Lakshmi Krishnakumar

• Guided teams and refined Agile techniques throughout journey and evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support Agile methodology implementation with Waterfall-centric delivery team.
• Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
• Managed team performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.
• Worked with team leads and managing leadership, establishing robust talent pool with focus on people and continuous improvement.

• Product development for DPaaS – Data provisioning as a service

• Fund Administration reference data management.

• Reference Data Operations, Middle Office & Back office

• Design - Framework of reporting Architecture across various platforms.

• Identify gaps in reporting, ensure proper controls are implemented and followed, gather required supporting documentation, and perform analyses with guidance from management.

• Prepare precise and accurate reporting and analysis for regulatory filings and other reporting requirements.

• Identify discrepancies in reporting, enforce proper controls, collect the necessary documentation, and perform analyses with direction from management

• Product owner of Custodian referential data - Network managing application

• Responsible for Global and Local custody client onboarding and Network Management

• Stakeholder management - Established product backlog and set up prioritization and scoping framework

• Requirement architecture – Business Requirement Document, Users stories.

• Creation of Test Strategy for UAT/IST phases

• Data exchange automation between Custody referential database and Core custody platform, resulting in savings of 5 FTE.

• Application ownership transitioned from Paris to Chennai successfully (close engagement with business, zero defect delivery for last 2 years)

• Partnered with testing team to create automated functional test suite saving 100 days of manual effort yearly.

• Drove migration of key User Developed Applications as a part of Shadow IT framework. (Project Convergence – where Excel macros were analyzed and replaced with strategic IT solutions)

• Responsible for training and grooming team members.

• Currently transitioning the team from Waterfall to Agile.

• Developing the Functional roadmap of the application.

• Winner of BNP ISPL – Hackathon – the product “BNP Triage “that provides a collaborative platform for developers was conceived – developed and the first phase delivered in a span of 8 months, in addition to BAU through Agile framework .

• Working knowledge in the following areas - Transactions Management,

Security/Client Reference Data Management, Corporate Actions,

Reconciliation, Performance Measurement, Reporting/BI and Analytics.

• Led a team of 20+ members running Sub custody operational processes.

• Analysis and implementation of Process from Paris to Chennai in the Domain of Access Rights Management (ARM),

o Network billing and Control (chargeback accounting application) o APAC Subcustody management operations process

• Established procedure control and delivery by creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Service Level Agreements (SLA).

• Implementing specialized Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Key Monitoring Points ( KMP) for the Business Unit (end to end process)

• Analysis and MIS reporting and preparing Financial Statements on the Firm's Non-Compensation expenses for various regions and divisions to the Global CFOs. Based on these reports, policies and benchmarks are set to monitor the expense on various account lines which in turn benefits the organizations working capital flow

• Administering – Consultant hiring Analysis (comparing Rates/ Projects etc.) and summarizing the analysis for CFOs.

• Streamlining the Accrual process and assigning percentages for various accrual computations.