Ranjay Chourey

• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
• Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Surveyed clients to ascertain requirements and expectations for product.
• Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
• Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
• Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
• Proficient in authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD) /FRD/Use Case/Process flow/Change request/Traceability matrix and documenting business process specifications.
• Competent in analyzing and creating Use Cases, Activity diagrams, Flow/Navigational flow diagram. Experienced in doing Data mapping within upstream and downstream applications for financial products.
• For AS-IS Analysis and documented the current state with the flow chart.
• Liaising with Technical Teams for Solution Scoping (TO- BE State) Writing functional User stories with clearly articulated needs in JIRA.
• Worked in all phases of SDLC through-out the project life cycle.
• Writing UAT cases and implementing those with the help of testers.
• Experience in conducting Gap Analysis, Feasibility Studies to define the scope and complexity of Change Business Process.
• Re-engineering, Designing Workflows and communicating the trade-off decisions on product features based on technology, budget constraints and customer requirements.
• Creating User Stories or Epics/Acceptance criteria/Business Documentations in the Product Backlog (Jira) which is accessible to all stakeholders.
• Participating in all Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Daily Scrum, review meetings, and Retrospective) to identify the missing requirements.
• Participating in product grooming sessions to break the epics into user stories to fit in the upcoming sprint.
• Performed MOT testing on the application to ensure quality control of work is carried out in UAT before it is migrated to the production environment.
• Co-ordinate with developers team by articulating the requirements and ensuring that all the defects are raised and addressed in Jira during the testing phase.
• Deliver documents like BRD/FRD/Use Case/Process flow/Change request/Traceability matrix
• Active participation in the creation of test cases, unit testing, performing UAT, and support to QA and development teams.

Project Description:

• Client Onboarding Objective: To automate the client Onboarding process to reduce the amount of time.

• Decommissioning Legacy system. Objective: Decommissioning legacy system by migrating reference data along with Standard Settlement Instruction details to the master source system.
  
• Project Description: Dual Key Elimination Project Objective: The project is to eliminate the dual keying manual process of Client account setup, maintenance, and closure processes into the reference data system and front office system. Straight through processing of client data from the master source application to front office system. Establish additional system controls to minimize manual errors, and reduce the time for creating and maintaining clients. Built audit trail reports and reduce data quality issues.

• Process: FX and IRS derivatives Reconciliation and Settlements Investigation. Role: Team Developer

Process: Bond Allocation, Sales Support Middle office process.
Key responsibilities:

• Part of Trade support unit (Middle office) for Money Market/FX Swap & FX spot products.
• Support the Validation phase of Trade life cycle on T+0 Day Responsible as a middle office to allocate the block of payment in spilt (manually and electronically) as per the French law for managing entity.
• Checking of managing entity and fund details, fund documents with Client and Front Office.
• Chasing Front office for trade details, allocation details, and Back office to clear the trade on time. Work with the On-boarding team for fund creation, Front Office to confirm the bookings.
• Use various systems (Bloomberg Anywhere, OMGEO Alert) to match and clear the trades which are done by the electronic platform.
• Performed the FOBO reconciliation process and learned the in & outflow of the process for automation purposes.

Process: Confirmation drafting process.

Products Handled: (OTC): Rates Products, Vanilla Swap, Basis Swap (Floating v/s Floating), Cross Currency Swap, Cap, Floor, Swaptions & Straddle, Cap Swap,Cancellable Swap (Callable & Putable), FRA, CMS One Look, CMS Multi look, Inflation Product etc.