Project Analyst

ABDEMANAF RANGWALA

*** ***** ******, *** # *** ( Jersey City, New Jersey 07302

201-***-**** ( ********.**********@*****.***

BUSINESS ANALYST / CONSULTANT IN BANKING AND CAPITAL MARKET DOMAIN

Driven Business Analyst/Consultant with domain expertise supporting

financial systems, tools, and projects while seamlessly delivering

technical support for various leading financial establishments in

consulting and financial services. Looking to leverage my end-to-end

project experience globally (India, UK, US) with business analysis

competencies to help an employer successfully implement an investment

(securities) processing system.

Areas of

expertise include:

Agile & Waterfall SDLC . System Conversions / Migrations . Building

WireFrames / Mockups . Client Stakeholder Analysis . Requirements Gathering

. Client Relationship . Good Written & Verbal Communication skills

. Client Onboarding / Client Reference Data . Brokerage Operations . Legal

and Compliance . Collateral Management . Client Valuation

. Project Coordination . Project Status Reporting . Strategic Business

Planning . Financial Operations / Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES, New York City, New York ( Apr 2010-Present

Working as a Consultant as part of Process and Domain Consulting group

assigned with reputed financial clients within Banking & Capital Markets

domain.

Key Projects & Highlights:

. Trust Servicing IT - Money Movement - Project Target State - Bank of

America Merrill Lynch, NJ (Jun '10 till Present) : conducted in-depth

analysis, consulting and translated current Trust Servicing Money

Movement process into As-Is Process Flow, To-Be Process Flow diagrams.

Liaised with high level stakeholders (ranging from 10 - 20

representatives) from different lines of business (i.e. Trust Servicing

Operations, Client Relations, Risk Management) and supported elicitation

of business requirements. Involved in strategic planning related to

integration of BOA Trust Servicing Money Movement application with

Merrill Lynch Trust Servicing Money Movement Application as well as back

office processing system.

. Successfully managing Junior Business Analyst (Sr. Associate Consultant)

from Process and Domain Consulting group. Providing mentorship and

guidance on the best practices related to business analysis and

encouraging thought leadership through enhancement of domain knowledge

within brokerage operations area.

MphasiS Corporation, an HP COMPANY, New York City, New York ( 2008-2010

Worked as a Business Analyst in BFSI (Banking, Financial Services &

Insurance) domain, assigned to projects with reputed Financial Services

Clients in USA.

Key Projects & Highlights:

. Legal and Compliance IT - Project Disclosure of Interest - JPMC, NJ (Mar

'10 till Apr '10) : Successfully conducted gap analysis on US SEC (Sec

13F and 13G) Disclosure of Interest regulatory requirements and

translated the gap analysis in concise business requirements to the

development team based out of US. Elicited detailed requirements with

Paralegal and Compliance team comprising of 5 member team in US,

successfully coordinated and facilitated the business meetings with end

users.

. Remediation - Credit Suisse, NY (Dec '09 till Jan '10): Elicited business

requirements, conducted in-depth analysis, consulting and translated the

business requirements into seven Use Cases. Liaised with business sponsor

and representatives from Client Valuation Service Group, Operations and

Trading Group encompassing USA and UK region. Involved in strategic

planning, and overall project coordination for building a valuation

system valuing investments grouped by traders and financial instruments

such as cash securities and derivatives.

. Global Collateral Engine (GCE) - JP Morgan Chase, NY (Aug '09 till Dec

'09): Administered gap analysis, business requirements analysis,

planning, to recreate and launch a Global Collateral Engine - Core

Onboarding workstream. Worked with multiple stakeholders spread across 3

business lines / departments in USA and UK. Analysed 4 existing systems

and studied the existing process and pain points, this was translated

into a consolidated future process flow and business requirements

highlighting the centralized core onboarding system.

. eBAM (Electronic Bank Account Management) - Citibank, NJ (Mar '09 till

Jul '09): Championed all aspects of business analysis, consulting, and

gap analysis for this initiative to design a web based tool to manage

Client Onboarding of Treasury Operations accounts. Scope included account

opening, modifying and closing.

. Treasury Services Migration- JP Morgan Chase, TX (Nov '08 till Feb '09):

Conducted extensive business requirements analysis, knowledge sharing

networking, and resource planning for this migration of account and

product system to a centralized repository. Coordinated functional

specification document / user interface page specification validations.

Followed iterative model developing Mockups for the users to visualize

the requirement and provide sign off.

. WSS CPA Migration to CMSII - JP Morgan Chase, NY (Oct '08 till Nov '08)

: Elicited requirements from ten representatives from three separate

functional departments involving client relationship managers, credit

risk managers and operations to fulfill requirements provided by a

collateral legal agreement between JPMC and its client - Merrill Lynch.

Helped the team understand the problem and solution by documenting

examples and scenarios, resulting in a successful project implementation

of a collateral management system generating collateral valuation in a

portfolio.

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, East Brunswick, New Jersey ( 2005-2008.

Part of the Securities and Capital Markets Business Practice group, worked

as a Domain Consultant assigned to projects as a Business Analyst in

Investment banking area. Exposure with reputed IB clients in UK and USA.

. Reconciliation - Credit Suisse, USA (Mar '08 till Aug '08): Project

entailed implementing enhancements in the existing reconciliation product

- SunGard's intelliMATCH. Liaised with users spanning multiple lines of

business to understand and scribe their reconciliation requirements,

effectively translated those requirements into Functional Specification

document (FSD). Successfully coordinated with colleague BA's spread

across UK, USA and SGP, providing reviews and correcting the FSD.

. IT Trade Asset Services - UBS, USA (Feb '07 till Feb '08) : Balanced

multiple project priorities and supported clear communication about the

project requirements with an offshore development team and onsite QA team

to implement a complex project for Computation of Possession or Control

as per SEC Rule 15c3-3. Proactively ensured that the entire team

understood the data involved in the project by writing basic SQL queries

for analysis. Project completed successfully, resulting in positive

relationships with the business stakeholders and a commendation from the

client.

. Global Collateral and Margin Management IT at UBS, UK (Oct '06 till Nov

'06)

. Counterparty Reference Data Management, UBS, UK (Dec '05 till Oct '06):

Facilitated the coordination, testing, and validation of changes

impacting the global reference data management system: MasterFiles.

Prepared and developed seven Functional Specification Document

highlighting the change in functionality impacting the Counterparty

Reference data system. Remotely managed ten member offshore development

team in ensuring that the functional requirements were accurately

translated into solutions.

. ALERT Broker Dealer Web Version - Omgeo Inc, USA (Sep '05 till Oct '05):

Collaborated on a project to develop a web version for Broker - Dealer

ALERT post trade static data application. Oversaw all aspects of process

re-engineering, system analysis/design, configuration, and

training/development.

. Other Projects : Data warehousing - UBS, UK (Apr '05 till Aug '05);

Business Objects - UBS Development Center, India (Feb '05 till Mar '05)

TEMENOS INDIA PVT LTD., Chennai, India ( 2003-2005

Business Analyst: Managed functional testing and enabled quality assurance

standards for the core banking product - T24 GLOBUS. Prepared and developed

test cases on Securities Administration and Securities Valuation and impact

on accounting entries. Successfully managed all aspects of IT testing,

documentation, project coordination, and user validation.

ENVEST INDIA (formerly netassetmanagement india pvt ltd), Trivandrum, India

( 2001-2003

Business Analyst (Domain Analyst): Managed functional testing and enabled

test planning, documentation for the standard financial advisory solutions

consisting of different modules - Asset Allocation, Investment Selection,

Rebalancing and Modelling, Client Reporting. Successfully managed

functional testing for transitioning financial advisory platform to AXA

Financial Advisory Services. Successfully coordinated and liaised with

onsite (US) Business Consultants to translate the business / functional

requirements into functional test cases.

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Career Note: Additional experience as Equity Research Analyst, VCK Share &

Stock Broking Services Ltd (2001).

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Honors in Accountancy University of

Calcutta, India

Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Analysis, ICFAI University, Hyderabad,

India

Online Course on Brokerage Operations from New York Institute of Finance

Passed CFA Level I from CFA Institute, USA.

CFA Level II Candidate.

PUBLISHED WORKS

'Significance of an Onsite Business Analyst in an onsite / offshore

software development business model' IIBA (International Institute of

Business Analysts) Newsletter, Nov 2009

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

International Institute of Business Analysis

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. MS Excel

. Word

. PowerPoint

. Access (Proficiency Level - Average)

. Visio

. IBM Rational Requisite Pro

. Test Director

. Axure (WireFrames / Mockups)

. SQL (Proficiency Level - Average)

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