Abhishek Verma1-1 Seishincho, 26-609 Seishin Minami Heights, Edogawa-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Mobile No: +81-8097776789, Email: abhishekverma08@gmail.com

A BRIEF OVERVIEW

Over 10 years of experience in Banking and Financial Services. Currently working as a Principal Associate with Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Tokyo. Strong in analytical work, interaction with business stakeholders and is committed to deliver high quality and timely results. I have a zeal and passion to work towards tasks, which challenge and motivate me to learn something new, acquire new skills and thus help me grow professionally. A highly skilled, result-driven and

resourceful professional with expertise in in Application Production Support in complex Financial/Banking/IB environments, along with Change Management, Release Management, Incident & Problem Management, Application Monitoring & Development, Capacity Management. An effective communicator with excellent relationship, team building and interpersonal skills with Onsite and Offsite experience.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Functional

Possess Strong Financial Domain Knowledge including General Ledger and Accounting, Derivatives, Equity Finance.

Possess strong analytical skills used in business and requirement analysis. Played a significant role in requirement gathering, team-management with rich experience in Project Planning.

Identify and share project-specific innovations, best practice tools or other lessons learnt that might be of broader interest to the team and organization.

Effectively managed and supported number of back-office systems, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning.

Able to drive projects independently with an ability to meet short and long term goals with strict timelines while adhering to organization objectives and values. Design/ develop several complex mappings involving Filter & Expressions

Successfully facilitated application on-boarding, coordinated with global team to implement global support for existing/newly on-boarded Finance/Operations applications.

Release Management & Post Implementation supports. Ensure Systems are fit for purpose by implementing additional Application level monitoring.

Technical

Database: Sybase, Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS Access.Scripting: UNIX Shell Scripting.Job Scheduler: Autosys and Control – M.Application Monitoring Tool: Sentinel Scout, CMS (Nomura In-House application) & Splunk Basics.ERP: PeopleSoft Finance 9.1 – AP/PO/GL ModulesPeople Tools: PeopleTools 8.53.24, People CodeOperating System: UNIX, WindowsETL: OST Financial Rules Engine (Microgen Product), Informatica 9.6.1Ticketing & Service Reporting: JIRA, Service Now and SDCJob Scheduler: Autosys and Control – M.Reporting Tool: DBArtisan, SQL Navigator, PL/SQL Developer.MS Office Tool: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

October 2013 – till Date with Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan as a Principal Associate (Team Lead).

Responsibilities Analysis, Application Production Support, System Monitoring Development & Implementation. Ensuring systems are fit for purpose especially for Ledger and associated reporting, Regulatory reporting,

Product Control, Pricing and intraday batch processing. Proactive Monitoring, investigating reconciliation breaks, job failures and general queries and Incident

ownership through to completion. Asia point of contact and Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the Ledger systems. Working with regional and global teams, reporting to matrix of global and regional mangers, and facing off and

presenting to regional business sponsors. Writing documentations and wiki pages for design and implementation. Performance and Tuning SQL Queries. Transition Manager to facilitate effective and smooth on-boarding of applications.

Projects Handled

Project Title: DODGE General Ledger SystemTechnology: UNIX, Sybase ASE 12.5, Sybase IQ 15, OST FRE, Informatica, & Autosys.Role: Lead Associate - SME (Team Lead)Scope: The Accounting System comprises a number of components based around the Dodge Financial Data Warehouse (FDW). Major components are the Financial Rules Engine (FRE), the Reporting Database and MultiView.The FRE is responsible for creating the postings that go in to the ledgers based on the recognition of financial events that are passed to it. The reporting database is a de-normalized copy of the data in a format that provides support for on-line queries and reporting. MultiView is the on-line query tool that accesses the reporting database.Responsibilities:

Application Support, Release & Deployment, Configuration & Environment Manager. Responsible for delivering E2E solution to stakeholders. Generating dashboard & various performance & Capacity reports for Sr. Management Review on a regular

basis. SME on the Ledger Systems. Analyze and investigate defects and faults, and tracing them till final resolution. In accordance with agreed procedures, monitors application systems. As a part of this carries out regular

scrutiny of the application's software, systems software for proactive monitoring. Provide post deployment support for upgrades/changes/enhancements done on production Environment. Provide Overnight & Intraday Batch Support. Tracking of housekeeping activities that are performed daily/weekly to keep the system up and running. Liaise with other interfacing Application owners to resolve the various issues faced. Provide out of office hours support including weekends & holidays and during major release work.

Project Title: Global Finance Architecture (GFA) - Japan Ledger SystemTechnology: UNIX, PeopleSoft Finance 9.1, Oracle 11g, Informatica & Autosys.Role: Lead Associate - Team LeadScope: GFA is a standard Finance Ledger system for Nomura Japan (Wholesale and Retail Division). It’s designed to redefine the Finance function (Entry and Reporting) and controls to provide a scalable software infrastructure supporting Japan financial business purposes. Major components are Manual Entry Tool, Financial Rules Engine, PeopleSoft Finance Ledger and Reporting GUI Responsibilities:

Application Support, Release & Deployment, & Application Monitoring Manager. Responsible for delivering E2E solution to stakeholders. Modified and supported various interfaces like PeopleSoft General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Purchasing

Workflow. Posted Journal Summary and Journal Entry Details. Provide Overnight & Intraday Batch Support Analyze and investigate defects and faults, and tracing them till final resolution Liaise with other interfacing Application owners to resolve the various issues faced

Project Title: Transition ManagementRole: Transition Manager (Asia)Scope: Application Transition management is to facilitate the readiness of Production Services in providing the agreed/required level of support service to new/existing applications undergoing minor/medium/major change. It is

essentially ensuring an application has the ability to pass its regular Production Management Tests based on the ITIL v3 guidelines and is manageable within the confines of the policies that govern an organization.Responsibilities:

Prepare and present weekly/monthly transition reports to Sr. Management. Prepare scorecards with RAG alerts highlighting on-boarding bottlenecks. Regular review meetings with Application owners and PS Heads and Regional/Global BU Leads. Setup forums to provide planning and review meetings with the Program/Project teams.

Project Title: Application Monitoring and AdministrationTechnology: UNIX, Shell Scripting, Sybase, Sentinel Scouts.Role: Regional Lead (Asia)Tools Used: Sentinel (Host Based Monitoring), CMS (Monitoring, Alerting, Graphing, Trending), RiverMuse (Event Console, Reporting, Command & Control) and Splunk.Scope:

Responsibilities: Architecture, design, implementation, administration, and support of Application Monitoring using tools like

CMS (Central Monitoring System) & Sentinel Scouts. Creation and tuning of all state based, event based alerts and performance monitoring. Responsible for providing an environment for applications to be effectively and adequately monitored such

that the problem can be detected and resolved in a timely manner. Service and distributed application, performance, and event ID / log-based monitoring. Coordination with different application teams to ensure system is fit for purpose. Responsible for creation and implementation of monitoring and compliance procedure. Expert in developing PLSQL scripts, UNIX shell scripts for the automation of the monitoring of the application

and to reduce the over head on the resource by automating the business regular works. Implement various application based threshold monitoring for Capacity Management.

August 2008 – October 2013 with Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Mumbai, India as an Associate.

Projects Handled

Project Title: Nomura Central Data InfrastructureClient: Nomura U.S.Technology: UNIX, Informatica 8.6.1, Control-M & Oracle9i.Role: Developer and Production SupportScope: NCDI – Nomura Central Data Infrastructure is the platform utilized at Nomura for data acquisition, data distribution, data warehousing and other data centric tasks. Current NCDI consists of star schema for reporting, data retrieval and data distribution. It also contains Data acquisition from multiple systems and sources, Interface layer for multiple sources standardizations and Integration layer utilizing dimension keys translation and column precedence.

Project Title: ASIA DODGE Accounting SystemClient: Nomura Holdings Inc.Technology: UNIX, Sybase ASE 12.5, OST FRE, Informatica, Control-M & Autosys.Role: Developer and Production SupportScope: The Accounting System comprises a number of components based around the Dodge Financial Data Warehouse (FDW). Major components are the Financial Rules Engine (FRE), the Reporting Database and MultiView.

Project Title: FRATClient: Nomura Holdings Inc.Scope: The Financial Reconciliation and Analysis Tool (FRAT) is the name given to the components that Financial Production Control use to perform Front Office vs Back Office (FOBO) reconciliations and produce Profit & Loss (Pnl) figures for the Front Office.

The Modules Handled

Module Title: FXSellOffTechnology: Excel VBA, SQL Server 2005.Role: DeveloperScope: FX Sell Off is a month end process being carried out by Product Controllers to sell down all FX related exposure that Nomura (HQ) would be exposed to in that month. This process was initially being run from an Access database.

However, due to lack of controls and insufficient reporting details in it, the complete process was automated using Excel VBA and SQL Server 2005 technologies.Module Title: Data Extractor CTP replacement for XLA.Technology: C#.net, SQL Server 2005.Role: DeveloperScope: In the current scenario, the Data Extractor XLA points to the original MS Access versions. In the new world all the tables will be stored in SQL Server and all the VBA version controls will be replaced by Excel 2007 CTP (Custom Task Panes) using C#.net user control.

Project Title: PALS Holiday Marking. Client: Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. Technology: Sybase, PL/SQL, UNIX. Role: Database Developer.Scope: PALS server, used by the New York IB team gets automated feed from various departments on normal working days. The main objective of PALS Holiday Marking was to send an automated dummy feed to the PALS Server on Bank Holidays so that the Autosys Jobs doesn’t goes on Hold.

January 2008 – July 2008 with Flexcel International as an Associate Consultant

Projects Handled

Project Title: Database Migration. Client: Centurion Bank of Punjab (CBOP). Technology: Oracle9i, PL/SQL. Role: Oracle Developer. Scope: Erstwhile Lord Krishna Bank (ELKB) has merged with CBOP, Mumbai. ELKB was running in FlexCube. A major challenge on this amalgamation was the integration of their existing software, FLEXCUBE 5.7 with the core banking solution of CBOP (FINACLE 7.0.11). Migration Strategy was drafted clearly taking into consideration of all the problems and consequences and based on this strategy an extraction tool was developed in PL/SQL.

Project Title: Load Testing.Client: Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd (FICC).Technology: Oracle9i, PL/SQL.Role: Oracle Developer.Scope: FICC plans to conduct load test exercise for various systems to ascertain hardware sizing pattern for various systems. This Project is basically aimed to provide an early warning indicator of problems and effectiveness of corrective action and also to provide an input to resource planning viz. right sizing the hardware and its deployment timing.

Project Title: Iflex-IBM Load Testing Benchmark Activity.Client: Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd (FICC).Technology: Oracle9i, PL/SQL.Role: Oracle Developer.Scope: Performed a benchmark activity at IBM, Bangalore. Load Testing is basically aimed to provide an early warning indicator of problems and effectiveness of corrective action and also to provide an input to resource planning viz. right sizing the hardware and its deployment timing.

April 2006 – December 2007 with HDFC Bank as a Software Engineer (BSG – Information Technology)

Projects Handled

Project Title: Basel IIClient: HDFC BankTechnology: Visual FoxPro 9.0, SQL Server2000 and Oracle9i Role: Application Programmer Scope: The Basel II accords are a broad set of requirements that have profound implications on some practices within the financial institution. The need to allocate capital to safeguard financial institutions against unexpected losses arising from credit risk requires that they implement systems for quantifying their exposures to credit risk.

Project Title: Debit ScorecardClient: HDFC BankTechnology: Visual FoxPro 9.0, SQL Server2000, Oracle9i and MySQLRole: Application Programmer Scope: Debit Score Card is the methodology to give customer a valid score on the basis of customer’s behavior with respect to transactions and demographic details. These scores are being used by the marketing team to target specific group of customer’s to rollout campaigns.

Project Title: Cross-SellClient: HDFC BankTechnology: Visual FoxPro 9.0, SQL Server2000, Oracle9i and MySQL Role: Application Programmer Scope: Cross-selling is the strategy of selling other products to a customer who has already purchased (or signaled their intention to purchase) a product from the vendor. Cross selling is designed to increase the customer's reliance on the company and decrease the likelihood of the customer switching to a competitor.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

2006 PG Diploma in Advance Computing (C-DAC) from Vidyanidhi InfoTech Academy, Juhu, Mumbai.

2005 Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics from P.D.E.A’s College of Engineering, Pune, affiliated to Pune University.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Awarded with certificate for the Best Employee at Nomura. Represented college in inter-college table tennis championship. Represented college in state level technical paper presentation on the topic “BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY”.

DATE OF BIRTH: 8th July 1983.