IRAA AWASTI

Data Transformation / Data Governance/ Automation/ Agile / Strategic Solution

Key Assignment - Statutory Reportings/ ESG DAO/ External Disclosures

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with partners and sponsors ensuring key stakeholders are identified and engaged early in the project life cycle
• Plan, design, and schedule phases for large projects. Communicate & coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to embed data governance controls and policies across the enterprise.
• Used business objects, business intelligence and other reporting tools to extract data from data refineries and data warehouses.
• Create dashboards and process automation to present data, insights and tell compelling stories.
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate project risks and issues, communicating project status, and negotiate changes in project scope, resources, or timeline
• Maintain and communicate overall IT Data & Analytics portfolio; oversees the management of project closure initiatives

Data Analysis/ Data Transformation/ Migration

Key Assignment - ARG Group - Data Transformation and Migration, Sept-2021 to Feb 2022

• Solutioning, consulting, implementing change, product development/ strategy from ideation to delivery.
• Working with development team to analyze and resolve defects while evaluating business processes, requirements, striving for improvement and value creation, removing impediments, developing and implementing solutions
• Liaise between Business and Technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of process and application
• Perform feasibility analysis, define path and process, data masking, define accessibility
• Identify and resolve any process issues, seek input from the Sponsor/ Business Architect/Product Owner and DevOps Team wherever necessary
• Successfully managed migration of various trade settlement reconciliation files and dashboard, Improving the firm’s ability to detect unauthorized trading by integrating and enriching via accumulation/aggregation of data in the data-lake
• Coached both technical and non-technical audiences on Agile (Scrum) methodology and tools for visibility on project metrics
• Controlled Jira and tableau dashboards to display Epic level metrics and to plan, track and monitor progress and report executive summary.

Banking /Strategic & Tactical projects / Process Analysis / Risk Management/ Wealth Management

Key Assignment –ORM and Creation of cloud-based repository,

• Review business processes and identify issues, incidents and risks, Formulate KRIs to improve operational efficiency and risk management strategy
• Define action plan and optimal procedures. Setting thresholds, frameworks, BASEL risk analysis.
• Incident tracking, root-cause analysis, impact analysis, monitor the risk and events capture system
• Collaborate with stakeholders for implementation, schedule, project milestones, remove impediments
• Implement new technologies in project, coach and mentor team-members and relevant department
• Showcase strong leadership with extensive stakeholder management of cross-functional teams, multi-task and execute at speed within budget

Business Transformation/ App development/ Digital Transformation

• Balanced multiple projects, from initiation to closure by coordinating with cross-functional teams, with diverse and complementary skills working on mission
• Develop customized materials for case work, occasionally providing client-facing expertise and in-depth knowledge of global markets
• Ownership and accountability for quality output, with an ability to meet tight deadlines and delivery focused approach, flexibility in dealing with changing environments and different stakeholders
• Expertise in JAD, JRP, brainstorming, interviews, walkthrough, surveys involving stakeholders, SMEs, vendors, users, to act as scribe to provide complete results from design to delivery
• Working in the Agile development methodologies, collaborating with business and technology teams located globally
• Used delivery frameworks like MS Projects, MS Office, Jira and Tableau.

Project management/ Domain Expertise/ Research and Development/ Business Analysis

Key Assignment – BI dashboards for Operational efficiency

• Facilitate Scrum events by keeping the environment positive, productive and time-boxed
• Creating Business Requirement and Functional Requirement Document and maintaining the Requirement Traceability Matrix and related documents.
• Eliciting requirements, conducting Gap, Risk and Impact Analysis, develop Use-Cases, Process Modeling, KT, Training and Presentation, while managing deadlines.
• Demand Management - Analyze and interpret customer demand to identify gaps in meeting on time deliveries and communicate proactively with the customer for related Push, Pull and risk resolutions.
• Contributed towards Project charter, Vision statement, RTM and Unified Modelling Language (UML) to represent business requirements and user expectations.
• Organizing, facilitating, collecting & documenting business requirements and converting them into detailed functional and non-functional requirements.

Investment Banking/ Research/Product Development/ Consulting/ Capital Markets

• Analyze the acquisition’s impact on acquirer’s EPS through an accretion/ dilution model incorporating potential synergies and illustrated pro-forma company’s financials through contribution analysis
• Managed product and research across asset classes - PE, Mutual Funds, Real Estate, Structures, Bonds and Debentures as well as Debt syndication & financing solutions
• Presented business valuation, capital markets and M&A strategic advice to panels of senior management as well as carried out digital and Agile Transformations at scale
• Perform dynamic LBO analysis with multiple operating and pro forma capital structure scenarios to determine the sponsors affordability based on projected IRR and EBITDA
• Provide in-depth analysis on client’s financial circumstances and make recommendations based on specific investment, estate planning, tax liabilities and charitable objectives
• Financial consulting to private and public companies on financing/ re-financing matters after valuation based on financial models
• Prepared investor presentation materials; financial models, information memoranda, and industry specific research for clients.

Research and Development/ Innovation, Forecasting and Analysis/ Retail, Private Banking

• Created sales and marketing strategies to increase customer base and enhance sales, designing based on forecasted trends and competitor activity.
• Gather, organize, synthesize data management in decision making.
• Leverage the integrated Products Platform, establish synergies to scope opportunities continuously, while maintaining high delivery standards.
• Designed innovative solutions to improve the process efficiency and profitability while adhering to risk/credit policies and operational guidelines and global policy standards
• Conducted in-depth research into a scrip, investment and trading opportunities to determine opportunity's value and risks involved.
• Developed innovative solutions to enhance the collateral management, portfolio management, risk mitigation, customer experience and other banking processes

Operations/ Service / Audit / Best Practice Sharing / Reporting

• Created sales and marketing strategies to increase customer base and enhance sales, designing based on forecasted trends and competitor activity.
• Gather, organize, synthesize data management in decision making.
• Leverage the integrated Products Platform, establish synergies to scope opportunities continuously, while maintaining high delivery standards.
• Designed innovative solutions to improve the process efficiency and profitability while adhering to risk/credit policies and operational guidelines and global policy standards
• Conducted in-depth research into a scrip, investment and trading opportunities to determine opportunity's value and risks involved.
• Developed innovative solutions to enhance the collateral management, portfolio management, risk mitigation, customer experience and other aligned activities with corporate objectives.