Nikita Anil Kukreja
Lead Business Analyst
Nasik
Summary
Professional business analyst with deep expertise in driving strategic initiatives and optimizing processes. Skilled in data analysis, requirements gathering, and stakeholder management. Strong focus on collaboration and delivering impactful results. Adaptive to changing needs and reliable in ensuring project success.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Business Analyst– MENA Payments
Synechron Pvt Ltd
04.2022 - 01.2025
- Proficiant in Agile project management tools like JIRA, Confluence
- Participating in daily scrum and assisting project manager in maintaining scrum boards for managerial visibility
- Preparing BRD, conducting business walkthrough for sign-off of requirements and work done
- Providing analytical inputs to developer on the requirement and user journey roadmaps
- Assisting testing in creating test scenarios and validating the results against the benchmark
- Mentoring and assisting junior BA’s and cross functional teams in delivering successful outcomes
- Production support for post release of projects
- Liaising with L1 and L2 support and various interface/middleware application tech teams
- Profound understanding of various payment schemes including but not limited to ACH, RTGS, Autopay, cross border payments, Digital banking, retail products (CASA, FDs, RD) etc
Business Analyst– Cash and Trade, NRI clients
Citi Bank N.A
10.2020 - 04.2022
- Preparing BRD and FRD for internal projects for change management
- Extensively worked on GPP for retail NRI clients forex settlement projects
- Managing Project Documentation – Business requirement documents, Functional Designs, Use Cases, Process Flows, Test Scripts, Traceability Matrix, etc
- Worked on requirement gathering, story writing, test script writing, UAT testing, operation readiness work, business validation, post deployment work & dealing with technology management with defect management
Senior Compliance Associate – Dangerous Goods
Amazon India
12.2018 - 08.2020
- Taking care of classification of gated, grounded and approval ASIN’s
- Researching and reviewing the MSDS of various cosmetics and potential hazardous materials
- Verifying the uploaded documents as per the organisation’s policies and procedures
- Ensuring 100% quality in classification
- Mentoring the new joiners with process knowledge and auditing their day to day work
- Conducting team Gemba walk for resolving key issues faced by team and discussing issues faced by other teams in same process
Senior Analyst, EMEA Liquidity and Cash management- Cash Operations
Bank of New York Mellon
05.2015 - 04.2018
- CASH MANAGEMENT: 1ST FEB 2017 – 10TH APRIL 2018
- Managing nostro's at EMEA locations
- Preparing RCSA documents from time to time to eliminate operational risk events
- Creating and liquidating money market deals so as to meet the funding requirements for the specified period
- GLOBAL TRADE PROCESSING: 11TH MAY 2015- 31ST JAN 2017
- Ensure timely and accurate settlement of transactions onto the system involving SWIFT confirmations of MT900 and MT910 for FX transaction
- Sending out wires (Payments) to the brokers as per instructions received from client
- Participating in the internal audit as the 'first line of control' entity
Education
MBA - Finance
MET Institute Of Management
Nashik, IndiaHigh School Diploma -
BYK College of Commerce
Nashik, India 04.2001 - 01.2010
High School Diploma -
Nirmala Convent High School
Nashik, India 04.2001 - 01.2008
BBA - Finance
Ashoka Centre For Business And Computer Studies
Nashik, IndiaSkills
International Payments Management
Business Requirement Analysis
Process Migration
Change Implementation Expertise
Risk and Control Management
Analytical Problem Solving
Agile and Waterfall method of SDLC
Accomplishments
- Awarded 'star performer' award for proactively helping teammates.
- Awarded 'WOW Award' in 01/2018 for excellence in performance.
- Participated in Community partnership activities
- Awarded 'RISK WARRIOR' badge in Amazon in 02/2020 for winning in Quiz on risk events.
- Completed online Business Analyst course in association with IBM from Smiplilearn.
- Awarded 'Start learner' thrice in 2022, 'Star Performer' twice in 2022, 'Team player' twice in 2023 and once in 2024.
Hobbies
Reading, Trekking, Travelling, Meditation
Timeline
Lead Business Analyst– MENA Payments
Synechron Pvt Ltd
04.2022 - 01.2025
Business Analyst– Cash and Trade, NRI clients
Citi Bank N.A
10.2020 - 04.2022
Senior Compliance Associate – Dangerous Goods
Amazon India
12.2018 - 08.2020
Senior Analyst, EMEA Liquidity and Cash management- Cash Operations
Bank of New York Mellon
05.2015 - 04.2018
High School Diploma -
BYK College of Commerce
04.2001 - 01.2010
High School Diploma -
Nirmala Convent High School
04.2001 - 01.2008
MBA - Finance
MET Institute Of Management
BBA - Finance
Ashoka Centre For Business And Computer Studies