Shailesh Kode is seeking a secure and challenging position in a progressive company. He has over 5 years of experience in finance roles at Credit Suisse and UBS, including cash equity confirmations, settlements, and nostro reconciliation. He also has experience in marketing and customer service roles. Kode holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and is pursuing a post-graduate diploma in business administration.
1. Satyabhama Sadan (Kode’s House), Tel (Res.) : +91 22 25384076
Shivaji Nagar, Sane Guruji Path, Tel (Mobile): +91 95525 00826
Naupada, Thane, Maharashtra, Email : shailesh.kode@yahoo.com
India 400 602. shaileshkode@gmail.com
Shailesh Kode
Objective: Seeking a secure, responsible and challenging position with a progressive
company where my work experience will have valuable application as well as provide
a platform for my career advancement.
Background Summary:
• Over 5 years of work experience in multi national firm with 4 years in the
areas of Cash Equity Confirmations / Settlements and Nostro Reconciliation &
Control.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-starter and can handle teams with respect to mentoring new joiners,
setting objectives, performance evaluation and train fresher’s to ramp up
• Can communicate and coordinate with agencies located in different time
zones.
Work Experience: Wipro Ltd : September 2005 till date for below mentioned
process:
Credit Suisse Pune, Nov 09 till date as Financial Analyst in Nostro Reconciliation
& Controls
• Nostro Reconciliation- Intellimatch
• Performing Nostro reconciliation and supporting Business Users with their
day to day queries.
• Assisting team members & clients in day to day operations whenever
required.
• Work on various Projects/Initiatives such as improving Auto matching
Percentage, Migration of Nostro Accts from one custodian to another
custodian bank etc.
• Generating Nostro reconciliation reports and reviewing them to ensure that
the controls are in place.
UBS Investment Banking as Financial Analyst Cash Equity Confirmations
Jul 07 – Nov 09
• Migrated Equity Client Support process from UBS London.
• Was deputed to London for a period of 12 months (Aug 07 - Aug 08).
• Key point of contact for institutional and hedge fund clients for all
trade related queries.
• Managing trade exception management post execution and pre
settlement.
• Ensuring that adequate follow up is conducted to prevent trades from
failing to prematch / settle due to missing bookings/allocations.
• Single Point of Contact for the Settlement team to clarify booking
related queries.
• Finding resolution of trade queries internally from settlements and
sales
• Answering client queries, queries from the sales desk.
• Working across teams to resolve trade exceptions within client
benchmarks.
Curriculum Vitae of Shailesh Kode 1/3 Jan 2011
2. •Rectifying recurrent issues to improve STP and also aiming to increase
productivity within the team as a part of Process improvement
initiatives.
• Liaison with client teams globally on UBS client service initiatives.
• Liaison with relationship managers, sales traders, settlements, data
management and corporate action teams to resolve all client related
queries.
• Ensure client benchmarks for trade confirmation met on daily basis.
• Part of UBS Client Support team to win global Z-yen broker
ranking survey two years running.
• Involved in training and overseeing of new hires.
Unmatched WIM ( Work Item Manager ) exception
• In the unmatched WIM queue it was seen that a lot of efforts were put
into resolving exceptions on a daily basis. There was a need to study
the volumes, analyse the reasons for these exceptions and fix the
exceptions at the source in order to reduce the volumes.
• Proactive opening of new accounts for the clients ,
• Closure of duplicate accounts resulted in reduction in the number of
exceptions in the Wims . This resulted in Increased STP (straight
through processing) and Better client satisfaction
• Proactively seeking and implementing exceptional value-added/cost-
saving improvements to products and processes to improve our overall
service and quality.
Capital One : Credit Cards
• Joined as an associate in Sep 05 and later got promoted as Senior
associate.
• Worked as Senior Associate till July 2007
• Handling inbound calls for Capital one credit cards.
• Handling responsibility of data maintenance for the entire team.
• Assisting Team Leader in conducting call type refreshers for team
members on weekly basis.
Research Organics May 97 – Aug 05
• Worked with Research Organics from the Year 1997 to August 2005
• Worked as Zonal Marketing Manager.
• Reporting to the director.
• Team Leader for 15 mkt. executives.
• Designing new marketing strategies.
• Generating new inquiries.
• Closing sales.
• Preparing strategic quotations as per requirement.
• Preparing MIS report.
• Conducting weekly review meeting.
• Conducting training sessions for team building.
Education
• Bachelor of Science ( Chemistry ) from Mumbai University 1997
• Pursuing C-PGDBA from Symbiosis University
Curriculum Vitae of Shailesh Kode 2/3 Jan 2011
3. Achievements:
• Was recognized by UBS through a Thank You Award for the months of June &
July’09, Was ranked 3rd in the stack ranking in the month of June 2006, Have
been a performer in the top bracket for the last two quarters in 2007, Spot Award
for the Month of February 2010 for clearing new account openings for Credit
Suisse.
Personal Achievements:
• Member of ROTARACT CLUB (Youth wing of
the ROTARY INTERNATIONAL).
• President of the Rotaract Club of Thane Town
Wing.in the year 1994-95.
• District Rotaract Representative
(District Governor) for 125 clubs in
Mumbai, Thane in the year 1996-97.
• Chairman for South East Asia Rotaract
Information centre in the year 2000 (Includes 5
Asian countries like India, Sri Lanka, Singapore,
Nepal, and Malaysia).
• Team Leader for Rotaract Youth Exchange
programme to Hong Kong in the year 1998.
References: Available on request
Curriculum Vitae of Shailesh Kode 3/3 Jan 2011