Associate Consultant - Business Analyst
CAPGEMINI CONSULTING
Total years of experience :13 years, 11 Months
Designation: Consultant - Business Analyst (Cash Management Domain) -
Client :Standard Chartered Bank
Project Overview:
S2BL-REVAL ECO FINANCE - a global liquidity management solution provider implemented as a single global entity which is flexible and robust to perform best in class global cash concentration (Liquidity) Payment Mechanisms to customers.
Roles and responsibilities:
Authored System Design documents, process workflow diagrams.
Working closely with Standard Chartered Bank Liquidity Management Operations team in bridging the gap between technical and functional intricacies of the application.
Documenting release notes and configuration specifications.
Liaise with Global Liquidity Product team, Application managers and Implementation managers to capture system documentation.
Authored “BAU Trouble shooting guide” for effective monitoring along with Impact Analysis document highlighting the RCA (Root Cause Analysis).
Involved in preparation of monthly / weekly technical dashboards, Desk Top Procedures (DTP), Application Performance Service Review to Business teams.
Involved in Requirement gathering and authored Concept paper for Standard Chartered Business Activity Monitoring for Cash Management - SC BAM tool.
Involved in Data Analytics - trend analysis of Incident and Change Management on weekly / monthly basis.
Identified as Risk Champion and helped in streamlining the Application related risks and management.
Project Lead for JIRA - Involved in UVT Testing for implementation across Cash domain in the bank.
Involved in UVT for BMC Remedy 8.1 migration and successful implementation.
Representation of Liquidity Management team in “RALPH” - Internal Trainer, from S2BL, Standard Chartered.
Overview of the projects handled :
Project 1 :
Domain : Trade Finance - Misys Trade Innovation Plus - Royal Bank of Scotland, London
Client: Misys PLC, London
Duration: April 2011 - Oct 2011
Project Overview:
TI Plus consists of a comprehensive set of Business Applications and a revolutionary concept designed to satisfy the processing requirements of the Trade Finance department of a bank. TI plus supports traditional trade such as Letters of Credit, Guarantees and Collections, Open account services such as Clean Payments and Working capital finance solutions such as Factoring.
Roles and Responsibilities
Part of Product Implementation team for TI Plus, for Royal Bank of Scotland along with Misys.
Hands on experience on TI Plus (Trade Innovation Plus- Misys Solutions Product).
Served as Domain consultant for Trade finance practice team.
Involved in preparation of documentation and creating collaterals as technical writer in the form of training decks on all Trade modules of TI Plus.
Conceptualizing and creating comprehensive e - learning Trade Finance Modules for practice.
Understanding the core functionalities of the software and produce technical manuscripts and produce business development deliverables.
Involved in creation of prototypes for various business Trade finance System requirement for proposals received.
Project 2 :
Domain : S2B-Trade (Straight to Bank Trade Finance System)
Client: Standard Chartered Bank
Duration: Oct 2011 - Feb 2012
Project Overview:
S2B is the front end banking portal catering to Trade Finance needs of Corporate Customers and supports services such as Cash management, Collections, Securities Services.
Roles and Responsibilities
Involved in technical writing of documentation and creating collaterals in the form of Application decks on all modules of S2B for implementation in Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Branch.
Understanding the current architecture of S2B Trade Finance Platform.
Job description:
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (November 2007- August 2010)
Designation: Corporate Banking Trade Finance Operations Executive, handling operations for Pan India branches- Chennai Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Delhi.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Managed Letter of Credit Advising and Amendments (MT 705, MT 700, MT 720 etc).
Scrutiny and Verification of Letter of Credit documents (Import and exports) through Negotiation with Individual documentary Scrutiny limits of USD 150, 000 equivalents.
Handled Letter of Credit Transfers Involving issuance of MT 720, Letter of Credit Confirmations and Open account Negotiations.
Monitoring and Issuance of Reimbursement Authorizations and also acting on Reimbursements Claims
(MT 740 and MT 742).
Handled Documentary collections subsequent payments.
Prompt correspondence with International banks for realization of export bills.
Verifying and Tallying the Letter of Credit advising billing and commission cycles.
Process Transactions in accordance with Sanctions and Risk Approval Matrices in place.
Compiling and rolling out customized MIS and other analysis and reporting.
Key Result Areas:
Implemented various Process Improvements methods in Maintenance of Registers for Negotiation payments which enabled easy extraction of MIS reports for Customer MIS and Internal Reporting.
Managed Local presentation Program (LPP) which was a major revenue contributor to Bank of America among all Trade Products.
Introduced Process of generating tickler alerts for the Export Bills as per maturity date which prevented both the corporate customer and the bank from suffering Interest claims.
Contributed towards the compilation of Key Operating Procedures (DTP) for LC Advising, LC Negotiations and Reimbursements.
Played an active role in migration of “Pan India Trade Operations” project at Bank of America-Involved in integration and testing of AOC 2000 Plus, Trade direct Platform, GTEM (Global Treasury and Exposure Management) with Global Banking System (GBS) Trade Portal.
Part of training team for CDCS aspirants in the branch.
MBA in Finance and Marketing
Accounting,Banking and Financial Management major.