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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Senior Project Manager / Release Train Engineer role in a bank wide, multi-year program focussing on Financial Crime Change - Sanctions / Counter Terrorism Financing systems and process implementation. The project is a transformational uplift of systems, process and personnel to ensure sanctions screening capability is in line with global standards encompassing new screening technologies, cloud instances, data lake integration, matching algorithms, watchlists, improvements to business reporting and enhanced checks for sanctions evasion attempts i.e. wire stripping. Accomplishments:· Multiple iterative uplifts to sanctions screening filter (NetReveal) to ensure compliance with financial crime obligations linked to introduction of SWIFT MX messages – which represent unique challenges due to the larger data set offering more opportunities for criminal misdemeanour · Uplifting key asset infrastructure in line with CPS234 vulnerability remediations · Enhanced internal technology solutions and extension of vendor solution to cater to wider sanctions compliance coverage for trade and working capital products (FircoCL)· Delivered platform changes for List Management and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Senior Project Manager in the Anti-Money Laundering transaction monitoring program. Implementing key upgrades on a real time ticket and voucher monitoring solution enabling automated transaction monitoring at an organisational level by including multi relational, geospatial and anomaly analysis capabilities. Also, improving capabilities around rules applied, provisioning a self maintained rules engine and modules that will enable detailed investigations to be undertaken in response to requests from regulators, Federal Police etc

Melbourne, Australia

Senior Project Manager role in a bank wide multi-year program focussing on Financial Crime Change - Sanctions / Counter Terrorism Financing systems and process implementation. Specifically Project Manager on a transformational uplift of systems, process and personnel to ensure sanctions screening capability in line with global standards encompassing new screening technologies, cloud implementation, algorithms, watchlists, improvements to business reporting & enhanced checks for wire stripping, enabling better normalization and threshold management.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Asia Pacific Project Management Role covering regulatory and tax reporting for the following jurisdictions and regulators· Hong Kong – Hong Kong Monetary Authority · Indonesia – Financial Services Authority · Korea – Financial Supervisory Service · India - Goods and Services Tax, Reserve Bank of India – Risk Based Supervision, Reserve Bank of India – Automated Data Flow, Basel reporting, Liquidity Coverage Ratio reporting· India – Financial Intelligence Unit - Monitoring and reporting of suspicious transactions· Singapore – Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation · Malaysia – Bank Negara Malaysia Accomplishments:· Regulatory Compliance - Ongoing change and improvement to be compliant with regulatory circulars and internal needs for 7 APAC jurisdictions (Agile)· Goods and Services Tax (GST) Roll-out – Project Managed the Data Provisioning system that enabled compliance with Government of India regulations and reporting requirement as part of the GST rollout in a landscape of limited funding, evolving regulations and a non-negotiable deadline (Agile)· Exposure Calculation and Reporting – Project Managed the implementation of Reserve Bank of India mandate for implementation of Standardised Approach on Counterparty Credit Risk, while ensuring downstream impact and reporting implications were met for more than 67 regulatory submissions (Agile)· Risk Based Supervision – Project Managed the delivery of an automated reporting solution for Risk Based Supervision mandated by the Reserve Bank of India, enabling automated submissions (Agile)· Regulatory Automated Data Flow – Project Managed the automation / enhancement of regulatory reports under the Automated Data Flow reporting mandate from Reserve Bank of India automating manual procedures (Waterfall)· Data Quality Management - Project Managed work efforts to identify and remediate data quality incidents within regulatory reporting program (Waterfall)

Mumbai Area, India

Asia Pacific Project Management Role covering regulatory and tax reporting for the following jurisdictions and regulators· Hong Kong – Hong Kong Monetary Authority · Indonesia – Financial Services Authority · Korea – Financial Supervisory Service · India - Goods and Services Tax, Reserve Bank of India – Risk Based Supervision, Reserve Bank of India – Automated Data Flow, Basel reporting, Liquidity Coverage Ratio reporting· India – Financial Intelligence Unit - Monitoring and reporting of suspicious transactions· Singapore – Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation · Malaysia – Bank Negara Malaysia Accomplishments:· Regulatory Compliance - Ongoing change and improvement to be compliant with regulatory circulars and internal needs for 7 APAC jurisdictions (Agile)· Goods and Services Tax (GST) Roll-out – Project Managed the Data Provisioning system that enabled compliance with Government of India regulations and reporting requirement as part of the GST rollout in a landscape of limited funding, evolving regulations and a non-negotiable deadline (Agile)· Exposure Calculation and Reporting – Project Managed the implementation of Reserve Bank of India mandate for implementation of Standardised Approach on Counterparty Credit Risk, while ensuring downstream impact and reporting implications were met for more than 67 regulatory submissions (Agile)· Risk Based Supervision – Project Managed the delivery of an automated reporting solution for Risk Based Supervision mandated by the Reserve Bank of India, enabling automated submissions (Agile)· Regulatory Automated Data Flow – Project Managed the automation / enhancement of regulatory reports under the Automated Data Flow reporting mandate from Reserve Bank of India automating manual procedures (Waterfall)· Data Quality Management - Project Managed work efforts to identify and remediate data quality incidents within regulatory reporting program (Waterfall)

Mumbai Area, India

Business Analysis for Regulatory Automation ( RBI RBS, RBI ADF, CBWTR, RBI NPA Monitoring)

Mumbai Area, India

Project Management role building workflow and process improvement solutions covering the following domains - Cash Management, Trade Finance, Deposit Services and Client On boarding Accomplishments:· Asia Cards Expansion – Project Managed the roll out of corporate cards as a product in India, as part of a regional roll out (Waterfall)· Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Manual Payments – Project Co-ordinator and Business Analyst enabling the usage of OCR technologies to scan manual paper payment instructions and thereafter leveraging a workflow management tool for onward processing of the instruction (Waterfall)· Correspondent Bank Paper Payments (CBPP) – Project Co-ordinator and Business Analyst on project to print paper payment instruments (Demand Draft) on Bank of America stationary, but payable at correspondent bank locations across India (Waterfall)· Time Deposits - Project Co-ordinator and Business Analyst for workflow solution for issuing and managing the life cycle of Time/Fixed Deposits inclusive of functionalities like pre-termination, unitisation, automated drawdowns (Waterfall)· Multi Entity Sweeps – Project Co-ordinator and Business Analyst for new product to offer complex multi-entity sweep arrangements to clients such as Zero Balance, Target Balance, Percentage Balance across multi-layered parent child entity relationships (Agile)· Functional Activity Tracker - Project Co-ordinator and Process Architect for the model that measures demand and supply across Bank of America, India branches enabling senior management to accurately measure resource utilisation and plan resource mobilisation for new client acquisitions or product launches. The model even allowed for partial processing and offshoring in operational workflows (Agile)

Hyderabad Area, India

· Led projects to drive optimum utilisation management, multisite capability creation, business metric creation, process performance managementAccomplishments:· Functional Activity Tracker - Project Co-ordinator and Process Architect for the model that measures demand and supply for centralised processing units in India that cater to 9 Bank of America branches in the Asia Pacific Region - enabling senior management to accurately measure resource utilisation and plan resource mobilisation for new client acquisitions or product launches. The model even allowed for partial processing and offshoring in operational workflows· Process delivery and quality monitoring – Built and maintained models for ongoing process health monitoring utilising tools such as Upper and Lower Control Limits and Trend Analysis and Fishbone analysis

An Insight into Securitization in the United States - Asset BackedSecurities (Automobile & Equipment)

Agile Development Specialization (Coursera - Diploma), Information Technology

Pgdm, Finance

Activities and Societies: Placement Co-ordinatorBest Outgoing Student Best Summer Project

Bachelor Of Science, Statistics (Hons. Economics & Hons. Statistics)

Activities and Societies: OC (Organizing Committee) Literary Arts - Malhar 2006 OG Literary Arts - Malhar 2005 Dorabji Tata Scholar.