Raghavan Bhogaiah

Scrum Master Certified, PMP Certified, Hardworking and Disciplined Project Manager. Banking IT Project Manager, Delivered Large & Medium Scale projects Since 2012 Canada.

Played

Past roles of Banking Architect, Capital Markets SME, Banking SME & FX Expert. Specialized and focused on Data Management, Data Migration. Hardworking personality with social skills, vocabulary, PR, task Mgmt, and management skills.

Experienced in successfully managing large scale full life cycle projects, go-live and support. Well versed with Project Delivery, waterfall, Agile & ASAP Methodology. Experienced with MS Project, DevOps, MS Office Tools for Project, Excel Reporting.

Successfully implemented Major Core E2E Banking Large implementations at Calgary and Toronto. Delivery lead and PM for Upgrade projects, Regulatory projects, SAP Data Services for over Two decades as: SAP Core Banking Architect and four Full life cycle project implementation.

International Working

Experience with 3 Core E2E implementations and Multi Culture exposure: Canada (11 Years), Canadian Citizen; Australia (2 Years); Germany (2 years); India (3 Years).

SAP Architect and Deposits Project Manager - Home Trust Company - Toronto, Canada

(2018-03 - 2025-01)

SAP S/4 HANA Banking, Data Migration, Data Mgmt & upgrade Implementation, Enhancement and Support. Home Trust Company is one of the major banks in Toronto and across Canada.

• Leading meetings with vendor and product teams and getting work completed on time and on budget.
• Data Services and Integration with Front end systems and BP.
• SAP ETL, New Transfer Rules, SQL Query and Excel Expert
• Data Migration lead for core implementation
• New products, new pricing and transactional integration for new core implementation
• Helping sub ordinates and Major Progress Delivery primarily.
• Co ordinating with onsite and offshore team on various teams like Delivery, Support, Integration and CRM.
• Chairing business meetings to get approvals and walkthrough of new functionality.

Consulting Manager Banking Projects - Axxiome - Toronto, Canada

(2012-03 - 2018-01)

SAP Banking Services 6.0 core implementation & upgrade to 8.0. General Enhancement releases and Support on Severity tickets. Alberta Treasury Branches is a Major Provincial Bank in Canada and having its presence in many parts of the world.

• Helping sub ordinates and Major Progress Delivery primarily.
• Forming new Project Management Plans and Constant Delivery Meetings, Delivered Major projects like: Alberta Senior, FATCA, Global Currency, MPI Loans, Dunning D10, BaS 8.0 Upgrade, Payments & Foreign Exchange expert.
• Managed and implemented MPI: Mortgage Portfolio insurance project was a project to secure the loans with the insurance and collecting premiums and depositing on behalf of customer.
• FATCA: Is one of the major global drive by USA to comply with the FATCA norms and generate reports to comply with USA revenue regulations and generate reporting for FATCA.
• Interacting with the Production support team and Testing team, fixing defects and configuration and interacting with ABAP team for new requirements.

Senior Banking Functional and Architect - Accenture - Sydney, Australia

(2009-10 - 2012-03)

SAP Banking Services 6.0 & 7.0. Common Wealth Bank, Australia (CBA) is basically an Australian Major Bank and having its wide operations in many parts of the world. Working on a Core Banking Modernization project.

• Solution Centre: Configuration on SAP Loans for Payments area and liaising with the business team on understanding requirements and maintaining PCR Matrix & Media Matrix for Payments in Loans Management.
• Interacting with the Production support team and Testing team, fixing defects and configuration and interacting with ABAP team for new requirements
• Well versed with the GL Functionalities, EOD, Accrual/ Deferral, B/S Preparation, Flat file generation and analyzing the data updating in respective tables.
• Involved in Preparing Test Cases, Test Scripts for the Manual and Automated testing using HPST, BAPI, Data Services, MAPI, SOAP UI and QC.

SAP Banking Consultant (Onsite Project Lead) - WIPRO Technologies - Kiel, Germany

(2008-01 - 2009-10)

SAP IS-Banking implementation / Enhancement project. Client: HSH Nordbank, Germany (Onsite role @ Germany). Wipro is responsible for Due diligence, Blueprint, Data migration, Design and Development, Configuration, Customization and Testing for the Implementation. HSHN choose Wipro for a Critical implementation project on SAP CML, SAP BP.

• Onsite Project Lead role (Client facing at Germany) for a German Bank, A critical implementation/ Enhancement project on SAP-Banking Modules (SAP BP, CML, SAP- FI) with the Configuration, customization and Testing.
• Key person involved in requirement gathering, interaction with client for in-depth analysis of the AS-IS scenario landscape for arriving at To-Be solution.
• Developing the Functional document for the new product, new conditions, flow types required for the product.
• Managing the offshore team and guiding the steps
• Involved in Testing of all the stages: UT, ST, SIT, UAT by developing test cases for different scenario
• Multiple simulated and real time reports were designed for customer query and legal requirements, Contracts at any given time covering the modules of SAP CML, BP, FI-GL, AR.
• Received 'Thanks a Zillion Award' after this project from technical team members for helping them while preparation of Technical Specs.
• 6.6 / 7 points given by client and provided Appreciation letter for successfully completing the Business-critical project and meeting their expectations within timeline.

SAP Banking Consultant - WIPRO Technologies - India

(2007-10 - 2007-12)

SAP BFSI IS- Banking CoE Project. Wipro Technologies. SAP Banking PoCs and gaining Hands on by R & D. SAP-BFSI Team working on SAP banking configuration, Customizing and preparation of process flow documents.

• Analytical Banking component for SAP IS Banking Solutions: Domain of Risk management for Bank and Overview Basel II solution
• Calculation of capital requirements for different approaches with calculation exercises on Capital Adequacy Ratios with IRB, AIRB Standardized Approach
• Transactional Banking component for SAP IS Banking Solutions: Loans Management: Disbursement - Debit position, processing incoming payments

Business Analyst (Banking) - Australia & New Zealand Banking –Information Technology (ANZ IT) - Bangalore, India

(2006-07 - 2007-09)

Maintenance and Upgrade of OTL for Trade Centrix. ANZ-IT, Bangalore (Australia New Zealand Banking Group). Banking Letter of Credit Team: Co-ordination with developers, by playing a lead role in interacting with the onsite senior members and understanding the requirement of enhancing the software / according to regulatory changes: Trade Centrix, OTS and SWIFT fields.

• Understanding the scope of software improvement, working out the possible solutions by doing a team work with the technical team.
• Handling enhancement or software issues as SPOC for functional understanding and getting the same done with the help of technical members.
• UCP 600 Compliance, Bank Policies compliance, Country Laws and Sanctions Compliance
• Document Examination of Documents like Bill of Lading, Insurance Documents, Commercial Invoice, Drafts and other Documents requested by the Importer, and Compliance of all the documents
• Payments of the L/C to the Beneficiary through nominated bank once found the Documents clean with L/C terms and conditions depending on the Tenor agreed by the Traders like sight / Usance basis

Accountant - ICICI Bank - Bangalore, India

(2004-01 - 2006-12)

TVS Suzuki Motors - Bangalore, India

(2001-01 - 2002-12)

Master's Degree - Finance and Banking (2002-01 - 2004-12)

Graduation - Accounting, Banking, Commerce and Statistics (1998-01 - 2001-12)