Manikandan Narasimhan

About Manikandan Narasimhan

Accomplished GCC & Global Technology Leader backed by over two decades of experience in establishing, maturing and transforming GCC’s/Captive Technology Units for global firms such as Citigroup, Barclays and Franklin Templeton across multiple business domains, technologies and global delivery models.Strong expertise in establishing or scaling global GCCs be it a) Ground up new setup b) Transitioning (Insourcing, Outsourcing) from multiple locations, IT service providers or c) Build Operate & Transfer across Product expertise, Domain Expertise & Technology Integration.Proven track record of quickly maturing new business engagements, security posturing, & turning around challenging operations resulting in substantial multi-million dollar cost savings at both Barclays & Franklin Templeton stints. Successfully integrated Generative AI, across the QA function.Member - Management Committee @ Franklin Templeton Int’l Services. Chair for the Business Innovation Committee. Played a pivotal role in transforming the India GCC into an Innovation Hub at Franklin Templeton (FT) the US based Asset Management firm that oversees 1.4 Trillion US$(AUM) in assets.Handpicked by Barclaycard CIO and Head of Barclays India GCC to turnaround, streamline and integrate international business of Barclays Bank operations (Germany, Southern Europe, Nordics, Africa, Middle East) across Barclays Retail & Commercial Bank and Barclay Card after several previous unsuccessful attempts.Spearheaded co-location of Business & Tech Operations at a single site within FT. Delivered >300% cost reduction per implementation, 80% Cycle time reduction & 70% reduction in cost of poor quality.Greatly minimized production failures/outages resulting in 98.1% first-time right production. Leveraged strong expertise across SDLC and STLC frameworks, leading QA Methodologies & Frameworks across different forms of Agile (DAD, Scrum, Kanban) & DevOps. Strong innovation track-record. Launched several CoE’s including QA Automation CoE, Fund Accounting CoE, Security Scans Dashboards, Wealth QA CoE, Quality Risk Models, Data Analytics QA CoE, Unified QE Framework, and Generative AI in QA adopted across Franklin Templeton globally.BFSI Global GCC Leadership experience includes Investment Management, Retail & Commercial Banking, Cards & Payment, Lending, Compliance, AML and Credit Risk Management technologiesCompleted Leadership Program & Advanced Management Program in Business Strategy from INSEAD, France. Possess Associated Certified Coach (ACC) certification. Certified Independent Director.

Experience

1. Vice President

   Franklin Templeton

   Jan 2023 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• INSEAD

  Advanced Management Program

• INSEAD

  ILPSIE, General Management & Organizational Leadership at INSEAD Business School

  2012 — 2013

• Institute for Financial Management and Research - IFMR Chennai

  PGDFM, Financial Management

  1994 — 1999

• Loyola College

  B.Sc, Physics

  1991 — 1994

Skills

• Program Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Strategic Planning
• Business Analysis
• User Acceptance Testing
• Cards
• Offshoring
• Credit Cards
• Core Banking
• Management
• Credit Risk
• Six Sigma
• Testing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• New Business Development
• Strategy
• Retail Banking
• Project Delivery
• Cmmi
• Business Transformation
• Payments
• Business Requirements
• Business Development
• Banking
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• IT Service Management
• Pmo
• Visionplus
• Project Portfolio Management
• Leadership
• IT Strategy
• Test Automation
• Sdlc
• Payment Card Processing
• Requirements Gathering
• Insurance
• Software Project Management
• Financial Services