Business Analyst and Data Analytics

Zeeshan Razzak

Phone: 773-***-**** **********@*****.***

Professional Skills

Project Management

Training and development

Project scheduling

Professional presentation

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Requirement gathering & analysis

Application testing

Data analysis

Quality Assurance

Software Development Life Cycle

Power BI

SQL Database Management

MS Office Suite

Oracle Database

JIRA and HP Quality Center

Professional Experience

Northern Trust Chicago, IL September 2021– March 2026

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Daily activities include gathering business requirements, creating estimates, project management, coordinating with IT development, and performing UAT testing

Lead cross-functional meetings to ensure alignment between business goals, user experience, and technical implementation

Facilitate communication between stakeholders and development teams to ensure mutual understanding and successful feature delivery

Analyze, adapt, and modify some interactive Power BI dashboards for investments reporting

Import SQL Server and Excel data models into Power BI

Complete projects to create or enhance custom reports, data feeds, reconciliation files, and performance metrics

Work directly with clients as well as internal partners to identify missing and incomplete data to build out and provide clarity

Work directly with stakeholders on researching client data and related information using SQL data source

Ability to communicate difficult decisions regarding the implementation of change, with consideration to project constraints

Build dashboards and reports using power Bi that highlights risk and opportunities

Charles Schwab Chicago, IL May 2019 – Mar 2021

Data Analyst/SQL Reporting Analyst (consultant via Ronstadt USA)

Perform logical data modeling and analysis for Charles Schwab Investment Management (CSIM) team

Worked with traders and brokers to assist with reporting needs, and fulfill data needs of trade analysts and operation teams

Work directly with stakeholders on report creation and researching client data and related information (using SQL Teradata and SAP Business Objects)

Responsible for maintaining and enhancing dashboards (on Tableau) to track remediation of issues

Quality assurance and data validation for accuracy, and perform GAP Variance analysis

Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a challenging, fast-paced, dynamic environment

Produce and distribute standard and financial measure reports in timely and accurate fashion

Provide all required status updates to project team, users, and various levels of management as appropriate

Citi Group (consultant via Mitchell Martin) Chicago, IL May 2017 - Dec 2018

Business Analyst

Business Analyst for the commercial card sector to assist in migration effort for all clients from total system services (TSYS) TS1 to TS2 system

Responsible for analyzing business requirement documents and supporting functional spec preparation

Responsible for interaction with business, multiple technology teams and partner systems in understanding business functionality and requirements

Knowledge of SDLC in both Agile and waterfall methodology

Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a challenging, fast –paced, dynamic environment. Handle up to 5 plus Business requirement documents at same time and have written well over 40 business requirement documents

Assist testing teams in preparation and reviews of functional test scenarios

Provide all required status update to project team, users, and various levels of management as appropriate

J.P Morgan Chase Inc. (Consultant via KForce), Chicago, IL Jan 2016 - Apr 2017

Implementation Project Manager/Business Analyst

Manage portfolio of 40+ commercial card client with an average yearly spend of over half a billion dollars

Leverage training and communications to prepare clients for the reimplementation from card processing system Hewlett Packard (HP) to Total System Services (TSYS)

Ensure operational readiness for the conversion by managing client’s milestones; facilitate on-going client outreach meetings, and technical set-up and validation.

Analyze and understand client’s current data and program structure and present any changes or impact due to implementation.

Liaise with technology to ensure client’s technical needs are completely and thoroughly understood

Designated as a Subject matter expert during the project to improve the quality of financial system migration projects by assisting peers with self-quality control measures, and aid in setting best-in-class testing

Test (QA) client’s setup and data application to ensure they properly meet the standards in a new system

Thomson Reuters, Inc. (Consultant via Mondo), Chicago, IL Oct 2013 - Jun 2015

Quality Assurance Analyst/SQl Data Analyst

Acted as a subject matter expert in financial data – Estimates, Pricing and Fundamentals

Participated in agile methodology by attending daily scrums. This included reviewing requirements, developing test cases in Quality Center and submitting detailed bug reports in JIRA.

Responsible for testing data warehousing, data Integrity, extract transfer load (ETL) and Quant applications for Thomson Reuters’s financial products

System tested large financial data (9TB) in SQL database

Executed all phases of system development life cycle (SDLC). This included evaluating risks related to requirements of implementation, testing processes, project planning, and reporting.

Northern Trust, Inc., Chicago, IL Aug 2011 - Sep 2013

Portfolio Account Analyst/Trade Processing Analyst

Subject Matter expert in following business areas: - Securities trading, funds master, trading exception reports, Securities holdings, Rates of returns, Portfolio valuations, Securities pricing, Reconciliation, 9, Regulatory changes and Brokerage accounts

Prepared investment reports, audit investment reports and cash statements to verify that the data is correctly posted and all transactions are properly classified.

Analyzed and audited monthly valuations for multi-billion-dollar client.

Utilized accounting and security processing procedures for auditing reports (GAAP).

Education

Bachelor of Science in finance and Management from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

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