Anand Venkatraman

• Coordinate with internal resources and cross functional teams for flawless execution of projects. Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Assist in definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Develop detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
  Manage changes to project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Collaborate with client to gather requirements and convert them into functional specifications and/or technical requirements. Reviewing client Requirements and Business Specifications, analyzing impacts and feasibility
• Writing User Stories to create simplified description of requirements. Preparing and Helping designers to translate project requirements (User Stories) into prototype.
  

Change and Release Coordinator

Maintain and schedule activities for the development and deployment of changes into production environment. Gather information and track status of all change requests and release implementations

Understand and analyses any impacts of, including scheduling risks, all projects that will introduce change to the production environments

Mediate all conflicts regarding scheduling, lack of approval or lack of documentation prior to implementation of the change

Coordinate with Incident Management, Problem Management, Release Management, Change Management, and Configuration Management to ensure correct and consistent data is provided to the Change and Release Management processes

Distribute the change and release schedules and pipelines within agreed timeframes. Ensure closure and archiving of completed change requests and releases.

Projects - Dividend Pass through rate - CFD

Project was initiated to enable the dividend for Future with an underlying equity where currently business booking manually as Income.

Gather requirement from the business team and analyzed the impact and feasibility.

Developed a test plan and ensure end to end testing is completed and ensure is no impact in other (Downstream) systems.

coordinated with business to conduct UAT & obtain sign off from all stake holders.

Projects- Interface enhancement (Project Fareast):

The project was initiated to set up an interface which mitigates the manual intervention in the accounting platform.

Involved in Project planning, gathering requirements, preparing test documents, project
Implementation.

Involved in creating UAT approach documents and Test cases and get sign-off for the stakeholder to promote into productions.

Collaborating with the QA team in reviewing and validating test plans and test cases, ensuring that the final application catered to the user requirements.

Project - NZD imputation credit

This project initiated to ensure NZD based equity securities has the defined the taxation rate based on the portfolio currencies.

Developed an internal design within system to capture tax rate and ensured the solution was tested with all the business scenarios.

Developed a test plan and ensure end to end testing is completed and ensure is no impact in other (Downstream) systems.

coordinated with business to conduct UAT & obtain sign off from all stake holders.

Spearheaded Treasury Operations (FXMM & IRD); ensured that daily
operational activities are performed smoothly and efficiently
Reviewed deal against trade; liaised with FO, Broker and External Counter Party
for any trade discrepancy
Prepared/verified payments, confirmations, fund transfers, journal entry postings and manual deals' booking; supported investigation team for recalling funds and cancellation of wrong payments
Actively participated and undertook cost efficiency and productivity
improvement initiatives
Ensured that team meets quality standards for business delivery by
attaining SLAs & KPI targets
Project Handled: Migration of trades from old CLS Settlement System to New Settlement Member System; handled following project tasks:
1. Performed Analysis to verify business requirement; formulated business
rules and maintained issues list including minutes from design meetings
2. Created and executed test case, identified defect and ensured quality prepared delivery project test report for Management.

Tracked day-to-day activities comprising net asset value of mutual funds of various investment strategies, including domestic and foreign bond funds, equity funds, mortgage asset funds, floating rate commercial loan funds and tax-exempt municipal funds
Reviewed all work submitted by team members for errors and ensured tasks abide timeliness
Managed teams by undertaking tasks including process allocation, appraisal evaluation, leave approval and MIS preparation for weekly and monthly meeting
Settled cash transactions with fund cash transaction for close of prior business day
Prepared reporting period requests such as general ledger revisions and audit reports

Successfully drove remote migration of trade financing, agency funding, processing, etc., efficiently reviewed system for syndicated loans from Delaware to Chennai
Instrumental in establishing working committee for digital system and re- engineering
Elected as part of quality management and review team Inter-department audit committee member ad hoc committee for process.