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Ishtiyaq Kaboo

Ishtiyaq Kaboo

Functional Business Analyst
Pune

Summary

With 9 plus years of experience in analytical, leadership, and project management roles within the financial services industry, including my current position at Credit Suisse India (a UBS Group company), I have developed a strong ability to coordinate and drive projects. My expertise lies in providing solutions to global teams and gaining a deep understanding of products through thorough research and requirements elicitation. As a Functional Business Analyst in the SSI and Integration Team, I consistently improve processes and successfully implement critical projects by collaborating with diverse teams.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
2018
2018
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Functional Business Analyst

Credit Suisse
03.2022 - Current
  • Position ENO 2, role as a Functional Business Analyst with the Integration Team and SSI Business Solutions which involves maintaining robust risk management and ensuring a stable and controlled operating environment delivering key regulatory and mandatory programs: identify the impact and changes resulting from the CSDR for the Reference Data SSI group and implement them through the Assassin BOW release
  • Monitor and simplify any manual process identified to meet stakeholders’ needs
  • Effectively coordinating between IT, UAT, Production, and requester groups to ensure timely completion of projects
  • Ensure readiness to support integration planning and successfully exempting any projects throughout the year in collaboration with Production groups
  • Integration-Parent Bank Merger which includes all global entities to be branded/renamed across all systems for SSIs
  • Recognizing in scope systems, accounts and SSIs, collecting extracts via incidents to different IT Teams.
  • Analysis and finalizing the branding requirements across all in scope systems and sending across different settlement teams to review and sign off
  • Preparedness of the merger by dress rehearsals, by coordinating with IT, UAT and Production groups
  • Creating manual upload files, IT Scripts to be uploaded in different systems for Static, free format and BIC Name change on the day of Go Live for each entity.
  • Conducting walk through meetings and doubt clearing sessions with IT, Production and other stakeholders to ensure there should be no last minute blockers.
  • Updating the run book according to the Tasks and updating the Program e team on the task progress and completion
  • Assassin BOW: Prioritizing QCs and defects raised , with high frequencies and sharing a prioritization list to IT Team to check feasibility and scope.
  • Creating BRD and sharing it and sharing with IT and UAT Teams after the required approvals, creating test cases for different QCs and defects raised along with other functionality tests to check the impact and behavior of the system
  • Sharing test cases with the Development team and conducting FRD walkthrough to check if the requirements and ask shared are moving in the right direction, deployment of test cases in UAT, regression testing in UAT environment to check the successful deployment.
  • Getting required approvals and series 99
  • Production checkout release- includes deployment of test cases in production assigning different test cases with the team before the release date and giving the team a walkthrough on test cases
  • Production release day: testing within the time limits and providing interim and final updates to IT if the QC or defect testing is successful
  • Providing Information to all stakeholders via walk through call related to the release, changes and future behavior of the system

Specialist

HCL State Street
06.2019 - 02.2022


  • Worked in Derivatives on products from CDS, Swaption, TRS, IRS, and Equity Options
  • Extraction of daily expected payments and providing information to Counterparties to agree on those cash flows and standard settlements instructions available in our database to settle trades per direction
  • Agreeing on cash flows and SSI sent by Counterparties for daily cash and coupon settlements
  • Resolving discrepancies if cash is not recognized, providing references and other trade details, and raising the same to the counterparty and the client to provide calculations
  • Matching the trade in our internal systems and releasing the same through different modes for settlement
  • Preparing and providing instructions for custody for daily cash movements as per direction
  • Reconciliation of cash trade from the upstream system with the downstream systems and raising the same if any discrepancy
  • Booking the cash into RKS (a record-keeping system) manually if not STP
  • Preparing a maturity report and sending the same to clients to provide calculations to settle with the counterparty
  • Affirmation of daily cash trade with Counterparty and chasing them to provide or upload Confirmation Document on DTCC
  • Reconciliation of Confirmation Documents with our internal system with 4 eye checks and cataloguing the same in our system for future reference
  • Preparing daily trade summary EOD report for Client
  • Preparing and updating daily cash movements spreadsheet for accuracy and future records
  • Prioritize email inquiries with internal and external parties and escalate when needed
  • Liaise with Custodians, Counterparties, Brokers, and Front and Middle Office teams depending upon the nature of the issue
  • Provided End to End process training to other staff and update SOPs for the process
  • Successful migration of Settlements and confirmation process from Dublin to Pune for Derivatives and trained 50+ members across the organization

Sr. Financial Analyst

eClerx Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2015 - 06.2019
  • Trading account setup for clients and applying the Standard settlement instructions, (Reference data team, receives the request from onboarding team in the form of new, amendment, closure and ad-hoc).
  • SLA to set up accounts: CASH, HIGH and MEDIUM.
  • Set up the accounts and SSI as per the instructions given for different markets.
  • Amend and close Trading accounts and advise on the related account queries to the client by identifying and analyzing data provided by the client to understand business needs.
  • Using New Trading Procedure Architecture (NTPA) and setting up the accounts.
  • After account setup as per the client’s requirements, the second part is to set up the Instruction for the particular accounts. Instructions are provided by the client.
  • Responsible for handling escalations and investigating any trade failure cases
  • Frequently using third-party confirmation matching tools and services like Omgeo Alert Icon, Atoms, and Kana. Omgeo is used to validate the SSI Instructions before adding to the account.
  • Suppressing Paper confirmation and adding adding external codes to accounts as per the request.
  • Suspending or activating the accounts as per the daily KYC reports.
  • Taking care of timely delivery of daily client reports-TAT, Trade Exceptions and EOD.

Sales Executive

K. Hyundai
11.2011 - 02.2013
  • Lead Handling: Walk-in Customers, Telephonic leads and Web leads, Corporate Customer Handling
  • Thorough Knowledge of Product: Types of products, product Specifications, Features and Benefits.
  • Negotiation and Closing
  • Make customer familiar related to Finance and insurance options availability and providing Finance/ Insurance process knowledge
  • Registration and Handling Product Delivery and Post Sales Services and customer feedback
  • Organizing and managing marketing events and road shows on behalf of the company
  • Tracking Customer Database and Customer Enquiry Management (Hyundai ERP, GDMS)
  • Customer Complaint Handling
  • Matrix Analysis of Customer follow-ups
  • Managing and preparing reports: Account and Booking Report, Dealer Stock and Order Reports

Education

MBA -

Pune University
Pune, India
10-2011

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

Kashmir University
Sopore
04.2001 - 01.2008

Skills

1 Project Management-

  • ALM,
  • JIRA,
  • MS sharepoint,
  • Runbook

2 Business Analysis

  • Requirement Prioritization
  • Use case/User Stories
  • Gap Analysis
  • UAT Testing
  • Agile Methodology
  • BRD/FRD/RACI/RTM
  • 3 Miscellaneous:
  • MS Office Suite
  • Advanced Excel
  • SharePoint

Interests and Achievements

  • Received many spot awards for remarkable performance in terms of productivity and quality.
  • Received Critical Bonus and performance awards.
  • Logged process improvement ideas, which are now being actively followed in the process.
  • Runner up in transformation in Happenings at Allana Institute of Management and Sciences.
  • Participated in intercollege 'Festina' winning the prize for best team effort and highest sales.
  • Participated in National Level Seminars on Financial and Marketing Strategies in a Competitive Environment.

Accomplishments

  • Process Migration from Ireland for trade Settlements
  • Logged process improvement ideas, which are now being actively followed in the process.
  • Received client appreciation, critical Bonus and yearly Performance awards.
  • Received different spot awards for remarkable performance in terms of productivity and quality.
  • Highest RU award.
  • Participated in National Level Seminars on Financial and Marketing Strategies in a Competitive Environment.
  • Runner up in transformation in Happenings at Allana Institute of Management and Sciences.

Certification

Harnessing the power of data with Power BI

Interests

Data Analysis and Visualization tools

Reading Financial News and History

Cooking

Timeline

Harnessing the power of data with Power BI

01-2025

Data for Analysis with MS Excel

12-2024

Ask questions to make data driven decisions

09-2024

Functional Business Analyst

Credit Suisse
03.2022 - Current

Specialist

HCL State Street
06.2019 - 02.2022

Sr. Financial Analyst

eClerx Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2015 - 06.2019

Sales Executive

K. Hyundai
11.2011 - 02.2013

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

Kashmir University
04.2001 - 01.2008

MBA -

Pune University

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