Prasad Mali

Operations Associate

Pune, Maharashtra, India11 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of expertise in OTC Derivatives.
Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks like Dodd-Frank and EMIR.
Proven success in process optimization and risk mitigation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with extensive experience in Investment Banking and Derivatives operations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Investment BankingDerivatives

Other Skills

confirmationInterest Rate Derivativesprocess managerStructured DocumentationVanillaBack Office OperationsExotic DerivativesEquity DerivativesDerivatives TradingBankingFinancial AnalysisFinancial ServicesConfirmation

About

Experienced finance professional in the Investment Banking and Financial Markets Operations sector with over 10.8 years of expertise in OTC Derivatives Confirmation, Trade Lifecycle Management, and Regulatory Compliance. I have worked with leading global investment banks such as Bank of America, NatWest Markets (Royal Bank of Scotland), and Bank Of New York Mellon, driving operational excellence across Interest Rates, Forex, and Credit Derivatives products. Strong understanding of ISDA documentation, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and MiFID II frameworks with proven success in process optimization, risk mitigation, and team leadership. Passionate about improving post-trade efficiency through automation, compliance alignment, and stakeholder collaboration between Front Office, Legal, and Operations functions.

Experience

Bnp paribas

Manager

Dec 2025 – Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

OTC Derivatives Confirmations

Eclerx

Process Manager

Jul 2022 – Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Managing Derivatives Confirmation process for One of the Leading Investment Bank.
Key Responsibilities -
Manage team responsible for Drafting trade confirmation and reconciling trade booking to facilitate timely execution of trades .
Facilitating timely execution of all operational deliverables as per the agreed SLAS
Creating/auditing process flows, SOPs, checklist and flowcharts to document process activities
Preparing MIS with a view to apprise management (internal/ external) of operational performance
Manage process risks, team performance, issue resolution and timely escalations.
Identifying process enhancements, reducing the operational risk, creating operational efficiencies
Initiating meetings with client, weekly calls and monthly business review meetings
Ensuring on-boarding and training of new team members

confirmationInterest Rate DerivativesInvestment Bankingprocess managerDerivatives

Bank of america

Team Lead

Apr 2022 – Jul 2022 · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Structured Trade Review

Rbs

Senior Analyst

Mar 2017 – Mar 2022 · 5 yrs

Working as Senior Analyst for OTC Derivatives Confirmations group, responsible for the Affirmation, Drafting, Chasing, Indexing and Execution of Confirmations arising from the OTC trading of financial derivatives, in line with International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) regulations. Executing confirmations in line with the FED Targets to minimise firm operational risk for all open trades.
Products dealt are Structured and Vanilla Rates.
Verbal Affirmations
Verification of the core economics of a trade between Counterparties/ clients via email / telephone to mitigate the risk for the Bank. Being responsible to timely identify/ raise any disputes/ DK/ unrecognised trades to respective front office/ middle office for appropriate query resolution. Follow-back with respective counterparties/ clients to update/ resolve identified disputes.
Working within the Stiff FED mandate timeline so as to affirm all trades within T+5 business days.
Drafting Confirmations
Drafting all paper eligible trade confirmations as per ISDA Standards & Guidelines & send to counterparties/ clients. Legal trade confirmations drafted needs to be in line with front office system bookings.
Responsible to timely identify/ raise any disputes as per Best Market Practices/ Client Specifics for each trade bookings to respective front office/ middle office for appropriate query resolution.

Bny mellon

Operation Executive

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India

Management of all the reference and market securities data fed from any possible number of internal and external sources Like Bloomberg, Reuters and distributed to as many downstream departments and IT systems as required.
Identifiers (ISIN, SEDOL, CUSIP, TICKER, Internal codifications)
Coverage of corporate, government, municipal and international securities; IPOs, preferred stock, funds, Commercial Papers and Certificate of Deposits, Derivatives, U.S. listed equity options and syndicated loans

Eclerx

Analyst

Aug 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune Area, India

Worked in Derivatives Confirmations for Interest Rate Products and Structured Products for Morgan Stanley.
Drafting all paper eligible trade confirmations as per ISDA Standards & Guidelines & send to counterparties/ clients. Legal trade confirmations drafted needs to be in line with front office system bookings.
Responsible to timely identify/ raise any disputes as per Best Market Practices/ Client Specifics for each trade bookings to respective front office/ middle office for appropriate query resolution.