SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience with Project Manager/Business Analysis in developing business processes and system solutions for Banking and Financial Industries.
• Comprehensive knowledge and solid experience in SDLC Methodologies like RUP, Waterfall & Agile Models.
• Extensive experience of Project Management and Multiple Team Co - ordination.
• Proficient in analyzing and documenting Business Requirements and System Functional Specifications including use cases.
• Extensive knowledge of the finance domain with a high level of expertise in Investment Banking, Trading Life Cycle, Bonds, Equities, Funds, Futures, Options, Securities, Derivatives (OTC and ET), SWAP, Fixed Income, Risk Management, Capital Market.
• Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Proficient in business process modeling, documentation, and testing using Quality Center, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS SharePoint 2010, Confluence etc in combination with UML 2.0 diagramming techniques.
• Excellent Team player to work in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and other team members in validation and testing of complex project scenarios and in the maintenance of Quality Standards of projects.
• Work closely with the development team in the root cause analysis during the development and UAT bug fixing phase.
• Experience in Change Management Process (Identify, Analyze, Evaluate, Plan, Implement, Review and Close).
• Experienced in report design, table/query design using Ms Access, SQL as well as data mapping functions of the system and strong understanding of the database.
• Expertise in creating, configuring and customizing SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 Team Sites including Site Collection, Lists, Document Libraries, Workflows, Content Management and Custom Lists.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

BA/Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Remedy, IBM Rational Clearquest/Rose/ Requisite Pro, Irise

Office Tools: MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio, Lotus Notes, Outlook

Methodology: RUP, Agile, Waterfall

Change Management: MS Sharepoint, JIRA, Stash

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase

Languages: VBA, VBScript, XML, UML, FIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Assist in the definition of scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification changes
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Successfully manage the relationship with client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Coordinator/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Handled project-related activities independently and coordinated project deliverables
• Communicated project plan to team members through meetings and presentations
• Coordinated conferences, group meetings, and audio-visual equipment
• Assisted in drafting project schedules, cost estimate, and deliverables
• Worked with project team members and project managers and developed strategic project management plans
• Assisted in budget preparation for IT operations and invoices
• Created project documents, status reports, and monitored project progress

Confidential, Lansing MI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design and development of reporting solutions to provide performance reporting for the firm wide sourcing group.
• Work with customers in gathering business requirements for data migration needs.
• Work across multiple functional projects to understand data usage and implications for data migration.
• Assist in designing, planning and managing the data migration process.
• Work with subject matter experts and project team to identify, define, collate, document and communicate the data migration requirements.
• Prepare data migration plans including migration risk, milestones, quality and business sign-off details.
• Manage assigned risks and monitor potential impacts as part of the data migration plan.
• Develop best practice, processes, and standards for effectively carrying out data migration activities.
• Perform source system data analysis in order to manage source to target data mapping.
• Perform migration and testing of static data and transaction data from one core system to another.
• Perform data migration audit, reconciliation and exception reporting.
• Manage cross-program data assurance for physical data items in source and target systems.

Confidential, New York, Ny

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented requirements for Business Intelligence reporting and analytic needs as well as Data requirements, Data Flows and data mapping for data warehouse during MSSB conversion
• Designed KPIs, Performance Metrics & Ratio, Analytical Dashboard UIs as well as storyboarded Reports UI
• Conducted Gap Analysis by matching old system’s bottle necks with new system’s solution/functionality.
• Worked on various SharePoint areas like Site Admin, Master Site, Libraries, workflows, re-usable workflows, authoring, designing coding, and publishing
• Performed Business & Functional analysis, product configuration.
• Managed, prioritized, and escalated issues from projects and delivery commitments
• Facilitated JAD Sessions with SMEs, Stakeholders and Business teams.
• Provided solutions for various workflows like automating content approval workflow; Authoring Templates workflow, enhanced search engine capabilities, and documented in the Requirement Artifacts - Vision as well as Functional Docs
• Designed screen Pro-types and wire-frames for various Content Forms and Web Templates and web parts/portlet.
• Managed projects; Monitored team progress and provided project status to management
• Ran SQL queries to learn about existing data, data mapping, defined target & sources to include in the Reporting specs

Confidential, New York, Ny

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on database design, created stored procedures and views to retrieve data from Oracle to Excel
• Performed all month - end close procedures, including journal entries, reduced the amount of time for the P & L close from 4 days to 2 days.
• Responsible for performing special projects to improve process efficiency and performance