Management Software

SUMMARY

Master of Business Administration graduate with specialization in Finance & Marketing

Seven years of experience in business analysis and software development working with top North

American investment banks

Proven expertise in all phases of diverse projects in Capital Markets’ technology

SKILL SET

Certification : National Stock Exchange (NSE) certified in Financial Markets and Derivatives

Markets, Oracle Certified PL/SQL Developer

Data Analysis : SPSS, PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, Advanced MS Excel (Macros, Pivot tables,

lookups)

Technical : Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Control M Scheduler, SQL Loader,

Reporting Tools : Business Objects

Financial Applications : Misys Loan IQ, MORCOM Reconciliation, Asia Regulatory Reporting (ARRT)

Tealeaf Web Analytics, Asset Portfolio Mangement System (APMS), Livelink,

Lending Transaction Summary Lite (LTSL)

EXPERIENCE

Consultant, Polaris Software Lab Canada Inc., Toronto March 2014 – Present Client: BMO Capital Markets

Led business requirements analysis for a loan origination system – Lending Transaction Summary Lite (LTSL), which is used to capture the details of loan deals, initiate loan approval workflow and perform required underwriting tasks for a loan

Spearheaded the project to establish a direct interface between FICO and LTSL to automate the credit score retrieval for customers; thereby reducing manual intervention in the loan workflow

Collaborated with multiple teams such as Product, Development & Sales to enhance product functionalities

Built test strategies owing to changes in regulatory standards, risk control procedures and other policies set by Federal Bank

Coached members of automation testing team in LTSL to help them develop a tool for regression testing of the application; thereby saving manual testing efforts by 60%

Consultant, Polaris Software Lab Canada Inc., Toronto July 2013 – Feb 2014 Client: BMO Capital Markets

Led various teams within the Program to consolidate information-silos across various lines of business

into a ‘golden copy’ database of customer on-boarding solution

Managed client data for various financial information systems such as Transaction Processing System and Asset Portfolio Management System

Enabled BMO Capital Markets to provide industry codes for their various customer entities as per latest Standard Industrial Classification structure

Mentored peers on the client data of different financial systems and led them through work-breakdown structure to meet the project timelines

Analyst, JPMorgan Chase, Mumbai April 2010 – April 2011

Led business requirements analysis phase of a critical report generation project for Loan Syndication team

Coordinated with third-party vendors to ensure accurate and timely data-feed into JPMorgan’s systems for business report generation and analysis

Single-handedly designed a software application to render feeds and downstream system’s data; tool

reduced the turnaround time by ~ 40% for issue resolution for programmers

Served as primary liaison between JPMorgan’s Mumbai and Chicago offices for two critical projects;

efforts recognized by senior management for exemplary interpersonal skills

Senior Business Analyst, Accenture, Mumbai June 2009 – April 2010

Client: JPMorgan Chase

Led a team of associate software engineers to understand regulatory reporting requirements for entire Asia-Pacific region of a top investment bank client

Developed the regulatory reporting framework that catered to the ever increasing regulatory scrutiny

demands by the regulators within the regions in which the bank operates

Worked with multiple stakeholders across the APAC region during requirements gathering, application design and testing phases; thereby gaining business-side insights of the regulatory product

Business Analyst, Accenture, Mumbai May 2007 – June 2009

Client: JPMorgan Chase

Led technical design architecture of the new reconciliations assignment

Actively involved myself in planning and budgeting phase of the assignment

Worked with tealeaf web analytics tools with a high degree of skill and understanding as it relates to web metrics, site analysis, online business, and user behavioral analysis

Developed a dashboard for senior management for client’s IB business providing managers a line of sight into different Line-of-Business activity through customizable reports

Programmer, Accenture, Mumbai June 2006 – May 2007

Client: JPMorgan Chase

Led business requirements analysis phase and code-review cycles of migration project; championed

modularity, scalability, and efficiency in design

Successfully implemented the migration of Reconciliations database from one vendor to another for JPMorgan Chase; thereby ensuring scalability & improved transactional efficiency for banks’ users

Recommended changes in database design and programs to reduce throughput by ~ 15% for a client

application

Designed metrics to evaluate performance of client’s suite of software applications and databases; created value-added weekly reports for the management dashboard

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration, Great Lakes Institute of Management, India April 2013

Bachelor of Technology, National Institute of Technology, India May 2006

EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS

Coordinator of Economics Club at Great Lakes Institute of Management; orchestrated several debates on macroeconomic issues

Won “Article of the Month” award at Great Lakes for authoring an article on “Quantitative Easing – to be or not to be” for the finance magazine of National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)

Penned an article for “CRISIL YOUNG THOUGHT LEADER -2012” – an article writing competition at international level sponsored by CRISIL

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