Arun Suresh

TOGAF and SAFe POPM Certified technical consultant with 8+ years of banking and payments experience including 3 years working experience on Big 4 consulting. Expert in Payment messages and architecture design in ISO20022 for faster payments, Swift GPI, CHAPS, Target2, SEPA, UPI, RTGS and SWIFT. My greatest achievement is that I was part of the team designing and implementing ISO20022 – JSON API based real time rapid payment system in South Africa.

I worked on various payment systems around the word which includes Faster payment System (FPS -UK), Swift GPI, CHAPS, Target2, SEPA, Rapid Payments System (RTP-South Africa), UPI and RTGS. My greatest achievement is that I was part of the team designing and implementing ISO20022 – JSON API based real time rapid payment system in South Africa (First of its kind in the world).

Relevant Professional Skills – CORE COMPETENCIES

• Payments Messaging: ISO 20022, ISO 8583, ISO 15022, Swift, Swift GPI, MT standards, proprietary standards
• IT Skills: Solution Architect, Architecture Design, Product Manager, Business Analyst, Solution design, 
• Business Skills: Requirements Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement, Gap analysis, Problem Solving, Quick learner, Strong Communication, Critical Thinking, Compliance Regulations, Vendor Assessment, Selection, and Transformation
• Payment Systems Experience: Faster Payments (FPS), Chaps/Target2, SEPA, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), ACH, RTGS, IMPS, RuPay, MADA Payment, SIX Payments, Rapid Payments System (South Africa)
• IT Tools Open Banking, Java, XML, JSON, Rest API, UML, SQL, WSDL, OpenShift, SoupUI, SPSS, YAML
• Agile: SAFe Agile, Scrum Agile, Planning poker, User Stories, Features and EPIC.
• Banking Products: Core Banking, First Data Vision Plus – Credit Cards, EFT Switch, Mobile Banking, Digital payments, Wallet, Reconciliation and Settlement, Visa / MasterCard processing, Internet Banking, Payments Gateway 
• Other Core Skills: Open Banking, Business Analytics, Descriptive Analytics, Predictive analytics, Time Series

Academically, I am a qualified Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Systems and Finance from Symbiosis International University and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Mahatma Gandhi University.