Siva Venkatachalam

Experience

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  M/s FORD BUSINESS SERVICE CENTRE

  Feb 2003 - Jul 2003

  Trainee

  Project : Volvo Accounts payable Responsibilities & Scope of work: Vetting the Invoices through Odyssey ApplicationRegistering the Invoices through Odyssey Application Matching the Invoices through LEVA application

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  M/s PALANI MURUGA AGENCY

  Jul 2003 - May 2006

  Accountant

  Responsibilities & Scope of work:Forecasting and Budgeting the sales and profitsCash and Stock ManagementPreparing Bank Reconciliation and Account Statements

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  HCL Technologies

  Jun 2006 - Feb 2010

  Project name: SIDBI ESASIDBI is looking to achieve the strategic objectives such as increasing efficiency, Time cost ownership, controlling various risks, business Intelligence and adhoc report. SIDBI Enterprise Service Architecture is an Enterprise Resource Planning project under taken by HCL Technologies along with Vendors like Oracle Financial solutions and Sysarc Infomatix. HCL would work as a System Integrator as well as Bespoke Developer where the product would not match the requirement of SIDBI. Responsibilities & Scope of work:Provided training to SIDBI branch users on FCC application - Loans ModulePrepared Functional Specification document for Resource Raising modulePrepared Fixed Deposit Calculation and Bond Calculation document for Resource Raising Module Prepared Functional Specification Document and Workflow for Admin ModuleWorked as a Coordinator for User Acceptance Testing for at client location in MumbaiUnderstand the functionality of the applications and Prepare the Business Validation test cases for applications such as Resource Raising, Payments and Collections, General Ledger reports, Customer Management and Payment and Collections of the SIDBI's application for Quality Control.Reviewed the Test Cases for Resource Raising and NPA module. Show less Project Name: Operations NewyorkDBSI buys and sells securities in New York Stock exchange on behalf of the clients such as Asset Management companies, Hedge fund companies, Institutional investors and Sub Brokers. Securities include Equities, Bonds, Repo and Mortgage Backed securities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Almost 90% of Buy and Sell trades are executed automatically through E-Spear, a web based application and the rest of the trades are executed manually. The trades executed in NYSE will be settled in Depository Trust Corporation in T + 3 Days. Operations New York team in HCL Bangalore, is supporting the reconciliation activities to DBSI New York through MIS reports. Based on that MIS report, the discrepancy will be resolved in accounting system.Responsibilities & Scope of work:Daily Reconciliation of trades and settlement activity associated with Equity Securities, Corporate Bonds and Corporate Mortgage Backed Securities settling at DTC to bring up exceptions using Reconciliation tool Smartstream.Exception items in Smartstream are compared in DTC, ADP and E-spear applications to check the status and provide resolution for their clearance.Research exceptions include Corporate Actions such as Redemption, Dividend, Stock Split and Merger looking into Accounting & Settlement systems and provide resolution for their clearance.Prepare exception report and distribute it amongst Business linesInteract with Business Lines over the phone and via Email to resolve High value items & Aged items.Prepare Overall Balance of the firm, that states the Accounting entries are processed by various Business lines and systems should balance the firms overall account.Inform the business lines about the Out of Balance in Overall account of the firm to clear it. Show less

  • Associate Business Analyst

    Jun 2008 - Feb 2010

  • Senior Process Associate

    Jun 2006 - May 2008
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  HCL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITIED

  Mar 2010 - Oct 2010

  Business Analyst

  Project Name: CBA - Margin Lending Remediation Description: Common Wealth Bank of Austrailia has decided to have an effective Margin call report and strengthening the communication to its Margin loan customers. The CBA named this project as Margin Lending Remediation. Empire is the application which maintains the loan products of CBA. The CBA has decided to make enhancements in EMPIRE application relating to Margin call reports and Margin call due has to be communicated to its customers by email. Apart from Margin Loans the EMPIRE application is handling the Facility loans. Line of Credit breach limit report of Facility loans has to be displayed separate from Margin loan reports. Capturing the Audit Trail activities of the file sent by CBA through E-mail and SFTP to its third party and customers. Based on the business needs, the letters templates will be created in Dialogue application and the respective letter will be Generated in Empire application. Show less

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  HCL Technologies

  Nov 2010 - Jun 2011

  Business Analyst

  Project Name: RTTM-PH interfaceCommon Wealth Bank of Australia has decided to prevent debit card fraud transactions taking place at terminals like ATM, EFTPOS and EFTPOB. The debit card fraud has to be prevented in real time. Achieving this business objective the bank needs a Real Time Transaction Monitoring Abstraction layer which will interact with SAS application to identify the fraud transactions in real time. RTTM AL who has to interact with upstream application called as Payment Hub. Responsibilities & Scope of work: Direct interaction with the client at onsite to understand the business requirements Prepared the Functional Specification document for the PH-RTTM interface business requirements Prepared Use cases and sequence diagram to explain the business requirementsReviewed the Unit Test Cases and User Acceptance Test cases prepared by testing team in relation to functional requirements Conducted training sessions on PH-RTTM interface functional requirement to educate Technical team and Testing Team Analysed the Unit test case and System test case defects relating to functional perspective and instruct developers to fix it.Acted as an intermediary between Client and Technical team to address the functional queries Supported Testers to execute the Test cases and clarifying their doubts related to Payment Hub - RTTM AL applicationProject Name: CBA - Margin Lending Remediation Show less

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  Polaris Financial Technology Limited

  Aug 2011 - Dec 2013

  Project Name : Citi BE 1.3 Reports and InquiriesProject Synopsis: Citibank has Corporate Internet Banking application called Citi Direct Classic and it is used across the globe. The Bank has decided to migrate the Citi Direct Classic Application from Java technology to .Net technology. Citi named this project as Business Evolution (BE). As part of this project, UI of the application has been changed and makes a user friendly application. Responsibilities & Achievements:Analysing of Defects which requires Functional Requirement Document updateFollowup with Business team to update the FRD inorder to close the FRD issue defectsReview the FRD by comparing the existing application features, business rules, data type and WireframeConducting training and FRD walkthrough to newly joined team membersAssigning and moving of defects out of FRD queueAttending daily status call with Business team to discuss issue pertaining to FRD defects Show less Project: Master Process ExchangeProject Synopsis: MPX framework does the functional decomposition of Business Process and captures the business process in a structured way. MPX framework can be used throughout the SDLC and it reduces the cost to the Project. MPX tool depicts the diagrammatic view of Business process description and functional processes at one level can be linked or wired to other level of process. MPX helps the customers to conduct trainings to their employees about the process,GAP analysis, efficient way of requirement gathering, preparation of test scenarios, and Regulatory compliance. It is a process repository for bridging the gap the Business, Technology and Operation teams. Responsibilities & Achievements: Prepared functional specification document for MPX tool development (Phase 2) Conducted MPX framework and tool demo to Clients and Users  Prepared the MPX proposals with commercials and MPX Value proposition based on Customer's requirement  Enhanced the MPX tool sales deck materials and prepare customized sales presentations for different customers Follow up with potential customers to sell the MPX tool  Prepared the Functional decomposition of process for Retail Banking Show less Project : National Bank of Egypt - UAT support on Flexcube Universal Banking productResponsibilities & Achievements: Interacted with clients to understand their business requirements to prepare the Business Scenario and Test Scenario for Collection module, CIF module and Consumer Lending module Functional support to Business Users to execute the UAT test cases Analyze and route the defects to respective stakeholder in Quality Control  Interacted with clients to understand the interface requirements and prepared the Business Scenario and Test Scenario Pr-requisite data setup in Flexcube for Collection test cases and Consumer Lending test cases to be executed by UAT Business users for the respective Logical days. Review ,Coverage and Preparation of test cases for Collection module,CIF module and CL module Show less 1. Worked with SME's of Retail Banking to prepare the industry best practices and processes of Retail Banking, Core Banking products, Lending, Internet Banking and Mobile Banking 2. Prepared Lending and Core Banking process work flow diagrams in Visio3. Captured Core Banking, Lending, Mobile Banking and Internet Banking processes with notes in Business Process Mapping tool4. Participated with SME's to present the industry best practices and process in Core Banking and Lending to AIB Operational and Technology team5. Actively discussed and interacted with SME's to gain the Retail Banking domain knowledge. Show less Project: BHI CRM ImplementationProject Synopsis: The Client is engaged in bad debts collection business and it has decided to implement a CRM application to meet the business challenges of acquiring new customers of their growing business and complexity in the existing business process. The CRM system has to capture and maintain the customer details and the respective contacts, sales activities of the customer has to be recorded, reminder activities with customer has to be created and sync with MS outlook, Target customer list has to be provided for conducting campaigns and the system has to send mails to customer through MS-outlook. Responsibilities & Achievements: Trained in CRM domain on Capturing and maintaining of customers,contacts, contracts, agreements, entity relationships,data restrictions and view restrictions,campaign,recording activities and emails etc.,  Interacted with the clients at onsite to understand the business requirements Translated the business requirements into functional requirements to implement in Siebel application  Prepared base functional specification document  Conducted sessions on Business process of the Client to educate technical team Show less

  • Business Analyst

    Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Business Analyst

    May 2013 - Aug 2013

  • Business Analsyt

    Dec 2012 - May 2013

  • Business Analyst

    Feb 2012 - Nov 2012

  • Business Analyst

    Aug 2011 - Feb 2012
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  Bank of America

  Dec 2013 - Oct 2015

  Business Analyst

  Project Name: External Portal Development for Corporate ClientsRoles and Responsibilities:1. Interact with Business team to gather Business Requirements2. Prepare UI Spec Document for the Business Requirements3. As an agile team member attend the daily stand up calls and supports Sprint Testing4. Identify product backlog and update the description5. Updates the user stories and testing status in Rally Tool (for adapting agile methodology) 6. Support UX Design team to prepare Wireframes for the Portal development7. Provide requirement walk through to Developers and Testers Show less

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  BNP Paribas

  Oct 2015 - now

  1) Owned and prioritized product backlog.2) Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and deliveryImplementing the FACTSET’s Bisam application to compute Performance returns and attribution for various clients3) Identify the gaps between Bisam and Legacy application to compute the Performance returns and attribution for each client4) Migrating the existing client data from Legacy Database to RISE environment to perform returns and attribution in Bisam application Show less

  • Lead Business Analyst

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Manager, Lead Business Analyst, Product Owner

    Mar 2020 - May 2022

  • Senior Business Analyst Lead

    Oct 2015 - Feb 2020
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  BNP Paribas CIB

  Jun 2024 - now

  Project Manager in Wealth Management