Sirisha Janapati

Role: Agile project manager and business analyst for a multi-year strategic platform migration of the Middle Office (MO) risk management system, which enhances the performance and controls of the end-to-end trade lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stakeholders to define the scope, objectives, and deliverables for projects
• Developed project plans, monitored progress, and reported on key performance indicators.
• Managed team resources, including assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and ensuring deadlines were met.
• Led the test management process, including test scoping, test case preparation, and defect reporting, to enhance project outcomes.
• Managed recruitment strategy for team expansion, including drafting job descriptions, sourcing candidates, and overseeing interview processes.

Achievements:

• Led test management and validation for the Equities Middle Office for the EMEA Funding Desk, ensuring a seamless go-live with no major production incidents.
• Implemented test case automation, optimizing the testing workflow, and reducing testing time by 30%, leading to a significant increase in overall testing efficiency, and faster release cycles.

Role: Managed the Corporate Action Operations team, whereby JPM notifies and processes corporate action events containing a high degree of principal risk, with stringent deadlines in accordance with internal and external procedures and regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Managing income and corporate actions processing for 100+ markets for global custody clients across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
• Responsible for ensuring on-time and accurate payments worth USD 850 billion annually.
• Identifying operational risks and implementing controls to minimize errors and financial loss
• Ensuring key operational requirements are built and tested adequately prior to implementation.
• Delivering efficiency by driving innovation, and implementing cost reduction ideas.
• Partnering with global stakeholders
• with technology for continuous platform enhancements and automation of manual processes.
• With the product team identifying product gaps and implementing ideas for enhancing the product offering.
• With middle office teams to understand customer needs and enhance client satisfaction.

Achievements:

• Achieved a 20% month-over-month reduction in client inquiries by mitigating agent issues, which led to the timely payment of corporate action entitlements in the Indian market.
• Trained middle office, reconciliations, and broker-dealer teams, reducing dependency on operations for quicker inquiry resolution.
• Led a robotics initiative in collaboration with the technology team to develop a bot that captures, reconciles, and processes MT566 payments, which are not STP-enabled. This automation resulted in a productivity gain of 1.5 FTEs.

• Joined as a part of the flagship Operational Analyst Development Program (OADP) – a leadership program of JPMC where candidates are hired from top-tier B-schools with the corporate title of Team Lead.
• Managed Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations for Global Custody Corporate Actions, overseeing instructions, completions, and reconciliation across all markets.
• Reviewed complex corporate action events and efficiently resolved client inquiries related to asset servicing.
• Ensured same-day Nostro reconciliation, and prompt clearance of breaks to minimize errors.
• Performed root cause analysis to drive improvements in straight-through processing (STP), and operational efficiency.

An organizational study of NLC Ltd., with specific reference to the finance and accounts branch.

• Overall study of the finance department and all its sections.
• Carry out day-to-day activities of the taxation department, such as payment of TDS, reconciliation of Schedule 5 balance sheet with income tax depreciation computation, and creation of year-end liability, etc.
• Study of internal control systems and preparation of a report with reference to the taxation department.
• Study of the procedure for billing electricity boards used in the sale of power.
• Study of various activities carried out in the Treasury Department.