Abhirup Chakraborty

• Manage and oversee the booking of variation margin calls for a diverse portfolio of financial instruments, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Lead a team of financial analysts, providing guidance and training to enhance their skills and productivity.
• Collaborate with risk management and trading desks to ensure seamless execution of margin calls, and maintain accurate records.
• Prepare detailed reports for senior management, providing insights and recommendations for strategic decision-making.
• Evaluated individual and team business performance and identified opportunities for improvement.
• Ensured compliance with safety regulations and company policies.
• Organized training sessions for new hires to familiarize them with the workplace environment.
• Reviewed completed work to verify consistency, quality, and conformance.
• Produced thorough, accurate and timely reports of project activities.
• Coordinated with other departments to ensure smooth flow of operations.
• Delegated work to staff, setting priorities and goals.

• Handled collateral management for Fixed Income products under Global Treasury.
• Handled collateral including government securities, UK bonds, UK treasury bonds, and mortgage-backed securities within the repo business framework.
• Produce the daily P&L (profit and loss) for designated trading books on a T+1 basis.
• Ensured accurate generation and aggregation of P&L, risk metrics, and reporting for stakeholders.
• Transitioned new P&L from different teams.
• Managed routine coordination of ALCO activities.
• Prepared the GBSOV file during month-end processes.
• Prepared Management Information Reports concerning residual funding allocation charges.
• Signing of GBSOV and providing commentary for balance sheet day-to-day movements.
• Completed month-end and year-end closings, kept records audit-ready, and monitored the timely recording of accounting transactions.
• Preparation of the global pack for the evaluation of day-to-day P&L management.

• I worked in the Cash Equities product from 2014 to 2018.

Key Result Areas for Cash Equities Products:

• Produce the daily PnL (profit and loss) for designated trading books on a T+1 basis.
• Review the daily production and consolidation of P&L, risk, and reporting to the trading desk and management.
• Monitored trading desk activities to maintain integrity of financial statements.
• Resolved issues by collaborating with front office, middle office, and operations teams.
• Collaborated with teams to resolve issues in trade bookings.
• Analyzed daily P&L fluctuations and communicated risk-informed commentaries.
• Reviewing the balance sheet daily and ensuring that funding attributed in the daily P&L is explainable.
• Investigation and resolution of P&L estimates versus actuals.
• Ensured alignment between control systems and GL during month-end book closures.
• Worked in Zurich Market for Global Treasury in Fixed Income products from March 2018 till June 2019.

In Zurich, the major portion of the business relates to banking. Book Interest Rate Risk Management seeks to maximize the profitability of the banking book through consolidation, netting, and active hedging of risk positions, along with security (bonds, notes, and shares) issued to obtain equity capital or loan capital for a firm. The main objective of issuing these instruments is to manage the capital adequacy of the Bank to high standards within leverage tolerances consistent with strong capitalization. Group Treasury Credit & Investments (C&I) manages a set of portfolios that are designed to provide ready access to liquidity in the event of a crisis.