Pramod Chavan

Summary

Business analyst with a track record of success at State Street in client implementation, middle office support, business system testing, fund accounting, and reconciliation. Expertise in data mapping and project coordination, leading teams to enhance operational efficiency and system integration. Strong analytical skills and a collaborative approach drive successful outcomes in complex environments.

Overview

25

years of professional experience

4

years of post-secondary education

4

Certifications

Work History

Business Analyst

State Street

Bangalore

05.2022 - Current

Led a team of business analysts supporting portfolio management, middle office, and transaction monitoring groups by diagnosing and resolving system issues efficiently.
Streamlined onboarding of investment managers, portfolios, brokers, and custodians onto the ALPHA Charles River Investment Management System (CRIMS) using Global Transaction Manager, Recordkeeping, Instruction Entry, and Enterprise Reference Data platforms.
Collaborated in client kick-off calls to capture requirements, analyze fund matrices, and develop project charters and dashboards.
Conducted feasibility analysis and file mapping of client trade files to align with State Street standards.
Authored client configuration summary documents to support testing and business teams.
Managed Jira stories, coordinated with developers for estimates and delivery, and liaised with test teams to ensure timely completion.
Established connectivity between State Street transaction management systems and external applications (CTM, Trade Nexus) via BICs, ensuring seamless integration.
Facilitated RMA setup between client and State Street BICs, including test fund configuration.
Supported ETD SWIFT testing of MT and MX messages in compliance with ISO15022 and ISO20022 standards.
Designed and executed test plans, cases, and regression testing during BUAT and production cycles.
Maintained broker security and cash settlement instructions for SWIFT testing.
Support system checkouts on the major releases in UAT and production.
Drafted and published release notes for business users on SharePoint.

Business Analyst

Atos Syntel Private ltd

06.2020 - 04.2022

Supported client onboarding for middle office processes, Cleared NDF implementation with MarkitServ, fund accounting, EMIR reporting, and CompleteFx solutions.
Worked with subject matter experts (SMEs) to design operating models showing current and future processes.
Prepared key project documents including statements of work, requirements, interface catalogues, process flow charts, and data mapping.
Delivered training sessions to client operations teams.
Coordinated with client sales and relationship teams across EMEA and other regions, following waterfall methodology.
Conducted gap analysis between client systems and Northern Trust systems.
Oversaw testing activities and provided guidance to staff.
Created report catalogues to track client reporting sources and mapped them to Northern Trust reports.

Business Analyst

Atos Syntel Private ltd

Mumbai

06.2015 - 06.2020

Joined client kick-off calls to understand requirements and review fund details.
Analyzed data from static systems and mapped client attributes to State Street values.
Set up middle office portfolios, brokers, custodians, and party destinations.
Conducted testing with external managers and custodians during system onboarding.
Initiated SWIFT RMA setup between clients, State Street, and custodians, ensuring routing rules were in place for message exchange.
Mapped client data to State Street static values to ensure smooth trade processing.
Tested multiple SWIFT message types (MT54x, MT2xx, MT103, MT304, MT320, MT321) in UAT and production, including smoke and regression testing.
Prepared release notes, test plans, and supported UAT, change management, and business teams across EMEA, APAC, and North America.

Business Analyst

Atos Syntel Private ltd

03.2013 - 05.2015

Understand the functional specifications of TA applications and conduct peer to peer reviews.
Designing and executing test cases to validate application. Log test results i.e., Pass or Fail. Report defect in HP’s ALM. Retest fixed defects of previous build.
Perform various testing like System integration testing, functional testing.
Execute test cases in HP ALM pertaining to executing XML metadata for output results.
Complete regression, positive, negative, integration and functional testing to produce a bug free system.

Business Analyst

Atos Syntel Private ltd

09.2012 - 03.2013

Gather requirements from on-boarding team and business in the kick off meetings.
Request business to fill pre-workbook and work book to collect the standard information for conversion of reconciliation activities from Client’s legacy system to TLM system.
Review feeds against standard SWIFT and SOC/SOP formats like MT950 and MT535 respectively.
Compare the reconciliation reports and send to the business unit for sign off.
Complete sets spreadsheets and pass to Central IT for loading, and set up accounts with message routing to delete in TLM system.
Use SQL command using TOAD to pull reports from PLM.

Business Analyst

Atos Syntel Private ltd

06.2010 - 08.2012

Managed a team of 6 people, delivering functional support on fund accounting applications such as Multi-Currency Horizon (Mainframe) and MyStatestreet.com (Web Reporting Tool) for the bank’s internal and external clients.

FUND ACCOUNTING

Syntel State Street Private ltd (Joint Venture)

05.2005 - 05.2010

Verified accounting reports including holdings, income, trades, and foreign exchange for accuracy.
Validate market prices applied on each security held in portfolio with their cost price.
Reconcile the accounting market prices with Bloomberg prices to check the variance.
Price securities on the fund both daily and monthly per Investment Manager and per confirmed sources such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Data line, IBOXX etc.
Accounted for holdings and cash through reconciliations with Investment Manager records.
To ensure cash ledgers reconcile with Custody and asset transfer in and asset transfer out ledgers reconcile with each other.
Validated processing of all corporate actions, including dividends, rights issues, conversions, stock splits, and spin-offs, in collaboration with the corporate action team.

Customer response executive

Reliance infostreams

07.2003 - 05.2005

Resolved customer inquiries regarding billing and network services to enhance satisfaction.
Directed strategic initiatives to enhance operational efficiency across multiple departments.
Collaborated with teams to develop and implement innovative solutions for project challenges.
Facilitated cross-functional meetings to align goals and streamline communication processes.

computer operator

delta services

11.2002 - 07.2003

Handled credit card processing for ICICI Bank's Mumbai branch under a contract agreement.

Computer operator

Raj consultancy

12.2000 - 10.2002

Responsible for posting Journal entries, ledger, Trial balance up to finalization in Tally.

Education

International MBA - Financial Management

United Business Institutes Brussels

04.2011 - 03.2012

Bachelor of Commerce - Financial Accounting

University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

06.1997 - 04.2000

Skills

Business analysis
Data mapping
Process improvement
Test case design
Client onboarding
Problem resolution
Quality assurance
Swift messaging (ISO15022/ISO20022)
Jira and Confluence

Product management
Product implementation
Business case validation
Change impact analysis
Gap analysis
SQL proficiency
Portfolio asset management system
Agile methodologies

Certification

Certification in Agile Business Analysis

Certified ISTQB Agile Tester Foundation

Payment Professionals Bootcamp: Focus on SWIFT messaging MT & MX

MasterClass Software Testing with Jira & Agile -Be a QA Lead

Websites

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pramod-chavan-2765733b/

Languages

English

First Language

Work Preference

Job Search Status

Open to work

Work Type

Full Time

Salary Range

₹45000/yr - ₹200000/yr