Business Analyst / Consultant / Project Manager

10/2018 – 7/2019

Various Projects –
i. Snapshot – Involved in multiple projects including ERP for client accounting, digital KYC product implementation etc.

ii. Roles & Responsibilities –
a. Working as a senior business analyst and setting up BA standards and practices for the group.
b. Lead BA for replacing manual KYC/CDD processes with digital solutions & workflow that seamlessly feed into organizational application ecosystem & customer facing app design (both native & hybrid). Responsible for User Journeys, epics, user stories, refinement, functional testing (behaviour driven development) & liaising with compliance.
c. Lead BA for consolidation and migration of various local client accounting general ledger tools (Millogic, Yardi etc.) to a centralized ERP system used across the organization. Responsible for Epics, User Stories, functional testing, data migration, user adoption & training.
d. Contributing towards transaction monitoring program for the Dutch office with analysis for integrating off the shelf rule-based solutions with general ledger systems, bank APIs & internal governance/control.

Enterprise Resource Planning

12/2017 – 8/2018

Achievement – Functional management of MiFID II compliance and governance of internal controls.

Regulatory Compliance / Reporting –

i. Snapshot – This project involves end-to-end governance of cross-asset trade data reporting solutions to trade repositories for multiple regulations/jurisdictions e.g. MiFID II, EMIR, Canadian Provinces, BoE, MMSR, EMMI, MAS, HKMA etc. Also, actively contributing towards regulatory compliance centre of excellence.

ii. Roles & Responsibilities –
a. Working in Amsterdam as a consultant in the regulatory reporting team of ING, the largest bank in the Netherlands (2017). Working directly within the business stakeholder team liaising with legal & compliance, change management, offshore operation teams and 3rd party vendors.
b. Working in BizDevOps mode for agile deliveries & operational excellence. Both Scrum and Kanban models are used within the family.
c. Responsible for acceptance tests & criteria (UAT), operational procedures, governance manuals and functional management of production environment.
d. Consulting for management dashboards, process mapping, audits and liaison with legal & compliance teams.
e. Key role in end to end reconciliation of reporting from source system to regulator’s data base. Instrumental in setting up internal governance standards and processes for near perfect compliance standards.
f. Contributed in functional analysis and data mapping for data warehousing across business lines.

Requirement Analyse

12/2015 – 12/2016

Achievement – Contributed towards best trade data reporting standards nationwide.

Regulatory Compliance / Reporting –
i. Snapshot – This project involves implementation & support of cross-asset trade data reporting solutions for multiple regulations/jurisdictions e.g. Dodd Frank (CFTC/SEC) , Canadian Provinces, EMIR, MMSR etc.
ii. Roles & Responsibilities –
a. Worked in Amsterdam as a business analyst for regulatory reporting solutions in direct collaboration with business users, legal, compliance and development teams of ABN Amro Bank.
b. Contributed towards setting up reporting standards for the bank’s strategic initiative to become a major market maker in the United States.
c. Responsible for change requirements, acceptance criteria, functional testing, UAT, release management and production issue resolutions. Acting product owner for onshore team for backlog maintenance, sprint planning responsibilities. Also, conduct project & resource planning along with offshore counterpart.
d. Co-ordinate and liaise with other product owners, scrum masters and business users from the ecosystem of applications managed within the bank for facilitating end to end system rollouts and enhancements.

Requirement Analyse

12/2013 – 12/2015

Achievement – Key contributor for FX trade reporting solution for 2nd largest FX dealer.

Regulatory Compliance / Reporting –
i. Snapshot – This project involved implementation & support of cross-asset trade data reporting solutions to trade repository (DTCC) for multiple regulations/jurisdictions e.g. Dodd Frank (CFTC/SEC) , Canadian Provinces, EMIR, ASIC, MAS, HKMA.
ii. Roles & Responsibilities –
a. Worked closely with Deutsche Bank (2nd largest FX dealer in 2015) as a business analyst for regulatory reporting, interacting directly with all hierarchies of stakeholders (developers to managing directors) at client location in London. Acting scrum master for onshore team with sprint planning responsibilities.
b. Acting as single point of contact for functional analysis of deliverables for multiple asset classes, primarily forex and rates for global jurisdictions including USA, Europe and APAC with overall deliverables ~USD 2M+.
c. Extensive experience in business requirement gathering, impact analysis, preparation of functional specification document, Dev/SIT/UAT/functional testing support and co-ordination between multiple teams spread across EU, North America & APAC.
d. Ownership of deliverables for specific line items for all jurisdictions along with relationship management. End-to-end engagement with multiple vendors from initiation to successful delivery and support.
e. Designed MIS dashboard for back office operations and experienced a flavour of project management through extensive interaction with management teams from clients, vendors from PMO, dev and testing perspectives.
f. Functional analysis of data warehouse including data modelling, data mapping, performance requirements.

Requirement Analyse

12/2011 – 9/2014

Achievement – Received team and individual achievement awards.

Business Process Re-Engineering –
i. Snapshot – Involved in consultation and re-engineering of global business processes.

ii. Roles & Responsibilities –
a. Worked with Deutsche Bank as a functional analyst for business process re-engineering program using suitable business process mapping (BPM) tools.
b. Led a team of 3 and achieved individual delivery target of 500+ process mapping and optimization plans for specific lines of business including Commodities Operations, Clearing Services, Cash Operations.
c. Engaged with internal and external stakeholders for analysis, resourcing, project planning as well. Extensive interaction with client teams spread across USA, UK & India for business process elicitation, data analysis, consultation for risk and compliance requirements and operational efficiency.
d. Hands on experience with business process modelling tool with BPMN 2.0 standards – Sparx Enterprise Architect. Extensive experience in L1-L5 level process documentation with Front-to-Back process integration.

Requirement Analyse