Manoj Kumar Pyarasani
IT Project Manager
Dallas,USA
Summary
Project Management professional with 10+ years of experience leading complex Banking, IT Transformation, Regulatory, Payment automation and Compliance programs across USA, Canada, EMEA & APAC regions. I am skilled in Portfolio governance, Earned Value Management (EVM), risk, and vendor management. Proven success in digital transformation, payments modernization, and AML/Wealth upgrades, working with matrixed and multi-disciplinary teams. Strong leader with expertise managing budgets up to $40M.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Project Manager – Financial Services
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
- Managed global payment/treasury projects, FX automation, and risk/compliance programs. Delivered 52 projects with annual savings of $1.4M.
Project Manager
Scotiabank
12.2024 - Current
- Project Planning and Execution: Developing detailed project plans, tracking timelines, and resource allocation to ensure successful delivery aligned with Canadian banking requirements.
- Software development – Agile methodology from software development perspective & Waterfall methodology from Project governance perspective (Hybrid) in terms of weekly and monthly cadence reporting to the business stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Management: Acting as a liaison between clients, vendors, and internal teams to ensure clear communication, manage expectations, and address any issues.
- Risk Management: Identify potential project risks within banking projects, develop mitigation strategies, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
- Budget and Cost Control: Managing project budgets, monitor expenses, invoices tracking, variances reporting and generate financial reports to ensure projects stay within approved financial parameters.
- Regulatory Compliance Adherence: Ensure banking projects comply with industry regulations, SDLC, and project management lifecycle (PMLC) standards.
- Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Tracking projects progress, KPIs, and milestones; prepare and present status reports to senior management and stakeholders.
- Process Optimization: Implementing best practices, streamline processes, and introduce automation to improve project efficiency and reduce redundancies.
- Team Leadership and Collaboration: Leading cross-functional teams, facilitate collaboration, and foster a productive work environment to achieve project objectives.
Project Manager – Technology | Anti-Money Laundering & Wealth Management
Scotiabank
02.2022 - 01.2024
- Directed Anti-money laundering (AML) HotScan Upgradation and Wealth Management transformation projects (CAD $20M).
- Applied Agile delivery with daily scrums, JIRA tracking, and backlog prioritization.
- Produced executive-level dashboards, risk/issue logs, and variance management plans.
- Vendor contracts management, PMO compliance, and risk register maintenance.
- Managing multiple phases of Project management life cycle, Enterprise Delivery Framework, Financials, Budget management.
- Agile methodology – Daily scrum, JIRA site updates, documents maintenance, reporting, backlogs, prioritization.
- Worked in a matrix environment – BAs, Design & Development, Infrastructure, Testing & Deployment / Release Management teams.
- Project Management – Scope, Governance, Financials management.
- Project planning, Steering committee reporting, Enterprise Delivery Framework adherence & reporting.
- Managed project delivery on multiple projects - Scope definition, project charter, project planning, budget management, change management.
- MS Project plan setup, leading small packages, tracking deliverables of Business Analysis; tracking raid log, IT development; IT Infrastructure; QAT & Release management on weekly project status updates to report Sr. management.
- Designing/enhancing PMO templates, RASCI matrix following PMLC phases including financial management and tracking templates.
- Dashboards updates, project status updates, issues, risks, mitigation plans, decisions, and tracking financials.
- Project artefacts management – Project plans, BRDs, EDDs, Test plans, signoffs.
- Supported Model Office setup –SOPs documentation, testing, and branches roll-out planning, training branch staff.
Project Manager II
Royal Bank of Canada
06.2017 - 02.2019
- Project management – Initiation/Planning/Execution/Closure activities; financial management and consolidated funding requirements from finalizing & tracking the schedule, Marketing, Business, IT, Testing, Deployment teams; presenting for review and approval.
- Budget management – USD ~14MM Consolidation from various Business & IT stakeholders, review with the Program Manager, PMO & approval of funding.
- Stakeholder Management – Engaging stakeholders, onboarding them onto the program, scope discussions and finalization, working with PMO on approvals.
- Delivered Pan-Caribbean Core Banking Transformation Program (USD $15M).
- Consolidated project funding, managed RAID logs, and prepared program-level governance artefacts.
- Coordinated with Temenos and Capgemini vendors; tracked compliance and approvals.
- Onboarding 18+ workstreams, working with various IT, Business, Testing, Release management teams.
- Change management – Project Change Requests (PCR) administration, governance management.
Sr. Project Control Officer (PCO)
Scotiabank
08.2016 - 05.2017
- Lead Credit Cards Technology Solutions Program (USD $44M across 6 projects) under Tier-1 Technology Solutions – CAMS Program as part of Credit Cards portfolio (NACCS), assisted Project Manager with vendor management/ TSYS related activities.
- Responsible for managing 6 Project steams rolling-up to Program with multiple phases & releases SPOC - Business Management Group (BMG) on Program and Projects Governance, Compliance of EPM Policies.
- Successfully managed Clarity tool implementation (Carpe to Clarity financials migration) for budget/forecast management, communication/guidance provided to 50+ Technology Solution Leads.
- Worked on finalizing & tracking the schedule, updated Project plans on MS Project, leading small packages, tracking action items, issues logs, risk logs, tracking raid log, RAID updates on SharePoint.
- Program level Project Change Requests (PCRs) tracking mechanism implementation.
- Running with steering committee meetings, tracking weekly IP meetings, status update decks.
- Financial management-Monthly Project financials review - Actuals tracking, forecasts review, monthly accruals, tracking variances.
- Worked on Business Case inputs gathering, organizing challenge sessions.
Sr. Project Control Officer (PCO)
Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank
08.2016 - 05.2017
- Lead Credit Cards Technology Solutions Program (USD $44M across 6 projects) under Tier-1 Technology Solutions – CAMS Program as part of Credit Cards portfolio (NACCS), assisted Project Manager with vendor management/ TSYS related activities.
- Responsible for managing 6 Project steams rolling-up to Program with multiple phases & releases SPOC - Business Management Group (BMG) on Program and Projects Governance, Compliance of EPM Policies.
- Successfully managed Clarity tool implementation (Carpe to Clarity financials migration) for budget/forecast management, communication/guidance provided to 50+ Technology Solution Leads.
- Worked on finalizing & tracking the schedule, updated Project plans on MS Project, leading small packages, tracking action items, issues logs, risk logs, tracking raid log, RAID updates on SharePoint.
- Program level Project Change Requests (PCRs) tracking mechanism implementation.
- Running with steering committee meetings, tracking weekly IP meetings, status update decks.
- Financial management-Monthly Project financials review - Actuals tracking, forecasts review, monthly accruals, tracking variances.
- Worked on Business Case inputs gathering, organizing challenge sessions.
Project Manager
HCL Technologies
11.2013 - 11.2015
- Delivered Citi Bank USA Securities & Funds Services IT Offshore Strategy (USD $8.5M).
- Implemented robotics process automation (RPA) tool - Prism, PMO audits across NAM & EU Regions, and Data Privacy Office compliance.
- Vendor contracts management - Bloomberg, Reuters, and Markit.
- Reduced costs by $2.5M annually through Process automation and IT process reengineering.
- Managed IT upgradation projects at Barclays Bank, UK and Sunlife Canada.
Project Manager – IT & Finance Projects
GE Capital International Services
09.2000 - 10.2013
- Led banking/payment transformation projects (Advanta Bank, Bank of America, NBC Universal). Delivered $2.2M projects with process improvements and $1.5M savings annually.
Education
Post-Graduate Diploma - Computer Applications
Osmania University
IndiaMaster of Commerce - Finance & Accounting
Osmania University
IndiaBachelor of Commerce - Finance & Accounting
Osmania University
IndiaSkills
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Trained
- IT & Business Project Manager
- Program - PMO Governance (PMO, SDLC, PMLC, Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban)
- Stakeholders Management, working with Product Managers, delivery of product (business & technology initiatives, with TCS, CGI, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini, Temenos, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters), Vendor management
- Budget, Cost & Schedule Management Variance & Risk Analysis EVM EPMO
- Digital Transformation: Payments, AML, Wealth Management, Regulatory projects, Robotics (RPA/Blue Prism, PEGA)
- Tools: MS Project, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Visio, Primavera P6, Clarity, MS Office Suite
- Change Management Process Re-engineering Risk & Compliance (Audit, Data Privacy, SOX)
- Six Sigma Blackbelt Certified – Cross-functional Transformation Programs
- Communication, Leadership, and Steering Committee Reporting
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – VM Edu. Inc., USA
- PMP Training Completed – PMI, USA (in process of exam certification)
- Six Sigma Black Belt – Certified (Denmark)
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications – India
Personal Information
Title: IT Project Manager – Banking and Financial Services
Timeline
Project Manager
Scotiabank
12.2024 - Current
Project Manager – Technology | Anti-Money Laundering & Wealth Management
Scotiabank
02.2022 - 01.2024
Project Manager II
Royal Bank of Canada
06.2017 - 02.2019
Sr. Project Control Officer (PCO)
Scotiabank
08.2016 - 05.2017
Sr. Project Control Officer (PCO)
Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank
08.2016 - 05.2017
Project Manager
HCL Technologies
11.2013 - 11.2015
Project Manager – IT & Finance Projects
GE Capital International Services
09.2000 - 10.2013
Project Manager – Financial Services
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
Master of Commerce - Finance & Accounting
Osmania University
Bachelor of Commerce - Finance & Accounting
Osmania University
Post-Graduate Diploma - Computer Applications
Osmania University