CAREER OBJECTIVE:

A position as ‘Business Analyst & software application tester in Banking & Financial Services Domain with focus in Capital Markets Space.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Finance professional with proven work experience of 4.2 Years as an Business Analyst in Financial Services Offshore& Onshore Industry.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Designation: Analyst at Global Reference Data Services team
Duration: May 2010 to till date

Working in Global Reference Data Services team at Confidential.( (May 2010 –Till date)
(Product Reference, Book Reference & Client reference)
Product Reference:
The group offers Securities Reference data services on various asset classes like Equity, Fixed Income (Corp, Govt. Debt, Preferred, and Convertibles etc.), MBS, Futures, Options, Indices, Funds etc.
Apart from these the service also offers Corporate Action details, Holiday Calendar, Trading hours data to the down stream systems across the Investment Bank.
This platform is powered by Golden source (a leading Reference data management product)
Roles:

• Consumer On-boarding
• Data Quality
• Vendor Management.
• MIS Reporting

Project -1 – Instrument Reference Data Team - May2010 toJuly2011

• Part of GMLD research & testing team
• Writing FSD on GMLD Module for operational references
• Involved in the writing test cases, testing UAT and Production Database.
• Raising artifact & defects for failed test cases
• Provide additional support/research for internal data issues and questions if needed.
• Perform requirement analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional requirements based on the interactions with the process owners and stake holders and document analysis, represent them in the requirement matrix using users and workshops.
• Performed data query, extraction, compilation, and reporting tasks using SQL application.
• Analysing, interpreting, updating & maintaining various asset class i.e. Equity, fixed income, Funds, Derivatives, Money markets, Corporate Action events, etc and effectively communicating with internal and external clients to deliver functional requirements like GUI, screens and interface designs.
• Keeping liaison with development team for data enhancements and new contents developments.
• Maintain good working relationships with the vendors and consumers for the smooth flow of business.
• Worked on a project of Eagle Pace migration from 7.1 to the latest version of Eagle Pace 9. This project was based on the development and testing of the centralized system called ‘Eagle Pace 7.1’ and its latest version ‘Eagle Pace 9’.

Part of Operational Excellency project

• Resolving split created by multiple vendors on the system
• STP of corp action data on dbi new platform

Book Reference:

Project -2 Book Reference Data Team -Onsite (London) July2011toDec2011

• Part of BRDS CTB & Testing Lead.
• The Book Opening is a process of opening trading books for GM Credit, Rates and EM Debt
• Responsible for the day to day process of monitoring, identifying unblock bottlenecks in the book opening process
• Designed Test Strategy and drafted Test Plan in Quality Center.
• Prepared Test Packs and reviewed Test Cases for BRDS project
• Acting as first point of contact & as an SME for process related questions. Compiling and publishing reports on a fortnightly basis detailing performance and highlighting adverse variances.
• Good reputation and demonstrate integrity with stakeholders
• All round Operational knowledge especially Front to Back trade flows
• Extensive experience working with users, IT developers and support experts in eliciting requirements, deriving best fit solutions and delivering market leading practices.
• Responsible for the IT Vulnerability Lifecycle Management process across BRDS globally

Project -3 Book Reference Data TEAM -Offshore MIGRATION JAN2012 to till Date- Migration from Manila - Migration Lead

Global Markets – Book Opening :( Confidential, London , ANZ and Tokyo ) 
The Global Market business is divided into several areas to categorize the various trading / investment structures within the bank such as, Credit , Rates , Foreign Exchange , etc. For every trade / investment, a multitude of products are booked via four mainly trade capture systems, which are linked into downstream applications for valuation, settlement, risk reporting, PnL calculations, etc.

• Validates request for new book and counterparty ID details from the forms submitted by the Business Area Controllers to ensure accuracy of mapping and system requirement of each product.
• Performs actual set up of books from Trade Capture Systems such as Reuters Kondor Plus , Autobahn, Bloomberg , Magellan, Risk Management System and Summit , down to its valuation system like Alice , settlement system like Wall street / Everest Plus , risk reporting tool like Concentrix , and PnL calculation engine like dbSCORE.
• Works closely with the Datawarehouse (DWH) team to ensure mapping of profit centers as required for the book opening request.
• Daily reconciliation of static data between Trade Capture and dbNexus systems to ensure appropriate settlement of trades.
• Generates monthly Book Completeness Reports to identify trades that do not undergo its complete cycle, as required for SOX compliance.
• Provides resolution to FOBO breaks, settlement issues and others that are related to book static data.

Skills:
Domain Knowledge

• Knowledge of Capital Market Infrastructure in India, Europe, New Zealand &Russia.
• Knowledge of business processes in Capital Market Infrastructure Entities.
• Reference Data Management.
• Product Knowledge: Golden source.
• Securities reference data: Equity, Fixed Income, MBS, Futures, Options, Indices, Funds CA, Holiday calendar.
• Ability to use different Database: Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Telekurs and products like 3000Xtra, Data scope select.
• Effective process management skills to handle product testing and implementation.
• Providing inputs and suggestions for new product developments and content enhancements to the development (Technical) teams.
• Product Life-cycle Management skills for Financial verticals viz. GoldenSource Enterprise Reference Data Management for Securities, Customers & Cunterparties, Stock Market, Corporate Actions.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Received best performer award for the quarter.
• Worked in 3 different teams handled escalation in the team within a span of year.

Other Roles:-

• Working with Microsoft Windows 2000, ME, XP Professional version
• Proficiency in MS Office tools like MS Word, Excel applications, PowerPoint etc.
• Oracle SQL (Performed data query, extraction, compilation, and reporting tasks using SQL application)
• Knowledge of Relationship Database Management System (RDBMS concept)
• Strong understanding of Golden Source data model and its applications.
• Eagle PACE (Data Respiratory)
• PIMS (Accounting Applications)

KNOWLEDGE OF EXTERNAL DATABASE AND PRODUCTS

• Reuters Data Scope Equities
• Reuters 3000Xtra
• Bloomberg Terminal
• Golden Source (GUI)
• Factset Global
• Standard and Poor
• Cusip web

Confidential [17th Dec 2007 – May 2010]

Confidential isa Subsidiary of UBS AG whichprovides offshore services for all its Subsidiaries around the Globe. Confidential a Switzerland headquartered Banking Company Major in Global Wealth Management, Investment Banking and in Asset Management. UBS has acquired Wealth Management business of Painne Webber in United States in 2003 to become strong in United States Wealth Management business.

Designation: Associate/Analyst  Department: I am into Security Master & Pricing Department which is a part of Wealth Management operations –United States. We work on other UBS Branch requests for which we Research on the Securities and Set up them in UBS Product Reference Database, finally we assign a six digit UBS internal PW Security Number to allow other departments/branches to go ahead to use the Information. The role supports the critical functions of the Product Reference Data Security Master.Those functions include the daily set-up and maintenance of securities and daily end of day pricing of securities held by UBS-WMUS clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Meeting SLAs and interacting with various business groups with in the firm.
• Initiatives to research latest market changes and regulations
• Process ownership of various applications and internal processes such as STAR, e-mail management, reporting, call distribution and response, client service
• Daily support of security set-up, maintenance, and informational requests from various sources (ACAT\'s, Trading Desks, other Operational areas, Branches, etc.)

KEY SKILLS:

• Product Reference Data Group – Pricing:

Job Responsibilities:

• Sourcing prices from approved sources on all securities appearing in the reports
• Pricing securities in our internal system FPM [Firm Price Management] ensuring the price is maintained for 35 days.
• Research Bloomberg, TELEKURS and THOMSON to secure prices, if not available from vendor or trader sources
• Contacting respective pricing sources to check for price variance +/– 4% for confirmation.
• Deletion of securities which are manually priced if vendor feed is available consistently so that the manual intervention would be less.

2.Product Reference Data Group – Security Master:

Job Responsibilities:

• Excellent product knowledge in all type of Securities which trades in US market.
• Daily activity of working on products like Municipal Bonds, Convertible Bonds, ELN products, Preferred products, CDs, Other Fixed Income products, Equities, Mutual Funds and other Proprietary Products of UBS.
• Excellent observational skills in reading Security Certificates.
• Interacting with the UBS Financial Advisors for Client queries on Security information in Reference Database.
• Updating information for OTC trades and Stock Exchange trades.
• Doing daily Quality Check for other agents work.

Knowledge on Vendor Information Sources like Bloomberg, S&P, Euro Clear, DTC, IDSI, THOMSON REUTERS, and Other Vendor Feeds. ACHIEVEMENTS: Received appreciation from Executive Director, Delivery Head and Manager for quick response for Branch query without any SLA breach which helped an Ultra High Net worth Client.

• Received a Certificate of Appreciation thrice for being the Best Performer in UBS.

STRENGTHS:

• Competent in analyzing operational deficiencies and implementing effective plans to improve the performance.
• Analytical, Creative and Problem Solving.
• Ability to work in groups as well as individually.
• Ambitious and hardworking.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

• Completed M.B.A from St.Joseph’s P.G College affiliated to Osmania University with the Specialization of Finance as Major part and Marketing as Minor part 2007.
• B.Com (computers) from H.R.D Degree College affiliated Osmania University in 2005.
• Intermediate from Study circle Junior college, in 2002.
• C.B.S.E from SVM Central Public School, in 2000.