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ABHITHEZA SATYALA

Denver,CO

Summary

Sr Business Analyst. 12+ years of experience within Financial Services. Experience in Front and middle office applications, business processes, strategy & product management. Adept in project management, eliciting business, and technical requirements, data analysis, coordinating testing and roll out of products.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Business Analyst (Contractor)

Wells Fargo
07.2022 - Current
  • Project (Corporate Trust Services - Divestiture) - Migration of ABS (Asset Backed Security Deals) & MBS (Mortgage-Backed Security Deals) business operations processes and data bases.

Business Analysis

  • Analyze business processes, Elicit, and Document business & technology requirements (BRDs & FRDs) for applications, business processes, enterprise content and other artifacts, migrating to the buyer.
  • Created workflow diagrams and process flow diagrams using MS VISIO to identify processes within applications to elicit requirements for divestiture.
  • Identified gaps and resolved issues to facilitate smoother migration and implementation of divestiture applications and tools.
  • Provide appropriate formats and data mapping requirements to buyer , related to the business data, migration.
  • Identify technological solutions for work around of WIM (Wells Investment Management) Operations processes such as GNMA transactions, Asset Movement transactions, SEI account De-Conversion, SEI Account closure.
  • Ginnie Mae account file movement from FED to WF and to GNMA.
  • Support delivery of data files from business to buyer through secure protocols such as SFTP, FTP etc

Project Management

  • Project management and planning of projects related to business applications and processes of ABS & MBS deals that are migrating to the buyer.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders and organize timely meetings to collect requirements (both Business & Technical) of all applications and data, migrating to the buyer.
  • Maintain dashboards and documentation in SharePoint for project team.
  • Send timely updates of project progress to project stakeholders. (All business and technological teams)
  • Identify stakeholders to conduct brainstorming sessions and collect appropriate requirements for content migration including all related artifacts and documents of divested business.
  • Support migration activities by participating in various meetings related to products, escalating issues, resolve issues, and identify solutions.
  • Metrics
  • Collect and provide project metrics to project leads related to applications migrated.
  • Maintain weekly and monthly metrics related to migrated applications, databases infrastructure, and resources.

Business Analyst/Project lead

Charles Schwab & Co
01.2019 - 10.2021
  • For various strategy efforts across Schwab Charitable organization
  • Worked along with strategy & Investment oversight directors and product owners to provide insights and analysis on projects related to Business & Application strategy
  • Business support and lead for vendor analysis and selection to identify a suitable external vendor to outsource Alternate investment (Private equity and Hedge Fund) operations
  • Responsible to research and shortlist, conduct interviews and collect quotes for AI vendors
  • Business analyst support for key projects including, Alternative Investments (AI) infrastructure strategy and implementation, Private Equity operations workflow redesign, Hedge fund operations workflow redesign
  • Led project analysis and management for ongoing $2M AI process re-engineering initiative from vendor analysis & shortlisting, business requirements design, handover to technology for implementation
  • Led Analysis and concept presentation for charity database and charity due diligence process
  • Analysts support to identifying viable in-house or external resources like knowledge management vendors or payment processing vendors for optimizing payment process
  • Provided support to charity operations on day-to-day issues related to workflow
  • Acted primary liaison between the operations team and product owners to collect and communicate firsthand client feedback.

Product Manager

Charles Schwab
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • Projects related to Client Reporting Products; Broker -Dealer statements, operations of regulatory statement Inserts, and projects related to Client Experience dashboard
  • SME/Product owner for Broker Dealer client statement
  • Managing multiple cross-functional broker dealer statement enhancement projects as product owner
  • PAL (Pledged Asset Line) Bank Demand product statement enhancement Short Sale Stock Borrow fees reporting, 871(m) IRS rule dividend equivalent statement reporting
  • Performed Due diligence, Researched, analyzed, and compiled requirements for statement reporting piece
  • Working as inserts manager on monthly inserts management process, overseeing receiving of insert requests from the business, validation of insert requests to delivery of inserts to AMS and assisting in projects related to inserts dashboard on toolbox
  • Research and analysis of different statement platforms and statement types delivered to the client
  • Researched and presented analysis of investment information reported on the statement and recommend better reporting formats of investment data for both (Investor services (IS) and Advisory services (AS))
  • Owned and maintained Client Reporting Product community blog where field reps can post statement product related questions
  • Analyzed statement survey results provided by the client to understand customer pain points and feedback
  • Prepared a deck for the management
  • Supporting production issues related to monthly statement run by the statement technology group.

Financial Business Analyst

Oracle Corp
08.2017 - 12.2017
  • Project: Payment term standardization & Desk Manual process flow enhancements
  • Business analyst with Order to Cash division, working on various business analysis jobs for oracle GSI
  • Reviewed 120 Accounts receivable desk manuals, to update the tasks as per current standards and policies
  • Desk manuals include procedures, instructions, references, navigation documents
  • Documented everyday activities and project improvements on Oracle Confluence page
  • Captured requirements for payment term standardization project
  • Payment terms include standard payment terms and non-standard payment terms
  • Requirements to improve payment terms creation process when there is a need for a non-standard (MTS) multi term sequencing payment term.

Sr. Business Analyst (Contractor)

Fannie Mae
11.2015 - 03.2017
  • Project: Implementation of Ivalua Procure to pay, a web-based procurement tool to maximize consumer (FannieMae) buying experience providing contract compliance, budget control and accurate invoice reconciliation
  • Migration includes catalog imports, manage purchase requisitions, work orders and workflows
  • Create and distribute standard, blanket and custom POs in collaboration to suppliers/vendors systems electronically
  • Budget tracking, invoice data capture, dynamic discounting, and accruals.

Sr Business Analyst (Contractor)

Blue Cross Blue Shield
01.2015 - 10.2015
  • Enhancement of existing financial operations process and documentation of new procedures
  • Elicited business requirements to enhance financial operations dashboard on the existing legacy system
  • Designed new financial operations process to create ad-hoc reports for financial transactions through the legacy system and integrated support systems.

Asset Management Analyst

Northern Trust Corp
01.2014 - 12.2014
  • Project: Trade Booking Optimization (TBO) is a trade capture application, a component of Exotic Desktop
  • Platform to improve productivity of traders for the initial booking and upsizing of trades
  • Aimed at improving and streamlining the trade booking process
  • Control Panel, a part of TBO, is a pricing application for Bonds
  • It allows traders to price the Structured Notes
  • Trades booked through TBO are run through various risk systems to calculate Delta, Gamma, and P&L
  • The risks are then fed to downstream system for further processing.

Business Analyst

JP Morgan Chase
07.2012 - 06.2013
  • Brokerage Processing Services (BPS) screen was re-engineered to provide broker/dealers and banks with comprehensive clearing and settlement services for Equities and Fixed income securities, options and features.

AV Technician

University of Denver
10.2010 - 03.2012

Business Analyst/Assistant Manager

Reliance Retail Limited
05.2006 - 11.2008
  • Developed executive presentations and reports to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement
  • Implemented a set of comprehensive tracking processes to monitor performance
  • Directed all phases of Interior/store operations projects, from Initialization to handover to operations
  • Budgeted active and proposed projects by accurately determining pricing, margins and risk factors
  • Presented "what if" scenarios for budget assumptions and forecasting strategies.

Assistant Project Manager

Shapoorji Pallonji And Company Private Limited
09.2003 - 04.2006

Education

MBA - Real Estate Capital Markets

University of Denver
Denver, CO
03.2012

Master of Science - Project Management

Colorado Technical University
Aurora, CO
2015

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Nagarjuna University
AP, India
08.2003

Skills

  • Business process & GAP Analysis
  • Requirements Elicitations & Documentation
  • UAT & Testing support
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Fund Accounting Operations
  • Brokerage Services (Front and Middle Office operations)
  • Alternative Investment (PE & Hedge Fund Operations)
  • SS&C - Black Diamond
  • EFront (Blackrock)
  • Tableau reporting
  • Python (Financial Analysis & Stats)
  • Bloomberg AIM
  • Atlassian Suite (Jira & Confluence)
  • Microsoft VISIO, MS OFFICE
  • Risk management
  • SQL/PL SQL

Affiliations

Member of GARP - Global Association of Risk Professionals Member of IIBA - International Institute of Business Analysis at_satyala81@outlook.com 3039903099 Denver, CO 80210

Timeline

Sr Business Analyst (Contractor)

Wells Fargo
07.2022 - Current

Business Analyst/Project lead

Charles Schwab & Co
01.2019 - 10.2021

Product Manager

Charles Schwab
01.2018 - 12.2018

Financial Business Analyst

Oracle Corp
08.2017 - 12.2017

Sr. Business Analyst (Contractor)

Fannie Mae
11.2015 - 03.2017

Sr Business Analyst (Contractor)

Blue Cross Blue Shield
01.2015 - 10.2015

Asset Management Analyst

Northern Trust Corp
01.2014 - 12.2014

Business Analyst

JP Morgan Chase
07.2012 - 06.2013

AV Technician

University of Denver
10.2010 - 03.2012

Business Analyst/Assistant Manager

Reliance Retail Limited
05.2006 - 11.2008

Assistant Project Manager

Shapoorji Pallonji And Company Private Limited
09.2003 - 04.2006

MBA - Real Estate Capital Markets

University of Denver

Master of Science - Project Management

Colorado Technical University

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Nagarjuna University
ABHITHEZA SATYALA