Bhawna Sharma

Associate Consultant

West Delhi, Delhi, India12 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Investment Banking Middle Office functions.
Led automation initiatives for trade confirmations.
Proven track record in regulatory compliance projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with expertise in trade confirmations and process automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business AnalysisChange ManagementTrade ConfirmationsPerformance TestingAutomationRequirement GatheringStakeholder ManagementAutomation Framework DevelopmentTesting Process EstablishmentsAutomation Framework

Other Skills

AffirmationsAgile MethodologiesCore JavaDatabasesFinancial AnalysisIT StrategyMicrosoft SQL ServerOCROptical Character Recognition (OCR)Process AutomationQuality AssuranceRequirements AnalysisSQLSelenium WebDriverTest Automation

About

Diverse IT exposure in Investment Banking and IT consulting services organisation. Foremost experience includes Business Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Change Management, Preparation of BRD/FSD, Product and Stakeholder Management. An SME on Investment Banking Middle Office function around Trade Confirmations and Clearing for OTC derivatives across Rates, Credit and FXMM products.

Experience

Natwest group

AVP

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Playing a role of Lead Business Analyst for RBS Middle Office Trade and Transaction Management and Operations Control Product for Confirmations and Clearing.
Roles and Responsibilities:
1) Clearing - Worked as BA for the Agency Repo Clearing product which is used for the clearing of Repo
trades with LCH and Agency Rates Clearing for the clearing of Rates Trade with Eurex clearing
house.
2) Working with Change management team in order to priortise and deliver Electronic and Paper confirmation industry regulatory changes for Dodd Frank, EMIR reporting, ICB (Independent Commission of Banking), Mifid II - Article 59 Client and Brexit changes.
3) Building roadmap and gathering requirements for process automation in Paper confirmations business in order to generate FTE save for the bank, for example OCR and Auto indexing of Client confirmation documents.

Business AnalysisRequirement GatheringChange ManagementStakeholder ManagementProcess Automation

Royal bank of scotland business

3 roles

Senior Associate

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs

Confirmations and Affirmations Team-:
Responsible for overall delivery of Trade confirmations and Affirmations.
Played a role of an Offshore Business Analyst for Post Trade Process Automation workshop for OTC Derivatives Paper Confirmations.
Performed performance Testing Using VSTS and analysed web services calls that were degrading the performance of the application
Managed Automation suite and worked closely with different project leads in order to increase automation coverage.
Carrying out reviews with Business for Releases.
As was the SME on the project I was the SPOC for all queries on the functionality and also analyzed requirements with the onshore BA.

Trade ConfirmationsAffirmationsPerformance TestingAutomationWeb Services

Associate

Jul 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Automation Engineer

Aug 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

Preparing FSD and creating business flow of the functionalities for various Regulatory programs.
Worked as BA from Reporting Team on the below key projects to be implemented
MiFID, I Article 59 Regulatory Changes
MiFID II Article 59 Regulatory Changes
EMIR Re Platforming
Requirement Gathering via interaction with business users.
Stakeholder management and coordinating with the on-shore and off-shore teams.
Reviewing Test Scenarios, UAT, helping testing and development team to understand business requirements.

Requirement GatheringStakeholder ManagementTest ScenariosUAT

Niit technologies limited

2 roles

Senior Automation Engineer

Aug 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Roles and Responsibilities (Center of Competency team)
Scoping, Requirement Gathering
Stakeholder Management
Understand Prospective Customer Requirements.
Drive Pilot Project for Proof of Concept.
Provide Estimations for Automation and generate proposals for prospective clients.
Automation Framework development using Licensed and open tools.
Help other projects to mitigate their respective challenges.
R&D on various Open source tools in the market and present One Pagers for the wider audience.
Mobile Automation Framework development and drive client communication.

Requirement GatheringStakeholder ManagementAutomation Framework Development

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Roles and Responsibilities -:
Responsible for the entire testing process establishments across all the projects at offshore.
Responsible for creating automation framework and maintaining automated scripts for stable
engineering application
Leading a track of 5 people who are responsible for creating test designs and specification.
Also responsible for the entire testing cycle to be complete and deliveries of the project after system
and integration testing.

Testing Process EstablishmentsAutomation FrameworkTest Designs