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Senthil V

Senthil V

Chennai

Summary

Strategic and results-driven business analyst having around 14 Years of rich
end to end experience in Global Payments, SWIFT MT/MX Messages
IS015022, 20022 Standards. Being a certified Business Analyst, Having Broad experience in business process, client relations, stakeholder management and business development. Recognized as a visionary and creative thinker with strong analytical skills.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Advisory Consultant/Senior Business Analyst

IBM
Chennai
10.2021 - Current
  • Exposure to various modules (Financial/Configurations/Administration) in IBM
    Payments Center WIRE Services.
  • Having good experience in MT core and MX core Mappings in IBM Payment
    WIRE Services by using Transformation tool.
  • Handled domestic and International Payments by processing MT
    Messages,IS020022 MX Messages
  • Processing of Inbound/Outbound payments by Central banks, Group clearer
    (Canadian/International Payments)
  • Processed and Generated High value payments System Plus (HVPS+) and
    Cross-border payments and reporting plus (CBPR+)
  • Handled Payment Message conversions such as MT to MX & MX to MT based
    on the HVPS Standards & CBPR+
  • Having experience in processing payments by Manual Initiation, Approval,
    Processing, File initiations, Validations.
  • Exposure on the SWIFT Enrichments logics for the payments getting
    processed in IBM Payments Center WIRE Services.
  • Involved in generating the custom reports and notifications.
  • Having great exposure to Canadian payment systems and its processes.
  • Exposure to Canadian Payments like WIRES, ACH (EFT), LVTS payments.
  • Handling Payments across CUs, Central Banks, Group Clearer, LVTS and SWIFT Network
  • Extensively Involved in configuring the Credit unions and various business
    rules to
    process the transactions ensured the transaction flows and routings.
  • Actively involved in preparing PCRs, EPICs, User stories.
  • Closely working with various stakeholders (Scrum Masters, Project Managers,
    Clients,
    Product owners, Scrum teams)
  • Requirement grooming sessions, Interview, Q&A Sessions, Workshops.
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Great exposure to JIRA, Confluence and SharePoint.

Senior Agile Business Analyst

Wipro Technologies - Master cards
Chennai
06.2019 - 10.2021
  • Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to understand the requirement
  • Actively involved in user story elaboration with team to ensure the sync in understanding of requirement with Develop and Testing team
  • Closely working with Product owners/Business/Architects to ensure the features and stories are in place for my team to work in the upcoming sprints/PIs (Program Increment)
  • Ensure the features in well advance and made sure the team is familiar with the features that they are going to work on the upcoming Sprints/PI (Program Increment)
  • Maintaining enough Backlogs for the current PI (Program Increment)
  • Supporting team during Demos at the end of every iterations by facilitating and discussing with the respective stake holders and ensure the stories are 'Accepted'
  • Actively involving and being part of Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, User Story Elaboration and Sprint Retrospective meetings
  • Planned system taxonomy using Use Case and business rules analysis Elicited, analyzed, documented and communicated requirements for implementation and build outs.

Agile Business Analyst

Infrasoft Technologies - RBS & BNP Paribas
Chennai
02.2016 - 06.2019
  • Understanding and analyzing the client requirement and work closely with business analysts in developing the business requirements and technical specifications
  • Setting up effective communication channels/coordination tasks with stakeholders, business end users and technical/functional resources to enable concise requirement gathering and GAP analysis to identify potential processes that would require customized solutions
  • Handing of SWIFT Messages (MT103/MT202/MT210/MT910)
  • Creation of Payment and Incoming SWIFT Messages for BNP Paribas bank across EUROPE and ASIA
  • Having strong knowledge in Link Transactions Flow
  • Great Knowledge on Ordering Bank/Beneficiary Bank/NOSTRO Correspondents
  • Exposure to the Settlement Channels used across EUROPE and GLOBALLY (SWIFT/ARPE/COR_BK/BTB).

Business Consultant

Saudi American Bank
Riyadh
12.2012 - 01.2016
  • Performed business analysis, functional specification writing, and code/test tracking for the One Payment Processing Engine (PPE) project
  • Setting up effective communication channels/coordination tasks with stakeholders, business end users and technical/functional resources to enable concise requirement gathering and GAP analysis to identify potential processes that would require customized solutions
  • Application responsible for the validation of the account details supplied by the customer
  • For the bank 'Saudi American Bank' systems are designed to drive standardization, improve connections between existing systems and ensure faster upgrades in a more cost effective way
  • Performed business analysis and wrote the functional specification
  • Gathered business level requirements through meetings with operational, Product
  • Created detailed process flows using both MS Visio and Power Point software.

Associate Business Consultant

Capgemini India
Chennai
05.2011 - 10.2012
  • Performed business analysis and wrote the functional specification
  • OTC booking trades (CDS) as Executive broker
  • Involved in Buy/Sell Bonds OTC as executive broker
  • Expose to front office activities such as Trade capture and Execution
  • Worked on the middle office activities (Validation, Booking and Confirmation of the Trades)
  • Good understanding on the clearing and settlement processes
  • Gathered business level requirements through meetings with operational, Product.

Senior QA Consultant

Maveric Systems Ltd
Chennai
01.2008 - 04.2011
  • Understanding the Functional Specifications for Teller Transaction modules in GFS
  • Participated in meetings with clients
  • Preparation of Test Scenarios, Test conditions and Test cases
  • Execution of Test cases with Bank Users
  • (UAT)
  • Raising Defects on the particular module
  • Tracing defects and closing properly
  • Preparation of Upload files based on the functionality and execution
  • Generation of extracts and verification of files.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electronics -

CMS College of Science and Commerce
01.2007

Skills

  • SWIFT (ISO 20022 & 15022)
  • IPC (PaaS)
  • LVTS Payments
  • CUPS, Payments, Canada
  • Global Payments
  • Requirement Elicitation
  • Gap analysis and impact analysis
  • Analysis & documentation
  • Use Case Modelling & Analysis
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Problem-Solving
  • Client Engagement
  • Business Analysis
  • Business Planning
  • Configuration Management
  • Reports and documentation

Certification

  • IIBA - CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional), 2022
  • IIBA - CCBA Trained, 2020
  • CSM - Certified Scum Master (Scrum Alliances), 2019

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Malayalam
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Senior Advisory Consultant/Senior Business Analyst

IBM
10.2021 - Current

Senior Agile Business Analyst

Wipro Technologies - Master cards
06.2019 - 10.2021

Agile Business Analyst

Infrasoft Technologies - RBS & BNP Paribas
02.2016 - 06.2019

Business Consultant

Saudi American Bank
12.2012 - 01.2016

Associate Business Consultant

Capgemini India
05.2011 - 10.2012

Senior QA Consultant

Maveric Systems Ltd
01.2008 - 04.2011

Bachelor of Science in Electronics -

CMS College of Science and Commerce

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