SUMMARY
- Experience 7 years in Financial markets, Investment banking, Market data (Real time, Reference & Time series), Transformation, Business Analysis, UAT testing and Risk management & Reporting. Also exposure to SQL/PLSQL
- Good knowledge on SQL and PLSQL
- Operational activist including Equity, Fixed Income & Derivative pricing, corporate actions, Project management, Risk Analysis and Customer Support activities.
- Self-Motivated, performance oriented approach, cross functional work philosophy and believing in sharing the knowledge, expertise and good relationship.
Cash and Position Reconciliation & Settlement
- Performing custodian position (shares & cash) reconciliation.
End to end successfully completed Transition for two processes.
High-energy analyst with a broad background in settlement operations. Flexible and responsive to departmental needs with emphasis in setting and following through on priorities. Analytical problem solver able to identify and resolve issues quickly to ensure productivity. Core competencies include:
– Settlements – Reconciliations (ICI/BPS) – Trade Support – P & S
– Operations – Swaps, Options – Fail Control – DTC, Corp, Muni, Govt
– Euroclear – Reporting/Fixed Income – ICI / ADP – Broadridge (GPS)
• Demonstrated capability in analyzing breaks and issues along with proficiency in OTC products
• Self-motivated, passionate, curious and driven personality
• Proven ability to interact with clients, present actionable findings and partner cross-functionally to deliver results and possess strong experience in client management
• Possess strong attention to detail and ability to effectively manage multiple tasks and initiatives
• Comfortable working in a highly competitive, high-performance and target-driven environment
• Possess excellent communication, interpersonal skills, team building, Project Cordination, organizational and collaboration skills
Insight is a Risk Measurement and Management Tool. My role and responsibilities are –
• Working with development team to design workflows for feed governance and development using Informatica. It requires testing and verification.
• Working with business for requirement analysis/elicitations.
• Analyzing multiple interfaces and assisting in designing a common data interface to map different source files from Collateral, Trade, Position, Sensitivities systems to Sybase server.
• Working with Exposure Calculation Team to analyze any production issue for any Customer Account.
• Understand the existing and proposed framework. Review gaps, if any and suggest means to fill them.
• Working on Informatica 9.5.1 for the trade feed and checking the difference between UAT and Production.
• Checking the credit risk for the collateral trades and sensitivity for each trade and sending the reports to CRM Team.
• Act as a nodal point between the operations, technology and branch team to understand and transform business objective.
• Provide support to the development team during the User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
MBA (IB) having 5+ years of experience in Trade and Treasury, Global payments and Funds transfer, Cash and Liquidity mgmt, Risk mgmt, Forex mgmt, Relationship, Project, Vendor and Stakeholder mgmt in Banking sector
SUMMARY
- Experience 7 years in Financial markets, Investment banking, Market data (Real time, Reference & Time series), Transformation, Business Analysis, UAT testing and Risk management & Reporting. Also exposure to SQL/PLSQL
- Good knowledge on SQL and PLSQL
- Operational activist including Equity, Fixed Income & Derivative pricing, corporate actions, Project management, Risk Analysis and Customer Support activities.
- Self-Motivated, performance oriented approach, cross functional work philosophy and believing in sharing the knowledge, expertise and good relationship.
Cash and Position Reconciliation & Settlement
- Performing custodian position (shares & cash) reconciliation.
End to end successfully completed Transition for two processes.
High-energy analyst with a broad background in settlement operations. Flexible and responsive to departmental needs with emphasis in setting and following through on priorities. Analytical problem solver able to identify and resolve issues quickly to ensure productivity. Core competencies include:
– Settlements – Reconciliations (ICI/BPS) – Trade Support – P & S
– Operations – Swaps, Options – Fail Control – DTC, Corp, Muni, Govt
– Euroclear – Reporting/Fixed Income – ICI / ADP – Broadridge (GPS)
• Demonstrated capability in analyzing breaks and issues along with proficiency in OTC products
• Self-motivated, passionate, curious and driven personality
• Proven ability to interact with clients, present actionable findings and partner cross-functionally to deliver results and possess strong experience in client management
• Possess strong attention to detail and ability to effectively manage multiple tasks and initiatives
• Comfortable working in a highly competitive, high-performance and target-driven environment
• Possess excellent communication, interpersonal skills, team building, Project Cordination, organizational and collaboration skills
Insight is a Risk Measurement and Management Tool. My role and responsibilities are –
• Working with development team to design workflows for feed governance and development using Informatica. It requires testing and verification.
• Working with business for requirement analysis/elicitations.
• Analyzing multiple interfaces and assisting in designing a common data interface to map different source files from Collateral, Trade, Position, Sensitivities systems to Sybase server.
• Working with Exposure Calculation Team to analyze any production issue for any Customer Account.
• Understand the existing and proposed framework. Review gaps, if any and suggest means to fill them.
• Working on Informatica 9.5.1 for the trade feed and checking the difference between UAT and Production.
• Checking the credit risk for the collateral trades and sensitivity for each trade and sending the reports to CRM Team.
• Act as a nodal point between the operations, technology and branch team to understand and transform business objective.
• Provide support to the development team during the User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
MBA (IB) having 5+ years of experience in Trade and Treasury, Global payments and Funds transfer, Cash and Liquidity mgmt, Risk mgmt, Forex mgmt, Relationship, Project, Vendor and Stakeholder mgmt in Banking sector
Senior Level Operations Manager seeking a financial services role within Middle or Back Office operations, where I can use my knowledge and experience to help build and grow the department. I want to succeed in a stimulating and challenging environment, exceling in this field through hard work, perseverance and dedication. I’d like to secure this position with a leading organization that will lead to a long term career relationship.
Senior Level Operations Manager seeking a financial services role within Middle or Back Office operations, where I can use my knowledge and experience to help build and grow the department. I want to succeed in a stimulating and challenging environment, exceling in this field through hard work, perseverance and dedication. I’d like to secure this position with a leading organization that will lead to a long term career relationship.
1. Raman Srinivasan
Mobile: +91 9952843883
Email: srinivasan.24@Gmail.com
Address: 60, Nayakammar Street, West Mambalam, Chennai-033
Seeking opportunity in FX/FXO Middle office, Securities Lending, Reconciliation &
Investigations, / Business Analysis with an organization of repute.
Abridgment
Well qualified, result oriented investment banking professional with 7.5 years of
experience in reconciliation, Investigations & Middle office Experience.
Proficient in recommending procedures with proven ability to achieve risk discipline
and enhance the overall accuracy of the organization.
Proven track record of establishing and restructuring systems/ procedures, thereby
contributing in a major way towards augmented growth and profitability levels.
Skills include an interpersonal with comprehensive problem detection and problem
solving. Diplomatically resolve internal stakeholder queries and sound knowledge
in process and products.
CAREER FEATURE
Contemporary Occupation
Company - BNP Paribas Securities Services (Chennai)
(Total period: Feb 2014 – Present) – Senior Associate
Key Responsibilities:
Ensuring all the process’s to be done on or before SLA. Preparation of KPI,
Training Matrix, Client & Onshore Stake Holders Meetings, Team Meetings, Periodical
Procedure Review’s, Equal contribution in daily production.
Job Description
Migrated the Securities Principal lending reconciliation process from Paris to
Chennai.
End to End knowledge about the Principal lending business.
Responsible for Stock reconciliation for Loan trades between principal lending
ledger system (Alaris) and Custody system (SCC) & with Agents.
Responsible for DVP, CREST reconciliation which is part of Cash reconciliation.
Responsible for Equilend reconciliation with Counterparty and currently
reconciling for 31 brokers.
Responsible for producing Monthly activity report for Principal Lending
Reconciliation to management.
Responsible for cash reconciliation for all the pivot accounts on a daily basis and
investigating the breaks.
Though major responsibilities is with reconciliation learnt overview of other sub
process like Static, Fees and Dividend.
Got trained all the activities in Reconciliation process and can handle the every
activity independently & managing the team without onshore assistance.
Learnt in depth of the process by handling various exceptions in reconciliation
process.
Prepared complete procedure for reconciliation and modified few other
procedures.
2. Business Analysis on different projects under Capital Markets Product &
Principal Securities Lending:
Dealing with the UAT Testing for all the systems for Principal Securities Lending and
streamlined the same two in the single lane including functional & system testing.
Dealing with the defects during the testing and coordinate across the SIT teams and
development teams for the solution.
Before UAT: Understanding on the Documentation of BRD & FSD and design the
process flow in UAT execution. Test case preparation with the different scenarios which
the system and process flows needs to comply.
During UAT: Execute the test cases across different scenarios, identify any system
gaps and performance. Testing with sample and bulk data, change request creation,
apply Data Requestor, Data Steward, Data Owner & Data Custodian roles across the
UAT testing. Defects raise and management in UAT management tool and coordinate
with development team.
After UAT: Provide sign-off for UAT and implementation in production with the real
data.
The Royal bank of Scotland
Market & International banking, Operational Analyst – Reconciliation
(Jan 2011 to Jan 2014)
Worked as an operational analyst in Markets division of The Royal bank of
Scotland. Handled the cash reconciliation for cross products. Key products:
Credit and Interest rate Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Equity
Derivatives and Fixed income for RBS PLC, NATWEST and RBS NV.
Job Description
Reconciling of Cash entries and allocating the breaks to Product Investigations.
Abiding with procedure and control for the given process.
In the absence of supervisor have to manage team and strive throw the
excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Reconciling the Open nostro items in EUR,GBP & USD for the Investment
banking products like FX,MM,IRS,FI,FUTURES & Equity Derivatives
Abiding with procedure and control for the given process.
Account Reconciliations are performed in a timely manner. All breaks identified
are appropriately allocated to the respective product investigations.
Investigating the unapplied credits in the nostro accounts.
Primary responsibility is to ensure that all the transactions are reconciled
100% accuracy and also 100% SLA for our Clients.
Supporting documentation is maintained and is capable of being easily audited.
All Account Reconciliations working papers are reviewed and approved.
3. Reconciling the LCH (London Clearing House) entries for IRS.
REAL TIME NOSTRO
Performing real time reconciliation for FX/MM & DERIVATIVES products
Responsible for managing cash in our nostro accounts.
Responsible for booking Funding Deals to cover the nostro accounts.
Project contributions: - (2012 May – 2013 Sep)
Enhanced the feeds information in the source files from Equity Derivatives
source systems which enabled the TLM Reconciliation tool to increase the
automation & auto allocation in the cash nostro accounts.
Implemented the quick retrieval of records from FXMM settlement system.
Performed UAT testing for new version of TLM reconciliation tool.
Performed Regression Testing for Reconciliation tool.
Currency Options Middle Office, RBS (Aug 08 to Dec 10)
Reuters Validation:
Validation of trades (Options/Fx) based on the Reuters conversations
using Reuters DT, System X and Eco Web.
To ensure the correctness and accuracy of the trades done without any
discrepancy.
Informing the Traders or the Onshore Middle Office on the discrepancies
of the trades booked in the Vanila or Exotic systems via MindAlign/E-Mail
and thus ensuring the required amendments are done.
Perform any non-financial amendments on the trades.
Handling queries from Back Office.
Middle Offices Controls:
Generate the critical reports like Holiday audit, NDF daily and weekly
warning reports, The Reserve checks, Exotic hedging breaks, Liquidation
account checks on a frequent basis in the Intra-day operations.
Generate Reports for clients and send it to them.
Preparation of the Post trade amendments report for citing and
preventing fraudulent trading practices by the trading desk and
amendments done out middle office.
Performing various Inter-system trade reconciliations.
Keying trades and amending the trades in GFX platform on requirement.
Ensure that the Trade flow cycle is smooth from the trading to
processing and from processing to settlement systems
Working on intraday STP trade reconciliation for FX Options to sort
discrepancies where no other processing units have the control.
Ensuring the four eye principle by doing the second and final level
checks to track all erroneous validations and sort them before
occurrence of losses
Close association with the trading floor to ensure the timely and efficient
resolution of trader queries.
Clear and concise communication with all support teams to ensure the
timely and efficient dissemination of information and the resolution of
queries arising.
Ensure timely resolution of all reconciliation breaks.
Ensure all reconciliations and reports in the area are complete and
signed off on a timely basis.
4. FXMM Investigation for Amsterdam entity in FX/MM, ABN AMRO(07
Dec to July 08):
Responsible for investigating outstanding items in the Nostro Accounts which
was assigned to me.
Making the payment for the trades on the value dates and performing Manual
Payments on and post value dates.
Monitoring and investigating the pending cases to ensure timely and
appropriate actions.
Standard Settlement Instructions Updates.
Preparation of daily reports.
Awards and Recognitions:
Received appreciations from the Onshore Middle Office, RBS for the error
free operations and the quality of work assured post migration.
Honored with “Spot Ovation” for handling high volumes without any
deviation from procedures.
Travelled to Singapore for the transition of Middle office activities from
Chennai to Singapore.
Migrated the Securities Principal Lending process from BNP Paris to Chennai.
Process and product knowledge:
• Investigations.
• Middle office activities
• Nostro, inter-system reconciliations.
• Vanilla options, Single Barrier, Double Barrier, Rebate, Digital options, Forward
Value Agreement (FVA), Dual Currency Deposits, Butterfly Options, Straddle,
Strangle, Spreads, Swaps, Securities Lending etc.
Notable Contribution
Clearing of unused Reuters Codes.
Won the Continuous Improvement award for best project of the Year 2013.
Implemented 9 work outs and participated 10.
Academic:
MBA in Shanmugha Arts & Science Technology (SASTRA), Thanjavur.
Having an aggregate of 6.8 CGPA (Cumulative Grade Points)
B.Sc Maths in Government College of Arts and Science, Kumbakonam.
Having an aggregate of 64%
Higher secondary at Town Higher Secondary School, Kumbakonam with
68% [2002]
S.S.L.C at Native Higher Secondary School, Kumbakonam with 72%
[2000]
5. System Exposure:
Intelli Tracs, Intelli Match, OMRTA,Valuta Handel, Merva, NI, Perfect Match.
Reuters Deal Tracker Analyzer, System X, Eco Web, EcoRisk, GFX, X Trader and
MindAlign
Cash Reconciliation & Confirmation Tool - TLM (Transaction Lifecycle
Management), Wall Street, GDS(Global Derivatives System), Calypso, Glacier
etc MADJ, Swift Alliance, ACBS, LOAN IQ, Alaris.
IT Skills
MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Quality Endeavour
Good communication and Interpersonal skills
Keen to learn new concepts and latest technologies.
Willingness to take up responsibility.
Highly committed to deliver on the responsibility assigned.
Personnel Information
Date of Birth : May 24, 1985.
Marital Status : Single
Mobile No : +91-9952843883
Personal interest : Cricket and Movies.
Nationality : Indian
Reference
Mr. Vivek Kumar. R
VP - Head FXMM Settlements & Confirmations
RBS Markets, Singapore
Mobile +65 84575121
Mr. Vijay Krishna Ranganathan,
Head of India Operations Centre,
Reference Data Management,
RBS Markets, Chennai,
Mobile: +91 98407 87280
Declaration
I hereby, declare that all the details furnished above are true to the best of my
knowledge and I can produce the entire original document on demand of you or your
organization.
Signature
(Raman Srinivasan)