Dec 2014 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Singapore

• Responsibilities:
• ▪ Close collaboration with stakeholders in operations, finance, compliance and risk
• ▪ Analysing requirements, designing functional solutions, preparing business requirement documents/system specifications, recommending high level test cases, attending system demos, supporting User Acceptance Testing and project launches
• Projects:
• ➢ Migration to New SGX Post Trade System: Mandatory exchange driven project to on-board CLSA Singapore (clearing member of SGX) to the new post trade system of exchange
• Coordinated with multiple internal and external stakeholders - head of trading desk, Singapore COO, Head of SG Compliance, Operations, system vendor, SGX and agent bank
• Conducted workshops on current operational procedures and special business scenarios
• Catered for front to back system requirements including current and future state process maps. Reviewed vendor specifications to ensure all requirements are met.
• Attended industry-wide project committee meetings conducted by SGX

Mar 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Responsibilities:
• ▪ Delivery Manager and Business Analyst in Securities Operations IT team working closely with global stakeholders in operations and finance. Direct management and hiring responsibilities.
• ▪ Requirement analysis, writing functional specs, project management, effort estimation, code reviews, User acceptance testing
• Projects:
• ➢ Asia Start of Day P&L Reporting
• Led a team of 3 to build a real time event capture framework to generate trade enriched trial balance which improved delivery time of P&L snapshot for Asia Product Control group by 7 hours
• Performed analysis on various types of P&L and Balance Sheet accounts and their reporting
• Agile Scrum methodology used in execution of project
• ➢ Improve Straight Through Processing (STP) for multiple markets
• Enhanced external interfaces such as swift and crest that increased STP for matching and settlement in various markets in Europe and Asia
• Automated security movement between Clearstream and Euroclear
• Reengineered the coupon trade generation and settlement process to enable auto settlement
• Annual cost benefit of £3.6 million

Mar 2009 – Feb 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Responsibilities:
• ▪ Lead developer and Business analyst in Securities Operations IT team
• Projects:
• ➢ Japan Self Clearing: Project to attain self clearing capability in Japan saving £5 million annually
• Built interface to vendor system ISTAR-SC for sending swift format settlement instructions
• ➢ Barclays-Lehman integration: Build out of equities franchise in Asia by integrating the Lehman and Barclays applications
• Implemented trade-netting algorithms for Japan and Hong Kong market with annual saving of £2 million and £1 million respectively
• Major upgrade of the Japanese regulatory reports framework

Aug 2007 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jun 2006 – Oct 2006 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Research in data mining and NLP

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India