RANJITH ANANTHANARAYANAN

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

# Business Analyst with more than 7 years of experience in business analysis & technical consulting

# Experience in gathering business requirements, requirement analysis, change management, testing & IT Operational support (using ITIL framework)

# International exposure working in US, UK and Japan. Articulate communicator who understands the language of technology and business

# Experience in working with cross functional teams involving geographically spread clients & technical teams

SKILLS SUMMARY

# Solid understanding of multiple asset classes like Equities, Fixed Income (Bonds – Treasury, Corporate, Agency, Bond Pricing & Analytics), Interest Rate Derivatives, Options

# Certifications - Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment – Investment Operations Certificate (OTC derivatives, Exchange traded derivatives & Global Securities Operations)

# Excellent skills in Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Business Modeling and Use Case Development

# Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.

# Experience in creating Process Work Flows, Functional Specifications, and responsible for preparing Functional Specification Document (FSD) for various phases of software development life cycle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CAPGEMINI FINANCIAL SERVICES USA Dec 2011 – Till Date

Nomura Securities (Americas) – Global Risk Limits Project

# Gathered and analyzed business requirements for multiple business process (Entitlements, Risk Hierarchies, Workflows) for the “Market Risk Limits” project

# Coordinated and facilitated sessions with SMEs, client and technical team to understand requirements

# Involved in database design including creation of ER diagram with ERWin

# Responsible for Functional Requirements Document signoff from business users for business processes analyzed

# Interacted with business users from New York, London and Hongkong to assess needs, identify key challenges, and define project scope and deliverables

# Created wireframes for new GUIs requested by business users for “Global Risk Limits” project using Microsoft Visio

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED Sep 2009 – Dec 2011

TD Ameritrade – Enterprise Data Management/Middle & Back office modernization

# Involved in the analysis of current SDLC process within application development team to identify issues as a part of the Enterprise Data Management and architecture redesign program

# Gathered and analyzed business requirements for multiple business process like client and account maintenance, ACATS, tax lot accounting, Cost basis reporting etc ; responsible for communicating the same to the system architect and the implementation team

# Documented the existing process flows, downstream and upstream interfaces in the current back office system. Created and updated requirement review process dashboard for senior management and PMO

# Devised a process to merge queries raised by offshore team on the requirement documents; responsible for collating queries from multiple teams to close the queries

# Created wireframes for new UIs requested by business users using Microsoft Visio

Morgan Stanley - Settlement Instruction RENovation Project

# Created a model for prioritization of change/enhancement requests based on ROI to help streamline change process within SIRen team

# Conducted reviews of use cases with business, development, Design and QA teams to finalize the functionality for design and development

# Led the Financial Institution data cleanup process involving comparison of BICs and National IDs in SIRen with SWIFT monthly upload data

# Interacted with business users from New York, London and Singapore to assess needs, identify key challenges, and define project scope and deliverables

# Analyzed frequently occurring EZAL-Omgeo ALERT errors which led to significant cost savings on rewrite of ALERT C++ programs

TCS BaNCS Market Infrastructure – CoE

# Generated and managed the requirements database based on market research & interaction with customers for version 6 of TCS BaNCS Market Infrastructure

# Drafted Concept Notes on functionality enhancements (Fixed Income products, Collateral Management) for upcoming versions of TCS BaNCS MI

# Learnt and presented about basic FpML for Interest Rate Swaps as a part of the redesign of Service Integrator platform

# Initiated learning and building intellectual capital within product management teams as well as other departments within TCS BaNCS on fixed income and derivatives domain

# Led product demos of Market surveillance products to potential clients.

# Involved in conception of Financial Services Interest Group with the clients of TCS BaNCS. Created the roadmap and theme tracks for discussion of working groups.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED (TCS) Dec 2002 – Aug 2007

# Increased revenues by 75% when leading a team of system engineers to provide operational support for British Airways website (www ba com)

# Developed a framework for moving the 24x7 support of applications from onshore in UK to offshore in India thereby providing substantial cost savings for clients

# Streamlined relationships with IT suppliers & vendors for British Airways to foster communication & manage costs

# Redesigned the support process framework to reduce cost by more than $50K per year and increased service window by 9 hours for applications

# Exceeded management expectations by getting a client signoff in 2 months for the project which had a trial period of 6 months

# Created project, succession, induction plans & Excel based weekly/monthly reporting dashboard as a part of the project set-up

# Defined and directed project goals, objectives, critical success factors, milestones and risks for $70K platform redesign project

# Improved productivity by 25% by enhancing existing report generation macros (VBA) in MS Excel to include more diagnostic information about the downtime of online booking engine

# Facilitated sessions with management, SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders. Interacted with PMO on a weekly basis to update the status of various initiatives within the CAP Support team

# Responsible for Functional Requirement Analysis specifications of As-Is business model to conduct GAP analysis in comparison to the proposed enhancements to the system

# Commended for ability to multi-task on projects consisting of diverse set of people, platforms and parallel timelines via exceptional communicational, organizational and interpersonal skills

EDUCATION

# Master of Business Administration (Finance), University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Class of 2009

O Internship/Teaching Assistant at Citigroup Global Markets – FI Analytics (Yield Book) 06/2008 – 05/2009

# Master of Computer Applications (Distributed Systems), Bharathiar University, India 2002

# Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Statistics, University of Calicut, India 1999

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Office Suite, SharePoint, Yield Book, SQL, XML, Mercury LoadRunner, MS Visio, MS Access, ERWin

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