Astha Sangwan

Experience

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  ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE LIMITED

  Jun 2007 - Sept 2009

  Associate Consultant for FLEXCUBE

  -- Key member of the team that renders Functional Support for the FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Solution.-- Pivotal in delivering Presentations as well as interfacing with representatives from organisations such as Mashreq Bank, ABN Amro, Societe Generale (SocGen), Afghan United Bank, Credit Union of Poland (SKOK), Czech Savings Bank etc.-- Gained hands-on experience on FLEXCUBE in following Banking Operations:­ - Current Account, Saving Account and Deposits.­ - Lending Operations from origination of loan to servicing to collection, with more focus on servicing of loan. Exposure to different loan servicing areas like bearing, discounted and true discounted loans. Handling specific lending requirements like simulation, prepayments, commitment, loan status movements, notices and advices.­ - Credit monitoring through limit checks like individual limit check, limit check for a corporate (limit and sub-limit tracking), country wise limit check, tracking exposure for an issuer of a security etc.­ - Payment Systems with experience in local as well as cross border payments. Possess knowledge of SWIFT, ACH, NEFT, RTGS, TARGET2, clearing and settlement.­ - Trade Finance Operations like Import Letter of Credit, Export Letter of credit, issue of guarantee, Advice of guarantee, Documentary collection against payment and acceptance. Knowledge of various other methods of payments in international trade like cash-in-advance, Open account remittance & other trade operations like Factoring and Forfeiting.­ - Money Market Borrowing & Lending.­ - Cash Management Operations (Liquidity Management) – Sweeping, Pooling. .­ - Islamic Banking Operations like Murabaha, Musharaka, Commodity Murabaha, Istisna, Ijarah, Mudarabah and Wakalah. Show less

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  Religare Finvest Limited (SME Loans)

  Apr 2010 - Nov 2010

  Business Analyst

  -- Understanding business requirement, requirement gathering and determining solutions to business problems-- Examining each business requirement to ensure that what is being asked is actually what is needed.-- Acting as an intermediary between business users and solution vendor – explaining business requirement to the solution vendor.-- Requirements planning and management- planning the requirement development process, determining the priority of implementation of various requirements.-- Providing sign-off to vendor on business requirement document – to ensure that the solution under development is in sync with the business requirement.-- Ensuring smooth and timely delivery of the enhancement- “SPOC (Single Point of Contact) ” for various projects.-- Reporting status of development of various projects to the top management.-- Documenting test plans and leading UAT (User Acceptance Testing). Show less

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  Fiserv

  Dec 2010 - Feb 2022

  Lead Business Analyst

   Understanding business requirement, creation of functional specification document and conducting walkthrough to clients for FSD baseline.  Responsible for communication of product enhancements, new releases and software fixes to development team and QA Team via story walkthrough. Coordinating with software development teams & QA team during application development for addressing queries & providing clarifications. Responsible to create “Release Overview to Bank”, to give an overview of project via ppt and recording. Impart business domain training to Technical team and new joinees. Responsible to keep team members updated about new developments via product training. Exposure to TFS (Team Foundation Server), Jira, Microsoft Visio and Axure while working in different projects. Show less

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  NTT DATA

  Feb 2022 - Jan 2024

  Industry Consulting Manager
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  Paytm

  Jan 2024 - now

  Deputy General Manager