Bharat Pathiavadi

Current

• VP Technology Projects/Operations at Citi Global Transaction Services

Past

• Senior Business Analyst at Saksoft Limited
• Experienced Analyst at Accenture
• Management Consultant at Alladi Consultants (p) Ltd

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Education

• International University in Germany Bruchsal
• Allicance Française de Madras
• CSM - IGS / TASMAC

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Industry

Financial Services

Bharat Pathiavadi’s Summary

A technology manager possessing broad technical and managerial experience, and operating at senior management level with in depth experience of running Technology Projects and Operations within the banking industry. An individual with success in managing process and technology change during times of intense growth, whilst maintaining high quality of deliverables.

Headed teams supporting and implementing solutions 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)

Bharat Pathiavadi’s Specialties:

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.

Bharat Pathiavadi’s Experience

• VP Technology Projects/Operations

  Citi Global Transaction Services

  (Financial Services industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  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.
  - 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.
  
  Our EMEA platform migration/standardisation project won the Technology Award in 2008 for CORE BANKING from 'The Banker', and was featured in the June 2008 issue of 'The Banker'.

• Senior Business Analyst

  Saksoft Limited

  (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
  - Technology 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.

• Experienced Analyst

  Accenture

  (Public Company; ACN; Information Technology and Services 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.

• Management Consultant

  Alladi Consultants (p) Ltd

  (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

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