AMIRTHAVALLI RAMESH
Chennai
Summary
Goal-Driven and Detail-Oriented professional with 7 and half years of experience in various roles and functions includes Investment Banking Middle Office Operations and Risk Management.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Manager, Capital Change Management
Standard Chartered Global Business Services PVTLTD
Chennai
07.2022 - 01.2023
- Implemented change Management projects for credit risk capital reporting function (PRA, ND) on BASEL regulatory (BASEL‐IV implementation BCBSD424,BCBS239) for country Taiwan and China.
- Collaborated with Country Finance, Product owners and Project Managers to gather the business Data requirements.
- Conducted analysis of new data sourcing to support Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) design and development.
- Performed Business analysis, gap analysis for all changes affecting the reporting infrastructure aligned with the bank's strategy.
- Curated Business Requirement Document(BRD), Functional Specification Document(FSD) and Test cases for functional testing.
- Organized UAT and the test results are shared with the Business users and obtained sign‐offs from the relevant stakeholders.
- Achieved on‐time completion of projects with 100% compliance to regulatory requirements, reduced overall project time by 15% by adapting Agile Methodology.
- Provided post go-live support to the Business users and stakeholders.
Assistant Manager, Operational Risk&Control
Barclays Global Service Centre PVTLTD
Chennai
06.2021 - 06.2022
- Liaised between Middle Office Operations and engineering teams to coordinate successful process improvement projects on Reconciliation processes
- Published Book of Work(BOW) for the Global Markets Business and touch based with the internal Audit teams to compile RCSA reviews.
- Captured MI on operational Risk incidents and ORACs/Flash incidents and evaluated the process to identify the control gap and mitigated them through process improvements plans.
- Gathered Business Requirements and perform impact analysis to enhance/build reconciliation in in‐house platform ‘Reclite'
- Coordinated with the Business user to perform UAT and ensured sign‐offs for the release
- Prepared Gantt charts on the ongoing projects and Weekly risk pack for the Risk deck meetings.
Senior Analyst, Structured Products Operations-MO
Barclays Global Service Centre PVTLTD
Chennai
07.2017 - 06.2021
- Processed Payments and settlement instructions for Equity and Fixed income Derivative Markets in APAC,EMEA and US by adhering SLA(Service Level Agreement) and Market Cut-offs.
- Experienced in processing/creating Swift templates for Message types MT‐103,MT‐202,MT‐540,MT‐542,MT-599,MT-546,MT-199,MT-299.
- Processed exchange settlement for global markets and coordinated with Clearing agents(Euroclear and Clearstream) for pre‐matching the settlements on VD‐1.
- Monitored and Matched the Front Office Trade Allocations, Amendments and Cancellations to the Middle office system(FISS).
- Chaired all escalations as First point of contact and ensured the client/Stakeholder queries related to the trade transaction are prioritized.
- Collaborated with Traders, Sales, IPAs on the New-Stock Issuances, Markdowns and Buy-back transactions.
- Partnered with Treasury(Liquidity and Intra-day), SLB(Stock-Loan Borrow) teams to arrange the Cash/Stocks in the Nostro accounts to ensure settlement transfers to the client account on VD.
- Handled Stock Securities/Depot reconciliation on VD+1 and decoded complex/aged breaks to avoid any potential risk.
- Headed Payment Workflow(Manual to STP) automation project between the year 2019-2020, touch based with the technology teams and performed process UAT; Resulted in successful Project completion/ accomplished operational efficiency by saving 2FTE.
- Reviewed procedures(SOP) on a regular intervals and participated in the Internal RCSA and External Audits by providing the Risk Commentary and updated the new control requirements to meet the OPS risk mitigation from the First LOD.
Operations Executive, Instruction Verification
BNY Mellon International Operations India PVTLTD
Chennai
10.2015 - 04.2017
- Assisted in the Successful Process Migration from USA to India by curating project plans, KTs and assessments.
- Developed and maintained process documentation, including SOPs, training materials, and process flows.
- Coordinated with Clearing Agent to allocate trade transactions to the client account.
- Authenticated the high value transactions by verifying signatures and performing callbacks with the clients to mitigate any unauthorized transaction.
- Monitored group email box, SLA/TAT for the day and generated MIS reports on the process work flow and shared with the management.
- Collaborated with stakeholders/Client Relationship Manger (CRM) for the trade amendments/Cancellations.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Commerce
University Of Madras
Chennai06.2015
Skills
- Advanced Microsoft Office365
- Stakeholder Management
- Leadership
- Risk Management
- Attention to Detail
- Communication
- Business Analysis
- Agile
- Project Management
- Multitasking
- Innovation
- MSSQL(Basic)
Certification
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Advanced Certification on SQL,Power BI and Tableu(Pursing)
Achievements
- Won Barclays global recognition (BRP) twice for implementing control checks in the process and successful completion of Automation Projects
- Received 'Bravo' award for the execution of Process improvement Projects in BNYM
- Direct appreciation from global lead of BNYM for identifying money laundering activity transaction over 50B$.
Timeline
Associate Manager, Capital Change Management
Standard Chartered Global Business Services PVTLTD
07.2022 - 01.2023
Assistant Manager, Operational Risk&Control
Barclays Global Service Centre PVTLTD
06.2021 - 06.2022
Senior Analyst, Structured Products Operations-MO
Barclays Global Service Centre PVTLTD
07.2017 - 06.2021
Operations Executive, Instruction Verification
BNY Mellon International Operations India PVTLTD
10.2015 - 04.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Commerce
University Of Madras
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