NandiniJoshi

215-395-6424

Njoshiba2012@gmail.com

LocalTo NY/NJ

      Experience Summary:

·        Over 7.5+ years experience in finance, as Business Analyst focusing primary on individual business processes and systemsthroughout the Finance, Global Support and other functional areas as well.

·        Involved in different phases of SDLC ofFinance & worked throughoutthe software development life cycle SDLC following RUP and Agile methodologies.

·        Practicalexperience in various phases of Project Life Cycle such as Requirements,Design, Development and Testing

·        Expertise inwriting Business requirement document (BRD) & Functional Requirementdocument (FRD).

·        Proficientin analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirementsand mappings. Experience in creating and applying use cases, creation ofrequirements document, requirement traceability document and macro level designdocument.

·        Experiencein providing data warehousing solutions with strong expertise in ETL andreporting tools.

·        Expert in fact finding techniques usingJAD.

·        Experienced in analysis andfunctional design methodologies using Object Oriented ArchitectureDesign (OOAD) techniques, including UML.

·        Expertise in cost basis reporting, reconciliations, andestablishing processes. 

·        Have the knowledge and communicate experience withIT and front office, as well as the ability to translate.

·        Experiencewith QA practices, Data quality and Data governance, software developmentlifecycle, testing strategy, test case development, test scripts creation,defect management and test results review. Also conducted and coordinated UATprocess with clients/end users.

·        Extensive experience inwriting functional specifications, performing and managing detailed and complexbusiness requirements.

·        Experienced in requirements management,controlling change and preparing RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).

·        Experienced in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, RequirementAnalysis, Business Modeling and Use Case Development.

·        Experienceworking with data modeling teams, understanding and analyzing logical datamodels created in Erwin and IDA

·        Experiencedeveloping reports for end users.

·        Experiencein working closely with Data classification and Data governance team.

·        Experiencein offshore – Onsite model and coordination.

·        Strongcommunication skills, analytical skills as well as strong verbal and writtencommunication skills, self-motivated, quick learner and team player.

·        Experiencedwith various MS Office suite like (MS Word, MS Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project, SharePoint), COGNOS, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2000, SQL,SAP CRM.

·        Excellentanalytical thinking ability and communication skills

Certifications:

o  Completedthe business user training in SAP BI

o  CompletedPl/SQL training.

Professional Experience:-

NetApp                                                                                                                                 Feb 2011- till

Sr. Business Analyst                                                                                                                          

                              I am part of aglobal reporting team which is the epicenter of all the global support  functional teams like CSR, Finance, ServiceContracts, Install Base, Field Support Orders, TPM, Logistics etc for the reporting and analytical needs. We cater toall the global support business group’s reporting requirements and functionalsupport requirements by project life
cycle methodology.

Responsibilities:

• Project planning of Development and implementation tasks: monitor and drive resolution of issues.
• Document and communicate status updates to team members and Management.
• Estimate resource requirement and determine impacted groups
• Monitor implemented systems and processes to ensure high performance.
• Manage support requests to ensure timely and thorough resolution of issues.
• Engage with vendor service support groups to bring resolution to system    performance or other processing issues.
• Serve as a resource to super users for education on technical system functionality.
• Develop and define requirements to support process and system changes.
• Co-lead design sessions to identify gaps and opportunities.
• Create detailed functional design documents for conversions, interfaces, and reports.
• Coordinate with IT development teams to manage the development process and resolve issues.
• Prepare and execute testing plans to ensure high quality results.
• Collaborate with business users to define processes that meet business needs.
• Ensure processes are scalable and flexible to meet future business need.
• Define processes that can be implemented with minimal disruption to supporting systems, and that are cost effective.
• Anticipate the needs of stakeholders affected by process change.
• Ensure that proposed changes represent the best overall fit for the organization.
• Develop/Design reports on ad hoc basis when needed.
• Write custom SQL Queries on the database to get the difficult data.

Ameriprise Financial, Minneapolis MN                                                                       Feb 2010 – Feb 2011

Sr. Business Analyst

This was project to handle and assist the requirements associated with theenhancements required by the Cost Basis Reporting ("CBR") regulationsimposed by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. It required researching and accuratelydocumenting functional requirements with emphasis on development of use cases,for high priority projects for the client's Tax Lot Engine (TLE), daily processing of the cost basis taxlots for changes due to transactional adjustments, corporate action activity,related systems and processes Researching and resolving reconciliation breakson a daily / weekly basis.

·        Involved in interviewing with the end clients andgathering requirements and documenting them in the form of a BusinessRequirement document (BRD) andFunctional Requirement Document (FRD).

·        Conducted JAD sessions to gain consensus onvarious issues related to the project.

·        Processsimple cost basis calculations, correct specific lot designations on transferand have a clear understanding of gain and loss transactions.

·        Identified Usecases from the requirements and wrote UCS(Use Case Specification).

·        CreatedUse-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing the status and scope ofthe project and understanding the business processes.

·        Was involved increating Cost Basis Reports,Implementing Processes and Problem Solving.

·        Performedvarious project co-ordination roles along with the project manager to see thetimelines are met. Created to-do list, held weekly status meeting, assessedrisks and made sure the routing of the documents is done in the right and in atimely manner.

·        Facilitatecommunication upward and across project team including project status,justifications for variances and technical information (architecture, design,and implementation objectives).

·        Create andassess functional requirements and value expectations by analyzing productgoals, existing user data, and creating wire frames and prototypes.

·        Ensure projectsare completed on time and within budget according to product specifications andare properly documented.

·        Managethe integration of the various projects, & maintain delivery and testing sign offs.

·        Preparestatus reports for various groups and preparing documentation around thevarious processes. 

Omgeo TradeSuite Development, New York                                                                       Feb 2005 – Jan 2010

Omgeo plays corerole as the orchestrator of post-trade pre-settlement trade management withinthe global securities industry. Omgeo acts as a central hub and go-to resourcefor solutions that expedite information flow and connect systems in order tofuel productivity, reduce costs and minimize risks for investment managers,broker/dealers and custodian banks.

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Project: ConfirmBacker-IDPT        

Business Analyst

Thiswas an Online Module for the creation of a Menu that would allow inquiry/updateof MCT and BIC tables

• Communicating directly with business users and interpreting their requirements to technical team.
• Working in the requirements gathering, design and testing phases of the project.
• Was involved in design reviews of data stage jobs, sequences and routines.
• Arranging the meetings between cross functional teams, clients and other counterparts. Prepare the minutes and pass them to the teams along with the action items and follow up documents.
• Preparing the initial estimations for the project start up and planning.
• Reviewing existing requirements and changes to the same.
• Creation of reports in excel to provide the visibility of the status.
• Resolving the business queries and driving the technical team.
• Ticket management using Remedy tool, escalations and proper delegations.
• Creating and communicating the RFC’s for the month end/quarter end processing.
• Develop test cases and Unit Testing for the same

Project: RepoTrading                        

Business Analyst

The Repurchase (Repo) trading arena increases every year in volume anddollar value. The goal was to reduce paper output on Repo transactions. Omgeo’s Trade Suite confirmationservices are closely scrutinized by regulatory agencies. Need to expand productprocessing and promote electronic confirmations for Repos.

·        Understanding the overall work stream and therequirement of the LOB.

·        Assisting the technical team in understandingthe business requirements.

• Understanding the business problems faced by Client and proposing a solution for the same.

• Maintained batch/online applications utilizing JCL, COBOL, VSAM, IDMS, ADS/O, CICS. Identified procedural and software problems; Interpreted customer concerns relating to programming and developing reports.

·        Leading the team of onsite offshore resources,establishing the effective communication channel between the developers and thecustomers.

·        Responsible for setting up quality center,uploading of test cases, test results and tracking defects.

·        Responsible for creation of Requirementspecification document and requirement matrix document.

·        Responsible for creating use cases.

·        Involved in BRDreviews and changes to the same.

·        Reviews with team to go through thedesigning/code reviews of complex modules

·        Responsible for sending out the status reports of the clientintegration testing.

Project: IDSScreen Design                                                                             

Role: MainframesDeveloper

This projectinvolved creation of new CICS screens and implementation of business logicwhich allows user to Browse through IDS error area text/append code data ofdifferent programs.

• Worked on projects from system study phase to implementation phase. Systems were written in COBOL, Easytrieve, CICS and using DB2, and VSAM databases.
• Majority of coding has been done in batch. Area of responsibility was Customer Support. Rapid development and high profile area due to dealing directly with the customer.
• Perform analysis, coding, and documentation of ad hoc assignments including Job JCL, COBOL DB2/CICS programs, for large scale new-client conversion effort. Provide quick response to post-conversion problem issues.
•  Maintained batch/online applications utilizing JCL, COBOL, VSAM, IDMS, ADS/O, and CICS. Identified procedural and software problems; Interpreted customer concerns relating to programming and developing reports.
• Maintaining the existing system included making user requested changes/enhancements and being on call to take care of any issues that arise.

Educational Qualifications:

Ø  Bachelor in ComputerApplication, from Bangalore University.

Ø  MCA from SikkimManipal University.