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PRADIPTA SUR

PRADIPTA SUR

Kolkata

Summary

Experienced Business Analyst with over 14 years in the financial services industry, leading the development and delivery of AML and financial crime detection products. Proven success in defining product vision, translating complex regulatory requirements into actionable product features, and delivering scalable, compliant, and user-centric solutions. Skilled in stakeholder engagement across compliance, legal and engineering teams. Has a strong reputation of successfully completing projects in challenging environments and bring in excellent communication and coordination skills.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Business Analyst

EY
09.2020 - Current
  • Automated Onboarding process for a major Development Bank based out of Luxembourg, reducing processing time by 40%.
  • Designed and implemented a real-time risk engine to generate the compliance score of the customers.
  • Led the automation of periodic refresh & trigger review, eliminating manual intervention and enhancing efficiency.
  • Developed automated workflows to streamline customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD).
  • Collaborated with IT & compliance teams to integrate API-driven automation, streamlining customer verification.
  • Spearheaded KYC automation initiatives, ensuring seamless integration with AML monitoring systems.
  • Leading the delivery of AML and financial crime detection application.
  • By combining GPT3 with Pega AI, the financial fraud detection application was designed to analyse and resolve the potential risk detected and categorized by Pega AI.
  • GPT 3 transforms these raw data and generates human readable and comprehensive summaries in the form of Suspicious Activity Reporting and explanations of the identified risks.
  • The information generated by GPT can assist in providing clear and concise information for decision-makers.
  • Participated in cloud assessment exercise to evaluate cloud suitability, modernization appetite and define migration roadmaps.

Business Analyst

Accenture Solutions
UAE
04.2017 - 09.2020
  • Automated the Onboarding process for a major UAE Bank.
  • Played a pivotal role in building the real time risk engine and automate the Periodic Review and Trigger Review Process.
  • Designed and implemented a solution for automating KYC reviews, reducing processing time by 40%.
  • Launched a risk-based customer segmentation engine that reduced false positives by 45% while increasing detection of anomalous behavior.
  • Responding to RFIs and RFPs and creating a solution plan to cater to the client requirements

Business Analyst

NRI Fintech
11.2014 - 04.2017
  • Led the design and implementation of a back-office suite, streamlining trade settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.
  • Developed clearing and settlement features, reducing manual intervention by 40%.
  • Partnered with developers to design core modules for trade capture, settlement updates and P&L attribution.

Business Analyst

Cognizant
02.2012 - 10.2014
  • Gathered requirements for the development of an application to be utilized by Client stakeholders for Valuation & Pricing of Bonds, Commercial Papers and OTC derivatives like CDS, TRS, IRS and Commodity Swaps.
  • Following Modules were developed and integrated as a part of the Pricing & Valuation Application: Pricing Validation Module [validation of prices through interfaces from primary & secondary sources], Stale Price Module [for Money Market Funds & Derivatives], Derivative Pricing Module and interfacing with Bloomberg Terminal.

Trading Analyst

East India Securities Ltd
06.2011 - 10.2011
  • Used client proprietary application to trade in Options, Cash and Futures.
  • Applied derivatives trading strategy to hedge positions.
  • Managed a financial portfolio of INR 300000000.
  • Worked on Bloomberg Terminal.

Associate

HSBC
03.2011 - 05.2011

ARM

Indiabulls
12.2007 - 05.2009
  • Interfaced with existing strategic customers to mutually set expectations of performance and growth.
  • Identified and attended business functions and seminars to keep track of developments in the marketplace, to find potential new business and to market company's varied product offerings.

Education

Diploma in Management - International Finance

GLOBSYN BUSINESS SCHOOL
Kolkata
01.2011

Bachelors of Commerce - Kolkata

ST. XAVIER'S COLLEGE
Kolkata
01.2007

Skills

  • PEGA and KYC automation
  • Requirements gathering
  • Agile methodologies
  • Bloomberg Terminal
  • SQL proficiency
  • JIRA and Confluence

Certification

  • CERTIFIED PEGA BUSINESS ARCHITECT (CPBA 7.2)
  • PEGA CERTIFIED SYSTEM ARCHITECT (PCSA 8)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Languages

  • ENGLISH
  • BENGALI
  • HINDI

Personal Information

Nationality: Indian

Timeline

Lead Business Analyst

EY
09.2020 - Current

Business Analyst

Accenture Solutions
04.2017 - 09.2020

Business Analyst

NRI Fintech
11.2014 - 04.2017

Business Analyst

Cognizant
02.2012 - 10.2014

Trading Analyst

East India Securities Ltd
06.2011 - 10.2011

Associate

HSBC
03.2011 - 05.2011

ARM

Indiabulls
12.2007 - 05.2009

Diploma in Management - International Finance

GLOBSYN BUSINESS SCHOOL

Bachelors of Commerce - Kolkata

ST. XAVIER'S COLLEGE
PRADIPTA SUR