Jun 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• P&L Management: Redeveloped firm’s end-to-end P&L dashboard for Trading Desk & CXOs; improved refresh speed by 6x, eliminated fill misses >99%, and enabled granular real-time tracking.
• Product Development: Built a Traders’ Risk Cockpit for real-time exposure monitoring and one-click hedge execution. Developed API-based reconciliation with partner banks for continuous ledger alignment.
• Financial Reporting: Overhauled reporting logic linking income statement to balance sheet; stabilized unexplained equity fluctuations and restored leadership confidence in reporting accuracy.
• Reconciliation Framework: Built firm-wide wallet reconciliation across internal, client, and external hedging accounts; ensured audit readiness and year-end compliance.
• Risk Management: Implemented real-time Slack & PagerDuty alerts for threshold breaches; enabled faster trader intervention and minimized off-hour losses.
• Process Optimization: Audited and decommissioned redundant accounts, improving margin efficiency and streamlining trading operations.
• Governance: Developed maker-checker invoicing workflow with automated duplicate detection, strengthening financial control and reducing manual effort.

Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Risk Management: Develop comprehensive risk mitigation strategies including identification & redressal of process gaps by implementing extensive controls and checks.
• Audit Management: End-to-end ownership of audit process of D.E.Shaw; demonstrating adept coordination with diverse stakeholders, internal as well as external.
• Technology Developments: Work in conjunction with Product team in bespoke projects, right from ideation to launch.
• Leadership Reporting: Implement long term solutions to reduce QoQ escalation recurrences, post collating and reporting incidents, effort drivers, issues, etc. to firm's leadership.
• Onboarding of PBs: Conduct elaborate induction of prime brokers.
• Operational Efficiency: Oversee D.E.Shaw's largest equity strategy while ensuring effective collaboration across functions.
• Process Excellence: Work on process automation and resource optimization techniques to reduce cost.

Aug 2020 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• New Initiatives: Onboarded first ever Crypto portfolio for firm’s one of the largest clients
• Team Lead: Supervised and managed 15 analysts to onboard one of the largest clients. Ensured cash, position, FX and admin reconciliations, trade settlements and client query resolutions within SLAs.
• Data Analytics: Independently conducted client calls to analyze reconciliation breaks, account issues and P&L queries for a major client with alternative asset classes - AUM of $46 billion.
• Stakeholder Management: Single-handedly managed multiple stakeholders (viz. clients, traders, auditors, prime brokers, and cross-functional teams) to resolve issues at hand.
• Trade Management: Monitored trade fails for listed and bilateral products, leading to ~ 70% increase in match percentage.
• Cash Settlements: Executed cash flow settlement for derivative instruments like FX Forwards, IRS and CDS.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos · South Delhi, Delhi, India

• Hedge Fund Ops: Proficient in Investment Banking and Hedge Fund Operations with experience in OTC, Derivatives settlements, Securities settlements, Fails management and Trade operations with AUM of ~$7 billion.
• Financial Products: Expertise in Derivatives and Fixed Income products such as Options, Forwards, Futures, Swaps, CDS, Bonds, and Structured Derivatives products | MTM settlement of cash flows and margin call.
• Trade Desk: Assisted Traders and Portfolio Managers in re-balancing portfolios across accounts and brokers.
• New Initiatives: Deep dive into the firm’s history to get through the restructuring process of converting into Private Equity. Setup, Authorization, and Clearance of Fedwire transfers.
• Process Automation: Collaborated with the IT Team to develop in-house software for process automation.

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

May 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote