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Overview
Work History
Education
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Certification
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Abhinav Saini

Abhinav Saini

Gurugram

Summary

Analytical professional with strong background in financial modeling and risk management. Skilled in developing and managing investment management software platforms particularly focused on Fixed Income and Derivatives. Interest areas include Quantitative Finance, Python/C++ Programming, and Statistical Modelling.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Vice President

BlackRock
07.2021 - Current

Core Analytics Solutions, Aladdin Financial Engineering:

  • Responsible for providing state-of-the-art active investment analytics to clients
  • Part of firm-wide effort to transition away from LIBOR to ARRs across all Interest Rate Models
  • Improved Yield Curves across major markets, which are used in calculating analytics for assets worth billions of dollars
  • Worked on Stochastic Interest Rate Modelling

Freelance Business Writer

Trivium Education Services
08.2020 - 07.2021
  • Technical Writing: Regularly wrote articles on business and economics for high school students in North America

Manager - Financial Markets

Yes Bank
01.2019 - 07.2021
  • FX Trading: Part of North Retail FX Trading team handling portfolio of annual revenue Rs INR 60+ CR Sales
  • Acquired and managed clients across diverse geographies (NCR, Punjab, Haryana)
  • Standardized processes for various FX products, now being utilized by FX teams pan India
  • Risk Management: Liaised with relationship units, credit risk and back-office teams for treasury limits and compliance

Equity Research Intern

HSBC
04.2018 - 05.2018
  • Econometrics: Created a model for 5G spectrum prices & rollout costs in various European nations
  • DCF: Performed valuation & sensitivity analysis of a new satellite broadband service for ascertaining feasibility

Senior Technical Associate

Bank of America
01.2016 - 05.2017
  • ASP.NET: Prototyped storefront platform to achieve service reusability and reduction in costs
  • Data Analysis: Documented web services including operations and procedures for seamless usage and analysis
  • Awarded Global Recognition Award for critical contributions to IT support activities

Education

Cleared CFA Level 2 Exam - Investments And Securities

CFA Institute
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
08.2022

MBA - Finance

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode
Kozhikode, India
04.2019

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Delhi Technological University
New Delhi, India
05.2016

Skills

  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Python Programming
  • Fixed Income Analysis
  • Derivatives Pricing
  • Stochastic Calculus
  • Statistical Analysis

Certification

  • Machine Learning with Python - IBM, 2020
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) - Level 2, 2022
  • Six Sigma - Green Belt, KPMG, 2017

Accomplishments

  • Top 10% in Batch of 2019, IIM Kozhikode, 2019
  • Army Welfare Education Society Scholarship for excellent performance in MBA, 2019
  • 99.46 percentile in CAT (Common Admission Test), 2016 out of 200,000 applicants
  • 99.02 percentile in AIEEE (JEE - Mains), 2012 out of 1.2 million applicants

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Italian
Beginner (A1)

Timeline

Vice President

BlackRock
07.2021 - Current

Freelance Business Writer

Trivium Education Services
08.2020 - 07.2021

Manager - Financial Markets

Yes Bank
01.2019 - 07.2021

Equity Research Intern

HSBC
04.2018 - 05.2018

Senior Technical Associate

Bank of America
01.2016 - 05.2017

Cleared CFA Level 2 Exam - Investments And Securities

CFA Institute

MBA - Finance

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Delhi Technological University
Abhinav Saini