Nitish Kulshrestha, Business Analyst

Nitish Kulshrestha

Business Analyst

IHSMarkit

Location
India - Faridabad
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
12 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 6 Months

Business Analyst at IHSMarkit
  • India - Delhi
  • My current job since November 2014

Product Description:
IHSMarkit provides an asset Management System designed to help customers capture, integrate and distribute data and analytics to support their trading functions. Our products namely Commission Manager, Broker Vote, RPA & Calendar help Investment managers vote on service providers, manage their commissions, make payments through the Research payment accounts & manage reporting all in compliance with the new MIFID 2 guidelines.
Clients: Barclays, Allianz, Blackrock, Fidelity International limited, Deutsche Asset Management, Citibank etc.


Responsibilities:
-Actively working on Market assessment for MIFID 2(Investor protection) - Identifying business needs and translating them into functional requirements for Research budgeting & payment, Provider evaluation, Best execution reporting.
-Involved in resolving a business need for research payment accounts due to MIFID 2 by building a product from scratch.
-Responsible for providing RFP support in terms of documentation and real time resolution of client queries during sales pitch meetings
-Working directly with ONEAccess, managed the strategic integration of the ONEAccess historical and forward interaction provider portal with IHS Markit Broker Vote and Calendar
-Producing detailed business, functional requirements specifications & interactive
Prototypes from existing systems, previous drafts and client interactions
-Project scoping, scheduling, prioritization, defining business goals, success criteria and
creating release notes in coordination with Product Managers
-Engaging clients in various stages of product development and delivery. This
Includes specifications walk-through, hand holding during UAT, documentation and final
sign-off on delivery

Analyst - level 2 at Reval India
  • India - Delhi
  • April 2013 to October 2014

Project Description:
Reval is an all in one solution for Treasury and Risk management used by companies around the world including many of the fortune 500 companies.
Reval is based on the SaaS model and empowers the user to value a derivative, Calculate Hedge effectiveness, Stress Testing, Manage treasury and Reval has an interface with which external systems, like MISYS, FXall, 360T connect for real time trading.
Reval also has an extensive set of reports for reporting purpose all compliant to latest Hedge accounting standards.
Reval publishes its own Market data that included future Curves for a wide variety of asset classes including IR, FX, and Commodities etc. with the option to define custom curve also for pricing of trades.
Reval's Software-as-a-Service solution for Treasury and Risk Management delivers deep and broad visibility into cash, liquidity and financial risk all on one platform. Reval system is excessively used for Hedge Accounting, Valuation of derivatives (MTM, Cash Flows).

Clients: Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc., Ford, Dell etc.

Areas Of Work: Hedge Accounting, Risk Management, Exposure Management, Trade Pricing,
Effectiveness Reporting, Imports, Exports, Trade Matching

Responsibilities:
Played a Key role in the implementation of a turnkey project on Dodd-Frank and EMIR Regulatory Reporting support for Reval India Pvt. Limited
-Worked with cross-cultural and cross-functional teams, demonstrated all-round performance and successfully guided the teams to deliver several other significant projects
-Assessed client requirements and prepared functional specifications document, interactive prototypes, use case driven flows and test strategies
-Acted as scrum Master for teams to deliver high quality products in an Agile environment
-Responsible for overall delivery of product enhancements and Production support issues.
-Responsible for thorough impact analysis of each release based on the BRD & TRD, regression/UAT of
the release
-Reviewed functional test cases executed by QA, test exit criteria, defect reports & also
Managed stakeholder reporting
-Worked directly with third party vendors for system integration with products like
FxAll and Misys
-Provided domain consultancy to In house Development & QA teams

Test Engineer - BFSI at Dion Global Solutions Ltd.
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2011 to March 2013

Project Description:
Nova is a multi-market, multi-currency and multi user software. The nova

system consists of many modules covering each and every need of an investment banking firm.

The software also has a separate module for transmission and supports major transmission

methods like Swift, Crest, Oasys, Fidessa etc .It also has modules like Security, Esop, Help,

Settlement, Trade, Margin etc.

Clients: Aligned to clients like Canacord (U.K.), JP Morgan (ID), Citibank(MY), Rashid Hussain

Bank(MY) etc.

Areas Of Work: Trade, Settlement, Data management, Reference Data, Order, Fidessa Trade Uploads, Swift and Crest Messaging.


Responsibilities:
Worked as an individual contributor interacting directly with Product team and clients to understand requirements, frequently contributed to the product team by highlighting requirement gaps and solutions to them during the QA phase
-Produced functional & regression test cases from functional requirement, maintained &
created regression test and smoke test packs
-Created Test Plans, entry & exit criteria, test case matrix & test Schedule for projects
-Responsible for smoke testing, system Integration testing, regression testing, API
testing using SOAP UI and Database testing.
-Involved in defect tracking and reporting using Jira & HP Quality Centre
-Involved in testing of Messaging protocols - CREST, SWIFT
-Provided Production Support as part of the QA teams & trained new team members on
the domain and the product

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Kurukshetra University
  • July 2011
High school or equivalent, Non-Medical
  • at Central Board of Secondary Education
  • March 2007

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Specialties & Skills

Microsoft SQL Server
Business Analysis
IT Project Management
Reporting
Windows
MS Office
Requirement gathering
Business analysis
Product Development
Product Management
Project Management
Commmission Management
Brokerage & Research Services
Risk Management
Business Process Modelling
Use Case Modelling
Production Support
Capital Markets
Trade Life Cycle
Order Life Cycle
Trading Platforms
Settlement & Clearing
Hedge Accounting
Derivatives
MIFID 2
Broker Vote
Planview
Asset Management System

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

Toastmasters
  • Member
  • July 2014

Training and Certifications

Certified in Capital Markets By National Stock Exchange of India (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999
Certified in Derivatives By National Stock Exchange of India (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Certified in Financial Markets By National Stock Exchange of India (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999

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