Experience

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  Tata consultancy services

  Mar 2003 - Jul 2005

  Assistant systems engineer

  Project 1 : Developed Payments and Billing modules as part of (eIBS) Product developed for Broker - Appollo Sindhoori Capitals who traded on NSE & BSE.Technology - Oracle PL/sql, Oracle Reports, C++ , Unix & PRO*C.Project 2 : Developed Data loaders and interfaces using C++, Oracle, PRO*C Developer for Data Services Project - Standard Chartered Bank SingaporeTechnology - Oracle PL/sql, C++, Unix & PRO*C.

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  Polaris consulting & services ltd

  Jul 2005 - Mar 2007

  Software consultant

  Worked as a Software Consultant for UBS - Singapore, under (Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange Trading systems)

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  Barclays investment bank

  Apr 2007 - Jul 2014

  • Investigating, consulting, debugging, analyzing and estimating system program needs (example End of Day Processing, Year end Processing, calculations) etc.▪ Reviewing business requirements, validating the business case, assessing feasibility and conducting requirement clarification with the stakeholders.▪ Writing and maintaining functional/non-functional Requirements and solution documents.▪ Creating models of various business processes using data models diagrams and assisting team during technical design and implementation.▪ Reviewing technical design document by conducting brainstorming sessions to ensure the solution covers both functional and non-functional requirements stated in the BRD.▪ Reviewing test cases/scenarios to ensure it covers all possible scenarios, assisting testing team during testing to ensure high quality of the software code delivered.▪ Key contact person for product, Operations to translate business requirements or proposed business opportunities into feasible solutions and solve problems arising either due market changes or defects arising from implementations. Show less

  • Assistant Vice President (Central Clearing and Settlements IT) - Equities/Fixed Income/Derivatives

    Jan 2010 - Jul 2014

  • Systems analyst - Financial Crime and Compliance (AML/Trade Surveillance)

    Apr 2007 - Dec 2009
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  Citi

  Aug 2014 - Nov 2016

  Technical business analyst - global markets and securities services (direct and global custody)

  ▪ Analysing and synthesizing business requirements emerging from Product and Operations, conducting requirement clarification discussions to validate the requirement and ensuring that business need and problem statements are clearly articulated.▪ Performing feasibility and impact analysis, critically evaluating various solution approaches refining them and picking the best fit solution, preparing functional /technical solution document that best addresses the business needs and conducting solution walkthrough with key stakeholders.▪ Defining end to end business operating models, conducting a gap analysis and partnering with stakeholders to deliver risk adverse business solutions.▪ Taking code through testing, deployment, and production without having merely handed off code to QA and Production Support.▪ Reviewing existing processes, identifying weaker links and proposing creative/automated solutions for process improvements by working with technical teams.▪ Investigating, consulting, interpreting and gauging existing program code written to determine the scale of change required and the impact/risks associated with enhancing an existing process.▪ Engaging with a wide variety of business users (Product, Operations, Network management, Compliance), quickly diagnosing the root cause of issue(s) and providing solution/workaround to address production issues raised by the business in a timely manner to ensure minimum impact and downtime.▪ Working closely with the QA team to define and develop test scenarios/cases, assisting them during testing to ensure solution meets all the functional and non-functional requirements.ACHIEVEMENTS:▪ Won Prestigious “CITI RAVE AWARD” in 2015 for architecting and implementing the solution for Hong Kong-Shanghai / Shenzhen Stock Connect program in CITI. Show less

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  Standard chartered

  Nov 2016 - Oct 2018

  Business analyst - securities services - (custody/fund services) - cib

  ▪ Strong core business analysis skills - Gather, organise and synthesize large amounts of information (in the form of user stories, EPICS, BRD) from various sources, validate, synthesize and come out with an easy to understand functional solution document (FSD) detailing solution approach, scope and how the solution would meet those business needs.▪ Ask probing questions to bring out further information and clarity in requirements where there is ambiguity to ensure the stated requirement is valid and to extract the actual underlying requirement.▪ Performing Document, Interface, Technical & Data analysis (wherever applicable), developing as-is/to-be process models and clearly defining the expected future state model of the business process in addition to Managing requirements and solution scope.▪ Working closely with key stakeholders such as SMEs in defining solution approach, managing solution creeps, defining solution scope, assessing and validating proposed solutions, performing feasibility studies, impact and capability gap analysis and choosing the best and cost-effective solution that meets the business need.▪ Effectively communicating the proposed solution approach to stakeholders using a structured walkthrough, Process models, DFD, Navigation flow, Prototyping to ensure stakeholders clearly understand the proposed solution.▪ Running SQL queries on the database while performing data analysis and to understand business logic where no sufficient documentation is available. Debug code to test and validate the behavior of the stated requirement and the as-is process.▪ Maintaining traceability of each requirement to its solution components and tracking end to end delivery of the solution that meets the requirements.▪ Defining testing requirements and strategies, preparing and reviewing test scenarios to ensure the solution fully meets stakeholder and business needs. Show less

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  Citi

  Oct 2018 - Jul 2021

  It senior business analyst - custody, clearing and settlements

  Senior Business Analyst - ASX CHESS Replacement

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  Hesta

  Jul 2021 - Aug 2023

  Senior business and technical analytics specialist
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  Future fund

  Jul 2023 - now

  Senior business analyst

  1. Business Intelligence and Analytics2. Investment Data Management and Delivery3. Business analytics - Power BI Report s/ Dashboards4. Sprint Planning, Monitoring and Management5. Backlog Grooming and Prioritization6. Functional Requirements and Solution Design6. Build Data Interface using APIs