Senior Consultant

• Sep 2021 - Present

Senior Business Analyst

• Apr 2019 - May 2021

Project Manager & Senior Business Analyst for Investment Banking Strategic Settlements Platform. Responsible for assessment of market notifications issued towards Exchange Traded Infrastructure and Network Management (Agent Banks, Central Counterparty, Regulators). Conduct Pre-inception, Impact Analysis, Change Identification, Change Management and Delivery of the IT change to ensure the bank's IT systems are compliant and ensure uninterrupted clearing & settlement. Focus on MENA & EMEA Markets. Key projects undertaken pertain to - - SWIFT Standards - Payments - Electronic Trading Infrastructure - Settlement Models (Changes & Updates) - Central Securities Depository Regulation (Improvement of Settlement Efficiency) - Central Counterparties, Agent Banks and Exchanges Show less

Senior Business Analyst

• Mar 2018 - Apr 2019

Responsible for program delivery of Market Mandatory Changes in Europe region. Key deliverables for this program include impact assessment, business analysis, solution design and implementation on back of change notifications communicated by Stock Exchanges, Regulators, Central Counter parties among others. Few of the Changes delivered are - - T7 Implementation- SWIFT Enhancements- T2S Implementation- European Central Counterparty Party Consolidation- Central Securities Depository Regulation Show less

Senior Business Analyst

• Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

Aligned to the Pre-Sales team. Responsible and accountable for Third Party Risk Management exercise involving assessments on IT, Infrastructure, Legal, Compliance, Settlements, Corporate Actions and Data Management operations

Change and Implementation Manager

• Aug 2016 - Oct 2017

Primary responsibility was strategic evaluation of high value locations, extensive research of EU and Middle-Eastern regulatory environment to design solutions for compliance, subsequent front to back management of securities projects and reporting. Projects implemented in India, Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka as part of the program requirement.

Lead Business Analyst

• Jul 2015 - Aug 2016

Consultant for Wipro's Investment Banking clients and responsible for design and delivery of solutions. Projects delivered pertained to - - Middle Office IT Simplification [Asia & EMEA]- Singapore (MAS) Regulatory Changes- FIXML Implementation

Team Lead

• Aug 2014 - Jun 2015

Team Leader in the Derivative Clearing Ops department responsible for settlement of outstanding F&O Brokerage Receipts. Key deliverables included - Conducted F2B UAT testing, document test cases for an internal Trade Management tool - Relationship management with the brokers aiding in faster closure of outstanding receipts - Handled Sanctioned Russian domiciled brokers governed by trading sanctions to meet SLAs - Responsible for generating insights to assess payment trends by Brokers Show less

Technical Specialist

• Jun 2011 - Jul 2014

Partnered with global business analysts, dev teams and multi geographic stakeholders in building a global payment automation platform. The Asset Servicing Processing Engine was the automated solution to pay dividend claims using third party platform (Equilend) and aligning it with internal systems for a zero-touch automated payments. - Gathered requirements, for EMEA and US markets for addition into the automated system - Defined data points, conduct deep dive analysis to understand data trends - Data mining to help increase STP rates of dividend payments across brokers on Equilend - Global co-ordination and regression testing of IT enhancements of treasury payment system - Automated income feeds to Equilend for comparision and subsequent auto payment As part of day to day delivery - - Process Voluntary Corporate Actions with a cash element for the EMEA Markets - Liaise with Settlements for setting and settling of DVP/RVP entitlements - Responsible for global income events and payments - Oversight of Client Money submission and issue troubleshooting per FCA regulation - Approvals of cash receipts and intercompany journals for the team upto $ 1 Million - Representative for SecOps Forum India (SOFI) - Onboarding clients onto Equilend - Document and propose technological enhancements - Regression testing of newer modules to be released on back of enhancement requests. - Industrialising tasks to achieve STP and efficiency - Data analysis for the team’s weekly risk quotient metrics Show less

Senior Analyst

• Jul 2009 - Jun 2011

Primary responsibilities included oversight and set up of voluntary corporate action events and dividend pay outs focusing on Europe and APAC corporate action events. Data scrubbing and management as received from market vendors, liaising with Income, Tax and internal audit teams. Other responsibilities included oversight of reconciliation team’s activity on Pay Date + 1. Projects delivered - - Designed automated solutions as part of Project Optimization Life Cycle (POLC) team - Created a new Risk Analysis Report for Stock Reconciliation processes Process responsibilities include - - Processing and reconciliation of Europe and APAC Optional Income Events - Calculating stock lending positions, validating entitlements for clients - Payment processing per option elections and entitlements on announced pay date - Co-ordinating with registrars across the globe regarding optional income events - Investigating exceptions due to changes announced by firms both prior and post pay date - Overseeing Reconciliation Team’s activity on Pay Date + 1, for all optional income events - Tracking event announcements of Optional Income Events Show less