Candidates About

 

Anandh Balajee Ganesan

 

Ü To take a challenging post for understanding business change needs, assessing the impact of those

Changes, capturing, analysing and documenting requirements and then supporting the communication

and delivery of those requirements with relevant parties.

Ü A result driven professional with nearly 9 years of experience in the areas of Information Technology and Finance.

Ø  5 Years of IT expertise as a Business Analyst/Testing specialized in Corporate Treasury domain with focus on data analysis, requirement gathering, agile project management, QA Testing.

Ø  4 Years of Functional Expertise in Treasury and Capital Market domain

Ø  Expertise in driving various aspects of Project Management, QA/UAT management, Project Planning, tracking and strategizing.

Ü Knowledge and expertise of Corporate Treasury-Long Term & Short Term Funding and Corporate Investment.

Ü Knowledge and expertise of Equities, Derivatives (Exchange traded and OTC), Exchange Traded Funds and Risk Management

Ü Adept in managing and  leading teams for running successful process operations and experience of developing procedures and service standards for business excellence.

Ü Hands on experience of Trade life cycle involving Front office, Middle office and Back office functions

Ü Working experience in a cross-functional team environment/different geographical location teams.

Ü Gained experience in Database Testing, Data warehouse testing and Proficient knowledge in Manual Software Testing, ETL  tool (Informatica 9.5x) and  Reporting Tool (Cognos 10.2 ,TM1,Cognos EP).

Ü Developed competency in implementing strategies towards enhancing business volumes and growth

 

 

 

UML Tool                            : MS Visio

Treasury Applications          : Murex, Kondor +, WSS

ETL Tools                         : Informatica Power Centre 8x

Reporting tool                    : Cognos TM1, Cognos BI 10.2, Enterprise Planning and Power Pivot

Agile tool                          : Rally

Databases                         : Oracle 9i

Front End Tools                  : SQL Developer

Programming Languages      : SQL, Basics of PL/SQL

Defect Management tool      : HPALM 11.0/ HPQC

S/W Testing Methodologies   : Agile, Waterfall Methodology

 

 

 

• Experienced Lead Business Analyst in Treasury and Capital markets
• Experienced in requirement gathering, Business analysis, identifying data issues & Gaps and coordinating with Business team.
• Experienced working in both Agile & Waterfall methodology.
• Extensively worked in all phases of SDLC (Test Initiation, Test Planning, Test Execution and Test Closure activities) in various data warehouse/application projects.
• Strong knowledge of ETL testing processes using Informatica Power Centre 8.
• Hands-on experience working in Automating processes to reduce manual efforts.
• Extensive scripting knowledge of SQL and tuning techniques.
• Very good knowledge on Canned & Adhoc reports using Cognos BI/Power Pivot reporting tool.
• Expertise in working with Quality Centre tool HPALM 11.0
• Analysing data requirements, Proposing budgets and Effort Estimation.
• Coordinating the Test Strategy, test planning and Execution in Onsite / Offshore models.
• Have expertise in System Integration testing, UAT, Interface testing, Data Migration testing and Data Warehouse testing.
• Responsible for the successful delivery of various types of Master Data Management projects.
• Expertise in test ware execution and leading defect management team.
• Experienced working proactively in identifying the risks and escalating & communicating the issues to the business clients.
• Preparation and publishing Status and Summary reports on a regular basis to various stake holders.
• Consecutively been outstanding performer in company.
• Have conducted trainings on Treasury and Capital Markets and SQL trainer in the organisation to all new entrants.

 

 

 

Project name : Consolidated Derivative Project

Client            : GE Treasury

Role              : Business System Analyst

Tools             : MS Visio, Informatica Power Centre 9.5.1, Cognos 10.2, Rally,

Testing Model: Agile Methodology

Location        : Stamford, Connecticut

 

Description:

Currently GE Treasury gather, consolidate, reconcile, analyse & report derivatives for SEC & regulatory reporting solution manually. Data source is inconsistent across GE & GECC. The capability for sensitivity adhoc analysis is time consuming for derivative data. This project objective is to provide automated process for data gathering, consolidation and reconciliation process for the business and treasury. It also achieves the goal for a single source of consolidated information across all GE entities.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Working with Senior Business Stake holders to understand their business requirements and interpreting the same to IT team through requirement elicitation, business requirement analysis.

·         Performing detailed impact analysis on business processes/system flows synthesized findings and provides suggestions based on data or functional requirements change.

·         Collaborated with cross-functional teams (business users, IT Managers, technical architects and developers) to ensure maximum process quality including process documentation.

·         Preparation of Functional Requirement Document and Requirement Traceability Matrix.

·         Creating functional User stories based on business requirement throughout the Agile Process.

·         Reviewing and Analysing User stories & tasks created by the Development and QA team.

·         Reviewing technical design documents created for each user story by the Development team.

·         Documentations to support Process Diagrams, High Level Designs, Business Data mappings, Data modelling.

·         Facilitating the coordination between Business team, Development and QA team.

·         Analysing & reviewing the tasks created by QA team.

·         Participated in the preparation of test cases for User Acceptance Testing.

·         Reviewing the implementation of Business requirements in each sprint.

·         Tracking each business requirement till the closure of the sprint.

·         Highlighting the risks and mitigations to Scrum master on daily sprint meetings.

·         Conducting daily meetings with various stakeholders to understand the progress on Sprint.

·         Perform unit testing once the development is completed at end of each sprint.

·         Identifying business data issues and escalating the same to business team after each sprint

·         Provide Demo to product owner at end of each sprint for the requirements achieved.

·         Providing valuable inputs for improving the scrum process in Retrospective meetings to key stakeholders

·         Extensively worked in Rally tool to update the daily activities during each sprint

 

Project name : Financial Currency Simplification Program

Client            : GE Treasury

Role              : Business System Analyst

Tools            : Informatica Power Centre 8, Cognos 8, SQL, HPQC

Testing Model: Waterfall model

Location        : Stamford, Connecticut/Chennai, India

 

Description:

 

GE Corporate treasury analyses, monitors, and strategizes to mitigate business foreign investment risks within GE. This project will identify accounting exposure either from remeasurement through earnings or revaluation through CTA and it needs to identify and display foreign net investment balances that are subject to revaluation and quantify the potential impact which can be hedged.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Working with Senior Business Stake holders to understand their business requirements and interpreting the same to IT team through requirement elicitation, business requirement analysis.

·         Performing detailed impact analysis on business processes/system flows synthesized findings and provides suggestions based on data or functional requirements change.

·         Collaborated with cross-functional teams (business users, IT Managers, technical architects and developers) to ensure maximum process quality including process documentation.

·         Preparation of Functional Requirement Document and Requirement Traceability Matrix.

·         Reviewing technical design documents created by the Development team.

·         Documentations to support Process Diagrams, High Level Designs, Business Data mappings, Data modelling.

·         Facilitating the coordination between Business team, Development and QA team.

·         Analysing & reviewing the tasks created by QA team.

·         Participated in the preparation of test cases for User Acceptance Testing.

·         Reviewing the implementation of Business requirements in each sprint.

·         Tracking each business requirement till the closure of the sprint.

·         Highlighting the risks and mitigations to Scrum master on daily sprint meetings.

·         Conducting daily meetings with various stakeholders to understand the progress on Sprint.

·         Perform unit testing once the development is completed at end of each sprint.

·         Identifying business data issues and escalating the same to business team after each sprint

·         Provide Demo to product owner at end of each sprint for the requirements achieved.

·         Providing valuable inputs for improving the scrum process in Retrospective meetings to key stakeholders

·         Extensively worked in Rally tool to update the daily activities during each sprint

·         Potential knowledge in running batch loads using Informatica tool

·         Responsible for end to end Defect and project tracking

Project name : Derivative Data Reform

Client            : GE Treasury

Role              : QA Offshore Test Lead

Tools            : Informatica Power Centre 8.x, Cognos TM1,SQL

Testing Model: Waterfall model

Location        : Chennai, India

 

Description:

 

GE Corporate Treasury has to report detail requirements outlined in the proposed rules for Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act (“The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act”) was signed into law on July 21, 2010 and will significantly change the oversight and execution of US over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Worked as a QA Offshore Lead for onsite/offshore model and was leading a team of four members.

·         Understanding the Business requirement and Functional specification documents.

·         Preparation of Master Test Plan (MTP).

·         Reviewing the Test Scripts, Test Scope, Test Scenarios document.

·         Reviewing the Clarifications Tracker and publishing to the Client.

·         Analysing & reviewing the Queries to execute test scripts.

·         Running Informatica Jobs to load data  to respective databases

·         Reviewing the defects raised by team during execution phase.

·         Generate Defect report to the client and project team.

·         Drive the defect calls and walkthrough the Development team on the defects.

·         Identifying the business defects and escalating to project team

·         Coordinating with all stake holders on defect management till the project closure

Project name : Fund Transferring Pricing Project

Client            : GE Treasury

Role              : QA Test Engineer

Tools            : Informatica Power Centre 8.5.1, Cognos 8

Testing Model: Waterfall model

Location        : Chennai, India

 

Description:

 

GE Corporate Treasury main responsibility is to fund GE Capital business worldwide and it also maintains accounts of corporate-level debt and related interest expenses. Corporate Treasury's way of liquidating GE Capital Corporate cost of funds back to the businesses through Interest Allocation System (IAS).

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Worked as a QA Offshore Lead for onsite/offshore model and was leading a team of four members.

·         Understanding the Business requirement and Functional specification documents.

·         Preparation of Master Test Plan (MTP).

·         Reviewing the Test Scripts, Test Scope, Test Scenarios document.

·         Reviewing the Clarifications Tracker and publishing to the Client.

·         Analysing & reviewing the Queries to execute test scripts.

·         Running Informatica Jobs to load data  to respective databases

·         Reviewing the defects raised by team during execution phase.

·         Generate Defect report to the client and project team.

·         Drive the defect calls and walkthrough the Development team on the defects.

·         Identifying the business defects and escalating to project team

·         Coordinating with all stake holders on defect management till the project closure.

 

 

 

 

Operations Management:

 

·         Handled Domestic Treasury Operations for UBS Mumbai Branch.

·         Handled Trade Life Cycle for Forex, Money Market and Fixed Income Products.

·         Validation of Money Market, Forex, OTC Derivatives and Bond deals in treasury systems and ensured timely and correct settlement (SWIFT) of all validated deals with interbank, corporate and clients.

·         Analysed & confirming to the counterparty and making payments through RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement) for INR and SWIFT for Foreign Currencies.

·         Preparation of daily funding statements and ensuring optimum utilisation of funds thereof.

·         Preparation and circulation of Treasury reports and MIS reporting.

·         Reconciled Nostro for derivative settlement entries and coordinating with front office, Nostros and counterparties.

·         Prepared Regulatory Reports to Reserve Bank of India (India’s Central Bank) on daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.

·         Attending to internal and statutory audit queries and attending sunrise meetings (SLA review meetings)

·         Overseeing payment conformations and trade conformations with counterparties.

·         Managed a team of four.

 

Team Management

 

·         Mentoring, training and developing team members to ensure high operational / sales efficiency and product knowledge.

·         Monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in retail banking operations and meeting of individual & group targets and corporate goals.

·         Creating and maintaining a healthy & learning environment while ensuring creative & operational development of the employees.

 

 

Accountabilities:

 

Operations Management

 

·         Monitoring Derivative Settlement Process in Hyderabad.

·         Derivative settlement includes Swaps (IRS, CIRS) and Options, CDS

·         Handled Indian Money Market Operations (Repos, Call, CD, Mutual Funds, and Equity)

·         Analysing & confirming to the counterparty and making payments through RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement) for INR and SWIFT for Foreign Currencies

·         Executing merchant desk double validation process in Murex

·         Providing Business requirements to IT team for Forex and Capital markets Operations

·         Framing the Settlement Advices for corporate clients and solving their queries

·         Generating daily data reports, analysing which are exercisable or non-exercisable

·         Preparing funding reports

·         Overseeing payment conformations and trade conformations with counterparties

·         Responsible for performing UAT for migration of Forex trades from Kondor to Murex

 

Client Relationship Management

 

·         Managing customer centric operations & ensuring customer satisfaction by achieving delivery & service quality norms.

·         Ensuring that highest service standards are maintained for servicing of clients and maintaining minimum turn-around-time.

·         Organising Customers Meet and celebrating Customer Relationship Fortnight.

 

 

Notable Credits:

 

·         Streamlined few processes between front office and back office.

·         Received Appreciation from Top Management for migrating application from kondor to Murex.

 

 

 

Ü MBA (Finance and Marketing) from Indian Institute of Planning and Management, Chennai in 2006. Secured 67%.

Ü B. Tech. (I.T) from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Madras University in 2004. Secured 73.5%

Ü Certified Scrum Master(CSM)

Ü Certification in NCFM – Financial Markets Module.

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