● 10.3 years of work experience in IT in the roles of Business Analyst/Functional Analyst in Banking and financial services, Investment Banking, Retail banking and Ecommerce domain, in diverse business & technical environments, with demonstrated leadership abilities. ● Worked as Product owner in an Agile Environment, looking over the requirements, product delivery, customer/stakeholder interaction. ● Experience of working on Regulatory Reporting on various different regulations like HKMA, CFTC, MIFID, MAS, ASIC, BASEL. ● Good knowledge of OTC Equity Derivatives like Swaps, Options, Forwards and various other Equity Product. ● Experience of working closely with the Operations team around the globe, understanding their requirement and converting them to technical requirement for Dev and Test team to implement. ● Working with Dev team to implement Tableau for Controls and Analysis use of Operations team.

Key Skills

Management
Leadership
Communication
Strategic Planning
Critical Thinking
Business Analysis

Professional Experience

Aug 2019
Present
Senior Business Analyst
UBS Pune, IN
●      Requirement implementation as per the business requirement of stakeholder.
●      Project management – working with the stakeholders, dev and test teams to ensure the smooth delivery of the project.
●      Project management activities like daily scrum, defect report, risk and issue logs, updating backlog items.
●      Production issues and impact analysis, backlog items, Change management.
●      Collaborate with users to define and prioritize the roadmap on product enhancements and changes to our regulatory technology platforms.
●      Collaborate with engineers and QA teams as the product SME on requirements and functional design.
●      Documentation of requirements and user stories (BRD, FSD, QA) using requirements management tools (JAMA, JIRA).
●      Interpretation and translation of regulatory legislation (HKMA/ESMA/CFTC/MIFID) and legal text into business and functional requirements.
●      Working closely with the Operations team, understanding their requirement and converting them to technical requirement for Dev and Test team.
Apr 2016
Jul 2019
Associate - Business Analyst
Deutsche Bank Pune, IN
 Domain – Investment Banking 
Area – Equities, SWAPS, Regulatory Reporting, Trade Booking, MIFID, HKMA/HKTR, CFTC, OTC Derivatives 
Tool – UNIX, SQL, JIRA, JAMA. 

Responsibilities
●      As product owner, looks over the roadmap of the product delivery, requirement implementation as per the business requirement of stakeholder.
●      As part of Agile approach, going through the scrum ceremonies, working with Development team, Testing team, DBA, Architect.
●      Production issues and impact analysis, backlog items, Change management.
●      Collaborate with users to define and prioritize the roadmap on product enhancements and changes to our regulatory technology platforms.
●      Collaborate with engineers and QA teams as the product SME on requirements and functional design.
●      Performing data analysis to make data driven decisions on product enhancements/ change requests on our existing products.
●      Primary point of contact on the project for all internal stakeholders across functions including: Traders, Business management, Legal, Compliance, National regulators, Operations, Engineering, QA, Programme management and IT.
●      Present and defend ideas and analysis to legal and compliance colleagues.
●      Documentation of requirements and user stories (BRD, FSD, QA) using requirements management tools (JAMA, JIRA).
●      Interpretation and translation of regulatory legislation (HKMA/ESMA/CFTC/MIFID) and legal text into business and functional requirements.
●      Working closely with the Operations team, understanding their requirement and converting them to technical requirement for Dev and Test team.
●      Working on production data, analyzing that finding the way to improve the application, to be more useful for Operations team.
Working with Dev team to implement Tableau for Controls and Analysis use of Operations team 
Feb 2014
Apr 2016
Functional Analyst
Mindtree Limited Pune, IN
Domain – Banking 
Area – Payments, Transfers, Bill payment, Accounts, Tool Management, Clearing and Settlement 
Tool – Jira, Silk Central, UNIX, SQL, Excel 

Responsibilities
●      Requirement analysis. 
●      Defining scope 
●      Participating in project initiation activities like project planning workshop. 
●      Documentation : Feature listing document SRS and BRS 
●      Designing : Use case diagram, Sequence diagram, Activity diagram  
●      Test Execution and Defect Reporting activities. 
Nov 2009
Feb 2014
Functional Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd Pune, IN
Domain – Banking 
Area – Payments, Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering, Financial Crime 
Tool – Quality Center ALM, PEGA 

Responsibilities
●      User acceptance testing, stakeholder testing, live proving, live support, defect management. 
●      Stakeholder walkthrough. 
●      Participating in project initiation activities like project planning workshop, requirement. 
●      Understanding the process flow. 
●      Requirement Analysis. 
●      Understanding BRD's (Business Requirement Document). 
●      Writing Functional requirements after interaction from stake holders, business managers. 
●      Conducting walkthrough sessions with the stakeholders for the delivered FRD's and IRD's. 
●      Addressing the queries raised by the stakeholders during the walkthrough sessions. 
●      Providing support to testing team and addressing their queries. 
●      Ensuring complete closure of the IRD and FRD till we get complete sign-off on the document from all the reviewing parties. 
●      Preparing Project related documents like Test Summary Report, Weekly Status Report, and Metrics etc. 
Knowledge Sharing and mentoring new resources 

Education

Sep 2005
Jun 2009
B.E. in Oriental Institute of Science and Technology
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

Certifications

2011
ISTQB Foundation Certified
ISTQB

Quote

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Chandramani Kesri

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Hindi
(Native)

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