SHASHANK KUSARE Business Analyst – Payments

UK Contact No: +44-7459516520

India Contact No: +91-9890419399 (Whatsapp Call / Messages)
E-Mail: shanky.kusare@gmail.com, shashank.kusare@gmail.com
India Address: E-404, Pristine Prolife Ph-1, Near Sayaji Hotel, Wakad, Pune – 411057
UK Address: Apt 707, Metis, 1 Scotland Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom – S3 7AQ

Professional Snapshot:

 Currently working with Capgemini having around 11 Years of work experience as Consultant, Business
Analyst, Team Lead in Banking Domain (Payments, Retail Banking and Corporate Banking)
 Experience in PSD2, CHAPS, FPS, BACS, TARGET2, STEP2, EURO1, SEPA CT & DD
 Experience in working with SWIFT messaging, ISO20022, STANDARD18 (BACS)
 Experienced in Consulting, Requirement Gathering, Impact Analysis, BRD, FRD, Prototype Design,
Wireframe Diagram, Use Case Diagram, Data Catalogue, Test Scenario.

 Onsite exposure (UK) as a Business Analyst for a large transformation program.

 Strong grip over Problem Solving, Logical and Analytical abilities
 An effective communicator with excellent relationship building and client facing skills

Domain knowledge:

 Payments Domain
 SWIFT MT Messages
 ISO 20022 Messaging
 Payment Service Directives 2 (PSD2)
 CHAPS
 BACS (Well versed with Standard 18 BACS format)
 TARGET2, STEP2, EURO1
 SEPA CT, SEPA DD
 FPS – Faster Payments

Technical Skill set:

 Tools: JIRA, Blue Print, MS Visio, HP- Quality Centre

 Language: Concepts of C, C++, 4gl, Java, Mainframe
 Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows
 Database: Informix, SQL
 Payments Product: Dovetail, Global Pay Plus (GPP – Product Knowledge)

Academia:

 MBA / MMS (Systems / IT) From Fr. Agnel B School, Mumbai University in 2008, Secured 68%
 BE (IT), COEB, Amravati University in 2005, Secured 72%

Achievement:

 Received “Quality Award” from ICICI Bank’s CEO Mrs. Chanda Kocchar
 Ranked 1st in BE (Final Year) & Ranked 2nd in MBA (Third Semester)
Projects Undertaken in Capgemini:

Oct’12 to Till Date – Capgemini India Pvt Ltd, Pune, as Manager – Business Analyst

#1 NPA and Faster Payments – HSBC Bank (Onsite – UK)

Client : HSBC Bank, UK
Domain : Payments – NPA and FPS
Description : Working on multiple assignments for FPS and New Payment Architecture
Role : Senior Solution Analyst
 Creation of Investment feasibility Document and Solution Proposal Document.
 Taking care of multiple small projects for FPS as below –
o FP Reconciliation - Automation
o Credit facility Balance Check
o Scheme Contingency Solution (For BACS, CHAPS and FPS – In-house solution)
o SIP Customer Messaging
 Working on New Payment Architecture which will replace BACS and FPS.

#2 BACS SRP – Barclays Bank

Client : Barclays Bank, UK
Domain : Payments – BACS
Description : Separation of Bank into two entities i.e. Ring-Fenced Bank (RFB called as Barclays UK or
BUK) and Non-Ring-Fenced Bank (NRFB called as Barclays Corporate & International or BC&I). These two-
legal entities will be acting as separate bank with separate scheme membership for BACS, CHAPS and FPS.
Role : SME, Offshore Lead
 SME for BACS implementation for BUK and BC&I Bank.
 Offshore Lead for BACS Team.
 Involved in writing High level flows, review test scenario and test cases.
 Component engagement, Test Data Request.
 Standard 18 file format validation and authorizing. Automation tool to validate Standard 18 file format.
 Team Management

#3 Payment Service Directives-2 (PSD2) – Capgemini

Client : Capgemini Internal Project
Domain : Payments – PSD2
Description : Design PSD2 scenario to generate API’s and make it ready to use by European Bank, Third
Party Provider and Clearing House to be PSD2 compliant. PSD2 mainly focus on PISP (Payment Initiation
Service Provider) and AISP (Account Information Service Provider).
Role : Senior Consultant
 Design flows
 Identify high level API’s
 Support Development team for product development

#4 Consulting Assignment – NBAD

Client : National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD)
Domain : Payments Product Selection
Description : NBAD want to establish one Payment hub across the globe to be centralized in ABU DHABI,
24x7 operations for all payments across the globe, Single operating model that follows standard business
process.
Role : Senior Consultant
 Involved in As-Is Study (Automated, Semi-Automated, Manual Processes)
 High Level Requirements writing, Identify To-Be Processes
 Writing RFP which need to be circulated with different Payments Vendors
 Finalizing analysis and recommendation criteria to analyse response received from vendors and
Payment products recommendations
 Analyzing responses received from different Payments Vendors
 Made final recommendation based on analysis

#5 Rainbow 2 (Onsite - UK)

Client : RBS Bank (UK)
Domain : Payments – SEPA High Value, Sepa CT, Sepa DD
Description : RBS Bank needs to divest identified accounts from RBS Bank and form a new bank called
Williams & Glyn.
Role : Business Analyst
 Involved in Requirement Analysis
 Creating High level Design solution document for Business changes and giving walkthrough to all
stakeholder for agreements
 Creating FRD
 Review low level design document
 Extensive interaction with clients to finalize solutions

#6 IPPON – Implementation of DOVETAIL product.

Client : ING Bank (Netherland)
Domain : Payments
Description : Implementation of DOVETAIL payments product for International and Domestic payments.
Role : Business Analyst
 Involved in Requirement gathering, Functional analysis and documentation
 Writing Acceptance Criteria
 Change Requirement Management Plan / Process formation
 Review of Test Scenarios, Test Cases and mapping of the Requirements to traceability matrix
 Contributed to creation of Payments Accelerator for ING
 Created Dovetail training pack for IPPON Team

Projects Undertaken in Cognizant:

Jul’11 to Sep’12 – Cognizant Technology Solution, Pune, as a Business Analyst

#1 Verde – Divest identified accounts from Lloyds Bank, UK – Payments CCT and E-Payments.
Client : Lloyds Bank (United Kingdom)
Domain : Payments (SEPA CT, SEPA DD, Cash, Cheque Clearing, CHAPS, International)
Description : To meet the regulatory guidelines Lloyds Bank has divested identified accounts from LBG
Bank and ready to sell it to another Bank. This project is about processing of identified accounts separately
along with Lloyds accounts using agency banking model.
Role : Business Analyst

#2 Integration of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland Bank for LBG – Mortgages.
Client : Lloyds Bank (United Kingdom)
Domain : Mortgages
Description : Lloyds Bank has acquired Halifax and Bank of Scotland. LBG has identified the different
application for Loan Production and Loan Servicing and migrated the data in to identified application for
acquired Banks.
Role : Business Analyst

Projects Undertaken in 3i-infotech / ICICI Bank:

April’10 to Jul’11 – 3i-Infotech Ltd / ICICI Bank, Mumbai, as a Business Analyst

#1 I-CONNECT Application for ICICI Bank.

Client : ICICI Bank Ltd.
Role : Business Analyst / Project Coordinator
Description : This project is in implementation phase. I-CONNECT is used as a middleware for generating,
sending and receiving the financials messages across the world. I-CONNECT cover mainly 4 areas as
mentioned – NEFT, RTGS, SWIFT

#2 DFS (Dealer Funding System) Application for ICICI Bank.

Client : ICICI Bank Ltd.
Environment : ASP.NET, SQL2008.
Description : The main objective of this application is to take care of Loan for Automobile Dealer. Also, this
application is used to reduce the loan sanction time and calculation of penal and cure interest.
Role : Business Analyst

#3 CFS (Channel Financing System) Application for ICICI Bank.

Client : ICICI Bank Ltd.
Environment : ASP.NET, SQL2008.
Role : Business Analyst
Description : The main objective of this application is to take care of Loan for another Dealer. This
application is used to reduce the loan sanction time and calculation of penal and cure interest, also generate
various reports and use it for analysis purpose, also send the various reports to corporate and dealer.

#4 DFS-MIS (Dealer Funding System) Application for ICICI Bank.

Client : ICICI Bank Ltd.
Environment : ASP.NET, SQL2008.
Role : Business Analyst
Description : The main objective of this application is to take care of MIS part of loan for Automobile Dealer.
This application generates various reports and use it for analysis purpose, also send the various reports to
corporate and dealer.

Projects Undertaken in IDBI Intech:

May’08 to Dec’09 – IDBI Intech Ltd / IDBI Bank, Mumbai, as a Business Analyst

#1 Housing Loan Module for IDBI Bank.

#2 Migration of Housing Loan System from Informix to Finacle.
#3 Payroll Systems for United Western Bank.

Strengths:

 Flexible in terms of work and attitude.

 Analytical and Logical

Hobbies:

 Yoga and Pranayam.

 Cooking

Personal Details:

Date of Birth : 09th April 1983

Language Known : English, Marathi, Hindi
Permanent Address : 81, Samata Colony, Kathora Road, Amravati – 444604 (MS)
Passport No : Z 2691561(Valid From 16-09-2014 To 15-09-2024)