Niranjan Rudraradhya

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CAREER SUMMARY

Over 18 years’ of experience in the financial services with years of Operational and Business analysis experience with instruments such Mutual Fund, ETF, Equities, Segregated fund, Derivatives and Fixed Income projects, in Middle and Back office areas.

Core competencies include: Business analysis, business process improvement, business development, Client service, relationship management, and team management in Investment banking operations such as Asset, Wealth Management, Global Custody, Brokerage Services and Insurance.

●Experience in internal and external stakeholders management, excellent communication and presentation skills

●Demonstrated capabilities in managing process verticals with strong background in implementing process improvements and quality initiatives for desired performance/quality levels

●In-depth knowledge of Visio, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point, Access, Outlook, Lotus Notes and SQL

●Communicated well with business professionals, easily establishing rapport and gaining client confidence

●Developed effective relationship with direct reports, IT professionals, Senior Management, professional consultants

CORE COMPETENCIES

Business Analysis

Process Documentation

Transition Management

Asset Management

Custody operations

Fund accounting

Equity & Fixed income

Corporate Actions

Trade Operations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BMO, Business Consultant Sep 2022 - Present

Responsibilities:

●Working as part of the Projects Delivery team driving the T+1 Settlement initiative across Capital markets

●Gathered requirements around upcoming industry changes, its impact on internal functions and applications

●Analyzed and documented requirements for adopting internal system and process changes

●Organized and led the Vendor application implementations, UAT preparation initiatives and project coordination

Scotiabank, Business Analyst May 2021 – Sep 2022

Responsibilities:

●Worked as part of the Post Trade Modernization (Canadian Depository Services) application migration project (BaNCS implementation) team

●Channelized PTM industry changes within Scotiabank Business users and affected stakeholders

●Gathered requirements around upcoming industry changes, its impact on internal functions and got them addressed from TMX or Data Vendors

●Analyzed and documented requirements for adopting internal system changes

●Gathered details and prepared test scenarios, strategies in line with TMX initiated Industry Scripted and Unscripted testing

●Organized and led the UAT preparation initiative

●Created test cases for Industry testing on Corporate Actions, Settlements & Trade Confirmations

●Organized meetings, engaged functional groups, spearhead on different initiatives such as CSDR Regulation changes, Give Up client, Real Time Trade Affirmation, Paperless Initiatives by supporting the Operations teams channelize these internally

CIBC - CDS PTM Project - Test Analyst, Business Analyst Nov 2020 – Apr 2021

Responsibilities:

●Working as part of the Post Trade Modernization application migration project (BaNCS implementation)

●Gather, Analyze and document requirements for Test strategy

●Mapped current state Corporate Actions process flows

●Organize and led the UAT preparation initiative

●Created test cases for Industry testing on Account Transfers, Corporate Actions

●Lead the Service provider’s Early Adopters testing initiative internally

TMX Group, Business Analyst Jul 2018 – Oct 2020

Responsibilities:

●Working as part of the Post Trade Modernization application migration project (BaNCS implementation)

●Gather, Analyze and document requirements for Corporate Actions processes in Equity, Fixed Income, Bonds

●Gather and defined CA workflow management activities for the WF tool development and Alerts system

●Prepare AS-IS and evaluate TO-BE workflows

●Make product decisions for the business, negotiated priority and business values to align with the product vision while ensuring the systems team are moving to accomplish the envisioned outcomes

●Collaborate with Technical teams, System Analysts and Stakeholders for Solution Analysis discussions, Requirements

●Worked through various SDLC phases, Acceptance Criteria, Test Criteria, review stories before closing

●Validate the solutions to requirements and final BRS documentation, Liaise with stakeholders

●Anticipate the needs of the customer or internal stakeholders based on understanding of the current business and pain points

●Created Test cases for Transaction Management, Tax Management, Workflow and other functionalities

●Review test cases for accuracy and completion before QA Test execution

●Executed QA testing for various functionalities and assisted with UAT test planning

●Use Testrail for QA test case tracking, Jira and Confluence for reporting and managing defects

RBC Jul 2013 – Jan 2018

ETF, NAV Production and Custody Administration, Business Analysis

Project 1:

Description: ETF Trade Order management development Agile methodology

Responsibilities:

●Collaborated with project teams, clients, facilitated service improvement, and deployed technology to Business team

●Responsibilities include Elicit, Gather, Analyze, Document, Communicate requirements and change management

●Prepared, analyzed AS-IS and TO-BE workflow process maps, documented detailed business requirements

●Proposed functional solutions after thorough analysis of business requirements and prepared change management roadmap for transformation

●Provided support to the IT design team, development team by gathering, developing and executing the UAT Testing

●Assisted in the development and acceptance of functional specification documents

●Coordinated testing and validation with business users, logged, tracked and addressed all concerns/problems

●Took control of the testing environment for user testing, tracked, reported and escalated issues for redevelopment

●Worked with stakeholders to roll out the project being the project owner, in phases

Project 2:

Description: ETF module Fund accounting application reengineering project using Agile methodology

Responsibilities:

●Collaborated with project teams, interfaced with clients, facilitated service improvement, and deployed technology

●Worked on Gathering, Analyzing, Documenting, Communicating and throughout the Change management processes

●Gathered requirements from clients using both structured and unstructured interviews, questionnaires, prototyping

●Provided support to the IT development team by gathering, developing and executing the UAT Testing

●Took control of the testing environment for user testing, created mock ups and generated results

●Worked with stakeholders to successfully roll out the project as the project owner, Worked closely with Client Onboarding, Transitions and clients closely throughout the project

Project 3:

Description: Trust bridging to external Custodian application using Waterfall methodology

Responsibilities:

●Coordinated with respective internal and external parties (BNY Mellon), prepared a business case and related financial templates to gain project approval and necessary funding

●Gathered, Analyzed, Documented, Communicate business requirements and through Change management process

●Provided support to the IT development team by UAT Testing

●Raised defects, reported and completed regression testing

Mphasis (an HP Company), Banking and Capital Market Operations Oct 2010 – Oct 2012

Business Analyst - Operations Manager

Project: Cost Basis Operations (CBO) within Banking and Capital market vertical

Responsibilities:

●Comprehensive knowledge across all functional areas with expertise in defining project scope, assessing and managing project risks and requirement gathering process

●Interacted with the client to gather requirements, documenting the technical and functional specifications

●Worked with external stakeholders analyzing their business environment

●Identified areas of opportunities through SWOT analysis and developed recommendations for process improvement

●Implemented changes to eliminate the manual intervention an automate processing functions

●Completed projects and ensured the end result was achieved per scope details and documented throughout the SDLC

●Analyzed complete process, identified problems and determining solutions for business needs

●Provided post-implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the Eagle application/panels

●Assisted with cost management, including budget planning, tracking spend, and reporting

●Handled Cost Basis G/L reporting, General cashiering (for Front office) and Account Transfer Services operations

●Managed operations SLA, quality scores, hiring, client, business and people management

●Analyzed monthly/quarterly/yearly financial & operational performance parameters

●Worked closely with the Sales and solution teams to execute delivery initiatives and business expansion

Accomplishments:

●Played key role in driving IT-BPO Synergy projects, administered process technology and re-engineering projects

●Managed client oriented compliance requirements, operational risks, per audit guidelines and procedures

JP Morgan Chase, TSS, Fund Accounting Nov 2008 – Oct 2010

Process Manager, Fund Accounting trades process, Fund Services

Responsibilities:

●Processed Trade transactions (SWIFT), reconciliation and resolved trade related Cash & Stock breaks issues

●Hands on experience on TLM reconciliation, Bloomberg platforms

●Captured Derivatives, Futures, Options, Fixed Income and Equity transactions for NAV calculation

Accomplishments:

●Documented processing procedures and mapped process flows

●Worked on implementation of new Trade Management tool

●Completed UAT testing and provided the finding to development team

Deutsche Bank Operations, Asset Management Nov 2006 – Nov 2008

Team Manager, US Corporate action, Asset Management

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for portfolio and user administration functions, validation of user access level on internal applications

●Regularly audited the validity of user accesses in PIMS, Charles River and other applications

●Notified Corporate action event to Portfolio Managers, communicated and recorded election from Custodian banks

●Supported Investment Manager with accounting functionalities and acted as the liaison between the Custodian and Investment Manager for processing and reconciling the Corporate action proceeds

Accomplishments:

●Was trained in USA to develop expertise in documenting the process mapping and operational procedures

●Solely migrated Corporate actions process from NYC to Bangalore office

●Worked on Business transformation projects like automation of election, eFax and paperless office

Bank of New York Mellon (India Pvt. Ltd), GSS – Custodian Services Jul 2005 – Nov 2006

Team Leader, US Income process

Accomplishments and Responsibilities:

●Played key role in migrating the operations from a third party BPO to Mellon’s captive set up

●Processed Dividend income payment (Equity and Fixed income) for USA and Canada client accounts

●Reconciled, collected and allocated equity dividend and fixed Income funds

●Managed employee performance analysis, work and resources allocation, productivity and quality control

Infosys BPO (India) May 2002 – March 2005

Business Consultant, US Corporate Actions team (Equity Income)

Accomplishments:

●Solely analyzed client's processes, attended process training and gained a proficient working knowledge in the USA

●Proposed, documented and implemented workflow changes, managed the process with all time high quality scores

Responsibilities:

●Processed Dividend Income allocations in a fast paced environment for US Equity accounts

●Performed daily departmental audits while reported results to higher management and onshore team in USA

●Completed an Oracle 11i testing project for its launch

EDUCATION

Masters of Marketing Management (MMM) Pondicherry University 2004

Bachelors of Business Management (BBM) Bangalore University 2001

Working on CBAP Certification

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