Sathish Seshadhri

About Sathish Seshadhri

Sathish Seshadhri is a strategic-transformational-change leader with 17+ years of technology advancement, business analysis and project management experience in the financial services sector, demonstrating expertise in CCAR Change Management, CIB Consulting and Tax Regulations (FATCA, AEI/CRS) Change. As an enabler of change, Sathish drives large-scale technology projects, which incorporates proactive & innovative solutions to address business challenges faced due to continuous regulatory and policy change within the financial industry. While adopting early to change in financial regulations via technology advancements, Sathish efficiently manages automation testing frameworks and QA in alignment with volatile business & regulatory demands. Sathish has administered complex migration processes and managed user acceptance testing, while driving projections and business model implementation into robust technology systems. He has excelled at projects related to CCAR 9Q Projections Model implementation and development of multi-layered, multi-technology software (Front Office Equities, Equity Derivative and Fixed Income Technology) applications. As SVP/QA at Citigroup, Sathish led an IT team to develop and implement strategies, plans, and test automation functionalities for Algorithmic Trading, Crossing Engine, and Smart Order Routing, Client & Exchange Connectivity, and Program Trading applications. His expertise is supported by an mini-MBA from Rutgers Business School, as well as a master degree in Computer Applications. As a concept-to-completion project leader, Sathish ensures project results contribute positive business value and meet agreed-upon scope, cost, schedule and quality objectives.

Experience

1. Ccar Project Management, Business Analysis and Change Management

   Credit Suisse

   Jun 2016 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Systematically enhance capabilities of various CCAR 9Q Model Development and Model Implementation change management related work stream, and facilitate model implementation, UAT and business analysis Ensure technology alignment with regulatory guidance and best practices, and administer entire project life cycle, along with managing project road maps, plans, status reports, and functional requirement documents Cultivate and implement industry changing technology focusing on streamlining operational processes and improving functionality Closely collaborate with risk managers and model owners on stress testing methodologies, and seamlessly enable deployment of PPNR and Risk models onto the CCAR 9Q Projections generation platform Continuously streamline and improve the testing life cycle to ensure test planning, execution, and reporting are effective, agile, and well-coordinated Extract, evaluate and validate business requirements, including prioritizing book of work, and functional requirement development; manage risks, and resolve project hindrances and conflicting interests Chair project meetings, and facilitate model implementation through requirement gathering sessions related to macro-economic variables, financial (Income, Balance Sheet), RWA and model specific data Build close relationships with technology partners to identify deliverable milestones, IT plan reviews, and design of platform, while aiding functional requirements clarifications and questions

Education

• Bharathidasan University

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Applications

  1998 — 2001

• Center for Management Development, Rutgers Business School

  Mini-MBA: Executive Business Program

  2013 — 2013

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Commerce

  1995 — 1998

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• Resource Management
• Electronic Trading
• Leveraged Finance
• Stakeholder Management
• Derivatives
• Market Data
• Quality Assurance Processes
• Regression Testing
• Vendor Management
• Offshore Outsourcing
• Vendor Contracts
• Testing
• Change Management
• Sdlc
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Requirements Analysis
• Cisco Technologies
• Business Intelligence
• Testing Practices
• Test Harness
• Integration Testing
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Quality Assurance
• Uat Coordination
• Trading Systems
• Corporate Communications
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Qos
• Equities Technology
• Bonds
• Business Analysis
• Ip
• Risk Assessment
• Low Latency
• Testing Process
• Cds
• Equities