Preethy Maharajan

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.