Shanto Ganguly, CFA

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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India9 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 5 years in asset management and quantitative finance.
  • Expertise in risk management and quantitative analysis.
  • Proficient in Python and SQL for data-driven insights.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional specializing in quantitative finance and risk management.

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Core Skills

Quantitative AnalysisBacktestingData VisualizationResearchMachine LearningNatural Language Processing

Other Skills

Equity ResearchJavaMicrosoft ExcelNatural Language Processing (NLP)Python (Programming Language)RSQLTensorFlowVBAWord2Vec

About

Finance professional with around 5 years of experience in the asset management industry across risk management and quantitative finance roles. Have deep understanding of both the fundamental and quantitative aspects of the business.

Experience

Alphagrep investment management

Quantitative Researcher

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Morningstar

Quantitative Analyst

Nov 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked as a quantitative analyst in the Quant Research team in Mumbai.
  • Projects:
  • 1.Tested a strategy of sector rotation using news sentiment as a factor.
  • 2.Created a dashboard to understand the performance of various factors and asset classes in various inflationary regimes.
  • 3.Ran an analysis to test the efficacy of Morningstar Quantitative Ratings based on Upgrades/Downgrades.
  • 4.Worked on a research project using from Morningstar's scenario analysis tool.
  • 5.Worked on various projects of Factor Research.
Python (Programming Language)SQLBacktestingQuantitative Analysis

Blackrock

Analyst

Sep 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Worked in the Data and AI vertical of the Aladdin Business Division. Aladdin is a single platform providing risk analysis, trading and operational tools for investment managers. Our team provides the daily risk reporting and ad-hoc analytical support to over $20 trillion worth of assets under risk management across tens of thousands of portfolios.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • 1.Reporting, understanding and ensuring the accuracy of analytics on the fixed income, equity and alternative products to help the clients and portfolio managers understand their quantitative and fundamental portfolio risk and exposures.
  • 2.Understand client objectives, trading strategies(both fundamental and quantitative) and market events to effectively respond to client requests by monitoring daily trading activity and macro-economic factors.
  • 3.Automating and implementing various processes using Python and in-house tools.
  • 4.Onboarding of new processes for regulatory and risk reporting purposes based on new requirements.
  • 5.Automated the compliance file generation process, so that traders can seamlessly lock-in trades based on internal risk guidelines.
  • 6.Providing customized risk management reports to the model portfolio solutions team, which creates and tests new customized portfolios.

Cfa institute

Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • 1. Developed an essay grading tool using tensorflow.
  • 2. Wrote a program to rank resumes, using the Word2Vec algorithm.
  • 3. Created a dashboard to compare the information ratio of mutual funds of the top AMCs of India.

Cognizant

Analyst

Aug 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • 1. Coordinating with the APAC Risk Management team on a daily basis. Reviewing whether all portfolios are in line with the in-house and client-specific guidelines across all asset classes. Continuous review and improvement of instrument risk rating methodology.
  • 2. Preparing and analysing performance reports using performance analytics tool(StatPro) on a monthly basis . Generating Performance reports on an Ad-Hoc basis for Relationship Managers and Portfolio Solutions team, routinely required for new pitches and client presentations.
  • 3. Working directly with the portfolio managers and Strategy Implementation Team in researching various equity research reports and update the changes in business environment for securities which were part of existing portfolio.
  • 4. Handling the entire Risk Reporting Process of the India Investment Management team.
  • 5. Automating various processes using VBA and streamlining various reports which require Bloomberg data on a daily basis.

Accenture

Analyst

Sep 2014Jul 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • 1. Was part of a team which implemented the dematerialization of paper invoices from large vendors.Worked as both a functional and technical resource.
  • 2. Work on different ad-hoc requests(production monitoring tickets) from client.
  • 3. Single point of contact, for process training of new recruits.
  • 4. Streamlining various processes using excel and VBA.

Education

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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