MANJUNATH KRISHNEGOWDA

Email: acq02s@r.postjobfree.com

Phone no: 918-***-****

SUMMARY

Over 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst and UAT coordinator with frontline leadership role in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Extensive experience in stock distribution, cash distribution, alternate asset servicing processes. Through knowledge of Trade order entry (TOE) and Trade order workflow (TOW), accounting, cash movement, TLM wire matching, Northern Image and EDM applications.

Proficient in Technical and Business Writing, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and Testing various methodologies.

Highly experienced in various areas of Investment Banking: Portfolio Management, Asset Management, Fixed Income, Annuities, Trading Life Cycle, Mortgage, Loan Orientation, Stocks, Bonds, Futures, Options, Hedging, Equity Research, Mutual Funds, Securities trading and Commodities.

Extensive experience in implementing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles and methodologies such as Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Waterfall Method in development.

Expert in writing Functional and non- Functional requirements.

Highly experienced in conducting Gap Analysis and Feasibility Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with new business requirements.

Extensive experience as a lead Business Analyst and also in assisting Project Management to understand the scope of the project.

Participated in project assessment, functional analysis and requirements gathering and converting business requirements into functional requirements.

Expert in Planning, facilitating, and participating in working sessions with cross-functional resources and mentoring to meet and exceed business needs.

Conducting JAD sessions with the technology areas, interviews, written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations and email, to keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues and conflicts.

Skilled in developing testing scenarios and testing scripts.

Extensive knowledge of UML modeling, Drawing Sequence Diagrams, Flow diagram and Activity diagram using tools such as Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose.

Extensively used rational tools for creating use cases, version control, defect tracking and reporting and applied the Rational Unified Process in all areas of a software development life cycle.

Extensive knowledge of managing Diversified Portfolios of Corporate Clients, Retail and HNWI investors.

Expert in trading Stocks and Derivatives which include Stock Futures, options and Commodity futures for the corporate clients and retail investors.

Proficient with Microsoft Office tools (includes MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS SharePoint).

Skilled in coordinating and communicating between Developers, QA Teams, Management, QA and project leads and stakeholders to keep them informed at all the times about the development and the open issues.

Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business as well as financial and system requirements.

Skill Set:

Rally, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Unified Process, UML, MS Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Access), Toad, Oracle SQL Developer, MS SQL Server, Broad ridge impact, Bloomberg, IDC, Cloud computing, Data mapping, RUP, EDI, Facets, Wireframe, USE CASE, RTM, RCA, AML, EOD reports.

Projects Summary:

Northern Trust Corporation, Chicago, IL

Business Process Analyst – Alternate Asset Management 08/2014 – Present

The Alternative Asset Servicing department (AAS) is responsible for supporting a group of defined assets that are generally not exchange traded. AAS processes cash movements, corporate actions and accounting entries, updates fund valuations, collects and reconciles against fund statements, audits client reporting and responds to queries from clients, internal partners and fund companies. Additionally, in some cases AAS executes trades. The scope of the project is to address the gaps and issues with the current Transitions (client onboarding), transaction (Capital calls, stock distribution, Cash distribution) processes, valuations/PLT process and Audit/ Reconciliation process. Based on the analysis of gaps in the AAS process capabilities and business processes, issues like manual and risk laden process are eliminated, process optimization, and improved quality controls. The objective of the project is to enhance the work flows and improve productivity at levels of the PE processes. Key change management issues identified and optimized are late inaccurate transaction processing, Integration of the current system with external systems like Fund master, IMS, GCM, PRS, AIP, WSO, Northern Image, TOE. Enhance global operating model that is not US centric (currency and time centric processes) and systems to close processing gaps.

Responsibilities:

Conducted extensive client, SME and user meetings to understand the stock distribution, cash distribution and LP Fund business model and processes.

Documented and gathered the business requirements, and carried out implementation of new processes relates to stock distribution, capital calls, private equity and Limited partnership funds.

Understood the process of New Client on boarding, Account set up, transaction processing, valuations and statement follow up, Audit and reconciliation of stocks, cash and alternate investments.

Conducted business process reviews to understand current state business processes and how underlying applications support and enable these processes.

Collaborated with business partners and stakeholders to identify and define high level and detailed business/functional requirements.

Documented the Business Requirements Document (BRD) and the Functional Specification Document (FSD) and heavy involvement in the Acceptance of the User Stories and Defects.

Conducted interviews and performed and user analysis in order to create Business Cases for AAS systems.

Conducted preliminary investigation for all project requests. Reviewed requirements, specifications, test, support and training plans to ensure they are in line with business objectives on projects.

Participated in Business Process Management group efforts to collect and analyze metrics and continually improve processes owned by the group.

Conducted root cause analysis in order to recommend product enhancements for stock distribution processes and other appropriate actions to improve productivity.

Demonstrated success in facilitating discussions with all levels and functional areas of the organization.

Prepared scope, gap and impact analysis documentation.

Provided guidance to project team regarding functional requirements.

Partnered with testing resources to identify testing requirements.

Ensured and validated that delivered functionality meets the business objectives.

Served as the SME for User Acceptance Testing efforts.

Proactively identify opportunities to utilize current or innovative technical solutions to improve business processes and products that provided cost savings or efficiency gains.

Environment: MS SQL, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Oracle DBMS, Bloomberg, PE Desktop, SNL Financial, Web cash management, Fund Master, MTS, AIP, Trade HUB, IBM Cognos.

United Health Group, Denver, CO 09/2011 – 08/2014

Sr. Business Analyst

Project Scope: Optum Care Suite combines patient medical information from several sources including Electronic Medical Record (EMR), practice management, Admission, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT), and payer claims records into a single data stream. Then OCS applies analytics and decision-support tools to help understand and meet patient needs. It integrates claims and clinical data into the calculation of prospective patient risk scores, which provide risk of things such as future hospitalization or readmission. It includes registries for diagnoses such as Heart Failure and Diabetes; automatic/rules generated patient nomination into appropriate Care Coordination Programs, workflow management for care coordinators, and multiple reporting options to help effectively manage patient care. Optum Care Suite is accessible through Optum’s Health Care Cloud. It’s a secure environment that features an intuitive dashboard that allows clients to access OCS and other health applications quickly and manage technology in client’s offices or across networks with ease.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for gaining a good understanding of user needs and accurately representing them in a well-documented software functional specifications document.

Assisted Project Management with deliverables, such as Vision Document, Project Scope document to help outline the timeline and capacity for the project.

Interacted with the users, designers and developers, project manager and QA team to get a better understanding of the Business Processes and to gather and prioritize business requirements.

Initiated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, User Stories Estimation and Backlog grooming sessions to discuss the business requirements to analyze the scope of the Project.

Created test cases for System Testing (Development Environment), Integration Testing (UAT) and Production (Post Implementation Review)

Supported the testing team with Defect Management, Requirement Analysis and SQL development for back-end and regression testing and maintaining the Mercury Quality Center with the latest updates on the defects.

Documented the Business Requirements Document (BRD) and the Functional Specification Document (FSD) and heavy involvement in the Acceptance of the User Stories and Defects.

Interacted with the Clinical Stakeholders and End Client by interviewing them, and by preparing appropriate questionnaire to better understand end-user needs and the business process.

Supported Test Management and Planning such as, supporting in the Automation strategy, cross team planning and issue resolution activities and acting like an SME on the overall product.

Supported in the creation of End-to-End Integrated test plans to close any quality gaps.

Created traceability matrix from requirements to test cases to ensure appropriate coverage and quality of the end product with respect to the business requirements.

Conducted End of Release Quality Summary to ensure improvement in future releases.

Participated in walk-throughs, inspections, reviews and user group meetings for quality assurance.

Worked with business users, system analysts, designers and programmers to create and analyze various required project documents.

Conducted walkthroughs and code reviews with developers, project managers and stakeholders and users to comprehend business workflow of applications.

Performed GAP analysis as needed at various stages to understand the difference between our current situation and end goals.

Environment: Windows XP/NT, UNIX, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Java Script, Oracle, UML, Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center, Rally.

Education

Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK.

Masters of Business Administration - Finance

Bangalore University, Bangalore, India.

Bachelor of Business Management – Finance.

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