Project Management

Deepak Poddar

Senior Business Analyst, Nomura

PMP Certified, CFA level 1 certified

************@*****.***

Kandivali - E, Mumbai, Mob# +919*********

Summary

Engineering and Management Professional with 7 years 11months experience in

Credit Risk Management, Asset wealth management - Investment banking

professional. Good knowledge of derivatives market segment and cross products of

Financial Markets. I have been involved in IT development projects with extensive

knowledge of FO, MO, BO functions.

Professional Experience

Working as a Senior Business Analyst / Team Manager in Nomura, Mumbai, London

since Jan 2011

Worked as a Business Analyst/Senior Project Lead in JPMorgan Chase, Mumbai from

July 08 - Jan 2011

Worked as a Business Analyst cum Senior Consultant in Polaris Software Lab. from

Apr'05 - July'08

Education

Master in Business Administration (MBA) from NMIMS, Mumbai

B.E. [Information Technology & Engg.] from NIST, Orissa

Sr. Secondary Ed. from Madnawati Public School (C.B.S.E)

Certifications

PMP Certified, Dec 2011

CFA Level 1 Certified from CFAI USA

FRM Level 1 candidate May 2013

qualifications

PMP Certified, Dec 2011

CFA Level I certified from CFAI USA

Master in Business Administration (MBA) from NMIMS, Mumbai

B.E. [Information Technology & Engg.] from NIST, Orissa

Sr. Secondary Ed. from Madnawati Public School (C.B.S.E)

computer proficiency

Tools/Languages/Front Ends/Databases

MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Quality Center, Hudson, Sonar, SQL

Advantage, Crystal Reports, Toad, SQL Server

.JAVA, J2EE

Sybase 12.5, Sybase 15.0, Oracle 9i, 10g, SQL Server 2000

MS-Office 2000/XP/2003

Trainings & certifications

Cleared National Stock Exchange (NSE) certifications in Beginners, Financial and

Derivatives Markets

Sun Certified Java Professional

PMP Certified

Projects undertaken

Project Name : Credit Risk Management - IT

Duration : Jan 2011 - Till date

Company : Nomura, Location: Mumbai, London

Role : Senior Business Analyst

Description: Currently working with Nomura under the BIS department. This role

experience includes handling team, understanding user requirement, requirement

gathering from Users and CRA's, training team with domain knowledge, product

development, functional testing, training, report making, data comparison and

validation, extensive usage of MS-Excel. SQL optimization of legacy system, day

to day business functionality of Credit Risk Management project for EMEA and ASIA

region.

Responsibilities :

Responsible for delivery of Requirements Documents (BRD/FRD), gathering

requirements for new initiatives and enhancements and transferring those ideas

onto the technology team.

Working closely with Quant team, senior Management team, IT team for IMM approval

submission to UK FSA for counterparty risk model

IMM Submission - documentation

Globalization of Exposure Calculation system across regions other than EU.

Validation of different kind of Exposure Calculation i.e. Potential Exposure,

Expected Exposure. EEPE, EAD etc.

User Support for Regular Potential Exposure Batch, Month End REGCAP, Stress and

Backtesting Batches.

Have supported and contributed a lot towards Regulatory requirement by FSA

following Basel 2.5.

Project Name : Asset Wealth Management - OTC Derivative, Structured Products,

Preconfirmation, Forex

Duration : July 2008 - Jan 2011

Company : J P Morgan Chase, Location: Mumbai

Role : Business Analyst

Description: I have worked with JPMorgan under the Private Banking LoB Overall

working experience includes understanding, requirement gathering, product

development, functional testing, day to day business functionality of the trading

workstation for OTC Derivatives, Equity ELN, Hedge Funds, Structured Products,

Preconfirmations - Auto Document generation.

Private Banking - Derivative - Over the counter (OTC): This is a private banking

application being developed for JP Morgan Chase business users. It helps to

create new products like 'EQ: Single Option', Accumulator/Decumulator, Barrier

option etc for the customers who come directly to the JP Morgan Chase bank for

wealth management and investments. The investor creates the new deal for the

customer, fetches the quotes, creates the transaction which then goes to the

ACL(Account Credit Lead) for validation and approval and then finally to the

middle office for processing and finally trade being booked either through Murex,

ONV, SPTrading to Olympic Systems.

Responsibilities :

Responsible for delivery of Requirements Documents (BRD/FRD), gathering

requirements for new initiatives and enhancements from Geneva counterparts and

transferring those ideas onto the technology team.

Reviewing Business Requirements & Functional Specifications to ensure all

documentations are clear, simple, understandable and accurate.

Leading the functional and application testing team.

Creation of Functional Test Cases and experience in executing SIT.

Translating business requirements into technical requirements and vice versa.

Training existing team on the Functional domain as well as current setup of

Technology and Infrastructure in the Private Banking LoB.

Understanding the creation of products such as Hedge Funds and Structured

Products by the Asset Class Leaders.

Assisting in Project Management activities like risk management; project

planning, resource planning and status reporting

Conducting training sessions for business users and test analysts

Liaison with Vendor for technical analysis, development and testing

Workstation, ONV Application, Murex, Mercury Quality Centre, SQL Browser,Yart

Project Name : Intellect Trade - Product

Duration : June'2007 - July 2008

Client : Mekong Housing Bank, Vietnam

Company : Polaris Softwares, Location: Mumbai

Role : Business Analyst

Description: The Intellect Trade Finance Platform (TFP) from Polaris Software Lab

provides for a comprehensive and proven Trade Finance processing solution for the

bank's trade services department. TFP is a web-based workflow driven trade

finance platform for processing a comprehensive range of trade finance

instruments. It is a highly flexible system and can adapt easily to changing

business requirements. The system is user friendly and enables centralized

operations and faster processing of customer applications and documents. It

offers quick time to market for new product variants and advanced reporting

capabilities.

It provides for a robust platform for automating the complete cycle of trade

finance and payment transactions, in line with the UCP and SWIFT requirements for

banks globally. The bank would be able to offer a comprehensive range of trade

services to its customers - from Documentary Letters of Credit (LCs), Documentary

and Clean Collections, Bills negotiations, acceptances and discounting,

Guarantees and Reimbursements to Trade Loans - within the same integrated

environment.

Responsibilities :

Liaison with multiple technology teams & business users to identifying

requirements

Evaluation of technology infrastructure and identification of gaps.

Responsible for delivery of Requirements Documents as per Client Standards

Conducting training sessions for business users

Prepared disaster recovery plans and organized dress rehearsals

Prepared support model and escalation procedure for users to raise any

application related issues

Upgrade from Weblogic-6.1 to Weblogic-8.1

Preparation of the technical / functional design based on the functional

requirements, to understand the functionality of the existing system, analysis,

design, development, testing.

Project Name : Paylink- EMEA Checks 32 (Client - Citibank EMEA)

Duration : Apr'2005 - June'2007

Client : Citibank EMEA

Company : Polaris Softwares, Location: Mumbai

Role : Lead cum Business Analyst

Description: Check32 System is having in country Server, Citibank uses the Checks

system for the complete transaction processing and Cheques printing with its

different stages of life cycle (like Open, Issuing, Staling, Stopping, Voiding,

Liquidation etc.) for their corporate clients. The Printing procedure includes

for both Templates (Laser Printing) as well Stationery (Line Printing). The

Liquidation process is taken up using manual as well as Bar Code Liquidation.

Citibank in about 20 countries uses this system. Checks32 is a vital subsystem of

PAYLINK system.Checks32 receives transaction data from RCS through IBBS using RPC

and LAN, receives non-transactional or beneficiary data directly from RCS through

IBM Web sphere MQ Series. There are in total 8 Services which take part in order

to make the system work so lively, along with the ability to handle bunch of bulk

transactions.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for delivery of functional/technical Documents

Design and code the CRs and ERs related to new/existing modules.

Assisting testing team in preparing test cases and carry out testing

Taking part in calls with business to close out issues pertaining to the CRs

Eliciting requirements and raising change requests

Conducting training sessions for new team members

Configuration control

achievements

Awarded with Quarterly - Star recognition for IMM, UKFSA and JFSA deliveries for

Q3, Q4 2012

Awarded by Nomura Mumbai, for excellect project execution and efficient work

handling

Awarded twice by JP Morgan Chase in Jan-Apr 2010 for Talent, Development and

learning

Awarded by Polaris Softwares Lab for Champion of the Quarter in Year 2006

Awarded by NMIMS Mumbai, 2nd prize in case study competition

Head of Placement Committee in College.

personal details

Sex Male

Marital Status Married

Nationality Indian

Language Known English, Hindi

declaration

I hereby declare that the details furnished above are true to the best of my

knowledge and belief.

(Deepak Poddar)

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