VINOTH KANNA
Business Analyst
Chennai,TN
Summary
Payments Business Analyst with 15+ years of experience in BFSI domain for organizations through information systems solutions. Proven track record of transforming specific business goals related to growth and efficiency improvements into new system designs.
Wide knowledge of Global payments clearing systems like Chaps, SEPA, Targe, EBA, Chips, Fedwire, ISO20022, MT-MX, etc.,
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Consultant
Intellect Design Arena
Chennai, TN
06.2023 - Current
- Mentored junior consultants, helping them enhance their skills and contribute more effectively to projects.
- Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
- Troubleshot issues by understanding issue, diagnosing root cause and coming up with effective solutions.
- Collaborated with internal teams to develop customized solutions that addressed unique client needs.
Lead Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
11.2021 - Current
- Analyze client business, functional and system requirements
- Creating the epics and detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solution for business
- Conducting Product Walkthrough/Demo to the customers on the product capabilities
- Ensuring interaction with multiple stakeholders for the overall objective of the project
- Working in agile methodologies and create EPIC in JIRA as per business requirements
- Create BRD (Business Requirements Document) by gathering requirements and analyze the solution
- Static Data Maintenance in Gold Copy and collaborating with other teams via Confluence.
- Product working for Wordlink system GPP, MCP and STARS
- Handle all types of change request, understand the requirements, analyze the issues and bring out the solutions
- Optimized core processes to improve business performance and operational agility.
Team Leader
Standard Chartered Bank
Chennai
04.2019 - 11.2021
- Design or coordinate successive phases of problem analysis, solution proposals, or testing
- Assist the Manager in consistent delivery of high quality services to customers
- Monitor service operations to ensure that they comply with applicable policies, regulations, and laws
- Primarily process within the TAT agreed within the SLA and other functions as requested by the Team Manager
- Respond to customer complaints, legal inquiries, payment negotiations, or other post-service matters
- Develop client relationships and communicate with clients to explain proposals, present research findings, establish specifications, or discuss project status
- Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
- Conducted training and mentored team members to promote productivity and commitment to friendly service.
- Tracked key performance indicators to measure success of campaigns.
Senior Analyst
Royal Bank Of Scotland
Chenai
04.2014 - 04.2019
- Identify operational and settlement risks, formulate and implement measures in mitigating risks to prevent financial losses to the Bank
- Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
- Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for platform transitions.
- Recommended process improvements to continually identify, analyze and fix constraints and challenges.
- Plan and Strategize for growth, operational efficiency, resource optimization and achieve cost effectiveness;
- Responsible for the escalation of operational, regulatory and other risks to the Head of Payment Operations and keep track on high value payments hold due to compliance
- UTA - Unable to apply process– Proper investigations via SWIFT for unapplied payments and get them applied by receiving proper payment order & allocating funds to the related departments
- Responsible for the development and implementation of mitigation or control solutions within own area of responsibilities; and
- Partner with business, Internal Stakeholders and Technology Teams to implement new products and systems
- Daily control checks are follow to make sure that all queues are monitor and no cases are pending and verified by EOD.
Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland
Chennai
09.2010 - 03.2014
- As an Analyst in Reconciliations and Payments Investigations, we will handle all type of SWIFT queries, Message Transfers (MT) 103, 202, 202COV, etc., received from banks and customers
- Acting as per the query from retail and corporate customers
- Handle payments queries and will rekey or return the payment as per the process guide
- Communicate the bank through swift messages MT199, 299, 195, 295, 999, etc
- In accounting, Reconciliation is the process of ensuring that two sets of records (usually the balances of two accounts) agree
- Reconciliation is used to ensure that the money leaving an account matches the actual money spent
- Validated results and performed quality assurance to assess accuracy of data.
- Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for platform transitions.
- Domain Knowledge of Global Payment Processing, SWIFT Processing, Global Banking Services (GBS), Payment Clearing Systems (i.e.: Fed wire, CHIPS, EBA, CHAPS, SEPA, TARGET, etc.,) & Funds Transfer (Low Value Payments, High Value Payments, Cross Border Payments, SEPA)
- Handle US clearing payments Chips, Fed wire, etc.,
- FOREX – Booking contracts for customer payments
- Client contacts for fund Insufficient approval transfer (Debit Authority)
- Good knowledge in UK and US payments regions.
Education
Master of Science - Finance
Pondicherry University (PULC)
Chennai, India 04.2012 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Loyola College
Chennai, India 04.2007 - 04.2010
Skills
JIRA
ConfluenceRequirement Elicitation & GatheringBRD (EPIC)
Stakeholder ManagementRelease planning (PVT)Agile MethodologiesCertified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Power BI
Microsoft Excel
Certification
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Intellect Design Arena
06.2023 - Current
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
04-2023
Microsoft Power BI
04-2023
SQL
04-2023
Lead Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2021 - Current
Team Leader
Standard Chartered Bank
04.2019 - 11.2021
Senior Analyst
Royal Bank Of Scotland
04.2014 - 04.2019
Master of Science - Finance
Pondicherry University (PULC)
04.2012 - 04.2014
Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland
09.2010 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Loyola College
04.2007 - 04.2010