Venkata Sairam Kumar Pokuri

Business Analyst (BFS) professional with 10+ years of experience seeking to enhance the skills of Business Analysis, Risk Identification, Assessment & Reporting. Seek to guide and learn domain, technology and explore new challenges in the walk of career.

• IDEA/SAVE project on Automatic authorization of instructions which saved QA efforts of ~250 hours annually
• IDEA/SAVE project on automated notification of OSYS jobs failures
• IDEA/SAVE project on FATCA TAX calculator which saved QA efforts of ~1250 hours annually
• Played a pivotal role in building the customer tool for various search parameters

• Multiple Share Success awards from Partners for outstanding contributions to FX functional area.
• Received Achieving Excellence 2 (AE2) award in the year 2016
• Received GOLD COIN award in the year 2017
• Nominated for WAC (Wells Fargo Annual Conclave) award in the year 2017
• Received Wells Fargo Champion –Innovation award in the year 2018
• Received Wells Fargo Champion - Leadership award in the year 2019

• Virtusa Consulting, June 2023 to Current, Senior Consultant, Qatar, Qatar Airways, FMS, Product Management: - Leading the new initiatives and product enhancements proposals in line with the market, Requirement Elicitation, Gap Analysis & Solution: - Participating in requirement gathering, Gap analysis and the Solutions analysis for the requirements/gaps for product implementations., Product Delivery Management: - Plan and manage the deliveries of product versions and make sure the proposed features/functionalities delivered as planned
• Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Private Ltd, September 2021 to June 23, Senior Business Analyst, Hyderabad, RJ Obrien, Royal Bank of Canada, Mizuho, MUFG, SCB, GLOSS GPTM, Fusion OPICS, Played a key role in extending Risk Free Rates to few of the clients using GLOSS, Played a key role in Corporate Actions Claims Manager functionality going Live, Actively support in enhancing the product with ETD capabilities, Ideated an initiative of Knowledge Capsule and successfully driving the program, Actively involved in cross training the teams on different functionalities, Team Management: - Setting up and leading a new team of Business Analysts in Product Management Team, India, of GPTM/GLOSS, the product for Broker Back Office – Trade Settlements., Product Management: - Leading the new initiatives and product enhancements proposals in line with the market, Requirement Elicitation, Gap Analysis & Solution: - Participating in requirement gathering, Gap analysis and the Solutions analysis for the requirements/gaps for product implementations., Product Delivery Management: - Plan and manage the deliveries of product versions and make sure the proposed features/functionalities delivered as planned
• Accenture, April 2021 to September 2021, Business Analyst - Team Lead, Bengaluru, Barclays Bank, Power Curve Migration, Managing a team for successful delivery of Power Curve migration project involving multiple upstream and downstream systems, Consulting with different stakeholders for project activities, Direct User Interactions, Requirement understanding, feasibility studies, requirement gathering., Daily Status reporting, Active Participation in Scrum Ceremonies, Requirement Elicitation, Gap Analysis & Solution: - Participating in requirement gathering, Gap analysis and the Solutions analysis for the requirements/gaps for product implementations., Product Delivery Management: - Plan and manage the deliveries of product versions and make sure the proposed features/functionalities delivered as planned
• EPAM Systems India Private Limited, November 2020 to April 2021, Senior Business Analyst, Hyderabad, Broadridge Financial Solutions, GLOSS GPTM, Fusion OPICS, Team Management: - Setting up and leading a new team of Business Analysts in Product Management Team, India, of GPTM/GLOSS, the product for Broker Back Office – Trade Settlements., Product Management: - Leading the new initiatives and product enhancements proposals in line with the market, Requirement Elicitation, Gap Analysis & Solution: - Participating in requirement gathering, Gap analysis and the Solutions analysis for the requirements/gaps for product implementations., Product Delivery Management: - Plan and manage the deliveries of product versions and make sure the proposed features/functionalities delivered as planned
• Wells Fargo India Solutions (EGS) PVT LTD, March 2015 to November 2019, Senior Business Analyst, Hyderabad, Fusion OPICS, Requirement Analysis, Requirement Gathering, User Acceptance, Show & Tell, Release Planning, Client Issue Prioritization, Test Planning, Traceability Matrix, Test Scripting, Test Execution, Data Preparation, Defect Management, Consulting with different stakeholders for project activities, Direct User Interactions, Requirement understanding, feasibility studies, requirement gathering., Rewrote the complete regression suite for OPICS PLUS (FINASTRA product), Effectively managing the defect triage calls and sending the status reports on timely manner., Effectively interacting with all the downstream partners and providing required help to all the partners, Initiative-taking in providing the solutions to the upstream and downstream partners, Actively working with Business on Logical Day validations for GL postings, Effectively driving the end-to-end initiative involving all the downstream and upstream partners, Frequent interaction with Automation teams and assisting them with their queries, Having particularly good knowledge on FX domain and Money Markets, Played a key role in Foreign Account tax Compliance Act (FATCA) implementation going live, Played a key role in SWIFT Standards PKG 2 implementations going live, Actively supported the FX program as part of Pre BREXIT initiatives, Actively involved in supporting the new branches addition to the application (Hong Kong and North America), Took the additional responsibility of managing the test delivery of the new project OMS via BARRACUDA application, Actively involved and guided the team in CSA tagging project going live, Supported regulatory projects and THR related projects and delivered them successfully, Identified issue that were resulted in CR’s and well appreciated by the partners for extra ordinary work in defects space, Actively participated in OPICS PLUS upgrade program with 2FA integration to the application, Domain mentor to the team members and well appreciated for knowing the complete FX landscape involving more applications, Product Delivery Management: - Plan and manage the deliveries of product versions and make sure the proposed features/functionalities delivered as planned, Product Management: - Leading the new initiatives and product enhancements proposals in line with the market
• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), August 2012 to February 2015, Systems Engineer, Chennai, Pru Health (UK), Vitality (Health Insurance Product), Created test scenarios & test cases for manual testing from the Business, functional & use case documents, Worked on completed defect cycle from opening to closing & retesting of the fixed defects, Assisted in creating test plan & traceability matrices, Prepared Daily and Weekly Status report (Execution + Defects), Represent offshore testing team on Daily Flash meetings held by onshore leads & client representatives., Worked on Vitality Mobile application for Android and IOS devices., Worked on Continuous Improvement Program., Assisted team management on Project Related Activities (IPMS – Integrated Project Management System)

• Proven experience in different asset types as outlined below:
• Foreign Exchange (Spot/Forward/Swap/NDF’s/Drawdowns)
• Money Markets
• Equities
• Derivatives (Futures & Options)
• Corporate Actions
• Netting
• Splitting
• Good exposure to post trade platforms like Fusion Opics plus (FINASTRA), Calypso, Gloss GPTM (Broadridge)
• Strong knowledge on Risk Free Rates (RFR) – Played a pivotal role in implementing RFR for few of the major clients
• Proven experience in various back-office operations (Confirmations, Matching, Settlements (SWIFT & Non-SWIFT)
• Good exposure to Trade life cycle
• Good exposure to different settlements involving NOSTRO payments, DDA’s, MCA’s, FLEXCUBE
• Good exposure to Continuous Linked Settlements (CLS)
• Exposure to different SWIFT confirmations and Payments such as MT 300, 320, 200, 103, 202, 350, 202 COV, MT54x
• Strong knowledge on Order Management Systems (OMS – BARRACUDA)
• Strong knowledge on pricing aspects and four eye checks
• Strong knowledge on Payment flows, OFAC scanning.
• Strong knowledge on the regulatory requirements like FATCA, Credit Support Annex (CSA)
• Excellent experience in setting up static data and mappings.

Multiple Share Success awards from Partners for outstanding contributions to FX functional area.
Received Achieving Excellence 2 (AE2) award in the year 2016
Received GOLD COIN award in the year 2017
Nominated for WAC (Wells Fargo Annual Conclave) award in the year 2017
Received Wells Fargo Champion –Innovation award in the year 2018
Received Wells Fargo Champion - Leadership award in the year 2019