Girish Sawnani

About Girish Sawnani

Senior Technology manager offering 25 years of working experience as an innovative business and technology leader by playing primary role in solving business problems, improving several critical business data, processes and applications through partnership between Business and Technology, aligning business goals with technology, competitive advantage and challenging status quo* Strong leadership, people management and organizational skills; Decisive, inspirational andmotivational leader managing large global teams, ability to attract and retain top talent* Excellent communicator: leverage technical, business, and financial acumen to communicateeffectively with client executives and their respective teams* Business Data strategist; Expertise in Global Markets data domain. Functional knowledge of financialindustry front-office middle and back-office flows. Expertise in Liquidity, Collateral and Reference Data.* Strong project & program management skills: Expertise in stakeholder engagements, issues and risk management, Governance

Experience

1. Senior Vice President Data Governance Group Manager

   Citi

   Sep 2020 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Responsibility for Program of $10M budget, consisting of a team of 50+ resources across technology, covering 5 projects pertaining to Data quality, Reconciliation, data management data strategy & governance by aligning to Enterprise data strategies and business demands• Currently working on Financial Transformation and Data Transformation projects involving EUC (EndUser Computing) elimination, Data lineage to provide end-to-end lineage across Liquidity reporting.Established Trusted source for Liquidity & Collateral transactional data using a centralized Dataquality process and framework, management of CDE (Critical Data Element)• Partnering with Chief Data Office in defining process for Data Concerns and RemediationManagement program to be implemented for Liquidity & Collateral data business• Established data governance maturity for data through pillars of Master data management, DataCollection, Data quality addressing Completeness, Comprehensiveness, Timeliness & Accuracy• Implemented a unified framework for, standardizing loading of all business data, capturing all datapoints providing a consistent way of data tracing, reducing the data loss and transparency into dataat rest and data in motion.• Designed and implemented centralized business data model using business object layer to helpreduce duplication of data and confirming to enterprise standards and best practices leading toimproved data quality, standards, and transparency.

Education

• University of Mumbai

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

  1989 — 1994

• National Institute of Information Technology

  GNIIT ( Graduate of NIIT) in Software Engineering, Software Analysis and Programming

  1994 — 1997

• St. Xaviers School - Mumbai [ Vile Parle]

  High School Diploma, English,Science,Mathematics

  1976 — 1991

Skills

• Sybase
• Reference Data
• Sdlc
• Big Data
• Software Development
• Hadoop
• Itil Process
• Risk Management
• Software Project Management
• Team Leadership
• Incident Management
• Hive
• Problem Management
• Relationship Management
• Project Management
• Java
• Trading Systems
• Capital Markets
• Autosys
• Db2
• Fixed Income
• Enterprise Architecture
• Database Design
• Market Data
• Credit Derivatives
• Leadership
• Requirements Gathering
• Electronic Trading
• Release Management
• Regulatory Analysis
• Exchange Traded Derivatives
• IT Management
• Project Portfolio Management
• Business Analysis
• Business Continuity Planning
• Jira
• Confluence
• Sql
• Data Analysis
• Analytics