HARDIK SHAH
Senior Project Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced Senior Project Manager gifted at meeting tight deadlines, driving business opportunities, and working well in team-based environments. Engaging and personable to manage key milestones and deliver exemplary customer service.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Project Manager (Title: Senior AVP)
Wells Fargo
9 2022 - Current
- Strategized and successfully implemented regulatory project 'T+1 Settlement Initiative' by assessing impacted business areas, products, and applications
- Synchronized multiple workstreams to report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders
- Supervised teams and provided guidance, feedback, coaching, and mentoring to project & business execution teams, technology, and operations teams
- Orchestrated project plans to meet key milestones at every project phase (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control, closure)
- Designed communication process to key stakeholders and project contributors
- Created and maintained project artifacts like heat maps, RAID logs, dashboards, minutes, approvals to depict real-time project health
- Liaised with industry participants like Broadridge, DTCC and Bloomberg 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
01.2021 - 09.2022
- Evaluated & executed business analysis strategies for iterative development for trading and settlement application
- Developed project baselines and controlled with respect to cost, resource deployment, time overruns, and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution of projects
- Engineered efforts in focusing on application development covering Business initiatives, Artifacts, Baseline, Epics, User stories, Data flow, Tracing, Impact analysis, reviews & approval process
- Collaborated with clients & stakeholders while keeping them informed of progress and issues to manage expectations on requirements and deliverables.
Project Lead, Scrum Master, and Business Analyst
Cognizant Worldwide Limited
06.2014 - 12.2020
- Implemented project where the scope was to improve Funding Valuation Adjustment (FVA), Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA), publishing global collateral Curve pricing curve for CIB for Front office responsible for managing Credit and Counterparty risk across the bank
- Automated 4 crucial manual processes through partnered RPA tools such as Alteryx, Automation Anywhere, and Xceptor that reduced risk to traders' books, built robust controls and delivered FTE savings of $120k / annum
- Spearheaded two major strategic systems migration from legacy to new platform; wherein performed feasibility study, taxonomy review, designed revised OPS model, drove legal & collateral fields reconciliation, Impact analysis and facilitated sign-offs
- Co-ordinated with senior stakeholders, and Business units to understand issues identified during validations and remove impediments by involving and communicating with required working groups.
Operations Manager and Change Lead
Cognizant Technology Services
01.2009 - 06.2014
- Devised system architecture and workflow to implement ‘Dodd Frank' and ‘EMIR' regulations for ‘portfolio reconciliations' process covering 50+ high volume clients
- 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.
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
- Executed and affirmed trade confirmations as per ISDA guidelines.
Process Associate
ADP India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2004 - 08.2006
- Executed trades processing for financial instruments like equities, futures, currencies, options, bonds, T-bills & other financial instruments in middle office applications to generate P&L statements
- Validated and booked corporate actions along with Portfolio pricing and static data setup for 100+ instruments on a daily basis.
Education
MBA - Finance & Marketing
SCDL - Pune
08.2004 - 05.2006
B.Com. (Hons) - Accounting
Osmania University - Hyderabad
06.2001 - 05.2004
Skills
Project Management - Waterfall / Hybrid / Agile Frameworks
Business Analysis
Requirements Gathering & Writing
MS Office Suite
SharePoint
JIRA
Confluence
Client & Stakeholder Management
Cross-Functional Communication
Team Building & Leadership
Digital Transformation
Advanced problem solving
Certification
Prince2 Practitioner Certification, AXELOS
Domainexpertise
- Regulations: T+1 Settlement, Non-Cleared Margin Rules (NCMR), Dodd Frank, EMIR
- Industry: Capital markets, Money markets, Over the counter (OTC), Exchange Traded (ETD), Fixed Income / Debt markets
- Processes: Trade life cycle, Confirmation, Settlement, Portfolio reconciliations, Mark to market (MTM), Collateral management, Static data setup, corporate actions
- Industry Guidelines: The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), Credit Support Annex (CSA's)
- Products: Swaps (Interest rate, Credit default, Equities), Mortgage-backed securities, FX Spots / Forwards, Options, Swaptions, Commodities, Bonds
Accomplishments
Spearheaded team of eight members to implement solutions for manual processes through partnered RPA tools and other sources such as SQL, Alteryx, Automation Anywhere, Postman API, Swagger API, R, Python, JSON, and Macros. This automation reduced risk to traders' books by building robust controls and delivered FTE savings of $120k per annum.
Professional Enhancements
Certifications from Simplilearn
- Digital Transformation
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Introduction to Data Analytics
- Introduction to Internet of Things (IOT)
- Introduction to Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Certifications from Udemy
- Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis
- R Programming for Data Science
- Python Programming for Data Science
- Machine Learning for Business Intelligence (BI)
Timeline
Generative AI overview for PMs from Project Management Institute
09-2023
Project Manager and Change Lead
Cognizant Worldwide Limited
01.2021 - 09.2022
Prince2 Practitioner Certification, AXELOS
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
MBA - Finance & Marketing
SCDL - Pune
08.2004 - 05.2006
B.Com. (Hons) - Accounting
Osmania University - Hyderabad
06.2001 - 05.2004
Senior Project Manager (Title: Senior AVP)
Wells Fargo
9 2022 - Current
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