Sivakumar Thangavel

Currently working as a senior business analyst in Middle Office workstream for LGIM, UK.This program was created to migrate LGIM investment management, operations, and investment data servicing to State Street Alpha (Charles River IMS)

• Working in Middle Operations (REPO, Collateral Management, Trade Life Cycle Management, Cash services, Liquidity Management,Corporate Action, Reconciliation) covering asset classes – Equities, FI, FX,SWAP
• Led process mapping initiatives, resulting in optimized workflows and reduced redundancies across departments.
• Working closely with the business to understand the requirements at a detailed level and prepare TOM (Target Operating Model)
• Designing the future state and interim workflows using ARIS
• Carrying out analysis to support the design activities
• Escalating RAID items to sub-workstream or workstream managers
• Participating in Daily, Weekly status meetings with workstream leads
• Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
• Led the preparation of product backlog and the requirements specifications as well as managed cross-functional teams to deliver these solutions through Agile methodology
• Preparing UAT Test briefs and assist testing team in test execution.
• Facilitated requirement gathering workshops, resulting in clear project objectives and deliverables.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, ensuring a cohesive approach to business analysis.

Was working as part of the Dubai Financial Market (DFM)'s largest technology upgrade program by migrating to the Nasdaq Financial Framework (NFF)

• Worked on Trade Capture, Trade Processing, Clearing and Settlement functional areas covering asset class - Equities
• Managed the project implementation of the Nasdaq PCCP (Packaged Central Counterparty Clearing) system
• Facilitated workshops with the various stakeholders and provide solutions in clearing and trading modules
• Participated in weekly status meetings with senior management and vendor to review the project status and ensure alignment
• Performed Testing activities, including environment preparation, test condition preparation, user access management, test execution, and test report generation.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

Was part of the TCS Bancs MI team, that supports a comprehensive range of business functions of market infrastructure operators such as central counterparties (CCP), and central securities depositories (CSD), exchanges, and central banks

• Worked in multiple roles, domains, and markets in TCS for large TCS Bancs customers – Rabo Bank, Europe, Strate, South Africa; CSCS, Nigeria and MCX, India
• Worked in Trade Capture, Trade Processing, Corporate Action, Clearing and Settlement functional areas covering asset classes – Equities, FI, Derivatives and commodities
• Coordinated with the development and testing teams internally within TCS to ensure that the deliveries are in line with the customer expectations
• Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
• Liaised with multiple stakeholders including Client’s end customers, market participants, Regulators, and other vendors to ensure seamless and successful roll out of the “to be” state of the solution
• Prepared Test Strategy, Test Approach Plan, monitor test execution and test report generation.

The objective of this project is to migrate the Mexico Corporate Card Portfolio from Multi-National System (MNS) onto GlobeStar.This project deals with enablement of GlobeStar core capabilities related to specific products and modifications for interfacing systems

• Mentored junior team members, fostering professional growth and increasing overall team efficiency.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of various project components.
• Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
• Increased stakeholder engagement by conducting regular status updates and addressing concerns proactively.
• Met with manager weekly to provide detailed project report and milestone updates.

First Data is one of the leading credit card processors having clients across the globe.The IT & Business Solutions (ITBS) group, EMEA of First Data is responsible for product development, business analysis, requirement capture and gap identification for clients in Europe, Middle East and Asia

• Trained end-users on new applications, promoting ease of use and maximizing ROI on technology investments.
• Improved client satisfaction with timely delivery of high-quality software applications, addressing specific business needs.
• Performed Parameter setup
• Data mapping to new platform
• Performing Functional gap analysis and data mapping,
• Worked on multiple sub-systems in Vision PLUS (CMS Posting, FAS, TRAMS, CACS),
• Designing and developing software solutions within the Vision plus framework, and participating in system testing and user acceptance testing.

CitiFinancial is a part of Citigroup, which is a global financial service provider.It uses Vision Plus for its consumer loans for private label cards.The One Source Development team was responsible for the delivery of all enhancements and customizations

• Troubleshot business logic and performance issues in existing mainframe applications.
• Coding of COBOL programs, JCL and PROCS for pre-conversion, conversion, and re-accrual,
• Provided expert technical guidance for junior developers, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
• Preparation of Technical Specifications, Unit Test Plans and Impact Analysis documents,
• Preparation of pre-conversion and conversion run job schedule, running conversion and re-accrual batches in OPCT, and managing the project from onshore by effective estimation & scheduling, up-to-date tracking.