Business Analyst · BFSI

Prashansa Keshari

Consultant & BA

Translating complex financial requirements into scalable solutions — specialising in payments, trade finance, ISO 20022, and end-to-end BFSI implementations across global banking.

ISO 20022 SWIFT MT Trade Finance BRD / FRD / FSD Agile Finastra TI+
30+
Workshops Led
20%
Defect Reduction
3
Geographies
2+
Years BFSI

Where finance meets
precise execution

I am a Consultant and Business Analyst at Wipro Technologies, working on the Lloyds Banking Group engagement in Pune, India. With an MBA in Finance from IMT Nagpur, I bring both strategic thinking and deep technical domain knowledge to every engagement.

My work spans the full lifecycle of enterprise implementations — from eliciting requirements through structured workshops, to producing BRD/FRD/FSD documentation, to leading SIT/UAT, to managing go-live transitions across Germany, North America, and Luxembourg.

I was promoted from Associate Consultant to Consultant within 2 years, now independently leading the Luxembourg greenfield implementation — owning solution documentation, gap analysis, and end-to-end functional configuration of Finastra TI+.

01

Requirements Documentation

BRD, FRD, FSD — translated into user stories and acceptance criteria that teams can build from

02

Payments & Trade Finance Domain

ISO 20022, SWIFT MT, CHAPS — deep understanding of payment flows and financial messaging standards

03

Cross-Geography Delivery

Coordinating stakeholders across Germany, North America, and Luxembourg with structured progress reporting

04

Agile & Continuous Improvement

Reduced post-release defects by ~20%, manual validation effort by ~25% across 5+ Agile sprints

Core areas of
expertise

Business Analysis

Eliciting, documenting and validating requirements with precision — from stakeholder interviews to production-ready specifications.

BRDFRDFSD User StoriesAcceptance Criteria

Payments & Trade Finance

Deep domain expertise in global payment flows, financial messaging, and trade finance instruments across multiple jurisdictions.

ISO 20022SWIFT MTCHAPS LC / SBLCUCP 600

Functional Configuration

End-to-end system configuration from greenfield — product parameters, configuration books, client acceptance, and go-live.

Finastra TI+ClearTradeGap Analysis

UAT & Quality

Designing and executing comprehensive test suites across SIT, UAT, and production — managing defects through to resolution.

100+ Test CasesDefect TrackingJira

Solution Documentation

Producing end-to-end solution documentation covering current/future state, field-level mapping, and configuration books.

Process FlowsUse CasesTraceability

Stakeholder Management

Bridging Business, Technology, Operations, and Compliance across three geographies with structured delivery reporting.

Multi-regionSenior ReportingAgile

Professional
experience

April 2026 — Present Current
Consultant – BFSI
Wipro Technologies Ltd. · Client: Lloyds Banking Group · Luxembourg Project
  • Conducted end-to-end gap analysis between current and future state processes — produced comprehensive solution documentation for the Luxembourg greenfield implementation
  • Owned full functional configuration of Finastra TI+ from scratch — defined product parameters, prepared configuration books, and secured client acceptance
  • Independently leading requirements documentation, payment flow analysis, and SIT/UAT coordination across expanded Lloyds Banking Group engagements
June 2024 — March 2026
Associate Consultant – BFSI
Wipro Technologies Ltd. · Client: Lloyds Banking Group · Germany · North America · Luxembourg
  • Led 30+ structured elicitation workshops — authored BRD, FRD, and FSD documentation with user stories and acceptance criteria across 15+ instrument types, achieving zero rework at UAT sign-off
  • Performed gap analysis between as-is and to-be processes; translated requirements into functional specifications and process flow diagrams
  • Applied SWIFT MT (MT700/MT101/MT103) and ISO 20022 (PAIN/PACS/CAMT) expertise — resolving production-impacting incidents across three geographies
  • Executed 100+ test cases per cycle in Jira — reduced post-release defects by ~20% and drove automation cutting manual validation by ~25%
April 2023 — June 2023
Summer Intern – Investment Strategy
Nippon India Mutual Fund · Mumbai
  • Developed data-backed investment strategies across 2 financial schemes and presented structured business case recommendations to senior advisors — contributing to a 30% increase in client market share

Skills &
tools

Built through hands-on delivery across global banking engagements — every skill here reflects real project experience, not coursework.


Finastra TI+ represents two years of daily hands-on configuration and production support. ISO 20022 and SWIFT MT were applied to live payment flows for Lloyds Banking Group.

Requirements Documentation 95%
ISO 20022 / SWIFT MT 90%
Finastra TI+ Configuration 92%
UAT / SIT Planning 88%
Stakeholder Management 85%
SQL / Data Analysis 80%

Tools & Platforms

Finastra TI+ ClearTrade Jira Confluence SQL Power BI Excel MS Copilot ISO 20022 SWIFT MT

Education &
certifications

2022 — 2024
MBA — Finance
Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Nagpur
72.40%
2018 — 2021
B.Com (Hons.)
Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi
78.80%
Agile Project Management & Agile Delivery
Udemy
Fundamentals of Business Analysis
Udemy
Wipro Research Excellency Program
Wipro Technologies · March 2026
MBA — Finance (Specialisation)
IMT Nagpur · 2024

Open to new
opportunities

Currently based in Pune and actively exploring BA and Consultant roles in Capital Markets, Investment Banking, and BFSI — across India and internationally.

Available for new roles
Looking for my next challenge
Capital Markets BA Investment Banking BA BFSI Consultant Payments BA Notice: Immediate–30 days
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