Harish Kumar Jayakumar

Project Lead - Standard Chartered bank's Compliance Product migration

• Devise mapping strategies to resolve discrepancies between source and target system.
• Oversee, streamline and advise a team of two BA's on conflicts compliance management solutions.
• Lead and conduct requirement workshops to understand current state processes and user behavior. Coach development and testing team in better understanding of business processes, test approach and execution.
• Perform Product GAP analysis between legacy application and vendor product to ensure smooth product transition. Perform MoSCoW analysis with business stakeholders to identify the right set of data required for transformation and migration.

Key Achievements:

• Drafted and owned data mapping documents, data migration specifications and data parsing logic to guide the agile team in data transition phase.
• Rewarded with BRAVO individual award for adding value to customer goals consistently.
• Rewarded with GEM team award under 'Build a Future Ready Workplace' for successfully achieving a technical Go-Live for migration project within a challenging deadline.
• Lead requirement gathering session for A2A implementation of bank's application using API integration.
• Define and plan scrum release planning. Lead product backlog grooming and sprint planning.
• Develop and integrate data feeds for multiple downstream systems catering to their business needs.
• Pioneered configurable solution within the application to handle continuous changes in the upstream data thereby reducing the manual development and testing efforts by 30%.
• Worked with stakeholders to raise product adoption from 0 to 50+% for the entire product portfolio.
• Conducted training for over 60 users over multiple sessions to onboard the Process Universe Data and documented the user guide to troubleshoot the errors around this process.

· Responsible for implementing new Control Center Edits within Eagle STAR module. (Control Center is an exception processing tool which presents exception to Eagle Control Center dashboard for daily portfolio-related activity on the Eagle mutual fund platform).

· Responsible to plug in new business validations to increase operational efficiency, mitigate the risk involved in manual fund accounting operations by adapting agile methodology.

· Pioneered a competitive intelligence specifically in APAC/ EMEA markets and GAP analysis with competitive products to understand the key features to be prioritized and build within the product.

Key Achievements:

· Driven overall stakeholder satisfaction via various product/ features implementation.

· Setup the business support process for day to day query resolutions.

· Followed early adoption of Agile methodology using tools like Jira, Confluence and Jive for internal collaboration.

Rewarded with individual WOW award under category 'Drives and Deliver Excellence' and 'Cultivates a High Performance Culture' for initiating Competitive Intelligence task for APAC sales team and identifying new alerts for Accounting operational team efficiency

• Assembled and participated in requirement-gathering sessions to define and document functional specs, configurations, enhancements and custom reports.
• Met with clients to understand business requirements, perform gap analysis and translate technical requirements.
• Business Analyst for project CPMS (Costing & Pricing Management System) tool is used by the bid managers of Unisys to cost, price and manage multiple service offerings which helps bid managers to derive the cost and revenue for a business proposal. It is a Windows based desktop application enabling the users to work on costing and pricing of client outsourcing offerings which was managed with excel based models.
• Demo the prototype design to the client and get the consent and proceed with documentation and development.

Key Achievements:

• Created FAQ document during UAT testing phase to assist dev team members and stakeholders by providing clarity on the scope of development changes agreed as per requirement doc.
• The activity helped the team to avoid going through comprehensive requirement documentation and reduce ad-hoc defect clarification calls while following waterfall project methodology.
• On boarded new members to the project by seamless knowledge transformation on application functionality and maintenance.

• Dealing with various funds in the process of accounting and computing Net Asset Value (NAV) on all market days
• To Perform cash, position and market value reconciliations between brokers and clients to ensure they are priced correctly and verify corporate actions to ensure accurate processing.
• Identify break items on reconciliations in a timely manner and escalate aged items and fund accounting issues.
• Involved in liquidation and merger of funds for UIS Bestinver account.
• Involved in UAT and Functional Testing of IP application (Process Control Application)

Key Achievements:

• Identified as key resource in aiding the technology team during the change management process to provide a blend of operational and system functional expertise.