US-Relocatable Project Manager/Scrum Master
Resume:
SUJATA RAJ B.Sc, MBA, MQF
*************@*****.***
US Citizen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujata-raj-8a2a5326a/
SUMMARY
• Excellent communication and management skills with all groups of stakeholders and ensuring timely transparency
• Delivering Technology system enhancement for Front and Middle Office
• Working closely with clients and stakeholders to anticipate, plan and ensure optimal delivery of requirements.
• AGILE certified and worked to implement Agile in all previous client teams
• Optimal Client relationship management.
• Managing multiple teams and projects - Planning, Organizing, Motivating, and facilitating collaboration between team members across India and the US.
• Several years experience in working with development teams.
• Detailed project planning and timely project delivery
• Managing timely and appropriate communication to Senior Management.
• Follow up with delivery team members to ensure clear understanding of requirements. EDUCATION
• Master of Quantitative Finance, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
• Master of Business Administration, MBA Edinburgh University, United Kingdom
• Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, B.Sc Essex University, United Kingdom CERTIFICATIONS
• Safe Release Train Engineer
• Safe Scrum Master
• Risk Management CFA Part One
• Financial Risk Management
TOOLS & METHODOLOGIES
Phases of SDLC
MS Project, Confluence, Sharepoint, PowerBI, ServiceNow Incident Management, Powerpoint and other MS Office tools
WORK EXPERIENCE
Project Manager/ SCRUM MASTER
Market Risk, Mizuho Investment Bank, NYC
June 2024 - Present
• Market Risk team requires VaR, FCR and Volcker regulatory reports to be created on a daily basis. If these reports are frequently delayed from T+1 to T+2, this creates a poor risk representation for the bank. Several projects need to be implemented as part of Process improvement and re-engineering to support timely creation of these reports and to surmount situations such as, vendor reference data being delayed on some days.
• Ensured the use of Agile methodology, and achieved the excellent benefits of scrums and
• retrospectives.
• Facilitating agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Led standard Lean Agile ceremonies such as Daily Stand Ups, Demos, Planning Sessions.
• Effectively managed and used JIRA for daily Team Execution.
• Managed project to change Hierarchy of books and desks across several Market Risk systems.
• Managed project to present SLAs and KPI to Market Risk Users.
• Worked with PowerBI developers to create reports for users
• Reduced Operational Risk significantly by transparent reporting of projects’ status, Risks and dependencies, using powerpoint presentations and MS Project.
• Managed IT team to ensure timely handling of daily incidents and ensuring that Market Risk regulatory reporting sign-offs are met as early as possible. This required significant process re- engineering by defining the role of the different team members, how the team can be better organized for optimal performance, explaining how ServiceNow reports can be used to prioritize and address incidents, and the need to have better communication with users.
• Managed project to improve timeliness and efficiency of Market Risk reports run on OnPrem database by backing up to AZURE CLOUD daily and having a defined retention period.
• Reviewing and prioritizing BAU Jira by working with users.
• Helped PMO to organize and track projects so that reporting is timely and pertinent.
• Ensured the use of Agile methodology. Organized separate Sprints and Jira boards for each project, for smooth tracking of work.
Release Train Engineer/SCRUM MASTER
Data Management and Strategic Sourcing, Wells Fargo Investment Bank, NYC May 2022 - May 2024
Worked with Middle Office users, Tech leads and development teams in NYC and in India to deliver on multiple projects for Middle office. Facilitating Regulatory reporting requirements on a timely basis. In particular, we were working on the Counterparty Credit Risk assessment and reports. Whenever new counterparties or new products are added to the bank’s portfolio, these must be added correctly to the systems. Middle Office will validate and give exact data about these counterparties and the risk weighting that can be used for them among other pieces of data. Changes to the system must be done efficiently and accurately so that MO do not need to adjust the reporting manually.
• Ensured the use of Agile methodology, and achieved the excellent benefits of scrums and
• retrospectives.
• Facilitating agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Led standard Lean Agile ceremonies such as Daily Stand Ups, Demos, Planning Sessions.
• Effectively managed and used JIRA for daily Team Execution.
• Build highly effective project teams and establish relationships with stakeholders.
• Communicate expectations and instill accountability in team members.
• Resolve conflicts, promote work sharing, and motivate teams toward common goals.
• Apply project management principles to ensure on-time delivery of product capabilities that meet customer requirements.
• Reviewed our system and processes in the Data management and Strategic sourcing group to alleviate Operational Risk. Re-engineered and implemented several improvements to processes to the satisfaction of all stakeholders:
• Worked closely with Middle Office and set a regular cadence for team to receive requirements in a clearly prioritized and structured manner.
• Explained to the users and teams, the need for observing methodical operational processes, which though may take a little more time to learn, will avoid major incidents which put everyone under stress.
• Insisted on clear written communication between Users and IT teams and also within IT teams from end to end on all projects and requirements.
• Created weekly reports including powerpoint presentations gave feedback on project progress and worked with senior management on planning achieving short and long term goals.
• Working with the different team leads to plan several sprints ahead so that project timelines can be met.
• Kept an open channel for all stakeholders to put forward any concerns and suggestions.
• Managed dependencies between teams
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
Moodys Investment Services, New York City
March 2013 - Nov 2014
• Managed development and BA teams in US and in India
• Worked closely with Users on ongoing system upgrade requirements using WATERFALL methodology
• Worked with team to set detailed timeframe for projects.
• Recruited BAs to my team in India and trained them in any deficiencies wrto. analysis and document writing.
• Conducted daily scrum meetings (On Shore & Offshore teams), development team.
• Clear and ongoing reporting to management of project progress using Jira status, MS Project, Powerpoint presentations.
• Conducted detailed interviews with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts
• Conducted regular review of the Function and Technical Specifications to reflect changes
• Guided and supported the users during UAT.
PROJECT MANAGER/ Risk Management Analyst
JP Morgan Chase, New York City
2011 – 2013
After the recession of 2008, the US government introduced the Dodd Frank rules with set time- line for implementation by the Investment banks. These rules required that banks reduce their risk profile with particular attention to derivatives. The rules were also intended to create greater transparency by the banks.
• Worked with the team on strategic implementation of Basel mandated liquidity reports.
• Managed the LCR Report Initiative• Conferred with Lines of Business including Asia and EMEA during analysis and during UAT,
release and post release to communicate project spec and discuss issues.
• Involved in detailed analysis of reporting and UI requirements – both data and look and feel using SQL
• Working with UI Dev, and reporting (Cognos), QA teams to bring them up to speed on release requirements and to confirm resource allocation for release; Worked closely with release groups.
• Managed daily call-ins and face to face meetings during testing phase of project to discuss, prioritize and achieve a quick turn around on issues.
• Closely worked with Cognos reporting team to ensure reports were of the right look and data on the reports was sourced correctly as per regulatory requirement. BUSINESS ANALYST
Bank of America, NYC
2009 - 2011
This was soon after the merger of Merrill Lynch with Bank of America and several duplicate systems were being made redundant.
• Responsible for gathering and analyzing business requirements, designing risk assessment solutions in different stages of KYC process, and assisting in system development/ implementation/migration/test- ing. Use of SQL for querying.
• Assisted in data profiling and data quality checkup on the data for multiple functions to ensure it met the specified business rules and standards set within the organization.
• Explained the risk assessment process and models to developers, and helped with the application development, system integration and migration.
• Developed BRDs and FRDs. Conducted regular review of the Function and Technical Specifications to reflect the latest changes and enhancements to the product owner.
• Liaised with development to present list of bugs logged on Jira and discussed the prioritization of these bugs.
• Guided the users to finish the user acceptance test and provided advice or solutions to the existing or possible risks and issues.
• Worked with functional managers to fix daily issues and implement improvements to the system.
• UAT testing with users and following up to ensure testing was adequately done in a timely manner so that production rollout were smooth and on time.
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