Ranjini Krishnamurthy
** ****** **** ****, **** *, Halifax - HX1 2XR, UK
Phone - 075********(UK)
Professional Profile:
Business Analyst Lead / Business Manager with 9 years experience in
Investment Banking, Capital Markets projects. Ability to manage multiple
projects and tasks at any given moment. Performed Project Management with a
focus on highlighted leadership qualities, Business Analysis, Customer care
and ability to work with individuals from varying backgrounds while
promoting team values. Delivered a London based project for 8 weeks, China
and Singapore based projects for 4 weeks as a Business Analyst.
Accomplishments & External Certifications:
* Awarded LiveWire from Deutsche Bank Production management for Delivery
Excellence.
* Awarded Star Performer from HCL for excellent track record, Client
Appreciations and delivery excellence
* Rated as Outstanding performer (Super Star) for 4 yrs and been
felicitated from HCL for the same
* AHBAP Certification (Associate HCL Business Analysis Program)
* TMDC - (Transition Management and Development Center)
* FLAME - (First Leap in Achieving Managerial Excellence) - A Managerial
Development Program
* NCFM ( National Stock Exchange Certificate in Financial markets) -
Financial Markets
* ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) V3 - Foundation
Certification
* Certificate of Investment Banking & Securities Market Operations-Level I
&II (THE GLOBECON GROUP)
* Trained under Global Market Consultants sponsored by Deutsche Bank
Derivatives
Skills Summary:
* Experienced Professional with extensive experience on Investment
Banking operations - Derivatives, Application support and Production
management, Wealth Management, Stock Options, Capital Markets,
custody, Clearing & settlement, Reconciliation, etc.
* Good Understanding of Project management, Requirement analysis of Back-
office operations, Service Transition, Production support - Incident
Management and transition management, Documentation of requirements,
Preparing business requirement documents and functional specific
documents, and business process, Understanding documents
* Awarded LiveWire from Deutsche Bank Production management for Delivery
Excellence. Also awarded Star Performer from HCL couple of times for
excellent track record, Client Appreciations and delivery excellence
* Rated as Outstanding performer (Super Star) for 4 yrs and been
felicitated from HCL for the same
* Good communication skills and people management skills. Interacted
with stakeholders across the geographies while gathering requirements
and support. Team Handling, People management & Resource Allocation.
Excellent time management skills with an ability to prioritize and
meet deadlines.
* Able to identify business & systems process improvements from Big
Picture to detail level.
* Keeping abreast of new legislation, company strategy and policy and
being able to identify its impact on projects.
Work EXPERIENCE:
Company Designation / Client Business Area Duration
Role
Associate UBS Financial Wealth Mar'12 -
Business Services Inc Management Jul'13
Manager /
Project
Manager
HCL
Technologi
es Ltd
Senior HCL Internal Wealth Apl'11 till
Business Project Management & Mar'12
Analyst / Capital Markets
Associate
Manager
Senior Deutsche Bank, Investment Nov'10 till
Business Singapore Banking & Mar'11
Analyst / capital Markets
Associate
Manager
Senior Deutsche Bank, Investment Oct'07 till
Business across USA/ UK/ Banking & Oct'10
Analyst / APAC capital Markets
Project Lead
Business Deutsche Bank, Investment Jan'07 till
Analyst / London & DBOI Banking & Sep'07
Transition Bangalore capital Markets
Management /PL
Review Deutsche Bank, Investment May'05 till
Analyst/ Team London Banking & Dec'06
lead capital Markets
Operations
Aspire Accounts & Mysore, India Accounts & Sep'04 till
Peripheral Admin Administration May'05
s Pvt Ltd Executive
Education Bachelors in Business Management (Finance) - Mysore
University,
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Finance) -
Symbiosis Institute, Pune
Business Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Capital Markets,
Areas Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Project Management,Stock
Options, Core Banking etc
Tools MS Office, Lotus Notes, BMC Remedy, JIRA - incident
management tool, MS.Visio
HCL Proprietary tools - ASSeT, ASM ( Application Support and
Maintenancce), PMSmart (Project Management Smart), OMS
(Organisation Management System)
Onsite Very comfortable with Onsite - offshore model and successfully
projects handled onsite Transitions / Migration (London, China,
handled Singapore) projects of Deutsche Bank client & Trained from HCL
Partner SS&C on Performance Measurement and Attribution -
Malaysia
Visa Valid UK visa until 05/04/2016
Availabili Immediate
ty
Nationalit Indian
y
Interests Listening to Music, Indian Carnatic Music, play musical
instruments, walking, Hanging out with friends and family
References Available on Request
Associate Business Manager/ Associate Project Manager - UBS- DRAGON -
Mar'12 till Jul'13
Project Description - HCL was awarded support, maintenance and development
services for UBS under the project named Dragon. The business divisions
covered under these services are Wealth Management, Wealth Management
Americas and the Investment Bank. UBS Financial Services Inc.'s (UBSFSI)
Corporate Employee Financial Services group (CEFS) provides comprehensive
stock benefit plan recordkeeping, administration, participant support and
education services for multi-national corporations and their employees
across the globe.
* Working as a Business Manager and end to end ownership of HCL's
deliverables.
* Acting as the single point of contact between UBS and offshore HCL teams.
* Handled Application Migration,Transition, Go-live, Support and
Implementation
* Work with IT and clients to understand process flows and business
requirements.
* Requirement Gathering, Gap Analysis, documenting business requirements,
functional requirements and business process
* Interacting with UBS SME's, various stake holders for clarifications and
query resolution
* Raising issues, risks and assumptions appropriately with the stakeholders
* Involved in workshops / training / presentations, preparing Domain
specific decks, functional flow charts, application landscapes, business
scenarios etc.
* Providing a link between the company, customer, the development team and
any third-party regarding application functionality throughout the cycle.
Senior Business Analyst / Associate Manager - HCL Technologies Internal &
training in client Location (Malaysia) - Apl'11 till Mar'12
Project Description - Involved in multiple projects on the Capital Markets
and Wealth Management Business analyst practice team.
V Sylvan is the performance attribution product of SS&C Technologies
Inc. and HCL has entered into a strategic partnership with SS&C
Technologies to implement Sylvan. HCL had organized product training
at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which I was part of.
* Prepare presentation / documentation on performance attribution
and the capabilities of Sylvan product
* Creation of process maps at high level and at menu/tab level
using MS Visio
* System demo for the team as the train the trainer process
* Creation of tab/menu level information and run book for the
sylvan process flow
V DB Apex is an Application Rationalization and optimization exercise
and is being carried out for all Trade Life Cycle applications of
Deutsche Bank.
* Functional and Technical data / questionnaire collection of all
the Deutsche Bank applications supported by HCL
* Classify and map the applications based on the trade life cycle
using the functional and technical data/questionnaire, NAR
(Application Repository) dump
* Understand the application level processes in detail which cover
each business function under the clearing and settlement cluster
* Data collection and classification of applications had involved
a detailed study of each application which is part of the
exercise
V IRT (Integrated Reconciliation Tool) is a HCL Recon product which had
to be improvised comparing with the flow and functionality of existing
recon tools like TLM, OpenStaars, etc
* Study on recon application OpenSTaARS (used by AIG)
* Documentation done for both technology as well as Operations
process flow & functionality
* Analysis done to enhance the existing IRT tool
* Prepared and reviewed the IRT Capability Analysis process
* Strategic analysis undertaken and delivered to inform, manage
and drive stakeholder expectations.
Senior Business Analyst / Associate Manager - Deutsche Bank, Singapore -
Nov'10 till Mar'11
Project Description - Was responsible for transition management as part of
Business management for Deutsche Bank, Singapore Client.
V Transition applications from Vendor to Loan and Risk IT Project
Management Center through ASsET Transition methodology of HCL
* Setup Kick off meetings and assist in enforcement of project
deadlines and schedules
* Collect and analyze pre-requisite documents and documented data
pertaining to the transition
* Resource planning, identifying the application SPOC / SME and to
work with them till the transition steady phase
* Maintain Minutes of Meetings, Risk, Issue and Action Log
* Provide weekly status report to all the stakeholders on
transition and Schedules checkpoint meeting
V Process Implementation of T24 PWM IT, from Temenos and to introduce
prescriptive model to the existing process of Deutsche Bank T24
Project
* Collected, analyzed and documented data pertaining to the
process
* Understand the As-Is T24 PWM process
* Prepared and checked documents using Prescriptive workflows
across geographies
* Suggested changes and improvements in the processes to the
process owners
* Worked on document repository systems like Caliber, StarTeam, HP
QC
Senior Business Analyst / Project Lead - Deutsche Bank USA/ UK/ APAC -
Oct'07 till Oct'10
Project Description - Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking IT team started
the Leveraged Application Service Rationalization (LASER) Program to
provide a uniform worldwide production support and change model framework
for business IT applications. LASER is a Target Operating Model based
initiative that aims to transform the operational model for RTB (Run the
Bank) and CTB (Change the Bank) projects for Deutsche Bank, including
Project and Program Management to provide an end-to-end managed services to
the bank
* Managed a team of 20 in providing application support to Global
investment banking operations across all geographies.
* Managed the analysis and implementation of IT projects and Understanding
service objectives and capturing business requirements through active
listening & questioning techniques
* Was involved in end-to-end support of any client / user requirement,
problem / incident management, People management, Documentation
management
* Perform necessary and appropriate support administration services, along
with handling interviews, on-boarding, performance evaluation, career
development, and disciplinary actions of the team.
* Centralized single point of contact for all application incidents,
issues. Act as local point of contact for customer and end user
management communication and handled escalation
* Understand the business impact of delay in the data availability and
participate in root cause analysis of the application incidents
* Preparation and update user guides and instruction manuals
* Training resources on business aspects of the solution, monitoring
improvements and ensuring smooth functioning of business.
Business Analyst / Transition Management / Project Lead- Deutsche Bank
London & Bangalore - Jan'07 till Sep'07
Project Description - As a key resource of the Transition Management
Academy, I was privileged to be associated in the transition of projects
from HCL back to Deutsche Bank Operations in Bangalore.
V Transition of the Global Equity Derivatives - Documentation Drafting
for Deutsche Bank, London (UK) for a period of 8 weeks using
structured operating module Methodology, interacting directly with
Deutsche Bank Relationship Managers, Global Business head and Global
Settlements Head
* Working with 18 Full Time Employees and learning their day today
activities with respect to the drafting process in Global equity
derivatives and prepare the procedures
* Documenting transition scalability and capabilities, Business
Continuity Planning, documenting the Drafting process and to
prepare the Desktop procedures
* Sign off on the documentation of the Process Requirements, MIS
reporting, and logistics requirements for transition purpose as
per client transition model
* Sign off the Process Maps and SIPOCs (Supplier-Input-Process-
Output-Customer) for each of the processes
* Worked on applications like EDI, Tracking manager, Scrittura for
preparing the process flows and DTPs
V Process Re-Engineering for Loan Operations, Deutsche Bank AG, through
introducing Prescriptive module (process map) to the existing process
of Deutsche Bank Loan Operations Back Office
* Collected, analyzed and documented data pertaining to the
process
* Understand the AS-IS process, Documenting and circulating the AS-
IS and the To Be process in the form of descriptive
documentation and flow charts.
* Interacting with people of all levels from Business Heads, Team
leaders, Frontline Desk & End Users to understand the business,
gathering the requirements and documenting the same
* Prepared SIPOC (Supplier-Input-Process-Output-Customer ) and
landscape
* Prepared Documentation using Prescriptive workflows and DBOP's
(Detailed Business Operating Procedures) for across regions,
Process Maps, Workflows and Business Operating Procedures
* Monitored the process post implementation and suggested changes
and improvements in the processes to the process owners and also
identified opportunities to automate the process
Review Analyst / Team Lead - Deutsche Bank - May'05 till Dec'06
Project Description - To review the documents of Deutsche Bank comparing
with the other Inter Banks (counterparty) and execute the trades based on
Economic and Non-Economic details wrt ISDA Master Agreement
* Reviewing the Inter-Bank & Corporate Confirmation of interest rate trade
confirmations and getting them executed
* Trade investigation for any discrepancies and liaising with middle office
get the amendments done
* Analyzing trades so as to ascertain the potential risks for DB
* Prepare Steering Committee reports, Daily MIS reporting and handle Client
calls