Saqib Razaq

Senior Business Analyst @RBC

London, GB

Appointed to the Technology and Operations - Investor and Treasury Services team.• Involved in projects related to Custody, Fund Accounting, Wealth Management and Treasury including Payment Flow Control, SWIFT Standard Release CBPR+, Single Custody Platform, Tax and Entitlements (Corporate Actions, FATCA Reporting).• Elicited and documented end-to-end requirements through Business Process Modelling, Use Cases, UI Design and Mock ups.• Captured all Business Rules, Data Elements, Non-Functional Requirements, Business Implementation Requirements, and Acceptance Criteria.• Applied advance techniques to drive requirements discovery, analysis and review.• Conducted entity relationship and hierarchical data modelling to identify data elements related to trade and cash activity on the data migration Pensions Product program.• Led requirements gathering in the automation of the Standard Settlement Instruction (SSI) tool, collating all SSI data in a single source, saving 10 days of manual monthly effort in setting up clients, settlement instruction approvals.• Carried out table and data mapping exercise in RBC Custody Open Data warehouse for ETL to extract data and send to various systems. • Delivered the Cash and Liquidity Management programme enabling real time intraday cash reconciliations based on settlement information received from agents and sub-custodians, reducing discrepancies by 20%.• Actively led and drove Agile Scrum ceremonies.• Formulated, reviewed and updated the Product and Sprint Backlog in conjunction with user stories and epics.• Conducted QA/ UAT with cross-functional stakeholders.• Mentored team members on best practices.• Used JIRA and Confluence for Requirements management.