Project Manager Management

Hetal KAKRECHA

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732-***-**** *********@*****.***

Professional Summary

• Over five years of industry experience as Business Analyst with concrete understanding of methodologies, tools & techniques of Business Requirement gathering, Business Process flow

• Experience of building global accounting platform for fixed income trading desk of a very large asset management firm

• Excellent knowledge of Dodd-Frank, BASEL regulatory framework specializing in the area of Liquidity Risk (LCR, NSFR), Stress Test, Risk Management Models.

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodology; Experience of preparing UML diagrams such as Activity, Class and Sequence diagrams; ability for creating Mock ups.

• Expert in eliciting Business requirements, writing Business Requirements and Functional Requirements Specification Document (BRD/FRD).

• Experienced in conducting GAP analysis, Impact analysis and Cost-benefit analysis. Managed change control processes, created traceability matrix and coordinated for efficient defect management practice.

• Wrote numerous business critical User Stories, prepared Sprint and Product Backlog, executed implementation by following Agile methodology.

• Performed extensive data analysis during system analysis and testing by using SQL; recommended remediation for data quality issue and efficient data management.

• Adept in using MS Office applications for data analysis, activity tracking and producing project KPIs for management reporting; conversant in MS Visio to create flows and diagrams; and prolifically used MS Project for project management by creating, prioritizing, monitoring and managing individual tasks.

Professional Experience

PNC Bank March 2014– Present

Position: Business Analyst/Project Manager

Roles and Responsibilities

• Worked closely with the risk managers in order to understand the various assumptions required for the tool under different scenarios

• Documented the AS-IS business workflow for liquidity risk management

• Worked in Agile environment, managed application product backlog& documented User Stories

• Prepared use case documents and utilized MS Visio to create UML diagrams

• Prepared use cases for stress testing assumptions at the enterprise, legal entity and line of business levels

• Aided product owner in prioritizing the requirements based on work estimation

• Wrote Functional requirements specification on basis of user stories

• Coordinated with the data management team to ensure that desired data quality is accomplished

• Worked closely with QA team to review the test plan, test cases and to track the defects

• Coordinated UAT with users &facilitated change management

• Assisted the team in production environment and tracked the process

Wells Fargo December 2012 - February 2014

Position: Business Analyst/Jr. Project Manager

Roles and Responsibility

• Worked with cross-functional teams in order to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements and translated those requirements into functional specifications.

• Worked with Portfolio management team and back office accounting group to create data requirement specification which were utilized to propagate P&L trades and corporate events.

• Wrote specifications for processing reference data information received from Market Data Vendors. The transformation logic included prioritization of vendors with respect to the category of content, instrument type and market.

• Developed rule engine based transformation logic and created waterfall mechanism for sourcing and maintaining reference data provided by multiple vendors.

• Designed specifications to build reconciliation engine with accounting system in the application so that position records are updated regularly and causes less number of failed trades.

• Facilitated meetings and conference calls with key stakeholders during requirement gathering, requirement review, prototype demonstration, user acceptance testing and regular status reporting.

• Validated requirements with the Business and Technical units. Created both high level use cases and detailed use case specifications to explain the system’s interaction with the users.

• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, wireframe, and Flow Diagrams in MS Visio.

• Managing the project tasks/assigning tasks to the appropriate team members. Created weekly status reports for the higher management.

• Conducted weekly review meetings with the development team to track status and risks. Monitored and escalated the risk regularly; provided risk mitigation plan to project manager.

Pershing, LLC July 2010 – November 2012

Position: Jr. Project Coordinator/BA

Roles and Responsibility:

• Prepared the Vision and scope documents for the project and worked closely with the Project Manager in planning, scheduling, coordination and implementing methodology. Used waterfall Methodology.

• Worked with cross-functional teams in order to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements and translated those requirements into functional specifications.

• Managed project schedules, milestone tracking, and resource allocation in MS Project.

• Designed textual use cases; and use case, activity, class and sequence diagrams using MS Visio.

EDUCATION

• Bachelors of Science – University of Hartford, CT

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