RAMAT IBRAHIM

Franklin Park, NJ *****

240-***-****

admqtm@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

Proficient Business Analyst with 7 years of experience in fields of Information Technology and Finance.

Experience in capital markets, Asset management and Wealth Management, Risk management and Regulatory Reporting.

Knowledge of Capital Market (asset classification) instruments like fixed income, Derivatives (Swap, Options), Equities, Bonds, LIBOR, Credit Risk

Worked with compliance like Basel II and III (BCBS), Dodd-Frank Act, CCAR (FRY 14A, PPNR) for defining and validating capital requirements.

Experienced in the Financial Industry with exposure to Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Capital Markets (Equity, Fix Income, Swap, Fund, Mortgage, MBS, Forward, Future, Option and other Securities).

Knowledge and exposure working with various regulations and compliance such as; FINRA, FINCEN, PATRIOTIC ACT, BSA, AML and KYC. Designed and implemented solutions pertaining to regulations.

Expert in preparation of Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS).

Deep insights and efficiency in SDLC methodologies like Agile Scrum, Waterfall.

Excellent documentation skills and experience developing Test Cases, defect tracking and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Hands-on experience with MS Visio and Use Case diagrams for creating data flow/process flow diagrams such as flowcharts, activity charts, sequence diagrams as per UML.

Expert in conducting QC, User Acceptance Test (UAT), System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing, Functional Testing.

Experience of SQL, Excel Modeling to communicate with the IT team and assist in design, development, and implementation of projects.

Understanding of the fundamentals of databases and data structures

Excellent Interpersonal, negotiations and presentation skills.

Organized, goal oriented, priorities multiple tasks effectively, exceptional problem solving and sound decision-making capabilities with excellent communication and analytical skills.

Education:

University of Abuja, Bachelor of science in Computer Science–2011 -2016

Professional Experience:

Jefferies & Co. Jersey City, NJ Business Analyst Fix Income Trading

February 2020 – Current

Project 1:The goal of this project was to make enhancements to existing applications of the Fixed Income Trading System.The Fixed Income Trading systems serve the needs of all fixed income asset class trading desks that manage custodian accounts, sub advised funds accounts and institutional investors’ accounts.

Project 2: The project is to enhance the existing Portfolio Management and Accounting System that supports a variety of regulatory accounting frameworks such as GAAP. The business users can capture the trade, Conduct reconciliation of the G/L accounts, FX and market value,Application also helps in calculation of portfolio NAV and generate financial statements such as statement of asset and liability, P&L Statements, P&L Attribution Reports, Performance Attribution Reports. Agile scrum was the methodology used for the project.

Responsibilities:

● Acted as the Liaison between Line of Businesses (LOBs), Technology Partners (Source

Applications) and implementation team.

● Designed trade-related workflow for fixed income trading flow through to the settlement and

accounting systems.

Gathered requirements from Trading Desk, Portfolio Management Department and Accounting Department to develop the trading function, portfolio management function and accounting function of the system.

Mitigated extreme technology risk by removing unsupported features on the platform.

Performed pre-analysis of the user requirements, assigned priorities, and translated the requirements to functional specifications and mapped the requirements to appropriate GAAP rules.

Designed trade-related workflow for trading flow through to the settlement and accounting systems.

● Conducted meetings with SME to gather the business requirements BRDs, review the

requirements, understood the system and workflow and converted those requirements into

functional requirements FRDs.

● Attended day to day project meetings to discuss the outcome of implementation processes,

testing efforts, timelines etc. Wrote and distributed meeting minutes.

● Attended day to day project meetings to discuss the outcome of implementation processes, testing efforts, timelines etc. Wrote and distributed meeting minutes.

● Proactively monitored project, identified scope/requirement changes. Identified project impact

and escalated/notified management and the project team as necessary.

● Involved in data mapping and data validation and created various data mapping documents.

● Followed Agile and Scrum methodologies for various project phases

● Worked closely with development and QA teams to ensure the understanding of requirements

and implementation meets business expectations.

Tools & Technologies: Jira, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), MS Access, MS Excel, MS Visio.

First National Bank, Pittsburgh, PA Business System Analyst - Actimize Nov 2018 to January 2020

Project 1:The scope of this project was to implement Actimize AML Solutions which includes Currency Transaction Reporting (CTR), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Watch list Filtering (WLF) and Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM)

Project 2: In my engagement, the goal of the project was implementation the centralized KYC platform for multiple line of business. The centralized KYC system was allowing business users to access the Actimize platform to review customer risk score based on KYC regulatory and AML regulation.

Responsibilities:

Interacted and shadowed Business and client management teams for better understanding of the requirements.

Conducted JAD sessions with users & stakeholders, analyzing and documenting complex Business requirements into clear and concise Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD) document.

Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and helped transforming them into a complete System Requirement Specification (SRS) as to enable all the stakeholders to understand requirements.

Worked with clients in building data mapping between client source systems and Actimize systems, built risk factors, EDD process, financial data reconciliation designed workflows, Customer screening and Messages screening.

Conducted extensive data analysis of different databases, which were going to be the source systems to the application to understand the attributes, schema and data structure for the transactional data and KYC data.

Delivered Gap analysis documents, functional specification documents and functional test cases.

US Financial Services,Livingston NJ Business Analyst Nov 2017 – September 2018

The goal of this project was to enhance the existing personal wealth management system with new functionalities and features, Due to the company’s business expanding, new customers setting up accounts with the company, this new application plays a significant role for the company’s overall business strategy and objective.

Responsibilities: -

Responsible as the sole point of contact for the stakeholders and managed deliverables within agreed timeframes and report progress regularly to management.

Worked extensively with Financial Advisors to acknowledge the business requirements by prototyping and meeting.

Involved with the Scrum Master in Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming, Sizing, Sprint Retrospectives, Reviews and Daily Standups.

Performed GAP analysis by understanding the existing system, interviewing the users, understanding business process and the proposed application.

Identified the Data Source and defined them to build the Data Source Views for easy access.

Used MS Excel and SQL Server to implement data mapping, data validation, data reconciliation and data enrichment.

Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilledand deliverables are produced within specified budget, quality and time. 8

Created screen mock-ups and assisted the UI team in designing the UI screen layout.

Created data flow diagrams to explain to the technical team on the business process.

Managed Product backlog and Sprint backlog.

Tools and Technologies: JIRA, MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Microsoft Project, Visio), HP Quality Centre.

Union Bank, Lagos State Business Analyst/ Reporting Analyst

Jun 2016 – July 2017

The project involved updating the Risk Management System of the company under Basel III standards. The system is responsible for daily publishing of Risk Metrics for Compliance, Regulatory and Business reasons. The Risk Matrix consists of wide range of systems like Trade & Positions, Counterparty exposure, Balances, etc. Agile Scrum approach was used for this project.

Responsibilities:

Drive strategic business decision making through detailed analytics, insights and real-time reporting on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and financial results.

Interacted with the business stakeholders, Finance Project Managers, Treasury and Sales to gather business requirements.

Performed analysis of User Requirements: assigned priorities and translated the requirements to Functional Specifications.

Supported technical team members in development of automated processes for data extraction and analysis.

Involved in various aspects of the Scrum Framework: Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Review and Retrospective Meetings.

Updated and maintained the Project Progress Reports by Interacting with Account Management, Project Management and Clients to evaluate the work effort and ensure a desired deliverable.

Identified dependencies and potential risks to the completion of the Sprints including cost, resources and schedule.

Communicated project changes and status to the stakeholders on a daily basis, ensuring each proposed change goes through a systematic project Impact Analysis.

Managed the change requests and requirements successfully at all phases of the SDLC.

Tracked and ensured visibility of the team metrics and progress of the iteration and release.

Identify areas for improvement and increased sales opportunities to meet yearly revenue projections through various comparative analytics, statistical and data miningtechniques.

Coordinated UAT with business partners, helped identify relevant test data and reporting metrics.

Tools & Technologies: Agile Scrum, MS Office Suite, Quality Center, UML, Net, Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Access Bank, Lagos StateCustomer Service Officer

May-2014 to June-2015

Customer Relations and on-boarding experience through proper KYC. Welcome/Introduction call or e-mail to customers on account opening

Alternate Channel Handling such as Mobile and internet banking. ATM card distribution to customers, management and reconciliation

Credit card account opening and management. ATM management and account reconciliation

Branch calls center officer. Recorded weekly meeting minutes and compiled them for Microsoft word-based file for future organizational reference.

Cheque/payment confirmations via phone calls or emails. Ensure delivery of cheque books and cards to customers within Turn-around-time.

Status calls back to customers one week after account opening to confirm customer’s experience. Review of customer’s feedback on service delivery

Call back 1 month after account opening to cross sell products like internet, mobile banking and other products. Account opening documentation review. Focus on customer’s enquiries and service. Signature verification and account maintenance. FX transfers (outbound for branch services). Weekly branch performance report

Cross selling the Bank’s product as it better suits customers in relation to their businesses.

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