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Tanuja Kancharana

Summary

  • Multi-skilled seasoned professional offering 12+ years of extensive experience; presently spearheading responsibilities as a Consultant ( RPA Business Analyst / Digital Transformation BA for banking/ Retail Banking Operations ) at EY( Ernst & Young )
  • Experience with banking and financial principles and concepts, including regulatory reports, to design and implement data processing, reporting solutions and have strong background in Retail banking.
  • Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.
  • Prepare Business Requirement documents, user stories, data flows, and process maps with illustrations/prototypes to clearly articulate the requirements by adhering to policy, procedures and have strong knowledge of Core banking systems, accounting flow.
  • Result-driven professional, recognized for taking on major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments, and resolving mission-critical issues to ensure bottom-line success
  • Transitioned 7 Major US projects in Banking Domain. Handled multiple pilot projects and teams along with automating the projects while transitioning.
  • Key team player in the Transition projects and travelled to the US for the short term(US B1/B2 VISA validity till 2027).



Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Consultant

Ernst & Young
01.2022 - Current

Domain: Retail Banking Reconciliation,(RPA), Real Estate Invoice processing, T & E automation using Large Action Model (Orby.AI)

Application: BOT Automation (RPA), Process Automation LAM (Orby.AI)

Scope of the project is to automate the reconciliation process by using Blue Prism, OCR, IDP, ML & Data extraction technology and forwards the reconciliation reports to the stakeholders.

Invoice data extraction and handling the process steps by using large action model.

Roles & Responsibilities:

My role involves the end-to-end management of projects which involves human-less automation and acted as BA for business requirement gathering, solution designing, and implementation of BOT.

● Interacting with various business users for assessment, feasibility study, proposal, business requirements gathering, and finalizing requirement realization documents.

● Ability to draw functional process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams using Visio.

● Good understanding of banking domain.

● Organizing and documenting requirements, preparing user story documents to depict business processes to assist design, development, and QA teams in understanding the requirements.

● Bridging the gap between business users and developers to submit requirements and changes, and clarify questions and issues.

● Suggested solutions for complex problems and formulated estimates of required resources.

● Preparation of As-Is and To-Be process, calculate ROI, automation, and FTE benefits

● Defining the scope of the build or project with Solution architects.

● Interact with the technology team and help them understand the business aspects of the solution

● Prepare use cases, business requirements documents (BRD), change requests, and other functional documents and get a sign-off on those documents from the stakeholders.

● Review Test cases and perform User Acceptance Testing.

Senior Associate Consultant

Infosys BPM
Chennai, India
07.2018 - 11.2021

Domain: GRIR & VIM (SAP Finance)

Application: BOT Automation

Scope of the project is to automate the extraction of data from invoices and purchase order by using UiPath, ML & Data extraction technology and track the good & invoice receivables in SAP vendor management workplace.


Roles & Responsibilities:

My role involves the end-to-end management of projects which involves human-less automation and acted as BA for business requirement gathering, solution designing, and implementation of BOT.


Domain: Mortgage (BFSI) - Retail Banking

Application: MOSS Automation (Digital Transformation)

Scope of the project is to automate the validation of mortgage documents by using OCR technology in MOSS application.


Roles & Responsibilities:

My role involves the end-to-end transition of ACH & Mortgage projects (Post Closing Review | Collateral Review | Final Docs | CD Review | MERS | Loss Mitigation Underwriting) and acted as BA for business requirement gathering, solution designing, and implementation of MOSS.

● Part of digital transformation projects such as MOSS by implementing OCR technology and backend as Java.

● Organizing and documenting requirements to assist design, development, and QA teams in understanding the requirements.

● Suggested solutions for complex problems and formulated estimates of required resources.

● Defining the scope of the build or project by creating a solution design with Solution architects.

● Created process flow diagrams, sequence diagrams and mockups.

● Communicate and clarify the requirements to the development and testing teams. Coordinate closely with the teams to ensure the project is on track.

● Performed end-to-end transition of Post-closing and Loss Mitigation projects and made them Go-Live on a date with the projected SLAs.

● Acted as a Business Analyst for payments transformation initiatives including ACH (Automated Clearing House) claims processing, enabling faster resolution and reduced exceptions across banking workflows.

● Collaborated with cross-functional teams on ACH transaction investigation, reconciliation, and claim resolution, improving turnaround time and compliance adherence.

● Participated in projects dealing with transaction lifecycle management (TLM), payments, exception handling, and payment screening processes.

● Contributed to automation of payment validations, GL mappings, and interfacing with core banking systems such as Finacle for transaction status and exception reporting.

Team Lead

Wipro Limited
Chennai, India
11.2015 - 07.2018

Domain: AML, KYC (BFSI) - Retail Banking - Digital Transformation

Roles & Responsibilities:

My role involves the end-to-end transition of AML & KYC projects along with Migration to One KYC:

● Performed additional tasks as assigned, improving the effective administration of the AML and KYC Policies.

● Helped to formulate solutions, prepare reports, studies, and documentation, and support presentations and client meetings.

● Worked in a sophisticated AML environment with the basic objective of detecting and preventing money laundering/terrorist financing for US and MENA regions.

● Create an effective and efficient team through continuous communication, timely feedback, and appropriate supervisory practices

● Effectively address any issues that might be escalated by either internal or external customers

● Make decisions that are effective and well-grounded based on guidelines, policies, and insights

● Acted as BA while migrating the KYC legacy application to One KYC

● Report future revenue forecast and present to senior management from financial operations, and accounting.

Deputy Manager - Retail Branch banking

ICICI Bank
Hyderabad, India
02.2013 - 08.2015
  • Efficient at handling Demat operations, Customer Service Manager, privilege retail banking, responsible to handle lockers and audit
  • Credited with experience as a Relationship Manager for an MNC
  • Monitoring client transaction details at regular intervals.
  • Study the requirements of the retail clients and serve them with the correct products
  • Hands-on experience in Finacle operations, payments, cards and ATM transactions.
  • Strong Knowledge on RTGS, NEFT, IMPS, UPI, Cheques etc.
  • Maintained effective coordination with team members in the branch for quality and smooth run of work
  • Study the corporate needs and providing the best customer service to the corporate
  • Noted as one point of contact for the 2500 employees in a particular corporate

Software Trainee

Mphasis
Mangalore, India
09.2011 - 11.2011

Education

Master of Business Administration - Banking and Finance

Manipal University
Manipal, Karnataka
01.2015

Post Graduate Diploma in Banking (P.G.D.B) - Banking

Manipal University
Manipal, Karnataka
05.2013

B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering

GMR Institute of Technology
Rajam, Andhra Pradesh
04.2011

Skills

  • Transition
  • Digital Transformation
  • Business Analysis
  • Corporate communication
  • Analytical and troubleshooting ability
  • Project Management
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Team Handling
  • Risk Management
  • Critical Thinking
  • Operations Management
  • Stakeholder Management

Professional Skills

RPA, Digital Transformation Projects, Banking Domain knowledge in Finacle operations, Alteryx, Power BI, Finance Operations, Transaction Monitoring, AML & KYC, Mortgage Origination & LM Underwriting, Audit, DEMAT, Mutual Funds and ACH Claims.

Technical Proficiency

Agile Scrum, Finacle, Power BI, Tableau, OWS, SCDM, Alteryx, Blue Prism, UiPath, RPA,  CITIKYC, Lending portal, Empower, MY FAMC, Encompass, MERS, Black Knight, Tableau, Jira, Visio, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Google Sheets

Certification

  • Alteryx Designer Core Certification
  • Automation Anywhere Certified Advanced RPA Professional
  • Xceptor Core Configuration Foundation Certification
  • Certified Black Belt Six Sigma by AIGPE
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance
  • Diploma in RPA Business Analysis Fundamentals from UIPath
  • Certified Business User from Celonis
  • NCFM-NSDL Depository operations module
  • NISM
  • IRDA-Certification in Life Insurance

Extramural Accolades

  • Received Extra miler award in Infosys for performing exceptionally in handling multiple teams along with transitions.
  • Received multiple appreciations from clients for all the projects handled in Infosys with 100% customer satisfaction scores for consecutive 3 quarters.
  • Active member in the Team and pro-actively participated in all Team activities and mingle up easily.
  • Volunteer in the National Level Student Technical Paper Contest & Exhibition (Stepcone-2010).
  • Participated in paper presentation held by GITAM University “Digital Jewelry” (TICES-2010)
  • Commander for Mass-Drill during school
  • 2nd place in Relay 4*100 held at ICICI Manipal Academy in 2013
  • Donated blood to Bangalore Medical Services Trust at ICICI Manipal Academy in 2013

Timeline

Consultant

Ernst & Young
01.2022 - Current

Senior Associate Consultant

Infosys BPM
07.2018 - 11.2021

Team Lead

Wipro Limited
11.2015 - 07.2018

Deputy Manager - Retail Branch banking

ICICI Bank
02.2013 - 08.2015

Software Trainee

Mphasis
09.2011 - 11.2011

Master of Business Administration - Banking and Finance

Manipal University

Post Graduate Diploma in Banking (P.G.D.B) - Banking

Manipal University

B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering

GMR Institute of Technology
Tanuja Kancharana