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Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Client - Telstra Corporation Ltd• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.• Managing requirement gathering, analysis, design and solutioning for RPA, Enterprise Mobility, Cognitive/AI and be-spoke Software Development projects.• Planning the overall project and monitoring the progress, including Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measures. • Managing and utilizing resources… Show more Client - Telstra Corporation Ltd• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.• Managing requirement gathering, analysis, design and solutioning for RPA, Enterprise Mobility, Cognitive/AI and be-spoke Software Development projects.• Planning the overall project and monitoring the progress, including Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measures. • Managing and utilizing resources across projects along with stakeholders’ communication.• Aligning the deliverables (outputs) to the project’s “outcome” with the aid of the business change manager.• Led cross-functional teams to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.• Involve in solution design for projects as may be specified by the functional / technical specifications by utilizing the appropriate protocol knowledge, programming and database understanding.• Translate user/functional requirements to technical requirements and work with development team to bring solutions to life.• Ensuring highest level of quality is maintained for all projects. Minimum defects are encountered during UAT/BRT and all identified defects are fixed/mitigated within acceptable timeframes• Managed annual budgets for the projects, ensuring all financial targets were met and costs were controlled effectively.• Involved in PI and Sprint Planning sessions for overall project, ensuring clear understanding of goals and efficient task allocation.• Coordinated and moderated Sprint Retrospectives, using JIRA and Confluence to track action items and improvements.• Collaborated with product owners and leadership teams to develop a strategic roadmap, aligning project goals with business objectives and improving project delivery timelines• Led Data Ingestion and Optimization Projects ensuring seamless integration of data from diverse source systems into a central data repository. Show less

Mumbai Area, India

Investment Banking - Commodities and Derivatives:• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.• Involved in Testing and Integration of trades on Risk Management systems like Openlink-Endur. • Updating, implementing and maintaining procedures.• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.• Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of… Show more Investment Banking - Commodities and Derivatives:• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.• Involved in Testing and Integration of trades on Risk Management systems like Openlink-Endur. • Updating, implementing and maintaining procedures.• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.• Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.• Managing the entire operational process of determining and Confirming derivatives trades terms and regulation with other professional clients.• Reconciliation & settlement of commodities trades such as Precious Metals, Oil, Agriculture, Power and Gas consisting of sub-types such as Options, Swaps and Forwards etc.• Asset class expertize in Commodities, NDF and Credit Derivatives.• Chasing and interacting with the Logistics, Trade Control team and Salespersons for any discrepancy in the trade economics.• Risk & controls, People Management, Knowledge Management, Process documentation & stabilization. Show less

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Requirement gathering and delivering the same through business requirement document.• Developing use cases and test cases based on requirements, developing test scenarios to be broken down into test cases.• Being Single point of contact for Regression testing, UAT and business signoff.• Involved in Testing and Integration of trades on Risk Management systems like Openlink-Endur, Murex, Athena and STS.• Liaising with development manager, test manager and business.• Created… Show more • Requirement gathering and delivering the same through business requirement document.• Developing use cases and test cases based on requirements, developing test scenarios to be broken down into test cases.• Being Single point of contact for Regression testing, UAT and business signoff.• Involved in Testing and Integration of trades on Risk Management systems like Openlink-Endur, Murex, Athena and STS.• Liaising with development manager, test manager and business.• Created and managed project plans, issue logs, scope management, resource management and scheduling for migrating precious metals business from Risk management systems (Endur V6 and Murex) to Athena Risk management system.• Commodities confirmations system optimization for Bullion and Energy Products e.g. Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Power, Gas, Coal and other Softs as well as base metals.• Process involves Confirming and Matching of Bullion and Energy trades by analyzing all the necessary Economic Parameters of the trade.• Monitoring Bullion trades received through Swift and matching those in order to further initiate settlement of the trade.• Process Involving understanding, setting up and Pricing of securities like Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, Structured Products, Fixed Incomes, Equities, Investment Trusts, ETF’s (Exchange Traded Funds), Derivatives Listed Options in the System.• Part of the Global Core team involving daily interaction with all the teams across globe. Examining and analyzing various financial queries on a day to day basis and scrutinizing the authenticity of the data atSecurity level.• Investigation and Analysis of S&P and Moody’s Ratings for Securities from Bloomberg. Show less

Post Graduate Diploma, Business Administration (Pgdba), Investment Banking

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