ARJUN SANKAR, Account Manager/Project Manager

ARJUN SANKAR

Account Manager/Project Manager

Abudhabi Commercial Bank(ADCB)

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, MBA - Strategic Management
Experience
19 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 8 Months

Account Manager/Project Manager at Abudhabi Commercial Bank(ADCB)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since October 2013

Account Management (IT Relationship Management-Demand Management)  Manage IT relationship with business units(Consumer Banking Group including Private Banking, Customer Segments, Wealth Management, Asset Management, Islamic Banking)  Capture new demand and ensure structured, high quality of demand’s scope and spec in order to have a consistent basis for estimation and scheduling of implementation.  Ability to identify issues, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.  Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them. Program Management  Manage and monitor all active projects (Involving up to 15 million AED Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)) ensuring timely delivery of new products, services, improvements and internal process modifications.  Acting as a lead driver, Manage the end to end project and software development lifecycle including all main activities.  Preparation of business case, submission, approval and monitoring the cost(capex), time(plan), scope of the project.  Maintain PMO report, logging and updating all active initiatives in terms of plan, percentage of completion per phase, required actions, identified risks /issues and liaise with the relevant stakeholders to ensure full alignment and on-time / on-quality completion. Key Projects  System Transformation for Wealth Management System Upgrade Program. (SAGE-Prospero) -- Evaluation of close to 16 global vendors (RFI) with detailed evaluation done with 8 vendors (RFP) including Temenos, Advent, Infosys, Polaris, SAGE, Miles Software etc.  Wealth Management Mobility Digital App (for customers and RM's).  Implement Front to back office system for handling Equity IPO.  Involved in end to end transformation as part of Private Banking Launch.  All funds Integration (efficient/secure access to open architecture investment funds market).  Customer Alerts(SMS/Email) for realtime events of Investment transactions.

Senior Consultant at Infosys Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2004 to September 2013

Finacle WMS/Core Banking Transformation for RAK Bank, Dubai, Mar 2009 - Sept 2013  Coordinated & completed the wealth management and core banking transformation from legacy (IMS/Equation) to Finacle (WMS & Core) including integration/replacement of 40+ subsystems.  Involved in implementation of Wealth Management modules - Mutual Funds, Structured Products, Insurance and Bonds and retail modules like CASA, Deposits, Operations, Teller, Clearing and Overdrafts track including management of customization requirements from clients.  WMS SME/Track Manager--- Handled the End to end implementation lifecycle for WMS track (1000 MD efforts & 6 member team) single handed, starting from User training, Requirements gathering, solution scoping, customization, System Integration Testing (SIT)/User Acceptance Testing (UAT), support and Migration.  Reports Track Manager--- Coordinated and took over the reports track (scope of 300 reports and 9 member team) during critical time, to ensure a smooth implementation, testing and sign off with the bank.  WMS Migration Anchor --- Prepare data mapping for data migration activity and assist the migration team in finalization of migration strategy for all WMS asset classes.  Managing and coordinating Service Change Requests and new requirements raised post go live as part of Integrated Change Control Process. CTCB, Finacle WMS System Transformation, Hong Kong/ Taiwan, Jul 2008 - Jan 2009  Project lead for structured products & mutual funds module; and managed team of 6 members in development & delivery of the customization items.  Migration Anchor for Finacle WMS (Wealth Management) and Finacle Core during the WM system transformation. DBS Core Countries (HK/Singapore), Finacle WMS Transformation, Singapore, Feb 2007 - May 2008 Presales Detailed Requirement Study(Core Banking) for Mashreq Bank, Dubai, Mar 2009 - Apr 2009 Finacle Core Implementation for DBS India, Mar 2006 - Sep 2006, DBS Indonesia, Oct 2005 - Dec 2005

Education

Master's degree, MBA - Strategic Management
  • at University of Wolverhampton, UK
  • July 2017

Specialties & Skills

Project Execution
Consulting Experience
Strategic Technology Planning
Data Migration
Banking
BANKING
DATA MAPPING
DATA MIGRATION
MIGRATION STRATEGY
MUTUAL FUNDS
OPERATIONS
WEALTH MANAGEMENT

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Hindi
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Malayalam
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English
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