Suju Somarajan
Singapore
Summary
Multilingual Senior Scrum Master, Project Manager and Business Consultant with 14 years of diverse experience at leading global corporations across Singapore, the UAE, Qatar, and India Expertise: Agile Methodology, Risk Management, Data Analysis, Project Management, Leadership Education: BA of Commerce; CFA; Certified Agile, Scrum Master, Project Manager & Product Owner
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Program Manager
Nityo Infotech Ltd
07.2024 - Current
- Works with the testing service providers and other UOB stakeholders to review, provide feedback and sign-off on the test strategy, test plans and other test service providers’ artefacts for the testing service delivery
- Conduct the RFQ briefing section with different vendors and do the cost comparison and give the best quotation for the bank.
- Manage and oversee the day-to-day delivery of test services by Bank appointed vendors in the conduct of testing across the Finance and regulatory reporting program
- Coordinates with the Test Governance team to ensure adoption of testing methods, standards and tools, and to coordinate any health checks or audits
- Ensures that any changes to the scope of services are communicated to the respective test service providers and the impact is factored in to the plan
- Works closely with the Test Engineering Lead to provide inputs around domain specific test engineering requirements and ensure that they are met.
- Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with the Vendor Test Managers/Test Leads for the respective domains
- Engages stakeholder communities to get their feedback on testing service delivery and identify improvement opportunities to be fed back to the Test CoE team
- Client : UOB (TCoE) Testing Centre of Excellence
IT Project Manager / Scrum Master
Antaes Asia Pte Ltd
01.2022 - 06.2024
- As the PM/BA/Scrum master, managing a team of 20 members and maintaining the backlog of financial, regulatory reporting projects (GDR, SDIC), transformation projects (core banking , general ledger) and credit risk projects.
- Contribute to IT projects especially in the areas of Group, Regulatory and Liquidity Reporting, Management of Liquidity Positions, derivatives, capital markets, IFRS -9, credit derivatives, FX ,Interest Rate Risk, Loans, Deposits, and other Asia requests
- Perform Budget forecasting, Estimation and Actual controlling
- Prepare and track detail project plan/activities with project charter
- Ability to work with external vendors and diverse cross functional teams.
- Drive and manage project end to end delivery including requirement, design, testing, deployment.
- Collaborating with Stakeholders to define the Business Case, its scope and prioritization. Close liaison with Business Teams
- Formulating a project roadmap of Business or IT Domains, and coordination with Transversal Teams
- Prepare and organize Project Steering Committee (PSC) meetings and Project Portfolio meetings. Engage senior stakeholders to discuss and address project issues and risks.
- Contribute to the definition of the End-to-End Target Operating Model and the gathering of requirements to be provided to IT for system changes
- Working throughout the entire project life cycle, including analyzing and documenting requirements, workshops, testing and stakeholder management throughout
- Responsible for project documentations like specifications, architecture slides, projects estimations, governance, roadmap building, Steering Committees etc. Manage Steering Committees & Working Groups in each stream. Chair combined Transversal Steering Committee of all streams.
- Organization of the resources with capacity planning to support the Projects including the allocation of resources. Responsible for managing and reporting project risks and issues.
- Oversee a team of Functional & IT BAs, developers and testers for projects. Provide coaching and leadership to a team. Work with other division heads secure resources to deliver the work planned.
- Client: BNP Paribas Wealth Management; Project: ALM & Treasury Management, IFRS9 (Finance)
Manager
KPMG Services Pte Ltd
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Successfully managed a team of 8 members and lead the Scrum team for delivering credit risk (Basel IV), BCBS 239 and Regulatory projects for one of the leading clients in Singapore
- Led design and implementing solutions that digitize credit origination processes for Corporate, Commercial and Retail Loans, and digitised internal risk and compliance procedures
- Managed large-scale technology transformation projects within Finance and Risk domain focusing on Regulatory Reporting and Management Reporting.
- Analyzed business requirement and translate into Functional Specification documentation
- Managed various stakeholders from different parts of IT and Cross Functional User groups including Head of Finance / Risk and In-Country CFOs.
- Assisted clients on their gap analysis, implementation or quality assurance on critical regulatory change initiatives including IFRS9, BCBS239, Basel III/ IV, ICAAP, VaR, Stress Testing
- Understanding and analysing client’s credit portfolios, underlying risks and risk factors to then formulate approaches to develop appropriate credit models
- Ensured smooth delivery to clients, including presentations and discussions with senior management, to showcase intermediate and final outputs of work and address on-going queries
- [Contract]
IT Project Manager / Delivery Lead
PersolKelly Pte Ltd
07.2020 - 06.2021
- Managed effectively a team of 10 members and led a Scrum team for Large Exposure across countries for different regulators – Hong Kong (HKMA), Singapore (MAS 656), and China (CBIRC)
- Facilitated discussions and conflict resolution to ensure no impact on the delivery of projects
- Organised and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and the scrum related meetings
- Maintained docs like backlog tracking, user stories in JIRA and updating relevant docs in Confluence
- Effectively worked within Agile Scrum framework, and Agile software development
- Worked with stakeholders to identify and understand requirements for Large Exposures (SA-CCR)
- Managed requirements by constantly clarifying and reviewing via walkthrough with stakeholders
- Worked with Java codes, Hadoop(hive), Moody’s Risk Authority (RAy) for analysis and interpretation of user stories, and in Credit and Market Risk domains
- Client: DBS Bank (Development Bank of Singapore); Project: MAS 656 Large Exposure (Credit Risk)
- [Contract]
Business Analyst - Risk
Optimum Solutions
01.2019 - 07.2020
- Managed requirement gathering with the users, and the BRD for regulatory projects , capital markets and derivatives
- Implemented incremental changes in Basel II/III Credit/Market Risk RWA calculations and SA-CCR (Standardised Approach to measuring Counterparty Credit Risk Exposures) for the UOB group and subsidiaries, in Moody’s Risk Authority (RAy) platform
- Worked on implementation of IFRS 9 ECL reporting and impairment calculation models and VaR
- Utilised Java codes for functionality assessment of ECL computations
- Actively worked and analysed within Risk data structures (Logical and Physical) in SQL, VBA to interrogate underlying information to validate data models (F-IRB and A-IRB), PD, LGD, and EAD
- Client: United Overseas Bank (UOB); Project: MAS 656 Large Exposure, IFRS 9 (Credit risk)
- [Contract]
Senior Business Analyst - Risk
Straits Bridge
09.2017 - 12.2018
- Created and reviewed the documentation to projects eg. PID, BRD, FRD, UAT Test scripts and cases
- Analysed Moody’s, S&P, Fitch and MRA (Moody’s Risk Analytics) ratings, financial data spreads (Moody’s) from balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and cash flows
- Worked on Credit/Market Risk, Transformation projects (core banking) , Regulatory Change oriented financial technology initiatives
- Analysed and worked with IFRS 9, Expected Credit Loss, Impairment, and preparation of test cases
- Analysed, tested and calculated so called “Greeks” risk measure – Delta, Theta, Vega, Gamma
- Client: AlRajhi Bank (Credit risk)
Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager
AgreeYa Solutions
09.2016 - 08.2017
- Gathered and mapped requirements to functionalities of EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) package
- Worked on $100K project, bridged gaps between business, testing, vendors and other stakeholders
- Consulted on various endeavours in areas such as RWA, Economic Capital, Regulatory Capital, Tier-1 and Tier-2 Capital, VaR (Value at Risk) models, Stress Testing, and Back Testing
- Analysed Banking and Trading book concept (Hypothetical or Clean P&L) in all its dimensions
- Client: QNB (Qatar National Bank); Project: Risk Data Warehouse and Data Analytics
- [Contract]
Senior Business Analyst
AgreeYa Solutions
11.2015 - 06.2016
- Ensured the compliance and regulatory reports for Basel II, III are in time frame of Basel Guidelines
- Worked on transformation projects (Core banking), market/credit risks that comprised of comparisons and performing VaR, PE, EPE calculations
- Client: QIIB (Qatar International Islamic Bank); Project: BI Intelligence
- [Contract]
Senior Business Analyst
On Demand Agility
05.2014 - 11.2015
- [Contract]
Business Analyst
SS&C GlobeOp
12.2012 - 10.2013
Analyst
Deutsche Bank
12.2009 - 04.2012
Associate - Fund Accounting
Syntel
04.2008 - 12.2009
Education
CFA - Chartered Financial Analyst
CFA Institute
01.2012
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
Mumbai University
01.2008
Skills
- Technical: SQL, Bloomberg, Euclid, Reuters, SWIFT, Unix, Java, Hadoop (hive), R, Python, AI, Clarity
- Soft skills: Proactive
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Adaptability
- Teamwork
- Work Ethic
- Languages: Malayalam (native), English, Hindi, Marathi (fluent), Arabic (moderate), Dutch (basic)
Accomplishments
- Accomplished certified Project Manager and Scrum Master, who successfully built and led various large-scale teams and multi-million projects for major banks (BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, QIIB, QNB, UOB, DBS) and Big 4 (KPMG) across 4 markets in the Middle East and Asia
- Received the spot performer award by the Deutsche Bank
Certification
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS, May 2022
- Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), Project Management Institute, Nov 2021
- Certified Artificial Intelligence (AI) Developer, IIRAMS, Jul 2021
- Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Project Management Institute, Dec 2020
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, Oct 2020
- PRINCE2 Practitioner Certificate in Project Management, PeopleCert.org, Oct 2020
- Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 (PSPO1), Scrum.org, Oct 2020
- Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1), Scrum.org, Sep 2020
- PRINCE2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management, PeopleCert.org, Sep 2020
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance, Sep 2020
SKILLS
Languages: Malayalam (native), English, Hindi, Marathi (fluent), Arabic (moderate), Dutch (basic)
AWARD
The Spot Performer Award, Deutsche Bank
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Basel III & Basel IV
- Time Management
- Large Exposure
- Problem solving
- Hadoop
- Moody’s
- Market Risk
- Credit Risk
- Big Data
- Data Profiling
- Business Intelligence
- Product Owner
- Product Management
- Delivery Management
- Leadership
- Process Improvement
- Collaboration
- Consulting
- Market Research
- Team Management
- Budgeting
- Stakeholder Management
- Artificial Intelligence
- ALM
- Treasury
Timeline
Senior Program Manager
Nityo Infotech Ltd
07.2024 - Current
IT Project Manager / Scrum Master
Antaes Asia Pte Ltd
01.2022 - 06.2024
Manager
KPMG Services Pte Ltd
06.2021 - 01.2022
IT Project Manager / Delivery Lead
PersolKelly Pte Ltd
07.2020 - 06.2021
Business Analyst - Risk
Optimum Solutions
01.2019 - 07.2020
Senior Business Analyst - Risk
Straits Bridge
09.2017 - 12.2018
Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager
AgreeYa Solutions
09.2016 - 08.2017
Senior Business Analyst
AgreeYa Solutions
11.2015 - 06.2016
Senior Business Analyst
On Demand Agility
05.2014 - 11.2015
Business Analyst
SS&C GlobeOp
12.2012 - 10.2013
Analyst
Deutsche Bank
12.2009 - 04.2012
Associate - Fund Accounting
Syntel
04.2008 - 12.2009
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
Mumbai University
CFA - Chartered Financial Analyst
CFA Institute