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Jersey City, NJ
Posted:
June 29, 2016

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Rakesh Roshan T

Business Analyst/ QA

Email: acvht4@r.postjobfree.com

Skypeid: rakeshroshant Phone: +1-929-***-****, New York

Executive Summary

A result oriented professional with 11 years and 6 months of experience in Business Analysis, Testing(SIT/FT/UAT), Reconciliation, Back office & Middle office Operations, Post Trade settlements, Functional Change Management and Team Management in both Offshore and Onshore models.

Experienced working with major clients in Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Retail Banking, Mutual Funds Services and Registers & Transfer agency.

Hands on experience working on Trade Surveillance (Trade Monitoring) application for a leading Investment Bank.

Proficient in analyzing the requirements for developing Back office & Middle office applications used in Investment banking world.

Proficient in analyzing the Change Requests and propose BOW tasks (Book of works) with Business and take it forward with Development and Testing teams

Experienced working in Pre-matching and Post settlements (Clearing & Settlements) in OTC Fixed Income securities and OTC Derivatives areas

Controlling the risk involved in settlements area for the major Intercompany/Interbank client.

Possess good knowledge and experience of Securities Trade Life Cycle (Front/Middle/Back Office, Clearing & Settlement Operations) and management.

Well versed in managing End-to-End Financial Accounting, Ledger postings (P&L, Control & Nostro reconciliations), Manual payment creation, Break resolution and Error Financing Cost (EFC)

A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, capable of thinking In-and-Out of the box, generating new design solutions and ideas.

Serve as the liaison between all IT and the business in understanding key business processes, business data, and requirements.

Holds Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMIF) qualification, certified from National Stock Exchange (India)

Skill set summary

Good understanding and knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Trade Life Cycle, Clearing & Settlements, Testing (System Integration/Functional /User Acceptance / Regression Testing), Business Analysis, Cash Reconciliation, Back office & Middle office Operations (Pre-matching & Post trade settlement) and Measures/controls required to mitigate Operational risk.

Functional Change Management and Team Management in both Offshore & Offshore models

Functional Knowledge about Securities Markets (Fixed Income Products and Derivatives).

Analyze, Propose and capture the requirements for New Change Request/Enhancements from business users and driving the project throughout the SDLC.

Well versed in preparing, presenting walkthrough presentations on the business scenarios to various audiences (Development, QA Team and System Users).

Education / Certifications

Master in Business Administration (MBA) Finance, Pursuing from Mahatma Gandhi University.

Bachelor in Computer Application (BCA) from Osmania University.

Functional & Technical Skills

Business Skills: Process Mapping, AS-IS and TO-BE Maps, Use Cases, Impact analysis and Testing. Test scenario and Test case preparation

Domain Skills: OTC Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Interest Rate Swaps (IRS), Fixed Income Securities (cash settlements), Mutual Fund Services (Transaction Processing System), and Registers & Transfer Agency services.

Languages: UML, HTML, C, C++, VB and SQL.

Databases: MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows 95/2000/NT/XP.

Office Tools: MS Office 2003 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project.

Key Responsibilities

Gather requirements from Business users/Product specialist team, liaising with the IT teams at the Offshore and Onshore.

Analyze the Change requests raised by business users for Back office, Middle office and CFO reporting applications

Perform analysis on existing functionalities that could impact due to the implementation/delivery of Change-Requests (CR Impact analysis).

Propose BOW tasks (Book of work) on new changes/enhancements with Business/Application owners and take forward with Development & Testing teams for completion

Coordinated in Project Planning, Project Sizing, Organizing and monitoring the team on day to day basis.

Coordinate with Application users to understand their business needs and liaise with Technology teams in gap analysis and technical challenges.

Understand the upstream, downstream applications and system architecture.

Lead meeting to prioritize catalogue items and end-to-end project deliveries with the users, business management and Technology teams, throughout project life cycle.

Preparation and presenting the Test scenarios to Business, IT and Testing teams

Review the test cases prepared by testing team and provide inputs if required.

Conduct and perform System Integration Testing (SIT) and Functional Testing (FT) in respective environments. And track the status in HP Quality Center (QC) for reporting purpose.

Coordinate and facilitate the Business users while User acceptance testing and acquire Signoff

Perform Regression Testing post UAT and provide signoff to move code to Production environment.

Conduct walkthrough sessions with Automation team to build regression suits for existing common functionalities.

Serve as the liaison between IT and the business in understanding key business processes, business data, and requirements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Credit Suisse International, IB (New York, USA) June 2015 – Till date

Role: Business Analyst/ QA manager. Involved in Development, Testing and Environment Management

Process Description: Credit Suisse International (Investment Banking). Involved in developing a web based CFO Reporting application for their Line of control and Business control users.

Environment/Tools Used:, SQL, Control M, Unix, MS Visio, HP Quality Center, MS Word and Excel.

Roles and Responsibilities

Coordinated in Project Planning, Project Sizing, Organizing and monitoring the team on a daily basis.

Perform analysis on existing functionalities and Test cases that could impact due to the delivery of new Change-Requests (CR Impact analysis).

Lead weekly & monthly meeting to prioritize catalogue items and end-to-end project deliveries with the users, and Technology teams.

Understand Up-stream and Down-stream applications and system architecture as a whole.

Coordinate with different QA team and Mange the test environments and coordinate completeness.

Conduct and perform System Integration Testing (SIT) and Functional Testing (FT) in respective environments. And track the status in HP Quality Center (QC) for reporting purpose.

Coordinate and facilitate the Business users while User acceptance testing and acquire Signoff

Perform Regression Testing post UAT and provide signoff to move code to Production environment.

Conduct walkthrough sessions with Automation team to build regression suits for existing common functionalities.

Credit Suisse International- IB (Pune, India) Sep 2013 – May 2015

Role: Business Analyst

Process Description: Intellimatch Reconciliation Development, L3-Production support & Testing.

Environment/Tools Used:, SQL, Control M, Unix, MS Word, Excel, Power point, MS Visio, HP Quality Center and Intellimatch Admin modules

Roles and Responsibilities

Involve in requirements gather, preparation & review of functional specification document to build in a new Reconciliation.

Configuration management and matching rule setting for Reconciliation for respective asset class per client request.

Act as an Administrator for Intellimatch module. And analysis on L3 Production support.

Understand/capture the new business needs from business users and provides the logic to L3 support

Conduct a walk through with Development & business teams on BOW tasks (Book of works) covered in a Scrum and played active role in all the phases of SDLC

Preparation of Test scenarios and perform System Integration/Functional test.

Involve in resolving production related issues after release/Implementation of requirement.

UBS Wealth management (London & India) April 2012 – August 2013

Role: Business Analyst Trade Surveillance.

Process Description: UBS Wealth management. Involved in developing Trade Monitoring Legal & Compliance Regulatory reporting application part of UBS Trade surveillance

Environment/Tools Used:, MS Word, Excel, Power point, MS Visio, HP Quality Center, SQL

Responsibilities:

Involved in requirement gathering, development and Testing for the new Change request from business.

Conduct walkthrough on functional requirements to the development team and involve in Gap analysis.

Finalizing the testing approach and base-lining the test scope

Prepared functional test scenarios/ test cases and conduct testing in respective environments

Perform root-cause analysis on issues raised by users in Production environment.

Review the change requests raised by Product specialist/Business users.

Lead daily meeting to discuss on priority items with the Users and Technology teams.

Coordinated in Project Planning, Project Sizing, Organizing and monitoring the team on a daily basis.

Publish the Test statistics to the audience and keep the management up to date

CITI Bank (Singapore Changi Business Park) April 2011 – April 2012

Role: Business Analyst - The assignment is a part of Staff augmentation in Singapore.

Process Description: CITIBANK Singapore Ltd (Wealth Management). Involved in converting the Legacy (Old) system followed by their integrated systems. To bring in their Mutual funds and Securities application onto a newly build Memfis System.

Environment/Tools Used: Mainframes, MS Word, Excel, Power point, MS Visio and HP QC

Responsibilities:

Detailed walkthrough of functional requirements to the development team and Business.

Worked closely with development team to ensure the build is In-line with client’s requirement.

Lead regular meeting to prioritize catalogue items and end-to-end project deliveries with audience.

Coordinated in Project Planning, Sizing, Organizing and monitoring the team on day to day basis.

Planned and coordinated SIT release with support team in Asia (China, India and Singapore).

Coordinated with all Interface application Development/QA teams to understand system architecture.

Prepared functional test scenarios and conducted walkthrough with Development and testing teams

Actively involved in Test environment preparation and Management

Communicate regularly on progresses to the users, development team and management.

Anticipated issue and escalated to management and users as and when required.

BGC VocaLink (Sweden Stockholm) May 2010 – April 11

Role: Business Analyst - Retail Banking & Clearing house. The assignment is a part of Staff augmentation in Sweden at client location. Special emphasis was towards Development, Change Management and Testing teams

Process Description: Client BGC VocaLink - Swedish Clearing house involved in Clearing and Settlements activities with RIKS Bank (Reserve Bank of Sweden). Project associated in building a user friendly automated payment system.

Environment/Tools Used: HP Quality Center, MS Word, Excel, Power point, MS Visio

Responsibilities:

Act as a point of contact between Development, Business and Testing teams.

Review the test cases prepared by testing team and provide inputs if required.

Review the change requests raised by product specialist and testing team.

Performed CR Impact analysis on existing functionalities that could impact due new requirements.

Tracking the test status on regular basis and reporting to the required Audience.

Supported business users while User Acceptance Testing and Post production.

UBS Investment Bank (London, Liverpool Street) Mar 08 – May 10

Role: Business Analyst - Transition, Back office /Middle office Operations, Development, User Acceptance Testing

1)Process Description: OTC Derivative – Interbank and Intercompany Post Trade Settlement. Role involved in reducing the Operational risk involved in OTC Derivatives products by greater control through automation. Providing assistance to the Change Management teams in the process enhancements

Environment/Tools Used: TLM (Reconciliation), Kasimir, DTCC, Memphis, OBS, Laredo, Flexcube, Keylink (Manual payment & Jet Postings) and OWX/OBOE.

Responsibilities: OTC Derivative Pre & Post Settlement

Involved in managing Financial Accounting postings, Control & Nostro reconciliations, investigations, break resolution & client services.

Mitigating operational risk by providing early resolution on Post settlement breaks and controlling the volume by proper delegation.

Holds good command on Transactional Life Cycle Management (TLM System) which is used for reconciliation in Investment banking operations world.

Resolution of Interest and Error Financing cost (EFC) and root-cause analysis on re-occurring cash fails.

Meeting the standards set by Client and Market Regulators and mitigating business risk.

Identify the root cause for system related issues and bring to the notice of Global Support Desk and get them fixed.

Conduct User Acceptance testing on enhancement release and provide signoffs.

UBS Investment Bank (London & India) Aug 2006 – March 08

Role: Business Analyst - Transition, Back office /Middle office Operations, Development, User Acceptance Testing

2)Process Description: Fixed Income Cash and Repo Settlement (EUROCLEAR AND DOMESTIC).

Environment/Tools Used: Bloomberg portal, Euclid(Euroclear settlement engine), Flexcube, Pega-Rules, SQL, UNIX, UML, MS Word, Excel, Power point, MS Visio,

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Pre-matching, Confirmation, Exceptional handling and Fails Management.

Processing, payments, clearing and ensuring client’s standing instructions for remittances payment are properly carried out.

Liaising with Agents and Custodians for receipt and delivery of bonds.

Managing Service Delivery of Line of Business, escalations, capacity utilization & report risk.

Anticipated issue and escalated to management as and when required, to mitigate Operational risk

Worked closely with IT Support to ensure the new Changes/enhancements are in-line as expected and preform User acceptance testing.

Coordinated with Front office, Middle and Back Office teams to understand downstream applications and prepare SOPs (Procedure) documents for the process.

Interacting with other function heads – Sales, Trading, IT Support, Operations, Product Control, Risk Management, Legal & compliance to ensure implementation is successful

KARVY Computershare Private Ltd(India) July 2004 – 10th Aug 2006

KARVY Computershare Private Ltd – Is a premier integrated financial services & reputed Register & Transfer agency in India, providing service to over 300 corporate.

Role: Officer: Client Reliance Mutual Funds (TPS Coordinator)

Process Description: ‘Transaction Processing System’ application users in processing daily Purchases, Redemptions and Switches. Acted as a point of contact to IT Team as an SME.

Responsibilities:

Managing mutual funds operations like daily purchase, redemption’s and switches, etc.

To meet the investors requirements in both quality and timeliness.

Coordinate with Custodians, Reconciliation Agencies, SEBI, Stock Exchanges and Investor Service Centers and Auditors.

Coordinate with Development and testing team in migrating legacy to new built TPS application.

Drafting functional requirement documents and walk-through with technology team.

As application user, Supported testing team in UAT and production.

Certifications:

AMFI Certified: Association of Mutual Funds in India with aggregate scoring.

Notable Attainments:

Significantly migrated OTC Derivatives Pre & Post settlement Process from UBS London.

Recipient of Individual Contributor Thank You Award from UBS Investment Bank for successfully migrating 16 interbank clients in one go.

Recipient of two Process Improvement certifications for coming up with new ideas to change management to include manual payment module to the existing settlement application rather using Flexcube payment system.

Featured in UBS Investment Bank Newsletter for coming up with ideas and implementing a PEX project which resulted in the reduction of 2 Full Time Employees.

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Valid H1B Visa



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