SIVA VENKATACHALAM
Product Owner, Lead Business Analyst In Banking Domain
Chennai
Summary
- Seasoned Professional offering more than 15+ years of global experience in Business Analysis
- Having good knowledge in Retail Banking and Investment Banking domain
- Having expertise as Product Owner to deliver software products
- Having skill in mapping clients Business Requirements to translate the requirements into Functional Specifications and Implementations
- Having expertise in Agile and Waterfall methodology to develop Software
- Good in Analytical and Communication skills
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
4
4
Languages
Work History
Agile Product Owner - Lead Business Analyst
BNP Paribas ISPL
Chennai
10.2015 - Current
- Implementing the FACTSET’s Bisam application to compute Performance return and attribution for various clients
- Developed scope and defined backlog items (Epics/Features/User Stories) that guide the Agile software development team
- Developed and maintained an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation
- Assess value, develops cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Represent team in front of stakeholders, clients or users
Work closely with product management and senior management in order to achieve the product implementation successfully - Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product implementation
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams
- Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies
Bank of America
Business Analyst
Chennai
12.2013 - 10.2015
- Prepared User stories for change requirements
- Acted as a liaison officer between Business Team, Development Team and Testing team
- Provided walkthrough on Service requirements to Development Team and Testing team
- Sanity testing on end to end service request workflow with backend applications
Business Analyst
Polaris Financial Technology Limited
Chennai
08.2011 - 12.2013
- Interacted with National Bank of Egypt to understand their business requirements to prepare the Business Scenario and Test Scenario for Collection module, CIF module and Consumer Lending module of Flexcube Universal Banking
- Functional support to Business Users to execute the UAT test cases which includes data setup in Flexcube
- Performed Business consulting for Core Banking, Lending, Internet Banking and Mobile Banking
- Performed process mapping for Core Banking Products and Lending Products(Intellect)
- Analyzed and route the defects to respective stakeholder in Quality Control
Business Analyst
HCL Technologies Limited
Chennai
06.2006 - 06.2011
- Interacted with Common Wealth Bank of Australia to understand the requirements for Margin lending remediation project and Payment Hub- Real Time Transaction Monitoring project
- Worked as Operations Analyst for trade reconcilations of Deutsche Bank, New York
- Part of the functional team to implement Flexcube core banking and lending modules to Small Industries Development Bank of India, Mumbai
Education
PGDBM - Finance
Institute For Financial Management And Research
Chennai 07.2003 - 05.2006
Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce And Accounts
A.M. Jain College
Chennai 07.1999 - 05.2002
Skills
Agile Project Management
Knowledge in Banking domain
SQL
Platform migration and Transitions
Stakeholder Management
Planning and Coordination
Certification
Advance Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) from Scrum Alliance
Accomplishments
- Successfully Migrated an Australian pension fund client in new platform
- Provided Knowledge Transfer to team members and trained 14+ OPS users in the new platform
- Guided and lead the team to achieve the client migration and implementation in new platform as per roadmap
- Worked with release management & testing teams to coordinate testing readiness, defect tracking and retesting
- Effective use of JIRA dashboard in tracking and reporting project status
Timeline
Advance Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) from Scrum Alliance
12-2020
Agile Product Owner - Lead Business Analyst
BNP Paribas ISPL
10.2015 - Current
Bank of America
Business Analyst
12.2013 - 10.2015
Business Analyst
Polaris Financial Technology Limited
08.2011 - 12.2013
Business Analyst
HCL Technologies Limited
06.2006 - 06.2011
PGDBM - Finance
Institute For Financial Management And Research
07.2003 - 05.2006
Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce And Accounts
A.M. Jain College
07.1999 - 05.2002