Vedant Poddar

Business Development Executive

Kolkata, West Bengal, India11 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led successful algorithmic trading transition.
Achieved significant media coverage for college events.
Recognized as 'Promising Young Talent' among peers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with strong trading and financial analysis expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

TradingFinancial AnalysisPublic RelationsFundraisingCorporate Communications

Other Skills

Algorithmic TradingBrand DevelopmentCapital MarketsCommodity MarketsCost-Benefit AnalysisDerivativesEconomicsEmerging MarketsFinanceFinancial MarketsFinancial ModelingFixed IncomeFixed Income StrategiesFixed Income TradingForeign Exchange (FX) Trading

About

Vedant has a major in Business Administration from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata. As a person, he lays a great deal of emphasis on dreams in life. Vedant believes in hard work, commitment, passion, and dedication to his guiding principles. With the help of these along with a positive attitude, he aspires to learn and lead. Perseverant, he believes in putting in consistent efforts till the very end until his goals have been accomplished. Giving his best in all that he does in academics, extra-curricular activities and the organizations he is associated with, has been his primary focus. He would love to work across realms to attain exposure and experience, that could help him grow and mature as a business leader.

Experience

Futures first

Associate

Jul 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 8 mos · Kolkata Area, India

Designed various successful strategies such as spread, fly, condor and so on to analyze the right entry/exit time and ensured optimum portfolio management to strike the right balance between profitability and risk
Analyzed various technical and volume indicators, devised different hedging strategies and created bi-monthly reports on Brazilian market through tracking global products and news; conducted macro-economic fundamental research of Brazil’s economy and monetary policy
Led a 7 member team to shift from ‘point-and-click’ to algorithmic trading for greater effectiveness and created a tool to help members in self-analyzing their respective trading style; devised a profitable circuit strategy to deal with volatile market
Awarded “Promising Young Talent” amongst 250+ colleagues pan-India due to successively profitable trading record and learnt Portuguese (Level 1) from CDA Global Language Centre

Cost-Benefit AnalysisFinanceFixed Income TradingTradingDerivativesMarket Research+15

St. xavier's college (autonomous), kolkata

2 roles

Public Relations Director, The Student's Union

Jun 2015 – May 2016 · 11 mos

Responsible for brand development and media communications – Xavotsav 2016 exclusively covered by Taaza TV and ABP news, and featured in prominent newspapers like TOI, Hindu, Hindustan Times
Ideating and collaborating with TiE Kolkata and ISB Hyderabad for co-creation of forums, boot camp & social outreach programs
Increased social media penetration by over 200% by analysing and leveraging additional platforms: LinkedIn, Twitter, G+ - Structuring internal data and resource base using project management techniques
Directly responsible for leading and mentoring a team of 12 members in this department

Public Relations

Senior Executive Member, Finance & Corporate Communications

Jun 2014 – May 2015 · 11 mos

Worked with a team of 40 members to conceptualize, raise & manage funds from companies (including Panasonic, Andhra Bank, etc.) for ‘Xavotsav 2015’, a four day extravaganza rated as one of the best college entertainment festival in India with participation from more than 50 colleges
Regulated funds worth INR 1 crore (including media valuation) & personally obtained INR 8.6 Lakhs from companies for Students’ Union through corporate calling, corporate meeting, proposing deliverables, coordinating with marketing heads, handling on-ground promotional activities

FundraisingCorporate Communications

St. joans school

Head Boy

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr

Selected as the Head Boy by the school’s teachers committee out of 130 students
Managed the school’s annual sports, cultural and literary festivals and ensured participation for the same