Pradeep K

Business Analyst in Capital Market and Investment Banking with experience of driving organizational change initiatives, process improvements, and stakeholder engagement. Currently, working at Societe Generale in Change Management and Project Management, with a strong focus on guiding projects through the Software Development Life Cycle. I have worked with Agile and Waterfall methodologies, leading efforts in requirement gathering, specifications, analysis, and deployment.

Exceled at stakeholder management, with the ability to connect and communicate effectively across all levels of an organization helping navigate change.

Lead Business Analyst at Societe Generale (2023-09 – Present)

Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Conduct requirement workshops to gather stakeholder needs through collaborative sessions
• Organize workshops, brainstorming sessions, and meetings to capture functional and non-functional requirements. Document stakeholder expectations in expected format
• Evaluated current State and understand the existing process. Review the 'as-is' and identify pain points and inefficiencies. This also involves mapping workflows and dependencies. Persuaded team members to refer Copilot to automate routine tasks and complete tasks with reduced TAT
• Propose future solution, design the target operating model to derive at 'to-be' solution and validate with stakeholders
• Planning the project delivery along with budget estimates and creation of project phases and timelines to achieve the desired target
• Preparation of Business Requirement Document and ensure stakeholder sign-off
• Collaborated with stakeholders to oversee testing, UAT and execution of test scenario along with sign-off. Document the requirements, test scenarios and progress in JIRA and Confluence. Mentored team to utilize Jira to track project deliverables and capture efforts
• Post Go-Live follow-up's and gather corrective actions for continuous improvement
• Partnering in AI integration activity for pre-matching and trade settlement to enhance operational efficiency and reducing redundant manual process
• Anticipate, assess Risks and prepare mitigation strategies

Business Advisory Senior Analyst at Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd (2014-02 – 2023-09)

Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Conducting workshops with business sponsors, requestors, and stakeholders to gather the requirement for change or project to be implemented
• Gather, assess, prioritize, and collect approval on the requirements obtained. Assess current state, identify business or stakeholder requirements, and define the future process. Translate business requirements into functional specifications for IT and operations teams
• Spearheaded daily stand-up meetings, scrum ceremonies and client meetings, including Steer-Co with on-shore teams. Prepared RACI documents to establish clear communication protocols. Enhanced stakeholder confidence through structured communication, documentation, and sign-off protocols
• Perform UAT on the development completed for the change, following release protocols and ensure seamless implementation in production
• Coordinated with BO operations to resolve bottlenecks and improve deliverables to refine the process efficiency
• Collaborated with Business Excellence team to enhance accuracy and turnaround time (TAT). Successfully managed a process re-engineering initiative that delivered a 10 FTE benefit, recognized by on-shore and leadership
• Strengthened governance and compliance by ensuring SOPs were updated and aligned with operational needs. Reviewed SOPs regularly, maintaining sign-offs and decommissioning outdated processes
• Motivated team members to optimize mandatory and skill-enhancing trainings. The trainings enhanced the skill sets and facilitated seamless deliverables
• Implemented precautionary measures to prevent data leakage

Team Lead / Senior Process Associate at HCL Technologies Pvt Ltd (2006-05 – 2012-11)

Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Managed trade processing and ensured timely communication with clients and exchanges to resolve issues. Performed trade reconciliation of stock positions against internal systems and Bloomberg database
• Utilized Bloomberg and Reuters to resolve trade discrepancies, static data, and reference data. Provided regular updates to clients and gathered feedback on performance
• Documented and updated procedures in JIRA and SharePoint to ensure continuity of deliverables. Maintained and validated SOPs with on-shore teams
• Conducted UAT to enable business trades across global stock exchanges. Liaised between Business and Technology teams to resolve discrepancies and complete testing successfully
• Cultivated cross-training and leave management to ensure SLA compliance
• Strengthened operational resilience by embedding SOP governance and documentation in JIRA/SharePoint. Supported business continuity by maintaining updated documentation and process flows
• Recognized for involvement in transition of reconciliation process from New York to Bangalore migration

Bachelor of Business Management – Mangalore University