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Education
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Domain Expertise
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HARDIK SHAH

HARDIK SHAH

Senior Project Manager
Hyderabad,Telangana

Summary

Experienced Senior Project Manager with 19+ years of top-notch implementation and project and change management abilities across New York, London, and India locations. Highly organized, methodical and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams. Well-versed in planning and deployment of Regulatory, Strategic, Automation and Cost savings projects for clients like Wells Fargo, Bank of New York Mellon, JP Morgan Chase, and UBS within Capital markets.

Top Skills: Project Management & Software [Waterfall | Hybrid | Agile methodologies], Stakeholder relations, Team Leadership and Supervision, Business Analysis, Ops-IT Synergies, System development, Release Management, Vendor & Contract Management and Audit Management & Facilitations

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificates
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Project Manager

Wells Fargo
Hyderabad, Telangana
09.2022 - Current
  • Leading Industry / Regulatory project for the Bank 'T+1 Settlement Initiative' where responsibilities included but not limited to assessing impacted business areas, products, and applications
  • Managing multiple projects in the team, demonstrating an ability to work collaboratively and effectively.
  • Leading a team having multiple Project Managers and Business Analysts allowing to demonstrate leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring team members
  • Developing and maintaining project plan that includes all the crucial deliverables across project phases like initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control, and closure
  • Creation and maintenance of project artifacts like heat maps, RAID logs, dashboards, minutes, approvals, traceability matrix to depict real time project health to stakeholders
  • Liaisons with industry participants like Broadridge and DTCC for evaluating vendor readiness and business impacts
  • Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.

Project Manager and Change Lead

Cognizant Worldwide Limited
Jersey City, New Jersey
01.2021 - 09.2022
  • Instituting & executing business analysis strategies to deliver incremental changes to the trading and settlement application.
  • Developing project baselines and controlling the same with respect to cost, resource deployment, time overruns and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution of projects
  • Steering efforts in focusing on application development covering Business initiatives, Artifacts, Baseline, Epics, User stories, Data flow, Tracing, Impact analysis, reviews & approval process
  • Collaborating with clients & stakeholders while keeping them informed of progress and issues to manage expectations on all requirements and deliverables

Project Lead, Scrum Master, and Business Analyst

Cognizant Worldwide Limited
New York | London, New York | United Kingdom
06.2014 - 12.2020
  • Supported strategic and regulatory project for front office which risk managed bank's collateralize derivative funding exposure
  • Remove impediments by involving and communicating with required working groups
  • Led 2 major strategic systems migration to new platform by performing feasibility study, taxonomy review, preparing revised OPS model, legal & collateral fields reconciliation, Impact analysis and coordinating downstream sign offs
  • Built strategic tool to reconcile collateral curve and / or collateral ID breaks across covering derivative products between risk management application and central repository utility reducing occurrence of incorrect trade pricing

Operations Manager and Change Lead

Cognizant Technology Services
Hyderabad, Telangana
01.2009 - 06.2014
  • Devised system architecture and workflow to implement ‘Dodd Frank' and ‘EMIR' regulations for ‘portfolio reconciliations' process
  • Developed and implemented strategies to collaborate with traders, middle office and clients to resolve mark to market, positional and legal entity break on OTC derivatives products

Process Specialist

UBS India Services Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
10.2006 - 12.2008
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams to resolve discrepancies on affirmation and confirmations of OTC products thorough discovery and due diligence on existing processes.
  • Executing and affirming trade confirmations as per the ISDA guidelines

Process Associate

ADP India Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
09.2004 - 08.2006
  • Trades processing for financial instruments like equities, futures, currencies, options, bonds, T-bills & other financial instruments im middle office applications to generate P&L statements
  • Validating and booking corporate actions along with Portfolio pricing and static data setup

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration - Finance & Marketing -

SCDL
01.2004 - 01.2006

B.Com. (Hons) -

Osmania University
06.2001 - 06.2004

Skills

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Certification

Prince2 Practitioner Certification, AXELOS, https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp

Professional Enhancement Schedules

Certification from Simplilearn

1) Digital Transformation, 2) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, 3) Introduction to Cloud Computing, 4) Introduction to Data Analytics, 5) Introduction to Data Analytics, 6) Introduction to Internet of Things (IOT), 7) Introduction to Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Certification from Udemy

1) Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis, 2) R Programming for Data Science, 3) Python Programming for Data Science, 4) Machine Learning for Business Intelligence (BI)

Domain Expertise

Industry: Capital markets, Over the counter (OTC), Exchange Traded derivatives (ETD).

Regulations: 15c2 rule (T+1 Settlements),Non-Cleared Margin Rules (NCMR), Dodd Frank, EMIR.

Products: Swaps (Interest rate, Credit default, Equities), Mortgage-backed securities, FX Spots / Forwards, Options, Swaptions, Commodities, Commercial paper, Letter of credit, Corporate / Municipal & Sovereign bonds, Repos.

Process's & Guidelines: Trade life cycle, Confirmation, Settlement, Portfolio reconciliations, Collateral management, Static data setup, The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), Credit Support Annex (CSA’s).

Accomplishments

Led client automation team to implement solutions on crucial manual process through partnered RPA tools and other sources such as SQL, Alteryx, Automation Anywhere, Postman API, Swagger API, R, Python, JSON, Macros. This automation aimed to reduce risk to traders' books, build robust controls and deliver FTE savings of $120k / annum along with risk reduction.

Timeline

Generative AI overview for PMs from PMI

09-2023

Senior Project Manager

Wells Fargo
09.2022 - Current

Project Manager and Change Lead

Cognizant Worldwide Limited
01.2021 - 09.2022
Prince2 Practitioner Certification, AXELOS, https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp
01-2018

Project Lead, Scrum Master, and Business Analyst

Cognizant Worldwide Limited
06.2014 - 12.2020

Operations Manager and Change Lead

Cognizant Technology Services
01.2009 - 06.2014

Process Specialist

UBS India Services Pvt. Ltd.
10.2006 - 12.2008

Process Associate

ADP India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2004 - 08.2006

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration - Finance & Marketing -

SCDL
01.2004 - 01.2006

B.Com. (Hons) -

Osmania University
06.2001 - 06.2004
HARDIK SHAHSenior Project Manager