Aparna

For more details please contact employer: sunil@primesoftconsulting.com #: 732-947-4083

Professional Summary:

8 years of Industry experience in Finance Domain as a Data/Business Analyst with solid

understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources and Translating
Requirements into Specifications.

Knowledge of asset classes including Fixed Income, Options, Futures, Stocks, Swaps, Equity and
Trade Life Cycle.

Knowledge with Reference and Market Data, Sub-Ledger and Ledger data, Basel I, II & III
Regulations, Risk Management, Reporting for Credit, Market and Liquidity risk, Accounting
Principles, Dodd-Frank regulations.

Proficient in writing Technical and Business documents, BRD, FRD, drawing and modeling
business process flow, analyzing and testing business requirements.

Experience of data extraction tools for analysis by using Web Services and ODBC connections from
various Data Repositories.

Knowledge of RUP, Waterfall methodology, Agile Methodology, Use Cases, Software

Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.

Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups,
conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict
Management with Project team members.

Competent in creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams,
Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, navigational flows, story boards, UI specifications and Sequence
Diagrams.

Proficient in facilitating large meetings to define vision, scope, requirements, design and risk
mitigation plans.

Experience in interacting with finance SMEs, cross functional teams, developers and analysts.

Experience with JIRA and HPQC for task and defect management.

Modeled, managed & communicated requirements throughout the project life cycle, performed gap
analysis against requirements specifications.

Experience with Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing and Control methodologies.

Proficient in functional, regression, system integration testing, acceptance testing,

load/performance testing, black and white box testing, sanity and ad-hoc testing.

Exceptional communication skills and liaising with technical and business stakeholders. Capable of
reporting across the teams, lines of commands and reporting status in the most efficient, effective and
transparent manner.

Good storyteller and able to use appropriate techniques including diagrams to convey process
related details.

Highly analytical mindset with the ability to take ownership and think objectively and creatively with
excellent problem solving skills.

Skills:

Business Analysis, Functional

Requirement Document,
Business Requirement
Document,
Interface Document, Use Cases,
User Stories, Knowledgeable
in JAVA, XML,VB Script, Oracle,

System, Unit, Acceptance,

Regression Testing,
MS Tools, SQLTools & Best
Practices, Test Cases, Plans &
Scripts, Defect & Debug Discovery,
Technical Specification Analysis.
HP Testing Suite

Defect Management,
Defect Tracking, Logging,
Reporting, Issue
Identification,
Documentation

Sybase, SQL Server

Professional Experience:

RBC Capital Markets, NJ

Oct 2014 to Present

Financial & Regulatory Reporting/CCAR

Senior Business/Data Analyst
Project Description: The objective of this project is to enable the bank to comply with the new federal
regulations about structural change mandate for Foreign Banking Entities under Dodd-Frank Act. As part
of this project, a new entity i.e. Intermediate Holding Company (IHC) has been created and used for
regulatory reporting of FRY-9C and other reports. The platform being built utilizes the enterprise data
repositories and reporting systems as well as tools & techniques to generate data useful for Regulatory
and CCAR reporting. The pertinent information is extracted into staging environment, transformed and
finally loaded into a reporting Data Mart, which is extracted and sent to Axiom reporting platform. The newly
created Axiom reporting platform comprises of configurable data mapping modules, which are used to
overlay the data elements received from DataMart to the line items of the regulatory reports.
Responsibilities:
Worked with Finance Regulatory Reporting Teams and Axiom Report Producers to establish data
requirements for FRY-9C schedules with crossed functional data sourcing teams.

Onboarding of required data from Ledger, Sub-Ledger and Reference source systems into the newly
built platform.

Coordinated and established timelines from sourcing teams for data availability to perform analysis and
validation.

Responsible for within the team to retrieve the ledger, sub-ledger and reference data using web
services and ODBC connections.

Extensively used MS Access, Excel and SQL queries within Sybase and SQLServer environments to
perform analysis and requirement validations.

Completed a total of 22 data sourcing interface specifications documents for the newly built platform.

Validated interface files generated by developers to ensure the formats and specifications are as per
the interface documents. Also ensured that the quality of data meets the requirements for regulatory
reporting.

Coordinated with cross functional sourcing teams for data delivery SLA and working out necessary
processes for establishing production connections from source systems to the newly built platform.

Worked with Axiom reporting developers to coordinate delivery of interface files to their UAT
environment and for resolving data issues with source system teams.

Prepared dictionary of data elements, business definition, format and possible values for each data
element from various source systems and documented mapping rules for reporting elements.

Worked with developers in defining the data elements for staging area and reporting Data Mart for
extraction to Axiom reporting application and CCAR modeling team.

Worked on the requirements for CCAR financial forecasting development and historical data store.

Interacted with other FBO project teams to ensure the required data and metadata is available for the
CCAR modeling team.

Used JIRA and HPQC for task assignment and defect management.

Environment: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Office Tools, Rapid SQL, Toad, Web Services, HP/QC,

XML Spy
Northern Trust, NY

Jan 2013 to Sep 2014

Fixed Income Trading Application

Senior Business Analyst
Project Description: The scope of the project was to build a new fixed income trading application for
middle office replacing the existing legacy application. The new application provided much needed efficient
solution with greater functionality coverage to the trading process. Apart from trade execution, the
application also had functionality to route trades to the brokers. It also gathered various metrics on the trade
volume executed by the traders and of the daily trading activity from the traders daily activity log. This
application was linked with risk management application to compute the risk associated for those trades
where the system had already predefined the tolerance limits. The risk parameters were calculated in the
risk management application and fed into the trading application. The bridge between the applications was
built as part of this project.
Responsibilities:

Elicited requirements from business users and subject matter experts using interviews and from
documentation analysis, business process modeling and data workflow analysis.

Modeled cross-system business processes and workflows, documented the current-state and
future-state architecture for the operating model.

Identified attributes and product types that are to be displayed on the application interface screens for
the application.

Extensively used agile methodology, created Business Requirement Documents, conducted user
sessions and interviews.

Identified data sources, analyzed data, identified transformation rules, conducted gap analysis and
documented missing attributes.

Worked with developers for creating mockup screens and POC to reduce ambiguity thereby clarifying
and identifying gaps within the requirements.

Worked on SQL tools for data extraction and analysis.

Worked with risk group to gather the requirements for establishing the linkage between the
applications for trade risk analysis.

Created and maintained the product backlog for user stories and established acceptance criteria
from the product owner.
Created requirement document, use cases, flow diagrams and sequential diagrams by using
UML tools and techniques in MS Visio.

Worked with developers during entire development sprints and provided all necessary guidance with
respect to requirement specifications.

Assisted the QA team to develop the test plans and test cases and performed Functional and User
Acceptance Testing.

Responsible for defect management and worked with QA and development teams to prioritize, testing
and resolving defects.

Environment: JAVA, MS Office Tools, SQL, Oracle, HP/QC

BNP Paribas, NY

Apr 2011 to Dec 2012

Collateral System
Business Analyst
Project Description: This project was initiated as an enhancement to address shortcomings with the
existing Collateral application. Earlier the system was unable to provide granular collateral information for

each trade. The newly built application provided the collateral inflow and outflow based on Repo-Reverse
Repo trades with granular information and exposure levels with analytical capabilities that ensured
optimized pledging allocation and calculation of net deficit or surplus for counterparties at the end of each
business day or point in time. The applications user interface was also enhanced with addition new
attributes and reporting capability that provided the traders with flexibility to view and generate various
management reports. The system also incorporated functionality for calculating the margin on collateral
price changes and currency rate fluctuations. On any change to collateral price or currency rates, the
system generated automatic notification for the front desk
.
Responsibilities:
Served as liaison between the business community and IT resources including requirements
gathering and review, sprint planning and review, daily huddles, user acceptance testing, and postdeployment support.

Interacted with the SMEs and stakeholders to get understanding of existing application and gathered
business requirements from the users for the future system.

Performed gap analyses of the earlier system, generated a detailed requirements document
describing new system architecture through Use Cases and Activity diagrams.

Validated requirements with functional and IT teams and created both high level and detailed use
cases specification documents that provided interaction of the system with the users.

Worked with cross functional teams to get estimates forcreationof development sprints.

Used agile methodology for project iterations.

Created functional flow diagrams, context diagrams and other high level diagrams for documenting the
functionality using UML functionality in MS Visio.

Organized scrum meetings, sprint planning and prioritization of the requirements.

Participated in daily scrum work meetings and weekly sprint process meetings.

Assisted QA team to develop the test plan and test cases to perform the testing and also involved with
User Acceptance Testing.

Defined various scenarios for application testing and wrote test cases based on these scenarios as
well as ad-hoc test cases based on interactions with users.

Worked with QA team for defect prioritizing, testing and resolution with developers.

Environment: JAVA, MS Office Tools, SQL, Oracle, HP/QC, SQL Server, JIRA
Societe Generale, NY

Apr 2009 to Mar 2011

Trade Alert Notification System

Business Analyst
Project Description: This project was to develop a trade notification system to improvise the trading
process within the organization. Whenever a trade related event occurred, the system sent out an alert or
notification for occurrence of such event. One such event was buying and selling of securities by the
traders. The trade information in each notification was kept at a summary level, which had to be
acknowledged by the trader who received it. All such information was stored in a database for historical
retrieval, reporting and analysis. The main advantage that the trade notification system provided was a
significant operational cost savings for the organization and also enhanced communication mechanism
within the traders.
Responsibilities:

Facilitated sessions and conference calls with key stakeholders for requirement gathering, functionality
demonstration and validation to reduce ambiguity and ensuring requirements are captured as per the
needs of the users.

Captured business requirements and converted them to user stories.

Created process flow diagrams depicting various events for the trade notification system using MS
Visio.

Interacted with developers for process overview and requirements understanding.

Performed GAP analysis of the business processes and assisted in system design that integrated with
the tactical and strategic requirements of the business.

Worked with the product owner to prioritize the product back log.

Worked with the users to develop user acceptance plans and test cases.

Created release plans that provided project deliverable timelines.

Conducted training sessions with the users for understanding of application functionality.

Developed test plans and test cases using functional requirements.

Environment: JAVA, MS Office Tools, SQL, Oracle, HP/QC, SQL Server, JIRA
State Street, MA

Jun 2007 to Mar 2009

Document Management System

Business Analyst
Project Description: The scope of this project was to develop and track status of a document from its
collection until data acquisition. The application tracked the account opening form and went through various
stages of the process until account was opened. The three stages of the process involved were document
initiation, document processing and document closure. The entire process was automated with very minimal
manual intervention. Compare to the legacy system which had so many issues and enormous document
processing delays, the new system had a significant improvement to the processing of the document.
Responsibilities:

Responsible for business requirement analysis, user stories documentation, data accuracy and
quality checks, process verification and validation, defect management and System Integration
Testing(SIT).

Performed detailed analysis of the current system to arrive with a solution for the new system.

Worked with cross functional teams in order to establish business requirements that translated to
functional requirements.

Facilitated requirement gathering sessions and conference calls with key stakeholders for
requirement gathering.

Prepared BRDs for the system, which has "As-is" and 'To-Be" business process maps, data modeling,
work flows, dependencies on the upstream and downstream systems and data flow diagrams.

Actively managing Stakeholders at all levels by leading discussions of project scope and approach,
and presenting business analysis findings, documentation and proposed solutions.

Presented business and technical requirements to cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to
enable successful system interfacing and implementation.

Translated business and technical requirements into use cases and UML diagrams for business
partners, tech leads, developers and QA testers.

Conducted walk through sessions of business and technical requirements; gathered feedback,
performed updates to requirement documents and obtained approvals from business and IT project
stakeholders.

Responsible and coordinated UAT related activities, prepared user test cases, issues management,
defect fixes, and training sessions.

Assisted in creating End User Guides, Release Toolkit Configuration and Deployment

Documentation for implementation and training.

Environment: JAVA, MS Office Tools, SQL, Oracle, HP/QC, SQL Server, JIRA