ANAND RANADE
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***************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandranade/ SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Over 3 years of experience as a business analyst documenting and translating business requirements, creating communication material and managing relationships with external and internal stakeholders
• Contribution in projects with North American Banks and Insurance companies with a focus on data reconciliation, regulatory reporting and analytics
• Experience in project management, requirements gathering, data analytics and stakeholder management
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Certified Tableau Desktop Specialist and skilled in creating dashboards using self-service visualization tools
• Proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project, Visio, Outlook, Office365 and SharePoint
• Certified Big Data Analytics professional and Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) aspirant EDUCATION
MBA (University Of Wisconsin - Parkside, USA) May 2014 – May 2015 MBA MARKETING (IndSearch - University Of Pune, India) Aug 2012 – May 2014 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BUSINESS ANALYST Sep 2016 – Apr 2019
HEXANIKA (Pune, India) Data management and regulatory reporting software company
• Engaged with clients to gather software requirements and acted as a bridge between the business stakeholders and the development team to translate requirements and ensure alignment
• Designed business requirement documents (BRDs), workflow diagrams using Visio, and created uses stories
• Created project documentation, gathered use case requirements, created mockups and wireframes and performed gap analysis for a Regulatory Project with “Fifth Third Bank” (Ohio, USA)
• Managed project plans, facilitated weekly touch base meetings with internal and external stakeholders, and carried out User Acceptance Testing for a Regulatory Project with “Grange Insurance” (Ohio, USA)
• Documented business requirements, assisted in building business rules, facilitated weekly touch base meetings and created communication material for a AML Lookback Project with “RSM” (New York, USA)
• Worked with the scrum master and product owner to make sure the development effort was aligned to scope
• Documented features and benefits of product components and managed the product content repository
• Analyzed and incorporated key instructions and built rules for regulatory reports in the software
• Created responsibility assignment matrix (RACI) to ensure clarity on stakeholders for the project delivery
• Used issue log & knowledge repository tool to log issues & record expertise gained during the project life cycle
• Created dashboards and reports using data visualization tools like Tableau and Qlik Sense PRE-SALES SPECIALIST Sep 2015 – Sep 2016
HEXANIKA (NYC, USA) Data management and regulatory reporting software company
• Interacted with C-level executives from banks and insurance companies and conducted in-person meetings
• Facilitated solution demos and knowledge transfer to help clients and partners leverage system strengths
• Responded to client RFI and RFP requests
• Developed pricing model using excel (multiple if-then formulae) for On-premise and SaaS engagements
• Drafted client proposals, project plans and SOW agreements to initiate client engagements
• Conducted market research activities for product launch
• Created communication material including presentations, videos and collaterals
• Implemented CRM tool (Zoho) to structure the data for the sales and marketing team and generate invoices
• Designed KPIs for sales and marketing teams, tracked their progress and created quarterly plans INTERN-CONTENT July 2015 – Aug 2015
Zomato USA LLC (NYC, USA) A restaurant search and discovery service
• Supported data collection activity, quality check and data formatting References Available Upon Request