SUMMARY

• 8+ years of diversified experience in analysis, design, development, testing and implementation as Sr. Business Analyst in deployment of web - based/client-server applications, developing business processes and system solutions in Banking, Swift Messaging & Fund Transfer, Investment, Financial Industries for various projects from conceptualization to implementation.
• Excellent skills in gathering requirements & creating Business Requirements Document (BRD) & Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents, Experience in facilitating JAD sessions, project meetings and reviews and walk through.
• Extensive experience with the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Waterfall, RUP and Agile & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experienced and effective in conducting/anchoring sessions during Requirement gathering/analysis phase. The processes include - JAD (Joint application design), Workshops and Brainstorming sessions with Business users, SME’s and Stake holders alike in gathering requirements, collecting and analyzing them to identify the real business need and facilitating the development of a customized solution which delivers maximum cost and usability benefit to the client and company.
• Expertise in conducting requirement gathering sessions, feasibility studies, and impact analysis, cost/benefit analysis and risk analysis, Gap Analysis to determine the existing system, documenting, and approving the variance between business requirements and system capabilities.
• Ability to work closely with the business partners to define and understand their needs.
• Knowledge and working experience in converting business requirements into UML diagrams using Rational Unified Process and MS Visio and also managing and tracking those requirements.
• Experience in process modeling using Use Cases, Sequence and Context Diagrams.
• Extensively communicated information in a clear concise, credible, and timely manner to optimize customer relations.
• Extensive experience on Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Unified Process and SQL.
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, can perform well both independently and with a team, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Analysis Tools: Requisite Pro, MS Visio/UML, Clear Quest, Enterprise Architect (EA)

Methodologies: RUP, SDLC Agile, Waterfall

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, QTP

RDBMS: SQL Server, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows

Reporting Tools: Business Objects, Ms Excel

Microsoft Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, MS Outlook, Spread Sheet, MS Access, Lotes Notes

Platforms: Windows (NT, 2000, XP), Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BUSINESS ANALYST/TRADE FINANCE & LETTER CREDIT SPECIALIST

Confidential, NYC, NY

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between internal and external customers for new architecture, engineering, and provisioning business changes, enhancements, and new implementations.
• Communicate information in a clear concise, credible, and timely manner to optimize customer relations.
• Identified process improvements, gathered and analyzed business requirements, and produced detailed functional and/or technical requirement documentation and workflow processes; diagrams for implementation.
• Experience in writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS)
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project
• Created Use cases, Use Case Diagram, Business flow diagram, Work and Navigation flow diagram using Unified modeling language (UML).
• Created Use cases, and developed detailed Use Case Diagrams and Sequence diagrams describing how actions are to be carried out using MS Visio.
• Worked on Issuing /advising, amendments, payments for imports, exports and standby Letters of credit by mail and swifts.
• Worked on money transfers for payments via swift by chips, Fed Wire and also Foreign exchange payments
• Worked on GSM 102 Loans (origination) and Rollovers, Loans for Export Import Bank (EXIM Bank) and World Bank Loans under their commitments.
• Provided service for Tier I customers for multi-million dollar financing and structured finance deals.
• Provided feedback and work with marketing team for special customers and their financing.
• Assisted/verified the team member’s work and their process transactions.
• Verified & maintained GSM 102 Loan Documentation.
• Responsible for sending and controllingswiftchips payment and Fed wire payments
• Responsible for sendingAuthenticated swift free format messaging
• Responsible for sending Reimbursement claims to other Banks using swift message
• Responsible for advising Letters of credit, amendments and payments to other banksusing swift messages
• Responsible in advising standby Letterof credit via swift message
• Checked transactions under OFAC, Patriot Act, BSA, and AML and KYC.
• Worked/participated in UAT Testing for system updates periodically and closely worked with the QA Team.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between internal and external customers for new architecture, engineering, and provisioning business changes, enhancements, and new implementations.
• Communicate information in a clear concise, credible, and timely manner to optimize customer relations.
• Identified process improvements, gathered and analyzed business requirements, and produced detailed functional and/or technical requirement documentation and workflow processes; diagrams for implementation.
• Experience in writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS)
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project
• Created Use cases, Use Case Diagram, Business flow diagram, Work and Navigation flow diagram using Unified modeling language (UML).
• Created Use cases, and developed detailed Use Case Diagrams and Sequence diagrams describing how actions are to be carried out using MS Visio.
• Worked in an environment with direct client interaction
• Escalating client trade related issues
• Preparation of Daily P&L for the FXPB Desk
• Reconciliation and reporting of FXPB P&L
• Interaction with developed applications to reconcile buy and sell side electronic trade submissions
• Working closely with IT developers defining infrastructure upgrades and maintenance requests
• Managing trade life cycle events including daily option exercises/expirations and NDF fixings
• Providing feedback on client activities to the front office
• Assisting MO Management and FO with ad-hoc reports.
• Responsible for sending and controllingswiftchips payment and Fed wire payments
• Responsible for sendingAuthenticated swift free format messaging
• Responsible for sending Reimbursement claims to other Banks using swift message
• Responsible for advising Letters of credit, amendments and payments to other banksusing swift messages
• Responsible in advising standby Letterof credit via swift message
• Distributing monthly invoices and monitoring the collection of fees
• Providing Client Clearing Middle Office support in a back-up capacity.

BUSINESS ANALYST/LETTER OF CREDIT SPECIALIST

Confidential, NYC, NY

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and manage meetings/analysis sessions with business unit subject matter expert(s) in order to solicit and cross-reference business and functional requirements ensuring expectations are clearly understood and satisfied
• Create and manage detailed business, functional and system requirement specifications (including use cases, business rules and workflows) to support application enhancements.
• Perform patriot act compliance of all transactions
• Perform OFAC filtering of all transactions
• Perform check whether customer is KYC adopted by or not
• If necessary proceed with KYC adoption
• Perform check for AML for all incoming and outgoing payments
• Report any suspicious and exceptional transactions.
• Create training materials and communication plans to educate and inform business community involving new application functionality and business process; assist with updating business policies and procedures.
• Operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications interacting professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between internal and external customers for new architecture, engineering, and provisioning business changes, enhancements, and new implementations.
• Communicate information in a clear concise, credible, and timely manner to optimize customer relations.
• Identified process improvements, gathered and analyzed business requirements, and produced detailed functional and/or technical requirement documentation and workflow processes; diagrams for implementation.
• Experience in writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS)
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project
• Created Use cases, Use Case Diagram, Business flow diagram, Work and Navigation flow diagram using Unified modeling language (UML).
• Supported AML investigation requirements of the WB TMU.
• Supported in developing controls and procedures relating to transaction monitoring.
• Undertook quality assurance role of transaction monitoring.
• Reviewed all information acquired from pro-active suspicious activity reports.
• Established and implemented money laundering rules in transaction monitoring system.
• Conducted monitoring of AML exception reports.
• Provided backup liaison with business and IT.

BUSINESS/FINANCIAL ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from key stakeholders, customers and subject matter experts to define the scope and requirements of online banking system
• Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled and deliverables are produced within specified budget, quality and time
• Defined the context of the system by creating various use cases Developed system requirements specifications encompassing Functional and Non-Functional requirements
• Provided/maintained branch deposits, Loans, and accounts
• Maintained the Loan documentation and security papers
• Provided services like drafts, Money Transfers, Reports too Head Office and marketing help to Manager
• Provided/maintained day today accounts and General Ledger
• Prepared the annual Budgets and monitored it.
• Worked with Auditors and responded to Audit Reports