Neeraj Kurup

• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.

Achievements:-

• Led and completed transformation project for Commercial Servicing Business unit with one of the big four Banks
• Upgraded commercial servicing workflow application from Pega 7.0 to Pega version 8.6.
• Streamlined business process by simplifying over 300 processes to 123 work types between 7 distantly located teams and 12 work baskets in the new Pega version.
• Completed user testing, drafted test cases for UAT and managed UAT testing and business sign off with varied stakeholders.
• Redesigning business processes and functions and proposing new application solutions for a large tele-communications organisation.

• Partner with Executive Leadership Team in strategic planning and establishment of business and technical initiatives.
• BA Practice Management - Leadership in delivery and building high performing teams.
• Lead Solution Design and Delivery, Assist with Project Management.
• Stakeholder engagement – manage expectations, resolve conflict and prepare for the change

Achievements:

• Planned, collaborated & managed core-banking application upgrade program.
• Provided inputs into portfolio planning process by defining scope, capability building, impact assessment, dependencies mapping, project overlaps and opportunities.
• Subject matter expert for legacy replacement and data migration
• Create RFIs for solution/vendor selection, lead assessment of responses and support vendor/partner selection.
• Coach and lead people within the BA practice using personal development plans support performance growth.
• Establish and implement project Way-of-Working, where the approach to elicit, document, analyse and prioritise is documented and the team is guided throughout the project phase.
• Work with the Project and Delivery leads in resource allocation and ensuring the resources have the right information and knowledge to effectively contribute to the project.
• Lead project discovery and requirement gathering activities as per the delivery methodology (agile, waterfall or hybrid).

Achievements:-

• Solution design for digital mortgage origination solution with external stakeholders
• LIXI based solution for mortgage broker application integration.
• Led and completed solution for solar panel campaign
• Led and completed large scale customer data and financial remediation program

• Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
• Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
• Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
• Surveyed clients to ascertain requirements and expectations for product.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
• Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.
• Developed customized reports, summarizing and presenting data in visually appealing format.
• Provided technical support for troubleshooting analytics and reporting issues.
• Updated and developed scripts and queries to extract and analyze data from multiple sources.
• Utilized data visualization techniques to present and explain complex data sets.
• Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.

Achievements:-

• Lead BA and SME in large core-banking transformation project completing replacement of legacy platforms
• Data migration of 75 k unsecured loan and more than 200k mortgage loans
• Design, configuration and implementation of new products

• Interface solution and enterprise services in the transformation project involving IBM’s application and services
• Mapping legacy system functions to the target state application functions
• Upgrade to IBM services to enhance user and customer experience
• Modify/ update XML mapping and x-paths to for the new application
• Update stored procedures to enhance functional capabilities
• Elicit business requirements, documentation, and delivery support
• Recommend solution approach

• Lead Business Analyst for core banking solution for Loans module
• Lead OBP investigation for Origination and pricing in CSH project with Westpac in 2016-17 and Suncorp Bank in 2012 - 2016
• Functional lead for integration with CCI Calculator, QBE for LMI, Hogan, OCH and external pricing systems
• Release scope and planning
• Core banking implementation and two major releases completed in Agile methodology of software implementation.
• Stake holder management – interacting with business users to define scope, work around, consulting solution, defect prioritization. Interacting with external auditors for release sign offs.
• Requirement analysis and solution documentation
• Development and testing support for the implementation
• Resolve queries from business users, triaging defects and assisting in defect resolution and fixes.
• Functional specs documentation for Banking Platform development

• Business Analyst for gold inventory management in branches
• Successfully completed configuration for deviations approval in Integrated Approval System (IAS); a JAVA based system from approval matrices
• Business Analyst and key functional member for integration of IAS with Gold Inventory System for automated deviation approvals
• Key member of GIS integration with FINACLE (Banking solution system)
• Policy and Risk manager for 6 different SME products with a portfolio size of more than Rs 20Bn

• Portfolio generation of Agri products
• Scouting, field investigation, credit appraisal, loan boarding in FINNACLE, disbursement and collections
• Monthly MIS on dues and outstanding
• Monthly reporting to the APEX Bank (RBI)
• Retail Credit operations
• Assisted in cash management, clearing and other operations
• Appraisal of SME Loans

• Responsible for setting up dealer network in Rajasthan, India
• Sales & Distribution of fertilizers and pesticides
• Planning and implementing sales & promotional activities of Argo products in South Rajasthan.

• Identification of Technological Unaided Grassroots innovations and Traditional Knowledge.
• Worked on patenting and attended a workshop on Harnessing Intellectual Property Rights for Strategic Competitive Advantage from April 6 to 8, 2001 at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
• Published a paper, “Creativity, Conservation and Compensation: HoneyBee Network approach to augment, sustainability, utilize biodiversity and share the benefits.