Selvam M

Director executive with 23 years of experience in Wealth Management domain. A proven track record of success in building, leading, and coaching high performing projects, cost cutting in big initiatives to help business move operations from Singapore to India, Switzerland to Portugal and Poland. A self-directed executive skilled at driving global results-oriented business initiatives and developing tactical plans to save cost and budget by rolling out technical program across multiple Wealth management users in Asia and Europe

Senior Business Analyst manager at BNP PARIBAS Wealth Management (2026-01 – Present)

Responsible to form a new Business analysis team of 20 BAs in Europe to lead the implementation of European Domestic market sites to Global Wealth Management IT platform. Manage the new sites migration from Retail banking tools to Wealth management tools by studying the gap in Retail, cost effective transfer of clients, growth of wealth management business.

• Main modules for migration scope – Aladdin for Order management, Cortex FX tools, Contenio for Structured products

Division Head – Process Automation/Transversal mechanism at BNP PARIBAS Wealth Management (2020-01 – 2025-12)

Responsible to manage the Transversal mechanism division (~40 FTE) with six squads covering Product Workflows, Document management, Client Reporting, Transversal tools, and Internal Project management tools.

Business area: Investment Services, Products team, Client services, Operations, Front office, Credit and risk mgmt. Manage budgeting and forecasting on annual basis for 20 million and above. Manage project managers, technical leads, business analysts teams to ensure all the projects planned for the year are delivered on time, on cost and with good quality. Mentor the team to train the staffs to implement efficient solutions for business. Annual appraisal for teams in Singapore, India, Geneva. Manage senior Business stakeholders, Reporting Steering co. Plan strategic vision for the applications in the division for Transformation program (6 year Global program).

• Responsible to assist Domain head in managing Strategic and Key projects for three divisions – Core Banking division, Transversal/Convergence division and TAX division, by working with product owners, Front office sales, Deal desk teams, business owners, senior stakeholders who are COO, CIO, CTO to ensure objectives are translated into proper business requirements and IT teams deliver the project and benefits are realized by end users.
• Manage domain PMO for deliverables – monthly Incidents, problems, project cards, Management reports, Project reports, Site committee reports, Townhall docs.

Senior Business analyst - Functional manager, Change mgmt. Lead at BNP PARIBAS Wealth Management (2014-08 – 2019-12)

Responsible to do lead Program management, Change management and Business analysts team size of 6 FTE. Prepare Budget for the year for BA, Change mgmt. teams and IT team (~50 FTE), deliver specifications, manage business stakeholders, steering co, ensure MOE team deliver the projects as planned. Review all the Project managers, Change managers and business analysts for deliveries and mentor them for better performance.

Program manager – Document mgmt., Transactions mgmt. Client Advice generation projects at CITIBANK Wealth Management (2004-05 – 2014-07)

Program manager – Document mgmt., Transactions mgmt. Client Advice generation projects was implemented under my leadership.

Business analyst – Banking transactions, Positions mgmt., Data warehouse at CITIBANK Wealth Management (2004-05 – 2014-07)

My responsibility was to work with stakeholders and deliver specifications to Dev. Team and do project mgmt. for end-to-end delivery.

Developer, support – various WM IT projects at CITIBANK Wealth Management (2004-05 – 2014-07)

Did Java, Pl/SQL, Unix dev works and SIT, UAT, Prod support works.

Masters in Computer Science (2001 – 2003)

Bachelors in Computer Science (1998 – 2001)