Narmadha Arun has 8 years of experience in transaction banking, business analysis, and project management. She has worked on projects migrating processes from the UK to India for Royal Bank of Scotland and Citi Bank. Currently she is a Business Consultant/Analyst at National Bank of Abu Dhabi where she has created documentation for cash products and trade finance.
1. Narmadha Arun
Business Consultant/Analyst
Khalidiya, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E
971-56-7816777/ 971-55-1355693
Narmadha.gopu83@gmail.com
Summary
Self-motivated and enthusiastic professional with 8 years’ work exposure in Transaction
banking, Processing, designing, implementing strategies and projects. Comprehensive
understanding and experience of analyzing client needs and requirement and utilize the
information mapping to illustrate material and increase end user's understanding of the
material.Highlyadaptive personalitywithverystrongworkethics.Strongleadership and project
management skills with 1 year of international work exposure (Bristol – UK)
Experience Summary
Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to line of
business and Coordinate and perform in-depth tests (UAT), including end-user reviews, for
modified or proposed new processes
Ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and make them easily understandable in text and
pictures and deliver high quality documentation paying attention to details.
Highly experienced in drafting, review and revision of process, procedures and related
documentation. Building processes / improving processes / defining processes
Migrated the first insurance project premium collections from UK for Royal bank of Scotland.
Migrated Reconciliation process for CITI bank from UK
Migrated Change of Address from Delhi for Royal Bank Of Scotland.
Ability to multitask, handle shifting priorities and timeline pressure and work with minimal
supervision.Effectivelycommunicate withall levelsof management.Experience in transitioning
a process, Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Project management, Training coordinator for team reconciliation & guiding the project to a
successful BAU.
Work Experience
National Bank of Abu Dhabi (July 2016 – Till Date)
Role : Business consultant/Analyst – GTB Cash product Management
Project Duration : 9 months
Projects worked : iBANKING Next Generation & Regional Rollouts
Integrated Information Reporting
Trade Finance Products & Services
Createddrawings,sketches,diagrams,charts, validatedflowcharts,product manual,procedures
FAQ,Businessmanuals,Usermanual,Productprogram Guide, T&C, Product definition, Process
Flow Maps, BRD, customer module for GTB products and services for UAE and Egypt and
utilized information mapping to illustrate material and increase end user's understanding of
material
2. Created, Edited, and maintained procedural documentation including but not limited to
department policies and procedures (SOP's) and "how to" user guides and application guides.
Daily monitoring of defects in UAT and follow up with ITD and Business
Performedqualityassurance,drafted,andedited Process for GTB Product and services, project
plans and reports, and other deliverable documents for content, grammar, and style.
Created RSA token process and process flow map for Ibanking and RCMS Process for
international and local corporate customers.
Created a hybrid Payment release process for internal payments team
Awarded for Best Contributionand support for Cash product management Team in GTB within
6 Months of joining the company
Assisted Executive Director in developing Product program Guide(PPG) for Cash product and
Trade products- overdraft and short term deposit
Worked with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of the process and the
documentation requirements
Attendedandparticipatedmeetingswithproject teamandstakeholderstodraftdocumentsand
procedure, in a timely manner
Provide consultation,make recommendations,giveappropriateadvice,andfacilitate decisions.
Root Cause Analysis approach done to any given problem to arrive at a feasible solution.
CITI Bank (Jan 2014– Jan 2016)
Role : SME
Project Duration : 2 Years
Project Worked : Reconciliation - Investigation Team
Migrated Reconciliations Team from Bristol UK.
Verifying and approving the processed payment through interbank transfer or same bank
transfer
Responsibility includes everyday sign off in the back office after business closure.
Subject Matter Expert – SME for the processReconciliationinvestigation team, Liaison with UK
regardingissuespertainingtoprocedural updatesandotherprocessrelatedissues, queries and
cascading the same to the team
Prepared Standard operating procedure for the team Reconciliations.
Initiated the automation process for reducing the time taken to match the items in
reconciliation process through lean program which reduced the time taken to investigate and
match the items in day today reconciliation.
The processalso requirescallingUKrelationshipmanagerand investigating why a no operation
markerhas beenactivatedinthe customeraccountand decidingwhether the fund needs to be
withdrawn or transferred to another account of customer.
Royal Bank of Scotland (Oct 2008 – Oct 2013)
Role : SME, Senior Transaction Processor, QA
Project Duration : 5 Years
ProjectWorked : CAPR & Reconciliation,Insurance,Account opening,Account Closure & Indexing
3. The CAPR – Customer Account Process Report requires investigating the rejected transactions and
outstanding CR/DR in the banks suspense account as well as the customer account and clearing the
same after reconciliation. The process also requires calling UK relationship manager and investigating
whya nooperationmarkerhasbeenactivatedin the customer account and deciding whether the fund
needs to be withdrawn or transferred to another account of customer.
Successfully migrated Insurance process from onsite location (RBS UK, Bristol & London)
within 9 months of joining the company.
Volume Analyses was made to know the amount of work being done by each site in a day by
each Fte (Full Time Employee),whichwoulddetermine the peak,andoff peak hours, which was
appreciated by my team leader and team manager.
Active participant in LEAN management (opportunities for improvement that require
reengineeringandmeasuringperformance before and after process improvement). Calculated
the cycle time for a process insurance which was key to the implementation of LEAN
methodology.
Successfully migrated Change of address process from Delhi and provided training and
implemented the process to the 6 member Team.
Root Cause Analysis approach to any given problem to arrive at a feasible solution.
Educational Qualification
M.B.A (HR & Marketing) - Anna University
Degree University - B. Pharm, Dr. M.G.R Medical University
Skills&ApplicationUsed
Operating System : MS-Dos, MS-Windows 98, XP, Vista
Packages : MS-Office 2003/2007 (Word/Power point/Excel)
Software : VISIO
Data Base : Access.
Typing literate : 40 w.p.m
Project management, UAT testing & guiding the project to a successful BAU.
Languages Known
English Expert (Read, Write and Talk)
Tamil Expert (Read, Write and Talk)
Hindi Intermediate (Talk)
Malayalam Intermediate (Talk)
Awards & Acknowledgement
NBAD -2016 : Award for Contribution & Support By GTB cash product
Management
RBS : Award for 100% accuracy & best performance in Reconciliation