Curriculum vitae of Ankur Garg | TOGAF, CBAP, SAFe, PSM I

PERSONAL DETAILS

DOB: 27.03.1979
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Languages: Fluent in English, B1.1 level in Deutsch and Fluent in Hindi

SUMMARY

• 18+ years of work experience in Capital Markets and Trading-IT (Equity and Commodity, MM/FI, rates, FX and their derivatives).
• Collaborated with organizations from various segments of the market, including sell side, buy side, and providers of market infrastructure.
• In my roles, I have been responsible for identifying areas of improvement within a business and aligning solutions with overall organizational goals.
• I am particularly good with stakeholder management, communication and risk management, managing requirements and developing solutions, project planning, and execution.
• I hold certifications as an Enterprise Architect (TOGAF), Business Analyst (CBAP), and Scale Agile (SAFe), Professional Scrum Master (PSM I).
• I can very well competent to fill roles like delivery manager, project manager, business analyst, product owner, scrum master, and application/ product manager.

CORE COMPETENCE

• Calypso & Murex Treasury systems
• Capital markets/ investment banking – Front office, Risk management, Collateral management, Clearing & Settlement, Accounting
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Stakeholder Management
• Leadership & Team Building
• Enterprise Architecture & Business Analysis
• Training & Mentoring

EDUCATION

Columbia Business School
Executive Education: Digital Strategies for Business (2018)

University of Mumbai
Masters in management studies (2002-2004)

University of Mumbai
B.E., Electrical (1997-2001)

EXPERIENCE

Manager, Grant Thornton

Apr 2023 –

Leading initiatives in cybersecurity, fostering new relationships between clients, and identifying new potential business offerings/services.

Principal Consultant, Capco
Jun 2020 – Mar 2023

Leading multiple initiatives in Capital Markets, Energy and Commodity Trading, ESG & DTL topics, fostering new relationships between market participants, and identifying new potential business offerings/services.
Lead BA: Big German Bank – Vendor Assessment
Created a business case for the transformation project to modernize the bank’s application landscape in Trade Finance. Key tasks included stakeholder and requirements management, defining scope, shortlisting the best solution, recommending a plan, and justifying the proposed transition.
Lead BA: Murex update MxG to Mx3.1
Responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, and configuration of Front Office and Interfaces & Reporting modules. Successfully delivered end-to-end requirements in close coordination with business, development, QA/testing, and release management teams.

Manager, Metis-Management Consulting
Dec 2018 – May 2020

Project Manager – M&A
Assisted with the transfer of IT assets from the source entity to the merged entity in accordance with the blanket purchase agreement (BPA).
Analyzed the enterprise architecture of the merging entities and proposed a target IT application landscape.
Planned and tracked migration efforts and facilitated communication across different workstreams.

Sr. Principal Consultant, Genpact Headstrong
Feb 2017 – Nov 2018

Lead BA– Biggest clearing housing in Europe
The task at hand is to engineer and maintain a comprehensive clearing system for the clearing and settlement of OTC traded instruments. The program is being delivered from two locations, and I am leading from client end in Frankfurt. Some key scope items of the project are:
Pre and post notation trade workflow of Bond futures, IRS, FRA, FX/ FXF/ XCCY Swaps and new products as they are introduced
Implementation of incremental margin calculation, risk checks
Margin Calculator – reports margin numbers in various breakdowns – variation margin, initial margin, liquidity adjustment, stress testing report
Implementation and maintenance of collateral and payment interfaces
My key responsibilities are:
Managing the needs and expectations of the stakeholders
Keeping the different variables of a project such as schedule, scope, and deliverables on track

Lead Business Analyst, PKO BP (Warsaw, Poland)
Feb 2016 – Dec 2016

Working in the capability of lead business analyst helping the bank with implementation, upgrade and maintenance of Calypso (as back office) and Murex (as front office). Managed the team to deliver on following initiatives:
Accounting: MM, FX, Commodities
Workflow: post trade, transfers, messages
Message matching: transfers, payments and confirmations
Collateral management: Cash

Associate Manager, Accenture
Jun 2011 – Jan 2016

I led business initiatives in treasury software products such as Calypso, Murex, and Colline. Also contributed significantly to business solutions in the areas of post-trade processing for the middle and back offices. This included participating in client visits and demonstrations, responding to request for proposals, and developing solutions and case studies. In addition, I was responsible for recruiting, training, and mentoring team members in the FS-Capital Markets delivery unit. In this role, I also served as:
Team Lead – One of the largest Murex implementations for Big European bank: I was, managing client engagements and stakeholders during critical stages of the project. Managed a global delivery model with over 120 resources and was responsible for overall quality in implementation, enhancements, and development-related activities. I also supported the development and career planning of team members and identified new opportunities for them to utilize their potential.
Lead Business Analyst – Calypso Implementation at Big European Bank: I was responsible for stakeholder management and the prioritization, scoping, and scheduling of key deliverables and milestones across asset classes.
Lead Business Analyst – M&A for a Large Malaysian Bank: I also served in an M&A project, facilitating the post-merger integration of trading arm of two major banks in four countries and optimizing the IT portfolio.
Project Manager – Implementation of Lombard Collin at leading French Bank: I was overseeing the selection of software solutions, streamlining business processes, staffing and delivery.

Manager, National Commodities & Derivatives Exchange
Jan 2008 – Jun 2011

I provided executive leadership and oversaw middle office and market operations for India’s leading commodity and derivatives exchange. A major part of my role involved identifying, assessing, and controlling market risk, as well as serving as the primary point of contact for managing operations with the clearing house. My key responsibilities included implementing a framework to measure, monitor, and manage market risk on an ongoing basis, understanding and fine-tuning Value at Risk models, back testing and stress testing risk models, identifying, measuring, and controlling credit risk, developing a warehouse rating model, creating a funds liquidity policy, analyzing and managing cash and credit lines, serving as the project manager and product owner for the exchange’s risk management system, validating Automatic Trading System algorithms, defining and collating the exchange’s risk policy, and working with cross-functional teams to address business issues such as developing new products to be traded on the exchange platform. I also made significant contributions to exchange operations re-engineering and the development of depository and clearing systems.

Business Analyst, TCS
Dec 2006 – Dec 2007

I worked in the Capital Markets Center of Excellence, providing consulting services to niche investment institutions. My role included leading and directing development teams as a functional architect and serving as a backup project manager, identifying inefficiencies in existing processes and scope for process improvement, analyzing and documenting business requirements and use cases, supporting the User Acceptance Testing process, organizing and delivering training on functional and technical subjects, and working with big investment banks and financial intermediaries. Noteworthy projects I worked on included implementing Fidessa and a Clearing & Settlement system for equity and derivatives.

Business Analyst, Indigo Architects
Nov 2005 – Dec 2006

Played a decisive, action-oriented and result-focused role, majorly in projects related to financial services and travel domain for an American client.
Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
Build credibility, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.
Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team of 5 to 10 resources.
Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC.

Software Engineer, Infosys
Feb 2004 – Oct 2005

Served as a member of Design, Development and Implementation teams for web applications for clients like Sony Corp and GMAC. During this is time earned proficiency in Java, C#, .NET, and SQL with database analysis and design.
Engineering web development, all layers, from database to services to user interfaces
Analysis and design of databases and user interfaces
Managing requirements
Implementing software development life cycle policies and procedures
Managing and supporting multiple projects
Managed 2-3 technical resources

Engineer, Imaginative Flexipacks Ltd
Aug 2001- July 2002

Holding the sole responsibility of the work floor and commanded the strong leadership in the organization. Actively involved in making investment decisions and budgeting.
Responsible for production, Maintenance and Quality
Supervised a team of 50 odd skilled & unskilled workers

SOCIAL RESPONSIBITY

Visiting Faculty
Associated with Mumbai University’s GICED [http://mu.ac.in/garware/] since Jul 2007 (until 2012) as a visiting faculty. Taught subjects like corporate finance, financial accounting and technology to the students of post graduate management courses. Conducted guest lectures on subjects like commodities, financial markets & risk management. Also visited campuses of NMDIT (Mumbai) & Symbiosis (Pune) for delivering lectures to students of their PG management course.

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS

• Certifications
  • TOGAF 9.2® Certified from The Open Group, USA
  • CFA® Level 1 From CFA Institute, USA
  • CBAP® from IIBA, Canada
  • Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org
  • Corsa for Business Professional (Distributed Ledger Technology for Financial Services)
  • PRM® Module 2 From PRMIA, USA
  • 1-Year Diploma Course in Computer programming from N.I.I.T. (India)
  • Various training Inhouse/ organized by external vendors
• Functional Training:
  • Risk management
  • Valuation of financial instruments
  • Algorithmic trading
  • Financial modeling
• Technical Training:
  • Programing Languages (Basic level): Java, C#, C++, Unix shell, Python
  • Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase
  • Tools: MS Visio, MS Office, MS PMP
  • DevOps and Cloud
• Methodologies:
  • Enterprise Architecture – TOGAF, Zachman and BIAN reference model
  • Business Analysis
  • Agile