Prabhanjan Gadela

Analysing the impact and implementation of CSDR - Settlement Discipline Regime on DWP Bank's securities settlement platform and on its internal systems. Leading the sub project Cash and Collateral as a part of T2 / T2S consolidation.

Career break to reflect and do introspection on myself. Participated in Vipassana meditation on Mount Soleil in Swiss Alps. Vipassana is a gentle-yet-thorough technique of meditation. It is an observation-based, self-exploratory journey that focuses on deep interconnection between the mind and body.

worked as an independent consultant (Financial Services Expert) in a strategic project related to Blockchain implementation. Responsible for identifying and conceptualizing the use cases in the area of custody, trading and settlement of various digital assets. Steered the product development life cycle from client consultation, requirements gathering through specification, testing and product documentation.

Engaged at the Europe’s biggest bank to enable them to connect directly to Target 2 Securities System. Positioned as senior BA / stream lead for gathering customer requirements, leading workshops with the clients and internal teams, performing gap analysis and documenting CRs and SRDs. Project manager for “Analysis and Design” stream and liaising with IT Vendor for implementation. Designed and finalized the “migration and go-live” plan considering all the internal and external stakeholders.

Lead business analyst for Eurex CCP, managing a team of 10 BAs, performing the functional analysis of all the business requirements addressed to CCP and handling the compliance and regulatory requirements. Demonstrated tight scope management and stakeholder management capabilities, specifying requirements and liaising with IT for the technical implementation and issue clarification. Strategically steering the service offerings of CCP together with BUs and IT teams.

Overall Release Manager for many Eurex CCP Releases. Accountable for BAU budgets of CCP. Owner of the master release plan across the applications. Constant monitoring and controlling of release execution with regular Jour-Fixes. Responsible for migration plan, introduction and fallback plan for every release. Strong stakeholder management and reporting directly to Eurex Steering Committee. Aligned with the company’s project / release management guidelines.

Responsible for the quality assurance of every CCP release. Managed a team of test analysts performing release tests and regression tests under high time pressure with high quality. Aligned and followed Eurex Clearing test guidelines.

Engaged as a consultant in backend and front-end application development, system testing and BAT. Hands on experience in different software tools like C++, Java / J2EE, Oracle RDB