1. Sarath Kumar Sekar
Ph: +91-97105 70578
Email: sarath71990@gmail.com
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Objective
To seek a position in a result oriented company that seeks an ambitious and career conscious person where acquired
skills and education will be utilized towards continuous growth and advancement.
Profile Summary
• A competent professional with 3.7 years experience in IB reconciliations, payments and stock settlements
• Amiable analyst skilled in creating constructive and cooperative working relationships with team
• Excellent interpersonal skills wit problem solving, logical and analytical abilities
• Flexible, versatile and self Motivated
• Dependable with great regard for integrity and human values
• Excellent customer management, strong negotiation and business communication skills
Professional Experience
Barclays Shared services, Chennai (2014 – 2016Nov)
Designation: Senior Analyst – Structured Products Ops – IB Middle Office
Barclays Shared services, Chennai (2012 – 2014)
Designation: Analyst – Structured Products Ops – IB Middle Office
Structured products are flexible and enable investors to profit from market opportunities. They can be linked to a
stock exchange index, a currency, an interest rate or a basket of equities. Barclays Structured notes team deals with
the life cycle events on Barclays Issued Notes
Key Result areas:
In Structured Notes payments (Eq and FI) and settlement:
• Responsible to monitor the coupon and redemption trade fixings agreed with calculation agent
• Processing the payments and stock redemptions as per the upstream bookings to various paying agents and
across multiple market
• Hands on experience in SWIFT message like MT202, 542, 540, 565, 599, 299, 103
• Interacting with custodians to markdown on any non performing Notes in real market
• Efficaciously working with stock loan and trading desk to ensure no sock fails on redemption
• Ensure the downstream system bookings settled as per the static, sending coupon accrual report to
reference data to avoid incorrect price on the bookings
In Reconciliation,
• Accountable to perform cash, Nostro, stock, position custody accounts reconciliation as per bank control
standards, Reviewing the client money breaks and allocate the funds as per CASS regulations
• Interacting with various trading desk, MO, custodian and stake holders for quick resolution of breaks
• Reconciling the front and back office systems to ensure the bookings are flown to correct P&L category
and trading books, reporting if any breaches and perform root cause analyses
• Review the client money breaks in CASS portal and allocate the funds as per CASS regulations
Core competencies
• Preparing and uploading the MIS for payments and reconciliation process for management
• Participating and updating the weekly risk governance call with onshore stake holders
• Reviewing the SOP’s periodically, Training new team members and providing timely feedback

2. Significant achievements:
• Increased the STP rates of trade and settlement processing by doing process enhancements
• Certified “White Belt” for developing a macro to reduce the processing time for security markdowns
• Part of critical “Broker Billing Payments” Project, wherein we reviewed and cleared the huge backlogs
within stringent deadline with accuracy
Applications worked:
Sun guard applications ( Intellimatch), SWIFT, FISS, CREST, Creation online, BoNY Class, NIX PIW,ERGV, SMS,
PIW
Academics:
• MBA ( Finance) from SRM University, with 7.3 CGPA
• Bachelor of Commerce from Madras University, with 68 %
Personal details
Date of Birth: 20th
Jul 1990
Marital Status: Single
Passport: K5063419
DATE: (As of Today)
Place: Chennai Sarath Kumar Sekar