Ranganathan Sekar

MFS Investments

• Acquired proficient Domain knowledge in Trade Finance & Banking Domain.
• Handled complex requirements and client recognized as an SME in IBOR,
  China LPR, VAT for Saudi, SWIFT, Advices.
• Key role in requirement gathering, requirement analysis, planning, and design phases, gap analysis. Drafted BRD, PDD and Process related flows.
• Developed Cross Interface stub, thus saving client a billing of 2 Manhours/
  Day for 4weeks per release.
• Lead a team and delivered e2e requirement of HOTSCAN -Compliance and
  regulatory requirement with Zero Production Incidents.

• Served as a Business Analyst at Standard Citi Bank within the Enterprise Vulnerability Management team, contributing to critical security initiatives.
• Collaborated with CIOs, HICS, and Application Security Technical SMEs to streamline the Vendor Application Assessment (VAA) lifecycle and enhance security posture.
• Led gap and root cause analyses with Application Owners, Software Vendors, and Cyber Security Analysts to evaluate and address vulnerabilities.
• Coordinated with the pre-sales, sales team, domain team, solution team, branch finance team to work upon the bidding process starting from the Request for Proposal (RFP), Resource Loading Sheet, Rate Card, Proposal defense and finally the purchase order.
• Orchestrated project planning, task management, and the creation of traceability matrices and governance decks to guide team efforts.
• Partnered with the Code Security Review (CSR) team to devise mitigation strategies for in-house application vulnerabilities.
  Strategized and executed workflow designs, control point identification, and implementation plans to meet defined objectives.
• Focused on identifying critical processes, validating customer requirements, documenting workflows, establishing key indicators, and managing process improvements to achieve cost efficiency, business agility, compliance, ease of use, visibility, and customer satisfaction within agile frameworks.

• Delivery of Asset Servicing solutions, participating in all phases (e.g., from gathering
  business requirements, writing BRD, design, configuration, testing support, training to
  go-live activities)
• Be able to evaluate business processes, anticipate requirements, uncover areas for
  improvement, develop and implement solutions and ensure that the solutions meet
  business needs and requirements.
• Maintain and analyze key performance metrics, providing visibility into team progress,quality, risks, and overall project health.
• Performed functional and user acceptance testing (UAT) to facilitate smooth, on-time, andon-budget application go-lives.
• Organized and continue to lead requirement-gathering sessions, collaborating withstakeholders and focus groups to capture detailed business needs.
• Communicate and document stakeholder requirements through data models, processflows, and wireframes, ensuring alignment with business and technical teams.
• Schedule and lead regular project meetings to discuss technical progress, schedules,resource allocation, and issue resolution, while maintaining project documentation.
• Capturing, validating, and documenting business and system requirements and making
  sure they're in line with key strategic principles.
• Analyzing existing system documentation to summarise existing system functionality as
  it relates to the work at hand
• Conduct meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings. Gather critical
  information from meetings with various stakeholders and produce the needed reports

• Performing as a SPOC between off-shore and on-shore Team
• Clear the GL bank Accounts (PtP Account to OtC Account) Reconciliation for AP, AR and sub ledger reconciliations report
• Prepare the Ageing report and consolidation report for PtP and OtC
• Bank reconciliation for every month for the given account
• Allocating and assigning jobs to the team members.