Balasubramanian Venkatraman

About Balasubramanian Venkatraman

Financial Services\' professional with close to 14 years of experience across Managing…

Experience

1. Principal Director

   Accenture

   Feb 2008 — Present

   Roles and ResponsibilitiesDelivery – Process- Leading the functional work-stream - Playing the role of a key representative from client’s side in the workshops between Client and other vendors - Coordinating the estimation exercise across the impacted systems, Identifying potential issues & risks and presenting the same to the Steering Committee- Providing Subject Matter Advisory and working along with Business, Operations & vendor to propose viable solutions- Providing KT (Knowledge Transfer) to the Development & Testing teams- Dispute Management/Defect TriageDelivery – People- Creation of Resource Requirements for hiring- Interviewing the shortlisted resources- Successfully assembling and on-boarding the team by the target timelines- Setting up the governance model- Resource profile/capacity plan- Designing and monitoring the Management ReportsBusiness Development and Sales Management- Leading the proposal related to next steps on Liquidity Management with the largest Islamic Bank in the world- Worked as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and played a vital role in winning a deal for Accenture (as QA partner) involving the world’s leading Financial Services provider in Mexico- Studied the payments’ processes of a US bank and provided recommendations to Accenture Leadership on what are the suitable ones for outsourcing by assessing the complexity, operational risks and potential head count for each of them- Set up and run the Sales Management Office (PMO) effectively for Accenture, EALA reporting directly to the EALA Payments Lead

Skills

• Business Development
• Banking
• Business Process Improvement
• Process Engineering
• Requirements Analysis
• Project Management
• Internal Audit
• Test Management
• Electronic Payments
• Financial Reporting
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Financial Analysis
• Operational Risk Management
• Core Banking
• Management
• Corporate Finance
• Bpo
• Management Consulting
• Financial Services
• Requirements Gathering
• Operations Management
• Swift Payments
• Analytical Skills
• Analysis
• Business Analysis