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B C BALAKRISHNAN

B C BALAKRISHNAN

Payments Business Analyst
Bangalore

Summary

Skilled Business Analyst with record of success breaking down and improving business systems. Collaborates well to test, implement, refine and enhance systems and meet current and expected business needs. Excellent research, reporting and communication strengths developed over 18-year career.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Senior Technical Business Analyst

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Bangalore
11.2021 - Current
  • Performing role of Senior Technical Business Analyst in Payment Service Utility
  • This role involves end-to-end Business Analyst activity
  • Role includes: -
  • Gathering requirements from various stack holder through discovery phase
  • Backlog grooming and prioritization
  • Prioritizing requirements with vendor
  • Implementing Microservices through various API messages
  • Converting high-level requirements as EPIC
  • Elaborating EPIC into multiple user story
  • Requirements walkthrough to vendor
  • Coordinating with various internal teams to achieve timely delivery
  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback
  • Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement

Business System Analyst Senior

FIS
Bangalore
10.2014 - 10.2021
  • Performed role of Senior Business Analyst for Core Banking Product
  • This involves developing sound understanding of existing core banking functions; analyzing requirements for development of new services/enhancement of existing services to enable re-usability
  • Performed role of Business Analyst for International and domestic Payment Product
  • End to end payments project
  • This involves developing sound understanding of existing Open Payment Framework of client; analyzing requirements for development of new services/enhancement of existing services to enable re-usability.
  • Identified needed business improvements and determined appropriate systems required to implement solutions

Associate Business Manager

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Bangalore
02.2011 - 02.2012
  • Project Description: BTMU-LVP (Low value payments) project phase 1 is for Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ project that involved on site development for Clear2Pay Amsterdam
  • It covers various components through multiple services that form low value payment processing system which is customized based on Bank’s and regulatory requirement.
  • Performed role of Business Analyst for BTMU this low value payments project
  • This involved developing sound understanding of existing Open Payment Framework; and then functionally analyzing requirements for development of new services/enhancement of existing services to enable re-usability.

Associate Business Manager

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Bangalore
01.2008 - 01.2011
  • Project Description: C2P-xCT (International/Domestic Credit Transfers) is full blown SOA based Payments Product Re-engineering project that involved off shore development for Clear2Pay Belgium
  • It covers various components through multiple services that form a core payment processing system which can be readily customized based on any Bank’s payment processing process and requirement.
  • Performed role of Senior Business Analyst for product re-engineering and development of International and Domestic Credit Transfer Payment processing system for processing ISO 20022(MX) and SWIFT MT credit transfer message formats.
  • Performed as Delivery Manager role in Clear2Pay xCT project
  • This involves following responsibility.
  • Communicated with customers and vendors positively with particular attention to problem resolution.

Business Manager (Lead Business Analyst)

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Bangalore
01.2007 - 11.2008
  • Performed role of Lead Business Analyst for Singapore based Bank
  • This is Real Time payments project
  • This involves developing sound understanding of existing Open Payment Framework; and then functionally of G3, analyzing requirements for development of new services/enhancement of existing services to enable re-usability.

Executive

ABN AMRO Central Enterprising Solution
Bangalore
03.2007 - 08.2007
  • Worked as executive handling HKD currency payment processing.
  • Managed fee transactions from other banks.
  • Processed customer transactions submitted at bank branch.
  • Collaborated with back-office team members to facilitate seamless business execution

Asst Manager

American Express Bank
Bangalore
08.2004 - 03.2007
  • Handling USD/JPT International Money Transfer Payments via MT 103 and MT202
  • Routing and repairing SWIFT messages via CHIPS and FED clearing
  • Payments amendments and OFAC clearing
  • Mentored team members to enhance professional development and accountability in workplace
  • Used industry expertise, customer service skills and analytical nature to resolve customer concerns and promote loyalty

Education

Master Of Financial Management -

Pondicherry University
Pondicherry

MBA -

IGNOU
New Delhi

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Madras
Chennai

Skills

Domestic and International Payments

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Business Areas

Core Banking, Mutual Funds - Payments

Tools Used

JIRA, Visio

Personal Information

Total Experience: 16 years of Senior Technical Business Analyst experience 4 years of Banking operations experience

Software

Visio

JIRA

Certification

Certified SAFe Product owner/Product Manager

Timeline

Senior Technical Business Analyst

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
11.2021 - Current

Business System Analyst Senior

FIS
10.2014 - 10.2021

Associate Business Manager

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
02.2011 - 02.2012

Associate Business Manager

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
01.2008 - 01.2011

Executive

ABN AMRO Central Enterprising Solution
03.2007 - 08.2007

Business Manager (Lead Business Analyst)

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
01.2007 - 11.2008

Asst Manager

American Express Bank
08.2004 - 03.2007

Master Of Financial Management -

Pondicherry University

MBA -

IGNOU

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Madras
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