Employer - Wipro Limited

Industry – Information Technology (IT)

Feb 2016- Till Date (18 Months)

Project 1

Development of Real-Time Intraday Liquidity Monitoring Platform

Client

State Street Bank and Trust

Project Description

Worked on development of a real-time intraday liquidity monitoring platform to enable Global Liquidity Risk Management team monitor bank’s Payment, Clearing & Settlement (PCS) activity at various financial market utilities worldwide. The platform serves as a tool for active management of intraday liquidity risk and effective compliance with market regulations like BCBS 248 by producing key reports on daily maximum liquidity usage, available intraday credit, total liquidity inflows & outflows and time specific obligations.

 Role

Senior Business Analyst

Location

Boston (USA)

Responsibilities

•    Analyzed a variety of SWIFT MT messages related to securities settlements and clean cash payments and worked on their integration with bank’s data management and reporting platform.

•    Actively managed reference data in coordination with cash operations SMEs globally for correct classification of payments by markets and material entities for reporting.

•    Analyzed various scenarios related to movement of money between different entities of the bank and external parties (payment systems, depositories, correspondent banks and sub-custodians).

•    Gathered requirements from business users (Global Treasury) for creation of various reports, dashboards and data extracts for monitoring intraday liquidity and PCS activity.

•    Worked closely with the product owner for prioritization of business analysis/ data analysis efforts.

•    Prepared functional specifications and data mappings for the project (agile) team.

•    Actively participated in all the agile team meetings – backlog refinement, iteration panning, stand-up meeting, demonstration and retrospective.

Employer - Mindtree Limited

Industry – Information Technology (IT)

Apr 2013- Feb 2016 (34 Months)

Project 2

MiFID Transaction Reporting – Completeness Analysis and Breach Remediation

Client

Societe Generale Newedge UK Ltd.

Project Description

Client is one of the largest Futures Clearing Merchants (FCM) in the world offering Trade Execution, Clearing and Prime Services. The project involved performing completeness and accuracy analysis of MIFID transaction reporting for the UK division. This was followed by remediation of the reporting breaches discovered during the analysis phase.

Role

Lead Business Analyst

Location

London (UK)

Responsibilities

•    Specified and documented FCA reportable trade scenarios for Listed Derivatives and Equities product lines, spread across 16 different European exchanges and OTC venues

•    Provided requirements and data field mappings for reconciliation between trade capture systems and MIFID ARM (Unavista) files to analyze completeness and accuracy of transaction reports

•    Prepared a detailed root cause analysis (RCA) report for breaches identified during reconciliation

•    Provided ETL logic /data mappings to the development team for production fix and back-reporting

•    Maintained stakeholder communication, managed UAT, took business sign-off on breach closures

•    Worked with the Operations Regulatory Reporting team to create communication reports for FCA on MiFID breaches, issue start and fix dates, number of impacted transactions and back reporting.

Project 4

Implementation of Dodd Frank Act (Title VII) and EMIR Trade Reporting

Client

Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group

Project Description

Client is a US based commercial bank having significant exposure in OTC derivatives in Foreign Exchange & Interest Rates asset classes and has trade reporting obligation under Dodd Frank Act (DFA) and European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The project included end-to-end implementation of Dodd Frank & EMIR trade reporting program.

Role

Lead Business Analyst

Location

Bangalore (India)

Responsibilities

•    Defined business requirements for Dodd Frank/EMIR trade reporting in discussion with the Business, Operations, Legal, and Compliance teams of the client based out of US, UK and India

•    Took ownership of requirements and ensured that the functional scope of the project was met

•    Analyzed the impact of DFA/EMIR on business processes and IT systems. Identified data gaps and recommended system enhancements to remedy data gaps.

•    Performed field mapping for various reports (RT, PET, CONFIRMATION, SNAPSHOT, and VALUATION) for the Swap Data Repository (DTCC). Products included FX Forwards, NDFs, FX Options, FX swaps, FRA, IRS, basis swaps and cross-currency swaps.

•    Coordinated with the Data Warehousing team for data modeling, reporting and ETL activities

•    Primary point of contact from the project team to handle issues raised by client during User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Go-live phases.

Employer - Birlasoft Limited

Industry – IT Services

May 2011 - Apr 2013 (23 Months)

Project

Development of Dodd-Frank Trade Reporting Solution for the US Market

Client

Birlasoft Internal – Capital Markets Solutions Group

Project Description

The solution aimed to enable US market participants to control and manage their trade submissions to the Swap Data Repository (SDR). It had business rules to perform pre-submission validation checks on trade reports. It provided an interactive operations console to the users to view their daily trade submissions and related exceptions and allowed them to modify and resubmit the trades. It also provided them analytics and reports on their daily activity.

Role

Business Analyst

Location

Chennai (India)

Responsibilities

•       Performed data field mapping for SDR reports for different asset classes and message types

•       Provided business rules for message validation before submission to the SDR

•       Prepared use cases for the development of operations console

•       Tested functionalities of trade submission, search and download

•       Trained the development team on OTC derivatives in Interest Rates and FX asset classes

Employer - Perot Systems (Now Dell Services)

Industry – IT Services

Dec 2007 - Jun 2009 (19 Months)

Project

Enhancement and Maintenance of Bank’s Reporting Application

Client

Bank of Ireland

Project Description

The project involved enhancing and maintaining the reporting application of the bank to support new business and regulatory requirements. This included implementation of Basel II regulatory reporting and development of operational reports on returns on lending and investment portfolios.

Role

Software Engineer

Location

Noida (India)

Responsibilities

•    Understanding requirements, functional specifications and change requests

•    Participating in creation of design documents

•    Programming to develop reports for use of bank’s operations users and market regulators

•    Performing unit and system testing before enhancements go-live

•    Carrying out post-production checkouts and maintaining project documentation