BA
Resume:
ROMIT BANERJEE
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Immigration status: US Citizen
SUMMARY:
Over 15 years of progressive and diversified experience as a Business Analyst, Product Manager and IT Project Manager within Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Wealth Management on middle and back-office systems implementations.
Extensive experience in Risk/Regulatory/Compliance initiatives & trading systems/digital assets platform enhancements & exposure to cloud migration& AI/ML initiatives as a Business Analyst, IT PM and Product Manager
Well versed in SDLC and AGILE approaches including roadmap development, story writing, product/sprint backlog grooming, prototyping/wireframing, performing Go-to-market strategy and research
Prior Fintech, blockchain, crypto assets trading, Big 4 Management Consulting and cloud migration experience
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Analytics: Qlikview, Tableau, Power BI
Databases: Oracle, MS Access, Sybase, Sql Server, Azure Databricks
Operating Systems: Unix, WINDOWS 9x/2000/XP/NT
Languages: PL-SQL, Visual Basic, SQL
Microsoft Suite: Microsoft Office tools, JIRA, Quality Center/ALM, Confluence/Wiki, Balsamique, Figma, Snagit
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Rockefeller Capital Mgmt, NJ, Lead BA/Project Manager Apr’24-Current
Responsibilities:
Leading a team of BAs on an Actimize implementation for CDD, AML and Sanctions which involves integration with D365 (CRM-client/account/reference data), Wealthscape for client/account/trade/positions. Work involves creation of roadmap, BRD, user stories (Azure DevOps), source to target data mappings, grooming product backlog, sprint planning, performing data analysis (Azure Databricks and Snowflake) designing reports/dashboards using Power BI.
Working as an IT PM on an effort to digitize the manual fee collection process and integrate retirement products (Annuities, 401k plans) from various source systems into Envestnet via new feeds and APIs from D365, DTCC. Work involves maintaining project plans and RAID logs, project budget, coordinating issue escalation and resolution, presenting project status via decks to C-suite and various committees. Working on documenting inputs, outputs and sourcing data for implementing AI/ML unsupervised learning algorithms to recognize patterns for delinquent users.
Working as a Scrum Master and product manager to design a STP OMS to trade FI and Equity/Index options and integrate with Wealthscape for execution. Work involves project planning, product backlog grooming and managing sprint velocity, burndown charts and sprint activities
Bank of America, NJ, Product BA Oct’22-Mar’24
Responsibilities:
Worked as the lead Product BA to create a roadmap, coordinate requirements gathering and sprint planning, product backlog grooming, user story creation to migrate from Protegent to STAR for employee trade surveillance and Actimize implementation for CDD, transactions monitoring and sanctions (PEP, Negative news monitoring), KYC, AML and CIP.
Worked on defining restless/restful APIs to integrate with external systems (DTCC, FactSet, Bloomberg, Murex) and documenting inputs, outputs and sourcing data for implementing AI/ML regression based supervised learning algorithms for monitoring suspicious activity and users with negative news and PEP.
Worked on documenting user stories for Docker and Kubernetes, IAM functionalities for migration to Azure from on-prem
KPMG-Goldman Sachs Asset Mgmt, NY, Product Manager/ PMO PM Apr’22-Sep’22
Responsibilities:
Worked as Product Manager and as IT PM on PMO to update product roadmap, Go-To market strategy, project plans, RAID logs, status decks and product backlog, create sprint backlogs to automate manual RIA onboarding process and implement (AWS) based SAAS platform for client prospecting, onboarding, adding strategies & benchmarks, maintaining RIA performance scorecards for all onboarded RIA client accounts. Built integrations with iCapital for Alternative Investments and State Street’s custodial services (for trading and bookkeeping) via restless APIs
Mizuho Securities, NY, Program Manager Aug’20 -Mar’22
Responsibilities:
Working as a Program Manager within Compliance Technology to coordinate various initiatives (data, workflows, UI) involved in the migration of in-house client lifecycle management platform to Fenergo CLM vendor platform.
Involved in vendor selection, pricing and contract negotiation, budgeting, coordinating development, SIT/UAT, sprint planning, maintaining RAID logs, resolving and driving consensus on outstanding issues and providing regular updates to C-suite across program initiatives. Worked on implementing rules via smart contracts to migrate the rules engine to Ethereum blockchain and created user stories for containers and Kubernetes to migrate to Snowflake AWS from on-prem.
Bank of America (Private Bank), NY, Project Manager Apr’19-Aug’20
Responsibilities:
Worked as a PM within Compliance Technology to help with implementation of enhancements to a trade surveillance application used to automatically generate alerts and file regulatory filings via xml/json (Form 3, Form 4, 13D, 13G, 13F) for SFTs, FI (convertibles, Preferred), OTC and ET derivatives (CDS, TRS, IRS, Index Futures and Equity Options) positions and trades. Involved in project planning, resource allocation, maintenance and updation of RAID log, driving resolution of outstanding issues and updating decks to provide status updates to steering committee and various boards, coordination of sprint planning/refinement sessions and creating release cycle burndown charts .
Work also involved refining product roadmap, grooming product backlog and participating in sprint planning
AlphaPoint Inc (FinTech), NY, Product Manager/ Program Manager Oct’17-Feb'19
Responsibilities:
Worked as a Program Manager for migration from On-premise to AWS cloud for asset digitization platform. Involved in maintaining project plans/RAID logs/project budget, coordinating testing, deployment & production cut-over, providing regular program updates and resolving conflicts and issues to drive the AWS cloud migration of the asset digitization platform. Worked on writing user stories for containers and Kubernetes for AWS migration.
Worked as a Product Manager and Scrum master to refine the product roadmap, update Go-To Market strategy, provide market research, define APIs, create user stories and UAT test case, groom product backlog to enhance Alpha Point’s SAAS based crypto-assets trading platform with P2P and exchange-based margin lending capability (liquidation, collateral management, margin call) and integrate with external liquidity providers and custodians like Coinbase.
Deutsche Bank (Investment Bank), NY/NJ, VP Dec’13-Oct'17
Responsibilities:
Liaised with CRM, Risk quants, Front Office, Treasury, Finance, Operations to lead a team of BAs on a CCAR/DFAST and CECL implementation for IHC/BHC for Credit risk. Work involved sourcing client/trades/positions and reference data for Single/Multi Family whole loans/MBS, Equities, Stock Borrow/Loan, CDS, IRS, IR Commodity options/futures), creation of user stories, data mappings documents, workflows for current and Future state, and UAT test cases. Worked on sourcing, analysis and reconciliation of Credit Risk parameters (PD, LGD, EAD, EL) and mapping attributes to MDRM codes for FRY-14A/M filings in Axiom. Worked on analyzing collateral haircut approaches for equities, EQ Options/Futures and analyzing ISDA/CSA to determine initial/maintenance/variation margin requirements for Repo/Reverse Repos/CDS/IRS/Security Lending trades for collateral optimization approaches for exposure calculations for CCAR/DFAST. Performed data analysis using sql to validate input data (NOI, Cap Rates, Utilization) used for model benchmarking and assisted CRM in validation of regression equations by performing hypothesis testing and adj-R2 calculations of independent variables (MEVs) used in the regression models.
Worked as a PM with Treasury, ALM and Product Control to implement PD/EAD/LGD/PPNR models for CRE, RRE Hedge Fund portfolios for MRA/MRIA initiative. Involved in maintaining project plans/charter, project budget, resource allocation plan, updating and presenting decks for steering Committee meetings and driving issue resolutions.
Bank of America (Investment Bank), NY/NJ, Business Data Analyst Mar’12-Dec’13
Responsibilities:
Worked as a Business Data Analyst to liaise with Front Office and CRM to create BRDs, FRDs, UAT test scripts and performed extensive data analysis to implement a 3-way reconciliation platform between front office systems, Risk Engines and sub-ledger to reconcile differences in trade and position counts, risk parameter values (PD, LGD, Greeks, VaRs, EADs) and other trade economics like (PnLs, MtMs, notionals) for CDS, IRS, Fx Swaps, FRAs, EuroDollar Futures and equities at various levels of aggregation. Created a summary dashboard with drill down capability.
Barclays Capital (Investment Bank), NY/NJ, AVP (Lead BA) Jun’10- Mar’12
Responsibilities:
Lead a team of BAs to implement AIRB based Basel 2.5 implementation for MBS, LCs, Equities, IRS, Fx Swaps, Equity/Fx options and Repo trades. Worked on documenting source-to-target mappings, inputs (PD, LGD, variation and initial margins, Fx and volatility haircuts for collateral), outputs/risk engine calculations (MtMs, PnLs, EL, 95% VaR and CET1/2 ratios, RWAs (using CEM and collateral haircut approaches), reporting requirements (Pillar I and II), and reviewing ISDA/CSA to identify collaterals for SFTs and OTC/listed derivatives to calculate net exposures.
J.P. Morgan Chase (Asset Management), NY, BA Feb’09– May’10
Responsibilities:
Worked as a BA to write FRD, UAT test cases to migrate accounts, positions, PnLs data for equities, Munis, CDS/IRS, Fx options trades for HNW from SunGard SEI to OMNI. Worked as a BA to write FRD to enhance trade blotter to display real time PnLs, notionals and positions/tax lots for equities, Equity/index options, TRS, Fx Swaps trades by integrating with OMS Murex.
Credit Suisse (Asset Management), NY, AVP (BA) Dec’07 – Jan’09
Responsibilities:
Liased with Front Office to create FRDs, define source-to-target mappings and interfaces from OMS Charles River to downstream systems (GL, Risk engines, Tax systems) and define calculations for EAD, RWA, capital ratios, MtMs and PnLs for fully collateralized HFT/HFI underwritten and booked in Charles River. Worked on data analysis and verification of PD, LGD, EL, EAD, RWA for these loans and documenting reporting requirements for Pillar I and II reports
Fannie Mae / BearingPoint Inc, Washington DC, Senior Consultant Mar’05-Dec’07
Responsibilities:
Worked as a PMO BA to document detailed BRDs, test cases, current and future state workflows, calculations, new interfaces and accounting rules (based on FAS 109, FAS 133, FAS 144, FAS 9 accounting standards) for an initiative to securitize sub-prime HFS loans purchased from Bear Stearns and serviced by Wells Fargo and for Fannie Mae’s restatement effort for their portfolio of single family/multi family whole loans, MBS and ABS 9 accounting standards.
EDUCATION
BS, Computer Science & Engineering (1996-2000) - INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, VARANASI (IIT)
MBA, Finance (2011-2014) - Rutgers University
MS, Computer Science (2000-2003)
Harvard Business School – Business Analytics Certification
Kellog – Product Strategy Certification
Scrum Master Professional (SMP) – Scrumversity
Professional Scrum Certified Product Owner (PSPO) -Scrum.org
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