Project Management

Vinay Golla

Senior Business Analyst

Contact No:214-***-**** Email: ************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Senior Business Analyst with 9 years of experience in the financial services industry. Offers in-depth knowledge and experience in Financial management (Fixed Income/ Equities/ Investments), Fund Financial Services, Asset Management and Mortgage domains.

Extensive knowledge in Financial services, Fund Administration and Banking in all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile including analysis, design, development and testing of software.

Hands on experience with investment systems including vendor Trading systems or trade order management systems, such as Bloomberg etc

Financial domain knowledge of financial statements, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Stock Valuation, Mortgage and fixed income.

Experienced with various asset types including in-depth knowledge of Fixed Income securities and derivatives

Expertise in design and review of various documents including the, Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD).

Proficient in using UML in behavioral and structural modeling – in creating Use Case, State chart diagram, Activity diagram, Sequence diagrams, Process flow diagrams and Data Flow diagrams(DFD) using Microsoft Visio.

Organized Joint Application Developments (JAD) sessions and Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), walkthrough, Interviews and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions with end-user/clients/stake holders and the IT groups for analyzing requirements, creating prototypes and user interface (UI).

Interviewed SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.

Experience in conducting GAP analysis, requirements gathering sessions, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost-benefit analysis and ROI analysis.

Proficient in creating Risk Analysis documents, Risk Management Plan, User Requirement Specification, Functional Requirement Specification and Business Process Flows.

Documented user stories and worked closely with the developers and testers and conducted sprint planning ceremonies.

Agile Scrum Ceremonies: sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives and daily stand ups.

Scrum Events: Backlog Grooming, Story-Point Estimation.

Facilitated Sprint meetings, workshops, surveys and interviews.

Reviewed Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Execution strategies.

Facilitated the User Acceptance Test (UAT) sessions with the defined Acceptance Criteria and with references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation and other training needs.

Daily Scrum Call, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective Meeting.

Facilitated User Acceptance Testing(UAT) sessions with the defined Acceptance Criteria and with references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation

Trained users on the changes being released and conducted post production activities like getting feedback from users, prioritizing tasks with business users.

Scrum Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Product Increment and Burn-down Chart.

Strong MS Excel skills in making pivot tables, working with different function types such as VLOOKUP and other macros.

Educational Summary:

Master of Business Administration, Vignana Jyothi institute of management, India.

Certifications:

National Stock Exchange certification in Financial markets.

National Stock Exchange certification in Equities and Derivatives.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Project Methodology

Agile, Waterfall

BPM Tools

MS Visio, Enterprise Architect, Blueprint,Smartdraw

Wire framing Tools

Balsamiq, iRise

Requirement Management

IBM DOORS, MS Office Suite, Rational Suite (Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest), JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, HP ALM/QC.

Languages

ASP.NET, ASP, C#, JavaScript, C/C++, XML, C, C++, VB.NET, HTML/DHTML, JavaScript, PL /SQL, T-SQL, IIS 5/6, VB Script

System Designing

Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Content Management

MS-SharePoint, Confluence Workstation, Bloomberg, Alfresco

Databases Systems

Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Oracle, Natural, DB2, Informatica

ERP

PeopleSoft FCM (Financial Management System)

Deliverables:

Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirement Document,

Design Specifications, Training Manual & Job Aids, Use Cases, Test Cases & Scripts, Project time, Cost and Resource estimations

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OSX, Unix

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business Analyst

INVESCO Ltd, Atlanta, GA Mar 2016 – Till date

Fund Administration Team at Invesco handles the various regulatory reporting and taxation tasks for the mutual funds of Invesco. The reporting activity for the Investment Companies Institute is done for different types of funds on a monthly and quarterly basis which is entirely done manually. The project aim was to automate the reporting process. Once done the reporting process involves only scheduling the date time and required fund codes in the business objects and the final outcome will be in an Excel spreadsheet as required by the ICI. The project involved in understanding the different reports that are to be considered for the reporting and understanding the criteria for additions and subtractions of the different Ledger balances.

Responsibilities:

Worked closely with the fund administration team to know the business requirements.

Captured As-Is Process, designed TO-BE Process and performed GAP Analysis.

Understanding of general ledger processing and financial settlements.

Identified Potential cross-pillar dependencies, risks and solution for mitigation approaches.

Helped in prioritizing Sprint Backlog including the process of breaking down an EPIC into user stories and other documents.

Worked with Portfolio Management/Accounting system and handled Corporate, Municipal, Treasury, Agencies and High Yield Traders.

Prepared the data flow models and sprint backlogs.

Wrote Functional Specifications for a large domestic fixed income system.

Participated in regular meetings and knowledge exchange session to understand the complex financial products and shared the knowledge with the project team.

Conducted knowledge session for the project team about the Options, Futures and Swaps and their reconciliations process.

Defined program and project goals, objectives, products, services, constraints, assumptions, risks and facilitated processes by working with the project team, and stakeholders to baseline the scope of the work and enable development of the plan.

Worked with Fixed Income Trading System: Bloomberg Portfolio System and handled Corporate Bonds, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Asset Backed Securities (ABS), Inflation-Linked Treasury Bonds (TIPS), Municipal Bonds, Warrants and Preferred Stock.

Work includes enhancement topics such as: Uploads, downloads, Auto Pair off of Financing (repurchase agreement / Repo) transactions, and the calculation of Interest, Expense, Accretion, Amortization & cost of carry, as they pertain to Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) and Management Reporting.

Designed and developed the activity diagrams that explains both the financial data handling and integrating that to the product.

Facilitated Scrum meetings. Helped in assuring parallel understanding of requirements and deliverables amongst all stakeholders in Sprint Planning Meetings.

Documented detailed requirements of the end product as per the reporting requirements of the different types of mutual funds.

Worked with the development team in preparing business rules and explained the financial terms and rules to be followed in the process.

Participated in project review meetings to resolve defect related issues.

Contributed to entire software development life cycle (SDLC) from initial business requirements to deployment & production support.

Used SQL in Data querying to extract data and conduct data analysis.

Collaborated in testing with the stakeholders to find out that the end product is throwing the correct data in the required format as per the ICI reporting standards.

Environment: Agile, RUP, UML, SQL, MS Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Rational Rose.

Senior Business Analyst

Charles Schwab, Chicago, IL Aug 2015 – Jan 2016

Charles Schwab is a financial services leader that helps people save, invest and manage their money. Schwab also serves independent investment advisors and companies sponsoring retirement and stock plans.

Alternate Investments (AI) Billing project is an initiative to change the business rules around the billing for services rendered customers investing in AI and automate the process of billing them. Mutual Fund Order Management, Trading, Operations Management and Reporting (MOTOR) is an initiative to replace an existing mutual funds bulk order trading system with enhanced capabilities that addresses the current pain points while at the same time supports the future of mutual funds trading.

Responsibilities:

Assessment of current state business processes and identifying the pain points (BPM).

Provided a representation of future state business processes that shows enhanced functionalities while addressing the pain points at the same time (Business Process Modeling).

Worked with stakeholders and project management to define the vision document for the project.

Worked with traders to understand the trading desk issues and roadblocks.

Worked with business SMEs to gather the business requirements.

Conducted Use case survey to identify all the use cases affecting the project.

Worked with the architect and tech lead to understand the feasibility of the requirements.

Participated and provided critical inputs in stakeholder meetings that finalizes the scope of requirement enhancements.

Created use case diagrams using UML.

Gathered and managed functional requirements by creating use case flows and documenting them for stakeholder sign-off.

Understood the process for reconciliations for Futures, Options and Swaps.

Explained the team about Mark to market, Variance margin in derivatives trading.

Defined the team about the positions for the derivatives, using security master to access the data and to understand the data flow in to the security master.

Created data dictionary to identify the data elements required for the requirements and the project.

Maintained the non-functional requirements through the Supplemental specification document.

Provided project metrics to track the progress of the project.

Provided inputs and worked for creating the project iteration plans.

Worked with the QA team to help clear the functional ambiguities, helped with test plan and helped manage the defect resolution through Quality Center.

Participated in team member meetings to provide inputs for BA process improvements.

Mentored junior team members with enterprise methodologies and processes.

Environment: Waterfall and Agile, UML, SQL, MS Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Balsamiq, Rational Rose.

Business Analyst

USA Mortgage, St. Louis, MO Aug 2014 – Aug 2015

The Loan Origination System (LOS) was developed specially to support the loan application processing needs. It employs workflow technology to control and monitor the various work steps in the loan processing. Typical work steps in the application workflow include: Application origination, Duplication check, Watchlist check, Credit scoring, Application form printing, internal credit check, loan repayment history, risk analysis etc. It also gives the loan officer a complete overview of the transaction at the point of service. The project required a close interaction with the risk management team.

Responsibilities:

Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from the users' perspective

Worked closely with business unit to develop a Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD) and as per the client requirement and including the applications capable of supporting those requirements.

Performed personal interviews and conducted anonymous polls with Loan Agents to elicit and prioritize key requirements for the application

Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other

Collected and documented business processes as well as business rules.

Performed GAP Analysis and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Created Use Cases, Work Flows, and Screen Shots for the application

Developed and Analyzed Object Models

Defined Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of the application and ensured that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality

Performed data integrity testing using SQL queries to interact with the database

Created progress reports, updated project plans, attended meetings to document discussions and decisions.

Worked with Data Analyst in interpreting key metrics, trends, and provide recommendations to management, develop reports through data models for Supply Chain, Inventories, to pull savings in each area.

Coordinated with the testing team in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Developed test cases and test scripts and performed testing using HP Quality center (QC).

Conducted project related presentations.

Environment: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, HP QC, UML, Rational Rose.

Business Analyst

Franklin Templeton, Boston, MA. Dec 2012 -- Jul 2014

Franklin Templeton is one of the largest and most respected mutual fund company, which has many index mutual funds. As a client-focused company, following the time tested investment principles with integrity is the core of its operations. Fund Financial Services (FFS) is a long-term multi-phased project to overhaul and streamline the front, middle and back office processes and related systems within the fund financial services group to deliver the twin objectives of cost efficiency and core function concentration while keeping pace with changing technologies and positioning the company to face future challenges more effectively.

Responsibilities:

Led the resource planning effort. Worked with Third Party Vendors (TPV) for specialized services that the project required.

Identified Potential cross-pillar Dependencies, risks and solution for mitigation approaches.

Helped in prioritization Sprint Backlog including the process of breaking down an EPIC into user stories and other documents.

Conducted all Scrum meetings (Backlog grooming, Release/Sprint Planning, Estimations, Retrospectives).

Worked extensively with Quality Engineering team to ensure Zero Defect Releases.

Facilitated Agile Training sessions for team members.

Facilitated various team-building activities to increase morale and productivity.

Extensively gathered requirements from all users, experts, and key personnel to understand the functional requirements.

Developing and implementing SharePoint Plan for organization wide collaborative document sharing. user setup, trained all staff on tool features and business agreed upon usage.

Documenting: Change Release Process, Document Control Plan, Project Charter (Template) Process Definition (Template), SharePoint User and Admin Guide and Document, Deliverables Log.

Responsible for creating UI mock ups using Balsamiq.

Performed Data Analysis and Data validation by writing SQL queries.

Closely interacted with software developers to understand application functionality, navigational flow and updated them about end-user sentiments.

Created, assigned, and maintained tickets in JIRA for bugs and defects.

Led both internal peer review and external reviews of use case specifications and in the process clarifying the finer details of the requirements.

Performed and acted as a Manual tester in the final stages of the project.

Involved in developing test plans, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements using Quality center/ALM.

Participated in creation of Test Strategy, Test Scenarios and Test Approach.

Participated in planning and assisted in writing Test plans. Performed User acceptance testing (UAT), System testing, Integration testing. Validated and helped verify defects to weed out cosmetic problems and keep the project on schedule.

Provided the User manual document to the Team that helps the new users to understand the application in no time.

Environment: Agile, SQL, UML, Load Runner, MS-Project, MS Visio, MS Office, JIRA

Business Analyst

UBS, San Francisco, CA Dec 2010 – Nov 2012

UBS is one of the world's leading financial firm providing wide range of services to their clients in different sectors such as Investment banking and wealth management. Worked for FIRC (Fixed Income, Rates & Currencies) group as a Business Analyst.

Responsibilities:

Elicited demands from the stakeholders and analyzed them for consistency, flexibility and completeness

Served as the primary liaison between the business and information technology teams

Worked with SME’s in Finance, Investment, Commercial and Personal banking to collect the Business process requirements, documented them in Business Requirement Document (BRD).

Implemented SDLC that included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing utilizing RUP methodology.

Worked with the development team to ensure that they understand the functional specifications. Facilitated brainstorming and walkthrough sessions.

Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.

Interviewed area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.

Followed the UML based methods using MS Visio to create Use cases, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams

Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

Writing Use Cases and mentoring other project team members on how to write use cases and how to draw use case diagrams by arranging use case workshop.

Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing and report / data validation Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.

Handled requests for proposals, making presentations, and negotiating project timelines and deliverables.

Performed Requirement Analysis and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and other Process Flow Models such as Business Analysis Process Model to describe the functionality of the system including claims transactions using Visio.

Created Test Plans, Test Designs and Test Cases as well as being involved in the daily Website testing for various projects.

Performed System testing of the Claims processing systems (Pricing Rules, Duplicate/Limits validation, Member Eligibility, Provider Enrollment).

Involved in UAT (User Acceptance testing) sessions.

Environment: MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, SQL, UML, Rational Rose.

Business Analyst

Indusind Bank, India Aug 2007 – Nov 2010

Issue Credit Cards and billing application: This application facilitated Bank of India to run credit analytics for new credit card application and the business managers to take decision for credit card issue. It also facilitated billing of statements to customers periodically and keeping track of accounts through application reports.

Responsibilities:

Worked closely with business unit to develop a Business Requirement Document (BRD).

Prepared the Functional Specification Document (FSD) as per the client requirement.

Acquired comprehensive knowledge of Banking activities and operating processes

Delivered Business Processes, Use Cases, Activity diagrams, User Stories, functional and non-functional requirements in RUP and Agile methodologies.

Developed wireframes using Balsamiq.

Reviewed design, development and test artifacts to establish traceability with requirements

Created the traceability matrix and conducted GAP Analysis

Involved in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and acted as the liaison between corporate business managers and IT division.

Conducted and facilitated workshops and elicitation sessions with both the client as well as the IT teams.

Perform data analysis and conceptualize the data requirements by implementing various data modeling techniques such as data dictionaries, Entity relationship diagrams (ERD) and glossary

Involved in publishing of various kinds of live, interactive data visualizations, dashboards, reports and workbooks from Tableau.

Interacted with client user teams at various associate levels to analyze current processes to design business processes utilizing UML and draw process flow diagrams utilizing Visio

Adopted RUP methods for requirements and performed documentation technical team utilizing Requisite Pro.

Assisted with documenting test cases for functionality testing and Verified data integrity for backend.

Worked with business in developing a UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Environment: RUP, UML, Balsamiq, MS Visio SQL, MS Office Suite.

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