1. Surender Reddy Donthi Email: d_surender@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +1 408 707 2579
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
• Project and Functional Management professional with more than 18 years of experience in Banking
and IT industry serving in various functional and managerial positions.
• Member of TCS Risk Practice Team handling risk projects as a risk domain expert. Knowledge of
Compliance/Governance frameworks: Basel III, CCAR, Operation and Credit Risk.
• Experience as a Scrum Master for major banking projects.
• Worked on RFP’s, Point of View, White Papers on Operational Risk (BCBS 292) and Risk Data
Aggregation (BCBS 239).
• Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirement Gathering, Business Process
Flow, Business Process Modeling, Use case.
• Experienced in Integration/Regression/UAT and Manual testing - GUI Testing, Field Validation
Testing, Functionality Testing and experience in writing test design and test cases.
CAREER PROFILE:
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES: 2008 to date
Summary of Key Projects:
Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
CCAR – Governance
Project
Silicon Valley Bank Feb’2016 to date California, US Subject Matter
Expert
Responsibilities • Preparation of 14M (Retail Loans) and 14Q (Retail and Wholesale) reports.
• Worked with Business Stewards to map CCAR 14M and 14Q attributes to
source systems to business data element definitions and then finally to the
trusted data source.
• Creation of DQ rules and do gap analysis on the data.
• Manual mapping of sample data to expected results template and clean up
data in terms of DQ rule adherence and population of data on all mandatory
attributes.
• Compare expected results to the reports generated from Axiom to check for
validation and to sort out issues and clean up.
• Reconciliation of report results with FRY9C (Schedule HC-C and HC-S).
• Co-ordinate with UAT users, development team and Axiom team to set up
environment for UAT testing.
• Provide UAT test cases for business users to test.
• Coordinating with client team and offshore team for various deliveries.
Project SVBFG growth rate is driving it to cross $50 billion turnover and hence would be
subject to CCAR regulations. This initiative is started in order to prepare its data
governance to meet the CCAR standards and generate FRY14M, 14Q and 14A
reports.
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2. Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
Wholesale Credit
Provisioning (WCP) –
CCAR
BOA July’2015 to Jan’2016 Hyderabad,
India
Project Manager –
Business Data
Analysis
Responsibilities • Managing a team of 7 Data Analysts/ BA’s in terms of assigning work,
monitoring and delivering requirements. Appraising the team members and
handling management reporting.
• Handling the daily status call with onsite team and generating weekly and
monthly status reports.
• Coordinating with client team and also responsible for task deliveries.
• Data Mapping – Checking and mapping data at SoR to Staging level and
ensuring uniformity in terms of attributes and data types.
• Mapping of IST and EST elements to their proper business definition.
• Data Profiling – Checking the data at SoR level and ensuring uniformity
across all input levels and checking if they are as per the defined
parameters.
• Updating the business and data elements.
Project WCP (Wholesale Credit Provisioning) is a common platform which is built to model
all of the wholesale credit data into a common and singular data model, driving away
inconsistencies that exist between current application data models. This was
designed to achieve RDA (Risk Data Aggregation) standards in the existing data
environment.
WCP ADS build is an initiative to establish WCP as ADS (Authorized Data Source),
based on RDA/EDM (Risk Data Aggregation / Enterprise Data Management),
requirements for the wholesale credit data domain. This is being achieved by
integrating the data model with PEAKS, which currently receives their risk and charge
off and recovery data from multiple SOR’s in different formats.
The project has multiple teams working to implement this objective, which comprises
of BA’s, Data Analysts, Sourcing and ADR (Automatic Data Repository) Development
Provisioning and Promotion Teams.
Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
Basel Capital Reporting
& Risk Data
Aggregation (RDA)
Project
JPMC January 2014 to
June 2015
Columbus, USA Functional Lead -
Senior Business
Analyst
Responsibilities • Managing a team of 4 Data Analysts/ BA’s in terms of assigning work,
monitoring and delivering requirements. Appraising the team members and
handling management reporting.
• Generation of BDR (Business Data Requirements) and Output/Input data
models for BCBS data certification. The process involved business and
technical decomposition of data attributes for each LOB like MB, Card, Auto
and Student. We analyzed the required data elements, derived data lineage
and enhanced metadata to comply with Basel Committee for Banking
Supervision data quality requirements for implementation.
• Mapped the reference data hierarchy for attributes by rolling up from
attribute to the aggregate level.
• Experience on BCBS Business Data Requirements (BDR) capture and
submission for certification process
• Data Profiling – Checking the data at SoR level and ensuring uniformity
across all input levels and checking if they are as per the defined
parameters.
• Worked with SAS model development team to determine attribute
requirements, attribute exclusions, default definitions for PD, LGD and EAD
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3. segmentation characteristics and RWA calculations.
• Interacted with the Capital model development team, LOB Controllers and
LOB Risk SMEs to gather reporting requirements, and assess data
requirements at onsite
Project JPMC's Risk Management organization's charter is to build scalable systems and
infrastructure that meet objectives for the firm like robust data quality; technology
architecture and operating models; and new regulatory reporting requirements related
to the firm's Basel risk data integration and risk reporting principles.
As part of this organization, Consumer & Community Banking (CCB) Retail Capital
Management Office (RCMO) supports the organizations by providing end-to-end
credit risk capital modeling, analytic and reporting solutions for the firm’s consumer
exposures of Mortgage Banking, Auto and Student Lending, Business banking and
Consumer Cards.
On the technology side, the group interacts with the SAS team for implementation of
credit risk reporting solutions. The group is primarily responsible for souring data
required for calculation of PD, LGD, EAD and RWA culminating in production of the
FFIEC 101 report.
The project, currently in its implementation phase is addressing issues with data
quality and aims to automate manual processes to reduce regulatory capital
requirements.
Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
States and Housing
Project
Moody’s May 2013 –
December 2013
New York City,
US
Functional
Manager
Client Name Moody’s, USA
Project Title States and Housing Automation
Period May 2013 – December 2013
Responsibilities • Handling a team of 6: Assigning work, managing deliverables, appraisals and
coordination between client project team and offshore team.
• Development of application to pull in data and to generate financial reports.
• Instrumental in revising and creating financial and operational ratios for various
infrastructure and public service industries. These ratios are used by the analysts
as an important parameter to arrive at their rating for industries.
• Preparation and mapping of Chart of Accounts for financial and operational ratios.
• Helping and revising BA team in requirement clarification, requirement gathering
and preparation of requirements document.
• Walk through with the development team of the functional process to identify gaps
and close the functional gaps.
• Co-coordinating with testing and UAT (Business) team to test the functional flow
and also vetting the test cases.
Project The states and housing project was to automate the capture of financial, operational
and demographic details of the states and housing entities and help the Rating
Analysts to rate the entities.
The process involves capture of Financial and operational statements from the public
entities and to process them through the predefined Moody’s Chart of accounts,
adjustments and then on to ratio generation for helping the Rating Analyst to arrive at
the rating for each of the entities.
The sates and housing entities include those entities which are run by the state:
Airport, Higher Education, Infrastructure, Health Care and Housing
Technology Stack Front end – flex
Back end - (database - Sybase), Spring, DVL,
Reports and ETL – Pentaho
Project Location Hyderabad, India / NYC, USA
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4. Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
ICDW Wave 3 – Data
Warehouse Migration
JP Morgan Chase May 2012 – April
2013
Hyderabad,
India
Lead Business
Analyst and Scrum
Master
Client Name JP Morgan Chase, USA
Project Title ICDW Wave 3 – Data ware house migration
Period May 2012 – April 2013
Responsibilities
• Lead Analyst
- Managing Offshore BA team of 3
- Preparation of meta data description and helping the development team on
functional aspects and reverse engineering
- Preparation of Functional Requirement Documents
• Scrum master
- Managing daily scrum calls and monitoring of Multiple Sprints
- Maintaining Issue log for all sprints and following up with teams, in co-
ordination with the PM, to close the issues
- Sprint status updates to management on a daily basis
Project JPMC is one of the largest retail and investment bank. JPMC provides Branch and
Business Banking Activities and offers Products like Checking and savings accounts,
mortgages, home equity and business loans.
JPMC also provides Investment Banking, Card Services and Auto, Commercial
Banking, Treasury & Securities Services, Asset Management.
Currently JPMC is in the process of Sun setting Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
and Migrating all the EDW Data Marts to Integrated Consumer Data Warehouse
(ICDW).
As part of this, project wave 3 will migrate 7 of the data marts CST, RDM, WRM,
AMM, PDM, XCS, and XPD
Languages Ab-initio, Informatica
Database Teradata, DB2
Project Location Hyderabad, India / Columbus, USA
Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
Citi Hedge Fund
Services (CHFS)
Citi, USA June 2011 – March
2012
Boston, USA Project / Functional
Manager
Client Name Citi, USA
Project Title Hedge Fund Services
Period June 2011 – March 2012
Responsibilities • Co-coordinating and managing development and testing team to build, test and
implement the project
• Was the single point of contact between the business users, client managers and
dev team
• Maintained communication between the client management group, Business
partners, and different project teams
• Preparation of functional process documents with use case, Functional Design
and Testing Design Documents
• Presentations to and user signoffs from Business Users and Stake holders for
project kickoff
• Participate and contribute to Request for Proposals and pitch in to the pre -sales
team for new business
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5. • Schedule, Delivery and defect monitoring through QC
• Team Appraisals
Project Citi Hedge Fund Services provides back office services such as Portfolio Accounting,
Investor Allocations, Valuation reports etc., to its clients through efficient technology
solutions that facilitate Straight Through Processing (STP).
This project involved developing a Back Office platform that facilitates straight
through processing of back office operations. This involved consolidating and
enhancing the legacy applications into a unified web- based portfolio accounting
platform that facilitates automation of portfolio accounting and surround functions
such as trade acquisition, trade processing, market data, security master setup and
reporting.
Languages .Net
Database Oracle
Project Location Chennai, India / Boston, USA
Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
International
Operations and
Workflow Application
(IOWA)
Citi, UK February 2008 –
June 2011
London, UK
Chennai, India
Sr. Business
Analyst
Client Name Citi, UK
Project Title International Operations and Workflow Application (IOWA)
Period February 2008 – June 2011
Responsibilities • Managed Business Analysts and testing teams to ensure timely implementation of
various projects and enhancements
• Maintained streamlined communication between the client management group,
Business partners, and different project teams
• Preparation of functional process documents with use case, Functional Design
and Testing Design Documents
• Presentations to and user signoffs from Business Users and Stake holders for
project kickoff
• Participate and contribute to Request for Proposals and pitch in to the pre -sales
team for new business
• Schedule, Delivery and defect monitoring through QC
• Maintained scrum sheet
Project International Operations Workflow Application (IOWA) is used by the Equity
International Prime Brokerage Operations and Middle Office team to provide a fully-
featured, Exception based settlement instruction processing platform. Iowa is a trade
processing application, which handles the settlement processing.
IOWA supports STP (Straight Through Processing) or manual instructing of broker
trades and generates and allocates tasks to users when there is an STP breakdown
in the instruction lifecycle. IOWA handles Trade and Instruction lifecycle exception
management, Supports SWIFT 15022 MT54* standard security instruction message
formats, Generates exceptions for Operations / Middle Office based on sophisticated
trade life cycle model, Allocates exceptions based on a data-driven, user-defined
allocation model, Supports complex trade / instruction shaping and netting to reduce
settlement risks, Full audit trail for all trades / instruction events, whether automatic
or manual.
Languages J2EE
Database Oracle
Project Location Chennai, India / London, UK
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6. POLARIS SOFTWARE LABS: 2005- 2008
Summary of Key Projects:
Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
Intellect Invest Westpac,
Singapore
May 2007 – Feb
2008
Singapore /
Hyderabad,
India
Business
Manager /
Functional
Consultant
Atlantis
Citi, UK April 2006 – May
2007
Hyderabad,
India
Production Support
Manager
eDealer Application Citi, UK February 2005 – April
2006
Bahrain /
Hyderabad,
India
Production Support
Manager
Client Name Westpac, Singapore
Project Title Intellect Invest
Period May 2007 – Feb 2008
Responsibilities • Responsible for product implementation
• Ensuring performance, availability and stability of the intellect product
• Communication channel between the client business partners and project teams
(offshore/onsite)
• Status reporting to higher management (Client and Polaris)
• Resource management and Resource utilization
• Manage Business Analysts, Testing & Implementation teams
• Schedule and train end users at onsite
• Resolving domain issues and queries raised by Developers and Testers
• Responsible for handling change requests in the design flow of the modules
• Coordinating and monitoring customization of product
• Certifying the fix done for the issues raised by the testing team and to further release the
same for testing and subsequently to the SIT environment
• Review of test case scenarios developed by the testing team and providing inputs with
regards to the testing process
Project Intellect Invest is a Web Enabled Wealth Management Application handling Bonds, MF,
Equity, Structured Products, Alternative Investments, and Relationship Opening. The
product also has Performance Analytics and Financial Need Analysis Modules, which help
in identifying financial goals, and suggest the risk profile and investment strategies. It is an
end-to-end product starting with capture of deal to generation of accounting entries and
handing the same to Host system.
The project involved implementation of Invest product at Westpac, Singapore. The
implementation included Core modules, which handle Origination, Lending and GL.
Languages J2EE
Database Oracle
Special Software Intellect Invest : Wealth Management Product
Project Location Hyderabad, India / Singapore
Client Name Citi, UK
Project Title Atlantis
Period April 2006 – May 2007
Responsibilities • Resource management and Resource utilization
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7. • Distributing the issues and guiding the Associates towards resolution of issues
• Monitoring the closure ratio and tracking the Service Level Agreement
• Reporting the metrics and the status of Team deliverables to the Senior Management
• User interaction for prioritizing and analyzing the issues
• Assisting the team to understand the business and resolving the issues
• Interacting with the business users for understanding the business issues and resolving
them
• Coordination for COB (Continuity of Business) activities
Project Atlantis is a Banking Treasury application going live in 15 countries across EMEA region in
Citigroup’s Global Consumer Banking group. Atlantis serves as an end-to-end deal
processing system and FX rate server for distributing the Treasury FX rates. Atlantis
interfaces with wide variety of Banking systems for MIS reporting, Account Reconciliation,
Swift messaging, Currency Position tracking and Rate distribution utilizing external
software packages such as FAL Messaging, NDM, SNA, MQ and Reuters. Technical
Support involves clarifying queries on application, investigating and fixing the issues
reported, interacting with Interface system support for resolving issues with Interfaces and
interacting with Data center support for administration and operational activities.
Languages Java J2EE, HP-Unix, Visual Basic 6.0
Database Oracle
Project Location Hyderabad, India / London, UK
Client Name Citi, Bahrain
Project Title eDealer
Period February 2005 - April 2006
Responsibilities • Team Management and resource utilization
• Managed a 22 member helpdesk and technical support team giving 24*7 support
• Managing helpdesk support to EMS&T E-commerce (Emerging Markets Sales &
Trading)
• Providing 1st level Technical support 24x7 to clients using internal websites namely
eDealer and eTreasury
• Assigning tickets/-tracking issues reported through help desk call tracking system VHD
(Virtual helpdesk)
• Guiding the Associates towards resolution of issues
• Monitoring the closure ratio and tracking the Service Level Agreement
• Reporting the metrics and the status of Team deliverables to the Senior Management
• Handling 1st level escalations, emergency requests and interacting with users across 40
countries
• Coordination with business users to educate on version changes to the application
Project eDealer Convergence is a web based integrated treasury system covering FX, Money
Market, Fixed Income and Derivatives products for over 40 countries. eDealer is a front
office application for capture of trades and also handles middle office process.
Languages Java, XML
Database Sybase
Project Location Hyderabad, India / Bahrain
DSL SOFTWARE LABS (HCL): 2004 - 2005
Project Name Customer Name Duration Work Location Role
Money Market and
Commodities
Operations
Deutsche Bank April 2004 – February
2005
London, UK /
Bangalore,
India
Associate Manager
Client Name Deutsche Bank, UK
Period April 2004 – February 2005
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8. Responsibilities • Managed a 19 member operations team for MM / Recon / Brokerage/ Commodities
Brokerage and Static
• Transition of MM and Commodities Brokerage projects and well versed with setting /
startup / transition of new process
• Preparing DPAD (Detailed Process Analysis Document) and DTP’s (Desk Top Process)
• BCP Planning, Testing and Commissioning
• Coordination for setting up of infrastructure for process to go live on offshore
Operations
Location
Bangalore, India / London, UK
ING Vysya Bank Ltd. 1996 - 2004
Industry Area of Work Duration Work Location Role
Banking Domestic Treasury
/ Equity
October 1996 –
March 2004
Bangalore,
India
Manager
Client Name ING Vysya Bank Ltd
Period October 1996 – March 2004
Responsibilities • Trading Dealer in Equity, GOI Securities, Money Market) MM and Corporate Bonds
• Calculations and Maintenance of CRR (Cash Reserve Ratio) / SLR (Statutory Liquidity
Ratio)
• Maintaining Mark to Market of Trading Portfolio
• Settlement of various securities
• Reserve Bank of India Compliance Returns
• Implementation of K+, a Reuters front office package for Domestic Treasury and
migration from manual process and training the users on the system
• Maintaining the trading books and their accounting
• Monitoring and informing the maturity profile of the portfolio to the bank management as
a part of Asset Liability Management (ALM)
Location Bangalore, India
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration (MBA) with specialization in Finance from Osmania University,
Hyderabad, India, 1994
Certified professional - International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation (ICBRR) from
GARP, 2009
PMI-ACP – Agile Certified Practitioner from PMI, 2013
COURSES ATTENDED
Year Title Location Organised by
2013 Certification course on AML Hyderabad, India TCS
2013 Certification course on Agile Hyderabad, India PMI
2009 International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation
(ICBRR)
UK GARP
2008 Certificate Programme in Payment Systems Competency Chennai, India TCS
2008 IPMS Chennai, India TCS
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