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Sathish Kumar  WR

Sathish Kumar WR

Transfer Analyst
Pune

Summary

Aspiring for a challenging career in a corporate organization that taps my resources to the fullest. My strength lies in capability to be adaptable, hardworking, promote strategic thinking and leadership abilities gained through my professional expertise

Professional Experience

● Overall experience 12+ years of experience in the Banking domain (operation) and IT experience in Manual/UAT Testing.

● Holding a rich set of functional experience from Wealth and Investment Banking Operations domain (Derivatives Products, Transfer and Funds) and team handling in Retail Banking.

● Dealing with customer complaints and refund the inaccurate amount debited towards the various products (Personal loan, Business Loan, mortgage loan, overdraft, debit card, credit cards).

● Having experience good in Manual/UAT Testing(Investment Banking, Wealth management and Retail Banking Operations).

● Applications – Avaloq, Charles River, Exposure manager, Customer Gateway, CCT, Intellimatch and Prequel.

● Supported to the TCS-IT developer team to test and fix the technical issues with the live environment process application.

● Defect Management tools –JIRA and Defect Tracker.

● User Acceptance Testing and System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, during which he was involved in Understanding requirements, Test Designing and Test execution.

● Published daily progress dashboard to the project work group.

● Followed up with technical team for deployment of customizations and open defects to resolve them on priority.

● Handling Stock Breaks, Cash Breaks Fails, Payments, Receipts, Pre-Matching & Reconciliation.

● Working with swift messages MT202, MT 600, MT 300, MT305, MT601, MT515, MT509, MT540, MT541, MT542, and MT543.

● Generate timely and accurate reports for analysis. Creating a MIS/ Dashboard report and presenting it to the concerned Department.

● Having good Banking Domain-Retail Banking (Lending Management, Investment Banking, Cards, Fund Transfer, Payments, Mortgage, Insurance and Loans)

● Have strong organization skills - ability to meet deadlines, ability to achieve and maintain the expected productivity levels. Actively participated in Project Status Meetings & Quality Review meetings with Team Lead.

Overview

5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Transfer Analyst – Wealth and Asset Management – IB Operation

Barclays
  • Company Overview: The team is responsible for transfer/liquidation and settlement management of client Portfolio’s.
  • Stock brokering Wealth and Asset management, transfer the stocks, Cash to another broker based on the client requirement document.
  • Handling of Swift messages.
  • Checking with Corporate action team before transfer stocks.
  • Operations analyst involved in the process of transfer and settlement of equities in dematerialized forms well as physical share certificates.
  • Liaise with counterparty, exchange SSI details, arrange for trades to be processed and confirm settlement to enable transfer of assets.
  • Monitor active trades and investigate failed trades.
  • Stock and cash transfer between broker to broker, individual savings account-ISA and international foreign transfers.
  • The team is responsible for transfer/liquidation and settlement management of client Portfolio’s.
  • Systems/Applications: Avaloq, Eqip, Avlog, OSCAR, Altus, BONY, SCALE, SCARFEE, intellimatch, Orchid, Mensa, SAXO, DM&W Refund application.

Senior Analyst – FX Derivatives/Funds/Transfer settlements - IB

Barclays
  • Good knowledge on Wealth EMEA Derivatives, Funds & Transfer Settlements with number of years’ experience.
  • The process is to facilitate the New, amendment or rebooking of trades, since once it goes into the market, there will be a number of mismatches when compared to counterparty and this need to fixed by coordinating with market counterparties/custodian and internal teams like front office and the dealers.
  • The criticality of the process requires maker checker controls and it is key that the manager ensures all controls are met within the agreed timelines and also market cut offs.
  • Money Market, DCI – Dual Currency Investment, FX – Spot/ Forward/ Swap, FX Option, Interest Rate Swap.
  • Matching trades with the Swift & Paper Confirmation received from the Counterparty with Internal System.
  • Chasing the Counterparty to receive the confirmation to match the trades on the settlement day.
  • Querying with the Dealing Desk if there is any discrepancy in quantity, Consideration, Interest rate and Interest amount.
  • Systems/Applications: Avaloq, Imatch, Exposure Manager, Clearstream, Citi Direct, Memphis, Trioptima, Asset control Data manager, Irepo, ODC Production, FISS, RDS, Delta one, Trident, Hypercube, Bloomberg.

Process Advisor - Handling customer complaint and Team

Barclays
  • Used Barclay’s systems applications to carry out KYC checks on Customers/CMCs; screening the customer details using the available data and following the IDV procedures as per the process.
  • Part of Quality control team.
  • Dealing with customer complaints regarding the inaccurate amount debited with various products Personal loan, Business Loan, mortgage loan, overdraft, debit card, credit card.
  • Handle customer complaints and analyze if the sale was actually a valid one or not.
  • Based on the analysis, log a complaint and make a decision whether to authorize a refund to the customer.
  • Maintain Process accuracy and TAT at 100.
  • Systems/Applications: Customer Gateway, Respond, Prequal, Edostar, Complaint Capture tool.

Education

M.B. A - Finance & Marketing

C. Abdul Hakeem College of Engineering &Technology
Vellore, TN
01.2009 - 01.2011

BCA - Bachelor of Computer Application

Adhiparasakthi College of arts and science
kalavai, TN
01.2005 - 01.2008

Skills

Technical knowledge

Testing Knowledge - Smoke, Black Box, Integration, Regression, Functional & User Acceptance testing

Tools Exposure - Defect Tracker, JIRA

Domain - Banking (Investment Banking, Derivatives, Retail and Insurance Products)

Operating System - Windows

Environment/Platform - Web based application, Data Base Applications

Manual & UAT Testing Key Accountabilities:

● Responsible for building overall Automation Test Strategy for the complex programmers

● Automate the test cases of Regression and keep the Regression pack optimized

● Work closely with Business, development groups and architects to orchestrate, conduct and participate in line of business automation testing/ functional testing and analysis to ensure performance, stability and scalability of applications

● Able to implement step definitions and do updates to the existing UAT framework

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

● Update the global team of test execution status

● Testing related reports generation

● Communicate with other upstream/down streams

Project summary:

I actively the End-to-end user acceptance testing (UAT) of the transfer process, ensuring all functional and business requirements were thoroughly validated

● Supported and tested the transfer process end to end till go live with no issue

● Run and tested automation process for the Transfer Process EOD reports with 8 Tabs

● Run and tested automation process for the Yearly monthly weekly and daily Transfer reports in Avaloq Application

● Run and tested automation process for the Derivatives, Funds and transfer Process EOD reports from Avaloq Application total 7 reports with numbers of sheets

● Retail banking - Login complaint for Payment Protection Insurance

● Automated to send email from Avaloq application with details of Stock list and SSI

● IMBO - Automated the Geenfeed01_Shopis LD and NYK feed in multiple files of excel to Exposure manager and Ready “Yes” calls move to automatically

● Automation in the RTM (Real Time Management)

Project: Automation of transfer process end to end

Tools: Avaloq Application and Jira

Project Description:

In transfer process, we have more activities to send the email to counter party and input the same in application In Automation, successfully processing end to end

Project: Automation of Avaloq Reports

Tools: Avaloq Application and Jira

Project Description:

We have more activities in Avaloq manual Process and Avaloq based reports to run capturing the data in the Excel sheet for the daily, weekly and monthly reports to summarize to the management To avoid the manual error and make the accurate report date created the Automation

Project: Payment Protection Insurance

Tools: Respond, Prequal, Edostar

Project Description

Analyst, whereby the analysis on customers is done regularly to ensure he/she is eligible to get PPI (PAYMENT PROTECTION INSURANCE) by using customer information like (Customer a/c ledger, personal details, Customer transactions, Customer written document, Customer full details, Customer current status (Financial difficulties) etc

Project: Automation in the RTM (Real Time Management)

Tools: IE, Chrome

Project Description:

We have more than four hundred members in the team and captured the data in the Excel sheet for the day today activities In that created the web-based tool for capturing the data and activities

Project: Retail online banking

Tools: Defeat tracker, Jira

Project Description:

Online banking, also known as internet banking, e-banking or virtual banking, is an electronic payment system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to conduct a range of financial transactions through the financial institution's website

Accomplishments

● Reward from Head of PBWM Ops. Andey Cunningham for supported to automated of transfer process End and End.

● Extensive usage of MS Excel Aggregate function, V-lookup, Pivot table, Macros.

● Managing the Monthly, Weekly Daily Report Creating in MS Excel through in depth analysis and producing the actionable information.

● Provide strong reporting and analytical information support to management team and have excellent analytical skills that help to identify problems and seek solutions promptly.

● Roll out different reports i.e. periodic reports, Quality report, dashboards, Preparation of volume reports and quality reports accurately on time and publish the same.

● Achievements:

● Have been awarded Excellence award by Global Value Recognition Programme.

● Trained around 5 batches around 185 members and supported them to clear their Green room/accreditation.

● Initiates “Delivering Quality Together” with Processing Team to improve their Quality which has been successfully continued.

Suggested the ideas for my process and which are implemented

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the particulars of information and facts furnished above are true, correct and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Timeline

M.B. A - Finance & Marketing

C. Abdul Hakeem College of Engineering &Technology
01.2009 - 01.2011

BCA - Bachelor of Computer Application

Adhiparasakthi College of arts and science
01.2005 - 01.2008

Senior Analyst – FX Derivatives/Funds/Transfer settlements - IB

Barclays

Process Advisor - Handling customer complaint and Team

Barclays

Transfer Analyst – Wealth and Asset Management – IB Operation

Barclays
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