PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 24 years in the IT industry, of which 15+ years on Core Banking Software Products, 5+ years on Financial Services and 3+ years on AML Products (Actimize)
• Expertise in Business Analysis skills, Project Management (Agile and Waterfall), Software development, Testing, Implementation and Support for AML Suite of Products, Core Banking & Financial Products, Product research and Vendor evaluation
• Driving RFPs, Solutioning and Pre - sales support
• Ability to conduct workshops on Application modernization, Consolidation and Transformation
• Building alliances and partnerships
• Expertise in setting up Global Support and COE

DOMAIN SUMMARY:

Retail Banking: CASA, Retail loans and deposits, Standing Instructions, Mortgages, Funds Transfer, General Ledger, Limits (Account, Customer, Product & Country level limits), Amount Blocks, Nostro Reconciliation

Corporate Banking: Corporate Loans, Syndication, Trade Finance, Treasury, Loan Origination, Money Market, FOREX

Actimize AML products: SAM, CDD, CTR & IFM

Anti-Money Laundering (AML): AML guidelines, KYC, CDD, Compliance

ACTIMIZE TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES:

AIS Platform: To conduct Profile Validation and execute a few daily batch jobs and other processes.

RCM Designer: To access RCM objects, Workflows, view DART sources, Alert fields, etc.

RCM UI: To view alerts, dashboards, DART reports, thresholds, scoring and other UI related settings.

IA tool: To generate data mapping documents (proprietary tool with Actimize).

Data Validation tool: To create data validation scripts (proprietary tool with Actimize).

SQL Server & Oracle SQL: Tools to access various databases and table structures, execute data validation scripts

Operating Systems: Dos (6.22), Win 95 / NT / 2000 / XP, UNIX

Applications: dBase, FoxPro 2.6

Database: Oracle 9i

GUI: Developer 2000, VB 6.0, V/Pro5

Languages: ‘C’, C++, PL/SQL, VB 6.0, BBx 4.0, Pro5

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in multiple projects and the most recent being upgrading Actimize CDD and Fraud (IFM) solutions
• Good domain knowledge of Banking and AML Products
• Experienced in reviewing the BRDs, providing solution fitment by creating FSDs, providing work-arounds / customizations to close out the gaps identified
• Experienced in conducting requirements gathering sessions and workshops - in terms of explaining Data Mapping requirements, assisted IT and Business teams to map the data
• Prioritizing requirements, analyzing Epics and writing User Stories to meet sprint requirements
• Creating Epics and User Stories using JIRA tool, updated the status based on the progress of the requirement, tracking the progress of each of the User Stories from development / testing team as well and ensure we are on track for the release
• Being in client facing role, leading the Sprint planning sessions and maintaining backlog
• Identifying upstream / downstream dependencies and conducting JAD sessions with various teams to discuss and refine the requirements
• Conducting grooming sessions with developers and QA team, ensure all these conditions are properly tested before the release
• Participating in Daily scrums across multiple teams (Onsite and Offshore) and provide updates
• Participating in Scrum-of-Scrum calls and identifying any blockers / dependencies if any
• Monitoring the backlog and re-prioritize before the next Sprint
• Monitoring the JIRA dashboards and ensure the stories are getting picked up by the development teams
• Identifying gaps / lessons learnt and provide valuable inputs for Sprint retrospectives
• Prepared Gap Analysis for non-available fields and conducted review sessions with client teams
• As part of CDD upgrade, I was instrumental in setting up Beneficial Ownership model, reviewing regulatory requirements and advised business in terms of required workflows, threshold settings and alert generation
• Conducted Data Validation, Workflow discussions, Roles & Permissions and other such requirements
• Providing product demos to help business understand the product functionality and advise on the required configurations to suit their requirements
• Conducted 1 day Business on CDD 2.5, RCM 5.12 and IFM 4.12
• While ensuring that all functional requirements are addressed, at the same time ensure all these are within the scope as per SOW and initiate additional SOW to cater to new requirements
• As part of SAM 8.1 upgrade, assisted the client in identifying new fields that got added by comparing both old and new data mapping, provided the impact analysis for those non-available data
• Assisted in customizing / cloning SAM rules to cater to all the requirements which were otherwise not available from OOB rules
• Conducted Transaction / Bucket mapping sessions to map all the legacy solution transaction types to Actimize SAM Transaction Types
• Tracked issue logs, driving client and internal teams to push for an early closure
• Experienced in implementing CTR 3.3 and CTR 3.4, conducted data mapping, data validation, workflows, alert generation and other activities
• As part of IFM upgrade, it was a huge shift from CB 3.x to IFM 4.12. Assisted client IT and Business teams to identify architectural changes, functionality changes related to DART, Policy Manager, Alert generation and other such changes
• Conducted 2 rounds of data validation, identified issues and walked them through to client teams to explain the impact
• Conducted Profile Validation from AIS Modeler by comparing raw data being sent and ensure profiles are built appropriately
• Prepared and executed test scenarios and test cases for all the in-scope items
• Tracked issues in HP QC, conduct daily defect calls and track it to closure
• Ensure test results are stored appropriately in the repository
• Assisted Testing COE teams to automate a few test cases as required
• Had a brief opportunity to work in WLF 3.x to test a few customizations
• Responsible for issue resolution, maintaining documentation and obtaining sign-offs
• Unit testing to ensure it meets as per the client’s requirements
• Assisted pre-sales team to help review SOW and other deliverables as part of RFI / RFP process
• Prepared additional deliverables for pre-sales team for client presentations
• Experienced in handling multiple projects at the same, tracking the progress of each of these projects and update the progress to senior management on a timely basis

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in multiple FLEXCUBE implementations - played multiple roles and my main responsibility was to ensure a smooth transition from the legacy application to FLEXCUBE
• Conducting requirement gathering sessions / workshops with IT and Business teams, ensure all the requirements are captured correctly
• Identifying various Product requirements, including the General Ledger / Sub-Ledger mapping, Interest rate mapping, Settlement instructions mapping, and others
• As part of requirement gathering, apart from direct user interaction, I was also involved in studying the existing artefacts like BRDs, FSD, getting some inputs by querying their dbs, including Visio diagrams (as-is) diagrams to understand the current functionality of the Products / various functional modules and provide proper fitment to meet client’s expectations
• Conducting working sessions with Client’s leadership teams to explain the Project Plan and capture the risks, work out a suitable mitigation plan to minimize the impact
• Was involved in creating test cases, review test plans, update Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure it is tracked appropriately
• Conduct adhoc sessions with Business and IT teams
• Created a few POC (sample products) to help explain how their requirements can be met
• Managing resources to ensure it does not impact any of the projects
• I was also involved in one of the projects, wherein, one of the banks came in with some AML/KYC requirements to be adopted in FLEXCUBE
• Understood their requirements, provided a fitment about how these can be achieved through various features in different modules of FLEXCUBE - like Amount Block, Account Limits, Standing Instructions, additional authentication, reconciliation reports, etc.
• Built scripts / utilities to migrate data from legacy system to FLEXCUBE
• Prepared test cases and performed end-to-end testing (UI validation for display and validated data in the db to ensure all the raw data as well as calculated data like first and last date of transaction, old and new customer, daily, monthly balances gets calculated and stored, ageing data like >30 days, >60 days gets stored properly)
• Tracked defects and ensure that it gets resolved appropriately
• Managed MicroBanker Global, Regional and Local support centers
• Reviewing their fort-nightly status report, was having continuous discussions and providing resolutions so that all those issues are getting addressed on time
• Responsible for all the code changes (fixes / enhancements) are tracked appropriately, test and capture with relevant documentation (like UTPs - Unit Test Plans), update the relevant code base, involved in broadcasting the fixes, periodically review code bases to ensure all these fixes are incorporated
• Managed project transition from Implementation to Support
• Involved in catering to audit requirements to ensure all the documentations have been maintained, code base maintained for all the clients, status reports being sent, stored all the email communications, regular backups scheduled, ensure status reports are received periodically from Regional and Local support centers and such other requirements

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete SDLC activity, which includes system study, requirements gathering, documenting, development, testing, user, implementation and post-live support
• Assisted our pre-sales team to conduct product demos, walk-through, preparing proposals and other deliverables

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing various financial products like Accounting software, Invoicing, Export documentation, etc.
• Involved in complete SDLC activity, which includes system study, requirements gathering, documenting, testing, user, implementation and post-live support
• Before Go-Live, ensure all the opening balances of all the accounts including General Ledger accounts are captured and Balance Sheet, Profile & Loss statement is tallied, obtained the necessary sign-offs to go-ahead.