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Alaap Thomas Alex
Associate, Reference Data Operations
Bengaluru
Summary
Proficient in current financial regulations, trade operations, and best practices in corporate investment banking. Methodical and objective with good judgment and solution-oriented thinking and problem-solving abilities. Skilled at legal/non-legal research, reviewing commercial contracts, NDA's, and other business queries. Articulate and personable with exceptional legal writing and communication skills, attention to detail, analytical, and drafting. Proficient with Document Management Systems, including DocuSign and Arteria. Highly successful at keeping on top of changes in requirements to maintain flawless compliance. Offering 7 years of experience in the legal sector and looking for a challenging new role as a legal administrative assistant.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Associate, Reference Data Operations
JP Morgan Chase & Co
Bangalore
03.2016 - Current
- Managed a team of 10, and ensured adherence to protocol compliances, stakeholder queries, and client financial agreements static data setup.
- Maintained a strict SLA of 24 hours on resolving queries/issues from 60+ downstream systems and ensured trade support by setting adequate protocol adherence.
- Implemented cross-training activities for the team with other internal teams to understand the process flow better and to make the teams aware of the importance of processes in place.
- Ensured legal compliance to Qualified Financial Contract Stay Rule for Asia Pacific region before the regulatory deadline through massive client outreach for over 1500 clients and assisted with their queries regarding regulation
- Developed new processes and improved current processes to streamline the legal team's response, increase efficiency and support collaboration within the team.
- Created business requirements documents (BRD's), user stories, reporting requirements, use cases, process flows (AS-IS, TO-BE), test plans, test cases, and test scenarios.
- Traveled to Buenos Aires and successfully set up a resiliency team for document management operations by providing end-to-end training about the process, thereby ensuring round-the-clock support and prioritizing workload for firm for all major time zones
- Investigated Data Repository compliance for firm for MIFID-II and found anomalies in client records for over 600 funds with very high attention to detail. Instrumented Client outreach program in order to ensure research unbundling requirements.
- Acted as SME on the product development team, working with the team to document functional requirements and break them down into clearer user stories for the team to deliver.
- Coordinated firm's digitization initiatives to bring in a standardized negotiation process between client and legal, thereby reducing manual touch points in the contract management life cycle.
- Represented the legal team in projects and transactions as required. Initiated, planned, prioritized and managed work activities and projects effectively. Regularly communicated with your line manager and provided updates in team meetings on progress.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Law
National Law University
Visakhapatnam 08.2010 - 05.2015
Skills
Operations management
Timeline
Associate, Reference Data Operations
JP Morgan Chase & Co
03.2016 - Current
Bachelor of Arts - Law
National Law University
08.2010 - 05.2015
Software
AcadiaSoft
ISDA Create
Arteria
Honours and Awards
Impact Award for Customers First
JP Morgan Chase & Co. [ 1 Jun 2019 ]
Training and setting up resiliency team in Buenos Aires for effective and timely assistance for stakeholders.
DPS Quarterly Excellence Award
JP Morgan Chase & Co. [ 1 Aug 2020 ]
Outstanding contribution in leading the APAC compliance of Qualified Financial Contract Adherence Protocol & successful migration of clients from London entity to a new location as a consequence of BREXIT.
CO&D Portrait Award 2020
JP Morgan Chase & Co. [ 1 Nov 2020 ]
For leading the efforts concerning document management operations team in decommissioning Portfolio Risk Management System (legacy in-house calculation method for Independent Amount) to a new standardized method.
DPS Quarterly Excellence Award
JP Morgan Chase & Co. [ 1 Oct 2021 ]
For firm's successful compliance of Unregulated Margin Rule for Initial Margin (Phase 6).
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