Candidates About

Pradyot Srivastava

Detail-oriented, hands-on Business Analyst and Project Manager with strong leadership and communication skills. Eight years of experience advancing information technology solutions.

Project Management: Ability to smoothly manage in challenging environments. Manage multiple project work-streams and achieve discrete deliverables. Build strong trust-based relationships with project owners, stakeholders and managers. Ensure the timely completion of projects and meeting deadlines.

Business Analysis: Experience with dealing room applications and trading technology. Clear writing skills. Active listener. Experience in requirement gathering and writing BRDs.

Electronic Recordkeeping:  Deep understanding of full Document Management life cycle. Expertise in Data Mining tools, managing and building metadata. Assessed recordkeeping tools (e.g. HP Autonomy and Bloomberg Vault).

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

AGILE and SDLC JAD Sessions Workflow Management

Gap Analysis Business Requirements User Interface Design

Recordkeeping Solutions Murex Trading Systems Document Management

KPMG: March 2017 – Current

PM/Senior Business Analyst – Risk Management & Independence

Inquiry Express Application –

 

As part of Risk Management Independence team designed a web based inquiry tracking application. Inquiry express is web based application for inquiry management which provides a workflow platform for users to send and route inquiries.

§  Managed and monitored end to end program implementations from concept to design, planning to development, and training to rollout 

§  Managed the Change Management function by proactively working with the project stakeholders to analyze, review proposed changes and associated costs as well as the impact on the projects timeline/critical path.

§  Established end-to-end processes for cross-functional areas that helped streamline business critical need.

§  Managed the development of various communication and trainings, process flows that helped achieve desired future state outcome.

§  Worked with the stakeholders and working group team to collect requirements.

§  Directly provided the weekly updates and clarifications to the steering committee.

§  Conducted various requirement gathering sessions and managed requirements through JIRA.

§  Co-ordinated with various separate application teams (SYNC, Sentinel, ARM) and collected requirements for integration with Inquiry express.

§  Developed Test Plans and Test Cases using business requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, and Scope.

§  Created UAT test cases and conducted UAT with the client teams.

§  Logged and managed any defects or enhancements through JIRA.

§  Worked with QA team and monitored testing statuses and provided to the working group.

§  Formulated daily defect status reports by querying data from JIRA and then consolidating data from these reports to produce presentations that were delivered to the project's steering committee.

§  Provided post deployment Hypercare to the business; which provided full support with defect handling and resolution through subsequent releases.

§  Logged the Independence Inquiries details which include: Engagement team Client Name, Question, Lead Audit Engagement Partner contact, Response, FDC {Field Document Clearance Memo} if issued or not in our internal system (KIITS) and close them. Run a report of the number of inquiries received, resolved and closed and provide the data to our Independence Directors/Partners on a weekly basis.

 

PCAOB Internal Audit Tool –

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a private-sector, non-profit corporation which oversees the audits of public companies and other issuers in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate and independent audit reports. KPMG audit team was handling tax audit data through various excel sheets and was managed by several people at the same time.

§  Developed an online internal audit tool for PCAOB reporting.

§  Worked directly with the audit team in collaboration with KPMG technology team (Ktech).

§  Application provided direct access to PCAOB's auditor to review all necessary documents.

§  Auditors can review and raise any questions within the application to be responded in 2 weeks.

 

Personal Independence Audit and New Hire Survey Tool –

Personal Independence team audited 50 employees each month. The employees are required to disclose all their personal and family financial involvements and investments. The existing application was developed by GOAL technologies and was no longer supported. I helped creating a new web based tool to manage and streamline entire process for better efficiency and human errors. The new incoming employees were previously filling out new hire surveys for independence clearance and were now able to access application to finish the process in a more secure environment.

§  Developed a Personal Independence Audit tool for KPMG internal compliance review.

§  Worked with the Independence team to understand current state and review existing application.

§  Gathered requirements and conducted GAP analysis to cover all requirement aspects.

§  Used JIRA for requirements and defects management and tracking.

§  Worked with the development team during entire process to meet crucial deadlines.

§  Managed the QA team to track all testing efforts and defect management.

§  Created detailed UAT test cases and conducted UAT testing with end users.

§  Coordinate the intake of Independence inquiries related to PCAOB and SEC, AICPA regulations as well as Firm policy and assign projects to adequate resources.

 

Institute of International Education: September 2016 – February 2017

Senior Business Analyst

Designed a web-based Reporting platform for IIE programs. Developed a reporting solution that replaced manual processes for updating and maintaining data in non-standardized format. Worked with over 20 separate programs to come up with a standardized reporting solution required by Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs.

§  Coordinated information transfer and data gathering sessions with over 20 separate managers to understand the needs and requirements of individual programs.

§  Worked with users in identifying current system and Data Mapping between multiple systems.

§  Created Business Requirement Documentations (BRD), Workflows, Functional Specifications and User Stories.

§   Identified and led improvements in existing reporting controls and change programs for Business Control team 

§   Analyzed Business data and production processes and made recommendations for improvement in Governance Reporting 

§  Partnered with technical teams developing long term reporting solutions; Supported tactical reporting solutions using SQL Server Management Studio, Access and Excel 

§  Developed process flow diagrams, swimlane diagrams, using MS Visio in an effort to identify and analyse existing process flows in the current environment.

§  Gathered Functional and Data Requirements, analysed workflows and created Use Cases, Requirement Specifications, Report Specifications, Data Mappings and Data Flow Diagrams.

§  Worked with IT in Data Extraction and Migration between various environments.

§  Worked with report developers and application team to resolve production issues.

§   Assisted IT in modifying data universe to add new required field objects.

§  Developed complex Business Object Reports for various programs.

§  Developed CRM Reports to ensure the data accuracy between multiple systems.

§  Developed and conducted UAT to ensure all requirements were met.

§  Conducted regular meetings with IT and Business Users to monitor progress and to adhere to the project timeline.

 

 

New York City Department of Education: May 2010 – Aug 2016

   Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst

Designed a web-based student information system. Developed a document management solution that replaced extensive paper based processes maintaining information security and integrity. Migrated Data Centre from Verizon to in-house.

§  Managed implementation of Document Management System meeting requirement deadlines.

§  Lead application support and defect handling for 50,000 person user-base.

§  Experienced in full functionality of major Document Management Products including installation, Development and maintenance.

§  Used Agile Methodology in defining the problem and gathering requirements and prepared use case specification.

§  Organized JAD Sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open matters, and change requests.

§  Worked with the UI team to define user interface design guidelines, and performed usability engineering to finalize system UI.

§  Provided strategic support in development of detailed project plans, work assignments, target dates etc.

§  Conducted weekly meetings with the clients to review functional specifications and resolve open issues.

§  Involved in creating Business Requirement Documentations (BRD), Workflows, Functional Specifications and User Stories.

§  Developed process flow diagrams (F               low Charts) using MS Visio in an effort to identify and analyze process flows in the system.

§  Gathered Functional and Data Requirements, analyzed workflows and created Use Cases, Requirement Specifications, Report Specifications, Data Mappings and Data Flow Diagrams using MS Visio.

§  Involved in Gap analysis around the identification of business rules, user administration, requirements and assumptions.

§  Involved in setting up an Application Support Team for managing major Defect Handling.

§  Acted as a liaison between Development, Integration, Configuration, Testing and Infrastructure teams.

§  Collaborated extensively with the QA team, designed Test Plan and Test Cases for the UAT. 

§  Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) to ensure that requirements were provided in the application. 

§  Worked on Oracle CRM for Application Support and tracking.

§  Enhanced and created SQL queries for standard and custom reports, supported senior survey data manager and business group members by identifying and correcting data as part of ETL.

§  Regularly interacted with senior management, including meeting management for issue escalation, resolution, reporting, and presentations.

§  Assessed project plans and progress; collect, consolidate and review status and related reporting in an accurate, timely and comprehensive fashion.

 

ABN Amro: May 2008 – April 2010

    Business Analyst

Lead and managed the implementation of MUREX customization, FX Connects integration and Upgrade and OMS-Order Management System. Partnered with Middle Office for trading and risk requirements.

§  Integration of Bloomberg rates, risk and position into the MUREX for Risk Management.

§  Provided production support to users by resolving - bugs/issues list, enhancements, new releases and UAT.

§  Followed Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and ITIL methodologies.

§  Performed data analysis and queries using SQL.

§  Interviewed Traders, Product Controllers, Risk Managers, and Operations staff to understand and document business requirements and functional specifications for the trading system.

§  Created use case diagrams to provide appropriate decomposition to the use case model.

§  Identified areas of data duplication, inconsistencies in the existing system and designed ways to minimize the bottlenecks.

§  Developed QA Test plans for Functional, Integration Testing and participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

§  Worked on SQL queries and PL/SQL stored procedures for QA testing and data validation. 

§  Worked closely with Oracle DBA and ETL architect to insure all documented requirements are properly translated and mapped.

§  Analysed complex data, performed hands-on ad-hoc analysis, data integration & data manipulation. 

 

 

 

Project Management:	UML, SDLC, RUP, AGILE, WaterFall
Business Modeling Tools:	MS Visio, Star UML, Rational Rose,
Requirement Management:	Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, MS Source Safe, Clear Case
Project Management:	MS Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Project), SharePoint
Databases and Testing:     Document Management:	SQL Server 2005/07, Oracle, MS Access, Test Director, HP-Quality Center, QTP   Laserfiche, Documentum, DocuSign
Reporting and ETL Tools:	Cognos, Crystal Reports, Business Objects

 

New Jersey Institute of Technology – May 2009

Master’s Degree of Computer Science

Lucknow University – September 2004

Bachelor's Degree of Information Science     

 

JP Morgan Professional Courses: Six Sigma and Lean Management, Compliance, Financial Products - FX