Sneha Singh
Senior Technical Program Manager
Pune
Summary
Experienced and competent Technical Program Manager with more than 15 years of experience in financial services and regulatory reporting. A proven track record of delivering initiatives from conception through completion on time, within budget and on or beyond scope. Dedicated finance professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior Technical Program Manger
Citibank
Pune
09.2021 - Current
- Manage complex programs and oversee project accountability from the program level. Responsible for planning, developing and executing schedules to ensure timely completion of program deadlines
- Manage project teams across multiple business units throughout the delivery lifecycle, supporting the business strategy right from initiation to implementation and closure
- Established the milestones and objectives based on input from program scope and discussion with Business stakeholders
- Identify and monitor the program risks, issues & dependencies and making sure that mitigation efforts are being carried out throughout the software development lifecycle
- Ensuring sufficient level of detail project plans are prepared and maintained for complex projects, providing regular and accurate reports on progress against plan to stakeholders with necessary RAID and return to green plans
- Effectively lead the program team to align with the business objectives, program schedule and budget.
- Managing budgeting and resourcing, forecasts vs actual spend analysis and tracking for effective cost control of the programs.
- Leveraged Program management processes and tools to define and execute programs and associated projects.
- Owning & driving the stakeholder management of multiple senior stakeholder within and across business units, channels.
Senior Product Manager
Citibank
Pune
06.2017 - 08.2021
- Review and analyze draft regulations as they evolve (e.gMiFID II RTS 22, CSDR, SFTR) in parallel to project execution
- Leading the SFTR project by defining 300+ reporting rules and building data controls to reduce the NACK rate by less than 1%
- Exposure to working with geographically distributed teams – both the project team and stakeholder groups, part of the Steering Co Committee for SFTR to provide updates on technical implementations.
- Work to tight deadlines and provide regular product updates against agreed milestones
- Liaisons with different stake holders, including Business Owners, Compliance, IT team, Testing team and other work streams to achieve the completeness of the business/functional requirements and their delivery within the given timelines
- Actively participated in various ICMA Forums, discussed the market standards with other banks in the forum and disseminate the outcome to the stakeholders within bank
- Consult with users and clients to solve complex system issues/problems through in-depth evaluation of business processes, systems and industry standards
- Conducting traceability mapping & requirements analysis between regulations, rules, requirements and solution to provide an overall view of how the Bank is complying with the regulations
- Thorough knowledge on MiFiD II RTS 22, CSDR, SFTR Regulatory Projects and strong understanding of transaction Reporting, pre and post trade processing
- Worked extensively on SFTR delegated, SME reporting and Brexit requirements
- Coordinate workstream deliverables (level of effort estimates, FRD’s, User Acceptance Testing) across the various regulatory projects
Business Analyst
HSBC
Pune
06.2015 - 04.2017
- Leading 2 projects (TS-17 and SA-CCR) under CSA (Current State Architecture) for SPARC
- Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, issue resolution and stakeholder management
- Consult with business clients/Operational Change Managers to determine system functional specifications and provides user and operational support
- Analyzing and providing solution for issues raised as a part of third line support
- Refinement of the 'Change Request' with business, dev and testing team and raising stories in Jira's and monitoring them.
- Performing root cause analysis in Microgen Aptitude for BAU tasks and providing recommended solutions
- Helped in optimizing the application SPARC(the accounting engine for GBM) by providing ideas around enhancement of existing functionalities
- Providing functional knowledge to test and dev team members on financial products and accounting
Business Analyst
Synechron, ABN AMRO
Pune
09.2012 - 06.2015
- Understand the overall scope of the project and work on business requirements
- Hands on experience on Murex for reporting OTC derivative trades
- Gained knowledge of CREST securities financing trade lifecycle, Crest Bridge and the Swift Messaging
- Analyzed settlement failures issues, CA event processing issues, DVB transaction issues
- Worked on Crest Reconciliation Issues for Trade positions
- Wrote database queries and functions to verify/ validate applications and writing of test case scenarios, preparing test data and UAT
- Co-ordinate with business users for defect resolution within stringent time lines
- Co-ordinate between onshore and offshore resources to ensure smooth delivery of the project
- Assistance to other projects like EMIR reporting for the domain understanding and building solutions
- Initiating and conducting BFS Domain related trainings for associates
Business Analyst/Quality Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Pune
12.2009 - 08.2012
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into FSD's.
- Worked in Agile Software Development (SCRUM) model, working in parallel development tracks.
- Analyzed the requirement and design aspects of project. Interfaced with the client leads and the development teams.
- Worked closely with key stakeholders to understand business and functional requirements to develop test plans, test cases and scripts.
- Handled tests and analyzed a broad range of systems and applications to ensure they meet or exceed specified standards and end-user requirements.
- Reviewed & evaluated judgments on factual information in complicated and novel situations
- Supports initiatives related to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process and product rollout into production.
Education
PGP - Data Science and Business Analytics
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Bachelor Of Computer Technology -
Priyadarshini College
Nagpur University 08.2005 - 06.2009
10th & 12th -
Hill Top School
Jamshedpur 03.2002 - 03.2004
Skills
Program Management
Business Analysis
Agile Methodologies- JIRA & Confluence, User stories
Capital Markets, Financial Markets, Product lifecycle
Technical skills- SQL & mongo DB
SDLC, requirement gathering techniques, creating wireframes
Leadership, communication, task management
Timeline
Senior Technical Program Manger
Citibank
09.2021 - Current
Senior Product Manager
Citibank
06.2017 - 08.2021
Business Analyst
HSBC
06.2015 - 04.2017
Business Analyst
Synechron, ABN AMRO
09.2012 - 06.2015
Business Analyst/Quality Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2009 - 08.2012
Bachelor Of Computer Technology -
Priyadarshini College
08.2005 - 06.2009
10th & 12th -
Hill Top School
03.2002 - 03.2004
PGP - Data Science and Business Analytics
Great Lakes Institute of Management