Jan 2012 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Successfully integrated Corporate Action tool with Middle Office, identified gaps and created detailed specs to capture notification data (MT564/8) over SWIFT platform. The entire effort saved ~6hrs per day of manual effort.
• Established automated reconciliation of Corporate Action event information between counter-parties along with the associated workflow to manage the same
• Established workflow on firm wide corporate action bookings for various Equity related corporate actions and ensuring these are booked at the start of each trading session
• Centralized the Corporate Action workflow (event notification to trade capture) by building the automated booking infrastructure and integrating it with the CAT tool in order to establish a seamless process.
• Streamlined the process of security creation/maintenance of instrument data for all kinds of instruments by ideating the concept of "Asset Template" to define the critical attributes and implement database level validations.
• Maintain sanctity of global security identifiers by coordinating with the data vendors such as Bloomberg, Reuters and IDC for data inconsistencies reported between vendors as part of the automated feeds received.
• Identified the various sources of position limit data relevant to various asset classes that are traded in the firm and coordinated with various exchanges to get the data in desired format for STP within the firm.
• Initiated and built a robust alerting mechanism to inform the trading desk at the time of booking a trade rather than performing a post trade analysis of the positions which delivered a saving of ~10 hrs of manual effort per week.
• Managed a team of 10 members that support the firm’s trading activity by booking trades into the system for Equity and ABS related products such as corporate actions, Repo, CDS held by the firm.

Jul 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• ● Manage the firm wide external audit process by coordinating with external auditors (E&Y) each year on the scope of testing.
• ● Identify the critical areas of the firm’s operations present the findings to the management for their approval and set up internal controls based on the auditor findings on the potential risks that the firm is exposed to.
• ● Identified the need for a centralized process to manage the IT change management within the firm and worked closely with the management to establish a Change management policy. The Change Management portal today is serving as a firm’s central repository to review the changes across the firm.
• ● Effectively managed the firm's BCP implementation and worked on designing, collecting and collating infrastructure information, resource allocation, application ownership, delegation, collaboration with development teams and enforcing them to create accurate and unambiguous Disaster Recovery procedures

Jun 2005 – Jun 2009 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• ● Responsible for generating various reports such as the EOD trade blotter to various counterparties, cash/position/trade/dividend reconciliations, EOD Profit and Loss statement for FinOp & management
• ● Coordinated with FinOp, development team and the counterparties on the format of the files in order to streamline the process and define a standard.
• ● Worked closely with FinOp and development team to define reconciliation logic to effectively map all data from broker statements with the firm’s positions.
• ● Identified, analyzed and proposed changes in the process of generating PnL statements such that the respective stakeholders have access to generate reports on demand rather than depending on scheduled run on the firm’s scheduling software
• ● Coordinate with the internal stakeholders and define stringent approval process for granting access to any firm wide application. Ensure that permission levels and the approvals are called out explicitly on the tickets in order to comply with the external auditor requirements