SUMMARY

• A Senior Consultant/Business Analyst in Banking domain with over 12 years’ experience in Techno - functional roles across various IT projects.
• Over 9 years’ experience in Implementing core banking product T24 by Confidential across various phases of project from Requirement finalization, Functional specification writing, Functional testing, development support, Regression testing and UAT Support.
• Expertise in Retail Banking, Lending, Treasury & Capital markets domains.
• Expertise in Regulatory compliance (Basel, CCAR, DFAST, FATCA) related projects.
• Extensive experience in entire Software Development Lifecycle(SDLC) functions from Requirements gathering to post live support.
• Proficient in using UML for Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Process charts.
• Strong experience in Requirements gathering through User interviews, Questionnaires,workshops etc.
• Very articulate in documenting Business Requirement documents (BRD), System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and User manuals.
• A professional with ability to work independently & proactively as well as a good team player
• Carrying out requirement gathering/ analysis, high level and low-level designing of the project.
• Understanding business’s requirements and mapping them to system requirements specifications.
• Incorporating changes/modifications in the project as required; executing project status tracking, resource allocation and management.
• Defining and assessing the project metrics.
• Formulating Strategic plans in association with business to reduce costs and increase revenue.
• Initiating process improvements in agreement with the business.
• Handling the client interactions for requirement gathering, system study & analysis.
• Working out the new system's requirements & specifications and test strategies.
• Assisting in functional testing of the new system and ensuring that it meets the user specifications.
• Handling customer queries for better turnaround time and customer satisfaction. Identifying prospective new business opportunities, generating business from the existing client.
• Interacting with the clients on a regular basis & providing redresses to all their queries.
• Leading & monitoring performance of team members to ensure efficiency and meeting of targets.
• Identifying and implementing strategies for building team effectiveness by promoting a spirit of cooperation between team members.
• Recognizing areas of improvements and organizing training programs for the same.
• Looking after recruitment process to scale up the COE team.
• Basel II/Basel III reporting and Risk & Compliance reports.
• FATCA implementation.
• CCAR/Dodd-frank compliance & reporting.
• Other regular central bank regulatory reporting( FR Y-9C, FR Y-15, FFIEC)
• Managing the front office operations including, issue of demand drafts/ Pay orders, fund transfers, customer servicing.
• Customer creation, Verification and authorization of account opening for Savings bank, Current account and fixed deposits ensuring KYC Compliance.
• Account lifecycle management functions like interest & charges accrual & liquidation, tax collection & payment, account closure etc.
• Complete cash flow management for Treasury operations.
• Early termination of trades either partial or full.
• Post Trade settlement and reconciliation.
• Financial and regulatory reporting of trade data.
• Risk management for Market risk, Credit risk, Counterparty risk.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• This project was taken over from another vendor and initial KT phase is recently completed.
• Role in the projects requires interaction with business users, development teams and testing teams from different locations.
• Facilitated KT sessions and reverse KT sessions.
• Final sign-off obtained for all the applications for which handover completed successfully.
• Giving functional overview and understanding of all the applications to the team.
• Analyze the BRD documents for any changes to do Impact analysis for all existing BI reports.
• Suggesting
• Providing the development team with alternate solutions.
• Domains training of the team for FXTrading (SPOT, Futures & Options)& Capital markets domains as all the applications belong to these domains.
• Participating in daily project leadership status calls to control the project progress.
• Implemented partial termination of FX trades and supported the team for complete testing of related changes.
• New report on of FX Derivatives (Vanilla European Options)maturities.
• Facilitated daily defect review meetings.
• Documented project learnings and best practices.
• Currently involved in Impact Analysis due to movement of Treasury operations from CT to MA.

Environment: Microsoft office suite, Informatica Powercentre, Cognos, TM1,HP ALM,SQL

Confidential, New York, NY

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business analyst to understand the business requirements for FATCA implementation related changes.
• Review of Business requirement Documents and signing off.
• Involved in development and testing of annual report to IRS regarding US entities holding accounts in other geographic locations outside of US.
• Assisted the development team in understanding the requirements and got their queries answered from business users.
• Prepared detailed System Requirement Specifications Documents (SRS) to capture the essential functionalities for the proposed changes.
• Worked on data mapping and validation for CCAR Stress Testing report formats FR Y-14Q& 14A.
• Actively involved in planning and execution of the CCAR mock runs.
• Worked on VaR calculations for FFIEC 102 report on Market risk.
• Assisted with analytical processes involved in developing scenarios, producing capital forecasts, and preparing presentations as part of the bi-annual stress tests.
• Responsibilities also included over-looking Test Planning, Test Case development, Functional and Integration Testing.
• Defect logging and tracking of the test results in HPQC.
• Involved in Change Management process, using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and performing Impact analysis.

Environment: Microsoft office suite, AS400, HP QC

Confidential, Orlando,FL

Senior Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Response to RFI & RFP’s.
• Requirement gathering and elicitation through user workshops, interviews & questionnaires.
• Mapping the requirements to product functionalities and identifying the gaps.
• Writing the detailed functional specifications for proposed solutions and customizations.
• Working closely with development team to support the planned development.
• UAT support and issue tracking & closure.
• Also worked on no. of Risk & Finance reporting projects for Basel II reporting and Central Bank reporting requirements.
• Implemented ACH(Automated Clearing House) solution for a client in Eastern Caribbean region.
• Worked on a number of projects to standardize the operations of a client in CCOM (Common Caribbean Operating Model).
• Development of Risk Management framework for a client to manage Credit Risk&Operational Risks.
• Report on Calculation of risk capitalbased on total Risk Weighted Assets of a bank.
• Worked on a Data mining project to create a remote central data warehouse for data from multiple applications to use for reporting purposes.
• Worked on a Stress Testing solution for a client to check the health of the portfolio of investments for the client to ascertain Capital adequacy and planning.
• Implemented a solution to identify prospects for private wealth management business of a bank based on assets held by a customer in the bank.

Environment: Confidential T24, Oracle, Microsoft Office Suite, TAABS tool

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functional testing based on BR documents, process charts and Functional Specification documents.
• Testing core modules of Funds Transfer(FT), Teller(TT), Deposits (LD) and Syndicated Lending(SL) also local development and System Amendment Requests(SAR)
• Based on the FS of selected modules, Test scripts identification, modification and running regression cycles for each new builds being deployed.
• SEAT is a built in tool capable of capturing test scripts based on input of transactions.
• It’s also pre-configured with standard test scripts for all modules of T24 which were used for our regression testing.
• Change management and Test case development for new changes.
• Reporting the regression testing reports and logging of issues.
• Analysis of test results.

Environment: Confidential T24, Microsoft Office Suite, SEAT tool

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Study of existing systems & processes.
• Functional Requirement gathering & analysis.
• Process mapping for the redesigned processes.
• Coordinating with user divisions for formulating SRS & the tender document.
• Hosting pre-bid meeting to resolve bidders’ queries.
• Evaluation of technical offers based on internal evaluation matrix.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Peoplesoft HRMS, IBAS Banking suit

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work with the team to provide online support to branch issues.
• Provide correction programs to branches whenever necessary.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, IBAS Banking suit, e-TDS module