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.