Team Leader Back Office
Resume:
Archana V
Mississauga (ON), Canada
ac8nbj@r.postjobfree.com
Professional summary
Overall 6.5 years of work experience in the field of IT - Banking and Financial Services. My area of expertise is as Team Leader in Banking Back office operations. I have excellent written and oral skills enabling me to communicate clearly, precisely and specific to the requirement of both, organization and stakeholders. I possess the ability to comprehend a given situation and taking it forward to its logical conclusion, thereby ensuring bottom line growth in terms of profits.
Gained rich domain knowledge and experience in Transaction Banking (Cash & Payments) sector, handled Fed and SWIFT Message types (eg., MT101, MT103, MT202, MT204 & MT205), Wire Transactions, SWIFT Rules and Standards, Payments Routings, Compliance, AML Regulations, Clearing and Settlements (i.e., CHAPS, BACS, RTGS, TARGET), Payment interfaces, APIs.
Worked for major international banking clients like Royal Bank of Scotland (India) [Formerly ABN AMRO Bank, India] and Morgan Stanley (@ TCS eServe, India).
Led and migrated Mortgage unit from Birmingham [United Kingdom] to RBS India Operations.
Strong presentation skills, Reported and gave presentations of key components and milestones to Top Management. Supported the development of the IT strategy, system plans and IT process improvements which includes doing Performance analysis of excel based data, created charts/graphs representing trends and data summaries
Skills summary
Functional
Technical
Team Management
SCORE RUMBA, STAR - PUMA
GUI based Payments application
Documentation
SWIFT Alliance
Mainframe AS400 Payments application
Training
CLS
GUI based Quality Control & Assurance applications
Audit preparations
TANDEM, ATLAS
Automated Software testing tools
Career highlights
Tata Consultancy Services, India Mar 2010 – May 2011
Client: Morgan Stanley, India
Role: Team Leader
As a Team Leader, Led the Settlements team with the team of 12 members.
Have involved in the core banking functions like handling the Retail customers, Private / Elite client’s cash & payment transactions.
Have involved in Reconciliations of Nostro accounts, Suspense accounts, and Elite client’s accounts and charges accounts.
Reviewed process and procedure documents to ensure that any risks inherent are mitigated and to ensure that there would be no high risk audit comment.
Conducted half yearly performance reviews and end of year appraisals for all staffs in the team.
Trained new staff onboard provided them with adequate learning material, class room sessions and hand holding. Also, acclimatized them to the culture of the organization
Prepared process documents with appropriate visio representations.
RBS India Ltd. (Formerly ACES India Ltd.) Apr 2005 – Feb 2010
Role: Team Leader
As a Team Leader, migrated the Mortgage Unit from Birmingham, UK to RBS, Chennai. Have setup offshore ODC and handled the team of 10.
Handled Non – STP’d Electronic payments. (Incoming, Outgoing and Redirected Payments) and Initiated payments based on the Manual Vouchers received from the “send country”. Handled payment related SWIFT messages like MT103, MT202, MT205 etc., and also handled other SWIFT messages like MT191, MT192 etc.,
Interacted with send country dealers (ABN London Stock Exchange Room) to obtain best rates for received currencies / amounts.
Handled AML payments applications and involved in investigation on the payments which got N-STP’d due to AML / Compliance related issues.
Reviewed process and procedure documents to ensure that any risks inherent are mitigated and to ensure that there would be no high risk audit comment.
Conducted half yearly performance reviews and end of year appraisals for all staffs in the team. Trained new staff onboard provided them with adequate learning material, class room sessions and hand holding. Also, acclimatized them to the culture of the organization
Career Summary
Employer
Location
Last position/role
Period
TCS eServe
Chennai, IN
Team Leader
Mar 2010 – May 2011
RBS India Ltd. (Formerly ACES India Ltd.)
Chennai, IN
Team Leader
Apr 2005 – Feb 2010
Education
Master of Business Administration (Finance)
Bachelor of Science (Bio-Chemistry)
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