Profile Summary:

• Over 7 Years experience of business system analysis and solution design.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent project management, communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Domain knowledge of: corporate finance private/commercial/investment banking capital markets various derivatives instruments: interest rate derivatives, credit derivatives, equities and fixed income forward, futures, swaps .
• Detailed knowledge of European business law and American Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Customer Protection Act.
• Business writing skills: Business Requirements Document BRD , Functional Requirements Document FRD , and Non-Functional Requirements Document NFRD .
• Thorough Knowledge of various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, RUP and Agile models.
• Experienced in business analysis, risk analysis, SWOT analysis, GAP analysis, and project management.
• Experienced with Iterative approach for Software Development as per Rational Unified Process RUP . Involved in inception, elaboration, construction and transition phases.
• Experience in analyzing and creating use cases, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and business flow diagrams.
• Strong experience in Data Analysis, data warehousing and QA testing ELT . Knowledge in writing, using SQL queries on database systems.
• Experience in writing User manual and imparting training to the Users. Used Traceability Matrix extensively to track functionality coverage.
• Ability to collaborate with peers in both, business, and technical areas, to deliver optimal business process solutions, in line with corporate priorities.
• A self-starter with the ability to quickly recognize and resolve issues under pressure and ability to work in a challenging and fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Professional Experience:

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Sr. Business System Analyst

AXA Group Treasury Department provides Cash Management services for the US investors as well as other external clients. Their current process is extensively manual effort involving logging into Banks for sending Wires/ACH and downloading reports and manually entering Cash data into Access Databases. The aim of the project was to build an application for the 3 main pieces of Cash Management Data Collection from Bank, Cash Positioning and a single application for handling all Wires/ACH for all banks. The project intended to automate and integrate all three.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business Analyst on Cash Management Administration System CMAS
• I was responsible for leading and facilitating, gathering, and documenting all requirements for all 3 phases Data Collection, Cash Positioning and handling all Wires/ACH through one application
• I was also responsible for organizing and documenting Requirement Plan for all 3 phases including Process Decomposition for the Wires/ACH application
• Interacted with vendors, scheduled WebEx Demos and Proof of Concepts and worked with the Selection Team to finalize the vendor software
• Worked closely with architects and system owners for architectural reviews and impacts on applications such as Charles River Investment Management System CRIMS and PAM Accounting System on the cash management and wealth management process.
• Participated in stake holder discussions during Initiation phase and assisted in preparing the preliminary Scope statement
• Facilitated face to face, teleconference and web-conference meetings for requirement gathering and discussions
• Performed business analysis to define Project Requirements, Scope, and Business case
• Organized and Documented Use Cases, Business Rules and Functional Requirements for all system functionalities and ensured that critical requirements are not missed. Used RUP methodology to develop all of these artifacts.
• 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
• Developed data mapping for an application to understand the data flow and analysis purpose. Used Quality Center for test plans, test scripts and defects tracking.
• Documented the requirements and approach and circulated to the business tech teams for signoff
• Mentored offshore BAs with new changes in the system and contributed in completing requirements documents in scheduled time manner.
• Mentored internal BA's who work as system administrators on requirement collection and documentation
• Reported project progress to the team, senior management and all stakeholders periodically Identified risk and project impact and performed Risk assessment and mitigation
• Created, Documented and presented a Requirements plan and Strategy to treasury team and senior management
• Organize meetings/sessions with client representatives to discuss the pain points and approach for improvements / enhancements to the application
• Identified/handled project risks/issues/changes and helped establish and enhance business continuity
• Prepared, documented and sent out a detailed Request for Proposal RFP to vendors for the entire application
• Responsible for all interaction with vendors as well as scheduling WebEx Demos and proof of concepts for their software.
• Created templates and documents to assist the vendor selection process

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Sr. Business Analyst

BNY Mellon is a leading global wealth manager that provides a various range of products and services including Equities, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange. The project consisted of transmitting the knowledge such as latest analysis and research, market strategy and market news from the Trading Floor to client desktops. This online trading system enhanced client's Investment Portfolio Management feature such as Risk Analysis and Portfolio Diversification by providing real time trading recommendations, client ability to place orders with the brokers, account management and trade order status, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Fixed Income, Equities Trade Cycle, Mutual Funds and Portfolio Management. Coordinated JRP sessions group meetings with stakeholders, end users and system owners and development team to define system requirements and system interface specifications.
• Worked with the business users to define business requirements and analyze the possible technical solutions. Worked extensively with SMEs in understanding and documenting their requirements pertaining Portfolio Advisory System.
• Worked with the Business users, tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering their requirements and data transaction information related to OLAP.
• Co-authored business requirements document BRD , functional requirement document FRD with project teams. Extracted, discussed and refined business requirements from business users and team members. Designed and developed project document templates based on Agile methodology.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams. I was also deeply involved in process flow analysis for content management system.
• Assisted project managers with the development of project schedules. Developed requirements and preliminary design for client applications. Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Coordinated with technical lead and project manager to finalize the data model. Assisted with users during User Acceptance Testing UAT , developing and maintaining quality procedures and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Developed timelines for project delivery and managed projects and resources to successful completion.

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System Analyst

• CITI Bank is organized into investment banking, private banking and asset management divisions. It is highly regarded for its risk management and strategic capital allocation. Over the years the company has expanded its operations rapidly by means of Mergers and Acquisitions. Its investment banking segment includes its advisory service, through which it provides advice to clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestiture and other corporate transactions. As a business analyst I worked towards the development of a
• model that can be used by the financial analyst to evaluate a target company based on its financial statement data.

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between stakeholders and software development team to gather requirements.
• Interviewed client' employees regarding investment, research and trading matters. Gathered information, understood the user's needs, defined requirements and developed specifications.
• Facilitated JAD Joint Application Development sessions to identify business rules and requirements and then documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business personnel and technical personnel.
• Analyzed gaps for training purposes between existing application and after integration of the new one.
• Assisted in the development of quality assurance artifacts including: Quality Assurance Plan, Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Managed requirements in Quality Center for traceability purpose.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing UAT sessions, and assisted the development of User Guides and Manuals for customers.
• Worked with IT Team for development, testing, implementation and user acceptance
• Organized weekly project status meetings with business users, updated project plan and status reports.
• Responsible for project tracking and status reporting to business users/management. Collected sign offs and approvals from business users.
• Conducted research on credit risk assessments and other risk associated with a projected investment.

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Business Analyst

E TRADE is a leading online investment firm. It helps the customers in executing trading decisions quickly and accurately at a reasonable price. A web-based online trading application that offers an integrated and highly configurable trading system product for individual portfolio management and financial instruments like equities, commodities, forex, stock and index derivatives. It provides integrated front-end for traders of the system. The application allows the end-user to log into the system, buy and sell shares online and keep track of his shares and other capital market instruments. It provides wide range of up to date information of the stocks and company information in the form: profit loss account, balance sheet, cash flow, operating statistics, directors' report, share price quotes, charts, and news.

Responsibilities:

• Met with decision makers, system owners and end users to define and document requirements and goals.
• Drafted business requirements for generating reports from the system, for instance I developed business requirement documents that can be communicated to both development teams and business stakeholders based on the following:
• Knowledge of business processes. Knowledge of specific data sources.
• Informal communications with business stakeholders.
• Analyzed business functions, and drafted business process flows and procedure documents of as-is and to-be process.
• Used the Agile methodology during the project life cycle and ascertained deliverables on a per sprint basis
• Conducted JAD sessions, interviews, personal observations, and administered questionnaires to gather business requirements, make presentations of issues and keep end users informed of priorities.
• Performed data analysis and data profiling and identify data quality issues. Practiced Real time data movement and transformations.
• Influenced the implementation of pricing systems, decisions and strategies with Sales Managers, Market VPs, Strategic Account Managers, and VP Strategic Account Managers.
• Analyzed proposed pricing approach to ensure profitable and competitive results stay abreast of competitive pricing.
• Thorough experience with FIX protocol.
• Focused on front line interaction with Bloomberg's clients in managing specific exchange related client queries, gathering and assessing development needs for exchange data across all of Bloomberg's products
• Gave insight into the complex data carried by Bloomberg and constantly looked for ways to improve processes and drive the team forward.
• Trained developers for various financial products and help them understand the logic of operation of Derivatives Analysis, Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Securities.
• Strong knowledge about portfolio management, futures, options, forwards and other OTC products.
• Thorough knowledge in alternative investments including Commodities and Forex
• Created UML activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams using Visio.
• Maintained meeting notes and presented weekly status reports on the project using Business Object Crystal Report.
• Thorough trading gateway message handling experience.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for UAT process with business users.
• Develop new macros in VBA to automate the import, refresh and Utilization Calculation processes.

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Junior Business Analyst

The project involved development and enhancement of the loan-, mortgage- and credit card applications module. The module was used by banking customers to apply for loans and mortgages. The application collected customer's personal and contact information, employment and salary details etc., transmitted information to the bank system and then communicated approval/rejection to customers through email and updated the status online.

Responsibilities:

• Met with client groups to define and document requirements and goals.
• Conducted meetings/interviews and JAD sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements.
• Involved in preparation and review of business and user requirements documentation, functional requirements, use cases, test plans, test cases, project and status reports.
• Authored BRD/FRD documents based on the clients business requirements and interviews with subject matter experts and technical team submit to management for review and approval. Used Rational Requisite Pro for managing the requirements.
• Created and maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM between the requirements and other products such as design documents and test plans. Used Adobe Photoshop to design mockup screens for customer's review.
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• Tested Reports functionality and result applying Business rules with estimated Results, which are developed on the GUI. Performed data validation with use of SQL queries.
• Communicated with internal teams and external clients to deliver functional requirements like GUI, screen and interface designs.
• Interacted with the software developers from time to time at each phase of the SDLC in creating test cases and designing test plans.
• Assisted in software testing and used the guidelines, templates and Rational tools in all the phases.

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Compliance officer

Responsibilities:

• Served as a compliance officer responsible for the detection, prevention and reporting of potentially suspicious client transactional activity, loan frauds and unlawful money laundering.
• Implemented and efficiently maintained three step resolution process of a fraud identification, b create action plan, and c final resolution of all potentially suspicious activities.
• Responsible for database search queries based on name, location and business, performed anti-money laundering AML investigations based on internal referrals from the businesses and operations. Performed other compliance functions like filing suspicious activity reports SARs , recommended relationship retention or termination, and tracked account opening and closures.
• Executed and delegated responsibilities associated with effective operations of monitoring and surveillance like conduct Quality assurance review and interaction with various client teams.