Project Management

Manish Shah

Summary:

• MBA with **+ years of experience in Financial Services with strong skill set in Business Analysis, Project Management, Financial

Analysis, Data Analysis, and Systems Analysis.

• Strong communications and inter personal skills with the ability to co-ordinate and network with multiple stakeholders to

successfully deliver critical applications / solutions.

• Experienced in working with Front, Middle, & Back office users to eliciting detailed requirements.

• Strong knowledge and understanding of OTC Derivatives, Equities, Bonds, Commodities, Futures, Derivatives (Forwards, Options,

and Swaps), and Foreign Exchange.

• Hands on experience in trade life cycle of OTC products - Interest Rate Swaps(IRS), Credit Default Swaps(CDS), and FX.

• Proficiency working in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) and project management life cycle (PMLC).

• Hands on experience with RUP, Waterfall, and Agile(Scrum) methodologies.

• In depth experience in creating business process work flow diagrams on white board as well as in Visio.

• Result oriented joint application development (JAD) facilitator and coordinator.

• Expertise in gathering & analyzing requirements using UML and convert them into functional specifications.

• Profound ability to create detailed BRDs, FRDs and model Business / System Use Cases.

• Hands on experience creating test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.

• Effective in presentation, training, and leadership skills.

Skills:

Business analysis, financial analysis, large volume data analysis, system analysis, project management, team building, leadership,

regulatory reporting, liquidity reporting, Dodd-Frank (Title VII - OTC Derivatives), Swap Data Repository (SDR) Reporting,

Volcker Rule, BASEL ii & iii Accord, SOX, AML, SEC 17a-3, 17a-4, CTFC 1.35, 1.31

Technical Skills:

MS Excel, pivot table, VBA Macro, LookUp; Visio, MS Project, SharePoint; UML; SQL; COGNOS; IBM Rational Products;

Enterprise Architect; TIBCO Spotfire; SAP BI; SAP Business Objects; JIRA; Bloomberg; MarkitWire; D/S Match, Charles River;

HTML; XML; FpML; JIRA Confluence, XML Spy

Database Skills:

Oracle 10g, Toad, MS SQL Server, Query Analyzer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Manish Shah

CME Group, New York, NY Apr 2014 – Current

Sr. Business Analyst, Enterprise Solutions

Project: Clearing Equity Swaps, IRS, Repo, NG/NN, CME STP

The objective of multiple projects was to roll out new products for clearing.

• Interviewed users within Marketing, Trade Support, Operations, and IT to gather and elicit business requirements.

• Documented specifications for Equity Swaps, IRS, NG/NN Spread and using JIRA Confluence.

• Communicated with BLMs and SMEs within Equity, Rates, Operations, and Energy.

• Reviewed and proofread FIXML and FpML tags for Equity Swaps, CAD OIS, BRL CDI Swaps, and Interest Rates Products.

• Created Workflows and diagrams using Giffy (JIRA Confluence) and MS Visio.

• Assisted in Customization of Calypso front to back office workflow management tools.

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, Gliffy, SQL Server, Squirrel, SharePoint, Cognos, Calypso, DMS, ClearPort, Globex

Barclays, New York, NY Aug 2013 – Mar 2014

Sr. Business Analyst, TPS Group, Barclays Capital

Project: Record Retention of Transactions in the WORM (Write Once Read Many) format

The objective of the project was to meet the Recordkeeping requirements under section 17a-3, 17a-4 of SEC and Rule 1.35 & 1.31 of

CFTC for all Asset Classes and data needed to be archived in the WORM format

• Developed thorough understanding of the Section 17a-3 & 17a-4 of SEC and Rule 1.34 & 1.31; and dealt with asset classes – Credit,

Rates, Securitized Products, Commodities, and FX

• Communicated with compliance to gather detailed requirements and all record types required by SEC, CFTC, and FINRA

• Documented detailed Business Requirement Document and Functional Specification Document

• Interviewed users within Operations and IT to gather system information and resolved questions with respect to record types.

• Identified relevant systems / aggregators and conducted data mapping exercises from record types to attribute levels.

• Understood the interface RainStor and analyzed archiving options with system architects and drafted the Feed Onboarding

Specifications document for system owners.

• Created a flow chart for Target Operating Model (TOM) and participated in designing work flow for the new centralized group.

• Worked with cross-functional teams located within various geographies and also provided weekly status update to the management

committee.

• Tested the feed in UAT and resolved any issues for feed failures.

Environment: MS Office, Visio, Project, RainStor, SQL, SharePoint, Cognos, SEC, CFTC, FINRA

Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, CA Feb 2013 – July 2013

Sr. Business Analyst, Financial Services Group (FSG)

Project: Dodd-Frank Reporting - Foreign Exchange (FX) & Rates (IR) OTC Derivatives Products

The objective of the project was to meet the Reporting & Recordkeeping requirements under Part 43, 45, and 46.

• Interviewed SMEs / Users within front office, operations, treasury, and compliance to elicit requirements and created Business

Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD).

• Created Schedule matrix and listed out milestones describing completion of Data Mapping, Review, UAT, and Deployment to meet

the deliverables and comply with reporting and recordkeeping deadline.

• Conducted thorough research about the systems, databases, existing processes, and created data dictionary for fields mapping.

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• Developed in depth understanding of Foreign Exchange OTC products - Forward, NDF, Window, Swaps, and Options; Interest Rate

Products - Vanilla, Basis, Caps & Floors, and Swaptions.

• Attended the DTCC meetings and participated with third party system vendors to discuss about open issues.

• Conducted detailed gap analysis between system fields and reportable required fields and reviewed them with SMEs / Users.

• Mapped the source system fields to the targeted report fields and suggested user defined, logical, and static fields.

• Lead and communicated with off-shore development team to discuss about all data gaps between systems and required fields.

• Provided regular status summaries of impact points, escalated key issues for consideration and decision making.

• Tracked & Resolved the issues internally and externally with DTCC GTR.

• Conducted data validation exercises for all reports.

• Developed test plan, created test scenarios and cases, and conducted UAT as well as tested functionality of sFTP.

• Provided training to users within FX Operations and Application Support and created flowcharts for new processes.

Environment: MS Office, Visio, Project, RUP, CFTC, DTCC, FpML, XML, SQL, SAP BI BO, Oracle, Toad, Query Analyzer

Bank of America, Jersey City, NJ Feb 2012 - Jan 2013

Sr. Business Analyst

Project: Dodd-Frank, Compliance & Validation

The objective of the project was to meet the Reporting & Recordkeeping requirements under Part 43, 45, and 46 for Interest Rate and

Credit Derivatives.

• Researched and analyzed Reporting and Recordkeeping rules (Title VII - Part 43, 45, 46) and requirements under Dodd-Frank Act

Title VII with respect to Interest Rate Swaps and Credit Default Swaps.

• Created matrix summarizing timeline for compliance, and specific impacts on Securitized Products on overall operations.

• Coordinated with Legal for in depth analysis of reportable Primary Economic Terms(PET), Lifecycle events of derivative trades.

• Provided regular status summaries of impact points, escalated key issues for consideration and decision making.

• Prepared presentation, Scorecard for industry updates on regulation and project phases for weekly Senior Management meetings.

Environment: MS Office, Visio, Project, Agile, CFTC, SEC, FpML, XML, MarkitWire, Waterfall

Deutsche Bank, New York, NY Sep 2010 – Jan 2012

Sr. Business Analyst, Capital Markets

Project: Restructure Application Services Portfolio and Develop new Global Application Repository

The objective of the project was to reduce the infrastructure maintenance cost by decommissioning the tail applications, assigning the

proper application service domain to every application and to create a centralized repository to harbor entire portfolio of applications.

• Analyzed the Capital Market businesses to understand the architecture of the various processes and participated in a strategic

decision making process about what applications needs to be decommissioned to reduce the cost.

• Interviewed 26 Domain Architects (SMEs) located across the globe to gather requirements about the ownership of applications.

• Co-ordinate with Domain Architects to better understand the applications and their functionality to different processes and

documented the same in accordance to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

• Compiled SQL queries to gather the available data regarding Application Portfolio and created Pivot Tables for easy analysis.

• Created weekly status reports for Stakeholders to provide the progress of the Application Portfolio Ownership.

• Conducted GAP analysis, gathered and documented new requirements for the New Application Repository, created use cases,

process flow charts, and activity diagrams.

• Assisted in migrating Application data to New Application Repository, conducted UAT, and provided training to end users.

• Designed and documented approval process for new applications for proper governance and future cost management.

Environment: SQL, Cognos, Advanced Excel, Pivot table analysis, PowerPoint, Sparx Enterprise Architect, SharePoint, Tibco

Spotfire, Dashboard reporting, Agile, UAT

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Manish Shah

AIG, New York, NY Apr 2009 – Sep 2010

Sr. Business Analyst, Financial Services

Project: Collateral Management

• Analyzed the fixed income products such as Corporate Bonds, Credit Default Swaps, Repos, CDO of ABS, MBS of ABS from the

perspective of Collateral Management and understood the Fixed Income Derivative Lifecycle.

• Reviewed the current Margin Call Procedure to better understand the requirements of the Stakeholders. For example all trades and

collaterals need to be marked to market daily; collateral can be called / recalled daily, collateral moves next normal day.

• Interviewed Stakeholders and SMEs in the trading, operations, and accounting groups to gather requirements.

• Created Gap Analysis matrix to identify the deficiencies of the current system.

• Conducted walkthroughs and JAD sessions with business and development teams to create flow charts and activity diagrams.

• Participated in data field mapping exercises between systems.

Environment: Fixed Income Derivatives, MS Office, Visio, BPMN, Rational Requisite Pro, Agile, Calypso (Collateral Mgmt)

AIG, New York, NY June 2008 – Mar 2009

Business Analyst, Financial Services

Project: Treasury reporting & Business Process Improvement

The objective of the project was to analyze various As Is processes, modify existing processes, document To Be processes, and assist the

stakeholder create various reports.

• Documented processes around A/R, A/P, Liquidity Management, and Reporting and also created necessary flowcharts.

• Collected functional requirements from system users and prepared BRD, provided appropriate scope of work for technical team and

liaised to develop prototype and additional features.

• Conducted Gap Analysis, prepared Workflow diagrams to analyze AS IS and TO BE scenarios, designed new process flows.

• Assisted project manager in various project management responsibilities and in creating work break down structures, estimating

project costs, funding proposals, project management tools, progress reporting.

• Developed new reporting features that helped analyze CFO group more efficiently A/R, A/P, and upcoming Liquidity requirements.

• Used SQL queries, identified and specified data conversion activities necessary to support product release.

Environment: MS Office, Visio, Project, RUP, Basel, Liquidity, IBM Analytics, Rational products, RUP, UML, Black-box Testing

AIG, New York, NY Mar 2008 – Mar 2009

Business Analyst, Financial Services

Project: SAP - Accounting & Reporting

The objective of the project was to migrate the data from legacy system to SAP accounting system and deploy various SAP tools for

effective management reporting.

• Lead business initiatives including brainstorming on new functionality for current systems and extensively involved in

gathering business requirements and drafting functional requirements.

• Analyzed requirements in terms of SOX 404 controls and system access authorities within the system.

• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from User perspective.

• Created Use cases and liaised among different groups to resolve issues to ensure efficient operation of the project.

• Reported regularly to stakeholders about the progress of the projects and milestone achievements.

• Assisted in User Acceptance Testing and training of new system.

Environment: MS Office, Visio, SOX, SAP, Waterfall, UML, Black-box testing

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AIG, New York, NY July 2007 - Feb 2008

Business Analyst, Asset Management

Project: Credit Analysis and Tracking System

Fixed Income Research application (Credit Analysis and Tracking System ) that allowed analysts to provide opinions and internal ratings

for Corporate & Municipal Bond Issuers, which helped PMs to take accurate and timely decisions while trading.

• Collected requirements from SME in sales, trading, research, and MO in regards to credit analysis and rating of debt instruments.

• Charted out the Role Map to define Actors and their relationships, so all team members can use a standardized way to represent

them.

• Lead a Team of 2 developers at onsite and 4 at offshore location (India) and participated in all phases of this project from

development to Go-Live.

• Analyzed Requirements for the development of an approval workflow process to sanction Money Market Instruments before being

traded, in order to be in compliance with SEC 2a-7 Rule.

• Performed functional and user acceptance testing of the system and collaborated to fix any pending issues.

• Integrated Tamale RMS tool that helped research, sales, and trading to view up to date information about the instruments and make

investment decisions on time.

AIG, New York, NY Dec 2006 – June 2007

Business Analyst, Insurance

Project: Claims Management System

• Collected functional requirements from system users and prepared business requirement documents using Rational Requisite Pro

that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.

• Assisted project manager in various project management responsibilities and in creating work break down structures, estimating

project costs, funding proposals, project management tools, progress reporting.

• Assisted in conceptual design of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and conducted impact analysis.

• Addressed all aspects of the claim processing lifecycle, starting from identifying a claim right up to closure.

• Conducted Gap Analysis, prepared Workflow diagrams to analyze AS IS and TO BE scenarios, designed new process flows.

• Used SQL queries, identified and specified data conversion activities necessary to support product release.

AIG, New York, NY Oct 2006 – June 2007

Business Analyst, Insurance

Project: Insurance Billing System

Billing system built to eventually serve policies for all lines of business (LOB). The system was live with Auto LOB for new policies and

the objectives of the project were: Conversion project to bring over billing information for existing policies from the legacy (mainframe)

billing system and integration project to integrate additional LOBs into the new system.

• Interviewed SMEs within Sales & Marketing and Treasuries and gathered requirements for additional features.

• Assisted in developing project delivery schedule, managing project, and identified resources for successful completion.

• Documented use cases by eliciting Business Requirements, designed screen mockups for user friendly Interface.

• Maintained the track of stakeholders' requests for system enhancements and changes.

• Developed test conditions, test scenarios, test cases, and participated in Black/White Box testing.

• Co-ordinate with development and testing teams and accomplished timely release for production of the application.

KPMG, Melville, NY Sep 2004 – Sep 2006

Consultant - IT Risk Advisory

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Manish Shah

Assigned to various clients for evaluating IT systems and operational controls. Tested general controls, SOX controls, AML, KYC, and

Client on-boarding controls.

• Developed a complete understanding of business support functions, present technology environment, and operations.

• Documented processes under review and prepared process documentation (e.g., flow charts), with focus on IT controls.

• Lead and executed audits in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets, and timelines.

• Assisted clients to determine, establish, test, and assess the effectiveness of financial and information technology

internal controls to ensure compliance with SOX.

• Summarized, documented, and communicated results to senior management.

• Recommended controls to close out identified control gaps.

Education:

• MBA (Finance) Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Aug 2004

• Bachelors in Accounting and in Law Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, GJ, India May 1998

Certification, Courses, CPE:

• IB Training - Financial Modeling, LBO, M&A

• CPE - AML, SOX, Business Process Management

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