Vishnu R Achuth
PALAKKAD,KL
Summary
Experienced Senior Lead Business Analyst with 8+ years of expertise in banking payments industry, specializing in business and project support. Proficient in requirements collection, thorough analysis, and delivering high-quality results. Skilled in utilizing Banking Applications like Open Payment Framework (OPF) and TCS Bancs. Strong understanding of payment schemes and flows including SWIFT-MT, CBPR+ (ISO20022), SEPA, Target2, FedWire, FedACH, SIC/ESIC, CHAPS & FPS. Demonstrated success in managing ISO20022 migration projects within a European environment (Paris, France) and providing efficient production support. Adept at leading workshops with IT technical architects and QA teams to ensure seamless development and testing of new requirements. Committed to knowledge transfer and training for new team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Lead Business Analyst
Fidelity Information Services (FIS GLOBAL)
01.2023 - Current
- Background: Business & Project Support - Fidelity Information Services/ BREMER & CIBCUS Bank
- Roles & Tasks: Collect requirements and enhancements with the end user and client
- Requirements Analysis
- Wrote Epics, User Stories, Data Mapping Sheets and Functional Specifications of the analyzed requirements
- Transmigration of Fed-wire messages to ISO20022 equivalent messages
- Meetings with clients to ensure solutions for each of the client queries and issues
- Presentation of functional specifications with the end user or client
- Workshop-with IT Technical Architects and QA team for development and testing of new requirements
- Ensure quality of deliverables
- Production and Go-Live Support
- Knowledge-transfer and Training for new team members
- Assist all team members for any cross-functional support with other micro modules integrated in OPF
- Technical Environment: Open Payment Framework (OPF), Visual Tool kit (VTK), Unix, SQL, JIRA
- Functional Environment: Banking- Payments, Wire Transfer, FedWire Payment, SWIFT-MT and SWIFT MX ISO20022 Payments.
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2017 - 12.2022
- Background: Business & Project Support - Tata Consultancy Services/ Societe Generale (SocGen)
- Roles and Tasks: Collect requirements and enhancements with end users and client
- Requirements study & analysis
- Writing Epics, User Stories, Data Mapping Sheets and Functional Specifications of the requirements analyzed using JIRA
- Study and implementation of migration of high value payment systems such as Target2, CHAPS to ISO20022 format messages
- Implementation project of SWIFT MT-MX (ISO20022) CBPR+ migration
- Study and implementation of migration of locally settled payments such as SIC/ESIC to ISO20022 messages
- Hands-on-experience working on SEPA, FPS, Elixir, high value payment systems such as SORBNET
- Meetings with clients to ensure solutions to each and every client query and problem
- Providing quick and practical workarounds as a production support business analyst for quick and easy resolution of issues faced by clients in production
- Minor-experience working with HKD-CHATS and BACS
- Working on Anti-Money Laundering cases and ensuring that AML cases are properly sent from TCS BANCS to the regulatory body
- Presentation of functional specifications with the end user or client
- Workshop-with IT technical architects and QA team for the development and testing of new requirements
- Quality assurance of deliverables
- Support for production and commissioning
- Knowledge-transfer and training of new team members
- Technical environment: TCS Bancs, Unix, SQL, JIRA
- Functional environment: Banking- Payments, Bank transfer, SWIFT-MT and SWIFT MX ISO20022 Payments, Target2, FPS, CHAPS, SIC/ESIC, Accounting, AML.
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2016 - 06.2017
- Background: Project Support - Tata Consultancy Services/ UBS Bank
- Roles & Tasks: Development and correction of codes for GUI
- Studying and detailing analysis with respect to user requirements
- Development of reports that provide statistics and a l relevant information required by the user in the form of any format like PDF, CSV etc
- Using Jasper reports
- Technical Environment: TCS Bancs, IReport, SQL/MySQL, MasterCraft
- Functional Environment: Banking- Payments, Accounts.
Education
B.Tech - Electrial & Electronic Engineering
Amrita School of Engineering
Kollam, India05.2016
Skills
- Corporate Banking
- Retail Banking
- European Payment System
- US Payment System
- ISO20022
- User Acceptance Testing
- Use Case Development
- Data Mapping
- Requirements Gathering
- Project Management
- Agile & Waterfall Methodology
- JIRA
- MySQL
References
Shall be produced upon request.
Timeline
Senior Lead Business Analyst
Fidelity Information Services (FIS GLOBAL)
01.2023 - Current
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2017 - 12.2022
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2016 - 06.2017
B.Tech - Electrial & Electronic Engineering
Amrita School of Engineering
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