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Abhishek Anchal | FRM
Senior Business Analyst | S&P GLOBAL
New Delhi,Delhi
Summary
A dynamic and competent FRM professional with 2+ years of experience as Sanction & Screening Senior Business Analyst and overall 14+ years of experience in ETF Analytics, Trade Compliance & Surveillance with a professionally driven, growth-oriented Organization that provide opportunity to grow and learn
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Business Analyst - Sanctions & Screening
S&P Global
01.2023 - Current
- Captured and analyzed logical system requirements based on high-level requirements produced by the Product Manager
- Created User Stories and Acceptance Criteria that accurately reflected the stated requirements from the Product Backlog while understanding the business context for documentation.
- Identified gaps and necessary amendments for the Backlog, and defined features to be developed, ensuring accurate documentation on the Backlog.
- Responded promptly to queries from the Development and QA teams regarding product functionality, prioritizing features and outcomes according to customer needs within contractual constraints.
- Assisted in evaluating the output from Sprints to ensure alignment with requirements.
- Liaised with customers during Development phases to enable the Product Manager to act as an informed customer proxy and to ensure customer comfort with key design decisions.
- Identified potential common functionalities to promote software component reuse, ensuring consistency in user experience and enhancing usability.
- Following Agile Scrum software development methodology across the projects
Sr Specialist – ETF Analytics & Screening
S&P GLOBAL
08.2017 - 01.2023
- Monitor various Regulatory sanctions website to ensure all the securities are captured by our product.
- Performing quantitative & qualitative analysis, including performance, exposure, liquidity, risk, tracking and detailed information, like fund flows, AUM, key fund characteristics, and Underlying benchmark information, for every ETF listed globally across all asset classes.
- Maintains/Monitor Encyclopedia data for All 12000+ ETF with 50+ data points like Exposure, Benchmark, Expense ratio, Methodology, Creation/Redemption Fees etc.
- Works directly with product owner on multiple high impact initiatives\products. Work with cross functional stakeholders to define\maintain roadmap.
- Providing reports on the various asset classes products such as equity, fixed income, and alternative investment for evaluating investment opportunities.
- Monitoring and ensuring E2E workflow starting from ETF/Index Onboarding, Publishing, Analytics Calculation and ensure the delivery of data to our clients.
Trade Compliance & Surveillance Sr Analyst
BLACKROCK SERVICES INDIA
12.2010 - 08.2017
- Monitor Risk limits and Exposure daily within trading control framework and client guideline and keep themselves updated for any changes.
- Monitor trading activities of traders to prevent market abuse practices like Wash Trades/Window Dressing or Spoofing
- Analyzing risk sensitivities (DV01, Beta, Duration etc..), investigating daily VaR/SVaR, Tracking Error, Currency Exposure. Investigating reasons of active movement in these numbers and reporting it to client.
- Effective management and workflow with respect to Pre-trade and Post-trade compliance checks through consistent guideline updates and exception dashboard monitoring.
- Performing holdings-level analysis in dashboards to analyze if the assets are allocated properly as per the client guidelines & check if
- Due diligence for compliance adherence of portfolios with respect to mandatory/ regulatory rules and regulations- 40 US act, UCITS laws, ERISA guidelines etc.
- Work closely with Portfolio managers and traders to ensure that risk-taking activities are in line with the Fund's risk appetite and Investment objectives.
- Preparing & Delivery of Customized Exposure reports (Country/Counterparty/Issuer level/Currency), Risk and Performance(P&L) reports /Liquidity reports /Allocation reports to Hedge Funds & Mutual Funds/Institutional Portfolios with utmost accuracy and timely that are used in AIFMD reporting
Education
MBA - FINANCE
IIPM
New Delhi 06.2008 - 2010.05
B.Com (Hons.) -
Sri Aurobindo College, Delhi-University
New Delhi 06.2004 - 2007.05
Skills
Portfolio asset management system
Asset Allocation
Performance Evaluation
Python & SQL proficiency
Requirements gathering
Agile methodology
Stakeholder management
Business process mapping
Accomplishments
- Star Performer Award at S&P Global in December 2019
- Awarded Certification of Driving High performance culture by the former Vice-Chairman Ms. Susan L Wagnor and COO Mr. Charles Hallac in March. 2013
- Ranked 1st in first trimester for Two Years Masters Programme in Management (Finance).
Interests
Stock Market
Playing Snooker
Additional Information
Common Screening framework Project
- Successful migration of all Sanction & Screening reports to new framework
MIMS Transition to LUNA
- Successful transition of 10000+ ETF and 1000+ Benchmark data
- Data checks, Raising/monitor of JIRA post scrum calls
Transitioned Disclosure obligation process to India
- Daily reporting of Blackrock Funds Equity Holding to Regulatory authorities.
- Monitoring of Thresholds Holding Limits.
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst - Sanctions & Screening
S&P Global
01.2023 - Current
Sr Specialist – ETF Analytics & Screening
S&P GLOBAL
08.2017 - 01.2023
Trade Compliance & Surveillance Sr Analyst
BLACKROCK SERVICES INDIA
12.2010 - 08.2017
MBA - FINANCE
IIPM
06.2008 - 2010.05
B.Com (Hons.) -
Sri Aurobindo College, Delhi-University
06.2004 - 2007.05
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