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Parthiban Dhandu Janakiraman
*** ******** ****, *********** ******, UK. Mobile Number – 044 784-***-**** Profile Summary:
• A seasoned Banker with 20+ years of experience at all levels of system development and integration, Data Analysis, Business Operation, and Process development for large I.T. transformation programs covering Payments, FX, and Digital.
• Product Owner, business, and functional architect, experienced in leading end-to-end product build, management, and delivery, supporting business units to achieve their ambitions through business growth and revenue generation in an efficient compliance and regulatory environment.
• Managed project teams of varying sizes (Product, Operations) from diverse cultural and geographical locations (onshore/offshore model), managing relationships with partners in delivery, support, and oversight functions and demonstrating collaboration at all levels.
• A self-starter and strong pro-active leader with good skills in empowering staff to take ownership, providing coaching and mentoring to build cohesive teams working together to achieve both individual targets and company objectives within budget, whilst strongly contributing towards augmented growth and profitability levels.
• Domain expertise span across International Payments, Faster Payments, low care Payments (FPS, SEPA CT, SEPA DD, and SEPA instant), ACH, NACHA, FX Market, Cash Management, Messaging standards (ISO20022, SWIFT Fin), Regulatory (e.g., NPA, PSD2, WTR), Open Banking and Agile methodology.
• An enthusiastic learner of new industry initiatives focused on the application of innovative concepts and methodologies (e.g., blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, open APIs) to contribute to the business and product development agenda. Work Experience:
Organization: Barclays Corporate, London
Duration: Jun 2016 – Present day
Role: Senior Product Manager Designation: Vice President Responsibilities:
Key liaison between the Business and Technology for ACH, NACHA, SEPA Classic (SEPA CT, SEPA DD), SEPA Instant, Open Banking,IXB Cross broader and Faster Payments (Legacy, NPA). Ensuring technology solutions meet the business objectives, owning the SEPA product requirements backlog, managing priorities of the deliverables, building and managing end-to-end product delivery to the Run the Bank team complying with Barclays Governance processes. Key responsibilities include: -
• Ensure that the ACH, NACHA, SEPA Classic Scheme (SEPA CT, SEPA DD), SEPA instant, IXB Cross broader Instant, USD Instant, Faster Payments (Legacy, NPA) product design is robust, customer-focused to deliver the right outcome for our clients
• Providing inputs to EBA Blueprint, consultation papers, and NPA on new products.
• Resolving customer issues by coordinating relevant stakeholders (e.g., Sales & Coverage, Customer Servicing, Technology teams) and managing through to resolution
• Assisting the SEPA product team in periodic Product reviews and overseeing regulatory compliance including Audits (e.g., Internal Audit, SOX, Vendor product audit)
• Protecting the revenue line through new and ongoing product development to meet Industry requirements (e.g., SEPA Rule book, Continuous Gross Settlement, SWIFT release)
• Identify, quantify, and mitigate any risks that affect product and business processes.
• Support Tech leadership team in various initiatives (e.g., Business proposition and preparation of Business case for GPP Replacement, SEPA Instant In-house build)
• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements
• Manage professional relationships with vendors and internal partners (e.g., Operations, Compliance, Architects, Feature/component teams) in delivery, support, and oversight functions demonstrating collaboration at all levels.
• Translating Business architecture roadmaps (using TOGAF Framework) into a package of work that allows frequent incremental delivery of value.
• Vendor selection through RFI and RFP evaluation process.
• Managing payments business requirements including contributions in other areas such as architecture, design, migration strategy, and change management to implement solutions for the ring-fencing regulation (SRP). Internal Only
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• Led sort code technical migration strategy, assessing the associated data migration risks. Conducting workshops with technical stakeholders to develop and agree requirements and related migration strategies. Data analysis for customer migration, operational readiness and vendor management (e.g. VOCA, Finastra, Sentenial)
• Responsible for managing business requirements -payments for PSD2 and Wire Transfer Regulations. This included close coordination with financial crime, legal & compliance teams.
• Roadmap planning, defining product vision, product negotiation, collaborating across multiple feature teams, creation and management of the product backlog.
• Supported technology team and technology trends aligned to organization goals (i.e. Microservice, Restful API and Kafka queuing) Organization: Cognizant Technologies, London
Duration: Jun 2014 –Jun 2016
Role: Lead Product Owner and Payment SME
Key responsibilities include: -
• Proven ability to work in an agile efficient way and rapidly therefore was quickly called upon to successfully lead on more general key Product Management activities and initiatives.
• Actively contributed in identifying, selecting and aligning the services of cognizant with supporting tools, frameworks, processes & standards that assist in Business Architecture Definition.
• Prepared and presented commercial proposals in response to RFIs, converted proposals to SoW.
• Instrumental in designing, building and delivering a suite of new highly technical controls to establish the Product Governance foundations for Lloyds Payments after ring fence (SRP) and developed a more robust control environment.
• Ensuring Colleagues & Stakeholders are engaged, empowered, and motivated to support initiatives by using focused and strong work ethic to deliver high quality outputs in a timely manner. Organization: Barclays Corporate, London
Client: Barclays Duration: Apr 2011 – May 2014
Role: Lead Business Analyst Designation: Assistant Vice President Responsibilities:
• Conduct payments market and banking sector analysis in liaison with business stakeholders to define and enable business requirements.
• End to end accountability for feature lifecycle from conception through to release including prioritizing product features/capabilities and decision making, strong analytical skills, gathering requirements, acceptance/rejection of user story deliverables.
• Able to manage senior stakeholders but also dive into detail as required to manage dependencies and impediments of delivery and help the team in mitigating risks for a successful delivery.
• Participating in all scrum ceremonies to build a shared sense of purpose and vision; define the delivery via 3-Amigos/refinement sessions; and represent the product, business, and operations throughout the delivery.
• Working closely with Partners (Product & Cross functional teams), Business and Technology architecture and operations, define and estimate deliveries, agree the vision and then drive through to delivery.
• Understanding the operational and user impact of deliveries to ensure operational readiness, identifying any training/communication needs for the end user community and formulating supporting materials as appropriate. Organization: Oracle Financial Services Software b.v, London, Ireland Client: Allied Irish Bank Duration: 09th Feb 2007 – 15 Th Apr 2011 Role: Business Analyst / Integration Lead Designation: Consulting Practice Manager
• Build data migration strategy, go-live plan and conduct several mock migrations prior to live data to ensure the accuracy in data migrated.
• Integrating Core Banking (Oracle Flexcube) with Bank’s mainframe product via real time interface.
• SEPA CT and SEPA DD requirement gathering, analysis and design and implementing the same in short span of time. Educational Qualification:
• Master of Computer Applications from University of Madras, India 1998 - 2001
• Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Madras India 1995 – 1998 Miscellaneous:
• TOGAF 9.2 (The Open Group Architecture Framework) Framework for Business Architecture Certified.
• Cloud Certified.