Candidates About

Siddhartha Tembe

Accenture India Private Ltd                                                                                    June11-Present    

IBM India Private Ltd                                                                                             Aug10 – May11

Wipro Technologies                                                                                                May04 – Aug10

Aggressive result oriented Business Analyst with 10+ years IT experience as a facilitator between Business and Information Technology. An exquisite and agile learner and has an extensive SDLC experience. Well Conversant with business requirement gathering and requirements management, defining and following business processes using UML. Domain coverage includes Securities & Capital Market, “OTC Derivatives”, “Collateral Management”, Reference Data and Regulatory Reporting such as “Dodd-Frank Act” & “EMIR”, “TLM Reconciliations”, “Fixed Income Products”, OTC derivatives Trade Life-Cycle

·         Expertise in most of the Business Analysis Knowledge Areas such as “Requirement Gathering”, “Requirement Elicitation”, “Requirement Management” and maintaining “Traceability”

·         Capturing requirements for implementation of TLM reconciliations for a major investment bank.

·         Executing/Writing test cases and responsible for logging and tracking enhancements for reconciliation projects within TLM.

·         Executing test scripts, logging and tracking of enhancements/bugs within TLM.

·         Proficient awareness of artifacts with development experience of Functional specification document, Traceability Matrix, Business Test Cases and process mapping document.

·         Performed various customer facing roles with responsibilities like Requirement Gathering, Root Cause Analysis, UAT support and signoff from business.

·         Successfully implemented reporting framework for Dodd Frank regulatory reporting  

·         Successfully adopted Agile methodologies in the project to reduce the release cycle and deliver tangible products more frequently to business

·         Preparing Functional Requirements Specifications along with use cases and wireframes and creation of Functional Test Pack

·         Mentoring the project teams on functional issues and training them on capital market fundamentals

·         Worked as a lead BA and functional tester to gather requirements for building controls reconciliations & regulatory reporting framework where any breaks in the reconciliation has to be highlighted to Operate users through reports and dashboards.

·         Successfully gathered requirements for assets classes such as Credit, Rates, FX & Equities and was instrumental in building the TLM reconciliations to enable the client to comply with regulatory guidelines for Dodd-Frank, EMIR and HKMA regulations.

·         Interacted with business users from multiple business areas and locations and managed to create a consensus amongst all the stakeholders on complex requirements.

·         Played a pivotal role in adopting Agile framework in the project and played role of Scrum Master and leased with Product Owner for managing the product backlog.

·         Was involved in gathering the complex requirements for building an expense management solution to optimize the post trade expenses such as commissions, clearing fees and Broker Dealer fees etc

·         Instrumental in adopting Agile standards in the project team.

·         For Bank’s Shareholding Program, was involved in creation of a global shareholding project where business can define the business rules to raise alerts if the bank’s holding crosses the thresholds in any particular security or any country/region. In case, a breach is reported, business has to verify the holdings and report the breaches to the regulators.

·         For Bank’s Fixed Income business unit (Over the Counter), working as Business Analyst responsible for managing the credit risk.

·         Responsible for understating the client systems used for confirmations and settlements of various OTC Derivatives products. Ex- CDS Swaps, ABX/CMBX Products.

·         Has been functional in off-shoring of the back office operations of UBS to India and has been actively involved in training and evaluating the new joiners and mentoring them during the hand-holding period.

·         Coordinating with the various Middle and Front Office desks to confirm and settle the Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) to mitigate the risk.

·         Has worked closely with paper drafting team and DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation) team to identify any static data issues preventing STP (straight through process) confirmation and settlement of the trades.

·         Was involved in building a tri-party collateral management system which should enable multiple counterparties to enter their bilateral collateral obligations in the system. The system will then generate the net obligation of all the involved parties thereby reducing the gross collateral obligations. The member parties can also ask for a cash or securities loan to meet their EOD obligations.

·         Has been instrumental in identifying the logical flaws and providing solutions to build the requirements for collateral allocation algorithm.

·         Has developed the functionality to parse and validate the licenses to NOKIA in accordance to the schemas and generate the order license files (XML files) as per the customer requirement

·         Has done the unit / module level testing of the various program blocks.

·         Written test cases and test plans for Module Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Stability Testing and Functional Testing

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science), Maharana Pratap College of Technology, Gwalior.

·         IIBA-CBAP (Certified Business Analyst Professional)

·         IAQ- Introduction to Securities and Investment (Investment Administration Qualification) conducted by SII.

·         NCFM- Financial  Markets

·         NCFM- Derivatives Dealer’s Module

·         NCFM-Capital Markets

·         NCFM-Mutual Funds

·         Accenture-Capital Markets Generalist Certification

·         Securities 101 and Securities 201 (Wipro Internal)