Aaditya Pirithivi

Certified Scrum Master and Business Analyst / Agile Project Manager with 12+ years of overall experience across financial services and fintech delivery. Proven track record of gathering requirements, optimizing business processes, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering multiple financial solution projects on schedule and within budget. Skilled in roadmap planning, stakeholder management, risk management, and workflow automation.

Combines strong analytical expertise with agile transformation leadership to ship products that improve efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Agile Project Manager - FIS Global Business Services Pvt Ltd - Chennai, India

(2022-06 - 2026-06)

• Led end-to-end delivery of multiple financial solution projects as Agile Project Manager, consistently meeting milestones on schedule and within budget.
• Drove agile transformation across cross-functional teams, improving project delivery efficiency and reducing development bottlenecks.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives), improving sprint completion rates and reducing time-to-market.
• Managed large project budgets, keeping cost variance under control while optimizing resource utilization.
• Ran weekly stakeholder meetings, ensuring timely issue resolution within target timelines.
• Implemented proactive risk management strategies, reducing project risks and minimizing schedule impacts.
• Forecasted and monitored schedules, team performance and costs, contributing to improved operational efficiency.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams across business and technology functions to deliver complex fintech initiatives.

Agile Project Manager - NatWest Business Services Pvt Ltd - Chennai, India

(2018-02 - 2022-06)

• Managed agile software development life cycle (SDLC) sprints and tracked project deliverables for core system modernization initiatives.
• Aligned technical and business project objectives with key stakeholders, ensuring on-time delivery across distributed teams.
• Tracked milestones, resource allocation, and project deliverables using Gantt charts and Jira to ensure strict schedule adherence.
• Coordinated end-to-end release management with IT and business teams for major system enhancements, minimizing deployment risks.
• Collaborated with cross-functional Scrum teams to plan release increments, manage blockers, and track velocity metrics.
• Evaluated key performance metrics and managed sprint retrospectives to drive continuous delivery improvements.
• Conducted risk identification and mitigation analyses on operational projects to protect milestone timelines.
• Established standardized project tracking workflows, improving cross-team visibility and compliance tracking.

Senior Business Analyst - NatWest Business Services Pvt Ltd - Chennai, India

(2014-08 - 2017-06)

• Elicited, analyzed, and documented comprehensive business requirements, translating complex user needs into clear functional specifications and user stories.
• Owned the service improvement roadmap by analyzing customer feedback and workflow metrics to uncover optimization opportunities and prioritize enhancements.
• Partnered with cross-functional technology and operations teams to map current-state workflows and design automated, future-state business processes.
• Defined and monitored product and service metrics to evaluate operational performance and recommend data-driven system enhancements.
• Implemented robust quality assurance processes, validation checklists, and acceptance criteria to ensure strict compliance with service standards.
• Developed detailed business process models, workflow diagrams, and training documentation to onboard new team members and drive process adoption.

Business Analyst - NatWest Business Services Pvt Ltd - Chennai, India

(2013-08 - 2014-07)

• Acted as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders and technical teams, investigating complex operational issues and translating them into structured requirements.
• Collaborated across departments to gather enhancement requests, ensuring each requirement was evaluated, scoped, and prioritized accurately.
• Proposed targeted system and process enhancements that reduced manual processing time and improved team operational efficiency.
• Maintained high quality-control standards through rigorous requirements traceability and gap analyses to minimize operational downtime.
• Built positive stakeholder relationships through clear, timely communication of analysis findings, project updates, and functional specifications.

Bachelor of Arts - Accounting - A.M Jain College, Chennai (2013-04)