Vignesh Nagendiran
Capital Markets | Business Analysis | Project Management | IIM-I 2014
Chennai,Tamil Nadu
Summary
Results-driven Lead Business Analyst with significant experience in the Capital Markets domain, specializing in collateral management. Proven track record of driving business transformation through strategic analysis, process optimization, and stakeholder collaboration across investment bank. Adept at working with cross-functional teams including trading, operations, technology, and compliance to align business goals with technology initiatives. Sound knowledge of financial instruments including equities, fixed income, and derivatives.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager – Corporate and Investment Banking
BNP Paribas
09.2023 - Current
- Lead Business Analyst – Collateral Operations Change & Enhancement, Global Markets
- Responsible for business analysis, project management, backlog grooming, prioritization with sponsors, high level estimates, design review, stakeholder management across middle office functions and gap analysis.
- Manage collateral operations (bilateral) suite of applications across ISDA and Repo business lines across the globe.
- Enhanced collateral platform end to end to support consumption and margining of Sponsored Repos & Kondor MSFTA.
- Led Acadia-soft margin call workflow automation for pledging and settlement of margin calls.
- Improved securities settlement interface to implement robust operational controls.
- Exit strategy to support decommissioning of margining workflow in TLM Algo and transition to in-house solution.
- Early wins: Faster Go to Market for Corporate and Institutional banking clients.
- Leading a 7-member team including 3 BA, 3 Developers, 1 Architect.
- Key Apps: Coll-Web (internal), TLM, Acadia soft Suite for Margining.
- Project methodology: Agile, Tools: Jira, Confluence
Lead Business Analyst – Collateral Operations Transformation, Market Initiatives
BNP Paribas
01.2022 - 09.2023
- Responsible for project management, business analysis, gap analysis, book of work, hiring.
- Drive a 5-member team including 2 BAs, 2 Dev, and 1 Architect.
- Evaluate industry leading Acadia Agreement manager offering to effectively digitalize all CSA terms within a typical (standard) CSA (Collateral Service Annexure).
- Subsequently led the transformation project to digitalize collateral legal documents to improve quality of CSA data.
- Collaborated with BNP stakeholders across Legal & Collateral operations users to define the new collateral agreement workflow process for creation/amendment/termination of CSAs.
- Achievements: 22K + documents systematically submitted to Acadia and digitized via Backloading and Real time.
- Define mechanism and methodology for selection & upload of CSA documents stored in legal system along with metadata.
- Key Apps: Acadiasoft, RT & Stock Meta Data Feed, Document Retrieval API, Document Exclusion Rules and Acadia integration API, Reconciliation of digitalized agreement.
Asst Manager – Corporate and Investment Banking
BNP Paribas
08.2018 - 01.2022
- Senior Business Analyst - Collateral Management Operations (Bilateral).
- Responsible for project management, business analysis, functional requirements, gap analysis.
- Instrumental in savings of over $6 Million through operational enhancements.
- Implemented settlement fail management module across cash and bond asset class which was well received by Operations and stakeholders in times of volatile market period.
- Implemented IBOR Repapering to seamlessly move collateral agreements from EONIA index rates to ESTER index (and other indices) in alignment with global markets.
- Enhance module to investigate trade breaks and margin disputes in compliance with CFTC and AMF regulatory reporting.
- Rollout reporting to track breaches based on trade threshold range for CFTC reporting.
- Designed and delivered PRS module to reconcile counterparty portfolio based on operational frequency regulatory frequency.
- Enhanced payment controls in the in-house collateral management application namely Coll-web.
- Created KPI dashboard for margin and dispute parameters for monthly, weekly and daily frequency to monitor collateral operation team’s performance.
- Key Apps: Algo TLM V5 and V4 and Acadia soft Agreement manager.
Business Analyst
TCS
06.2014 - 08.2018
- Tier 1 Nordic Service Provider – Business Analyst.
- Participated in customer workshops for evaluating scope and requirements.
- Analyzed TCS’s product portfolio and mapped customer needs as well as identifying new enhancements.
- Presented and enumerated TCS’s CRM solution capability to key stakeholders COO, IT Director, VP Delivery.
- Coordinated and led a team of 5 analysts in crafting a demo repository for solution walkthroughs.
- Identified and segmented market offerings based on transaction volume in service provider environment.
- Developed a solution road map for high volume and low volume products in service provider arena.
- Envisioned product lifecycle for industry standard offerings in relation to CRM.
- Designed order handling scenarios for enterprise product offerings viz, ISDN, Unbundled Access.
Software Engineer
Nokia
05.2010 - 05.2012
- Practiced as an Integration Professional and was the client interface for AT&T, USA and RCOM, India.
- Enabled the sales team through knowledge sharing on Domain, Technology and Customer Centric solutions.
- Presented over half a dozen customer demonstrations as part of Presales support which were highly rated by stakeholders.
- Showcased a PoC Multimedia Solution and AT&T, USA has selected it for commercial use.
Associate Software Engineer
Accenture India
08.2009 - 05.2010
- British Telecom BSS Centre – Solution Engineer.
- Transformed into a solution delivery professional focusing on CRM for consumer telecom market.
- Retail CRM business process development for Fixed line, mobility and broadband product.
Education
MBA -
Indian Institute of Management
Indore,India04.2014
Bachelor in Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Madras Institute of Technology
Chennai06.2009
Class XII -
TIMHSS
Chennai,India04.2005
Class X -
TIMHSS
Chennai,India05.2003
Skills
Capital Markets
Business Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Agile
Product Management
Timeline
Manager – Corporate and Investment Banking
BNP Paribas
09.2023 - Current
Lead Business Analyst – Collateral Operations Transformation, Market Initiatives
BNP Paribas
01.2022 - 09.2023
Asst Manager – Corporate and Investment Banking
BNP Paribas
08.2018 - 01.2022
Business Analyst
TCS
06.2014 - 08.2018
Software Engineer
Nokia
05.2010 - 05.2012
Associate Software Engineer
Accenture India
08.2009 - 05.2010
MBA -
Indian Institute of Management
Bachelor in Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Madras Institute of Technology
Class XII -
TIMHSS
Class X -
TIMHSS
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