Balakrishna P

Project Assignments Avaloq – Asset & Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank, Singapore The Avaloq Banking Suite comprises a fully integrated, modular banking solution of back, middle and front office functionalities. The Avaloq Banking Suite does not merely offer functionalities, but provides customised, state-of-the-art business solutions based on the latest technologies. Its complete integration allows end-to-end coverage of processes with maximum efficiency and flexibility. Responsibilities: • Migration of Structured products and OTC products from existing system (dbT, IPAT) to Avaloq. • Data Analysis – mapping and migration approach • Walk through of mapping and business logic to development team to prepare scripts to move data from legacy to staging environment • Verifying the correctness of data in Avaloq system

Project Assignments Investment Products Automation Tool (IPAT) - Asset & Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank Senior Business Analyst IPAT is a new application designed for back office to capture Structured Products and Derivatives for APAC region. IPAT captures all variations of Cumulators, Listed and OTC Options, Structured Swaps, Structured Linked Notes (SLN) and Money Market Linked Instruments (MLI). IPAT application helps business users to enrich the products and trades received from DB Trader (dbT) by tagging User-defined attributes, formulas and conditions. IPAT performs evaluation using in-built calculation engine, performs barrier monitoring and settlements and auto-generates alerts/confirmations. Responsibilities: • Gather business requirements from the business users by communicating with all stakeholders and prepare the Detailed Software Requirement Specification (DSRS). • Analyze the existing products variants - Cumulators, listed and OTC options, Structured Swaps, Structured Linked Notes (SLN) and Money Market Linked Notes (MLI) that are planned to be offered. • Understand the dbTrader functional modules and data flow with respect to maintenance of static data, product and client details, order and trade execution, corporate action handling, clearing and settlements • Interfacing the currently built application to dbTrader for end to end flow of product life cycle. • Defining the existing process flow involving IT systems including dbTrader, Bankers Desktop (BD), CCT, C-Watch, DMS, NICE, PO Tools etc. • Creating use cases and performing extensive scenario analysis for the life cycle of the products. • Provide inputs to the design team for optimal IT solutions. • Conducted Knowledge Transfer sessions to System Integration Testing (SIT) team and review the SIT test cases for functionality coverage and quality. • Coordinating UAT with the Business users. • Conducted KT sessions for DB IT team, Business users and RTB team

Project Assignments: Bankers Desktop - Asset & Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank, Singapore/Geneva Business Analyst and Functional Test Lead (May 2011 to Mar 2013) • Bankers Desktop Application Swiss and ASIA Implementation • Bankers Desktop Application Swiss upgrades (R11 Impact, TDVD Changes) • Bankers Desktop Ordering ASIA • Bankers Desktop Application Asia Release 2.0 • AHS Migration Testing for dbTrader, CCT and C-Watch • Request Approval Routing (RAR) Banker’s Desktop (BD) is a one-stop portal for the Front Office users to provide a 360 degree view of client relationships, container details & portfolio holdings and act as a platform to place orders. BD serves as an intelligent tool to assist the front office in making informed decisions, review client data, execute client’s orders/instructions, and initiate workflow related actions to other departments within AWM to maximize profitability and client satisfaction. Bankers Desktop sends and receives data from core banking system i.e., T24 and dbTrader. Responsibilities: Analyzed the workflow of various interfaces of production system and prepared detailed documentation. • Understanding the dbTrader system for the business processes and data flow related to Portfolio Management, Front office user entitlements, Ordering of different modules i.e., Securities, Forex, Money Market and Fund Transfers, KYC processes. • Manage System Integration testing, by devising the test strategies, scenarios coverage, interacting with other system owners, and reporting to senior management in Deutsche Bank and to all stake holders in the project. • Involved in training and analysis of external interfacing systems to Bankers Desktop and knowledge transfer to internal team members. • Translated business and functional requirement into a test suite and trained the testing team on the functional aspects. • Provide test execution support to business users during UAT phase.

Project Assignments: Temenos T24 - Asset & Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank, Geneva Functional Tester (Dec 2009 to May 2011) New Platform Project for T24 implementation in Private Wealth Management across different regions. T24 is a core banking platform which integrates seamlessly with back office and front office data. T24 Private Wealth Management supports banking for the mass affluent through to high-net-worth individuals by providing front- to back-office support for the full range of traditional banking and wealth management financial products. Responsibilities: • Involved in Functional testing of T24 products for Swiss region. • Owning the Derivatives and Structured Products Modules in Private Wealth Management Implementation across different regions • Translate business and functional requirement into a test suite and train the testing team. • Executed Sanity Tests, SIT, regression suite on the application, Defect tracking. • Coordinated UAT along with the business users. Key achievements • Successful Go-live Releases 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5.2, 1.6

ICDS Securities Limited, is an Investment Banking Company of the Manipal Pai Group, India. ICDS is one of the leading securities broking and distribution companies in Karnataka, India, and a corporate member of leading stock exchanges like National Stock Exchange, Bombay Stock Exchange, MCX Stock Exchange Limited, Bangalore Stock Exchange Limited. Responsibilities: • Manager, Back office Operations - Supervision and control of the Back office operations with a team of 10 people. • Manager, IT Systems - Overall in-charge of systems, handling the IT requirements of the organization, and maintain the systems as per the NSE standards and other regulatory bodies. • Manager, Business Development – Setting up new Branches, registering new clients, maintaining relation with key clients, and guide clients for investment decisions. Key achievements • Back office Operations o Streamlined all back office processes from post-order execution to trade settlement. o Continuous process re-engineering of existing operations. o Implemented risk-management and monitoring systems. o Created and implemented rules for surveillance in trading system o Ensured Process compliance to the stock exchanges and other regulatory bodies. • IT-Systems o Implemented the System and Security Policy for the Organization. o Introduced online trading in company’s web-portal. o Successfully implemented the change management of trading system from a Legacy System to New Trading Platform. o Facilitated System Audits conducted by Stock Exchanges and external auditors, to ensure compliance. o Vendor management, IT Infrastructure updates, Network & Server Management for the new branches. o Implemented Disaster Recovery mechanism and Business continuity plan for the company. • Business Development o Added 5 new branches. o Managed more than 50 key HNI clients. o Played a key role in acquiring the memberships of BSE, Multi Commodity Exchange of India, NSE Currency Market Segment and MCX Stock Exchange Ltd.

DEPOSITORY OPERATIONS • Managed the securities settlements for exchange members to clear their obligation towards multiple exchanges (NSE, BSE and BgSE). • Managed the client account transfers and verify security transfer. • Involved in front office activities i.e., account opening, dematerialization of shares, etc

Bachelor of Commerce