My Resume

1. SARATH KARUNAKARAN
tosarathinbox@gmail.com | +91 9629276567 | Chennai, India 603202
linkedin.com/in/sarath-karunakaran
BUSINESS ANALYSIS & PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Passionate Business Analyst with 5 years of experience in leading cross functional teams of development, testing and product
delivery for a financial services company. Possess knowledge in agile software methodologies for managing end to end
Business solutions Product. Seeking opportunities to leverage my analytical skills for the betterment of myself and the
company. My Core Competencies include:
Business Analysis | Product Management | Requirements Gathering & Analysis | User Acceptance Testing | Analytical
Thinking | Problem Solving Skills | Wireframing & Prototyping | GAP Analysis | Release Management | Documentation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Bank of New York Mellon | Chennai, India | 2015- Present
Lead Business Analyst (Since Nov ’19) | Senior Business Analyst (Jan ‘18 – Oct ‘19) | Business Analyst (Apr ‘15 –
Dec ’17)
 Responsible for leading the elicitation, documentation and analysis of requirements from business end for
development of the products.
 Carried out in-depth analyses for business-optimization projects, reporting tools, back-office programs and
payment processing product which improved the business efficiency by 60%.
 Partnered with developers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors. Acted
as a primary driving force behind a 50% increase in report delivery time for the investors.
 Collaborated with different stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure technology alignment with
business strategies. Communicated IT solutions for defined business specifications and needs.
 Leading and assisting QA, User Acceptance Testing teams on the test case scenarios to facilitate on-time product
releases.
 Signing-off the product to go live to business users.
Professional Achievements
 Travelled On-shore on CEO Request to present the In house Workflow Management system to larger business
group.
 Designed a product which was sold to a different business unit in BNY which generated additional revenue.
 Worked on SWIFT Wires and Mail automation in different modules which reduced operational time by 30%.
PROJECTS
SWIFT Payment automation for Collateral and Invoice Module | Aug 2019 – Present
 Automating SWIFT message generation with the report variables to avoid generating the wrong wire and to
streamline account selection systematically.
 Reducing the manual work up to 60% by validating of sending and receiving accounts of the two parties.
 Maintaining payment compliance and enhancing better audit functionality.
Swift Wire Integration for Payments to External Parties | Feb – May 2019
 Collaborated with multiple internal teams in establishing the queue to send wire message to SWIFT Network.
 Worked with EMX and FNI in establishing the RMA setup for the SWIFT.
 Studied the Swift tags and modified the tags to match the account details of party and external party.
 Reduced the manual work of analyst by 50 % and the operational cost by 70%.

2. Workflow Management | Mar – Jun 2018
 Analyzed the process flow of daily funds operations to integrate that into a system.
 Established a holiday calendar to capture responsible person absence and handle the flow by back-up person.
 Designed a Dashboard to show total fund status, user level pending status and assigned task status for the
individual user.
 Implementation of Gantt chart to visualize the task completion time to improve process efficiency.
Fund/Client Onboarding System | Nov 2017- Jan 2018
 Analyzed the Onboarding process of Fund and Client and integrated that into the system.
 Systematically automated task assignment to user by building the coverage module.
 Reduced the manually work by 70% and improved data collection from and fund and Investment managers to
speed the onboarding process by 30%.
 Generated extra revenue by cross selling the product to different internal business process which had similar
onboarding process.
EDUCATION
2013-15 MBA in Business Administration, SRM University, Chennai.
 Specialized in Finance and Marketing.
 Graduated First Class with GPA 8.1.
2009-13 Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, B S Abdur Rahman University,
Chennai.
 Specialized in studying Software development and Information Technology.
 Graduated First class distinction with GPA 8.5
TECHNICAL SKILLS
JIRA | Confluence | SQL | Balsamiq | Axure RP | Tableau | Microsoft Office | MS Visio
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Scrum Product Owner | IBM Block chain Essentials | Certified Market Research Professional