SUMMARY
. An experienced finance and IT services professional with 7 years of
experience in risk business analysis and IT projects implementation.
. Led and executed many projects successfully from inception to
implementation and possess good knowledge of IT systems.
WORK EXPERIENCE
SecondFloor
AMSTERDAM, NL
Risk Business Analyst
Oct 2012- Oct 2013
. Working for a risk management application of a leading insurance
company as a Business Analyst.
. Requirements gathering, business analysis and stakeholder management.
. Prepare Working memos, detailed documentation for
development/enhancement of the risk application and engage effectively
with the business.
. Act as a liaison between business unit owners, developers, client and
the support team.
. Support and enhance the credit risk business processes by working on
various credit risk management CRs.
. Help the client with User Acceptance Test (UAT) and ensure business
sign-off.
Backbase B.V
AMSTERDAM, NL
Business Analyst/BPM Consultant
Mar 2012-Oct 2012
. Understand business processes of clients and suggest improvements
using Backbase software. Putting 'Business in Control'
. Follow agile methodology, PRINCE2 and SCRUM for project management and
implementation.
. Created a Proof of Concept Template, which is now a company-wide
standard.
MARKIT Group Ltd.
AMSTERDAM, NL
Business Analyst, Markit Distribution Platform (MDP)
Sep 2010 - Mar 2012
. MarkIT is a leading financial information services company providing
independent data, valuations, trade processing and loan portfolio
management to leading banks and institutional investors.
. Prepared a data dictionary for MDP which normalized data and improved
firm-wide understanding of new data feeds in MDP.
. Responsible for integrating many new data feeds into MDP which helped
MDP cater to large client base.
. Translate business requirements into IT solutions, engage with
developers and help them during construction of the software.
. Act as an interface between the clients and other stakeholders and
ensuring the project is on schedule.
. Process Improvement, Change Management and user permissions for
various Markit products.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
INDIA, UK & NL Business
Analyst/Team Leader
Aug 2005 - Aug 2009
. Tata Consulting Services Ltd. is a leading IT services, consulting
company providing business solutions to top Fortune 500 companies.
. Involved in consulting, business analysis, risk management, providing
business solutions to clients.
. Lead teams and various modules of banking software applications with a
strong customer-centric view. Liaise with the customers; understand
their issues, solve them within deadlines to their satisfaction and
eventually build long lasting and fruitful customer relationships.
. Writing business specifications, suggesting suitable designs for
banking software applications using various design methodologies in
UML.
. Write test cases for system testing and User Acceptance Testing.
. Advise clients on adhering to compliance and regulatory frameworks
such as Basel II.
DETAILS of PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN for TCS
MARKET RISK TOOLKIT (ABN AMRO/RBS)
BANGALORE, IN & AMSTERDAM, NL
Business Analyst
May 2008 - Aug 2009
Market Risk Toolkit (MRTK) is an application suite of ABN Amro/RBS which
calculated value at risk (VaR) using feeds from various source systems like
Infinity, Murex and Calypso etc. from all over the world. This application
suite caters to the need of the Global Risk Reporting & Control (GRR&C)
group by consolidating, viewing, monitoring and managing the market risk
and credit risk held by the various units of ABN Amro /RBS.
. Responsible for VaR measurement, Sensitivity Analysis, Stress Testing
and effect of special scenarios.
. Check if the bank adheres to Basel II guidelines. Suggested a matrix
which ensured that all the checks are in place.
. Instrumental in managing the client engagement and identifying
business development opportunities acting as an interface between the
client and other stakeholders.
. Coordinated with the teams in India/ UK for enhancements in the
application by translating user requirements to business and technical
specifications.
CARMA (Corporate Action Rule Management Application), JPMC
BANGALORE, IN
Business Analyst
Jan 2008 - Apr 2008
CARMA is an application for JPMC which cross referenced data with Global
Corporate Actions (GCA) and presented it to the users.
. Mentored Team members on concepts related to SWIFT messages,
increasing their productivity in solution implementation.
. Preparing use cases and documenting user stories. Supporting business
users with preparing a test plan and help them in the execution of
User Acceptance Testing.
. Liaised with the client and suggested a feasible design for the
application, which reduced the build time of the application by 15 %.(
from 3 months -2 months 15 days).
EVEREST PLUS, DEUTSCHE BANK
BANGALORE, IN
Business Analyst
Jun 2006 - Dec 2007
Everest Plus is a Deutsche Bank fixed income Settlement application in
which securities and repurchase trades are processed.
. Preparing the business requirement specifications (BRS) and technical
requirement specifications (TRS)
. Suggested solution to solve the root cause bugs of the application.
This improved the performance by 20%.
WEALTH MANAGEMENT, BANCO PENTA
BANGALORE, IN
Team Member
Nov 2005 - May 2006
Wealth Management Front End (WMFE) is an application of a Chilean Bank
called Banco Penta.
. Implemented the Change Requests in time. Impact analysis of new
functionalities.
. Actively identify bugs, design and conduct analyses, arrive at
conclusions and communicate with senior management
. Reduced costs by 15% while improving service
EDUCATION
AMSTERDAM BUSINESS SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM
AMSTERDAM, NL
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Sep 2009 - Aug 2010
. Top 5% of class with CGPA of 3.4/4
MNNIT ALLAHABAD
ALLAHABAD, IN
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering
Jul 2001 - May 2005
. Bachelor of Technology with First Division Honors (78.4 % marks)
. Top 10% of a class of 100 students.
SKILLS
. Java (basic),SQL, Oracle, UML, Stata and experience with JSP, XML and
HTML
LANGUAGES
. Fluent English -both verbal and written, basic Dutch( verbal and
written)
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CERTIFICATIONS
. Professional Risk Managers (PRM) Part-I (Finance Theory, Financial
Instruments and Markets), SCRUM (2012)