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Financial Services consultant

Location:
United States
Posted:
February 06, 2014

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PRIYA SINGARA VELU

Mobile: 408-***-**** Email:

accjv2@r.postjobfree.com

Visa Status: H4 (3 years Validity)

Professional Profile:

. Results-oriented professional with 7.5 years of rich experience in

Banking and Financial services Industry under various domains like

Treasury Capital Market, Core Banking and Investment Banking serving

all Top tier clients.

. Expertise in Front office & Back-Office modules of Misys Summit

Trading platform like Reference/static Data Set up, market data setup,

Trade Capture like FX products, Derivative products (both OTC and

Exchange traded), Fixed Income, Equities, Futures & options contract

and Money Market.

. Writing Use Cases, BRD and FRD documentation and specifications.

. Perform testing (UAT, SIT) using both Manual and Automation testing

tools.

. Comparison of Market data values in Bloomberg/Reuters with trading

software solutions.

Core Competences:

. Cross-functional exposure to Process Management, People Management,

Banking & Financial Operations.

. Valuable insight & keen analysis, coordinating with team to implement

best practices, adept at working in high pressure environment with

strict deadlines and multiple deliverables.

. Interpersonal and people management skills with comprehensive problem

detection and solving skills.

. Analytical bent of mind to comprehend complex financial data easily.

. Strong team player with the ability to motivate team towards maximum

productivity, quality work and timely execution.

. Business Analysis - Banking Operations - Reconciliations - Client

Management - Migrations/Transitions - Relationship Management -

Coordination/Liaison

Skills set:

Functional Derivatives: Interest Rate Swaps, Cross-Currency Swaps, Forward

Area Rate Agreements, Futures & Options, CDS.

Money Market: T-bills, Repo and Call Money.

Equities: Common Stock, Corporate Actions, Preference Shares.

Investment operations: Corporate Finance, Financial Reporting and

Portfolio Management Services.

Foreign Exchange - Spot, Forward and Swap.

Domain Investment banking

Knowledge Capital Markets

Derivatives

Trade life cycle, post-trade processing

Front and Back office processes (trade validation, fixing,

settlements, accounting, confirmation, clearing, P&L calculation)

Skill Set Requirement gathering and Business Analysis

User Support Analysis

Functional testing

Understanding Client's Specifications and decision Analysis

Technical Writing

Software Documentation Tools: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook

knowledge Defect Management Tools: Quintus

Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Centre, Win Runner,QTP and Load

Runner

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Iterative, Rational Unified

Process (RUP), Spiral, Agile

Languages & OS: MS SQL

Education:

PGDBA (Finance) Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning

2012 74%

B.E (University Gold Medalist) GNITS, Hyderabad, JNTU, ECE

2004 79.2%

XII Gautami Jr College for Girls, Hyd

2000 92.3%

X (CBSE) Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hyd

1998 81%

Work Experience:

Misys Software Solution (Treasury & Capital Market)

Jul 08-Dec 12

Support Consultant - SUMMIT FT (Trading System)

Job responsibilities include:

. Operates as a Senior member in Customer Service department for

"Summit" Product with responsibility of advising, mentoring and

guiding team members ensuring that the team is performing at optimum

level of efficiency and quality and adopt to best practices in terms

of issue analysis, process adherence and target achieving

. Responsible for supporting clients across the globe for "Summit"

Product for issue replication, providing solution, defect fixing, fix

(patch) delivery

. Seconding to the Product Support Managers (PSM) to manage the

operation of the team.

. Manages team member's responsibilities in their absence.

. Prepares monthly schedule/rotation and works with PSM to ensure staff

is adequate to handle 24x5 support call volume and adherence to SLA

. Guidance to team members and provide regular constructive feedback on

performance/development and address poor/mediocre performance on a

timely manner

. Allocate workload, implement development initiatives and coaching

individuals to reach their maximum talent, advice on individual

objectives and KPI to inspire individual to achieve high performance

. Induct new joiners in the team to quickly maximize performance and

create team spirit

Apart from the role of Mentoring/Secondment to PSM/Managing I was also

involved in

> Business Analysis - Develop knowledge of a client's industry,

customers, organization and business objectives in order to help the

client in a problem-solving role. Assess user requirements, procedures

and problems to create or improve a system.

> User Support Analysis - Provide quality client support by answering

questions, researching possible solutions to problems, and fostering

open dialogue and communication between the client and the development

team. Track software and documentation defects, perform applications

maintenance, and provide on-site consulting and training as required.

> System Testing - Work with system developers and designers to

identify, diagnose and document problems and errors in specific

components of a system. Assess how well a product adheres to its

design, follows standards, is useable, and meets business needs.

> Decision Analysis - Apply quantitative methods to study and make

recommendations regarding various business issues, including credit

risk management, customer profitability, resource allocation and

optimization, and customer's segmentation.

> Technical Writing - Write and edit program and system documentation,

user manuals, and training materials required to help people use and

operate a system

Short term Implementation project at Temasek Holdings, Singapore

Jan '09 - Mar '09

Temasek Holdings is an investment company owned by the government of

Singapore. It is an active shareholder and investor in financial services,

telecommunications & media, technology, transportation, industrials, life

sciences, consumer, real estate, energy & resources. It is one of a few

global firms with the highest corporate credit ratings by both Standard &

Poor's and Moody's, of AAA and Aaa respectively.

. Temasek Holdings is the first client to take up Equity Module in Misys

Summit Trading platform.

. Involved in implementing from the scratch all static data setup,

Market data, Trading, Operations, Risk Management, and Accounting for

three companies.

. Managed the Support process flow, bug reporting, fix delivery, patch

issues etc.

Handover at OSK Investment Bank Berhad, Kuala Lumpur

Nov'11 - Dec'11

OSK Holdings Berhad (OSK) is a public company listed which offers stock

broking services, treasury products, corporate advisory, derivatives and

structured products, offshore investment banking, asset management, trustee

services, and Islamic banking services.

. Was a key member of Customer Support team for taking the handover from

Professional Services Team at the client implementation site.

. Provided assistance to client in resolving various issues related to

derivative & Treasury products.

. Premium support was given helping the client Go-Live with Summit FT.

. Prepared few functional documents for client for future reference.

Temenos India Private Ltd.

Jan'05 - Jul'08

Technical Analyst - T24 (Banking Product)

Temenos is a Banking Software Company providing solutions for Retail,

Corporate & Wholesale and Universal Banking along with Private wealth

management.

Banking Product : GLOBUS / T24

Programming Language : InfoBasic, C, Core Java

Database : Oracle, jBASE

Performance Monitor Tools : MyWhere42, T24 monitor

> Client reported issues are analyzed and detail investigation is

performed to understand their requirement which requires client

interaction.

> Functional and Technical Analysis of the reported problem to check the

nature of the problem (bug /training or a new functionality in T24 /

GLOBUS)

> Prepare a detail product analysis document for the issues that are

treated as bug and pass it to development for fixing, which involves

Recreation steps, Analysis write-up, Source Code Analysis & Suggesting

Code Fix to developer with supporting screenshots.

> Provide data correction to reconcile the GL figures to match their

positions.

> General understanding of Banking business and technical

functionalities.

> If the functionality requested by client is not available in

T24/GLOBUS, check whether it is compatible with existing system and

suggest the client to raise a SAR (System Amendment Request) with

documentation.

> If the developed SAR is a common functionality for other region

clients, it will make as an enhancement in the next version/release.

Onsite Support for SACOM bank, Vietnam

Dec'06 - Apr '07

Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Bank, Vietnam's second-biggest bank by market

value supporting RETAIL and TREASURY operations. It has nearly 50 +

branches successfully operated.

. I was actively involved in the analysis and mismatch corrections

related to LOANS.AND.DEPOSITS module.

. Few COB crash issues related to the ACCOUNT module has been analyzed

and fixed.

. Problem in LETTER.OF.CREDIT has also been analyzed and fixed.

. Training provided to the Bank users on correcting mismatch related

issue and provided document detailing the same.

Onsite Support for ING Private Banking Singapore

May'07 - Aug'07

ING Private Banking Asia offers the full range of wealth management

services, including Advisory and Discretionary Portfolio Management, Wealth

Transmission and Estate Planning, Margin Finance Loans.

. The Client has huge number of mismatches occurring everyday in

MISCELLANOUS DEALS module, which has been fixed and corrected.

. Rectified and fixed the mismatch problem related to FOREX module.

. All Banks in Singapore has BOOK.CODE namely ACU(Asian Currency Unit)

and DBU (Domestic Currency Unit) for identifying the foreign currency

inflows and outflows with respect to there local currency SGD,

Singapore dollars. The local development related to the BOOK.CODE

where creating GL difference which was identified and rectified which

was a show stopper for implementing there HONG KONG project.

Pen picture:

I am focused in my approach and am always optimistic about end results. I

believe in hard work and synergy.



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