SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of total experience with more than 7 years of consulting experience working in Banking and Capital Markets domain
• Broad experience in interaction with senior business and IT executives to help develop business case, business IT assessment, global operating model, innovative solutions for projects and programs
• Wide and deep understanding of multiple Financial Services Industry and its processes
• Implemented multiple consulting engagements in Banking domain and Capital Markets by conducting gap analysis, complex application assessments, business case development, tool selection and requirement gathering for various Client
• Manage complex projects with global implementation and rapidly evolving requirements
• Effectively communicate and coordinate between globally located teams
• Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure
• Engage with multiple stakeholders across the company to ensure all processes and requirements were accurately defined through meetings and workshops
• Define Business Process; identify the risk, do risk analysis and providing baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables
• Creating detailed documentation of business systems
• Have a thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and get involved in various phases like Requirements Gathering, Development and User Acceptance Testing
• Manage reports, analysis and decision - making for a change request
• Business Development:
• Supported Client Partners in strategic account mining and RFPs responses
• Lead service offering PoCs for potential Clients to help acquire new logos
• Practice Development:
• Created assets for Financial Services practice in the form of whitepapers, project domain overviews, certification material and training support for consultant and business analysts

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Gap Assessments, Implementation Roadmap
• Operations and Technology Platform Transformation
• Business Process Transformation
• Business IT Assessment & Strategy
• Feasibility and Cost Benefit Analysis
• Business Analytics
• Consultative Selling, Strategic Relationship Building
• Vendor Package Selection & Implementation
• Retail Banking
• Wholesale Banking
• Project Finance
• Investment Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of existing systems and defining the business architecture of future state.
• Defined business requirements for implementing revenue generating CHAPS payments mechanism which resulted in an estimated annual cost savings of $647,000.
• Conducted gap analysis, application assessments, business case development, tool selection and requirement gathering for Client sponsors.
• Mapping of business processes with enterprise capabilities.
• Business impact assessment from an architecture point of view.
• Conducting Requirements workshop with Technology and Operations business owners from client side to understand functional limitations of existing platform.
• Requirement Gathering, elicitation and analysis documentation.
• Advisory role to project team for development, testing and solution documentation.
• Chartered the as-is and to-be business process flows for the migration.
• Defined business requirements for applications which needed to replace the obsolete ones.
• Led a team of more than 12 business analyst and technical members to conduct requirements definition and design workshops.
• Assessment of Business functions and breakdown of business processes.
• Setup of Test Center to enable manual & automation testing of multiple applications, including bank, depository and broker-dealer interfaces and their interaction with each other for Risk Management, Clearing & Settlement and Collateral Management operations.
• Liaison with project stakeholders to coordinate interdependencies, resolved issues while ensuring a top quality deliverable from Cognizant to Client and collection of project metrics.
• Support the testing team in developing end to end payment scenarios.
• Prioritized the testing process and change requests with end user approvals.

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Managing Client Relationships.
• Project Appraisal to assess project viability and due diligence.
• Analysis of the financial model and sensitivity analysis of the project economics.
• Structuring, Sanctioning, Legal documentation and Disbursement of fund & non fund based assistance.
• Essar Oil Limited: This proposal involved ECB & INR funding of Refinery & its further expansion in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The option of refinancing of the Restructured Loans (USD 3.2 billion) to exit Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR) Regime was also evaluated.
• Guru Gobind Singh Refineries Limited: This proposal involved part financing (USD 1.0 billion) of Greenfield Refinery project at Bhatinda, Punjab promoted by HPCL and L.N. Mittal Group.
• Maharashtra Polybutenes Limited: This proposal involved the assignment of the loans of a Non Performing Asset (NPA) to a new promoter.

Management Intern I-Gate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• BPM process Market Segmentation and Analysis: The project involved determining the Go-to-Market strategy for Patni’s Business Process Management (BPM) CoE. It involved determining the
• BPM products and their market share in a vertical
• Domain specific processes that are most commonly automated
• Reasons why certain processes were least popular for automation
• Horizontal processes commonly automated
• BPM Reference Template Repository Development: The project involved
• Understanding the current end to end supply chain process followed
• Chart out a process document of the same
• Creating the process templates on Savvion Process Modeler
• Led a team of 30 daily wage laborers to perform various site activities that involved pipe and duct erection.
• Ensured that the execution of work was as per the approved design drawings.
• Co-ordinated with the client engineer and other utility service providers for execution of work.
• Performed the measurement and billing of the completed site erection activities.
• Checked the Design Drawings to ensure it was error free for performing site erection related activities.
• Co-ordinated with the consultant engineer from UHDE India for any design modification.
• Performed the detail engineering and issuing of the final approved drawings for execution of work.