AKRITI SHRIVASTAVA

As a part of the trade and transaction reporting project, involved in the regulatory reporting mainly for Commodities. Axiom is being used to load, process, generate and submit regulatory reports to external regulators.

• Conducted a data mapping exercise to align the required fields with EMIR Refit and Dodd Frank standards based on regulator’s specifications. This involves ensuring that the data needed for regulatory reporting complies with the established standards.
• Implemented logic in Axiom to source a new field, specifically the Unique Product Identifier (UPI). This involves incorporating the necessary programming or configuration changes within the Axiom system to capture and utilize the required data for regulatory reporting.
• Worked on resolving Business-As-Usual issues reported by the business. This suggests a hands-on approach to addressing ongoing operational challenges and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.

• Worked as a senior business analyst under Enterprise data issue management program and involved in performing data analysis executing SQL queries in the respective data bases
• Analyzed the data related issue (missing trade type for some products, maturity not updated for some ABS that has been paid off) identified by business based on the regulatory reporting
• Discussed the solutions with internal and external parties and facilitating communication at cross team level to create the implementation documents
• Engaged with multiple stakeholders to discuss the strategies and supporting to monitor the progress and presenting the solutions to the respective stakeholders to get the sign off
• Reviewed client feedback for issues faced, determining creative ways of resolving problems and amplifying customer satisfaction
• Used exceptional leadership and management abilities to coordinate high-value projects and programs
• Aligning with the respective teams to implement the changes- technical/functional and monitoring the progress.

• Working as a senior business analyst on finance-based projects i.e EMEA Regulatory reporting
• Hands-on experience in test management tools; Odyssey, Jira, MS Excel, Oracle, and Axiom
• Engaging with multiple business users to gather the business requirement based on the regulatory reporting- Basel reporting, risk reporting, FINREP, COREP, FINREP Plus Returns, MIFID, RRP, IFPR, CCR etc
• Sound understanding of the Financial Products like Equity and debt instruments, Fixed income, Capital Market, Derivatives and Money Market Products etc
• Reviewing the Instruction from various regulators FCA, EBA, PRA, CBI etc and classifying them into deliverable functional requirements
• Participating and performing End to End Project Lifecycle from Requirement Inception to Production
• Proficient and comfortable working with different Project Management Methodologies i.e., Waterfall, Agile etc
• Strong understanding of different types of risks (credit risk, market risk, operational risk and liquidity risk) and the measurement approaches defined under Basel Accord
• Experience in credit risk calculation(PD,LGD and EAD components), market risk calculation(VAR and Expected shortfall), Operational Risk calculation(Basic indicator) and liquidity risk(NSFR and LCR)
• Preparing workflow diagrams, reports, and presentations to exchange ideas/information in a concise and logical manner between business units and development team
• Designing the functional test cases and executing the test cases into Axiom
• Engaging with multiple business users to discuss the regulatory reporting requirements for different finance products like financial market instruments (FMI), debt instruments, derivatives and equity instruments etc.

• The Finance & Risk Architecture Alignment Initiative) Data Sourcing team for delivering timely, correct and complete Finance and Risk integrated data to be used for Finance and Risk reporting and ad hoc data requests for IFRS, DNB, and ECB regulatory reporting
• Responsible for Design and implementation FRAAI Factory for the consistent and repeatable process, which facilitates the sourcing of large volumes of data from international entities, and specialized businesses (International Card Services, Mortgages, etc.)
• Building business rules for data attributes along with Internal Control and Policies department of the bank
• Conceptualize and automate the data quality guidelines using SAS (building logic using simple PROC steps)
• Execution of quality tests to validate entity received data
• Performing impact analysis using SQL code written in MS access platform and designing reports in Power BI tool to represent the changes graphically to the stakeholders
• Engaging with the stakeholders to discuss different finance products like financial market instruments (FMI), debt, derivatives and equity etc
• Based on their business lines and supporting to track data mapping progress of data attributes
• Working with Business SME and development team to understand the business requirements and create test scenarios for validations
• Building robust data quality guidelines, checks, and controls in SAS tool to ensure the smooth flow of data from the source through the ETL process into the target warehouse
• Designing and writing test scripts in SAS for Automated testing
• Identifying and logging defects if a test fails, using SQL queries to narrow down the root cause of the problem for efficient investigation for the development team
• Defining & monitoring defect-free delivery of “Critical Data Elements” that are required for the execution of key business processes & regulatory reporting
• Design of the Data Quality and Data Validation dashboards and reports for the Data Validation BAU team.

Project: AON

• Worked with Onshore/Onsite team and gathering and understanding Business, functional and non- functional requirements of client and involved in as-is and to-be business process designs documents preparation
• Prepared and executed the functional test cases based on functionality and performed the functional testing
• Involved in agile development of project and follows the agile practices and methodologies

Project: USAA

• Experienced on identifying and executing test strategies, test plan and functional test cases in policy administration system
• Involved in validating the business data provided by client against the database (using Mainframe)
• Worked on Code Research to identify the exceptions based on factors (location, Age of Insured, Discount etc).