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Gokul Sharma

Gokul Sharma

Program Manager/Driving Organization Transformation-Consulting
Ernakulam

Summary

Total experience of 18.6 years in Program/Project Management, Agile, Change Management, Business Analysis, Driving Transformational Projects, Process re-engineering, Operations and Team Management in the field of Finance, Investment banking, Derivatives Trading and Risk Management (CTRM/ETRM).

  • Extensive experience in working and contributing to winning large pursuits.
  • Proven track record of Driving, planning and managing transformational projects to drive process improvements and adhere to regulatory reforms. Qualified PRINCE2 and Management of Risk (M_o_R) practitioner, specializing in Project Management & Risk
  • Certified Change Management Practitioner from APMG.
  • Certified Scrum Master. AFRM (Applied Financial Risk Manager from IIM Kashipur) and pursuing Business Analytics for Manager (from IABAC and IBM).
  • RPA tools: - Blueprism
  • C/ETRM tools: - Endur and CXL,
  • Project Management tools: MS Project, Rally and Jira.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Program/Organisational Change/PMO Manager

EY
03.2015 - 05.2016
  • Program manager for RPA transformation, Compliance projects (FATCA,EMIR,CFTC) and Change Manager for Consulting service line
  • Supports Global Partners in developing and implementing RPA and setting up PMO team for their service line
  • Working on Agile and waterfall methodologies
  • Drive large, complex programmes and projects end-to-end
  • Prepare Program status reports and keep management and stakeholders informed of Project/Program status and related issues
  • Organized and facilitated Agile and scrum meetings, which included Sprint planning, daily stand up call and reviews
  • Performed derivative valuations including Energy trades by using different tools for vanilla options, forwards and swaps
  • Build Analytical reports for stakeholders using different tools

Project Manager

JP Morgan Chase
04.2014 - 03.2015
  • Project manager for Derivative Documentation Management [Markets trading team]: - Worked on regulatory projects (Dodd Frank, EMIR, MiFiD and FATCA), process improvements, leading change management activities and remediation by providing support to BAU
  • This team supports Legal, Finance, FO and MO team with record keeping of legal agreements such as ISDA, CSA, Futures and options

Principal Consultant, Consultant

Oracle Financial Services
06.2011 - 04.2014
  • Consultant for Investment Banking (Derivatives)
  • Involves full STP process from Trade booking to settlements( Endur), Reporting of Trades, Collateral and Valuation to Regulatory for OTC trades as part of Dodd-Frank and EMIR reforms
  • Review FRD's and BRD's for EMIR and DODD Frank Regulatory reporting
  • Assist testers to prepare test cases and validate them as per functional requirement
  • Verify fair value of derivative trades as per requirements from regulators

Senior Business Analyst

Accenture
05.2010 - 06.2011
  • Senior Business Analyst/Functional SME for Commodities Trading and Risk Management: Part of ETRM Projects which includes full STP process for Agriculture, energy and Metals
  • Leading team on triage for defects and issues identified during testing at different cycles and environments Testing of applications which include UAT, Integration, Product, Performance and Regression
  • Monitor EOD process to retrieve exposures and positions
  • Assisted Senior Management in creating documents for bid and sales

Specialist

Goldman Sachs
05.2006 - 04.2010
  • Collateral management for all OTC Derivatives products
  • Calculate risk exposure against all clients and exchange cash/securities
  • Lead, reengineered and identify gaps in existing process and implementation
  • Implemented new controls in process to minimize risk to firm

Senior Process Executive

Deutsche Bank Operations/HCL Technologies
05.2006 - 04.2010
  • Broker/Counterparty confirmation, reconciliation and settlement of all financial and physical trades under Agricultural, Energy and Metals
  • Lead for escalation handling in Reconciliation, Nostro Investigations, Payment Verifications, Reports, Discrepancy handling, Settlements and MIS reports
  • Verify and authorize MT 103, MT 202 payments inputted by Settlements team before releasing payment
  • Also authorize messages like MT 199 and MT 299

Education

Executive PGDBA - Finance

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning
Pune, MH

Bachelor of Commerce - Taxation

M G
Kottayam, KL

Skills

Consulting-Program Management

Transformational and Regulatory Projects Projects

Change Management

Business Analysis

Investment Banking

Capital Market

Derivatives

Energy Trading

Risk Management

MS Project

JIRA

Openlink Endur

CxL

Regulatory Reporting

Analytical Thinking

Strategic Planning

Accomplishments

  • Exceptional Client Service, Extra Miler and Spot Award - EY
  • Winner of quarterly CIB CAO Award - JP Morgan.
  • Received Award for Best Team Player (Majestic Award) - JP Morgan
  • Awarded ‘Maximizes Team's Performance citation for handling complex reports and grooming new team members - Accenture
  • Awarded ‘Drives for Value Added Results for outstanding contribution in project - Accenture
  • Awarded ‘Direct Quality Work Efforts Monetary Award for outstanding contribution as an SME in commodity trading space - Accenture
  • Successfully implemented the Global Cash Fails Project which resulted in – Goldman Sachs Reduced credit risk to the firm (Significant decrease in number of cash fails) Achieved significant time savings for analysts globally.
  • Awarded ‘Star Performer' of the Month for outstanding individual contribution – Deutsche Bank and HCL.

Timeline

Program/Organisational Change/PMO Manager

EY
03.2015 - 05.2016

Project Manager

JP Morgan Chase
04.2014 - 03.2015

Principal Consultant, Consultant

Oracle Financial Services
06.2011 - 04.2014

Senior Business Analyst

Accenture
05.2010 - 06.2011

Specialist

Goldman Sachs
05.2006 - 04.2010

Senior Process Executive

Deutsche Bank Operations/HCL Technologies
05.2006 - 04.2010

Bachelor of Commerce - Taxation

M G

Executive PGDBA - Finance

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning

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