Chethankumar SP

• Led a successful migration project for institutional clients at HSBC Saudi Arabia, managing all phases from planning through execution and delivery.
• Ensured strict adherence to HSBC standards and regulatory requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provided key assistance in drafting solution design documents, architectural flows, interface connectivity specifications, and hardware/software requirements & Managed procurement processes and approvals to ensure project needs were met effectively.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams comprising business stakeholders, IT professionals, operations teams, and external partners.
• Defined project scopes, gathered requirements, and formulated migration strategies to align with business objectives
• Managed stakeholder expectations by facilitating regular status meetings and providing transparent communication on project progress, issues, risks, dependencies, and threats.
• Developed comprehensive project documentation including Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), and User Stories.
• Led efforts in interface integration for internal, external, and Tadawul connectivity, overseeing testing phases and obtaining necessary sign-offs.
• Data migration - Spearheaded data migration initiatives, overseeing requirement analysis, field-level mapping, execution, and rigorous testing to ensure data integrity and system reliability.
• CTB, RTB & Regulatory Projects - Managed critical Change-the-Business (CTB), Run-the-Business (RTB), and Regulatory projects across Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

· Led the migration of customer base (Retail, International) and services (Equity, Mutual Funds, FX) from HSBC Saudi region to another bank, Alawwal Invest, aligning with global HSBC strategy.

· Ensured adherence to HSBC data standards throughout the migration process.

· Coordinated extensively with HSBC Business, IT, Operations, Central Bank, and Alawwal Invest to manage stakeholder expectations and ensure smooth migration.

· Acted as a central point of contact (SPOC) for all stakeholders involved in the project.

Managed data management activities, focusing on data migration and ensuring high data quality standards.

· Resolved critical and high-priority data quality issues throughout the migration process.

· Supported and led a data quality, risk, and governance strategy, ensuring compliance with HSBC standards and regulatory requirements.

· Coordinated with cybersecurity, risk management, compliance, non-functional requirements (NFR), operations, and IT teams to ensure governance standards were met during the migration project.

· Managed the Data Quality Book of Work, ensuring all demands were clearly documented before delivery commenced.

· Provided regular progress reports to stakeholders and management, highlighting issues, dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies.

• Prepared requirement specifications with use case scenarios
• Performed detailed gap analysis comparing legacy application with market standard application
• Developed and maintained project plans, timelines, and budgets.
• Create the backlogs & user stories
• Execute the task with development, followed by release.

• Groom the requirement & submit the analysis report like SWOT, IMPACT & GAP analysis to stakeholders with flowcharts
• Review client technical documents, sample file & prepare the mapping document & build the Interface through SOA architecture in BPEL program & enhance in SOAP/REST API Protocols
• Create FRD & Test scenario, Test cases & execution for internal accuracy
• Create a functional architecture on Accounting chart setup, Swift messages formats, NAV calculation flow, Performance Calculation indicator, Vendor Pricing Linkage, connective scope on internal & external files
• Co- ordinate with onsite PO & Groom the enhancement scope, Create the Scrum backlog in Planio tool
• Create a User story & acceptance criteria based on the priority scope & Build the Scrum team, Plan on capacity& educate the team agile frame work
• Initiate the support on priority & educate the client about financial products behaviors& functionality
• Implement MIFID 2 regulatory in PMplus.

• Bridge between the technical team & Client to explains the functionality of asset classes & behavior
• Participate in Project Kick Off meeting with Product Owner & Stakeholders to understand the vision of the product & to help create/refine Product backlog
• Analyze the priority items /prepare a necessary BRD, FRD document with representing through UML diagrams & get it reviewed with the stakeholder
• Approved requirement needs to convert into stories & split into small task & Prepare the User story statement/Acceptance criteria/Definition of done & post in JIRA
• Requirement to address in DEV,QA ,Prod server & make sure all phases data validation & continuous support in terms of successful deployment
• Facilitate Planning of Development and Technical sprint and ensure agile methodologies are followed in user story estimation
• Adhere to the sprint ceremonies Daily Scrum Meetings/highlight the impediment & Conduct sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement
• Conduct Sprint Demo and update status to product owner as part of sprint completion & Communicated the progress via 'Burndown Charts' & ‘Velocity charts’

• Involved in Test planning, Test estimation and resource fore-casting
• Executing test cases in agile environment & Defect tracking & Submit the RCA with Cause/effect diagram
• Certifying releases, Prepare daily release status during release time, Prepare daily test status report and Maintaining defect status call with the client
• Involved in test activities in various environments like QA, Dev, Pre-production and Production
• Tracking/resolving environmental and other issues, Logged and tracked defects through JIRA
• Working with the team and involved in Functional, Regression, Integration, System testing.

• Enhancement on various reconciliation platforms like DREX, Imhotep,KONDOR, TLM etc
• Analyze the customers business & define their business challenges and work on building potential solution approaches
• Evaluate the current tool, check the connectivity source, matching the Front office & Back office flow, cut down the resource involvement through break fixes by automation & continuous improvement in the course of BRD/FRD approach& get it sign off from the business on budget & publish the savings
• Instrumental in planning & implementing innovative business strategies to initiate and control finance, projected towards achievement of organizational goals to maximize profitability
• Responsibilities: Analyze the customers business & define their business challenges and work on building potential solution approaches through BRD/FRD
• Identify the NVA(Non value added) in the existing process & Improve the efficiency through DMAIC & SIPOC techniques
• Use cases & other SDLC deliverables
• Perform end-to-end KYC controls and checks and help onboard client per the risk appetite
• Worked on IRDS (Instrumental Reference Data Service)- require to do the mapping & set-up internal application with reference to BBG, Euro clear, Telecus etc
• Enhancement on TLM (Transaction life cycle mgmt) tool for continuous improvement plan

• Front desk with broker trade, position recon, cash recon, balance recon
• In case of discrepancy need to analyze the break, understand the flow, chase the FO/BO trader or middle office from different region explaining about their bookings& resolve by asking them to book slippage or reason for certain booking
• Managed all aspects of Reconciliations, including reporting trade breaks to the Trading Desk, Middle Office, and Back Office.
• Liaise with static data team for instrument setup, Pricing team with cash break resolution, KYC team to know the customer detail, Clearing team with settlement & end to end resolution to the client on request basis or break resolution
• Proactively involved in matching Trades with Positions and resolved the discrepancy by investigating & reporting them overall Trade, Position breaks
• Worked as a Control in the team and help resolve escalation and aged breaks, interacted with different region client and trader to explain their booking
• Handled Nastro reconciliation, cash balancing, fund transfer, reporting etc