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Balaji Venkateswaran

Balaji Venkateswaran

Krakow

Summary

Data Practitioner with over 13 years of success assisting enterprises to develop, modernize, and optimize data and monetize it.


Direct experience in and exposure to Data governance, Enterprise Data management, Market data, cross product Reference Data Management for investment banking operations,


Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, Strategy

Ernst & Young Polska
07.2022 - Current
  • Owning the Data Governance workstream on an enterprise data transformational change program across Markets Service.
  • Drafted and initiated data management roadmap in line with Business Strategy
  • Established data quality governance KPIs and metrics
    Planned and managed the execution of strategic
  • projects and initiatives such as an Automated Data Quality Scorecard System on the enterprise level, Self Service BI platform, Metadata Repository, Advanced Analytics Data Platform, Enterprise Data Model.
  • Led the Data Management team with regular interfaces with senior Data Owners and regular communication with Data Stewards
  • Establishing and implementing a Data Governance operating model for business Data domains to adhere to including a Data Privacy & compliance

Assistant Vice President

HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. Z O.o
11.2019 - 07.2022

Responsibilities involve:
Data Governance -

  • Creating and maintaining the Target Operating model for Business
  • Glossary data management for HSBC.

Data Management Policy -

  • Helping enforce multiple aspects of the data management policy
    to create a cultural change towards data management within HSBC.

Business Data Architecture -

  • Working in partnership with the business information modelers to align the way we capture and store business information relative to they ways it will need to be utilized.

Business Glossary -

  • Responsible for collecting, generating and maintaining the HSBC
    business glossary so that 256k employees can communicate with common understanding using Collibra.
  • Identification of Critical Data Elements (valuable business data) and related processes - Responsible for working with multiple teams (globally) to document in clear unambiguous detail.

Reporting -

  • Responsible for BCBS,CCAR reporting data to governed.
  • Responsible for Regional Data committee, MI, other reports are prepared and presented to the appropriate forum.

Senior Project Manager

Sunoida DMCC Solutions Limited
05.2018 - 07.2019
  • Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.
  • Maintained schedules to meet key milestones at every project phase.
  • Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
  • Assess the maturity & culture of the organization, thus enabling an operating model to monetize data
  • Create an achievable & actionable Data Strategy based on priorities.
  • Draft policy & implement stewardship operations by central control & distributed data management.
  • Orchestrate adoption of standards through Platform & Project Data Governance.
  • Enterprise architecture using BIAN, FIBO models, TOGAF methodology with standards
  • Elicit, Manage & Translate requirements into solution capabilities
  • Perform an organization-wide Privacy Impact assessment across business data processes
  • Set-up a privacy structure for GDPR, CCPA, PDP with Privacy & Functional Stewards.
  • Adopting a security architecture for cloud, on-premise applications to protect data at rest/in-motion

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Project Manager

BNY Mellon
09.2017 - 05.2018
  • Analysis of systems/data and metadata being on-boarded
  • Facilitate the documenting of the lineage/metadata catalog.
  • Data Quality - Life cycle of data quality monitoring & Issue Management.
  • Participate in/Perform glossary standardization with a Business Group .
  • Facilitating the creation of Enterprise Reference values
  • Act as a Point of Contact for the Business Group
  • Prepare dashboards/metrics for Business Groups/working groups/Enterprise Level

Regional Manager

Eastspring Investments, Prudential
01.2015 - 08.2017
  • Responsible for leading 25 members team across functions like reference data and pricing, Risk and regulatory,
  • Reporting to Ops Management, Market Risk Management, Product Control, Credit Risk
  • Provided an enterprise level data management strategy and framework encompassing data governance, data life cycle, data quality improvement, decision support and metadata management
  • Develop and implement Business Impact Analysis (BIA) study for all lines of business as part of Business Continuity Plan (BCP) development along with performing quantitative & qualitative risk assessment to identify critical areas and processes.
  • Developed a change management strategy based on a situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups being impacted by the change
  • Identified potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance and developed specific plans to mi gate or address concerns
  • Prepared readiness reviews for senior management.

Assistant Vice President

IHS Markit Pvt Ltd
12.2013 - 09.2014
  • Evaluated Bond pricing and contributed pricing operations
  • Market Analysis and Exception Management for bank’s portfolios in varied Asset classes like FX & Rates and Derivatives and commodities responsible for Analysis and resolution of exceptions created from market
  • Interpolation & extrapolation of pricing data, proxy data, Yield & forward curve construction to Product Control and Market Risk for PnL valuation and VaR calculation of bank's portfolios
  • Release Management and UAT tes ng on Market Data and work closely with Market

Team Lead

RBS BUSINESS SERVICES PVT LTD, ABN AMRO BANK NV
06.2007 - 12.2013
  • Market analysis and Exception Management for bank’s portfolios in varied asset classes like FX Rates, Derivatives and commodities responsible for Analysis and resolution of exception created from market venality and price deviations using HVAR methodologies
  • Interpolation & extrapolation of pricing data, proxy data, Yield & forward curve construction to Product Control and Market Risk for PnL valuation and VaR calculation of bank's portfolios
  • Release Management and UAT tes ng on Market Data and work closely with Market
  • Risk on price deviations
  • Securities Operations
  • Pricing operations
  • Instruments Ref data
  • Market risk reporting

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce

Bishop Heber College
India
06.2007

Skills

  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Client liaison
  • Problem-Solving
  • Excellent Communication
  • Dependable and Responsible
  • Data Governance
  • Data Management
  • Data Quality
  • Data Lineage
  • Trusted Source Identification
  • Data Lineage
  • Regulatory Reporting (BCBS, CCAR)

Accomplishments


    AUDIT & REGULATORY ACCOMPLISHMENTS


  • Consistently handled Internal/External audit with the audit result as satisfactory.
  • Handled following Regulatory Audits: - Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) – UK regulatory
  • The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) - US Regulator

Timeline

Senior Manager, Strategy

Ernst & Young Polska
07.2022 - Current

Assistant Vice President

HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. Z O.o
11.2019 - 07.2022

Senior Project Manager

Sunoida DMCC Solutions Limited
05.2018 - 07.2019

Project Manager

BNY Mellon
09.2017 - 05.2018

Regional Manager

Eastspring Investments, Prudential
01.2015 - 08.2017

Assistant Vice President

IHS Markit Pvt Ltd
12.2013 - 09.2014

Team Lead

RBS BUSINESS SERVICES PVT LTD, ABN AMRO BANK NV
06.2007 - 12.2013

Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce

Bishop Heber College
Balaji Venkateswaran