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Siva Venkatachalam

Project Manager| Scrum Master|Banking and Finance domain|PSM II| A-CSPO℠| CSM®| Pursuing Data Science and Artificial Inteligence course

Chennai

14+ years of work experience

BNP Paribas CIB
Oct 20259 mosPresent

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

BNP Paribas CIB
Jun 20242 yrs 1 moPresent

BNP Paribas
Jun 20224 yrs 1 moPresent

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

1) Having expertise as Business analyst in eFront application provides solutions to Private Equity and Alternate Investments 2) Supporting Change requests in eFront application in order to support client business needs 3) Performed as Scrum Master for Agile Pilot project
BNP Paribas
Mar 20202 yrs 3 mosMay 2022

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

1) Owned and prioritized product backlog. 2) Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery Implementing the FACTSET’s Bisam application to compute Performance returns and attribution for various clients 3) Identify the gaps between Bisam and Legacy application to compute the Performance returns and attribution for each client 4) Migrating the existing client data from Legacy Database to RISE environment to perform returns and attribution in Bisam application
BNP Paribas
Oct 20154 yrs 5 mosFeb 2020

Responsibility: Part of the Investment Reporting and Performance Global BA team who handles the Enhancement, Development Projects, Change Request and Support.
Bank of America
Dec 20131 yr 11 mosOct 2015

Chennai

Project Name: External Portal Development for Corporate Clients Roles and Responsibilities: 1. Interact with Business team to gather Business Requirements 2. Prepare UI Spec Document for the Business Requirements 3. As an agile team member attend the daily stand up calls and supports Sprint Testing 4. Identify product backlog and update the description 5. 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 development 7. Provide requirement walk through to Developers and Testers
Polaris Financial Technology Limited
May 20134 mosAug 2013

Chennai

Project: Master Process Exchange Project 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
Polaris Financial Technology Limited
Dec 20126 mosMay 2013

Cairo and Chennai

Project : National Bank of Egypt - UAT support on Flexcube Universal Banking product Responsibilities & 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
HCL Technologies
Nov 20108 mosJun 2011

Project Name: RTTM-PH interface Common 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 requirements Reviewed 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 application Project Name: CBA - Margin Lending Remediation

Education

PGDBM, Finance

Institute for Financial Management and Research

20033 yrs2006
University of Madras

Bachelors of Commerce Degree, Commerce

University of Madras

19993 yrs2002

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Headline

Project Manager| Scrum Master|Banking and Finance domain|PSM II| A-CSPO℠| CSM®| Pursuing Data Science and Artificial Inteligence course

About

1. Seasoned Professional offering close to 18 + years of global experience in Business Analysis 2. Having good knowledge in Investment Banking Domain, Retail Banking domain and Payments 3. Having experience as Scrum Master and Product Owner in Agile methodology 4. Having experience in Investment Performance Reporting for Mutual Funds 5. Interacted with Clients at on-site for gathering Business Requirements. 6. Good in Analytical and Communication skills 7. Skilled in mapping clients’ business requirements into functional specifications and implementations Specialties: 1.Knowledge in Investment Banking Domain,Retail Banking domain, Consulting and Payments 2. Investment Performance Reporting for Mutual Funds 3. Channel Banking and Corporate Internet Banking Portal 4. Requirement gathering and prepare functional specification document

Location

Chennai

Work experience

Assistant Vice President at BNP Paribas CIB, Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Project Manager in Wealth Management at BNP Paribas CIB, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Lead Business Analyst at BNP Paribas, Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 1) Having expertise as Business analyst in eFront application provides solutions to Private Equity and Alternate Investments 2) Supporting Change requests in eFront application in order to support client business needs 3) Performed as Scrum Master for Agile Pilot project

Manager, Lead Business Analyst, Product Owner at BNP Paribas, Mar 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 1) Owned and prioritized product backlog. 2) Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery Implementing the FACTSET’s Bisam application to compute Performance returns and attribution for various clients 3) Identify the gaps between Bisam and Legacy application to compute the Performance returns and attribution for each client 4) Migrating the existing client data from Legacy Database to RISE environment to perform returns and attribution in Bisam application

Senior Business Analyst Lead at BNP Paribas, Oct 2015 - Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Responsibility: Part of the Investment Reporting and Performance Global BA team who handles the Enhancement, Development Projects, Change Request and Support.

Business Analyst at Bank of America, Dec 2013 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos, Chennai, Project Name: External Portal Development for Corporate Clients Roles and Responsibilities: 1. Interact with Business team to gather Business Requirements 2. Prepare UI Spec Document for the Business Requirements 3. As an agile team member attend the daily stand up calls and supports Sprint Testing 4. Identify product backlog and update the description 5. 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 development 7. Provide requirement walk through to Developers and Testers

Business Analyst at Polaris Financial Technology Limited, May 2013 - Aug 2013 · 4 mos, Chennai, Project: Master Process Exchange Project 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

Business Analsyt at Polaris Financial Technology Limited, Dec 2012 - May 2013 · 6 mos, Cairo and Chennai, Project : National Bank of Egypt - UAT support on Flexcube Universal Banking product Responsibilities & 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

Business Analyst at HCL Technologies, Nov 2010 - Jun 2011 · 8 mos, Project Name: RTTM-PH interface Common 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 requirements Reviewed 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 application Project Name: CBA - Margin Lending Remediation

Education

PGDBM, Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research

Bachelors of Commerce Degree, Commerce, University of Madras