Darshil Dave

Experience

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  Cognizant

  Jun 2006 - Aug 2010

  Deputed to one of the major Banking/Financial Services organization in Europe.Technology Transformation/Migration:Led a team ,spread across locations, which design and delivered the technology transformation and migration of the trading platform providing access to 5000 Mutual Funds from 100 Fund Providers worldwide.Business Process Re-design/Project Enhancements:Led a team which redesign the legacy application used to deliver market information to the Private Banking clients of a major bank based in Switzerland. Project Management/Technology Consultant:Managed an end-to-end delivery of an online banking application providing detailed market research and publications to internal users and customers through E-Mail and Mobile which helped internal users and customers to make the efficient investment decisions.Change Management/Release Management:Member of a team which carried out impact assessments, cost benefit analysis, feasibility study related to changes in the Online Banking Platform, used by more than 400,000 customers and processing millions of transactions everyday.Process Excellence:Set up and supervised Business Process Improvement methodologies, such as Six Sigma, for the projects which reduced the defect leakage by 40% and improved the quality of the deliverables. Show less • Managed IT projects from inception to execution within pre-set budgets and ensured delivery of all requirements within the planned timelines.• Responsible for Resource Management that included task distribution among team members, status tracking and fostering a spirit of cooperation between team members.• Mentored new team members by giving them knowledge transfer session and made them acquainted with the technology and processes followed in an organization.• Supervised Configuration Management activities to maintain the revision history and version control of all the crucial project documents.• Successfully implemented the requirements and delivered the results on-time under strict deadlines with minimal defects. Show less

  • Associate

    Aug 2008 - Aug 2010

  • Analyst

    Jun 2006 - Aug 2008
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  Accenture

  Dec 2011 - Jun 2015

  Consultant

  Business Analyst - Strategic Reporting and Information Delivery at leading European bank •Part of the team helping one of the major European bank to improve bank’s data collection, processes and systems, resulting in more accurate and timely financial and risk reporting information•Deliver business requirements documents for programme related systems and processesStrategy Consultant - Mobility Strategy at leading bank in Africa•Conducted a market assessment to analyse the mobility leading practices and variety of solutions deployed by banks across the world•Identified key opportunities for the bank to deploy Mobility solutions with a view to supporting execution of its business strategy •Deign business model and operating model to realise the mobility strategy•Developed a high level business case outlining key capital investments, revenues, costs and profits Business Consultant - Mobility Implementation at large public sector bank in India•Led Business Analysis and Project Management activities to help the bank to deliver enterprise and customer mobility solutions •Liaised with business and technology team to gather high level business requirements and detailed implementation plan Business Analyst - Major UK Bank - Glasgow,UK / Pune, India•Member of a team involved in planning and analysis of several strategic initiatives worth multi-million pounds for direct execution brokerage division of major UK Bank•Liaised with Business and Technology team to gather business requirements, produce solution plan and high level estimation•Refined requirements and produced high level design of initiatives•Involved in build and implementation activities from offshore location in IndiaBusiness Analyst- Mumbai, India•Created a consolidated Point of View and Evaluation tool on the Core Banking Products•Assessed various core banking products in the market by sourcing information from historical views, industry SME team and secondary research Show less

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  Credit Suisse

  Jun 2015 - now

  Product Manager & Chapter Lead – Group Finance Technology• Leading Program Management activities for Parent Bank Merger program within Group Finance Technology. Parent Bank Merger is a mission-critical program for the bank in Post-Merger Integration activities. Aim of Parent Bank Merger is to merge the Credit Suisse Branches with UBS Branches and start producing combined financial reporting for a combined entity.• Spearheading the program deliverables in a Scaled Agile set up, with 6 cross-functional cross-location squads of 50+ resources, by closely partnering with various teams from Business, Tech Leads, Architects and Engineers to manage the cost, scope and schedule of the deliverables. • Providing day to day direction to the project team on deliveries and executive reporting to key stakeholders, highlighting risks across teams and mitigation planReporting Horizontal Lead – Group Finance Technology• Leading Reporting Horizontal within Group Finance Technology. Reporting Horizontal aimed to create Reporting Centre of Excellence to propel modernisation of Reporting capabilities, leveraging in-house Strategic Platform for CFO Data Acquisition and Management Transformation Lead - Core Finance Systems Program (Group Finance)• The Core Finance Systems (“CFS”) Program is a highly complex and mission critical multi-year program for a bank with an average annual budget of ~7.5 mn CHF to build a consolidated reporting store based on cutting edge technologies such as Big Data, Qlik and AI/ML that provides a performant platform for integrated reporting and analytical capabilities. Show less Lead IT Business Analyst- Finance Data Warehouse• Finance Data Warehouse is a multi-year program aiming to consolidate all Group Finance data into a data lake using Big Data Technology which would act as a Golden Source for all Disclosures and Regulatory Reporting• Leading the team of IT BAs in Pune to elicit the requirements for Data Sourcing from various up streams, apply Data Quality Management and generate various Financial and Regulatory ReportingLead IT Business Analyst - US Regulatory Reporting· Leading a team of Offshore BAs, responsible for delivering BA artefacts for US Regulatory Reporting via Axiom (Regulatory Reporting tool)· Communicating with all stakeholders on problem statement, possible solutions, intermediate issues and overall status of work assigned Show less

  • Vice President - Group Finance Technology

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Assistant Vice President - Risk Finance IT

    Jun 2015 - Dec 2019
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  Credit Suisse

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  Vice President - Group Finance Technology