a regular basis to ensure that the solution met the user expectations
• Created test case scenarios and coordinated technical and user level testing prior to receiving sign-off

Confidential

Process Supervisor

• Responded to internal and external queries, created break reports and resolved validation issues based on the responses received from the Front and Middle office
• Performed reconciliation on T+1 exchange traded commodity listed derivatives using source files from Open link Endur & GES reports assimilated into the reconciliation tool (DREX)
• Functioned as an investigation agent for transactional breaks for Front to Back office - closely coordinated with teams in London, Singapore and New York
• Supervised the exchange position reporting of Options and Futures contract expiry on physically deliverable commodities and actioned partial assignment and exercises.

Confidential

Associate - Position Control & Brokerage reconciliations (Commodity Derivatives)

• Managed the reconciliation of the exchange traded positions for Commodity Derivatives
• Created reports on the expiry schedules of physical and cash-settled commodity instruments against the information published on various benchmark price assessments websites such as platts.com