Analytically-driven and experienced Business Analyst with a specialization in market risk and Credit risk management, seeking a challenging role to leverage my expertise in Historical VAR, Returns, Risk Measures, FRTB, and Data Migration. With a proven track record of success in various industries. I am eager to contribute my skills and knowledge to enhance risk management practices and drive business growth.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Business Analyst (Supervisor)
CITCO
06.2023 - Current
Works with Functional or IT analysts for creation of functional specification
Participated in the planning and implementation of processes as well as self-motivated project initiatives, focusing on the use of technology
Managed cross-functional team of 8 in 2 locations, and collaborated with business development, data analysis, operations
Established comprehensive liquidity risk management framework to identify, control, measure, monitor and report liquidity exposure
Designing the Monthly reports for Hedge fund
Work as line of defense for the team to co-ordinate with client as well internally for any risk related issue/analysis
Identifying and researching the cause for them, reviewing daily exceptions and resolving issues by applying knowledge of capital market to generate clean reports and also closely work with the Business, IT, Operations, and counterparts in other locations
Participated in monthly conference calls with senior management and stake-holder to raise, resolve process issues affecting team
Gathers requirements from users and creates Objectives
Creates business requirement documents (BRD) or user stories
Business analyst (Associate)
Deutsche bank
11.2020 - 06.2023
Translate business requirements and technical information into non-technical terms for communication and collaboration with development, operations, and leadership groups
Expertise in Agile methodologies and proven ability to successfully implement them in various environments and mentor team members
Having a thorough understanding of how IT interfaces with multiple functional groups within an organization
Managing the project backlogs by prioritizing list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements
Validating wholesale PD and LGD models for a global financial service firm from conceptual/mathematical soundness and Basel compliance points of view
Validations include testing in, areas of data, conceptual soundness, outcomes analysis, process accuracy, and governance
Manage project timelines and communicate with management staff and clients to ensure project progress satisfactorily
Market Risk measures, processes, and controls and to review/improve business processes
Work with Functional Architects and other Business Analysts to ensure the solutions proposed are fit for the purpose
Implemented WEBSSO in applications to save time for the employees
Worked and implemented elastic search in our applications to make Consumers work easy while searching for Customer's ID
Worked on migration projects from REST to GRAPHQL.
Sr Business analyst
Info Vision Labs
10.2019 - 11.2020
Work on Risk reporting and analytics including Market Risk, Regulatory, VaR positions/funds, Limit Monitoring and Stress-testing
Dealing with the financial/ banking products and related risks (interest rate risk, liquidity risk) and hedging, measurement, and monitoring of such risks
Overseeing and ensuring the integrity of the risk monitoring process
Designing, reviewing, and signing off on scenario results across various portfolios
Understanding service objectives and capturing business requirements through active listening & questioning techniques
Coordinating projects related to IT development for data analysis, modeling, and reporting.
Risk Ops Specialist
State Street HCL JV
Coimbatore
07.2017 - 10.2019
Work on Risk reporting and analytics including Market Risk, Regulatory, VaR positions/funds, Stress Testing, and back-testing
Estimation of Market risk in terms of VaR
Strong understanding about Risk measures like sharp ratio, sortino ratio, Beta, Alpha, Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) etc
Sourcing and validation of data for assets class like Fx, Interest rate, Fixed Income, and Equity and of other different derivatives products
Preparing time series for calculation of VaR and stress
VaR Assessment of trends, volatility, and correlation with the suitable object are also responsibility
Validation of market movement in interest rates, Fx, CDS, and analysis for that particular movement, along with performing the root cause analysis investigation and analysis of exceptions and data integrity
Analysis and reporting of market risk calculations and sensitivities to traders, risk managers and
regulators
Stress scenario calibration for market and deliver stress scenarios to risk engines
Make qualitative and quantitative risk assessments and present key highlights to stakeholders through a scenario set
Work as 2nd line of defense for the team to co-ordinate with a client on any issue \ request like Analysis of risk (Overshoot factors analysis)
Work closely with the compliance team to report breaches in actual prediction by analyzing day to day VaR
Business Analyst
Franklin Templeton International Investments
Hyderabad
06.2015 - 07.2017
Responsible for analyzing the needs of the business and its customers and coming up with solutions to business problems
Involved in the management multiple small projects, using SharePoint, to enhance the existing functionality and web pages for global client's transaction processing workflows and plans
Managing the work from initial request through estimation, approval, requirements, build, user access testing and implementation
In Risk team we aggregate data from internal and external sources to provide a comprehensive view of portfolio exposures and risk measures on both absolute and relative bases
The range of analytic includes VaR analysis, downside risk, sensitivities, stress testing, and duration, convexity and scenario analysis
Identified, measured and communicated to clients' risk officers the market risks their portfolios are
exposed to
Oversee the generation of reconciliation reports for deal or positions level valuation and risk against finance or front office calculation
Frequently communicate with the IT team to resolve the issue on trade reconciliation booked in PTS
Valuation of different type of FI and Option
Private Placement Project: -
Development and writing various Project Charters for various sub-processes within the department, that successfully delivered necessary change in a manageable and non-intrusive way – Project Name – Private Placements Workflow Enhancement
Communicated these changes to all impacted sites in the front office to ensure all knowledge of the
new workflow is effectively shared with all concerned
Prepared application related data entry points for the technology team to accordingly prepare necessary forms for this enhancement
Assisting in the preparation of user and system test plans
Delivered Functional and User Acceptance Testing
Implementation of new designs within the Business Operating Model
Amortization Implementation and Exception Handling Project: -
Pursuant to the latest regulations from the IRS in the United States, amortization has to be accurately recorded for all Fixed Income Municipal and Corporate Bonds for effective recording of Cost Basis Gain/Loss
Lotus Notes Verification Project
FINANCIAL PROCESS ANALYST
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Hyderabad
02.2014 - 06.2015
Analyzing the instructions received from the clients and Re-assigning the workflows to respective areas of work
Conducting research on populated proprietary database with exchange referenced Securities processing like Additions, Deletions and Suspensions
Involved in capturing financial content of companies for Corporate Actions like Name change, Identifier changes (ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, Ticker and Exchange), Merger & Acquisitions, Spin-Off, Stock Dividends, Stock Splits, etc
Analyzing & updating the Constituent's information in the database as per exchange Indexes
KEY COMPETENCIES