Sr.

Business Systems Analyst

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

 8+ years of Industry experience as a Business Systems Analyst in Banking and Finance

industry.
 Solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Data warehousing, Data Modeling,
Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications, Application Design.
 Strong knowledge in various functions such as Internal Audit, Compliance, Financial analysis,
financial reporting, Regulatory reporting and Management reporting (MI).
 Diverse experience in Banking, Financial Services and Mortgage.
 Experience in working on Loan Originating, Loan Servicing, Loan Modification, Commercial
Lending.
 Knowledge of Commercial Lending Systems like Loan IQ. Familiarity with Consumer Lending
Processes.
 Detailed understanding of the front office, middle office and back - office operations of Core
Banking activities, Clearing and settlement Process and Funds Transfers.
 Strong experience in accounting such as Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow
Statements.
 Experience of Investment Management, Asset Management, Prime Brokerage Services,
Money and Capital Market Instruments
 Having excellent understanding of Financial Accounting. Comprehensive knowledge of
balance sheets, G/L ledger, trial balance, income statement.
 Strong Knowledge in migrating the Commercial Lending Process from existing AFS Application
to the new application platform Loan IQ, mainly focusing on the Commercial Lending
Servicing process.
 Experience in database technologies and has successfully implemented database centric
solutions using SQL and PL/SQL in banking domain.
 Excellent PL/SQL programming skills using PL/SQL Packages, stored procedures, functions,
triggers, cursors, views, indexes for processing data.
 Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User
Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict
Management with Project team members.
 Strong experience in accounting, finance and systems background with experience in
auditing, financial reporting, bank regulatory reporting and financial systems implementation.
 In depth knowledge Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, Use Cases, Software
Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D)
 Experience in development methodologies like RUP, SDLC, AGILE, SCRUM and Waterfall
 Experience in working with Rational Suite of tools to create requirements documents
(Requisite Pro), visual data models (Rose), manage and track defects (Clear Quest).
 Competent in Creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case
Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, navigational flows, story boards, UI
specifications and Sequence Diagrams.
 Extensive experience in conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, Data Analyses, Data
Mapping, Data Profiling, Gap Analyses, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risks Analyses,
and Risk management.
 Experience with SOX, Regulatory Compliance and Controls.
 Knowledge in the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) of data into a data ware house/date mart
and Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Business Objects Modules (Reporter, Supervisor,
Designer, and Web Intelligence).
 Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft
Project, Primavera, Pro model, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio, technical assessment tools,
MicroStrategy Data Warehouse Data Modeling and Design.
 Experience in creating business requirement documents (BRD), System requirement
specification (SRS), use cases, functional requirement documents (FRD), test cases, test
 reports and other documents requires in software development life cycle (SDLC) and software
testing life cycle (STLC).
 Experience in project management and defect Management with JIRA, confluence.
 Experienced in writing Test Plan and Test Cases and aggressively involved in Regression
Testing and Performance Testing using automation tools like Win Runner, LoadRunner, Test
Director, Quick Test Pro, Silk Test and Oracle table manipulation using SQL.
 Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test
Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Category Tool/Technology
Rational Rose Enterprise Suite, Rational Requisite Pro, MS
Modeling Tools
Visio
Test Director, Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, PVCS
Testing Tools Tracker, Rational Robot, Performance Studio, Mercury Win
Runner, Load Runner
Scripting Languages Korn Shell Script, Shell Script, C/C++, Java, VB
Databases Teradata, SQL, PL/SQL, MS-SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase
Cognos, Business Objects, SAS, Crystal Reports, Micro
BI Tools
Strategy
MS Office, MS Project, MS Publisher, MSRS, Visual Basic,
Microsoft Tools
Access, Excel
Web Technologies Html, MS FrontPage, Dreamweaver
Development
Agile/Scrum, Waterfall
Methodologies
Project Management Tools JIRA, Rally, Blueprint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, NY
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Responsibilities:

 Facilitated brainstorming session, JAD session, conducted all day Working session,
requirement gathering session.
 Worked with consultant to turn on Translation for General Ledger (GL). Work included
creating and executing GL allocations to re-state ledger balances as needed for the process,
updating ledger configuration, performing UAT, researching and correcting issues, and
implementing in Production.
 Developed BRD, FRD, Activity flow Business process flow and Use cases.
 The project heads towards enhancing the existing online banking application by improving its
GUI, making it user friendlier.
 Application was developed for Online Banking accessing personal accounts, checking
balances, payment of recurring bills, such as mortgages and loan payments, transfer of funds
between accounts of its customers.
 Performed extensive Vendor Management. For example, manage Oracle EBS Financials and
relationships with third party Oracle partners.
 Facilitated all aspects of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), sprint planning sessions, backlog
grooming sessions, daily scrums, product demos, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
 Facilitated requirement walk through session involving Clients, developers and business
support group.
 Engaged with UBS Bank’s auditors on annual reviews of Oracle controls and transactional
system reconciliations to the general ledger.
 Utilized Oracle BI (OBIEE) toolset and the Data Warehouse to retrieve data for forecasting and
monthly analysis for plan variances.
 Assisted TPM in organizing team meetings, avoiding conflicts and maintaining the project
schedule by requesting the forecasted timeline from all team members each month.
 Documented the Current and Future State Accounting Work flow as part of Online Payments.
 Created Action Item, Issue Log, Risk Log, Decision Log and documented risks and issues with
its priority and assigned them to right person
 Analyzed Inventory of requirements and prioritize Gap/Fit matrix with oracle applications.
Mapping requirements with Oracle standard features.
 Coordinated comprehensive analysis and resolution of payments, invoices and expense
reports, working with financial officers to analyze and report data stored in R12 Oracle
Finance modules and HR system.
 Daily communication with clients, Vendor and SMEs to get the status of action items,
response to risks and issues, update the log and provide the updates by EOB.
 Utilized corporation developed Agile SDLC methodology. Used Scrum Work Pro and Microsoft
Office software to perform required job functions.
 Tested several ACH transmissions to various banks. Added logic to consolidate several
accounts with a single bank into one transmission, to reduce processing time, bank fees, and
amount of technical support required.
 Involved in researching solutions for Customer to review ACH payments for automated cycle,
prior to submission of the file.
 Developed the Wire Frames, User Interfaces, AS-IS and TO-BE flows and the Use Cases to
encapsulate the information with ease.
 Tested migration data in a test instance of Oracle in the development schema (Test Plans,
Project Guidelines) for a migration conversion of two instances of Oracle into one instance of
Oracle to ensure the data migrated correctly.
 Wrote Test case, and test Scripts.
 Evaluated data storage considerations to store databases and transaction logs. Created
databases using SQL Server Management Studio, Database Wizard and Transact SQL
Statements.
 Worked on Client/Server tools like SQL Server Management Studio to administer SQL Server.
 Converted various SQL statements into stored procedures thereby reducing the Number of
database accesses (since Stored Procedures passes the whole block at one time.)
 Filled the Role of Test manager by creating Test case, reviewing it and getting approval from
clients, developers, and SME's.
 Conducted daily SIT testing status update meeting, logged identified defects in HP Quality
center, Assigned the defects to right resources, updates progress status and severity status.
 Assisted Clients in documenting UAT test scripts

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY
Business Systems Analyst
Responsibilities:

 Collected business requirements from business users, which provided appropriate project
scope for the technical team to develop prototype and with overall system.
 Created a development plan for overall project, including coarse-gained project plan, showing
iterations and evaluation criteria for each iteration.
 Responsible for Freight tracking, documentation, MIS analysis and resolution of issues of the
customer satisfaction.
 Helped customers in increasing the shareholder value and broadening lending and deposit
base.
 Link business processes to organizational objectives, perform critical path analysis, and
identify opportunities for business process improvement
 Enabled Barclays to operate on one data processing system by converting checking, savings
and money market accounts off the Metavante system and on to the FIS Systematics'
application, IM.
 Conducted intensive data analysis over in scope databases and created various coverage
documents to support the project initiation Phase.
 Created BRD, FRD using JAD sessions and used UML for Business Process Modeling, Use
Cases, Activity Diagrams, Wireframe prototypes and documenting them using Microsoft Visio.
 Responsible for conducting assessment of data quality of the data leveraged by compliance
processes like Trade Surveillance, AML etc.
 Used Oracle TOAD and SQL to pull data in order to determine input for user reports
 Used Business Objects to develop and maintain a BO Universe for Financial Reporting as well
as create and maintain Crystal Reports within the BO Tool.
 Coordinate user acceptance and regression testing for Oracle patching initiative, directly
supporting 20 SME business users
 Documented testing objectives for surveillance alert generation and assisted in identifying
gaps, emerging needs, and redundancies.
 Implemented methodologies for digital projects to ensure projects are delivered on-time,
within budget, adhere to high quality standards and meet or exceed customer expectations.
 Involved in various aspects of the scrum framework, including sprint planning meetings, daily
scrum meetings, sprint review and retrospective meetings.
 Documented functional specifications for OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) and AML
(Anti-Money Laundering) requirements under BSA (Bank Secrecy Act).
 Participated in internal banking audit OFAC compliance initiatives gathering and verifying
data stream flows end to end through FIS/Metavante, ACH, Lock-box application platforms.
 Wrote complex SQL queries using joins, sub queries and correlated sub queries to retrieve
data from the database.
 Ran and tested required queries and reports before publishing.
 Created data mapping document for the application after finalizing the attributes and tables
with business users.
 Prepared sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams and business process models that depict
how the payment instruction would apply to the UI, backend services layer and General
Ledger application.
 Ensured the compatibility of the new business requirements with the existing system
infrastructure and developed testing scenarios to check how the system would work under
different scenarios and developed acceptance criteria.
 Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) along with the Subject Matter Experts (SME) and
assisted in functional testing, integration testing, and system testing processes.

Confidential, - Newark, DE
Business Systems Analyst
Responsibilities:

 Defined the scope and business rules of the project, gathering business requirements, and
document them textually and using models
 Gathered requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops,
business process descriptions, business analysis and workflow analysis.
 Involved in project review meetings, gathering System Requirement Documents (SRD) and
Data Mapping Sessions.
 Setting up loan templates from various commercial lending deals from CRE, ABL into the
ACBS system. Building customers records, facilities and loans in pipeline and servicing for the
prototype testing for the business users
 Maintaining and keeping track of the fields and preparing a proposed file layout (Field Name,
datatype, Details) that needs to find a house or transferred in ACBS and documenting it.
 Making Process flows in Microsoft Visio of the ACBS processes in different BRDs to make the
business Users better understanding of the new system.
 Making test scripts and test scenarios to be input in ACBS for prototype testing and for
conversion scoping.
 Maintaining and managing meeting minutes of various interfaces meetings and uploading on
SharePoint on regular basis.
 Being a part of Conversion scoping sessions with the FIS and business users to discuss and
keep a track of fields that are required to be converted in the new system.
 Keeping track and maintaining User defined tables, translation tables and purpose codes
tables during teh discussions.
 Review Business Requirement Documents (BRDs). Facilitate meetings with the appropriate
subject matter experts for CRE, ABL, C&I & Trade Finance. Ensure that high-level business
requirements (sections, sublimit) have been decomposed properly into useable functional
requirements for ACBS.
 Performed data analysis and cleansing guided by the business rules and source data.
 Meeting with decision makers, system owners and end users to define and document
requirements and goals.
 Drafted training manuals and user documentations for business users.
 Conducted various JAD sessions with different business users for requirements elicitation and
for discussing various business lifecycles of commercial lending.
 Created AS-IS and TO-BE business process flow diagrams, integrate process flow diagrams to
show end-to-end business model and business process mapping exercise including swim
lanes.
 Created and maintained Product and Sprint backlogs and monitored to ensure regular
updates of activities/tasks.
 Arranged daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
 Clarified and prioritized requirements by conducting brainstorming sessions with teh
stakeholders and SMEs.
 Managed product backlog within JIRA, and project information and artifacts using Confluence.
 Collaborated with the QA team to ensure adequate testing of software both before and after
completion, maintained quality procedures, and ensured appropriate documentation is in
place.
 Developed SQL Queries to fetch complex data from different tables in remote databases
using joins, database links and Bulk collects.
 Have a strong knowledge of writing SQL scripts for Store Procedures & T-SQL statements.
 Prepared BRDs and Use Cases.
 Prepared the Technical specifications based on business requirements.
 Updated the Change Requests in requirements documents
 Performed Unit Testing, identified the defects and retested the defects fixed by the
developers.
 Prepared Dashboard for viewing the test cases results.
 Performed Causal analysis on the defects and created the mitigation plan.
 Acted as Team coordinator between the development team and business users.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Business Analyst
Responsibilities:

 Interacted with Business Users to conduct thorough Requirements Analysis.

 Reviewed and analyzed the business environment and identified process improvements.
 Involved in interactions with the Subject Matter Expert, Project Manager, Developers, and the
End-Users.
 Coordinated activities with project manager and various other teams using MS Project.
 Interacted with other Business Analysts for designing and implementation of Use Cases and
Test Plans.
 Involved in developing Logical and Physical data models that capture current state/future
state data elements and data flows using Erwin.
 Involved in reviewing test plans and test cases and ensuring test cases reflect user needs.
Also responsible for conducting user training and user acceptance testing to ensure and verify
system is designed according to user needs.
 Worked on SDLC, Business analysis, GAP analysis and Quality Assurance of application
software in Agile framework.
 Assisted in on-going process improvement efforts to ensure Test Planning, Execution, and
Reporting is TEMP effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated.
 Assisted the Senior Business Analyst in writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS)
and User Requirement Specification (URS).
 Developed Test Plans and Test Cases according to Business Requirements.
 Involved in generation and execution of SQL queries.
 Acted as User Acceptance Testing coordinator and monitored business testing and interfaced
with the development team regarding defect status and fixes on a daily basis.