Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Acknowledgement
Timeline
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Ranjith Kumar Subramaniam

Business Analyst
Chennai

Summary

Strategic and results-driven business analyst with 14+ years of experience in investment banking enriched with diverse work experience across middle office & back office operational functionalities. An assiduous employee equipped with impactful communication skills, work ethics, and a strong sense of leadership with a commendable record of accomplishments on financial products like Fixed Interest, Equities, and Foreign Exchange.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Analyst

Citicorp Services India Private Limited
08.2022 - Current
  • Extensive experience in mapping business requirements and designing solutions in achieving business excellence.
  • Design and review of various documents including Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirements (FRD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Test Artifacts.
  • Communicate Client’s business requirement by constructing easy to understand business model.
  • Translate stakeholder requirement in to tangible deliverable such as Business requirement document, user stories, Process flow diagrams and data flow model.
  • Detailing the business users with process flow and procedure documentation for easy understanding of the change and development.
  • Analysis of new products for the client and provide reviews and feedback on the output of the product detailing. Participated and Co-ordinate Joined System Integration Testing and Joined User Acceptance Testing along with the Business Team across different locations and timelines to ensure accuracy, integrity and completeness to achieve desired results.
  • Coordinate with multiple resources efficiently and effectively throughout the development lifecycle so as to ensure that the projects are completed on time, meet requirements, are implemented accurately and the full impact is understood by the business owner.
  • Interface with internal business users as well as various IT development groups so the needs can be clearly understood, expectations managed and change initiated.
  • Act as the point of contact between the Business units and IT department Perform analysis for business applications and impacted downstream systems.
  • A profound customer centric and an effective team leader with proven abilities in working with various teams, guiding team member and enabling knowledge sharing among the teams.

Business Analyst

BNP PARIBAS INDIA SOLUTIONS
10.2019 - 08.2022
  • Analysis and Interpretation of data in support of cross-functional business operations.
  • Identifying opportunities for improvement in operation performance and notifying management of issues a problem requiring immediate attention.
  • Prepared regular dashboard for senior executives and stakeholders.
  • Managing daily scrum and spring planning with stakeholders and business partners.
  • Coordinated with technical development team to ensure that requirement are effectively developed and implemented.
  • Conducted detailed and comprehensive business analysis by working with other Bas, IT developers, end – users in order to identify system and operational requirements and improvements.
  • Analyzed and tested various inbound and outbound interface process for supported busies functions.
  • Defined functional test cases documented and executed manually using the Quality center and Jira.


KEY PROJECTS


  • New Client On boarding - Gathering requirement with the current service offering and analyzing on the ad-hoc request from the client.
  • New product analysis, Business & Application process Improvement.
  • Migration of Calypso valuation Service (Market Pricing from Calypso to Hiportfolio) Northcape - FX Onboarding on standard Middle Office services offered at BNP Paribas.
  • Hiportfolio Accounting upgrade from v13 to v16.2 Enhancement, Improvement & Bug Fix. Built in-house integrated trade applications.


Senior Test Engineer

BNP Paribas India Solutions
12.2016 - 10.2019

Software Testing in IT industry with QA, Test Management, Test Planning and Leadership activities along with Test Execution. Well versed in End to End Test Management, creating Test Plans, Tracking Testing Process, Defect Management, Preparing various project related Reports and Metrics like Traceability Metrics, Defect Metrics, Weekly and Monthly Status Reports, Risks and Issue Logs, Consolidating Test Results, Reviewing Test Scenarios, Test Data &Environment Preparation.


  • Created templates and artifacts for Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Test Data, Defect Report, Periodic and End of Project Reports.
  • Created & maintained test artifacts and encourage discussion and participation.
  • Provide single point of contact for all vendor issues to the tool vendor, liaise with the vendor on a weekly basis to review outstanding issues
    Under very aggressive deadlines, designed, developed, and executed comprehensive test plans for Role Based Access testing, Web Services testing, Production Environment Validation, and User Acceptance Test& Joint User Acceptance Test.
  • Primary author of integration test plans, and the master quality plan, coordinate, capture, review, maintenance of all test artifacts
    Defect, Test Cases Management using ALM Quality Center
    Involved in QA process quality audit - organizational level.
  • Involved in Functional Test Estimations for each Iterations, Lead daily status meetings and capture, manage, and follow-up daily action items
  • Involved in on boarding and Knowledge Transfer Sessions to new team members.
  • Involved in Higher Management Test Review Meeting and in other organizational level project highlighting activities.

Senior Associate/Team Leader

BNP Paribas Global Security Operations
08.2011 - 12.2016


  • Experienced in Assets and fund services at BNP Paribas Global Securities Operations with Sound Functional knowledge in Middle Office Process.
  • FX operations products (Foreign exchange, money market) supporting back office operations for Confirmations, Settlements, Reconciliation and Investigations.
  • Trade Capture\processing, Broker Matching, Settlements, reconciliation and claims investigations End to End middle office processing.
  • Product handled Fixed Income, Equity / Foreign Exchange and knowledge in Derivatives.
  • Dealing with FX trades booked by front office.
  • Processing of FX trades booked on T-date and releasing MT304 swift instructions to Custodians.
  • Working as a member of the FX processing/settlements and Trade processing team.
  • Ensure timely settlement of Foreign Exchange.
  • Perform exception handling of trades in the confirmation matching system and communication of the details with counter-parties. Contacting broker or trader and have the necessary amendments in case of mismatches and incorrect details
  • Working closely with reconciliations team on the nostro breaks from custodian statements and investigating the breaks to resolve them immediately.
  • Matching the trades via CTM or through paper confirmations.
  • Managing & supervising trades across markets and escalation through various levels to avoid any failure.
  • Query Management - Counterpart Mismatch, Value date breaks, Missing trades, Direction, Internal Reconciliation, Ad Hoc requests.
  • Ensure that all trades are matched within market deadlines.
  • Managing failed trades on a daily basis through reviewing and following up with the counterparties, Account managers and getting them settled without any further delay.
  • Ensure all errors/break down of procedure are documented as per company’s policy.


SENIOR ASSOCIATE - LEVEL1


  • Key member in Implementation of Tradeflow Project from Sydney, Australia
  • Worked as a member of the Trade Processing team/Security trade matching and settlement
  • Interact with both internal and external parties to resolve trade confirmation and settlement queries
    Train new joiners’ and conduct process reviews and huddles to keep updated with changes in process and procedures.
  • Participate and help management in the Audit and new Projects.
  • Work closely with custodians to resolve any discrepancies and ensure all trades settled on time.
  • Interact with brokers and identify matching or settlement delays and resolve them to increase STP rate.
  • Handling investigations and fixing of Depot and Nostro breaks.
  • Prepare monthly KPI reports.
  • Working closely with reconciliations team and identifying breaks from custodian statements and investigating the breaks to resolve them immediately.
  • Identify potential cost-savings and promote cost-efficient processes while maintaining quality and risk controls.

Education

MBA - Finance

SRM School of Management
Chennai
04.2001 -

HSC -

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA AFS
AVADI, CHENNAI
04.2001 -

SSLC -

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA AFS
AVADI, CHENNAI
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Requirement gathering, analysis and process improvement
  • Stakeholder management and effective communication
  • Project management
  • Cross functional team collaboration
  • Data gathering and critical evaluation
  • Agile methodology (SCRUM)
  • MS Office-Word, Excel, PPT and Outlook
  • Project management tools – JIRA, Confluence
  • Databases - SQL Server Database Engine
  • Interface testing - E2E Trade life Cycle, SDLC
  • Tools - Microsoft Visio

Accomplishments

CITICORP SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

QFX Project:

  • Successfully delivered projects under CAP and MRA like Annapurna, Auto-netting, Risk and control and LAPC etc.
  • Conducted requirement walk-through and ensured seamless project execution.
  • Consistently delivered high quality business artifacts and sprint status report.

Employee engagement programs:

  • Successful implementation of employee engagement activities like MOT Gratitude recognition, "Getting to know your leaders" and monthly team building activities.
  • Was awarded "Outstanding Award" for ideation and actioning of the 'Amazing Race' event in 2022 O&T Expo conducted by Innovation workgroup.
  • Winners of 2022 Inter BU Citi cricket tournament.
  • Active volunteer of Citi initiatives organized by DEI, CSR, Wellness and Innovation workgroups.

BNP PARIBAS SECURITY GLOBAL

  • Kaizen Award Four times for process improvement in reducing about 40 hrs a week. Excellent team performer and Awarded team of the quarter over three times.
  • Three spot award for excellence in Performances and quality.
  • Awarded for successful completion of ACE Project. This helped in studying and improvising 15 Process flows.

Acknowledgement

I hereby declare that the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.


Yours Sincerely,

Ranjith Kumar Subramaniam.

Timeline

Business Analyst

Citicorp Services India Private Limited
08.2022 - Current

Business Analyst

BNP PARIBAS INDIA SOLUTIONS
10.2019 - 08.2022

Senior Test Engineer

BNP Paribas India Solutions
12.2016 - 10.2019

Senior Associate/Team Leader

BNP Paribas Global Security Operations
08.2011 - 12.2016

MBA - Finance

SRM School of Management
04.2001 -

HSC -

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA AFS
04.2001 -

SSLC -

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA AFS
04.2001 -
Ranjith Kumar SubramaniamBusiness Analyst