SUMMARY:

• 18 years of experience with the Investment Banks and Big Consulting firms in the areas of project management, business analysis, business process improvement, package and custom software implementation, ERP (SAP - Finance and Controlling). Participated in all phases of application development - from planning to implementation.
• Developed business and functional requirements, feed Specifications and Use Cases for the development of Confidential / various Financial Systems.
• Acted as a liaison between business units, Confidential and developers.
• Also conducted assignments in Information Systems Planning, Package Software Selection, Treasury Best Practices and System Strategy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for managing the projects from planning to package submission, communicating with global team members.
• Was also responsible for defining business, functional requirements and feed specifications for products in-scope and overseeing the backtesting process.
• Was also actively involved on the firm wide Confidential Infrastructure initiative for migrating PCM legacy feeds to the strategic environment for products such as Bonds and Confidential (Vanilla/Index).
• Was responsible for defining feed requirements, performing detailed gap analysis, attribute mapping and regression testing. Enhanced existing feed specifications and API documents for products.

Confidential, New York

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Client position feed data and instrument validation. (Instruments include fixed income, equity, mortgage-backed securities, OTC, futures and options).
• Security Classification and Global Security Reference Database (database that stores >4.5M assets).
• Market data analysis using Open Bloomberg, Access, SQL (Oracle) and several internal market data systems.
• Corporate Actions for Equity market data timeseries adjustments for stock splits, mergers and name change.
• Error handling and escalation procedures
• Screen designs and validations for VaR, Stress and What-if, using Dreamweaver and Visual Slick

Confidential

Senior Consultant, New York

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Treasury Cash Management process and systems review for Insurance Company in the areas of Cash Position, Receipts and Payment Processing, Cash forecasting and Liquidity Management. Identified gaps and recommendations and developed an action plan.
• Performed value at risk (VaR) analysis for Consumer Product Company in areas of fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity portfolios (debt, swaps, foreign denominated cash, foreign exchange forwards and commodity futures, forwards and options) using Risk Metrics’ Risk Manager tool, as required by SEC.
• Performed Sensitivity Analysis to estimate the potential loss from exposure to market rates and quantify the Confidential resultant from positions in derivative and other financial instruments (debt instruments, equity investment, foreign currency forwards) using Risk Metrics, for SEC Confidential disclosure purposes.
• Analyzed current treasury process and systems environment including front, middle and back office functions in the areas of Banking, Cash Management and Risk Management (Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate), Investing and Borrowing for Electricity Company in Toronto. Conducted Best Practice Review, identified issues, defined areas of improvements and recommendations. Designed future state processes and developed functional requirements for vendor system selection. Developed Treasury system strategy - system alternatives, implementation plan, cost benefit analysis, software vendors scan / shortlist of vendors capable of meeting functional and technical requirements using PWC standard Packaged Software Selection methodology.
• Assessed the current Capital Markets Risk Management functions - credit and markets risk processes for a major bank ( Confidential ) to include all locations in the US. Developed detailed process flows for credit risk officers. Risk management processes included product trade and credit limit approval, limit exception monitoring, credit risk analysis, communication and escalation procedures. Assessed the existing credit risk management systems environment, systems interdependencies (cross-functional, upstream and downstream dependencies), functionality and developed detailed data flows diagrams and schematics.
• Conducted Treasury business requirements for pharmaceutical company in the areas of cash management and liquidity forecast, interest rate derivatives and swaps, FX options and forwards, loans, inter-company loans, asset securitization, tax exempt bonds, credit facilities, mutual funds and other debt instruments. Developed a detailed blueprint, which included functional requirements, “as-is” and “to-be” processes, reporting, technical considerations for SAP Treasury implementation.
• Conducted a high level review of global bank account database for hi-tech company.
• Conducted a treasury best practice review and analyzed key treasury activities in the areas of cash management, investment management, treasury systems and treasury organization structure for Financial Institution. Identified issues and developed recommendations for improvement.
• Conducted business and technical requirements for a start-up Internet Company; an application service provider that delivers front-middle-back office processing software (accounting, risk management, performance and compliance) to financial professionals in the asset management field.

Confidential

Senior Consultant, New York

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a “Supply Chain Management” project, which included project management and supervision of various distribution centers and identification of issues related to workflow and delayed EDI transmissions for Consumer Product Company. Improved overall communication between the plant and warehouses and identified future risks and key performance factors.
• Team leader on the following projects: (Responsible for configuration and project management)
• Implementation of SAP FI/CO (Finance and Controlling), MM (Material Management), SD (Sales and Distribution) modules of SAP package software using ASAP (Accelerated SAP implementation) methodology for Chemical Company. Conducted training for the FI/CO, MM and SD modules of SAP and managed the “Change Enablement” Process. Configured SAP FI/CO modules -General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payable, Cost Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis - costing and account-based reporting.
• Implementation of SAP FI/CO (Finance and Controlling Module) globally and completed all phases of the project - Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization (Configuration and Testing) and Final Preparation using ASAP Methodology (Accelerated SAP Implementation) for Auction Company. Configured the General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Fixed Assets module within FI. Performed as Team Leader for the configuration of the CO (Controlling) module, which included Confidential (Cost Center Accounting), PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CO-PA (Profitability Analysis - account based) and Project Systems (work break down structures). Also worked on specifications for ABAP reporting, developed business process procedures, test plans and scripts, process flows, interface and data conversion requirements and cut over plan in preparation to “go-live”.
• Worked to achieve an annual MIS budget of ~5M for a retail client, by evaluating SAP ongoing and post implementation costs, ongoing hardware, software, network, manpower and upgrade costs with the objective to meet the industry average for MIS spending (1-1.5%) as a percentage of revenue.
• Conducted business requirements and identified processes that should be supported by information technology for credit, collections and dispute resolution for Telecommunication Company.
• Reviewed systems and processes in the areas of distribution (order processing, accounts receivables, warehousing, inventory control and shipping), refurbishing and repairs for consumer Product Company.

Senior Consultant

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements analysis for the development of Insurance module of Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) at the United Nations. Generated test problem reports and prepared design change documents for the Travel module that comprised of travel request, travel claim and ticket refund, developed in Sybase, JAM
• Implemented FIM (Project Financial Information Management System) - Budget Module at Confidential . The system provided a framework for organising and monitoring financial resources. Analysed global user requirements and IS Risk at headquarters and country offices for project and programme budgeting.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis, design, construction and implementation of Financial Accounting and billing modules, using Oracle for different industries - Telecommunication and Service.
• Involved in Strategic Information Systems Plan and Business Process Reengineering for a loan sanctioning and funding organisation. Applications included financial accounting, project monitoring and sanctioning, funds management, loan disbursement and recovery procedures
• Analyzed requirements for Confidential (Complete Integrated Accounts System) for use at the tool rooms and training centres of a manufacturing company. Developed a design for Confidential on " Confidential " package software encompassing the modules - Ledger, Debtors, Creditors, Stock, Sales, Purchase and Project.
• Evaluated and analysed package software - " Confidential ", integrated package " Confidential " (Ledger), “Blackbaud” General Ledger and Budgeting Package for implementation in a manufacturing company.
• Conducted a pre feasibility study for establishing a software development centre for hi-tech company in India, for export to U.S.A, Germany and CIS. Conducted SWOT analysis, cost and revenue analysis, identified the service segments, staff deployment plan, hardware acquisition and capital expenditure plan.