Profile
Summary: – A highly dedicated professional with thorough understanding of financial data requirements, with over 8 years of experience within Investment Banking sector and have a good understanding of Business Analysts skillsets. Currently active as a Business Analyst catering to various asset classes like nvestment Banking, Merchant Banking, Wealth Management and Retail Banking, managing projects globally and data quality projects within Nomura Operations.
Work Experience
1) Nomura India Services Pvt. Ltd.
Current Role: – Business Analyst
· Expertise in Project Management, drafting BRD’s (Business Requirement Document) and assisting technology by providing SME for drafting FSD’s, defining Process Flows and preparing COM (Current Operating Model) and TOM (Target Operating Model).
· Preparing User Stories, test cases for UAT (User Acceptance Testing). Conducting thorough UAT and providing testing update to Senior Management as per milestone plan.
· Travelled to London for 3 weeks as part of BCBS239 project as Subject Matter Expert providing valuable inputs to define the scope and process flow of the project.
· Utilising various Project Management techniques like Waterfall and Agile depending upon the Project requirement.
· Liaising with key stakeholders as part of Requirement gathering process, Creating business IT road maps, suggesting Quality Control processes, helping in core system development and system interface developement, expertise in doing Data Analysis using Microsoft Excel, Access and SQL tools.
· Increasing the efficiency and automation of various manual processes. Automating manual and paper-based processes. Liaising with upstream and downstream consumers to identify the best mode (XML and HTML) of transmitting message from one system to another.
· Delivering presentations and conducting demo sessions for Senior & Executive Management using excellent visio and power point skills to explain the process flows in detail.
· Defining process flows and defining Business Process Data model while creating new database after going through requirement gathering process by working closely with various stakeholders like KYC, On-Boarding, Middle Office, Product Controllers,Risk, Settlements and Traders spread a cross various asset classes.
· Defining company strategy and approach for the firm to be compliant with regulatory initiatives like BCBS239, LEI, Dodd Frank, FATCA, EMIR, MAS, French & Italian Financial transaction Tax etc.
· Thorough knowledge of SDLC, defining process flows/diagrams, procedure documents.
· Identifying new opportunities to increase efficiency of flow of data through automation and preparing presentations to put forth various proposals for Senior Management review.
Analyst – Nomura
(Dec 2009 – March 2012)
Key Responsibilities:
• Setting up of New Accounts for Institutional Clients for varipus business like Cash Prime Brokerage, Cash Bond and Equity, OTC, IBD and MBD divisions who trade through different Legal Entities of Nomura.
• Inserting & amending client’s SSI’s Standard settlement instructions for Global markets / currencies for Equities, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange trades.
• Monitoring SEVG (trade fail prevention system) to prevent trades with incomplete /incorrect instructions from failing or getting DKED.
• Setting up of Standard Settlements Instructions (SSI) for FOP, DVP & PVP trades.
• Call Back Process: – Speaking with the Client to do a Pre-matching of Settlement instruction for cash trades (Free of Payment trades).
• Interacting with the clients (Corporate Clients/Front Office/Middle Office) regarding various queries related to account opening and settlement.
• Maintaining Daily MIS and reporting to the management on weekly basis.
• Training new recruits in subject matter as well as in online work.
• Working on mass updates for a particular client.
• Ensuring the firms compliance with various Exchange and Industry related rules and regulations.
2) Intelenet Global Services Limited (Now know as Serco)
Senior MIS Executive
(Sep 2008 – Nov 2009)
Key Responsibilities:
• Worked as Senior MIS Executive in HR.
• Maintaining Employee Database & Updating the same on Real Time Basis. (Attritions, Transfers & Promotions of approximately 4000 Employees).
• Preparing Monthly MIS Reports (Headcount Report) & providing the same to Managers for their Analysis.
• Maintaining Payroll Database of around 4000 Employees.
• Maintaining & Tracking the Performance appraisal Database (PMS) & also providing the data to Managers for their analysis.
3) J.P. Morgan Chase Services India Pvt. Ltd.
Team Member
(Mar 2007 – Aug 2008)
Key Responsibilities:
• Worked as a Team Member in Asset & Wealth Management Department.
• Tenure in JP Morgan involved working in 2 processes, Real Estate & JLT – Joiners and Leavers tracking.
• JLT :- In JLT process use to take care of all the access (Access to PC, Lotus Notes & various other Internal/External Applications) related issues right from Employee Joining the firm, ensuring all the approval hierarchy structure.
• Real Estate: – It was a US Real Estate Process which involved thorough analysis of Office / Industrial/ Retail Leases prepared in U S Market and update the data into system for further analyses of Real Estate Asset Managers.
• This role involved preparation of Rent Schedules after detailed calculation, finding out Lease Commencement Date, Tenure of the Lease and various other Real Estate terminologies.
• Both the Roles involved an additional responsibility of maintaining MIS of respective process. Publishing Daily Dashboard, Weekly & Monthly Scorecard, preparing OMR Report, preparing Span of Control & also preparing Presentations for further analysis of Management team.
Education & Qualifications
Courses/Board/University/Year/Class (%)
Bachelor in Commerce (B.com) University Of Mumbai 2005-2006 64%
H.S.C (Higher Secondary Education) Maharashtra Board 2002-2003 58%
S.S.C Maharashtra Board 2000-2001 62%
Training/Workshops
Engaged in various workshops in Nomura like Presenting with impact, communicating assertively, Effective mail writing, Managing Conflicts, Working in a cross culture environment, Managing Priorities etc.
Nomura Security Operation module certified professional.
Technical Proficiencies
Working knowledge in globally used Investment Banking systems like Euclid, Royal Blue Fidessa, Global1, Spear, GMI, Clear Vision etc.
Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office.
