Amitava Mandal
Toronto,ON
Summary
Ambitious, results-focused Management Consultant with more than 19 years of leadership experience defining solutions for complex projects with an emphasis on risk assessments, system optimization, market performance, technological enhancements/transformations, enterprise-wide digitization/digital, Enterprise Risk and Capital Market. Adept at sourcing, developing, supervising, and mentoring exceptional professional teams focused on cost-effective performance, quality, efficiency, and customer experience.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PROGRAM MANAGER- CIBC
CIBC
05.2021 - 02.2024
- End to end delivery for eCRM (Salesforce) projects, Client on-boarding, Alerts program, disclosures, AI bot (Conversational flow) and Digital Chat programs, Planview (Estimate, Actuals)
PROJECT MANAGER – COOPERATORS, GUELPH
Cooperators
04.2020 - 05.2021
- Program Management for Coop’s Digital Transformation program
PROJECT MANAGER – CIBC, Toronto
CIBC
03.2019 - 04.2020
- Program delivery for CIBC’s Digital Goal Planning Program (Wealth)
PROJECT MANAGER – PCChoice Financial Digitization
PCChoice Financial
08.2017 - 02.2019
- Responsible for managing End-to-End Digital Delivery/Releases
PROJECT DELIVERY
Lightpoint Technologies
09.2016 - 07.2017
- Responsible for Managing Lightpoint Technologies Tactical and Strategic End to End Capital Market/Risk Platform
PROGRAM MANAGER
Bank of Montreal
02.2016 - 08.2016
- Onboarding and Digitization Program
PROJECT MANAGER
Investors Group/Mackenzie Investments
03.2015 - 02.2016
- Managed a dedicated, skilled team for Investors Group/Mackenzie Investments
TECH HEAD
Bank of Montreal
02.2013 - 03.2015
- Sourced and mentored high-skilled and efficient Project Team in advancement of BMO Capital Market and Risk Technologies (Various Projects)
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
BMO Capital Market
01.2010 - 01.2013
- Drive Calypso Implementation FP Consolidation program initiatives with emphasis on end-to-end Agile Release/Test Management, BO framework, Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, binary releases, Interface Testing, as well as Heat map and plan strategies.
PROJECT MANAGER
TD Securities Wholesale Banking
12.2009 - 01.2010
- Spearheaded project team in optimizing the Strategic Initiative program, which focused on complete interface implementations, data migration, Wire-Payment upgrades, and STP workflow adoption.
PROJECT MANAGER
SAP
02.2009 - 12.2009
- Coached highly functional, productive, and adaptable Development/Release/QA teams to maximize software products in a test-driven environment.
PROJECT MANAGER
Royal Bank of Canada
01.2006 - 01.2009
- Facilitated eBA, Capital Market, Anti-Money Laundering System (AMLS)/Frauds
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
Shivaji University, India
Skills
- Program Management/Agile
- Scrum/Sprint Planning/Jira
- Integrated Program Plans
- Devops, Dynatrace, Cyber Risk
- Jira & Confluence SME
- Budgeting & Cost Analysis
- Function as a service, Identity Mgt
- Data Management, Azure, AWS
- Regulatory compliance, AML
- RPA/Automation Framework
- Capital Market & Enterprise Risk
- SAS, SAP & Salesforce
- Calypso, Murex
- Vendor & Stakeholder Relations
- Process gap Transformation
- Proposal preparation, budgeting and forecasting and communications in the selling of solutions to secure business contracts Producing results, and delivering programs and projects on time and on budget
- Experience with Client Onboarding/Goal Planning/End-to-End Digitization including E-Forms, E-Signatures
- Extensive experience in the financial sector such as Capital Market (Interest Rates, Credit Rate, Equities, Fixed Incomes, Derivatives, Collateral, Brokerage), Enterprise Risk Management (Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operations Risk), Regulatory Compliance (OSFI, US Fed Reserve, BCBS, AML FINTRAC, Dodd Frank), Retail Banking, Wealth Management (Voyant, R-Broker (Broadridge)), Payment and Insurance sector
- AWS/Azure Cyber security SME (Lambda, functions etc), Azure Devops, Jenkins
- Applications exposure include Market Risk Incremental VaR, Stress/Back testing, Credit Risk, Cross-Asset Front to Back applications (Trading, Back Office processing, Payments, Accounting and Hedge Accounting) - Calypso, Murex; AML/Fraud, Fineos
- Experience with cutting edge Brokerage solutions for clients, advisors, branches and head office
- Responsible for setting up Program/Testing/Release Management COE for Tier 1 financial institution, transformation services, outsourcing
- Project/task/resource planning, organizing and prioritizing to optimize results and manage testing from concept to completion with remarkable deadline sensitivity
- PROJECT MGT TOOLS: Microsoft Project, Clarity, JIRA SME (with project management add on), Miro, Service Now
- DATA BASES/LANGUAGES/CLOUD: MSSQL, DB2, MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, Netezza, SAS, Java, VBA, Python, AWS, Azure, google Firebase
- BUG TRACKING TOOLS: Advanced JIRA, HP Quality Center/ALM, IBM Clearquest, Zephyr
- BUILD/RELEASE: Continuous Integration (Atlassian Family- Confluence, Crucible), Stash, Teamcity, Jenkins, GitHub, CaliberRM, WinCVS, Dynatrace, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform
Certification
- PMP
- Certified Agile Scrum Master
- Certified Financial Risk Engineer
- SAS
- Derivative
- Calypso/Murex
- IBM Certified E@Business Application
Languages
English
Elementary
Timeline
PROGRAM MANAGER- CIBC
CIBC
05.2021 - 02.2024
PROJECT MANAGER – COOPERATORS, GUELPH
Cooperators
04.2020 - 05.2021
PROJECT MANAGER – CIBC, Toronto
CIBC
03.2019 - 04.2020
PROJECT MANAGER – PCChoice Financial Digitization
PCChoice Financial
08.2017 - 02.2019
PROJECT DELIVERY
Lightpoint Technologies
09.2016 - 07.2017
PROGRAM MANAGER
Bank of Montreal
02.2016 - 08.2016
PROJECT MANAGER
Investors Group/Mackenzie Investments
03.2015 - 02.2016
TECH HEAD
Bank of Montreal
02.2013 - 03.2015
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
BMO Capital Market
01.2010 - 01.2013
PROJECT MANAGER
TD Securities Wholesale Banking
12.2009 - 01.2010
PROJECT MANAGER
SAP
02.2009 - 12.2009
PROJECT MANAGER
Royal Bank of Canada
01.2006 - 01.2009
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
Shivaji University, India