Experience

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  Scotiabank

  Jun 2000 - Apr 2005

  It business analyst

  Project: FX and Precious Metal Applications/project support Project Description: The FX project delivered a single platform for Scotia’s Foreign Exchange business by implementing a new front to back straight through solution using Wallstreet FX. The metal project delivered a platform for trading and settlement of Scotia’s bullion business.Roles and Responsibilities: • Worked with a team of analysts for supporting Scotia’s FX and Metal buisness.• Lead and administered all external dealing interfaces such as ScotiaFX, Cognotec, Reuters dealing 2000/3000, Reuters rate feed, EBS, FX order blotter for Wallstreet application.• Lead the integration of Back Office outbound payment (SWIFT) and incoming confirmation (SWIFT) interfaces with Scotia FX solution via WSS.• Lead numerous DOE projects like – quarterly regression testing of bulk software upgrade of wallstreet application, hardware upgrade, oracle upgrade, data purge, fx high speed processing, retail sales api, ISDA paper confirmations, automated end of day processing, java rate feed implementation.• Participated in design/ prototype activities and postmortems.• Created and maintained the project plan and provided status updates to the stakeholders.• Participated in the change and release management process for fixes and enhancements. Show less

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  Td securities

  Apr 2005 - Sept 2009

  Sr. it business analyst

  Project: FX Migration (Wallstreet System) and Electronic trading solution (Cognotec) ImplementationProject Description: The project delivered a single platform for TD Securities Foreign Exchange business by implementing a new front to back straight through solution using Wallstreet FX. The scope of the deliverable was to migrate from the current legacy operating model to the target operating model i.e. streamline straight through processing for settlement and confirmations of FX trades for Interbank, Corporate, and web clients across FX Wholesale and Retail banking.Roles and Responsibilities:• Brought swift resolutions to a variety of complex Risk and P&L issues impacting the WallStreet Systems Front and Middle Office.• Successfully implemented market leading FX and Money Market pricing solutions, providing a net business benefit.• Coordinated and integrated FX e-Trading platform with Wallstreet.• Designed strategic solutions for integrating two of TD’s core FX and Interest Rate platforms including live and batch processing of information, downstream reporting and reconciliation of position, risk and pnl.• Delivered value-added consultation to business processes in concert with effective technology.• Developed and participated in development of test scripts ensuring adherence to agreed upon businessrequirements and participated in the testing of developed systems/solutions.• Complied with system development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodology (PMLC) - including development of project plans, documentation of system requirements, estimates of scope andcost, etc. Show less

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  Cibc capital markets

  Oct 2009 - Jan 2014

  Project: Dodd Frank Clearing Project Description: The objective of the CIBC FX Dodd-Frank Clearing project was to create an environment capable of supporting Dodd-Frank Clearing requirements using the solution provided by WSS (WallStreet System).Roles and Responsibilities:• Coordinated walk through meetings with the vendor, technology teams and other stakeholders.• Outlined the testing matrix.• Created the UAT test cases and executing the same along with the business team.• Participated in the business regression tests to affirm the current business processes function as-expected.• Assisted in outlining and rolling the new business process workflow for the Dodd Frank clearing based onthe WSS solution.• Reported and followed up on issues/bugs through the change life-cycle. Show less Project: CLS SDS initiative Project Description: CLS SDS (Same day Settlement) process allows member institutions an additional settlement cycle to settle same day value positions in the American time zone for local currencies. This will initially settle same day USD/CAD positions. This new SDS gateway connectivity was to be built from WSS (WallStreet System) so positions could flow from WSS to SDS and vice versa.Roles and Responsibilities:• Lead the requirements phase – from identification to documentation to sign-off.• Interfaced between the treasury group and other stakeholders.• Cooperated closely with Operations team to define the new process flows.• Developed the UAT strategy, test cases and participate in the test execution.• Assisted in training the operations team on the SDS process flows and WSS• Provided post go-live warranty support Show less Project: Asia FLM (Funding Liquidity Management) migration Project Description: Asia FLM FX and MM – CIBC sold its Private Wealth Management business to Bank of Montreal. The Midas application in Asia was used to process the Wealth Management transactions as well as the FLM FX and MM transactions that would continue to be managed by CIBC. The processing of the FLM FX and MM transactions for both settlement and accounting were to be moved to the WSS application and new downstream feeds were to be built for market risk, liquidity risk and GL reconciliation systems.Roles and Responsibilities:• Performed requirement workshops and liaised between stakeholders and vendor to capture requirements by writing user stories and defining the acceptance criteria.• Coordinated and participated in user acceptance testing UAT, impact analysis, and the development of policies and procedures. Show less Project: London Money Market migration Project Description: London Money Market – the project involved migrating London’s Money Market business from Murex to WSS i.e. from booking trades to confirmation and settlements and accounting. It also involved building out new feeds for downstream market risk, liquidity risk and GL reconciliation systems.Roles and Responsibilities:• Analysed the current business process and mapped those business processes into WSS workflows.• Analysed business plans, project risk and aligned system enhancements and deliverables as per businessexpectations.• Developed UAT test strategy and test cases and assist in execution.• Tracked and analysed issues and risks related to the Initiative and recommended proper resolutions.• Worked with release management and implementation teams to plan for the deployment of the application code into production.• Provided training, hand-off and warranty support up to project closure. Show less Project: WallStreet System (WSS) FX Migration Project Description: The objective of the Wall Street Systems (WSS) project was to create an environment capable of supporting CIBC’s Foreign Exchange business by implementing a new front to back platform. The scope of the deliverable was to migrate from the current legacy operating model to the target operating model i.e. streamline straight through processing for settlement and confirmation processing of FX trades for Interbank, Corporate, and web clients across FX Wholesale and Retail banking.Roles and Responsibilities:• Lead requirements gathering by coordinating workshop sessions with stakeholders and vendor.•Documented requirements by writing user stories and defining the acceptance criteria by stakeholders.•Implemented single component based pricing solutions for traders and all external applications so that wss can provide uniform price across all entry points . • Supported the Project Manager in project quality assurance, monitoring, reporting on progress, and documenting and acting on issues discovered.•Actively managed client expectations.•Implemented single component based pricing solutions for traders and all external applications so that wss• Lead the implementation of real time credit limit monitor for wallstreet FX application.•Lead the implementation of CIBC FX rate distribution business to auto price their deals using wss.•Coordinated and implemented eTrading solutions for replacing legacy CIBC FX web dealing app.•Lead the integration of 360T/ FXALL/Global Link portal with WSS.•Lead the FX PnL attribution (in WSS) project for Finance. 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  • Senior Business Consultant

    Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

  • Senior Business Consultant

    Feb 2013 - Jul 2013

  • Senior Business Consultant

    Oct 2012 - Feb 2013

  • Senior Business Consultant

    May 2012 - Oct 2012

  • Senior Business Consultant

    Oct 2009 - Apr 2012
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  Rbc investor & treasury services

  Jan 2014 - Apr 2016

  Project: FX Unity for Custodian Business Jul 15 - Apr16Project Description: Implement a straight through processing solution for fx order management for RBC custodian and non-custodian business via Broad Ridge systems TwoFour solution.My responsibilities • Joined as Lead BA for FX Order Management System (OMS) project and worked closely with other BAs to gather requirements from Front Office (Client and Market desk) and Client Operations.• Analysed OMS system requirements to write functional specifications for upstream and downstream feeds• Performed requirement workshops and liaised between stakeholders and vendor to capture requirements. by writing user stories and defining the acceptance criteria• Created Business Process Mapping (BPM) and helped development team by providing clarifications in the development effort.• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix and Test Plan. Assisted QA build test cases by identifying scenarios. for front office and client operations• Created a Training & Transition presentation for UAT. Scheduling UAT for identified users from various stakeholder groups. Show less Project: Calypso Migration (GRP) Project Description: The objective of the RBC Calypso migration (GRP) project was to replace several existing applications and replace their functionalities under one platform across all asset classes for RBC Treasury desk books. The project delivered a simplified solution for Liquidity and risk management across all asset classes for treasury desks in NY, London, Toronto, and HongKong. My responsibilities • Worked closely with Front Office trading desk, Product Control and Market Risk to gather business requirements and wrote functional and technical specifications for migrating Treasury Desk's books to Calypso • Lead implementation of pricing framework and Yield curve construction and vetting for FX Forwards Desk,IMM and CMM Desk to provide real-time P&L and Risk reporting for treasury products.• Lead implementation of market data feeds including real-time IR, Basis and FX curves• Lead the reconciliation of position, risk and pnl (between old system and calypso system) for treasury books during the entire calypso migration project• Conducted Gap & Impact analysis• Assisted PM for sprint planning and prioritization.• Systems used: Bloomberg, TOMS, Infinity, Anvil, Monaco, RATS (in-house), RIBS and VISION (for retail ASIA Pacific and North America). Show less

  • Senior Business Consultant

    Jul 2015 - Apr 2016

  • Senior Business Consultant

    Jan 2014 - Jul 2015
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  Lexington innovations

  May 2016 - May 2018

  Client: Scotia Bank Project: RegulatoryProject Description: MiFID II compliance (European regulation)Role: Senior Business AnalystMy responsibilities • Lead a team of business analysts and developer to develop solutions for Scotia to meet MIFID II regulatory obligations in terms of transaction reporting, Pre and Post Trade Transparency and Best Execution.• Delivered successfully multiple streams of work packages for transaction reporting, sales trader workflow, and pre and post trade transparency, Order Record Keeping, Quality of Execution.• Created use case scenarios for various MiFID II work streams under FX and Commodities. • Involved in User Acceptable Testing (UAT) to ensure the Transaction Reporting meets the regulatory requirement and all business scenarios. Show less Client: Scotiabank, Toronto, CanadaProject: Anti Money Laundering – NY DFS 504 InitiativeProject Description: The objective of this initiative was to evaluate Scotiabank’s readiness with the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Regulation 504. The regulation requires Scotiabank to certify that they have effective controls over Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Monitoring and Sanctions Screening programs. This initiative was undertaken to identify data sources, data lineage and data elements which have not yet been incorporated into Scotiabank’s AML Program and propose an approach for the appropriate integration of such data.Roles and Responsibilities:• Lead a team of 5 business analysts to evaluate Scotia US business readiness in relation to certification for NY DFS 504 regulation.• Managed the project timelines and deliverables actively.• Delivered a stream of work packaged successfully. Show less Client: Scotiabank, Toronto, CanadaProject: Commercial Lending Replacement Project (CLRP )Project Description: The objective of the Scotia CLRP project is to upgrade their existing corporate Loan processing application (ACBS v5.2) with the latest ACBS v8. The project will stream line straight through loan processing as well as improve operational efficiencies for corporate loan business.Roles and Responsibilities:• Lead several streams of work package under CLRP project - Reporting, General Ledger mapping.• Planned and organized workshops with various business audiences to collect requirements related toreporting and General Ledger mapping.• Prepared and produced Business requirements documents related to reporting and GL streams of work.• Created specifications for each individual report for in house development. Show less

  • Senior Consultant

    Mar 2017 - May 2018

  • Senior Business Consultant

    Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Senior Business Consultant

    May 2016 - Oct 2016
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  Cibc

  May 2018 - now

  ProcomClient: CIBC Project: Client Data Management Project Description: Client Data Management for Capital Markets Products for Regulatory ReportingMy responsibilities • Lead a team of business analysts and developers to develop and improve Client Onboarding and Product Onboarding platform for capital markets. • Created user stories and managed product backlogs based on business requirements for new client and product onboarding workflow engine resulting in 100% reduction in time in onboarding a new product. • Lead the integration of core client onboarding platform with the regulatory client data model system.• Participated actively in enhancing regulatory client data models to improve overall regulatory reporting process. • Extensively used agile scrum methodologies to create and maintain product backlogs.CGI Client: CIBC Feb 19 to May 21Project: Regulatory Reporting Project Description: Anti Money Laundering reporting Role: Lead Business AnalystMy responsibilities • Lead a team of business analysts and developers to develop Level-2 Anti Money Laundering monitoring and reporting solution for CIBC to meet the bank’s Regulatory requirements for AML reporting. This automated monitoring and reporting reduced the counts of false positives by 70%.• Created user stories and managed product backlogs based on business requirements for building various models for monitoring trading activities across different products like Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Corporate Lending.• Delivered successfully monitoring and reporting of 3 capital markets products – FX, FI, Corporate Loans. Show less Client: CIBC Project: Alternate Solution Group Project Description: FX Retail PricingMy responsibilities • Lead a team of business analysts and developers to develop retail pricing engine for CIBC to meet the bank’s FX pricing needs for retail branches and other electronic channels like DCC (Dynamic Currency Conversion), MCP (FX eMarket place products), ISP (International Students Portal), GMT (Global Money Transfer), GMP (Global Mass Payout), FCPC, Chatbot etc. It improved monitoring, controlling and distribution of custom pricing for various retail channels by over 50%.• Created user stories and managed product backlogs based on business requirements for core retail pricing engine as well as chatbot based pricing solution. • Successfully implemented pricing sheets and distribution of FX prices for various retails channels.• Extensively involved with QA Automation team to test out newly developed solutions thoroughly end to end.• Involved in User Acceptable Testing (UAT) by coordinating with trading desk and other business units. Show less

  • Senior Business Consultant

    Feb 2019 - now

  • Senior Business Consultant

    May 2018 - Feb 2019