Resume of Business Analyst

Title
Business Analyst

Primary Skills
Business Analyst (Equity, FI, Derivatives- Options), Portfolio Risk Managment, Basel II (credit, Market, Operational)

Location
US-NY-NYC

Posted
Feb-08-07


PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

7 years of experience as Business Analyst and Client Relationship Manager in the financial industry.
Business Analyst skills- Understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Object Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts (OOAD), Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Test Lifecycle, Multi-tier Web Applications, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Modeling (ORDBMS), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Prototyping, Agile and eXtreme Programming Methodologies.
Business Documentation skills- Documented Business Requirement, Use Case Specification, Functional and Non-functional Specification, System Requirement Specification, UML diagrams (Use Case, Class and Sequence), Traceability Matrix, Project Estimate, Change-Version Control, Training and User Manuals, Master Test Plan Review (Integration, System and Acceptance).
Major Projects: Derivatives Trading System, Portfolio Risk Analytics (for Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies, FX, Derivatives- Options), FX Trading Alerts, Basel Risk Management (Credit Risk, Market Risk), Enterprise Integration Solutions (EAI- Web/Mobile technologies, B2B and B2C E-Commerce), Consumer Lending and Data Warehousing.
Domain knowledge: Good understanding of basic principles of financial markets and instruments (Equity, FI, FX, Derivatives); Basel Risk Management (Credit, Market, Operational); Portfolio Risk (Credit Risk; Market risk across all assets); Trading and Settlements concepts (trade lifecycle and Straight through Processing).
Excellent client relationship management, communication and presentation skills.
Worked on multiple projects in a fast paced environment. Good team player.
Pursuing a Certificate in Financial Risk Management (Coursework in Securities and Valuation, Measurement and Management of Financial Risk, as well as the nature and operation of markets in Futures, Options, Swaps, and other Derivative Instruments), NYU, NY.
BUSINESS ANALYST SKILLS

Methodology
RUP, SDLC, OOAD, UML, Data Modeling , SOA, Agile, eXtreme

Modeling Tools
Rational Rose, MS Visio

Project Management
MS Project, Rational RequisitePro

Testing Tools
Mercury and Rational- Quality Center (Test Director), QuickTest Professional,

,LoadRunner, VrGen, Rational ClearQuest, Manual Testing

Databases
Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, Informix

Reporting Tools
Crystal Reports, Rational SoDA

Source Code Control
CVS, PVCS, Rational ClearCase

Operating Systems
Windows, UNIX (Solaris), Linux

Other Tools
SQL, MS Office-Word, Excel, Power Point

GUI
Visual Basic 6.0


PROJECTS SUMMARY

Jan 06- Present Business Analyst, State Street Corporation, MA, USA

Basel II Implementation

Created repository for risk computation across Enterprise at pre-defined time intervals. This system supports the requirements for generating the regulatory capital calculation as per the Basel II accord.

Nov 04- Dec 05 Business Analyst, HSBC, NJ, USA

Consumer Lending Web site

Consumer lending (personal and equity loans) web site (hfc.com).

Jan 99- Sept 04 Business Analyst/ Client Relationship Manager, Cygnus Japan, Tokyo

Financial Software and Solutions Provider

Major projects worked on simultaneously were as follows:

NTT Comware, Japan 1 Year Project

Derivatives Dealing System

Interest rate and currency derivatives dealing system with pricing, valuation and limits management functionalities.

Traders Securities, Japan 9 Months Project Trading Analytics

Provided proprietary analytics for Equities, Commodities, Fixed Income, Futures and Forwards across all underlying instruments; Plain vanilla and Exotic Options and Credit Derivatives.

FX Trading Alerts 3 Months Project

Provided customer alerts based on their customized trading strategies and analytics to facilitate quick action. Monitors four major currency pairs using real-time live data together with various customizable indicators.

Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd 6 Months Project

Portfolio Analytics

Provided Portfolio Management Analytics according to current and future needs of analysis techniques (time series prediction) and visualization.

Reuters Japan 6 Months Project Time-Series Analytics

Provided the ability to extract desired time series across financial instruments for any period, frequency, and tenor and provide analytical metrics. The developed tool remains a part of Reuter Terminal.

NTT Data (Daiwa Securities, Japan) 6 Months Project

Data Warehousing

Provided custom Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Data Warehousing across systems for performance driven enterprise.

AXA Life Japan (Nippon Dantai) 1 Year Project

Market Risk Management (Basel complaint)

Basel compliant Market Risk Management system for insurance company. Market data interfaces were created to get the full range of historical data.

CAREER DETAILS

Jan 06- Present Business Analyst

State Street Corporation, MA, USA

Basel II Implementation

As per the Basel II Capital Accord, State Street is required to internally rate counterparty at the legal entity level and maintains a Central Risk Data repository (RDR). This repository which is like a warehouse creates a snap-shot of data needed for risk computation across Enterprise at pre-defined time intervals. Information from this application contributes to generating the State Street Bank's economic capital, as required by SR99-18 and Pillar II of Basel II. This system supports the requirements for generating the regulatory capital calculation as per the Basel II accord.

Responsibilities:

Articulated business requirements as use cases for different components for the Risk Weighted Asset (RWA) calculation system.
Assessed Credit Risk strategies with various internal credit tools and implemented Basel II strategies to augment Credit availability.
Implemented Rational Unified Process (RUP) for data sourcing project.
Used UML methodology for gathering requirements and creating use case and class diagrams.
Worked with Investment Professionals, Financial Analysts as well as other business teams on requirement gathering.
Identified data requirements from source systems and defined ETL processes for extracting data from external systems.
Mapped hierarchies to be set up in the system for all counterparties (including counterparties to Account), collateral issuers and guarantors to determine the level of implementation.
Mapped financial data, general ledger data, loss event data, transaction data and people reference data from source to target database for creating a central Risk Data Repository (RDR) as required by Basel II reporting regulations.
Rollout of Basel II risk-based Credit capital calculations in the Risk Cache for FX, Metals, Credit Derivatives and Swaps products.
Incorporated Unified Change Management (UCM) in compliance with Configuration Management.
Managed requirements in Rational RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members.
Actively involved in developing and coordinating Functional and User Acceptance Testing.
Reviewed the system level test cases written by the testing team and prepared the UA test cases for end-user testing using Rational Test Manager.
Wrote SQL queries and stored procedures for extracting data from Oracle data source.
Reported bugs using Rational Clear Quest and maintained version control with Clear Case.
Reported weekly on status, milestones and project tracking to project management and stakeholders.
Environment: RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Test Manager, MS Visio, UML, SQL, Oracle 8i, TOAD.

Nov 04- Dec 05 Business Analyst HSBC, NJ, USA

Consumer Lending Web site

HFC (HSBC Finance Corporation), a member of the HSBC Group, designed and developed consumer lending (personal and equity loans) web site (hfc.com). On the website, a customer is allowed to apply online for personal, real-estate, auto loans and get instant response.

Responsibilities:

Worked with Business Requirement document and User Centered Design (UCD) to create UML use case, class and sequence diagrams for developers- onsite and offshore.
Assisted with data conversion activities and all levels of testing.
Participated in the logical and physical design sessions and developed design documents.
Designed new process flows for the existing system as well as for the enhanced system.
Conducted and lead status report meetings with the business and the IT team on a weekly basis.
Conducted technical review sessions and facilitated other project meetings as required.
Worked with project management to schedule, managed scope and analyzed change requests.
Documented test cases during requirements gathering, analysis and design phases.
Responsible for addressing, diagnosing and resolving issues that arise on a day to day basis for the team. Also responsible for documenting the causes, analysis and final resolution to the issues/errors.
Environment: Rational Requisite-Pro, MS Project 2002, MS Visio, Test Director, Java, Windows NT/2000.

Jan 99- Sept 04 Client Relationship Manager/ Business Analyst

Cygnus Japan KK, Tokyo, Japan

Cygnus provides strategic solutions and services for financial clients by building trading applications, enhancing existing models, creating web-based interfaces for legacy systems, upgrading database performance and functionality, and providing clients custom software and analytic solutions. Worked on multiple projects simultaneously, some of which were as follows:

NTT Comware, Japan 1 Year Project

Derivatives Dealing System

Dealing system product made for NTT Comware (E Derivative Terada System) with dealing, pricing, and limits management functionalities. Can be used to trade interest rate derivatives and currency derivatives. Includes pricing and valuation of financial deals for a variety of interest rate and currency derivatives including swaps, caps/floors, swaptions, collars. The product is in use by Frontier Banking (Hyakugo Ginko), Japan..

Responsibilities:

Helped the technical team with the business proposal documentation and presentation.
Worked with Investment Professionals, Financial Analysts as well as other business teams on requirement gathering.
Assisted in development of prototypes and documentation for user demos.
Fine tuned the scope through meetings with the business users.
Responsible for writing detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions using Rational Rose.
Applied Use Cases to System Test and applied Class Diagram to Unit Test.
Described complex business logic and ensured completeness of testing.
Managed scope and change throughout the life cycle of the product.
Used MS Project for status reporting and planning. Used CVS for version control.
Responsible for documenting the causes, analysis and final resolution to the issues/errors.
Performed manual testing, UAT and beta testing.
Conducted user training sessions with key users.
Environment: Mercury tools, MS Visio, UML, SQL, .NET and SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2000/XP platform.

Traders Securities, Japan 9 Months Project

Trading Analytics and FX Trading Alerts

Traders Securities is Trading and Broking Marketable Securities. Provided advanced proprietary analytics for very short term trading decisions based on the study of market variable behavior over different time granularities over several years. The supported products included Equities and Commodities, Fixed Income, Futures and Forwards across all underlying instruments, Plain vanilla and Exotic Options and Credit Derivatives. Built on Cygnus's Cerebran Analytics Solution. (9 months project)

Trading Alerts Solution provided Traders Securities customer alerts based on their customized trading strategies and analytics to facilitate quick action. Trading system monitors four major currency pairs using real-time live data together with various customizable indicators and a highly sophisticated set of mathematical algorithms and technical studies. The system used Blue* Genet Messaging and JSP-based web interfaces and uses a variety of custom analytics. (3 months project)

Responsibilities:

Helped the technical team with the business proposal documentation and presentation.
Assisted in development of prototypes and documentation for user demos.
Used MS Project for resource planning and status reporting.
Worked with IT technical team to develop Functional Specification combining different BR documents and Use Case documents.
Understood and articulated business requirements and converted them into technical specifications.
Participated in the logical and physical design of the overall architecture with the functional and technical consultants.
Assisted in developing test scenarios, test cases and implemented test plan with the QA team.
Participated in UAT and documented bug and defect tracking.
Environment: RUP, MS Project, Rational Test Manager, MS Visio, UML, SQL, J2EE, Windows, Unix, C/C++.

Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd 3 Months Project



Portfolio Analytics

Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (Sumitomo Shintaku Gink? Kabushiki-gaisha) is a trust bank in Japan. It is one of the Sumitomo Group's core companies, and is closely tied to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. Provided Portfolio Management Analytics solution for Japan's premier bank for use by its portfolio managers. The key challenge was to architect the system for according to current and future needs of analysis techniques (time series prediction) and visualization.

Responsibilities:

Helped the technical team with the business proposal documentation and presentation.
Worked with portfolio managers and other investment and operations professionals in defining and documenting data requirements.
Functioned as a liaison between technical team and clients throughout the project.
Coordinated project team assignments and assisted in the determination of the project schedule.
Facilitated weekly meetings, interviews with subject matter experts, stakeholders.
Developed the UML Use Cases, Sequence and Class Diagrams using Rational Rose.
Provided implementation assessment, strategy, and mentoring services using Rational Requisite Pro.
Developed Test cases and plan, conducted manual, UAT and beta testing.
Supported QA in the creation of test case, release notes and change management documentation.
Environment: RUP, MS Visio, UML, Mercury tools, SQL, HP-UX, Weblogic, and Oracle platform.

Reuters Japan 6 Months Project

Time-Series Analytics

Time Series Analytics provides the ability to extract desired time series across financial instruments for any period, frequency, and tenor and provide analytical metrics. The developed tool remains a part of Reuter Terminal. Created as a Microsoft Windows application interoperating with Reuters networks and historical market databases hosted in different global locations. Developed according to Reuter's standards for usability, performance, and reliability. (6 months project)

Responsibilities:

Helped the technical team with the business proposal documentation and presentation.
Met with client groups to determine user requirements and goals.
Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level Use Cases and Class Diagrams.
Developed documentation (Requirements Document, Functional Specification and Testing Plans).
Conducted weekly meetings to facilitate discussion between the different users to resolve issues.
Set up definitions and process for test phases including product test, integration test, and system test.
Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix throughout the project.
Performed System Testing to ensure that the compiled software components of the Applications adhered to project standards, performance criteria and functional specifications.
Environment: RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, MS Visio, UML, SQL, C++, CORBA and object databases.

NTT Data Financial Services (Daiwa Securities Group, Japan) 6 Months Project

Data Warehousing

Provided custom Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Data Warehousing services for Daiwa Securities, a large financial institution in Japan. Blue* Genet Integrator was used for creating Data Warehouses across systems for performance driven enterprise.

Responsibilities:

Built client relationships and managed client expectations throughout the project.
Developed detailed functional requirements and use cases.
Developed high level view of data requirements, data analysis and assisted in data mapping.
Reviewed and assisted in developing test plans and test cases.
Assisted the client with the coordination of technology setup required for User Acceptance Testing.
Managed and coordinated integration and user acceptance testing.
Environment: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Project Analysis and Mapping, Object and Data Modeling, RUP, SQL, Oracle, PostgresSQL, Mainframes.

AXA Life Japan (Nippon Dantai Life Insurance Company) 1 Year Project



Market Risk Management

Leading Japanese Insurance Provider (after French AXA Group acquired a midsize Japanese life insurance company, the Nippon Dantai Life Insurance Company). BIS- Basel compliant Market Risk Management system for insurance company. Market data interfaces were created to get the full range of historical data.

Responsibilities:

Helped identify, gather the data from existing systems to calculate results for market risk.
Involved in the process of mapping the required data elements from the various Source Systems.
Helped identify and map source data for calculating VaR metrics.
Helped develop requirements, workflows, and related documentation to support the
existing and proposed internal Loss Data Collection process.
Use SQL to slice and dice and generate dummy reports.
Involved in the integration of various decentralized reporting systems and data marts to enable them to push data into an Integrated Staging Database, from which data can be transferred to the central Reporting Data Repository after ETL process.
Facilitated weekly client meetings on project status updates.
Helped develop test cases, using use cases as a basis for performing Integration and System testing.
Environment: Rational, UML, SQL, J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Windows 2000/XP platform.

EDUCATION:

Pursuing a Certificate in Financial Risk Management (Coursework in Securities and Investment Management, Measurement and Management of Financial Risk, as well as the nature and operation of markets in Futures, Options, Swaps, and other Derivative Instruments), NYU, NY

Masters in International Relations, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan

Masters in International Relations, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India

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