Nidhi Malhotra(PMP, Markit EDM Certified)

(+1) 650-288-2766nidhimalhotrainfy@gmail.com

PROFILE

Passionate highly skilled experienced Business\Data Analyst looking for a suitable position in which I can create significant value with measurable benefits to the business (ROI), its users and customers

SUMMARY

15 years of Banking and Financial Industry functional experience across Leading Wall Street Firms(Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America)

10 years of exposure to Investment Products from Cash, traditional investments to alternative investments across Trading, accounting, Risk and Client Reporting Systems

8 years of exposure to Wealth Management out of which 5 years in Private Banking 8 years of Business Requirements, data quality, system and user acceptance

testing experience

Key achievements:

Working with Front, Middle and Back Office business users and Development and QA teams to complete financial system implementations.

Collaborated with business and technology partners to build Citi’s Client-reporting platform for aggregating and reporting client financial and demographic information; relationship level reports on External\Internal Websites\Paper Summary; sourcing data from Product processors for Investment(cash, FI, balanced funds, bonds, equity and alternative investment products),liquidity and Liability asset classes across Trust\Custody\Advised\Managed account types

Key member in “Product Accounting and Risk Analysis” system, providing Financial Controllers the support and tools to review Profit & Loss of the firm’s Books & Records across all financial instruments including Derivatives and Securities Products

Integration of Portfolio Management, Order Management systems with a Brokerage Platform

Business Intelligence reporting for Citi Private Bank’s Senior Management (CPB Head, Region Head, Senior Management Officer), Sales Management(Sales Team Manager, Trust officer, Custody Officer), Product Management, Sales Teams

Core Competencies:

Offering outstanding ability to assemble information from disparate data sources and prepare insightful analyses and reports in fast-paced environments for use in critical business decisions

Business and functional requirements including traceability matrixes; Automation of Investment management & regulatory reporting

Process flow analysis, preparation and improvement; Coordinate testing and deliver project artifact

Proficient in all industry standard modeling and analysis methodologies such as Agile\Waterfall

Industries of experience include finance (wealth management, trading, banking, insurance, mortgage, leasing and credit)

Proficient in SQL,MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Visio;Exposure to Business Objects, ETL tools-Ab Initio\Informatica,

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Unix, Autosys, Oracle, Toad

Client Engagements

North Western Mutual (Managed Investments) Senior Business Analyst – EDM (Application : Managed Investment Applications Migration to EDM) NM’s Managed Investments trading, accounting and analytics applications were using their own system identifiers across different domains - Security master, Corporate Actions, Positions, Transactions, Pricing, Issuer and Investor. The program was to master different domains across Managed Investments using the EDM Markit tool and to provide the golden source of data to the target systems.

Responsibilities: Produce Functional Requirements, Data Mapping and Process Flow

documentation and assist Development and QA teams during 2-week Sprint project implementation cycles using Agile Scrum methodology.

Analyzed and documented existing client operations, workflow, legacy application functionality and reports; Liaison between the operations, Business and technology teams

Collaborate with Business users of Trading and Accounting Systems to understand the system criticality and impact with new golden source of data. Requirements definition of the changes to the existing applications after Gap Analysis

Technologies: Markit EDM,TFS(Scrum)

Citi Private Bank, New York Senior Business Analyst –Conversion\Systems Transition (Application : Pershing Brokerage Platform)Citi is transitioning its brokerage support systems from a grouping of several systems across multiple business lines. Citi has agreed to use Pershing as the outsourced vendor solution to perform certain functions on behalf of its retained Private Wealth Management businesses.

Responsibilities: Assist Investment Management teams with their conversion to the new Brokerage

Platform Prepare BRD based on gap analysis and profiling trading activity, securities,

transaction types, portfolios, accounts and brokers BRD and FRD creation for the new changes in the application to be integrated with

the new platform , feed replacement for inbound and outbound feeds Defining the requirements from the old Portfolio Management Systems (TAOS) to

be integrated with the new Pershing Platform Liaison between the Pershing team, Citi technology teams and Citi business team

to scope out and design the required changesTechnologies: Oracle 8i, SQL, Java scripts, Autosys ,Unix

US Trust-Bank of America, New YorkSenior Business Analyst (Application : Wealth Management Applications Transition)Post the US Trust-Bank of America merger, the US Trust systems were integrated with the Bank of America systems. This involved transition planning, program management, integration of reports across applications, design of new reports, data mapping exercises

Responsibilities: Working directly for the CIO of US Trust to manage multiple projects under the

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transition program. Transition planning of the “Portfolio Manager reporting systems” from US Trust to

Bank of America systems. – including management of Design of reports on Bank of America ODS and data mapping exercise from new sources

Transition planning for Wealth Planner and Investment Policy Statement applications from US Trust into Bank of America Wealth Planning applications.

Conducted interviews with managers and user groups and revised application specifications based on user feedback for the Wealth Planner and Investment Policy statement applications

Technologies: Multiple technologies spanning mainframes and Unix based applications

Citigroup Investment Bank, New York Data Quality\Testing Business Analyst (Application : Basel II Credit Risk Warehouse) Citigroup needed a consolidated credit risk warehouse to perform data enrichments and processing to enable risk weight computation to comply with Basel II regulations as specified by US and various national regulators in jurisdictions in which the bank operates. Responsibilities:

Documented Business requirements for Data quality of the Client Account Information ,client holdings and transactions ; Data reconciliation between finance and risk feeds (loan products, trade finance products)

Collaborated with technology teams with design of Data Profile mappings using Informatica Profiler and Reports, Dashboard Design

Supported Automation of Test Summary ,Defect Management and Prevention Summary Reports for the Finance and Risk business teams and technology Senior Management

Data Quality Planning and Test Management-Data quality roadmap, Testing Roadmap and strategy, status reporting

Lead the Project using the Onsite-Offshore modelTechnologies: Informatica Data profiler 7.1, Mercury Quality center, Informatica Power Center 7.1, SQL Server 2000

Citigroup Private Bank, New YorkBusiness Analyst\ PM (Application : BI Reporting for CPB Head\Sales\Product Senior Management)The BI reporting system was designed to meet the needs of Senior Management (CPB Head, Region Head, Senior Management Officer), Sales Management(Sales Team Manager, Trust officer, Custody Officer), Product Management, Sales Teams, and designated MIS Support , Finance, Infrastructure, and Risk. Responsibilities:

Liaised between Business and Technology team to automate standard and ad-hoc reports using Business Objects (Top Selling Products ranked by PNR and AUM, Top revenue generating relationships, Fund flows report across P&L hierarchy , Product Flows report across Product Hierarchy, Sales Trend Analysis, Daily Sales, Top portfolios ,Revenues by Sales Team\Banker\Trust Counselor ,New Vs Lost Relationships)

Assisted implementing a new Business Object universe to host CPB’s data with dimensions(Product ,P&L Hierarchies, Time, Region) and metrics definition(global implementation of these reports in US/ Asia and Europe locations)

Used MS access database and queries to perform and validate report data extractions against the BO database, and confirm calculated metrics with subject experts.

Participated in training business on usage of BO and MS access reports. Wrote and executed test scripts, Project Tracking and Status Reporting

Technologies: Business Objects 5.1, Web Intelligence 2.7.3, Oracle, Unix, PL/SQL, Autosys

Citigroup Private Bank, New YorkBusiness Analyst\PM (Application : Client Account\Holdings Aggregation & Investment Scorecard)Citigroup Private Bank (CPB) is developing a global data management and client-reporting platform for aggregating and reporting client financial and demographic information. The

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ODS was used as a data source to generate relationship level reports on External\Internal Websites\Paper Summary; sourcing data from Product processors for Investment(cash, FI, balanced funds, bonds, equity and alternative investment products),liquidity(checking, savings, TD, escrow) and Liability asset classes(credit line, loans) across Trust\Custody\Advised\Managed account types.Responsibilities:

BRD creation – Evaluated current processes and systems to source client data; business rules definition, data standardization for client account and demographic information from different product processors across US\Latam regions

Collaborated with technology teams to source, transform and load Client Accounts, Holdings and Transaction data; perform daily and month-end reconciliations; data quality dashboard and client website; client paperless and online statement reporting

Supporting Business users in testing the Investment Scorecard performance-reporting application

Supported the project implementation across US/ Asia and Europe locations Review of ETL data Mapping, Requirements clarification, issue resolution and

Status ReportingTechnologies: Ab Initio, Oracle, Unix, PL/SQL, Autosys

Goldman Sachs, New YorkProgrammer Analyst (Application : Product Accounting and Risk Analysis)Worked as a key member in Product Accounting and Risk Analysis (PARA), a critical distributed system providing Financial Controllers the support and tools to review Profit & Loss of the firm’s Books & Records across all financial instruments including Derivatives and Securities Products such as Fixed Income, Equity and Commodities. The application would calculate proprietary trading P&L, do reconciliations for balance verification, provide the controllers with features to make adjustments and provide downstream data.Responsibilities:

Supported P&L Analytics across 144 Para desks in New York, London and TokyoTechnologies: Unix, C, Sybase, Autosys

EDUCATIONMBA-Finance from Bombay University, Mumbai, India, 1996 Bachelor of Engineering from Madras University, India, 1994

WORK AUTHORISATION: Green card holder authorized to work in the United States.

TRAINING: Agile\Scrum Trained

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