Professional Summary:

 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst with strong understanding of Systems Requirements Gathering, Process Flow,
Business Process Modeling, Data Analysis and Systems Analysis.
 Solid experience in Finance Industry, Investment banking, Retail banking, Commercial banking, Credit Cards, Insurance,
Wealth Management and Mortgage Services.
 Experience in Charles River Compliance, Charles River Trader, Charles River Post Trade.
 Extensive work experience with Portfolio Managers, Experienced Traders, and Compliance Manager to configure the rule-based
scenarios for capturing market and credit risk, general multi-factor sensitivity analyses, and PnL.
 Expertise in financial statements, cash flow, financing structures, Capital Management, Asset Data, Fixed Income, Portfolio
Analysis, Stock Valuation, Capital Structures and Budgeting, Value Based management.
 Experience in reviewing various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business requirements
document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement
Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing document.
 Experienced in Workflow Analysis, Gap Analysis for implementing trading system
 Comprehensive knowledge of and solid experience in SDLC Methodologies, MSF,RUP, Waterfall, RAD, and XP
 Solid Experience in collection, analyses, and documentation of User Requirements, as well as organizing Interviews, User
meetings, and JAD sessions
 Strong knowledge in UML2.0, proficient in creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration
diagram, Activity Diagrams and other Modeling
 Extensive experience in Conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, and Risks Analysis
 Extensive experience in the management of User Request Change and User Conflicts
 Ability to organize, document and track changes and defects by using Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case
 Expertise in developing Test Plan, Test Conditions, and Test Cases; ensuring adequate testing of software both before and after
completion; conducting and documenting UAT
 Have a strong knowledge of writing SQL scripts for Store Procedures & T-SQL statements.
 Excellent Communication and Presentation skills; Experience working with business users, developers as well as Senior
management; Experienced in making Presentation to Senior Management.
 Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, MS Access, MS
Visio, technical assessment tools, Data Warehousing concepts and web design and development

Technical Skills:
Programming Languages : C, C++,C#,VC++,VB,VB.NET,C#.NET, ASP.NET, Java, SQL, PLSQL
Operating Systems : UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux.
Databases : MS-Access, PL/SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, DB2, Sybase
Application Servers : IBM Websphere, ATG Dynamo, BEA WebLogic.
Internet : HTML, XML, VBScript, ASP, JavaScript, JSP, J2EE.
Automation Tools : MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational RequisitePro, Documentum
Bug Tracking Tools : Mercury TestDirector, Rational ClearQuest
Utility Tools : MS Office Suite, MS Project, TOAD, Adobe Photoshop
Reporting Tools : Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reports (SSRS)
Data warehousing Tools : Informatica, Business Objects, Cognos, Erwin
Testing Tools : Quick TestPro (QTP), TestDirector, WinRunner, LoadRunner

Professional Experience:

CunaMutual Group, Madison, WI July 16 – Present

The CUNA Mutual Group is the leading provider of financial services to credit unions and their members worldwide, offering
insurance, lending, financial, employee and member solutions through strategic partnerships, technological innovations and multiple
service channels. The project was to support and implement an end-to-end Front and Middle Office trading system for derivative
trading and risk management consisting of Forwards, Swaps, CDS, Futures, OTC and exchange traded options for hedging as well as
speculative trading. SWIFT messaging was used to establish a global communications link for data processing and a common
language for international financial transactions. The system integrated the front office (Deal Capture, Contract Management) and
mid-office (Credit control, Risk Management), by incorporating Charles River's IMS into Equity and Derivative trading to realize
Straight through Processing. The data comes from different source systems such as accounts, customer and product to feed the
business intelligence system. Apart from this there was data coming from flat files and other databases too. Tracking the transactions
and investments in marketing tables to drive better decision making by integrating relevant data into the Data Warehouse is the
requirement to be designed and implemented.

Responsibilities:
 Executed the daily, day1 P&L and month-end P&L process for Rates Derivatives, Options, and Foreign Exchange Market,
which included attribution analysis using the explanatory Greek, data integrity review, FX exposure netting and FX reval.
 Resolved P&L discrepancies through daily interaction with Front Office, erroneous trade bookings investigation and internal
allocation charges.
 Ensured all assigned balance sheets are properly substantiated by reconciling both daily and month-end P&L reports to general
ledger. Monitored both "clean" and "hypo" back testing exceptions against VaR to meet the increasing demands by Financial
Services Authority (FSA).
 Supported bank's long term strategic goals by defining and influencing the strategic direction of financial controllership of
trading strategies. Prepared analytical commentary to explain market performance and P&L.
 Interacting with end users to gather the functional requirements and customize QlikView dashboards accordingly and involved
in developing, enhancing, re-engineering, maintaining, supporting QlikView applications.
 Handled scheduled and ad-hoc reports development, deployment and management for various departments using SQL server
reporting services (SSRS) and crystal reports. Developed various dashboards using QlikView.
 Involved in Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Cleansing, Data Verification and Identifying Data Mismatch.
 Utilized scheduling and forecasting expertise to ensure staffing for projected budgets and aligned staffing to support call-volume.
 Perform in-depth source data analysis and source-to-target gap analysis. Document the source-to-target data mappings for ETL
design.
 Gathered data that is necessary to accomplish analysis from a number of sources accumulate it together in prearranged format
and enter the data in several data analysis software.
 Involved in Manipulating, cleansing & processing data using Excel, Access and SQL
 Work with Data Migration team in determining the data elements and period for data migration
 Responsible for creating data mapping documents between legacy Performance Reporting Systems and determining the best data
source for migration
 Actively participated in gathering requirements from various SMEs, Financial Analysts, Risk Analysts and Portfolio
Management via JAD/JAR sessions.
 Extracted the Business Requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared Business
Requirement Documents (BRD) using Rational RequisitePro.
 Extensively involved with the trading activities of Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Equity
Derivatives and Commodity Derivatives; and Futures including Commodity Futures Contracts and Financial Futures
 Execution of PL/SQL on oracle table in order to view successful transaction of data.
 Worked with heterogeneous sources from various channels like Oracle DBMS, SQL Server, flat files, and web logs.
 Created and managed Project Templates, Use Case Project Templates, Requirement Types and Traceability Relationships in
RequisitePro.
 Involved in creating automated Test Scripts representing various Transactions, Documenting the Load Testing Process and
Methodology. Created meaningful reports for analysis and integrated the Performance Testing in the SDLC.
 Managed the formal SDLC implementation using the RUP/Agile Methodologies (depending on the client and project)
 Created RTM (Requirements traceability matrix) mapping Requirements to Design Artifacts to SIT Cases to UAT Cases.
 Developed and managed Project Plans and Schedules. Managed resolution of Project issues and conflicts.
 Extensively used tools such as Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, MS Access
 Worked as a User/Customer advocate and negotiated with user as well as with developers and management staff to resolve any
requirement conflict to bridge the Gaps between IT and Business.
 Involved in generating various versions of the documents generated during the project were maintained and managed using
Rational ClearCase and performed defect tracking using Rational ClearQuest.

UBS, Stanford, CT June 14 – June 16

UBS is a leading global wealth manager, top tier investment banking and securities firm, and one of the largest global asset
managers. It provides a various range of products and services include Investment Banking, Equities, Fixed Income and Foreign
Exchange. The project was to support and implement an end-to-end Front and Middle Office trading system for derivative trading
and risk management consisting of Forwards, Swaps, CDS, Futures, OTC and exchange traded options for hedging as well as
speculative trading. SWIFT messaging was used to establish a global communications link for data processing and a common
language for international financial transactions. The system integrated the front office (Deal Capture, Contract Management) and
mid-office (Credit control, Risk Management), by incorporating Charles River's IMS into Equity and Derivative trading to realize
Straight through Processing.

Responsibilities
 Involved in developing trading solutions to re-hypothecate the positions; perform high-level feasibility analysis, industry &
market analysis, risk analysis, trading workflow reconfiguration
 Performing Data Analysis and insightful data visualization solutions using SQL, Python and QlikView.
 Created Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) document, User Requirement
Specification (URS) and Change Request (CR) document for system application development.
 Conduct extensive analysis on security trading cycles; provide consulting on financial disclosure, regulatory and compliance
issues
 Validated testing methodologies for trading activities; perform trading-related testing via the new trading system, coordinate
with various F2B components, document results, and generate reports
 Conducted business process modeling and analysis; identified, assessed and articulated gaps/operational risks associated;
presented risk-mitigation and operational enhancement solutions to project management team
 Wrote user requirements specification (URS) and Functional requirements specification (FRS) Documents as per the System
requirements and process flow.
 Prepared mockup with sample data and created a model with extract, transform and load (ETL) principles in Qlikview.
 Responsible to extract specific data set from Operation database(ODS) by using PL/SQL query in order to data cleansing process
and new feed processing purpose.
 Involved in ETL specification designing for incoming feed coming from various data source and Data manipulation on it.
 Supported for analysis and evaluation of data mining in a data warehouse environment, which included data design, database
architecture, and metadata and data governance in oracle environment.
 Assisted in writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS).
 Executed several Optimized queries in SQL on this data.
 Converted various SQL statements into stored procedures thereby reducing the Number of database accesses (since Stored
Procedures passes the whole block at one time.)
 Worked on Client/Server tools like SQL Server Management Studio to administer SQL Server.
 Evaluated data storage considerations to store databases and transaction logs. Created databases using SQL Server Management
Studio, Database Wizard and Transact SQL Statements.
 Was responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation
and test plans
 Created test cases, test plans for Charles River compliance rules for the algorithm tools.
 Worked with traders, upstream/downstream systems, settlement systems, to identify and map detailed current processes, identify
gaps and failure points, perform root cause analysis and develop functional requirements that supported overall strategy, goals
and objectives, and develop and document the functional requirement documents
 Developed Trading Flow Diagram, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams
 Intricately involved in Business Process Flow development, Business Process Modeling, and ad hoc Analysis
 Conducted and coordinated Unit Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Volume & Destructive
Testing with various F2B components, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate
documentation is in place
 Conducted project due diligence and created testing document to meet Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance requirements
 Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives and used Test Director to maintain test
cases and test scripts
 Facilitated periodic system update Regression Testing and other systems integration testing by creating testing case, system
static data, and relevant report and sign-off

SEI Investments, Oaks, PA Dec 12- May 14 Business

The project was to enhance a Portfolio Management and Accounting Report System that supports a variety of regulatory
accounting frameworks such as GAAP and IFRS. The business users can capture the fixed income and equity trading,
do reconciliation of the G/L accounts, FX & market value G/L over unrealized and realized value, calculate portfolio NAV and
generate financial statements such as statement of asset and liability, P&L Statements, P&L Attribution Reports, Performance
Attribution Reports. Agile scrum was the methodology used for the project.

Responsibilities:
 Collaborated with Project Manager to create the Project Charter and the Project Scope Statement during the planning stage and
established project requirements, priorities, and deadlines.
 Maintained value sets, attributes in GL for updates, and updates of system profile options
 Documented business requirements for and successfully delivered the Nextgen-Murex reconciliation tool which helped Front
Office reconcile all their OTC derivative trades, at the greatest level of granularity
 Actively participated in the Openlink-Murex integration project for the end to end flow of the Exchange Traded Derivative
trades. Developed business and technical requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, and system interfaces.
 Interacted with Traders, Developers, Project Manager and Analysts from Front and Back Office to understand the business
processes, identified enhancements and gathered business requirements.
 Interviewed Business users from Client Management, Operations, Tax and Compliance to gather business requirements for client
interactive views and Reports.
 Performed analysis on historical trade position data, trading trends and tendencies and opposing trade positions for fraud
detection and trading limit violations. Reconcile F/X, wholesale, spot, ask and bid, cash and Euro positions.
 Worked with Data Warehouse in the development and execution of data conversion, data cleaning and standardization strategies
and plans as several small tables are combined into one single data repository system MDM (Master Data Management).
 Carefully examine data and reports to make sure conversion is proceeding correctly, run test scripts with various data to see how
new or customized transactions process through the software and verify and validate accuracy of data through the generation of a
variety of reports.
 Reviewed the conversion results (reports, balancing of systems, balancing system conversion to associated General Ledger
accounts, errors) with the customer and obtains client sign-off.
 Responsible for technical data analysis, interpretation of client data and the development ofconversion programs specific for
bank applications and application to the general ledger.
 Experience with complex SQL queries for data profiling for Data ETL Integration tool.
 Gathered requirements and modelled the data warehouse and the underlying transactional database
 Identified the technical requirements from the internal Merrill Lynch private cloud implementation group.
 Defined high level business architecture for securities financial principal business. Reviewed the business architecture and
requirements with all stakeholders from business and engineering.
 Defined the work break down structure (WBS) for the project plan. Managed the change request process
 Documented external system dependencies and data interface definitions and requirements
 Interacted with the Business users and gathered business requirements for international principal lending business
 Evaluated Global One product and conducted JAD sessions to define product configuration for trading, compliance and
reporting requirements.
 Worked with the technology team to define the structure and data model for client, compliance & tax reporting data warehouse
 Evaluated the functionality of the existing collateral management system
 Interacted with the Business Users and defined the business problem statement and key success factors for the project and user
requirements for the current domestic and international business.
 Elaborated the business requirements with the Project stakeholders and securities finance technology team. Documented
requirements, business rules and process flows
 Responsible for migrating the code changes from development environment to SIT, UAT and Production environments.
 Understood and documented external system dependencies and interaction with those groups to identify integration points and
decide upon effort and schedule for building system interfaces.
 Reviewed the functional specification document with all project team members
 Documented weekly project status reports highlighting Project progress, project risks and issues.

Levins & Associates, Manchester, NH Sep 11 – Nov 12

Levins & Associates is a diversified financial services company providing wealth management and estate planning, investments
(fixed income, bonds, mutual funds, securities, hedge funds etc.), portfolio, mortgage and consumer finance. The project was to
develop an Enterprise Reporting System to support Asset management and Credit risk management. The project also developed
Charles River for trading and managing the equities and foreign currencies. It covered both exchange-traded, Foreign exchange (FX)
and over-the-counter (OTC) traded securities, including restricted stocks, equity repurchases, commercial loans, trade surveillance,
money market loans, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The project
followed RUP methodology

Responsibilities:
 Analyzed clients systems and business processes.
 Created customized reports in Charles River such as commission analysis report, boxed position report, take-over report, and
compliance report etc. using Crystal Reports, Excel VBA and SQL.
 Assisted in the data mapping to Charles River IMS, to create alerts, warnings and pre/post trade compliance rules from the
enhanced system.
 Established a Business Analysis methodology around the Rational Unified Process.
 Streamlined clerical work processes and mapped then into the new system.
 Involved in gathering and preparing the requirements documents for replacing the existing commercial lines of businesses from
legacy to web-based system
 Made changes to legacy Systems as required.
 Consolidated the analysis of multiple business lines after the COTS evaluation.
 Assisted in building a Business Analysis Process Model using Rational Rose and Visio.
 Used Castor to create objects from XML documents. Involved in Logical & Physical Data Modeling. Database Schema design
and modification of Triggers, Scripts, Stored Procedures in Sybase Database Servers.
 Prepared High Level Logical Data Models and BRD’s (Business Requirement Documents) supporting documents containing the
essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and
document business data requirements
 Collected business requirements to set rules for proper data transfer from Data Source to Data Target in Data Mapping.
 Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data
 Developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology
 Performed extensive Requirement analysis and developed use cases and workflows.
 Developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and OOD
 Played a key role in the planning, User Accepted Testing, and Implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
 Prepared for GAP Analysis; identified and documented improved areas to meet capital requirement regulations for Basel II
Compliance.
 Provided key input in working with users in defining project and system requirements.
 Designed and Developed ETL (Extract, Transformation & Load) strategy to populate the Data Warehouse from the various
source systems feeds.
 Documented and delivered Functional Specification Document to the project team.
 Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with Stakeholders and Project directors.
 Developed business requirement specification documents as well as high-level project plan.
 Assist the PM in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans
accordingly and conducted project related presentations.
 Conducted benchmarking activities to identify best practices.
Blackrock, New York City, NY Mar 10 - Aug 11
Business Analyst

Worked on trading platform to facilitate cross trading between the customers. Trades in fixed income, treasury bonds, mortgage
backed securities, derivatives and mutual funds are conducted on this platform. Built a tool that would determine credit rating
and KPI of the securities and was included in the as part of risk management functionality tool.

Responsibilities
 Created with the project manager the project definition.
 Interpreted, evaluated, translated, analyzed and interrelated researched data, and developed integrated business analysis.
 Collected and understood process based requirements gathering, and can arranged end-user meetings based on objective facts.
 Summarized all of the research gathered and defining the scope of the solution, including what is not in scope.
 Work with the project manager and development team to create real cost estimates.
 Developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using UML.
 Established a business Analysis methodology around the RUP (Rational Unified Process).
 Used MS Access and Excel to cleanse and assemble accounting data and develop reports.
 Created test scripts for all the test cases in PL/SQL
 Converted various SQL statements into stored procedures thereby reducing the Number of database accesses.
 Created surrogate key tables to map the required dimensions.
 Created hash tables used for referential integrity and/or otherwise while transforming the data representing valid information.
 Used Query Analyzer, Execution Plan to optimize SQL Queries.
 Tested the Installation of SQL Server.
 Coordinated one or more large requirements research efforts; performed specified data analysis and studied as requested, and
developed and presented reports in support of various initiatives.
 Coordinated and supported the development and implementation of special research initiatives related to specific research goals.
 Provided consultative and technical support, as appropriate, to standing decision-making committees.
 Performed miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
 Conducted User Acceptance Testing.

Education:
 BS in Computer Science