Sheryl Bangara

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven expertise in Hedge Funds and Middle Office operations.
Strong consulting background with a focus on technology solutions.
Recognized for effective collaboration and leadership in projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with extensive experience in Hedge Funds and Middle Office operations.

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EquitiesEquity ResearchCorporate ActionsReutersBloombergSwapsInvestmentsTradingOptionsCapital MarketsFixed IncomeSecuritiesDerivativesFinancial AnalysisFinancial Modeling

About

Experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Securities, Reference Data, Middle Office, and Hedge Funds. Strong consulting professional with a Bachelor of Business Management focused in Finance from Christ College - Bangalore.

Experience

Arcesium

6 roles

Vice President - Client and Partner Development

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Senior Account Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Account Manager

Sep 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers.
Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client’s ecosystem, Arcesium’s cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex tasks. Building on a platform developed and tested by one of the world’s leading investment and technology development firms, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium launched as an independent company in 2015. Arcesium received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the world’s largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds. In January 2020, J.P. Morgan made a strategic investment in the company.
Arcesium supports more than $380 billion in assets with a staff of over 1,000 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

Lead Consultant

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

Responsibilities:
Serve as an integrator between business needs and technology solutions, helping to create technology solutions to meet clients’ business needs.
Design and implement process improvements while working closely with different Business Groups to define specs that can be relayed to the Technology team.
Working with the Product Management team and Technology team to ensure process improvements and product developments are carried out in an efficient and timely manner.
First level investigation for Geneva related queries raised by both clients and internal services team.
Manage a team of 3.

Senior Product Consultant

Apr 2017 – Jun 2017 · 2 mos

Responsibilities:
Perform accurate analysis and effective diagnosis of client issues and manage day-to-day client relationship.
Specifically handle all client queries related to Corporate Actions, Middle Office Operations and P&L.
Prepare client-facing documentation that help understand the functional aspect of the platform and the products we offer.
Achievements:
Got recognized for the effort put in, and effective collaboration shown while working with the Data Migration team at time of onboarding our most recent client, for this I was awarded a superstar promotion to Lead Consultant/Manager within 3 months of joining the team.

Senior Financial Analyst

Jul 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

Responsibilities:
Enable booking new trades from term sheets obtained from client’s PM.
Assist in resolving trade discrepancies caused from trade failures, breaks, etc.
Maintain integrity and confidentiality of all trade related data across clients.
Communicate with clients effectively to ensure smooth functioning of activities.
Handle client queries related to security setup, trade bookings, asset servicing and P&L breaks.
Communicate client requirements to Tech teams and provide specifications where required.
Achievements:
Sent to the firm’s HQ in New York City for a period of 4months to support the activities of the team across various clients.
Project: Accurate CPI Ratio maintenance for Linker Bonds. Provided Technology Development team with the interpolation logic and we are worked towards storing this data in the firms Time Series Database so that it can be consumed systematically at the time of trade booking and for day on day P&L calculation.

The d. e. shaw group

4 roles

Senior Analyst

Promoted

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos

Responsibilities:
Quality Assurance Strategic Review Member: Regular meetings with management to brainstorm ways to improve QA process.
Documentation of various processes handled by the team, which was later used as training material
Liaised with various Technology Development teams on the intricacies required while working on various projects.
Modeling and set up of newly traded financial instruments. This involved in-depth researching of the instrument type and how it is traded in the real world.
Investigated and resolved unexpected P&L breaks. Analysis of data that flowed into Geneva from the firm’s database, and posting of Accounting Related Transactions where necessary.
Ensured sync between Front Office and Back Office positions by monitoring efficiency of processes handled within the team.
Worked extensively on Cleared IRS and Cleared CDX booking, and their automation for those trades done via SEF over Bloomberg and Tradeweb platform.
Achievements:
Project: Centralizing Index data. As part of this effort, I worked on the automation of updating of Equity Indices in the firm’s database by using both vendor feeds and manual calculation. This effort aided Compliance in a significant manner as it significantly contributed towards assisting in regulatory filings.
Owing to my breadth of knowledge I was one of the two members sent to work out of the firm’s HQ in New York City for a period of 6 months. During my stay, I worked closely with the Equities, Macro and Fixed Income desk, and was the first point of contact when it came to issues related to bookings, P&L queries, breaks etc.
Built an excel macro for Macro Front Office Desk, that aids them in executing package unwinds over Tradeweb platform in a more efficient and quicker manner.

Analyst

Promoted

Jan 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

Responsibilities:
Captured trades for various Asset Classes/Products traded across the globe such as Equity, Asset Backed Securities, CDS, CDX, Commodities, Options, IRS, Futures, Energy, etc.
Liaised with various teams across the firm on operational issues to ensure settlements and confirmations are completed on time.
Coordinated with various Technology Development teams to automate/re-engineer processes.
Mentored peers and juniors on processes carried out, and quality checked their work.
Carried out Asset Servicing processes such as expiries, unwinds, rolls, resets, paydowns, writedowns etc.
Facilitated smooth transfer of positions between prime brokers.
Communicated with Trading desks, Tech teams, Compliance, Legal and Operations teams across the firm.
Achievements:
Worked with Technology Development teams to automate the booking related aspect of Corporate Action processing. This resulted in 80% timesaving.
Provided 100% accuracy while transferring large equity positions from one Prime Broker to another. Received appreciation for this from higher management.

Associate

Promoted

May 2012 – Dec 2012 · 7 mos

Responsibilities:
Creation and up-to-date maintenance of investment products (Listed and OTC) in firm’s database and trading universe.
Reference Data Management such as- capturing and recording corporate actions, interest rates, coupons, and other feeds from Reuters and Bloomberg.
Investigated data exceptions alerts that are reported through the firm’s centralized reporting framework.
Achievements:
Worked extensively on Indices with Compliance Team to ensure timely regulatory reporting, Received appreciation from Compliance Head, NY.
Automated operational tasks associated with Index position limits. This resulted in 80% time saving on a weekly basis.
Promoted to Analyst within a year of joining the team.

Junior Member Tech

Jul 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos

Responsibilities:
Windows Administration:
o Windows XP and Windows 7 desktop administration
o Troubleshooting BSODs, application errors, operating systems boot problems etc
o User and group administration through Active Directory
o Manual installation and troubleshooting software and drivers on Windows OS
Unix Administration:
o User and group administration
o Creating and monitoring disk space and volumes
Achievements:
Worked with a core in-house team to timely install latest version of the firm’s risk software (CATRADER and RiskLink across various instances (QA, DEV and PROD). External vendors usually handle this, but by handling this in-house we proved our mettle and also saved the firm’s money.