SUMMARY

• Diverse professional experience as a Business Analyst (BA); Project/Program Manager (PM) in Information Technology with extensive experience in BI tools and good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Project management knowledge which involved delegating responsibilities, budgeting, change management, preparing weekly status reports for management, communicating and presenting the reports, and resolving issues and conflicts with Clients
• Excellent Business Writing skills in developing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirements, System Design Specification (SDS), Workflows and Unified Modeling Language (UML) using MS Tool Suite
• Knowledge and Experience in Software Development Life Cycles using the iterative and incremental methodologies such as RUP, Agile Scrum, and Non - iterative methodologies like waterfall methodology
• Good experience in Key Performance Measurement, describing intended results, understanding alternative measures, defining composite indicators, setting targets and thresholds and defining and documenting selected performance measures
• Skilled in JIRA, MS Visio, CA Clarity PPM, MS Project, TFS and MS Excel for project monitoring and planning and budget management
• Experience using Clarity PPM for forecasting cost overruns, measuring financial performance such as budget to forecast variants and other strategic benefits using financial KPI's
• Leveraged Clarity PPM to track portfolio of multiple investment types including projects, products and services
• Familiarity with electronic data interchanges (EDI) transaction codes that correspond to business documents, such as purchase orders and invoices.
• Proficient in SharePoint site content design and implementation as well as navigating and applying site settings
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with end users expert team, QA team and Stakeholders for project related meetings
• Extensive experience in conducting GAP Analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost and ROI Analysis
• Proficient in creating Risk Analysis documents, Risk Management Plan and Business Process Flows
• Performed an in-depth analysis of the system’s organizational structure, services and processes and created As-Is and To-Be process models
• Experience in defining the User Interface, Screen Mock-ups for Web GUI and also worked on defining positive and negative flows for each screen and use case
• Experience in writing requirements for Agile Projects, such as User Stories, Product Backlog List, Sprint Backlog List, Acceptance Criteria, and Estimation & Prioritization
• Proficiency in documenting use-cases, writing test cases and preparing requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Experience with Data Analysis using RDBMS such as Oracle and SQL Server
• Knowledge in Project Planning, Project Design, Project Scoping, resource planning & training using MS Project.
• Proficient in creating User Guides, Manuals, UAT Test Plans and other documents to be used by external system users
• Good understanding of managing client valuations and front to back OTC post trade processes of the Fixed Income and Equities trading Desks
• Well versed with managing trade lifecycle events, performed collateral management activities and settlements services
• Proficient in performing daily pricing comparison for Equity, Derivative and Fixed Income securities to ensure all prices are correct and research any discrepancies with pricing vendors
• Assisted client with valuation statements which include pricing and trade booking related queries

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and analysis for creating new API’s and updating API’s
• Lead Project Manager for the Confidential Billing System migration workstream (Legacy Mainframe to AWS Cloud)
• Organized/hosted sessions with stakeholder as well as various scrum ceremonies with the Technology team

Tools: and Technologies: Bluezone TSO, TPX; Cassandra;MS Office Suite;JIRA;SQL ;Balsamiq

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Business Strategy Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• StrategyManager and Product Owner for Confidential US Apps on iOS and Android
• Created product enhancement strategy for Mobile and Web Application (Guidewire)
• Defined Enterprise Mobile and Web App being part of (e-business) Global Customer Solutions Team to meet the customer expectations by reducing operating expenses >15% by leading cost-benefit analysis for P&C LOB
• Enhanced current Digital Portfolio and Increase Claim processing over Mobile/Web
• Performed Research and Identify opportunities to increase Digital Portfolio, Customer Engagement and played integral role in technology business planning, budgeting, with business stakeholder relations
• Initiated ad campaigns to increase cross sell and identify upselling opportunities
• Created and presented strategy decks for line of business (LOB) stakeholders to identify goals and opportunities
• Implemented a feature costing model that adheres to the current Digital Strategy of the Organization
• Collaborated with technology teams as a Product Owner to define new requirements and drive product strategy
• Performed Mobile/Web UAT testing for all product enhancements and client change requirements
• Collated and analyzed data (KPI’s) from various technology and client services teams to understand key customer concerns
• Evaluated exploratory data analysis, generate and test working hypotheses, and uncover interesting trends and relationships with big data team
• Dealt with major components in Hadoop Ecosystem like SparkSQL, HBase
• Led strategy sessions across senior level executives to identify goals, objectives and design principles
• Developed product-based costing and budgeting model that linked to the strategy of the organization
• Facilitated multiple workshops with business process owners to understand and document existing processes and pain points
• Worked with IT to translate business requirements into system solution design document
• Designed strategies to specific needs of the impacted stakeholder groups based on change impact analysis

Tools: and Technologies: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, JIRA, MS Visio, MS Project, Android, iOS

Confidential, Kearny, NJ

BA/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Documentation, Interpreting business needs and translating them into application requirements
• Organized requirement elicitation meetings, Authored Functional Specifications, BRDs, FRDs and design session for mock-ups and wire frames
• Prepared process flow/activity diagram for existing system using MS Visio and re-engineerthedesign based on business requirements
• Worked as a liaison between business and technology through all phases of SDLC in an agile environment
• Developed and Analyzed KPI’s to bridge gap between goals and results.
• Experience using Clarity PPM to perform Project management tasks as well as budget tracking.
• Developed standardized reporting, KPM process, and streamlined communication process. Automated Key Performance Measurements (KPM) Reports
• Experience with electronic data interchange (EDI) transaction codes that correspond to business documents, such as purchase orders and invoices.
• Created SLA documents by collaborating with Legal and Compliance before Application rollout
• Performed data analysis using MySQL queries, VBA and MS Excel
• Assisted QA team in creating test cases, test scripts along with performing SIT/UAT testing
• Facilitated complete UAT cycle, Functional Testing, Gap Analysis and Change Impact analysis.
• Conducted continuous improvement efforts to refine reporting requirements and implemented efficient ways to operationalize reports to reduce man-hours cost to the organization
• Presented key findings to senior executives via impactful visuals in order to provide meaningful insights, develop opportunities and identify risks
• Adapt at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Sequence, Activity diagrams using MS Visio

Tools: and Technologies: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, JIRA, Python, MS Visio, MS Project, TFS, Git, Java, Balsamiq, Axure, Android, MySQL, CA Clarity PPM, JS, HTML, VBA

Confidential

Business Analyst & Financial Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Client facing role responsible for managing client valuations and front to back OTC post trade processes of the Fixed Income and Equities trading Desks.
• Gathered Business requirements, facilitated meetings and analyzed the business requirements to carefully convert them to Functional specifications.
• Created Business Requirement documents (BRD) for Business end user review and communicated with the business on a non-technical level.
• Communicated changes to requirements promptly and precisely to all personnel involved and created Project Change Request (PCR) documents or Sprint BRD for the changes.
• Performed budget/vendor/resource management tasks for the team using CA Clarity PPM.
• Experience using Clarity PPM for forecasting cost overruns, measuring financial performance such as budget to forecast variants and other strategic benefits using financial KPI's
• Leveraged Clarity PPM to track portfolio of multiple investment types including project, product, service
• Involved in the preparation of technical specifications and test plan documents for the development of new programs having complex functionality.
• Updated and organized the SharePoint site into an efficient layout, making the SharePoint site a useful tool for document storage & search.
• Updated report procedure documents as well as SharePoint reports and objects.
• Involved in getting the technical specifications, triggering MySQL queries, code and test plan documents reviewed by client's in regular basis to meet the quality standards.
• Managed trade lifecycle events, performed collateral management activities and settlements services
• Assisted in the daily pricing comparison for Equity, Derivative and Fixed Income securities to ensure all prices are correct and research any discrepancies with pricing vendors
• Assisted with hard to price portfolios and recommended fair value pricing to portfolio manager and investment analyst
• Facilitated trade break resolution processes between Fund administrator and broker dealers
• Performed daily and month-end trade and position reconciliations for OTC derivatives products
• Performed trade capture for IRS, Swaptions, Basis Swaps, FX Swaps, Variance/Volatility Swaps, FX Options
• Interacted with various internal departments such as Credit, Legal, Documentation, Product Control, and the Front Office to ensure timely resolution of any margin call disputes
• Liaison between Sales, Trading and external clients on queries regarding indicative client valuations
• Managed and responded to client questions regarding their valuation statements which include pricing and trade booking related queries as well as general statement setup and maintenance
• Provided governance over the front-to-back Indicative Client Valuations process, including defining and maintaining the Client Valuations Policy
• Responsible for Dodd-Frank Act Title IV updates and changes as related to OTC Derivatives post trade processing
• Responsible for consolidating trade holdings for fixed income portfolios for CCAR reporting
• Prepared and presented monthly MIS report to determine resource allocations across OTC Operations team

Tools: and Technologies: MySQL, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Bloomberg Professional Terminal, Terminal, Loanet, JIRA, SharePoint, CA Clarity PPM

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the policies and benefits related to wind energy
• Implemented capital budgeting concepts such as NPV, IRR, Payback Period
• Understanding business development process at Confidential
• Cash flow analysis for making proposal to prospective clients
• Monitored progress of a wind power project by capturing purchase order and invoices, updated project manage
• Performed Financial analysis and portfolio of multiple clients using CA Clarity PPM
• Created feasible wind turbine generator proposal in on-going project
• Worked on financial analysis with income statement, balance sheet analysis, and cash flow statement
• Collaborated with marketing, finance and operations department regarding progress of the project
• Created financial (business) model with current government policies

Tools: and Technologies: MySQL, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, CA Clarity PPM, MS Project