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Abhijit Chandra

Abhijit Chandra

Senior Data Analytics Leader
Gurugram

Summary

Senior leader with 23 years of experience in Data Engineering & Analytics, Business Intelligence & Data Science, setting up Data Strategy & Governance frameworks, Senior Stakeholder Management, Enterprise & Market Data architecture, Talent Development and People Management. Expertise in building out Data pipeline frameworks & analytics in Trading & Asset management (including Trade Analytics, Data Governance & onboarding, Regulatory reporting (PRIIPS, MIFID 2), Transaction Cost Analytics, Data warehouse & Real time analytics, Liquidity & Risk based metrics, Fund analytics). Hands-on experience in creating visual data analytics, ETL & large-scale data warehouse design & development, data quality checks automation, design documentation and testing strategies. Collaborative design & development of large-scale analytics projects involving both cross region Direct & Matrix teams.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director

Blackrock India
6 2012 - Current
  • Head of Global Trading Analytics & Data Strategy function in India, leading & managing multiple functions involving building out comprehensive Data analytics & Business Intelligence Dashboards as well as Web Based applications which cater to Global Trading & Fund management teams across all trading regions
  • Senior Stakeholder management & collaboration: Work with Global Cross Asset (Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives, FX & Emerging Markets) Trading Desk Leads for developing, supporting & distributing the Performance Metrics KPI’s incorporating Transaction Cost Analytics data which demonstrates the Alpha generation and Best Execution effectiveness.
  • Collaborate with Senior Fund & Product managers to develop & implement metrics based BI dashboards & worksheets on Trade performance, Fund Client Costs & Commissions, Risk analytics.
  • Setting up Data Strategy Governance & Stewardship framework for BlackRock Global Markets which includes setting up the appropriate data onboarding stages, accountability of the various roles, legal & costs approvals & risk oversight for enhancing or adding any new external Market data & trading workflows and defining the scope of data stewardship for all such data.
  • Hands on experience in executing Data Science based projects for Global Trading including Smart Order routing for Investment grade trades, daily trading volume predictions as well as implementing Liquidity score-based frameworks for various asset classes
  • Manage Data frameworks & BI development using Tableau and Power BI for Business analytics, python for automated ETL & Workflow Development, MySQL & Sybase IQ for data storage & warehousing requirements
  • Building out Data Engineering solutions including setting up of automated Data Quality monitoring for all major analytics frameworks & workflows developed across the board.
  • Build out Fund level transaction cost simulation framework to cater for Fund client reporting metrics relevant to regulatory requirements under MIFID 2 & PRIIPS.
  • Having an extensive understanding of external market data sources including streaming data sources like Tradeweb, ICAP, Bloomberg, FactSet, Refinitiv and internal Aladdin data like security reference, market, funds & trading datasets which are utilized using API Calls, data pulls to build out various analytics solutions relevant to Global Trading & Index analytics.
  • Build out workflows for developing Trading & Portfolio analytics using extensive understanding of BLK Aladdin infrastructure & data schemas.


Technical Specialist

Fidelity Investments India (P) Ltd.
1 2006 - 5 2012
  • Led & managed the cross functional development of Fidelity's Global Fund Reporting Data warehouse for all cross-asset portfolios including setting up the ingress data pipelines, ETL workflows, data & presentation layers as well as setting up the governance around the user roles and the data layer.
  • Collaborated with Portfolio Managers & Product Specialists in the preparation of various portfolio attribution metrics as well as customizing analytics specific to fund structures (Product specific, multi-asset, fund of funds)

Assistant Manager

Scicom Technologies (P) Ltd.
03.2005 - 01.2006

ITA

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
06.2001 - 03.2005

Education

MBA - Finance & IT

MDI
Gurgaon
2007.05 - 2010.01

MCA -

IMT
Ghaziabad
04.1998 - 06.2001

BBS - Finance

College of Business Studies, Delhi University
1995.04 - 1998.01

Skills

BI Analytics & Visualization (Tableau/Power BI)

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Leadership Roles

Business Intelligence/Data Engineering & Analytics/Data Science

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 11/05/77

Timeline

MBA - Finance & IT

MDI
2007.05 - 2010.01

Assistant Manager

Scicom Technologies (P) Ltd.
03.2005 - 01.2006

ITA

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
06.2001 - 03.2005

MCA -

IMT
04.1998 - 06.2001

BBS - Finance

College of Business Studies, Delhi University
1995.04 - 1998.01

Director

Blackrock India
6 2012 - Current

Technical Specialist

Fidelity Investments India (P) Ltd.
1 2006 - 5 2012

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