Hrishikesh Kelkar

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Dec 2003 - Jun 2006

  Associate

  Clients: Morgan Stanley, Standard Bank ,ICICI bankDomain : BFSI1) Led a team for renovation of Electronic Trade Confirmation System (FC2 Renovation), a component of Equity Trading Systems (ETS) which processes 10 mn trades every day, for Morgan Stanley 2) Managed all phases of SDLC for development teams and handled client communication3) Making sale pitches to prospects, cross selling other products to clients and providing inputs to sales team in proposal writing

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  ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

  Apr 2007 - Jun 2007

  Mumbai Project Manager

  Functional analysis of policy issuance process, Creation of rule repository for all insurance products, Project scheduling, coordinating with stakeholders and Vendor management

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  Urban Infrastructure Venture Capital Ltd

  Jun 2008 - Oct 2010

  Manager

  1) Evaluating new investment proposals by performing company, project and partner due diligence and reviewing term sheets/ definitive agreements.2) Undertaking periodic analysis of financial performance of fund by analyzing annual budgets , NAV, IRR computations and performing sensitivity analysis3) Managing and monitoring operations of SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle).4) Led a team in performing comparative ratings of entire investment portfolio consisting of 30 SPVs, 66 projects to get fund level risk concentrations Show less

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  Citi

  Nov 2010 - now

  Leading Global Operations Technology team with size of approx. 150+ engineers & developers working across locations and responsible for technology delivery of key transformation and regulatory initiatives. Responsible for Program governance and Tech delivery management for entire TTS Operations transformation portfolio ( $60 mn) across business lines by closely partnering with key tech, operations, and product stakeholders. Responsible for developing and executing Tech strategy for reconciliation automation, regulatory reporting automation and for management reporting & analytics for entire TTS business. Focused on building key enablers for tech delivery viz onboarding rapid development toolkit, streamlining demand management, setting up technology infrastructure and reskilling / repurposing team on new technologies. As part of regulatory initiative, remediated large number of high risk business owned end user computing (EUCs) across TTS business lines.Involved in developing IT enabled self-service policy & framework and implemented it for TTS business to enable business & Ops stakeholders to build their own automations on Tech platforms. Built integrated target state architecture across Data- OpsTech platforms thereby leveraging OpsTech tools to democratize Data and make it available to end users seamlessly.Built comprehensive RPA decommission strategy, multiyear roadmap for RPA footprint rationalization for migration to more stable, scalable, resilient automation platform reducing total cost of ownership by $ 2mn yoy.Organized TTS India FinTech innovation challenge; a co-creation platform for Tech & Business to work on industry wide themes around eCommerce (ONDC) and KYC business validation services and build working prototypes for client-centric use cases. Represented TTS India Tech across multiple DEI (Diversity, equity and inclusion) forums and championed veteran hiring as part of the same. Show less Built strong in-house development team for APAC Information Services (Data) vertical and in sourced entire Book of Work (USD 6 mn) from incumbent vendor. Entrusted with additional ownership of Global TTS AML team with teams spread across geographies primarily responsible for regulatory mandated IMR remediation program and other key compliance initiatives. (Total BoW – USD 10 mn). Built next level of leadership across both Data & AML portfolios, decentralized decision making and empowered regional leads to run teams on ‘Auto-Pilot’. Identified and groomed key talent across levels, engaged in developmental discussions, provided challenging assignments and worked on building right visibility with key stakeholders.Encouraged teams to use latest tech stack (viz. Cloud - AaaS, OraaS , Big Data technologies Spark/Scala) , to engineer optimal generic solutions in line with EE best practices and principles. Show less Managed technology for multiple India ICG businesses covering core banking solution, Asset based financing (ABF) business, Risk and financial reporting and retail brokerage. Team is responsible for rolling out new initiatives as well as managing production support activities. Independently driven key regulatory and high visibility strategic initiatives from inception to completion. Actively led all project management activities which includes vendor management, cost negotiations, requirement gathering and scope definition, functional analysis, development and tracking of project schedule, , building UAT & Production setup, managing UAT plan and post implementation support Show less Worked as Technology manager for Front office trading platforms for Citi Wealth Advisers business ( retail brokerage arm of Citi, India).Migrated to new front office trading platform for trading in equity, derivatives and currency derivatives on multiple exchanges viz NSE, BSE & MCX having better trading and risk management functionalities, higher system stability with recurring save of Rs. 50 lacs per year.Led successful launch of CWA trading website compatible on all browsers and operating systems. Launched a desktop based thick client application, for active clients providing them trading functionalities at par with available at dealer’s terminal Show less

  • Senior Vice President

    Nov 2019 - now

  • Vice President

    Nov 2014 - Oct 2019

  • Assistant Vice President

    Jan 2013 - Oct 2014

  • Manager

    Nov 2010 - Dec 2012