Business Analyst

Arujun Reddy Vangoor

+1-647-***-**** *****.*******@*****.***

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SUMMARY

MBA graduate with 12 years of Business Analyst experience handling multimillion projects in Investment Banking (Front to back office), Asset management and Enterprise Data Management (Instrument & Client Reference data) supporting SDLC process and agile methodology. Data-driven and highly analytical, able to influence corporate growth strategies based on fact-based, data-driven insights and analysis. Willing to self educate and has ability to ramp up fast on new domain and technology.

COMPETENCIES

Business Analysis / Product Owner

Business Analysis, System Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Impact and Gap Analysis

Experience in Product management process, worked on both existing and new products

Use Case diagrams, Process Workflow, Prototyping, and Data Designs

Attend workshops, Stakeholder engagement, understanding Vision, Projects, Epics, converting epics to features and writing user stories with detail acceptance criteria

User Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing and Defect Management

Actively involved in preparing release road map and release planning at feature level

SDLC / Agile

Experience on SDLC process flow, Agile Methodologies using Scrum and Kanban frameworks

Experience in leading sprint ceremonies (PBR Sessions, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, retrospectives) with the Agile teams (Scrum Master, Application Development and QA teams)

Drive and own backlog grooming, prioritize the sprint for the scrum team, validate acceptance criteria within sprint and maintain a backlog of future work for prioritization (using JIRA).

Expert in writing user stories to design, develop and test new or existing applications

Domain

Experience working with Banking systems on migration and application enhancements

Good at preparing Prototypes, Mock-ups, and Process flows using Visio/PPT for UI design

Experience working on financial products like Equity, Fixed Income, and Derivatives products for Buy & Sell Side companies. In-depth understanding on Trade life cycle

In-depth understanding on Asset and Wealth Management products/Process

Experience on Client Data - Client Onboarding, Legal Entity, KYC, AML for Clients and Funds

Experience on Instrument data - Security Master (Equity, FI, Derivatives, Corporate Actions), Market Data, FX, Derivatives, Mortgages, Mutual and Hedge Funds (ETF’s, Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, Prime Brokerage)

Expert in setup new interface from source to target for Issuer (Financial Inst.), Issue (Equity, FI, Derivative products) and markets. Good understanding on Issuer and security identifiers like LEI, ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, Third Party Identifiers (BB, RIC), VALRON.

Worked on Market data (EOD and Intraday process) on Golden Source and Eagle data models

Good working experience on Sales force (SFDC) application, handling all basic and advance administration functions like User account maintenance, Page layouts, dashboards, reports

Working experience on Risk and Regulatory projects like FATCA, Dodd Frank and MIFID II

Experience in exploring data quality of existing and future data stores through analysis of reference, quote, and trade data from vendors such as Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, FIS, BvD

Working experience on data feeds from Bloomberg (Back office, Extended, Per security, CA), Reuters (Equity, FI, Data Scope select), Swift messages (MT files for Corporate Action, Positions, Transactions, Cash Balances), IDC and Telekurs

Good in Data interrogation and warehousing experience and analysis skills using Excel/SQL.

Basic understanding on statistical tools like R and Python for data analysis and Analytics

Technology

Documentation Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MSOffice (Visio, PPT, Project, Word, Excel)

Database and Data Formats: SQL and XML, JSON, HTML

Reporting : Crystal Reports, BI (Beginner)

UI/UX Design: Angular JS, Tuxedo (Functional)

EDM Tools: Eagle PACE and Golden Source,

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center (ALM)

Professional Experience

JP Morgan Services India Pvt. Ltd., Mar'17 –Mar’19

Role: Lead Business Analyst/Product Owner

Project Description: Part of Product team for Party/client Reference data. As a team we involved in change management of client application, the golden copy of client data. Product team focuses on Regulatory and Application/Process enhancement Projects. Client Holistic Generator is a regulatory project which gives the 360 degrees view of client existence (Roles and Relationships) within the bank and the application enhancement projects includes, upgrade existing Party create (Onboarding process) and Party search (identifying duplicate parties) functionality with new functionalities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Work closely with Business to articulate product needs, Vision, define Epics, features, stories in JIRA, ensure the end-user needs are communicated effectively to the dev and test team throughout the project life cycle.

Participating in scrum ceremonies, daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, sprint planning, release planning

Defining acceptance criteria for each user story and involved in functional and UAT testing and signoff process

Responsible to provide a walkthrough in PBR sessions on acceptance criteria to Scrum master, AD (Application Development) and QA teams

Provided end to end business analysis solutions for Regulatory projects which relates to Client Roles and Relationships across all LOB’s, and Onboarding new Clients, Prime Parties and funds.

Used elastic search functionalities like Wild Card, Fuzzy, Synonyms to build and enhance existing party search

Responsible in design and development of new workflow tool for HVG and Party Create projects.

Ensure proper Entitlements and visibility rules are assigned for applications at data and user level

Accountable in analyzing MIFID II attributes in Party data domain and implemented successfully for reporting

Created UI prototypes and mockups using Visio and responsible for writing detail acceptance criteria (User Stories) to design/develop new User Interface and workflow tools.

Involved in defining operational process and ensure operational readiness after each production release

Responsible for writing functional test cases and participating in UAT and ensure coordinate with business users for UAT signoff for each production release

Trianz, Hyderabad Dec' 15 –Feb' 17

Client: New York Life Investment Management

Role: Lead Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Delivered multiple projects using Eagle PACE investment system on Performance attribution and Client Reporting for different asset classes like Fixed Income Investors Group (FIIG) and Real Estate Investors Group (REIG).

Worked on Client delivery projects like BOLI (Bank Owned Life Insurance), COLI and Controller Reports.

Responsible in providing detailed walk-through to Dev and QA team on the requirements

Worked on automation of performance reports from excel to Crystal reporting

Perform Gap analysis, Functional Testing, writing test cases and scripts using HP ALM

Beginner in customization of Salesforce application which includes SFDC Campaigns, Opportunities, Leads, Accounts, Chatter, Reports, Dashboards, Custom Objects, Workflow, Sharing and Validation Rules

Conducted multiple training sessions to train Development and QA team on Investment domain

IGATE Technologies, Client: UBS Sep' 14 –July ‘15

Golden Source India Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai July’ 13 –Sep' 14

Nomura Service India Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai Apr’ 12 –Jun' 13

Role: Senior Business Analyst / Consultant

Act as business liaison to the markets group by collaborating with the analytics team to determine data and technology challenges and with technology service providers to define and deliver appropriate solutions.

Responsible for Business Analysis, Data Analysis and Project Management for design and development of Golden Copy for off-the shelf product like Eagle Pace and Golden Source.

Worked on Market and Operational Risk projects, also involved in Counterparty and issuer risk projects

Providing end2end Business Analysis from Requirement gathering to designing specification (Interface creation) for enhancing Security Master, holding and Pricing related data on Golden Source and Eagle data model

Worked on Golden source connections to integrate the data from multiple data feeds like Bloomberg (Back office, Extended, Per security, CA), Reuters (Equity, FI, Data Scope select), Swift messages (MT files for Corporate Action, Positions, Transactions, Cash Balances), IDC and Telekurs

Responsible for vendor (Reuters, Bloomberg, IDC, Telekurs) Notifications for performing gap analysis

Worked on Corporate action automation which includes Vendor analysis, Interface creation and Data mapping

Responsible to provide a walkthrough in PBR sessions on acceptance criteria to Scrum master, AD (Application Development) and QA teams

Interface with the Dev & QA team for Specifications (Walk through) and Test case reviews

Participated in bug review meetings with Technology team, QA, managers and suggested enhancements to the existing application from business perspectives and also provided solutions to existing bugs.

Responsible for interface development between Sources to target using Message stream/ Uploader, and export interface development from Eagle to other downstream system using Exporter for CA and Securities data

Responsible for analysis of Vendor Data Feeds (all asset classes, Equity, Fixed Income and Derivatives) and model the Vendor data according to the Golden Source Data Model (Integrating with new connections)

Conducted multiple training sessions to train Development and QA team on Investment domain

KARVY Computershare Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad Feb’ 08 –Mar' 12

Client: Mirae and Reliance Asset Management

Role: Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Project Description: The project focus on development of a web application for transaction processing and commission management to support the commission processing team to speed up the process, to incorporate the new rate structures received from the client, provide access to the client to view the existing rate structures and commission annexure, access to retrieve the commission payment details at folio, transaction level.

•Worked directly with the stakeholder, SME’s and Development team to elicit requirement and to assist in the interface development which satisfy all business requirements

•Liaising between the client and development team and daily interaction with the other business support teams on resolving the reported bugs and various technical issues.

•Worked extensively on CRM applications (SFDC) to create Accounts and manage Leads/opportunities

•Comprehensively worked with Users for requirement gathering of Transaction and commission processing (Brokerage - Upfront/Trail/Incentives) details and produced initial requirement data to produce User Interface and business process requirements.

Franklin Templeton Investments, Hyderabad Apr' 05 –Aug' 06

Role: Process Associate (Canada Transfer Agency)

Part of Canada Transfer agency team, responsible for end to end operational activities includes Registered and Non Registered transactions like account setup, Purchase, Redemptions and Transfers

Part of Quality team to verify the transaction processing processed by makers and ensure 100% quality on all registered transactions

Good working experience as part of BAU on registered plans like RRSP, RESP, RSP, RPP etc.

Education Credentials

Master of Business administration, Osmania University, 2004

Bachelor of Science in Computers, Osmania University, 2002

Personal Details:

Passport# N5449856

Date of Birth 29th Aug 1981

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