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GURUPRASAD JAMBUNATHAN
Product Director
Chennai,TN
Summary
A Data and Product Architect in the domain of Financial Research with over 14 years of experience in research data setup and governance, data digitization, product strategy, project and people management
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Director
CRISIL Limited, a Standard & Poor’s company
Chennai, India
02.2006 - Current
- In my current role, championing the development of a full-fledged technology platform for financial research
- As the product architect, I am in-charge of conceptualising the end-to-end product ecosystem
- The role calls for:
- Setup of the data architecture including adoption of right cataloguing, drafting of the schema and definition of database masters
- Facilitating the optimal ingestion of historic and real-time data, including company financial and operational data points along with industry and macro data releases, for efficient storage and querying of information
- Ensuring data integrity by laying out the data governance framework to ensure effective data validation, comprehensiveness, accuracy and inter-temporal comparability by adopting suitable data normalization standards
- Strategizing the modules and functionalities to be incorporated to the front-end web platform for efficient and enhanced research, including automated spreading of models, AI-enabled SMART recommendations, natural language generation of reports, a workspace to analyse data sets
- Guiding the business analysts for effective capture of requirements as well as liaising with UX/UI members to work out the best visual designs
- Setting out the quality assurance test plans and transforming the feedback from business users to product build requirements
- Managing product releases and client implementations to ensure smooth rollout and hassle-free continued business operations
- Independently manage multiple research teams and projects serving several sell-side and buy-side clients across geographies, domains and asset classes
- Responsible for project content management as well as people management
- Closely worked with the CFA Institute and ACCA on policy research assignments, co-authoring multiple research reports
- At the organizational level, part of the management team, involved in strategy formulation for new growth opportunities and stakeholder engagements
- Initiated and led several thought leadership and franchise building initiatives
- Participated in multiple industry forum discussions
- Direct knowledge management agenda and content development for multiple training modules including MS-Excel modeling and Research automation
Credit Rating Analyst
CARE
Mumbai, India
04.2005 - 02.2006
- To estimate the credit risk governing an organization and assign an appropriate credit rating to the debt instrument raised by the organisation
- Sector specialist (Housing Finance) – responsible for generating quarterly report on the sector concerning recent developments and its implications
Education
P.G.D.B.M. (MBA) -
T.A. Pai Management Institute
B. Sc. - Statistics
Loyola College
Skills
Product management
Data management
Account lead and Project delivery
P&L ownership and budgeting
People management
Accomplishments
- 1
- Gauging Readership Sentiment
- Ategory : Research Automation, Data Architecture and Governance
- Ynopsis : Conceptualising the end-to-end setup of a system to gauge and present readership analytics of various publications published by the investment bank
- This called for detailed cataloguing of data elements and setting up a reporting structure to effectively identify readership interest and offer insights for research publication strategy and setup of reward programmes 2
- Market Manipulation in Singapore around company announcements
- Ategory : Policy Research, Capital Markets
- Ynopsis : The study evaluates the presence of manipulation in Singapore equity markets around company announcements
- The investigation explored the phenomenon at the broad market level as well as specific subsets including announcement categories, sectors, market capitalization groups and listing boards
- Https://www.arx.cfa/post/MANIPULATION-IN-SINGAPORE-EQUITIES-AROUND-COMPANY-ANNOUNCEMENTS-4984.html/ 3
- Sector Analysis Framework for Investors
- Ategory : Financial Research, Capital Markets
- Ynopsis : Drawing inputs from a mix of interviews with industry practioners and secondary research, the study draws out a questionnaire based framework for investors to analyse while investing in a particular sector
- Key excerpts from the study are presented as a monthly investor education series in BT Singapore
- Https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/authors/guruprasad-jambunathan/ 4
- Critical macroeconomic factors for market and sectors
- Ategory : Equity Strategy, Quant Modelling
- Ynopsis : The project required identification of key macro economic factors governing the performance of European equity markets and the relative performance of its sectors
- A total of 100 variables were used in the study
- I managed the complete setup with assistance from 3 junior quant analysts
- 5
- Deciphering investment strategies of successful funds
- Ategory : Capital Markets, Quant Modelling, Portfolio Management
- Ynopsis : I managed a team of 5 quant specialists to identify the common attributes that define the successful investments of a set of 50 funds over 40 quarters
- The identified attributes were back-tested as a passive investment strategy
- ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Lass/ Course
- Ame of Institution
- Ear of Passing
- Lass/ Grade
- Dditional Information
- FA
- FA Institute, USA
- Un 2007 -
- Irst appearance
- RM
- ARP, USA
- An 2007
Additional Information
- ACHIEVEMENTS/ AWARDS , Fast-tracked promotions 2 Gold ACE Awards by S&P Global Sumitomo Corp. (Japan) scholarship holder for three consecutive years Singapore President’s Scholar award All India First in Competition Success Review essay writing
Interests
Travel
Music
Timeline
Director
CRISIL Limited, a Standard & Poor’s company
02.2006 - Current
Credit Rating Analyst
CARE
04.2005 - 02.2006
P.G.D.B.M. (MBA) -
T.A. Pai Management Institute
B. Sc. - Statistics
Loyola College