Sasikanth AVR
Chennai
Summary
An analytical thinker with overall 8+ years of investment banking experience, which includes 5.9 years of experience as a Business Analyst and have complete knowledge on all phases of the software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate
Bank of New York
03.2019 - Current
- Expertise in requirement elicitation, requirement verification & prioritization
- Excellent knowledge of different requirement elicitation and prioritization techniques
- Analysis - document analysis, Gap analysis, Root cause analysis and process analysis
- Experience in all SCRUM ceremonies
- Creating board, Epics, User stories, tasks and subtasks in JIRA
- • Backlog management, refining and grooming user stories, to get them ready for the next sprint
- Writing acceptance criteria, assumptions, background & description
- Creating Mock-ups - workflows and business Process Modeling
- Documents like RTM, BRD, FRD, RACI Matrix & As is and To be process
- Articulating requirements to the developers as well as the testers
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track KPIs and performance metrics
- Provide recommendations for process improvements and work with cross-functional teams to implement solutions
- Diminished project gaps and reduced task duplication to manage smooth workflow
- Worked on Business automation projects which successfully helped to downsize the staff count by 30%
- Analyze and document business processes and workflows Liaising with Solution Delivery, Ops and Transformation Teams for Solution Scoping (TO- BE State)
- Conduct Gap Analysis to define the scope and complexity of Change
State Street HCL
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Posting accounting for daily cash activities from broker statements like commissions and clearing house fees etc
- Setting up interest lines and settling it on accounting and posting broker side offset in accounting to monthly and quarterly coupon payments for CDS and IRS trades
- Performing SSB (state street Books) VS Broker reconciliation on daily basis to make sure broker and SSB books are matching, taking required actions to clear detected discrepancies from daily recon
- Flagging aged discrepancies to management with audit trail of actions taken to clear those breaks
- Assisting pears to perform reconciliation in case if they find any challenge to identify or itemize breaks
- Consolidating individual recons into single file and match it with original raw recon file to check whether all breaks are reconciled for day or not, sending consolidated recon file to management on daily basis
Deutsche Bank of India
08.2014 - 07.2016
- Worked in Derivatives settlement for GTS Rates and Credits reconciliation team
- Reconciliation for London, Frankfurt, NY, and Jacksonville for all Rates and credit Derivatives (Product) trade teams
- For all Global trade capture teams
- This reconciliation helps management to avoid any dupe payments for client
- Front office to back office reconciliations between Tsar and Summit applications
- Commenting on discrepancies between Tsar and Summit
- Assisting peers to ensure that all tasks assigned to team are done accurately and all exceptions items are followed up to resolution
- Reconciling pre and Post settlements, validating traded, liaising with middle office and front office and other support units to provide quality of service to ensure that all trades are settled in time
Education
Masters of Business Administration -
ST. Mary’s College
Skills
Preparation of Business case, BRD & Project charters
UAT Planning, preparation & Signoff
Analysis of Manager reporting on Power BI
Documentation management using confluence
Stakeholder Management
Critical & Analytical Thinking
Requirement Gathering & Documentation
Data Analysis & Data Modelling
Solution Assessment & Validation
Domain
Equities
Derivatives
Capital Markets
Tools
Confluence
Jira
Microsoft – Visio & MS Project
Timeline
Associate
Bank of New York
03.2019 - Current
State Street HCL
01.2018 - 01.2019
Deutsche Bank of India
08.2014 - 07.2016
Masters of Business Administration -
ST. Mary’s College
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