Project Management

RESUME

Name: Bhairav Kher

Current Employer: Oracle Financial Services (Financial vertical of ORACLE )

Client: Citi US

SUMMARY:

• Have 8+ years of experience in software industry with fortune 500 and CMMI-5

level companies.

• Have expertise level knowledge of High Value Payments/ US Clearings/

Payment Standards/Liquidity Management.

• Currently working as Business requirement analyst and functional analyst in

technology division for Citibank high value payments application.

• Worked as Interface requirement analyst, Technical Lead, Programmer and

Designer in my Career.

• Working with leading client Citigroup (7.7 Years).

• Thorough knowledge and experience in payments domain.

• Have managed the planning, organization, and implementation of project

activities.

• Have work experience in core payment systems business logic development,

Database programming, multi-threaded software systems using C++.

• Good knowledge of defining and understanding of business use cases and their

functional implementation.

• Good knowledge of Object Oriented programming approach.

• A very good knack for streamlining and optimizing Data Base SQL Queries.

• Proactively identified and solved project issues through negotiation and/or

escalation processes.

• Have helped Dev team in understanding the technical and functional aspect of the

Project.

• Provided direction and control of work performed in the framework of project,

including monitoring the critical path and implementation of appropriate

corrective actions.

• Provided overall project communication to stakeholders and program

management of stakeholder expectations.

• Have managed day-to-day project activities, such as issue tracking and risk

mitigation, facilitating project team meetings (with various groups) and

preparing/delivering status reports

• Have good communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Customer

focused, detail oriented.

• Have ability to work independently/with Team.

DOMAIN EXPERTISE:

• Clearings:

• FED WIRE:

Fed wire Funds Service is a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system

owned and operated by the Federal Reserve Banks. As an RTGS system,

the Fed wire Funds Service processes and settles individual payments

immediately in central bank money. Once processed, these payments are

final (i.e., irrevocable and unconditional).

My role in current project: Understanding of E2E processing of fed wire

transactions that are both initiated and received, processed by Citibank.

Providing business solutions for new requirements like regulatory,

compliance or customer focused.

Good understanding of all the required payment formats and

understanding of fed wire functioning from a perspective of Citibank as a

clearing member.

CHIPS:

•

CHIPS is a real-time system for processing U.S. dollar transactions

among international and domestic banks. CHIPS works on netting and

settlement system.

My role in current project: Understanding of E2E processing of CHIPS

transactions that are both initiated and received, processed by Citibank.

Providing business solutions for new requirements like regulatory,

compliance or customer focused.

Understanding and effectively utilizing CHIPS reports for various

participants’ status, managing banks supplemental funds for effective

liquidity management etc.

Good understanding of all the required payment formats and

understanding of chips functioning from a perspective of Citibank as a

chips participant.

Payment standards:

FED WIRE

Good understanding of following fed wire message formats

Funds transfer (Customer or bank)

Foreign transfer

Settlement transfer

CHIPS

Payment messages

Service messages

Enquiries

Supplemental funding messages

Administrative messages

SWIFT

Payment messages

Advices

Bulk messages

SWIFT REMITTANCE

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Programming:

C++ 3 years

Database / Application design:

Oracle, PL/ SQL ~ 3 years

Operating Systems:

Unix

Windows 2000/NT/XP

Others:

Object Oriented Analysis Design

DBMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Citi Bank High value transaction wires, NY/NJ, USA – Jun2005 till date

Roles: Business Analyst, Functional support Analyst, UAT coordinator, Interface

solution designer, Developer

Project : CitiFT, Citibank global electronic funds transfer application for

high value payments

Technology: C++, Oracle 11G, IBM MQ series, Bea Tuxedo, Visibroker CORBA.

Description:

Citibank global funds transfer project (CitiFT) is a single funds transfer system for

high value transaction wires processing both globally and for local clearing. This

product has replaced most of the Citibank individual funds transfer systems that were

used by each region or country.

CitiFT North America instance processes an average of 450,000 transaction wires in a

single business day. This accounts for around 1.2 trillion USD funds movement via

CitiFT application.

At the local level, CitiFT supports electronic payment processing, risk management,

liquidity management, regulatory and compliance for the local clearings (Fedwire and

CHIPS).

At global level, CitiFT supports the processing and management of all worldwide

payment activities.

The application supports most of the payment system standards, clearings’ standards and

regulatory compliance that are approved and recognized by financial industry.

The basic functions provided by the application are categorized into,

Customer focused flexible and on demand Rule based system

Supports all major payment systems

Scalable architecture and rich GUI to manage static data profiles

Effective liquidity management intraday

Comprehensive online customer inquiry support for in-flight and history transactions

Event based reporting to customer for payments status

Efficient interface for operators to take actions on transaction wires.

Alerts – Flexible and on demand alert mechanism comprehensive audit reporting.

Book Keeping and generating account postings and advises for customers.

My Role: Application functional support specialist and developing FRDs for new

business requirements and enhancements.

Application functional support analyst: Providing live support for E2E

functional analysis and resolution for operations day to day queries related to

transaction processing and post processing. Accountable for following key

responsibilities

On line Payment processing support for SWIFT, FEDWIRE, CHIPS and

other Citibank proprietary formats. This includes both online payments

and feed formats.

Suggesting and verifying business rules set up for customers/transactions.

Investigation of post processing incidents related to customer inquiry,

postings, advises.

Ad-Hoc report generation for in process, processed and history transactions.

Resolution of gaps identified in clearings (FEDWIRE and CHIPS) report and

in house report.

Coordination of release activities and migration activities.

Addressing and resolving partner system queries.

Developing FRDs: Developing low level functional requirements for the new

business requirements, reviewing solutions for the related FRDs, providing E2E

coordination to UAT in test scenarios review and new set up validations

Key responsibilities:

Participating in new business requirements discussion and development. This

includes customer focused requirements, product enhancement,

compliance and regulatory requirements.

Writing functional requirements and conducting walk through sessions for

relevant stake holders.

Developing interface requirement documents.

Providing inputs and approvals on the low level solutions.

Managing vendor’s for delivery of new enhancements and defects.

UAT coordination for providing functional support set up verification and

defect tracking.

Other Expertise and responsibilities on current project:

Dodd Frank section 1073 for international remittance wires( US regulatory for

2013)

Book Keeping( General Ledger matching)

Postings and Advices

Liquidity Management

Compliance(OFAC)

AML

Extended Remittance ( FED WIRE, CHIPS and SWIFT)

EoD and SoD/BoD concepts

Customer Inquiry automation

Event based reporting to customer for a transaction wire

Company name: PCS, INDIA - Nov 2004 till April 2005

Role: Trainee/Intern

Technologies : OOAD, UML, C++, PL/SQL(Oracle)

Description: Worked as an Intern at Patni computer system a CMMI-5 level company.

Learned the basics of approaching a requirement and its phase wise methodical

implementation on in house pilot projects

My Role:

Identifying business use cases

Writing flow charts for the cases

Identifying test scenarios

Root cause analysis

Learned SDLC approaches and implementation

Performed manual testing on in house software modules

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science (year 2004 pass out with A grade)

(Equivalent to BS Computer Sc.)

Contact Details:

EMAIL: ****.*******@*****.***

Mob: 1-201-***-****

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