Business Analyst

Profile

*.* years’ of business analyst experience with 3 years in the Capital Markets space

Focus in interest rate derivatives and fixed-income securities in addition to other asset classes - FX, credit, equities

Core competencies: Project planning and management, Business analysis, Business Process Modelling, UAT planning and execution, Stakeholder management, Agile, Waterfall methodology

Tools: JIRA,HPQC, MS Project, Visio, Excel, SQL

PMP certification in progress

Professional Experience

Business Analyst

Business Architecture and Transformation Projects

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jun 2016 – Mar 2019

Key Projects:

Design & Implementation of a new Risk Management System for Middle Office operations

Responsibilities:

Defining overall scope of the project through analysis of existing processes

Identify key project risks, and manage mitigation

Organize workshops to gather requirements and develop Business Requirements Documentation (BRDs), Functional Requirements Documentation (FRDs) and test scripts

Implementation planning, migration strategy and project schedule management

Design & Documentation of User Workflows and Operating model design

Collaborating with business and technology teams to come up with controls for the current processes

On- boarding users to the new system by conducting workshops and end-user trainings; creating user manuals

UAT strategy, planning and execution and obtaining management sign off for the project delivery

Stakeholder engagement – responsible for the daily status updates to the senior management and running the status calls for progress updates to Front Office business managers and project sponsors

Post-implementation support- production issue prioritization and tracking

Achievements:

Successful pilot implementation in EMEA within schedule and with minimal post go-live issues

Successfully retired legacy systems and on boarded 60% of the trading desks to the new platform across APAC region – Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and offshore desks for EM currencies in Singapore and Hong Kong

On-time project delivery for Jakarta to meet the regulatory requirements for Indonesia Onshoring

Automation of UAT and production parallel testing

Solely managed the scope definition for the end to end automation of testing for the new RMS implementation

Worked with global MO teams to come up with a desk/region agnostic test pack to run regression testing

Outlined requirements and prioritized the deliverables closely working with the global QA automation team

Conceptualized a test simulation where in the live trades and post-T events are replicated in the UAT environment to ensure a production-like UAT

Awards:

JPMorgan CIB Global Team Excellence Award 2018 for successful implementation of Athena* for Rates business across APAC

JPMorgan Markets Middle Office Award Q4 2017 for successful pilot implementation of Athena* for Rates business in EMEA

*Athena is JPMorgan’s Front-to-back cross-market risk management and trading system

Business Analyst

Change Management Team – ERP Implementation

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd Nov 2012 – Jun 2014

Responsibilities:

Responsible for getting the changes implemented into various test environments for QA teams to test and validate

Responsible for production support management - production issues tracking, prioritization and resolution

System performance testing – load and stress testing against SLAs using tools like Load Runner

Automated script creation to eliminate redundant processes constituting change management team's daily activities

Internships

Summer Intern, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Apr - Jun 2015

Creation and management of documentation of business process models for fixed-income securities

Prepared and validated detailed user manuals for the Global fixed income middle office

Gained exposure to multiple aspects of investment banking operations, fixed income securities and trade lifecycle

Intern, Infosys Services Pvt. Ltd Jan - May 2012

Project: e-medical management system: Worked with a team of 4; Involved in Design, Solutioning and Implementation of a web-based portal for medical appointments, patient reports repository, using Struts 2.0, HTML 5 and JSP

Education

Master of Business Administration – Finance & Information Systems 2016

T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI)

Master of Technology – Information Technology 2012

Andhra University College of Engineering

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