Nafees A Naseer

[email protected]
2029387226
Lead Business system Analyst

Summary:

 Overall 10+years of extensive experience working as a Business Analyst in Banking and financial domain. with strong
understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and
Business Analysis.
 Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income,
US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin
Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds, strong knowledge of Custody.
 Strong understanding of project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including RUP, RAD, Waterfall and Agile.
 Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Asset Management, Securities Trading (stock
trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), wealth management and risk management.
 Have good understanding with entire phases of Software Development Life Cycle [SDLC].
 Experienced in Full life cycle – end to end RPA project implementations and Machine Learning implementation
building various ML models.
 Full understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Unified Modeling Language
(UML), Object Modeling Technique (OMT).
 Extensive experience in Investment Advisory, Wealth Management Services and Product Management.
 Hands on experience as an expert user of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, Business Objects.
 tracking and monitoring and used the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology in all areas of the software
development life cycle (SDLC).
 Experience in testing Credit Cards Originations, Acquisitions and Authorizations using Strata (Decisioning system)
and mainframes.
 Experience with the Strata (CGI), Credit Analyst (DMS), Web Rules (Zoot) application(s) or other decision
management software
 Experienced in data warehouses and data marts for business intelligence reporting and data mining along with
developing and documenting process flows for business processes.
 Experienced in conducting Requirement Analysis, Use Case Design, Designing Test Plans and developed database
schemas based on the logical models.
 Gained experience on Quality Center, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Visio,
Microsoft Access and Clarity.
 Experience working as Joint Application Development (JAD) facilitator and meetings coordinator with excellent
interpersonal skills.
 Creative and Enthusiastic Self-Starter with integrative thinking skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive and
productive working relationships in internal, external, independent, and team environments.

Skills

 Rational Rose  System Integration Testing  CICS

 Rational Enterprise Suite (SIT)  Quark Express
 MS Visio  User Acceptance Testing  Load Runner
 Credit Decision Rule Engine: (UAT)  MS PowerPoint
STRATA (CGI AMS Product)  WinRunner  Erwin
 Rational Requisite Pro  LoadRunner  JCL
 Crystal Reports  Quick Test Pro  HTML
 Test Director  MS-Word  Java Script
 Interwoven  DHTML  VB Script

 Visual InterDev  SWIFT

 ASP  Reuters
 XML  Capital IQ
 Cobol  NLU/NLP
 Web Application Server (3.0B)  Tableau
 Internet Transaction Server,  Power BI
Banking Protocols: FIX
Experience:

Citi Bank, Irving, TX Oct 21 – Present

Lead Business System Analyst: Consumer/Retail

 Business Analyst to bring change in organization system for regulatory/consolidation project.

 Defining Business Requirements
 Executed business assessment reviews and drafted written material.
 Suggested solutions for complex problems and formulated estimates of required resources.
 Administered project sub-plans and determined client needs.
 Identifying Assumption, Constraints and Dependencies.
 Liaising with business for conversion from existing to to-be process.
 Defining functional requirements
 Working with dev teams for functional requirement details
 Interaction with testing team to help them understand the requirements.
 Used System Integration Testing (SIT) on verifying the interactions and interfaces between
different systems or components of a software application, to ensure that the different
components are integrated and working together correctly.
 Working with users to test the delivery made against the requirement.
 Monitoring and resolving defects during the testing phase.
 Managed testing for multiple applications and coached training for client personnel.

Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, OH Mar 20 – Sep 21

Lead Business system Analyst: Credit Risk

 Serving as a liaison between IT, Operations, and the business line to analyze non-standard
business and user needs & document requirements.
 Partner with technical team in research and resolution of system and process problems. This
includes collaborating with other team members from IT and LOB in pursuit of common mission,
visions values and mutual goals.
 Identified and analyzed production problems, resolve problems, and develop solutions.
 Prepared the Business requirement documents, Functional Specification documents & other
related documents.
 Used UAT to safeguard against faulty, ineffective, or unfinished software products being released
at the end of the testing.
 Facilitated Scrum ceremonies like Backlog/Grooming Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum
Meeting, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Meetings for each sprint in Agile Scrum
Methodology.
 Played key role in planning, testing and implementation of system enhancements and
conversions.
 Helped digital collections team implement third party vendor software solution that will automate
the collection process.
 Provided visualization for client review and gain feedback.
 Conducted walk-throughs with the Business and the IT stakeholders to ensure requirements have
clearly understood features list for the analysis of the players in the market, the financial data and
divided them into release plans.
 Monitored the progress of the project by maintaining the product burn down charts.
 Completed product backlogs and divided them into different sprints.
 Tracked and reported event activity and/or trends that have occurred resulting from the data load
to the client counterpart.
 Implemented reference data management and provided the required info for the main system.
 Environment: MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Client Server, UML, Agile Scrum, Windows XP, Director,
MS Project, HPE Project and Portfolio Management Center.
 Tracked and maintained Stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using Requirement
Traceability Matrix RTM
  Developed test cases and test plans based on requirements and also did manual testing of the
functionality of the application to ensure that the application is supporting the desired
functionality.
 Involved with the technical teams during implementation such that right business requirements
are being translated into the system.

MFS Investments, Boston Mar 18 – Feb 20

Lead Business Analyst – RPA (Automation Anywhere)

 Obtaining a detailed knowledge of the business process being followed in the project
environment.
 Develop trading solutions to re-hypothecate the positions; perform high-level feasibility analysis,
industry & market analysis, risk analysis, trading workflow reconfiguration.
 Created RPA demos for business users to showcase RPA functionality.
 Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business,
Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, Wealth Management, corporate actions, Brokerage and
Trading Model within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.
 Worked on developing solutions with Captor with solutions architects and tech leads.
 Conduct extensive analysis on security trading cycles; provide consulting on financial disclosure,
regulatory and compliance issues.
 RPA Tools (Automation Anywhere, etc.) were used on a regular basis to gather data for the
research of customer data and transactions analyzed in AML Investigations.
 Extensively worked in managing or writing Agile stories, requirements gathering.
 Involved in designing, developing and implementation of Robotic process automation using
Automation Anywhere.
 Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified
Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
 Assisted PM in Developing Project plan and tracking project Process, Scheduling and organizing
group meeting, as well as developed Risk Management Plan.
 Hands on in creation of Email, Excel, Image, process automations in Automation Anywhere.
 Created process model for browser-based application and testing it by using Automation
Anywhere.
 Developed Business Requirement Documentation, Functional Specification Documentation, High
Level Testing Plan, etc.
 Assisted the IT team to develop service-oriented architecture (SOA), and data warehouse system
to utilize data mining for data analysis.
 Implemented End to End Robotic Process Automation (RPA) using Automation Anywhere.
 Created Process Workflows, Functional Specifications documents and documented system
requirements.
 TDD (Technical Design document), and PDD (Process defined documents).
 Worked on data modeling and produced data mapping and data definition documentation.
 Analyzed Business Requirements performed gap analysis and segregated them into high level
and low-level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose
according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
 Used Captor to map data as well as ETL to the central Data Mart and created data stores for.

Nissan North America, Franklin, TN Oct 16 – Feb 18

Business Analyst/Business System Analyst

 Conducted one to one interview with Portfolio Manager to gather Business Requirements and
was involved in the documentation of Business Requirement Documents.
 Managed the team of developers to design and develop Credit risk mitigation modules as per the
specifications and design and ensured successful code reviews.
  Detailed requirements documentation as Use Cases and UML diagrams including State Charts,
Class/Object diagrams, Activity and Collaboration diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
 Utilized corporation developed Agile SDLC methodology.
 Design and prepare codes according to specifications.
 Create data maps in Power Exchange needed as target for mainframe file delivery
 Developed mappings that perform extraction, transformation and loading using various power
center transformations like Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Filter, Router, Lookup, Joiner,
Expression, Update Strategy to meet business logic in the mapping
 Modify and implement NDM scripts used in transmitting file to CMC.
 Tune informatica mappings and sessions for optimum performance.
 Extract Data from DB2 database to staging area and loaded data to target database using
informatica power center
 Investigate and fix bugs by analyzing the session logs.
 Also involved in reporting of both scheduled and ad-hoc data reporting using SAP Business
Objects and STRATA as per the client requirements.
 Develop financial forecast and budgetary models leveraging historical volume data in Strata.
 Develop, maintain and run regression suite for each release of Strata.
 Prepare ETL Design Specification document to provide details of the flow that should be use in
production deployment.
 User Harvest and Deploy to promote codes to higher environment.
 Worked on web-based user interface projects and Datawarehouse projects.
 Was responsible for indexing of the tables in that data warehouse.
 Used Data warehousing for Data Profiling to examine the data available in an existing database.
 Gathered business requirements and generating statements of work, data mapping, workflow
diagrams and functional design documentation.
 Interviewed staff to elicit and refine business requirements. Resolved issues between client
groups and developers as to scope and content of releases.
 Elicit and document client user requirements to meet business objectives.
 Developed and implemented processes and tools for requirements gathering Analysis, planning,
tracking and delivery using Rational Rose, requisite pro and RUP.
 Involved in creating Test Cases and conducting Test Case Walk Troughs with the QA Team.
 Collected business requirements to set rules for proper data transfer from Data Source to Data
Target in Data Mapping.
 Developed BRDs, FRDs and FSDs using corporate templates; developed Use Case Diagrams,
Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using UML.

Legg Mason, Baltimore, MD Apr 14 – Sep 16

Business Systems Analyst

Legg Mason, Inc is an American-based global investment management firm with a focus on asset
management. Legg Mason offers products in equities and fixed income, as well as domestic and
international liquidity management and alternative investments (via a funds-of-hedge-funds manager). It
has over a dozen subsidiaries offering asset management, private client and capital markets and
products, including investment banking, broker-dealer and investment advisory services, annuities and
insurance.

 Garnered insights on present framework and laid out the client centric application (Presentations).
 Engaged in all phases of product development cycle for buy side and sell side clients.
 Wrote detailed specifications for a wealth management application, including GEAC general
ledger accounting package entries.
 Analyzed and translated business requirements into system specifications utilizing UML and Agile
methodology.
 Establish documentation for Agile methodology for implementation with a very waterfall centric
development team.
 Designed and Developed equity reference data flow diagrams business process models using
Microsoft Visio for eagle pace equity reference data warehouse system.
  Extensively worked on SQL queries for data retrieval, data validation, and data analysis for user
reports.
 Assigned tasks among development team, monitored and tracked progress of project following
Agile methodology.
 Worked on Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trade Cycle,
Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management and Asset Management.
 Managed backlogs within the agile projects.
 Wrote user requirements specification (URS) and Functional requirements specification (FRS)
Implemented Simulation Tool to price complex equity derivatives portfolios in combination with
fixed income and finance desk portfolios.
 Actively involved in project scope meetings with GSM (Global Security Master) Pricing manager
to understand pricing flow and business requirements for new application that involves different
Capital Market securities including equities, fixed income, derivatives and foreign exchange FX.
 Designs and develops the logical and physical data models to support the Data Marts and the
Data Warehouse.
 Interacted with other Business Analysts for designing and implementation of Use Cases and Test
Plans.
 Assisted in on-going process improvement efforts to ensure Test Planning, Execution, and
Reporting is effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated.
 Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User
Acceptance Testing.
 Involved in development phase meetings for Business Analysis and Requirements Gathering.
 Assigned tasks among development team monitored and tracked progress of project following
agile methodology.
 Involve in preparation of report template for daily and weekly reports based on requirements.
 Involved in the system workflow analysis and contributed to the overall workflow diagram for the
website.

Wise Financial Group Inc., Allentown, PA Jan 12 – Mar 14

Business Analyst

Wise Financial Group Inc. is a leading technology-based mortgage lender. It caters to single-family
residential mortgage consumers through its specialized application software Loan Work that automates
the actual loan origination process used by mortgage professionals and individual home buyers and
connects the entire mortgage origination enterprise. It allows creation of new loans, viewing and sorting of
loans based on rate locks, provides features to duplicate the details of the borrower, provides a secure
method to transfer loans to another user, like the loan processor, in the organization.
Responsibilities:

 Performed requirements gathering from the business users of the system while adhering to SDLC
(Software Development Life Cycle) industry best practices.
 Developed excel models to derive the amortization schedule for Whole loan products and
Mortgage-Backed Securities
 Used Query Analyzer, Execution Plan to optimize SQL Queries.
 Analyzed information and requirements and documented them. Reviewed the Business
Requirement document and detailed the Systems Requirement document.
 Complete study of the in-house requirements for the data warehouse.
 Conducted a comprehensive use case analysis to determine key abstractions such as loan
underwriting, loan-closed, borrowers-info, mortgage-payments etc., and their mapping to the
standard analysis mechanism to enable maximum reuse.
 Documented Challenges of status quo to re-engineer marketing channels processes and explore
new business opportunities to mitigate risk of additional restatements for Mortgage data,
Investment & Home Equity Products.
 Wrote SQL statement and stored procedures in Oracle for extracting as well as writing data with
data mart.
 Involved with project management team in developing project plan.
 Met with different business users to determine user requirements and goals.
 Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources
to successful completion.
 Conducted presentations to make users understand about the processes.
 Involved with all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies
throughout the project life cycle.
 Prepared project plan and defined different milestones.
 Discussed different functional requirements and defined high level design and Use Cases.
 Analyzed the existing reports of the reporting system in the database. Checked the consistency of
the data after ETL process using SQL queries.
 Developed traceability matrix for maintaining/updating system requirements using MS Excel.
 Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
Identified and participated in resolution of business system issues.
 Wrote User Acceptance Test Plan based on business users’ requirements and reviewed Test
Plan templates.
 Delivered and maintained extensive documentation for future extendibility of the system.