SUMMARY

• A proficient Business Analyst with over 8 years of Information Technology experience in the Financial Services Industry, with in depth knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (Waterfall, RUP, Agile) in capturing/analyzing Business, IT & Functional Requirements, Business Process Re - engineering, Object-Oriented Design/ Modeling, Service Oriented Architecture and Project Management.
• Strong Fixed Income and Financial Derivatives exposure while working in top bulge bracket banks and financial firms.
• Highly experienced in financial instruments within investment banking and brokerage(Derivatives, Fixed Income, Hedge Funds, Capital Markets, Energy trading, FX, Futures, Options, Commodities, Debt, Equity and Structured Products, Mutual Funds, Swaps, Asset Backed Securities) and wealth management environments.
• Well versed with Risk Management (BASEL - Credit, Market, Operational), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX); Portfolio Risk (Credit Risk; Market risk across all assets, Obligor Risk Rating, Facility Risk Rating, Statement Forecasting, Stress Testing, PD); Trading (Trade lifecycle, Straight through Processing and SWIFT) concepts.
• Multi-discipline experience spanning Project/Program Management, multiple areas in Compliance and Risk domain, strong database and application development skills.
• Strong Business and implementation skills in building compliance models spanning Trade Surveillance, Fraud (Payments) and Client On-Boarding compliance platforms.
• Assisted in identifying BSA/AML/OFAC compliance risk and ensures that proper controls, procedures, processes and training are in place to mitigate these risks.
• Strong writing skills in preparing Business Requirement Documents (BRD), System Requirement Specifications (SRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS),Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD),Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Technical Design Document (TDD).
• Defined project plans then translated business requirements/user expectations into detailed specifications like Use case diagrams, flow charts, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, use case document, test plans, and test case documents employing UML.
• Proficient in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), verifying performance, reliability, and fault tolerance issues.
• Familiar with testing tools (QC) to design as well as generate test plans and test scripts and their execution.
• Moderate to high proficiency in SQL Queries and MS Excel.
• A highly motivated, detail oriented and aggressive self-starter with integrative thinking & problem solving skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships in an internal, external, independent, and team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Office (Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint
• Project
• Visio
• Access
• Publisher
• FrontPage
• Outlook
• Communicator/Lync)
• MS SharePoint
• Lotus Notes
• VB 6.0
• Mainframes
• SWIFT
• Rational Suite (Rose
• RequisitePro
• ClearQuest)
• Rally
• SSIS
• SQL Server
• Toad
• Oracle 9i/10g
• Adobe CS3/CS2 (Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Acrobat
• Dreamweaver)
• HP Quality
• SAS
• Center 9.2
• Atlassian JIRA v3.12
• Serena
• IRise
• Mobius.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and published technical System Requirements for the eAPI platform
• Developed Functional and Non-Functional System Requirements and Technical Documents for the Development teams. Mapped all documents to Business Requirements Document
• Collaborated with business and IT BSAs, Architects, and Tech Leads to ensure System Requirements satisfied project business requirements and were aligned with the eAPI standards and long-term objectives
• Facilitated in scope-shaping exercises with Integrated BSAs, Architects & Tech Leads to provide high-level effort estimates for eAPI service development
• Developed Use cases and Business case scenario and designed the system per requirements
• Conducted comprehensive analysis and extensive reviews of data transformation documentation to support design and development
• Analyzed existing services and created service contracts for development team to commence coding using ICS.
• Documented and maintained System Requirements to internal standards
• Managed and monitored team requirement management activities and processes throughout the sprint, including ownership of requirements traceability
• Ensured updates to documents arising from defects found in the design and construction phases where subjected to thorough testing
• Conducted the reviews of System Requirements documentation and participated in the reviews of other project artifacts to ensure adherence to API standards
• Maintained Communication with the off-shore team, development team and proactively identified blockers and followed up on any issues
• Reviewed test cases and test results

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed business requirements for the project to move the credit reporting batch to publish timely counterparty exposure limits as a part of an FSA compliance requirement
• Interacted with business unit leaders from Products and Underwriting, Claims, Finance and Sales to gather business requirements
• Communicated project changes and status to the stakeholders on a daily basis, ensuring each proposed change goes through a systematic project impact analysis
• Constantly partnered with project leaders to ensure the team is producing solutions that meet established standards, procedures and practices, address issues, risks and mitigation plans
• Completed data mapping for the Wealth Management segment to facilitate the conversion of client assets
• Assisted the team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking
• Proactively identified and removed blockers, facilitated frequent retrospectives sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements.
• Provided coaching on Agile values and practice to other teams within the company
• Involved in Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming, Sizing, Sprint Retrospectives & Reviews, and Daily Standups
• Created SQL queries for reporting details on derivative trades as a part of Dodd-Frank framework
• Developed and enhanced process flows for static data resolution, counterparty limits calculation and reporting
• Managed numerous feeds from various systems of records and meticulously addressed every detail to ensure a successful end-to-end business process
• Created enterprise level flows, demonstrating system architecture, connectivity, trade flows and timelines to identify gaps and developed requirements
• Worked extensively with off-shore development teams and tracked their progress through various tollgates over the life of the project
• Tracked post-deployment progress and identified improvements and proposed resolutions to existing issues
• Coordinated UAT with business partners, helped identify relevant test data and reporting metrics

Environment: UML, IBM WebSphere Agile, Rally, Studio 4.0, WebSphere 4.0,, Windows NT/2000, Java 1.4, Windows XP, XML/XSLT, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL 9.0, MS Visio, Quality cent

Confidential - Somerset, New Jersey

Business Analyst / Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing customer data and understood the necessary information that needs to be captured for each existing customer and prepared missing values, anomalies for the completion of the CDD
• Conducted requirement sessions, gathered business requirements, analyzed and prioritized requirements using Rational Requisite Pro
• Developed scope documents, financial projections, budgeting and analysis for the project using IBM Cognos10
• Identified and validated high potential business opportunities for stakeholders and developed customized business strategies that are aligned with corporate strategic objectives
• Developed UML diagrams like Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and Class Diagram using MS VISIO
• Created Business Process Models which included the modeling of all activities of a business from the conceptual to procedural level
• Utilized SQL queries in Oracle SQL Developer in managing the database and assisted in making Data warehouse and doing Data profiling
• Prepared a Gap analysis of the existing data to fully comply with CIP with regards to AML regulations using Actimize
• Prepared interfaces to global databases such as Bankers Accuity’s, Global Watch List and Israel Money Laundering Prohibition Authority (IMPA) to link with Actimize to complete the EDD of the KYC/CIP
• Utilized several data mapping tools such as Actimize data mapper, for loading data
• Determined threshold parameters such as geography, customer source of income into Actimize along with the historical transactional data to categorize the customers with regards to AML standards of suspicion for monitoring purposes
• Assisted in translating the Dodd-Frank Title VI act requirements into executable tasks and developing defensible approaches to compliance against complex rules
• Defined and performed Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of all defined business requirements and associated functionality
• Designed test plans and test scripts based on the user requirement specification and conducted UAT
• Provided training and assistance to business user

Confidential, Cranston, RI

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements pertinent to the pool of mortgages and their risk assessment criterion that are used to issue Fixed Incomes like bonds & Treasury bills and converted the same into functional requirements by implementing the agile scrum methodology and authored the same in Business Requirement Document (BRD)
• Involved in the process of understanding and creating business rules for analyzing the pricing mechanism of fixed income products (treasury bills/notes/bonds) to understand the credit rating criterion used by the credit rating agencies
• Designed dashboards using wireframes & mockups to generate results in form of graphs, which in turn helped the fixed income portfolio team to create credit enhancement strategies
• Identified and removed blockers, facilitated frequent retrospectives and shared metrics to identify and implement improvements
• Involved in Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming, Sizing, Sprint Retrospectives & Reviews, and Daily Stand-ups
• Created and prioritized the Back Log in Rally, coordinated Planning Sessions
• Created functional requirement documents, system requirement document and business process flow
• Structured flexible test plans, test cases and test scripts to test entire application based on business requirements, technical specifications, product knowledge and use case scenarios
• Addressed all aspects of the loan life cycle, starting from identifying a prospective client to the loan closure
• Worked closely with loan orientation team (LOS)
• Participated in project review meetings to resolve defect related issues
• Revised existing documentation comprehensively to enhance the ability of the stakeholders to proceed with the next major phase of developing the application
• Performed User Acceptance Testing on behalf of end-user to ensure that the user requirements are satisfied and properly tested
• Assisted in implementation and deployment of the best SCM processes with seamless integration among various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Change Request and Product Life Cycle Management utilizing UCM component of Rational Suite

Environment: Agile Scrum, Rally, JAVA, Oracle, UML, OOD, Quality Center, VB, .NET, UNIX, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, Rational Jazz Suite - RTC and RRC tools, SQL server 2008,Fireworks

Confidential, Birmingham, MI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted market research and analysis into Capital Markets consisting of stock market and bond market
• Researched and analyzed data and also defined and developed requirement specifications for Mortgage Product, Compliance and Regulation Projects
• Involved in management consulting, intra-day reporting, architecture, business analysis and application development for real-time to end of day reporting for hedge funds and prime brokers
• Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE in the existing architecture
• Performed GAP Analysis; identified and documented improving areas to meet capital requirement regulations
• Analyzed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement Specification, and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS)
• Created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows, and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level
• Understood Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Wealth Management, and Sales and Marketing
• Conducted UAT to confirm that all derivative products can be successfully processed during the trade life cycle
• Created the SQL scripts for demonstrating the prototypes and verifying the result sets
• Served 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
• Discussed with SMEs across different businesses units to gain solid knowledge of the existing Credit Risk Calculation System and assisted in preparing an advanced Risk Assessment and ROI Management
• Generated requirements for Capital Markets(Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, and Hedge funds), Brokerage and Trading Model within the scope of both the front and middle office
• Followed the UML based methods using Microsoft Visio to create: Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams
• Worked closely with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing
• Provided analytical support in the Design, Development and Implementation of Project

Environment: Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest), RUP, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, C#, .Net, Web Logic, IPFR Services, HTML, UNIX, Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop, Windows Forms, Web Forms, Load Runner, Win Runner, DOORS, Project Management.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in change management teams on derivative (OTC)/collateral management/margin calculation area
• Created business requirement document for VAR based independent amount calculations for Equity, Credit, Interest Rates and FX swaps
• Prepared requirement document for collateral posting and contingent liability reporting of derivatives SPVs due to credit rating downgrade by S&P and Moody’s
• Prepared BRD and test cases for consumption of margin calculations from risk based calculator in to back office collateral management system including feed specifications, dispute handling, and reconciliation and reporting
• Prepared current state and gap analysis documents and presented to senior stake holders for segregation of independent amount and third party custodian interface with help of business and technology partners including cash and securities settlement, reconciliation and reporting
• Integrated vendor pricing/reference data into the model to gain insight into market sentiment and trading transparency from a macro to individual stock level
• Prepared Test document including test scripts for enhancement in to Legal Documentation System (ISDA Master Agreement/CSA) and collateral management system with the help of business, operations and technology partners
• Coordinated QA and UAT including defects and its resolution by technology team in timely manner
• Responsible for the review of requirement documentation done by junior analyst and mentoring for their project management career paths
• Prepared RFP document for custodian liaison and interface and participated in discussions with various Custodians (BONYM, JPM, State Street etc.) for automation and STP processing of collateral
• Evaluated regulatory impact on credit, and collateral provisions in ISDA CSA such as minimum transfer amount, threshold and rounding, eligible collateral, re-hypothecation, segregation of independent amount and compared them to current capabilities
• Conducted gap analysis and prepared BRD document for enhancement in legal documentation system and its feed into margin system
• Conducted data analysis with assumptions and prepared cost estimate for CSA / ISDA Master Agreement renegotiation efforts in light of Regulatory Reforms
• Utilized XML data for communication purposes through FpML, SWIFT
• Prepared Bilateral OTC derivatives matrix and Client profile decision tree for front to back workflow, collateral operations, legal documentation, margin calculations, reconciliation and reporting based on dynamically changing regulatory requirements

Environment: Rational Suite(Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case), Rational Unified Process (RUP),Java, J2EE technology, Windows Advanced Server, UNIX / Oracle Platform, Market data, MS Visio, SSIS, SQL server, Microsoft Office suite, Bloomberg, Reuters.

Confidential, Oaks, Pennsylvania

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Captured and analyzed requirements through interactions with stakeholders
• Created project plans and kept track of the progress through project management skills
• Conducted meetings and reviewed documents with concerned teams
• Accumulated business requirements from various business users and translated them into business requirements document
• Documented all the discussions, stored the requirements and tracked the changes maintaining the versions of document
• Led business initiatives including brainstorming on new functionality for current systems
• Created use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process with use case diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams with Rational Rose
• Created wireframes and screenshots for the application to ensure easy communication with the CRO using MS Visio to assist development and engineering in understanding the requirements
• Created and maintained complete development plans that included functional specifications, requirements engineering, Use Case modeling, risk assessment and mitigation, internal and external workflow
• Facilitated weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process for the application development
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product and ensured that the developers were updated
• Employed Microsoft Project to manage schedules, deadlines, and resources and collaborate on the project implementation and management
• Facilitated UAT to ensure all applications were tested for functionality and were adequately accepted by user community

Environment: Windows 7, Java, Oracle 10g, HTML, MS Excel, MS Word, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest