Management Software Engineer

APOORVA KHERDE

551-***-**** **** Boulevard East, Apt 16K, North Bergen, NJ – 07047 *******.******@*****.*** SUMMARY

• Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements and creating process models to support technical solutions and improve business processes in BFSI domain.

• Process improvement and industry knowledge of Collateral Margin Management and Regulatory Compliance in Investment Banking and Capital markets domain.

• Ability to manage multi-functional tasks to solve problems and address challenges. Good exposure in stakeholder management, analytical and communication skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Hyderabad April 2016 – Dec 2016 Client: UBS Financial Services

Project Description: Collaborate with stakeholders to automate the existing manual processes and save time, money, and minimize operational errors.

• Part of the Process Excellence team (PEX) for UBS in Business Process Services with ability to design, build, test and deploy technical solutions across various applications.

• Worked for process re-design, and optimization work across banking and Collateral Management unit with tools to deliver continuous front to back efficiency.

• Interacted with business stakeholders to gather requirements. Created BRDs, features and user stories, project and release plans. Worked with Agile SCRUM team to deliver IT projects.

• Collaborated with SME’s and project managers to understand the backend process of margin calculation, issuing margin call and handling exceptions to the margin calls.

• Simplified and streamlined complex processes to improve reliability and achieve cost and cycle time reduction.

• Performed GAP analysis by developing the As-Is state and To-Be state of the processes for Global Collateral Margin Management teams.

• Analyzed opportunities for enhancement by defining the future state and reduced manual effort by automation, demand reduction and robotics.

• Eliminated redundancies, prepared process maps and value stream mapping documents, decommissioned NVAs (non- value added) process steps and proposed process efficiency opportunities worth 2.5 FTE.

• Modeled the detailed design of the system using UML diagrams including Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams.

• Conducted brainstorming sessions to understand the processes end to end and come out with any areas of improvement.

• Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications. BA Skills Domain Knowledge

Value Stream Mapping in Lean Business, Process Map Investment Banking Operations, Capital Markets BRDs and FRDs Credit Risk, Market Risk

SIPOC, FMEA, UML Diagrams Regulation – BASEL, Dodd Frank Act, CCAR Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Trade Life Cycle of Securities Agile and Waterfall methodologies Collateral Margin Management Trainings Undergone:

• Six Sigma Green Belt

• Business Analysis

• Investment Banking

Certification:

• Claritas Investment Certificate – CFA Institute

• Scrum Master Certification – International Scrum Institute MBA Intern at Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad Feb 2015 – May 2015

• Conducted Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of BASEL III Norms and their Impact on the Banking System.

• Analyzed and calculated the minimum capital required by the public and private sector banks over the years to come.

• Found out the factors affecting the liquidity risk on a sample of public and private sector banks.

• Carried out regression analysis using SAS with liquidity risk as the dependent parameter, and Capital, ROE, ROA, CAR, size of the bank as independent parameters.

• The study was based on secondary data that covers a period of five years (2010-2014). Associate Software Engineer at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai May 2012 – Aug 2013 Client: HDFC Ergo General Insurance

Project Description: Manage client’s existing databases using ETL methods. Develop and automate Management Information System (MIS) reports for strategic business analysis.

• Worked in claims Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) data warehousing team.

• Experience with requirements gathering, design, development, and testing using SAS.

• Experience in Base SAS, PROC SQL, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS DI and SAS functions.

• Handled and developed Ad-hoc reports and periodic reports.

• Updated and maintained claims database.

• Developed and deployed reports on SAS DI tool to generate automated reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

• Worked on data validation and reconciliation of claims data periodically. TECHINCAL SKILLS

Business Tools MS Office – Excel, Word, Power Point, Tableau, SAS, SPSS, Data warehousing (Informatica) Graphic Tools MS Visio, SAP Power Designer, Smart Draw, Just In Mind Prototype Methodologies SDLC, Waterfall, Agile

Languages SAS, SQL

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration July 2016

ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad GPA: 3.54

Major: Finance

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication June 2012 Ramdeobaba College of Engineering & Management, Nagpur GPA: 3.60 ACTIVITIES

• Worked as an executive member of Money Matters Club (The official Finance Club of IBS, Hyderabad).

• Worked as an organizing member of International Conference on Business & Finance (ICBF) at IBS, Hyderabad.

• Worked as an organizing member of a business plan competition – BIZWIZ during ‘TECHNOVISION 6.0’ event held at Ramdeobaba College of Engineering & Management, Nagpur.

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