
VP Technology at Citi Global Transaction Services
London, United Kingdom

VP Technology at Citi Global Transaction Services
London, United Kingdom
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Headed teams implementing solutions at multinational BFSI institutions- in the retail banking/lending/ creditcards, enterprise/ corporate banking/ wealth management domains, Verification & Validation services. Strength in the Reporting, Datawarehousing, Datamining, Analytics, CRM and Knowledge management areas. For more details, write to me at bharat.pathiavadi@gmail.com (business) and bharat.pathiavadi@rediffmail.com (personal)
Business & IT Consulting:
Sales support/business development,
Business analysis, Relationship and Project Management,
Setting up divisions in the KPO/Research/Analytics spaces.
Anything to do with starting up, raising funds (Angel or VC) or doing Angel/VC funding work.
(Financial Services industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Planning, Building, Enhancing and Managing the Global expansion of Citi's Prepaid & Commercial Cards Product processor platforms (across 50+ countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas). Scope of the role includes but is not limited to managing:
- Business, Ops, Tech Infrastructure & Vendor/partner relationships
- Projects being executed globally inclusive of new country rollouts and expansion of the processor platform to all regions.
- Application Support groups across Europe, Asia and the US.
- Process Improvements & Best practices.
- Strategic planning, Budgets, Enterprise-scale Solution Patterns, Global application deployments.
- Business, process, System and Application Architecture including Service oriented architectures.
- Structured methodologies and transformational technologies.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — November 2007 (5 years 5 months)
On-site and offshore roles including but not limited to:
- Sales support, Market intelligence and Business development
- Project/Operations Management
- Process analysis & standardization and Business analysis
The role encompassed the complete SDLC for Processor Platforms, Datawarehousing systems, Decision Support Systems, MIS/EIS, CRM, Campaign management/Analytics and BI/BPM/Business Analytics projects in retail banking, enterprise/corporate banking & wealth management domains at several multinational banks.
(Public Company; ACN; Management Consulting industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
Accenture GmbH (Previously known as Andersen Consulting ASG).
Financial Services - Banking: Development, testing, version & configuration management in a business cum technical engagement for Deutsche Bank, building their online brokerage site – Maxblue.
A functional testing role with Commerzbank on Project I-PLUS, Frankfurt, Germany: Functional Testing on the datamart/CRM system used by Client consultants (Kundenberaters) to service 6 million customers across Germany.
Domains:
Retail banking/lending and Verification & Validation services.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)
1993 — 1999 (6 years )
Heading the management consulting business (1995-1999) in India and South East Asia including client acquisition & client services such as project feasibility, research, management & finance (startups/SMEs), accounting information & internal control systems (design/review), general management, human resources etc. Specific areas included but were not limited to:
1. Business strategy
2. Business process improvement
3. Change management
4. Organizational development
5. Outsourcing core / non-core processes
6. Legal services - Corporate Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property and Contracts