Rashmi Maheswari
Product Owner for Corporate Banking Collections and Receivables
Chennai India
Professional Status
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About Me
An honest, proactive, result-oriented team leader equipped with excellent communication and interpersonal skills together with a positive attitude and an aptitude to learn and mentor alike
I posses more than 10 years of overall experience with 8 years of experience in Corporate Banking domain, Cash management systems. Have been working with high-profile client-facing projects most of my career.
Post my masters in International Business Management, I was a part of a startup, evolv3d and was also working with my family to diversify business.
Currently, I am the product owner of the modules Bill Collections, Invoice management and Mandate management in the CnR product of Corporate banking at Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
I posses more than 10 years of overall experience with 8 years of experience in Corporate Banking domain, Cash management systems. Have been working with high-profile client-facing projects most of my career.
Post my masters in International Business Management, I was a part of a startup, evolv3d and was also working with my family to diversify business.
Currently, I am the product owner of the modules Bill Collections, Invoice management and Mandate management in the CnR product of Corporate banking at Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
Senior Consultant - Product Owner
Intellect Design Arena Ltd.,
Since June 2019
Chennai
India
- Product Walkthrough of Cash Management, Bill Collections, Receivables and Virtual Accounts to clients of various Banks
- Successfully conducted sessions on the Collections and Receivables modules along with product demonstration to a high profile corporate bank of UAE
- Handled a smooth transition from Pre-sales >> Product walkthrough >> Product development >> Implementation for a South East Asian Bank with customized requirements and product enhancements
- Scrum master and Jira administrator to create and track the agile development as well as manage content in Confluence as an administrator for better communication among the high performing team and clients
- Have achieved highest, quickest and most efficient client sign-off on product documents in the team, ensuring unambiguous requirements gathering.
Senior Consultant
Intellect Design Arena
November 2018
to May 2019
- Business Analyst for Collections and Receivables module of Corporate Banking
- Documented the functional specifications of Mandate management and cash management systems
- Well versed in ISO20022 PAIN and PACS formats and have entirely created the interface specs for the bulk file uploads using this standard
- Well versed in UAEDDS format of Central Mandate management for UAE
- Developed process flow diagrams and content for master setup of product, initiation of transaction till successful posting, accounting entries and events of charges, alerts and reports
Consultant
Sales International
2016
to 2018
- Accounts management and Income tax filing
- Business Development through online presence
- Client Handling
- Quotation development
Associate Consultant - Internship
Evolv3D
September 2015
to February 2015
- Internship on market research of 3D printing products
- Content writing and content management of articles on 3D printing
QA Team Lead
Wipro Technologies Limited - Citigroup Inc.
2011
to 2014
Full-time
Chennai
India
- Manage and mentor a team of analysts and drive the delivery of a project, whilst tracking the productivity of the team
- Own the testing cycle in SDLC for application/product area and Sign-off the product to be deployed into production
- Interaction with product owners, business sponsors, Global Development Leads, development managers, developers, end-users, Business analysts and technical SMEs to track the project milestones and raise a flag duly
- Responsible for people management including hiring, training, retention, motivation and overall refinement
Senior Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies Limited - Standard Bank of South Africa
2010
to 2011
Full-time
Johannesburg
South Africa
- Delegate work to off-shore test engineers and track the progress on a daily basis, along with providing guidance on smart and ad-hoc testing scenarios
- Interact and coordinate with various teams such as Production, doc management, developers, 3rd party vendors and various stakeholders of the project
- Preparation of Daily Special Reports for the CEO and Business sponsors on Test management updates and showstoppers
- Verification of offshore deliverables and supervising the defects raised to minimize duplication and rejection
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies Limited - Standard Bank of South Africa
2008
to 2010
Full-time
Chennai
India
- Analyzing the FSS/BSD (Functional System Specification/Business Case Document) and extract the functional and regression requirements for testing
- Interaction with onsite leads and technical SMEs from customer side to convert Business requirements into testable requirements.
- System integration & regression testing of retail banking applications: Frontend Java application and backend Mainframe application
- Defect reporting, retesting and follow ups with development team in QC
- Preparation of weekly metrics presentation to highlight the deviations and focus areas
- Organising and participating in team building activities
- Editor of the weekly digest, newsprint edition
- Precise planning and estimation
- Mentoring, delegating and getting work done
- Reporting and maintaining excellent rapport with the clients
- Modelling and generating metric reports for top management
- Scored 9/10 on GlobalEnglish STEP+
- Monitoring and Control through metrics
- Establishing trust with a new client and managing the concerns raised
- Managing client's expectation on product delivery by defining the scope and schedule
- Being responsive and attentive to details of client requirement and suggesting the best market practices
- Obtaining the document sign-off of all the stated requirements
- Understanding the unstated requirements and translating it to stated, verified and documented requirements
- Expert knowledge in Cash Management Services of SACU region
- Expert knowledge in the Corporate invoice reconciliation with payments received
- Expert knowledge in Mandate management of UAE region
- Expert knowledge in managing Bill Collections of South East Asia
- Expert knowledge in Virtual Accounts management
- In depth knowledge on the retail banking sector elements such as Online services, ATM and IVR Banking, Core banking and Teller systems
- Types - Ad-hoc GUI testing, Sanity, Functional, Regression, Integration, User acceptance testing, Database testing, Web-based testing
- Metrics - Zero defect slippage or rejection ratio,
- Consistent CSAT of 7/7
- Tools - HP Quality Centre 9.2, HP ALM 11.0, Jira, SharePoint, Jive, OAT
- Database - Mainframe, SAP BS, SAP FX
- Agile Methodologies
- SDLC
- Adher to quality processes - CMMI 5.0, Lean, Six Sigma
- Auditing
- CMMI
- For empathetic, innovative and outstanding contribution received "GEM" award from Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
- For best Individual Contribution received “Bravo” award from Citi Verticals in Wipro Technologies
- For 7/7 CSAT received “Customer Excellence” award from Wipro Technologies for contribution to Standard Bank of South Africa
- “Feather in My Cap” awards
- “Thanks a Zillion" award
- "Feather in my Cap - Team" Award
Majored in Biomedical Engineering with an aggregate of 81.3%
- Adventurous nature seeker
- Scenic landscapes and beaches
- NSS cadet volunteering at the local government hospital
- Volunteering at orphanages and participating in rallies to support noble cause of education
