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Aravindh. P CDCS CSPO

Senior Consultant

Summary

· CSPO certified professional with 5 Years of experience in Functional expertise in Trade Finance, Payment Processing, Swift Message

· CDCS certified professional with 12 years of experience in Trade Finance, Payment Processing and Swift Message handling.

· Expertise in the Test planning ,Test Management,Business analysis implementation and Team Management in banking project domain

· Expertise in core banking products in International Payments, reconciliations, letters of Credit, Documentary collections, Retail Asset and overall trade operations

· Handled International payments across different geographies such as EBA, Fed wire, CHAPS, CHATS, RTGS, NEFT, MAS through SWIFT

· Handling the team and acting as release Manager in the absence of Manager and Release Manager

· Knowledge and work experiences in SWIFT message, UCP, URC, URR and ISBP

· Knowledge and working experience in Automation anywhere, writing test case and automation Testing

· To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Consultant

CGI
BANGALORE
03.2020 - Current
  • Worked with the business and functional users to analyses client's requirements, identified challenges with the project and devised software solutions in conjunction with the technical staff
  • Coordinating with Product Owner in creating Use Cases, User Stories with Acceptance Criteria
  • Monitored and managed staff performance to attain target metrics both individually and team unit.
  • Identified business issues through careful collaboration with key stakeholders.
  • Interact with developers to perform various types of testing throughout Software testing life cycle and bug life cycle.
  • Responsible for Testing phases like Unit Testing,UAT, SIT, API and Post live support.
  • Majorly involved in Test Planning, Efforts estimation, Stake holder management, Daily status calls

Project Modules- Implementation of Trade-360 HSBC bank globally1) Accrual and Amortization Modules(Interest Calculation)2) Workflow Modules for HSBC User3) Limits Modules

Senior Manager

HSBC BANK
BANGALORE
07.2018 - 02.2020
  • Developing testing strategy / plans / scenarios / cases and actual implementation of the test cases before going to production environments
  • Training the Staff Member to how handling the each Modules on Trade finance, Payment
  • Preparing the Process Notes for Trade Finance and Payment ( FLEXCUBE 11.0).
  • Preparing the BRD for specific Modules
  • Having experience in Business Requirement and User Requirement,Understanding Business process, study and analyze workflow to design solutions and preparing functional Specifications

Team Lead

ANZ BANK
BANGALORE
09.2010 - 07.2018
  • Handling a team of 24 Members in payment processing for Asia Region
  • Trained new team members by relaying information on Trade Finance Product , Risk Participation and syndication transaction.
  • Handling Payment, Trade Products such as Receivable Finance, Payable Finance, letter of credit, Documentary Collections for Asian countries, Australia and New Zealand
  • Bank –Bank Reimbursement, Commercial payment, Multi Currency settlement
  • Handling Trade Loans Such as Pre-Shipment, Post Shipment finance, Reimbursement undertaking, refinancing and (Receivable and Payable Finance)
  • Reconciliation of outstanding Suspense and Nostro account for regions.

Projects Handled.

1) Charge automation on Corporate Client

2) Payment Automation


Process Advisor

BARCLAYS SHARED SERVICES
Chennai
06.2009 - 08.2010
  • Identified and resolved process issues to encourage smoother procedures, more efficient workflow and overall business growth
  • Being a part in UK Trade Export Payment and Reimbursement by Processing and Verifying Authorities, Amendments, Claims, Acceptance, Payment, check document and Uncheck Documents.

Executive

ABN AMRO Central enterprise services Pvt ltd (Formerly as RBS Bank)
Chennai
01.2009 - 05.2009
  • Being a part in UK Trade Export Payment and Reimbursement by Processing and Verifying Authorities, Amendments, Claims, Acceptance, Payment, check document and Uncheck Documents.

OFFICER

Standard Chartered Bank
Chennai
09.2007 - 12.2008
  • Being a part in USD Trade Reimbursements (Trade Payments) by Processing and Verifying Authorities, Amendments and Claims.
  • Acting on Swift Messages: MT 740, MT 747, MT 742, MT 799, MT 795.

Officer

ICICI Bank
Chennai
04.2006 - 09.2007
  • Handling Import and export transactions and Processing of Foreign currency, Travelers chq & travelers cards exchange through Inward and Outward remittance modules.
  • One Point one point of contact for Foreign exchange services at my branch. For Booked on Forward Contact, Swap rate
  • One point of contact for 300 + Corporate salary account clients. Coordinating with Back office for salary processing of 300+ corporate salary clients and reconciliation of salary office accounts.
  • Handling EDPMS for Export customer.
  • Clearing Customer doubt for document presentation for EDPMS

Executive

ICICI Home Finance
Chennai
07.2004 - 04.2006
  • Handling the Home Loan, Retail Assets Products and Cash Operation
  • Overseeing gamut of Demat operations spanning from Pledge Creation, Pledge Closure, processing of RTGS requests, NEFT, Retail outward Remittance, monitoring office accounts, Cash opening and closing, Verifying Petty cash Expenses

Education

MBA - Marketing

Vysya Institute of Management Studies
Vysya Institute Of Management Studies
04.2002 - 04.2004

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Vidyasagar College Arts And Science
Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore.
04.1999 - 04.2002

Skills

Business Analysis

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Certification

Certified Scrum Product Owner from scrum alliance

Software

Trade 360

FLEXCUBE 110

MS Office

SQL

Jira

Accomplishments

  • 2021 Nominated as critical employee among 250 employees in HSBC Project, Received two Gold award form Succeeding two years.
  • Received appreciation Mails from Client for work Excellence
  • Handled all queries in absence of Manager proving proper resolution with the time frame and acting as Project/Release Manager
  • Received Appreciation from delivery Manager for achieving the release on time.

Timeline

Certified Scrum Product Owner from scrum alliance

01-2022

Senior Consultant

CGI
03.2020 - Current

Certified Scrum Product Owner from scrum alliance

09-2018

Senior Manager

HSBC BANK
07.2018 - 02.2020

Certified in Trade Finance from Indian institute of Banking and Finance

06-2016

Team Lead

ANZ BANK
09.2010 - 07.2018

Process Advisor

BARCLAYS SHARED SERVICES
06.2009 - 08.2010

Executive

ABN AMRO Central enterprise services Pvt ltd (Formerly as RBS Bank)
01.2009 - 05.2009

OFFICER

Standard Chartered Bank
09.2007 - 12.2008

Officer

ICICI Bank
04.2006 - 09.2007

Executive

ICICI Home Finance
07.2004 - 04.2006

MBA - Marketing

Vysya Institute of Management Studies
04.2002 - 04.2004

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Vidyasagar College Arts And Science
04.1999 - 04.2002
Aravindh. P CDCS CSPOSenior Consultant