SUMMARY:

• Capital markets/Banking and derivative consultancy & business solutions provider for business, finance, operations, strategic and tactical IT/business projects. Experienced in Business/Regulatory Requirement Analysis from business perspectives.
• Specialized in OTC derivative asset classes. Led on - boarding, $180 Billion Bridgewater Associates LP onto, BNY Mellon ‘OnCore’ platform. Led Dodd-Frank Compliance, SEC/CFTC Modernization regulation compliance.
• 10 plus years of services in Front, Middle & Back office business operations. Technical and Business Analysis of Prime Brokerages, trading & asset management, Ops & Finance units. Implemented new systems/technology solutions using in-house & vendors applications.
• Excellent communication skills in eliciting, converting business requirements into functional & non-functional requirements, use cases and test cases.
• Managed of functional, automation testing of derivative & cash products using SWIFT, XML, FpML . Experienced in Agile/Scrum, or Waterfall methodology using JIRA/Rally for dynamic project management, development, deployment and Prod cutover.
• Functional SME of applications; Misys/Summit FT, Eagle STAR/PACE, Advent Geneva, CRD(Charles River OMS). Hold MBA degree, CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charter holder.
• Business Analysis process/flow, BRDs, FRDs, Mapping
• Finance/Accounting (F&O), Operations, Collateral, Reporting
• Regulatory works as, MIFID II/MIFIR, Dodd-Frank, SEC/CFTC
• Credit, Commodity, Delta One, Equity Swaps/Options, Fixed Income, FX swaps/derivatives
• LME and non-LME ETDs, Clear & Bi-lateral OTC equity, Interest rate, Credit default swap, commodity, FX swap STP w/SWIFT, XML and FpML, Fix Protocols
• IT Prime Brokerage services
• Regulatory/compliance and Corporate Reporting,
• Global OTC derivative and trade Lifecycle SME
• Manual and automation Test (Functional, E2E, UAT, regression
• Agile and Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Consultant/Derivative Lead Technical Analyst

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Led SEC/CFTC Modernization Project, as Derivatives SME managing, Client Front office requirement of data mapping, messaging OTC Fixed Income and Equity trading data via - XML to XML, XML to FPML from CRD (Charles River OMS) to Clients Data Hub/Repository
• Fixed Income Rates Equity and Credit Deriv products trading requirements such as; CCY rate curve set up, Underlying Security, Option/Swap Security, Credit Spreads, Recover and Default Probability table, Libor/Floating rates feeds, Calc.
• Credit, Interest Rate Curve data/points import via Bloomberg API, synchronization, normalization, data validation & verification, data application and data clean up
• Steer Middle Office and Front Office Technology teams to implement in-house XML conversion of Listed and OTC Derivatives to, XML, FPML and/or SWIFT protocols
• On-boarded client, initiated revenue generation steams for client.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Portfolio and Data analytic, scenario analysis and P&L & Risk analysis
• Design, prototype support in development of Risk Scenario Modeling using various markets and non-market driven factors to calculate and assess teh PnL impacts due to single or multiple effects occurring at same time or in staggered fashion
• Analyze, Write user requirements/stories, assumption, development and deployment plan in JIRA

Summit & Derivative Business Analyst

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Responsibilities:

• Capital Markets & Fixed income derivative BA, trading and risk management, front and middle office solution
• Reporting, tracking full SDLC using Kanban Board/Rally incl, requirement elicitations, research/user stories
• Sprint through releases and all testing phases for Agency FI debts, bond issuance, and FI derivatives - callable swaps, Rate swap/option

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Bridgewater Client Middle & Back office on-boarding program as BA, Project/Program Manager, Test Lead/Manager’ for portfolio operations, derivative lifecycle, collateral:
• Supported and signed off BRDs, FRSs, use cases, mapping docs for Clear and Un-Clear OTC Equity Index, Index future, Index options, FX, FI/Rates, Credit and Commodity & Repo trades
• STP (Straight Thru Processing) of Clear and Bi-lateral OTC and ETD trading activities, using SWIFT and FpML files
• Designed, mapped AFT, End 2 End/Front to Back, UAT test strategy, test plan/test cases execution
• Integrated seamless flow of data from trade capture, derivative, Collateral, to Eagle STAR/PACE Accounting system
• Dodd-Frank regulatory compliance, through change requirement of Clear prod: CDX and CDS, IRS/OIS
• Margin rules, margin calculation and setup for LME and non-LME based margin based trading books
• Regulatory Mandatory Clearing, Trade & Portfolio Recon incl. Clear VM and PAI calculation, Netting and Un-Clear Margining
• Change Management, Project management, user experience, business experience, UAT support and OPS procedures & training
• Built relationship across all business users, tech teams and offshore teams to integrate project activities
• Executed SQL query for large data analysis, data recons for validations and testing purposes

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior On-Site Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Spearhead Global Prime Finance regulatory and non-regulatory project supporting GME IT divisions, across multiple platforms servicing institutional clients:
• Business and Functional requirement, Test plan including test strategy, test scenarios, test cases for cash, derivative products incl. financing calculator, Tri-party collaterals, Seaport Client reporting and collaterals of SEF Equity and equity and interest Rate Swap, equity CFDs
• Delta One Swap, SEF/CFDs, stocks/bond, FX spot/Fwds, Cash and Treasury management, Seaport reporting, Sec Lending agreements, Tri-party collaterals and other collaterals
• Supported securities data upgrade from regional based to institutionalized ‘Global One’ platform
• Supported projects PMO activities for vendor incl. resources and logistics
• Advent Geneva upgrade from, 7.6 to, 8.0 by validating New functionality, New RSL, for stocks, bond, options and other security holdings

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst, Management Consultant, Financial Services

Responsibilities:

• Advises clients on strategic and tactical requirements & planning on various business across business units, private wealth management (for HNW and UHNW client)
• Led and co-led team to elicit requirements and prepare business requirement documents, analysis and design using AGILE - Scrum, Waterfall SDLC process

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Derivative platform, Order Management System, STP processing (STP), X-Margining
• OTC FX spots/Fwds/NDFs, Delta One Products, Swap (equity, ABS, IRS, CDS, ITRAXX/CDX, Vol. swap), Equity, Index, Exotics option, credit facility, syndicated loans and other short terms lending facilities
• Identified and reported/resolved portfolio and sector credit risk, market & hot pocket risk
• Managed Middle and Back office activities incl. Corp actions, sec and cash settlement through PB, DTCC
• Utilized Geneva and implemented new Advent Geneva 6.0 system for middle office and accounting system. Created and tested RSLs, Advent AGA