Jayakumar (Jay) Gopalakrishnan Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Volante Technologies is a global provider of software to accelerate digital transformation and modernization in financial services. Volante helps their clients by providing various solutions for payments and financial messaging automation to become more competitive by simplifying their systems and processes so they can stay ahead of emerging market trends. Responsibilities as a Product Manager• Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translatethem into product requirements.• Defining the vision for the teams to envisage a payment rail in the product.• Creating a product road map based on this vision.• Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements/sales team/marketneeds.• Overseeing all stages of product creation including design and development• Developing user stories• Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process.• Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates.• Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints

London, England, United Kingdom

• Functional and product specialist for various bank releases from gathering requirements via workshopsand elaboration calls - solving them, providing specifications to the developers group by decomposing thehigh-level solution at the business function/task level for product implementation.• Conducting delivery audits for ongoing projects and quality of solution to highlight possibleimprovements if required• Identifying and addressing client needs, communicating value propositions• Help clients resolve implementation / integration issues.• Collaborating and coordinating with Technical, Solution, Sales, and Delivery teams to interpret client RFPrequirements, and craft solutions.• Contributing to designing, architecting and estimating high-quality, solutions for ongoing opportunities,with an emphasis on technical, functional excellence.• Understanding and helping to develop solutions• Providing mappings for transforming the payment instructions, acknowledgments to their respectivecanonical structure in the product and vice versa.• Incorporating new features to the existing product by brainstorming and devising solutions and providingfunctional design level specifications to developers and testers.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Standard Chartered Bank - STS STS (Straight through Service) is a proprietary payment processing system ofStandard Chartered Bank (SCB). STS is a multi-country, regional payments system. STS is a fully automatedpayments solution designed to address customer's payable needs in several emerging markets, for any paymenttype in multiple currencies. The System has a component – Hub Workstation (HWS) accessible from all SCBpayment centers for SCB users to view and act on payment details. STS also supports Ripple X-Current BlockChain payment mechanism. Responsibilities• Preparing project FSDs and providing solutions• Understanding the existing system and interfacing systems• Analysis, design and writing business and functional use cases• Acted as a liaison between business user and different project team with effective coordination andpresentation.• Assisted QA team in designing the test plan and test cases for SIT and UAT

London, United Kingdom

Lloyds Banking Group – ICS ICS (Image clearing scheme) formally known as FCM will replace the currentU.K wide clearing system for sterling denomination debit paper items (Cheque, Draft and Warrant) and BGC.The exchange switch will follow two days clearing model. Based on these banks need to develop 1. DigitalImage Capture, 2. Processing of Images, 3. New fraud prevention mechanism, 4. Advice to customer, 5. ReturnProcessing, 6. Accounting and reconciliation. Responsibilities• Reviewed and analyze Integration requirements for ICS project.• Conducted Intensive Data analysis and prepared Data validation, mapping rule for end to end projectIntegration• Prepared end to end Mapping document for various data flow.• Reviewed and signoff Architecture document & MLPD.• Assisted SIT for Integration related defects.

Chennai Area, India

CITI ICG Steady State Citi ICG provides Corporate Banking solutions to its customers. The Project involves 19applications that have been streamlined in a phased manner for SIT/UAT support to the TCoE (Testing Centreof Excellence). ICG Tech Asia is a Project of Cash & Trade and Liquidity management application of Citibank.Worked as a Business Analyst for couple of corporate banking applications such as Domestic DisbursementsEngine (DDE), Citi Connect Trade (CCT), File Consolidator (FC) and Consolidated Operational TransactionsStore (COTS) Responsibilities• Worked with business user and SME to gather requirements of the systems.• Analysis, design and writing business and functional use cases• Used UML methodology to developed Use Case Diagram and Activity Diagram• Prepared System Requirement Specifications (SRS)• Acted as a liaison between business user and different project team with effective coordination andpresentation.• Assisted QA team in designing the test plan and test cases for UAT• Prepared User Manual and training document.

Chennai

Citibank - Global Financial Messaging (GFM) Global Financial Messaging is the process of delivering andadvising end-to-end SWIFT messaging solutions to the global Citibank users. It is engaged in RMA processbetween SWIFT and Correspondent banks. GFM is also engaged in screening of SDN names and alerting theentire applications within Citibank. Responsibilities• Preparing project BRDs and providing solutions• Understanding the existing system and interfacing systems• Advising and involved in architectural Decision-making process• Dealing with country heads and other senior executives for requirement prioritization• Quality analysis of process

Chennai Area, India

Washington Mutual - OSAR OSAR (Operating Statement Analysis and Reporting) is a mortgage servicingteam where it will analyze the borrowers' operating statement and advise the bank whether the borrower has thecapability to re-pay the debt or not. It is also engaged in doing Variance analysis for previous year and current yearand ascertains the Debt Coverage ratio. Responsibilities• Arriving at debit coverage ratio on the property of the borrower, which they have pledged.• Analyzing income & expense items of borrowers appearing in the yearend financial statement.• Grouping and classifying the income & expense items provided in the financial statement under thecategories of administrative, repairs and maintenance of property and non-operation income & expenses.• Doing thorough reviews for the deliverables of other team members to ensure error free delivery to client

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Commerce

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Human Resources Management