Sundaresan Viswanathan

Project Title: Procurement - Source to Contract.

Project Detail: S2C is the source-to-contract process, which is handled using the GEP application. All the third-party contracts are created and stored. It is used to identify the suppliers using the sourcing process. Based on the identified suppliers, the contracts are created.

• Managed end-to-end project scope, technology, and test plans using Project Tracking System.
• Streamlined sprint tracking by consolidating development, UAT, and production into one Jira ticket.
• Facilitated communication between procurement and external vendors to integrate processes seamlessly.
• Coordinated resources across departments to ensure successful project completion.
• Guided team members in understanding and executing assigned tasks.
• Communicated with stakeholders to meet project goals on time and within budget.
• Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to monitor progress against milestones.

Project Title: Managed the RWA (risk-weighted assets) aggregator team within Citibank's regulatory risk reporting project.

Project Detail: The primary job of the RWA aggregator is to source the risk-weighted asset data of the bank related to credit, market, and operational risk from different upstream teams, and process that data to further pass it on to the downstream reporting and dashboard teams for different regulatory risk reporting purposes.

• Managed multiple software development projects for successful implementation.
• To facilitate Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrum calls, Sprint/Iteration Review sessions, Product and Program backlog refinement sessions, and Retrospective sessions.
• To attend PI planning sessions, Steering Committee meetings, and work closely with the Release Train Engineer for the Agile Release Train in coordinating the dependencies between the upstream and downstream teams.
• Developed and maintained productive working relationships with project owners, business functions, IT developers, vendors, and other project stakeholders.
• Responsible for preparing and maintaining artifacts, like capacity planning, burndown charts, and other artifacts.
• Educate and reinforce the Agile framework to team members, and help them develop into it.

• Project Title: Cash Equity Broker Pre-Matching.
• CEBPM is a part of Equity settlements and responsible to make sure trades are pre matched on VD-1 for smoother settlement and to avoid any delay in settlement and its penalties.
• Managed a team size of 10 FTE's to meet the business deliverables on agreed SLA.
• Coordinate project management activities, resources, equipment and information.
• Ensure that the process is in Compliance with company's policy.
• Be a part of discussion with client to understand the impact on Pre matching activities.
• Liaise with clients to identify and define requirements, scope and objectives.
• Maintain and update KPI's for the team and publish utilization numbers.
• Ensure adherence to defined Pre matching procedure by implementing and monitoring through review process.

• Project Title: TLP Migration, Intellimatch Transition and IB Reconciliation for Derivative products (Futures, Forwards), Equities, Cash & Positions.
• Managed successful migration of recon Xpress applications to TLM Premium application and worked on Auto Match rules creation which increased the productivity to 90% from 60%.
• Knowledge and understanding of DAG activities - Static set up, Operator Intervention, feed flow and handling issues that needs to be resolved before a recon is started.
• Trained 50+ team members on the navigation of how to prepare recon in TLP application and the benefits that can be derived from TLP.
• Knowledge and understanding on Asset Linking or Asset Registry handling for Position Recons.
• Travelled to United States to migrate/transit the business for FX and Cash reconciliation using the Intellimatch.
• Instrumental in bringing in Auto-match/Auto-assign rules in order to reduce standard time in daily operations.
• Submitted Ideas on Idea project to bring in change within department and team. Promising ideas submitted/Implemented was relating to forming a new match rule to exclusively work only on direct matching breaks and resolve them on a timely manner thereby reducing risk of mismatches.
• Idea project under OPEX had saved of 1-2 hours in a day and approximately up to $2.5k-5k.