Actimize, Finacle, Teradata, Informatica PowerCenter, IICS (Cloud), Data Lake, Oracle, Hadoop/Hive, Kafka, MQ, API Gateway, Jira, Confluence,Clarity, PPM, Kubernetes, Kafka, Microservices ,Jira, PPM, Informatica, MS Project, AngularJS, AXWAY RFTS,Jira, PTS-W, Business objects, MS Project, AngularJS, REST API,Jira, Confluence, MS Project, ServiceNow, WebMethods, IBM MQ, DB-RIB, SWIFT Alliance (SAA/SAG)
Prasanna Balasubramanian
Singapore
Summary
Senior Project/Program Manager with 18+ years delivering large-scale regulatory, cybersecurity, technology risk, and payment transformation programs across global banks (Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Citi, UOB, Deutsche Bank). Strong foundation in CISM governance, MAS TRM alignment, security controls, cyber-risk remediation, AML/KYC, SWIFT security, SOX/ITGC, and data protection. Specialized in leading multi-region programs involving: Information Security Governance & Risk Controls, Cybersecurity Program Management, MAS TRM & Regulatory Compliance Uplift, Identity, Access & Data Protection Initiatives, Vendor Cyber-Risk & Third-Party Security Reviews, Cloud/Infra Modernization Security Readiness, Security & Risk Reporting, KPI Metrics, RCA, Audit Support. Known for bridging functional, technical, and regulatory spaces with end-to-end ownership from requirements, solution validation, data mapping, test governance, and production rollout.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager / Program Manager – Cybersecurity, Tech Risk & Regulatory
BANK OF AMERICA – Singapore (through Teksystems Pte Ltd)
04.2022 - Current
- Led multi-year Payment Data Localization program ensuring RBI cybersecurity, retention, auditability and data protection requirements across Core Banking, AML, reporting, and data platforms.
- Drove security governance & risk tracking across 20+ systems ensuring compliance with MAS TRM, RBI, HKMA and internal InfoSec policies.
- Performed security impact assessments, access reviews, encryption controls validation, API security checks and data movement governance during solution design.
- Strengthened data lineage, privacy, and audit controls in Teradata/IICS pipelines; closed audit findings and improved security evidence quality.
- Led remediation for Actimize AML platform including rule calibration, SAR/CTR governance, UAM controls, and integration security.
- Coordinated with InfoSec, Architecture, Compliance, Cyber Ops, and Engineering to implement risk mitigation plans and close vulnerabilities.
- Managed SIT/UAT test governance, reviewing security test cases, negative scenarios, encryption validation, and exception handling.
- Delivered regional security reporting (KPIs, KRIs), prepared SteerCo briefs, and managed regulatory queries.
Project Manager / Program Manager – Infrastructure Security & Modernisation
BNP PARIBAS – Singapore (through Infrasoft Pte Ltd)
02.2021 - 03.2022
- Delivered AS400 → Linux modernization with strong coverage on security hardening, access controls, patching, vulnerability remediation and compliance alignment.
- Ensured cloud/container security alignment for Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment models, validating authentication, runtime security, network segmentation & API security.
- Executed IT risk assessments for legacy-to-modern platform migration, ensuring no weakening of existing controls.
- Supported audit & compliance reviews, created security artefacts and coordinated evidence submission.
- Partnered with Enterprise Security to enforce secure-by-design principles in the modernization roadmap.
Project Manager – Payments, SWIFT Security & Compliance
UOB – Singapore (through Encora Pte Ltd)
01.2020 - 02.2021
- Delivered MT940/950/942 and ISO20022 enhancements with strong focus on SWIFT security, file integrity, encryption, authentication, key management, and message validation.
- Strengthened payment security controls for high-value clients (Grab, MOH, TIME), reducing operational and fraud risks.
- Implemented Axway SecureTransport with HKMA compliance; supported risk assessments and interface security design.
- Coordinated data security validations and ensured compliance with MAS TRM, HKMA and internal IS standards.
Project Manager / Business Analyst – SWIFT, Security & Compliance
CITIBANK – APAC (through TCS & HCL)
12.2016 - 01.2020
- Delivered APAC-wide SWIFT enhancement with improved sanctions/SDN checks, routing security, settlement controls and message integrity validation.
- Led secure integration of MT103/202COV workflows into core banking ensuring resilience, audit trails, maker-checker controls.
- Performed data and field-level mapping for SWIFT messages ensuring accuracy, compliance, and traceability.
- Managed security defects, regression cycles, risk acceptance, and UAT readiness assessments.
Project Manager – Security, Connectivity & Client Onboarding
DEUTSCHE BANK – Singapore (through I-Flex & HCL)
01.2005 - 01.2016
- Delivered EDI → Prisma migration with strong coverage of security controls, encryption, key rotation, access governance, EBICS/H2H/SWIFT security.
- Directed compliance enhancements aligned with SWIFT CSP, DB’s operational risk frameworks, cybersecurity standards and audit requirements.
- Led Platinum-tier onboarding ensuring file integrity, secure connectivity, multi-factor validation, and secure routing.
Education
B.E. - Production Engineering
Bharathiyar University
01.2001
Skills
- Cybersecurity & Technology Risk
- Information Security Governance (CISM)
- Risk Assessments (RCSA), ITGC, SOX Compliance
- MAS TRM, CCOP, ISO 27001, NIST CSF
- Threat/Risk identification & mitigation plans
- Security policies, standards, procedures
- Control design, validation & evidence management
- Security Program & Project Delivery
- Large-scale regulatory/security transformation
- Cloud security readiness (Azure/OpenShift)
- PAM/IAM/Access Management uplift (functional)
- Data security & DLP workflow integration
- SWIFT CSP & secure messaging
- Third-party cyber-risk assessments
- Functional & Technical Strength
- API / MQ / Kafka / Microservices flows
- Data lineage, security data mapping
- Core Banking workflows (ACH/RTGS/ISO20022)
- AML/Actimize rules, sanctions checks
- ETL/Data pipelines (Teradata, IICS, Hadoop)
- High-availability, failover & monitoring (Splunk/Kibana)
- Leadership & Governance
- Program governance, SteerCo reporting
- RAID management, risk dashboards
- Vendor management, SOW/contract governance
- Multi-country delivery oversight
- Audit response & compliance gap closure
Certification
- PMP
- PMI-ACP
- PMI-RMP
- CISM
- CSPO
- CSM
- Azure Fundamentals
Software
Accomplishments
Delivered multi-system integration programs across payments, AML, and data platforms—overseeing API design, data mapping, canonical modelling, schema validation, and secure connectivity using MQ, WebMethods, EBICS, SWIFT-Net, and Axway SecureTransport. • Directed cloud and on-premise modernisation initiatives, migrating payment-processing, reporting, and AML workloads to containerised microservices using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Kafka, and API gateways, while ensuring full regulatory controls (MAS TRM, RBI DL, SWIFT CSP). • Optimised technical delivery across distributed engineering teams, improving deployment reliability through CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab) ,automated testing frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines. • Led large-scale data migration and transformation programs using Teradata, Snowflake, Hadoop, IICS, and Informatica—driving data lineage validation, reconciliation logic, ingestion pipelines, and regulatory-grade audit trails for payments. • Strengthened production stability by implementing monitoring and observability dashboards (Splunk, Kibana, AppDynamics), defining incident runbooks, and automating failover strategies.
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Project Manager / Program Manager – Cybersecurity, Tech Risk & Regulatory
BANK OF AMERICA – Singapore (through Teksystems Pte Ltd)
04.2022 - Current
Project Manager / Program Manager – Infrastructure Security & Modernisation
BNP PARIBAS – Singapore (through Infrasoft Pte Ltd)
02.2021 - 03.2022
Project Manager – Payments, SWIFT Security & Compliance
UOB – Singapore (through Encora Pte Ltd)
01.2020 - 02.2021
Project Manager / Business Analyst – SWIFT, Security & Compliance
CITIBANK – APAC (through TCS & HCL)
12.2016 - 01.2020
Project Manager – Security, Connectivity & Client Onboarding
DEUTSCHE BANK – Singapore (through I-Flex & HCL)
01.2005 - 01.2016
B.E. - Production Engineering
Bharathiyar University