Project Life Insurance
Resume:
Dheeraj Chhabra
PMP, FFSI, FLMI
Wattstrasse *,
acfehg@r.postjobfree.com
IT Project Coordinator/Lead, Sr. Analyst PMP FFSI FLMI AAPA ARA ACS
Globally Experienced Project Coordinator /Lead, Sr. Analyst with 9 years of exp in
1. Successfully leading/delivering all phases of projects;
2. Business analyst experience in Investment banking (Forex, Options and Money Market
Products) & Insurance (Reinsurance/Annuities/Life insurance)
3. Computer programming in mainframes technologies, Oracle and UNIX.
Project Management Professional (PMP) -- With proficient grades which can
corroborate my Project Management Knowledge spanned across all the Knowledge areas.
Financial Products/Business Analysis:
Confirmation and Settlement SME for Forex, Options & Money Market products.
Extensive knowledge of F2B trade process / Trade Life Cycle I.e. from Client Data setup upto
Trade settlement (including but not limited to, Swift Confirmation & Payments / Settlement /
Bookings / Nostro reconciliation / CLS Trades).
Knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements (Dodd Frank, FATCA).
Extensive knowledge about controls / checkpoints for managing/mitigating Counterparty /
Credit / Market / Settlement Risk.
Exposure to BI & DWH for extracting reports for Regulators/Auditors/different departments.
(Using advanced SQL).
Excellent Communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to
communicate effectively with stakeholders (Business, Operations, Higher management, CTB
and RTB), Client Executives and their respective teams.
Expert in Scrum / Agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to
manage medium sized project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet
timelines, Cost and Budget allocation and Customer Expectations.
Market / Geographical Region / Client Facing / Stakeholders Mgmt Experience:
US (Lincoln – 2 years) – TAG / Dell Services
APAC (Singapore – 1.5 Years) – UBS AG / Dell Services
Europe (Zurich, Switzerland – 2 Years) – UBS AG / Dell Services
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Awards, Publications and Professional Affiliations
PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with proficient grades.
LOMA is an international association based of US through which more than 1,200 insurance
and financial services companies from over 80 countries engage in research and educational
activities to improve companies operations.
LOMA Certified FFSI (Fellow, Financial Services Institute, US)
LOMA Certified FLMI (Fellow, Life Management Institute, US)
LOMA Certified AAPA (Associate Annuity Products and Administration, US)
LOMA Certified ARA (Associate Reinsurance Administration, US)
LOMA Certified ACS (Associate Customer Services (Annuity Track), US)
Technologies (Languages, Database and Tools)
Languages: COBOL, Java, JCL, SQL, UNIX
Databases: DB2, IMS, Oracle
Tools: Changeman, Startool, OPPA, DTCN (Expeditor), TOAD SQL
Online Environment: CICS, Java (connected to mainframes using websphere)
Databases : IMS-DB, DB2, Oracle (Basics)
Education
Master of Computer Applications from Panjab University, Chandigarh in June, 2005
securing 67%.
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra in June,
2001 securing 70%.
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Professional Experience
Client: UBS AG
Role: Project Coordinator (Project Mgmt Team), Sr. Analyst
This application is one of the core systems within the bank, serving as Forex & Money market
trades processing, settlement and confirmation matching functionality for its Investment
Banking & Wealth management clients for America’s, EMEA and APAC regions.
Trade Information Control System
This application is a Settlement engine that exists in leading Investment Bank. This application
handles Forex, Options and Money Market Trades. It receives trades from the Front Office and
processes the trades and generates the corresponding electronic messages such as SWIFT, fax,
mail confirmations and payment messages based on the customer setup. This application works
on the Legacy mainframes as a backend and which is connected to the JAVA frontend screens
thru WEBSHPERE.
Investment Banking (Forex (Spot, Forwards, NDF’s and Swaps), Options, Money Market)
Swift Payments (MT103/MT192, MT202/MT292, MT210/MT292)
Bookings (Golden Copy)
CLS Bank/LCM settled trades
SIC/SIP Payments
SWIFT Confirmations (MT300/MT305/MT320)
Keylink Confirmations, Fax/Mail Confirmations
Funding Messages (Chile Messages)
Options (Vanilla, Exotic and NDO’s Options)
Confirmation and Settlement Engine
This application is Cash Settlement Engine confirmation system.
This application is a flexible, rules-based workflow driven matching engine, global
confirmation matching solution.
FX Cash, FX Options, PM Options and Fixed Loans & Deposits make up the current
Product set.
This application receives feeds of host confirmations, primarily in trade Event format
from settlement systems.
This application also receives feeds of client (counterparty) confirmations from other
sending systems originating from the SWIFT network, as well as through direct feeds
from other utilities, such as Misys & Keylink.
This application attempts to match the host and counterparty confirmations as they
arrive, and status updates are sent downstream if a match is achieved.
Projects Delivered/ Managed, as a Sr. Analyst/Project Lead
Golden Copy Project
Payments (MT103/MT202/MT210) Enhancement project.
Setting up of New CHINA WFOB Branch for Forex and Options Trades.
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Real time generation of Accounting messages for SG, HK, TK, India, Australia regions in
Lingua XML format
Real time generation of Funding messages for America, London locations.
Decommission of Third party paper confirmation generation system and Generation of
FAX & Mail Confirmation messages using Lingua XML format
Generation of MT950 SWIFT messages for Netting events for Forex trades
Modification of MT300, MT305, MT320, MT202 and MT103 messages to maintain the
SWIFT standards every year.
Conversion of Ezetrive to COBOL programs
Automation of internal tools using REXX and schedule to run regularly using OPP
PROJECT – TAG – LIFESYS (June’2007 – Sep’2010)
Client: Pacific Life Insurance Company, Swiss RE, Americon, Old Mutual Financial
Network (OMFN), METLIFE
Transaction Application Group (TAG) is a fully owned company of DELL Perot Systems and has
30 years of experience in providing full policy administration and other business functions to
Life and Health Insurance clients, employing over 850 people.
LIFESYS core system is further divided into different subsystems:
New Business
Financial
Valuations
Group Bill
Reserves
Re-insurance
Role: Business Analyst (Annuities and Reinsurance) / Onsite Coordinator.
PROJECT - Banking 365 Online Refresh (June’ 2005- May’2007)
Client: Bank of Ireland
Phase 1B consists of International Payments, Add Domestic Beneficiary, Mobile Top-up,
Create/modify Standing Orders and One Time Activation Code to be provided through the
B365online site.
Role: Senior Mainframes Developer.
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KEY COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS
Project Management Business Analyst Settlement and
Confirmation
Forex (Spot, Forwards, Swift Payments & Client Relations &
Swaps, NDF, CLS), Options Confirmation messages Stakeholder Management
(Vanilla & Exotic Options) (MT1*/MT2*/MT3*) Swift
and Money Market (Call messages.
Loan & Deposits, FRMM)
Products. IB Products.
Business Intelligence / Change/ Incident/Problem RNOW / SNOW / ITIL
DWH using advanced SQL. Mgmt Knowledge
Counterparty / Credit / Mainframe Projects Insurance / Reinsurance /
Market / Settlement Risk Annuities
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
DOB: 2nd Dec, 1981
Languages Known: English (Fluent), Deutsch (Basic)
Mobile Number: +417********
REFERENCES
Available on request
Functional Areas
1. Investment Banking: UBS AG / Dell Services (Oct’2010 – Till Date)
2. Insurance: TAG, USA / Dell Services (June’2007 – Oct’2010)
3. Retail Banking: Bank of Ireland, Ireland / Dell Services (June’2005 – May’2007)
Date of Updation: 15th Aug 2014
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