Biplab Pal

About Biplab Pal

Dynamic and focused Business Analyst / Project Manager offering 21+ years of experience in various banking processes (Treasury, Clearing, Cash Management Services, EBS OGL and Retail Assets)• Championed in Team Management, Business Requirement Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering, Requirement Gathering, Requirement Documentation, Functional (Application) Testing, System Feature & Function Training to end users, etc.• Handling key role in a variety of team projects primarily focussed on new initiatives, enhancing processes and streamlining production & enhanced reporting.• Extensive experience in Test Planning, Test Case Preparation, Test Case Execution, Issue Resolution and report generation to assure that all aspects of a project are according to business requirements• Conducting Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups, and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups• Strong analytical & problem / issue solving skills to analyse a process model and provide effective / efficient solution for productive results.• Well-developed customer-facing and relationship-building skills to ensure continuity of services

Experience

1. Lead Application Management Specialist and SVP - Treasury,cms,recon & Ebs Ogl Application

   YES BANK

   Apr 2022 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   As a Senior Vice President, Business and Digital Technology Solutions Group, Yes Bank Ltd.•Ensuring smooth functioning of all Reconciliation applications (FSS Recon, RMS, etc), Oracle GL application ( EBS OGL and FA) and Treasury Applications PAN India on a daily basis (Murex, Credence, FlexTrade, CCIL Applications, Treasury Exposure Management System, Rate Scan Management System, etc)•Fortnightly & Monthly review meeting with all internal stakeholders (Front Office, Back Office, Middle Office, Market Risk & Trade Finance Team) on system issues, getting user feedback, taking note of automation requirement and scope of system improvements wherever required •Periodic review of Activity/Job SOP document & maintaining proper versioning of the same•Preparation of Knowledge Database (KDB) document basis Daily issue tracker & updation of the same in the KDB portal.•Ensuring smooth conduction of DR activity for all Application as per system criticality & TIER set as per Bank’s BCP policy.•Ensuring Run Book (Technical Recovery Action Plan (TRAP) Document) is maintained for DR activity & also ensuring periodic review of the same•Identifying root cause of issue faced by the user & solving them within fixed Turn Around Time as per Tiering of application.•Managing EOD, BOD & EOM related activities for treasury application.•Addressing & closing Audit / RCSA / ORM related observations•Managing Scheduled & Emergency BCP Drills•Identifying, Planning & Implementation of Monitoring Business transactions, JVM’s, disk and memory utilization, hogging threads, alerts in AppDynamics•Working with Team on Identifying & Automation of manual tasks such as Murex services, workflows, data extractions, DB table purging which reduces human intervention and errors•Managing & providing technical or functional guidance/support to users•Approve & Monitor the deployment of patch on production environment post UAT testing and signoff from users and other business stakeholders as per Change Management

Education

• P D LIONS COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND ECONOMICS

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance

  1994 — 2001

Skills

• Gap Analysis
• Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Business Process
• Business Analysis
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Business Process Improvement
• Banking
• Team Management
• User Acceptance Testing
• Trade Finance
• Payments
• Business Requirements
• Mis
• Requirements Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Management
• Core Banking