SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst in various critical and interactive domains specializing in Global finance and Banking applications focusing on buy - side and sell-side applications geared mainly towards compliance and regulatory changes.
• Self-starter with excellent communication skills and proven multi-tasking abilities with a successful track record of working independently in fast paced environments combined with superior analytical mindset.
• In-depth knowledge of and experience in the financial industry and global financial markets including product expertise (Equities, Swaps, Fixed Income, Money Markets, FX, futures & options and both OTC and exchange-traded derivatives products)
• Industry experience in Waterfall, Iterative and Agile Methodologies
• Experience in Requirement gathering, Business and Data Analysis, Requirements Documentation and execution
• Participating and leading planning sessions to identify feature sets and prioritizing critical requirements
• Assist QA Testers and Developers in testing efforts for successful implementation of the product
• Expertise in Elicitation of business requirements including technical details andproducingfunctional specificationsdocument
• Experience withfinancial products and associated risks with some technical background in data warehousing implementation
• Maintaining checklists within Agile SDM to minimize documentation requirements wherever necessary within
• Ability to consolidate diverse and critical ideas on complex subjects into concise summaries
• Equities: Knowledge of - Common stock, Preferred stock, Warrants and treasury stocks.
• Fixed Income: Knowledge of Fixed Income Securities and Bond markets- Corporate Bonds, Treasury Bonds, Treasury notes and Bills, MBS, Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, Risk Associated with Corporate Bonds. Adept in Fixed Income concepts like Yield, Duration and Convexity. Risk measures for Bond trading.
• Derivatives: Understanding of Derivatives: Forwards, Futures, Options and Swaps. Knowledge of Derivative markets, Usage and Positions, types of Options and Swaps.
• Collateral Management: Repo, Reverse-repo, Securities Lending
• Regulation and Risk management Basel II. Dodd Frank - Volker Rule. Compliance. Understanding of Credit Risk, Market risk and Operations risk. Regulatory experience (BASEL III LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) knowledge). Liquidity Risk Management knowledge
• Industry experience in working with Front Office, Middle and back office systems of boutique as well as leading Investment banks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: SQL

Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Suite

Testing Tools/BA Tools: Test Director, SharePoint, Jira, Quality Center

Business process modeling: MS Visio, UML, Workflow Diagrams, GAP Models

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Meet with stakeholders including product managers and Risk Team to gather requirements and define scope for the project
• Review of BRD and FSD with business, technology and all stakeholders to facilitate discussions and approval
• Conduct project kick-off meetings for story mapping and communicate individual roles and project expectations
• Conduct JAD sessions between the Risk team and the IT team as well as between the Product managers and the IT team for detailed analysis, feedback and standardization of Recap
• Facilitating design and development to ensure requirements are fully understood, coded, tested and implemented
• Ensured that all project team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing and training for end users.
• Analysis and documentation of issues and defects in test scripts by running SQL queries where the actual results failed to fully meet the business requirements

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with the businesses users, gathering business requirements, functional specifications and analysis of cross-work streamimpact
• Performed Requirement Analysis by applying various modeling techniques such as use cases, business process models, context diagrams, class diagrams, sequence diagrams
• Interacted with cross-functional team to conductProcess and Data Flowanalysis and derive requirements for existing system enhancements efforts
• Managed consumer expectations, development activities, manage & execute testing, and
• Worked with technology team tobuild, test and implement the solution to support post-production validation
• Liaised between Firm Market Risk department, front office trading and technology on the consistency and accuracy of risk representation as well as referential data.
• Communicated project status through executive dashboards and status reports
• Explained complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels
• Prepared cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decision-making on system implementation.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted effective meetings with senior stakeholders and business sponsors in order to gather requirements and develop business cases
• Analysis and reconciliation of Data gathered across the sources and recommend proposals to senior management
• Presented information precisely to enhance decision-making and communication between the end business users and developers.
• Coordinated with User Acceptance testing, test planning and execution
• Demonstrated robust knowledge of capital markets and current regulations within the industry
• Adopted multiple analysis techniques around change management implementation
• Analysis of clients’ existing front-office and back-office systems to determine the integration of those systems with the help of Intellimatch
• Assessed capability gaps, issues and differences to determine solution approach
• Supervised synchronization of multiple components of trading platform including but not limited to order management system, order entry system, matching engine, thick and thin graphical user interface (GUI) clients and messaging middleware.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed stakeholders globally across trading, valuations, risk management, IT, operations and finance
• Documented detailed business requirements and translate business needs into technical systems and process improvement solutions
• Assisted in designing software solution & requirement to interpret and configure CSA agreements within the collateral management platform.
• Data quality analysis to facilitate ops to monitor and reconcile cash and securities collateral positions and to analyze, evaluate and resolve collateral disputes.
• Prepared daily, weekly, and quarterly reports for Senior Management.
• Liaison with Front office and Brokers to obtain data information on assets from Accounting system and rehypothecatable assets for inventory capture
• Led project meetings and governance forums efficiently and effectively
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Collateral workflow including, margin types, exposure calculations, margin management and collateral selection
• Developed test cases and test scripts for system releases and managed functional testing and user acceptance testing.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defining and gathering requirements from trading desk, front office and back office support
• Worked with the technical team for system development and timely delivery of the project
• PerformedGap Analysisby defining the functional requirements and documented the description of all the fields, to aid the software development process
• CreatedUse Case,ActivityandSequencediagrams to represent the workflow and capture bottlenecks
• Assisted in creation of detailed pricing models from the requirements phase through development and testing.
• PerformedIntegration TestingandUATto validate the functionalityand business logic
• Assisted in resolution of queries and management of deliverables
• Determined inefficiencies, reduction of overhead costs and improvements to increase revenue