Anirudh Chakravarthi
Jersey City,NJ
Summary
8+ years experience as a Senior Business System Analyst in Capital Markets, Wealth Management, and Financial Services Excellent understanding of financial products including equities, derivatives, bonds, mutual funds, and FOREX Knowledge of compliance regulations including AML, FINRA, BASEL, CCAR, SOX, Dodd-Frank, ICA Experience in investment management, risk management, asset management, prime brokerage services Strong analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Owner
Santander Bank
09.2022 - Current
- Scope: Migrate legacy systems to AWS cloud and build new microservices architecture
- Implement BI/analytics platform with data lake, warehouse, dashboards
- Decommission legacy systems after ensuring successful cloud migration
- Led data architecture redesign for migration to AWS cloud, including conceptual/logical data models
- Conducted requirements sessions and prioritized product backlog for analytics/BI capabilities
- Produced quick sight dashboards and facilitated agile processes to deliver continuous value
Business Systems Analyst
Ameriprise Financial
03.2021 - 07.2022
- Developed comprehensive test plans and test cases mapped to requirements
- Translated business needs into user stories, process flows, prototypes, and specifications
- Performed gap analysis and recommended future state processes/systems
- Led requirements sessions and created RTM linking test cases to requirements, Scope: The scope of the system was to integrate the rollover IRA plans from on premises to AWS cloud
- Also provided the customers with personalized planning and advice with tax smart investing inputs
- The main goal was to reduce the complexity right from investing to financial planning and pricing
- The Aim was to be straight forward with the clients and provided their unique needs
- Developed comprehensive test plans and test cases mapped to requirements to verify software quality and functionality
- Coordinated testing activities between business users, QA team, and development teams throughout the agile development lifecycle
- Documented and tracked defects, monitored resolution, and executed regression testing
- Created RTM (requirements traceability matrix) linking test cases to user stories and requirements
- Gathered and analyzed business, functional, and non-functional requirements from stakeholders
- Translated requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, UI prototypes, data models, and technical specifications
- Conducted gap analysis, SWOT analysis, and assessed as-is processes and systems to develop future state process recommendations
- Developed ER diagrams, workflow diagrams, process flows using Visio, JIRA, and other BA tools
- Led requirements review sessions and presented documented requirements to stakeholders for signoff
- Actively participated in agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives
- Partnered with business, IT and vendors to ensure timely and quality delivery of project.
Business Systems Analyst
Cetera Financial Group
10.2019 - 03.2021
- Conducted JAD sessions and defined epics/user stories aligned to INVEST criteria
- Created BPMN diagrams analyzing business processes and transactions
- Developed conceptual and logical data models to design data warehouse
- Produced Tableau reports/dashboards to analyze marketing trends
Business System Analyst
Silicon Valley Bank
11.2018 - 10.2019
- Our bank proposed to introduce a new loan scheme, Collateral Asset Line (CAL) wherein a loan is provided to the clients by taking their financial portfolio as collateral
- The aim was to build a Collateral Monitoring System which will be capable of recording, analyzing and valuing the financial portfolio of a client, checking the credit information and estimating an appropriate amount which can be loaned
- Participated in PI planning and assisted teams in achieving committed objectives
- Identified business rules through interviews and document analysis
- Created UML diagrams analyzing system design and interactions
- Tracked and reported on team velocity/burn down metrics
- Conducted user acceptance testing to validate software quality
Business Analyst
Elecon Engineering
10.2016 - 07.2018
- Scope: The project pertained to enhance the internal features of Accounting and Financial Analysis Software
- The New features included enhanced accounting software, billing, expense tracking, payroll management, cash-flow analysis, financial dashboard and budgeting tools.
Business Analyst
Canara Bank
09.2014 - 08.2016
- Scope: The project was to develop a software to detect the Risk of a mortgage payment default by automatically receiving mortgage data associated with mortgage application of an applicant and generating payment default risk score based on models prepared from data related to historical mortgage transactions, applicant’s credit worthiness thereby performing further fraud evaluation depending on determined risk levels of Early Payment Default (EPD).
Education
MBA - Finance
University of Bridgeport
B.E - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
GRIET
Skills
- Agile Methodologies: Scrum, SAFe
- Modeling Tools: Visio, Balsamiq, LucidChart
- Project Management: JIRA, TFS, SharePoint, Confluence
- Testing Tools: HP ALM/QC, Postman, SoapUI
- BI/Reporting: Tableau, Power BI, Excel
- SQL, Informatica, AWS Cloud
- Atlassian JIRA
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Sequence Diagrams
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Bug Fixes
- Scrum Methodology
Timeline
Product Owner
Santander Bank
09.2022 - Current
Business Systems Analyst
Ameriprise Financial
03.2021 - 07.2022
Business Systems Analyst
Cetera Financial Group
10.2019 - 03.2021
Business System Analyst
Silicon Valley Bank
11.2018 - 10.2019
Business Analyst
Elecon Engineering
10.2016 - 07.2018
Business Analyst
Canara Bank
09.2014 - 08.2016
MBA - Finance
University of Bridgeport
B.E - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
GRIET