Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

• Building the Fastest Growing Financial Services Technology Consulting Practice in India
• As a Leader of Protiviti’s Financial Services Technology Consulting practice in India, I have been instrumental in establishing and scaling the practice to new heights. My role involves collaborating with Indian Financial Services clients to co-create and implement technology-driven transformation programs, ensuring sustainable business growth and competitive advantage.
• Develop and execute the company’s overall strategy in alignment with market trends and client needs, ensuring sustainable growth and profitability.
• Lead efforts to identify and secure new business opportunities, cultivating lasting client relationships and expanding market share.
• Drive the adoption of emerging technologies, including AI, blockchain, and cloud solutions, to enhance financial service offerings and operational efficiency.
• Oversee the successful execution of high-impact projects, ensuring that deadlines, budgets, and quality standards are consistently met.
• Ensure all technology solutions adhere to industry standards, regulatory frameworks, and cybersecurity best practices.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Identify areas for process improvement, implement best practices, and leverage technology to streamline operations and reduce costs.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders, including C-suite executives, clients, regulators, and vendors, to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Manage the department’s P&L, optimize resource allocation, and ensure efficient use of budget to drive profitability.
• Represent the company in industry forums, panels, and thought leadership activities to reinforce the firm’s reputation as a leader in financial services technology.

Jan 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise and consultation for product management and customers
• Evaluate the impact of introducing new methods or products into the business. Participate in and influence the upgrade of new and existing programs, products or services by researching relevant data and developing proposals and recommendations
• Develop senior-level executive communication pertaining to business & technology initiatives
• Working with the sponsor and project team, initiate projects by supporting the development of project charter, scope, requirements, outlining costs, resources, timeframes and other related project tasks, such as working with the technology project lead to ensure that technical and functional specifications are aligned to business requirements
• Responsible for demonstrating and delivery of product demonstrations
• Provide leadership and guidance to direct reportee and team

Oct 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• Business Champion for end-to-end project
• Define and manage the Product Backlog based on customer feedback and needs, market changes and regulatory, and business priorities
• Understand and translates business strategy and regulatory requirement for the team to incorporate into user stories
• Works directly with senior leadership with each functional area to keep them abreast of design specification and/or changes
• Gives the team clear guidance on which features to deliver next (Set Prioritizations)
• Responsible for short and long term product vision

Feb 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led cross-functional team of over 10 functional analysts and developers, both local and offshore
• This team works with MetricStream customers to ensure a well-planned and executed roll-out of MetricStream GRC software product and solutions
• Work with internal R&D / Product team to ensure successful develop new features and delivery to customer
• Devise & execute strategies for increasing customer engagement and enhancing the relationship between MetricStream and its customers
• Worked with business owners to gather business requirements, evaluate requirements, identify gaps and inter-dependencies, and translate business requirement into solid system design
• Architected end-to-end business processes as per the customer needs
• Evaluated inputs from business owners, stakeholders and team to identify and resolve potential project delays, scope changes, and scope discrepancies
• Part of Pre-sales activities (Responding to RFP, Cost Analysis etc.)
• Accountable for this Customer Engagement, Quality & Revenue/Bookings
• Implementation of Solutions – Which embrace Compliance Management, Internal Audit, SOX (Sarbanes Oxley Act) Solution, Enterprise Risk Management, Vendor Governance, Issue management and more.
• During the course of project implementations, implemented several best practices in risk management, internal audit, regulatory compliance management such as NERC, FERC and helped clients adopt internal control frameworks such COSO, COBIT and ITIL in their GRC effort.

Aug 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Responsible for Architecting, designing the entire system (Including database schema) for customer
• Assisted the PM in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the project plans accordingly and conducted project related presentations
• Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system, recommended enhancement and implemented strategies to streamline current processes
• Understand business requirement, develop FRS, Site Map, Copy Deck provide KT to developers and testers
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for various web based related applications.
• Document user manuals, implementation guide, release notes and business design doc
• Provided Implementation support, product training on each client sign-offs

Jun 2008 – Aug 2012 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Understand business requirements, develop FRS, provide KT to developers.
• Conducting the business user feedback survey to understand the Pain points
• Verify the enhancements, change requests and track the same to closure in QC.
• Performing quality check with FRS before sign-off on each release
• Create and review user manuals, provide training to partners on the application
• Implementation of products via running functional test cases and User Acceptance Testing
• Managing the cloud deployment in client environment
• Performing the application maintenance
• Conduct the scrum meeting and weekly demo´s to clients