Amruta Dandekar

Derivatives Documentation, Legal Operations & Governance:

• Legal Agreement Expertise : Reviewed and maintained high-value legal agreements, including ISDA Master Agreements, CCSA (IM/VM), GMRA, GMSLA, and CDEA.
• End-to-End Negotiation Support : Managed the entity lifecycle by performing initial legal reviews, securing approvals and confirmations from Client Onboarding and Credit teams, drafting amendment agreements, safeguarding client signatures, and ensuring accurate system updates.
• Contract Drafting and Execution: Led end-to-end drafting of termination agreements, guarantees for offboarded entities, and Process Agent and Guarantee applications to support transactions.
• Cross-Regional Collaboration and Support: Partnered with global legal negotiators and documentation teams to execute complex transactions, and served as the key contact for resolving intricate legal and operational queries, enhancing transaction efficiency.
• Stakeholder Governance & MIS Reporting: Facilitated regional governance forums to align global stakeholders, and delivered strategic MIS reports to enhance leadership visibility and decision-making.
• Data Governance & Compliance: Ensured secure, confidential handling of sensitive counterparty data through controlled systems while supporting regulatory audits, CSR, and corporate engagement programs.
• Regulatory and Transformation Initiatives : Supported high-priority regulatory programs, including global margin reforms and Brexit-related changes, ensuring compliance and alignment with evolving legal standards.
• Team Management & Training Frameworks: Managed and up skilled a team of 3–4 members, designing targeted training and mentorship programs to build junior staff competencies, corporate ethics, and professional growth.
• Data-Driven Process Optimization: Analyzed performance metrics to drive workflow automation and continuous operational improvement in close collaboration with technology teams.
• Strategic Growth & Planning: Partnered directly with the senior management team to develop and execute long-term strategic plans for business expansion and operational excellence.

Key Achievements:

• Polestar Award & MIS Optimization: Recognized for streamlining the global MIS reporting architecture, significantly increasing data accuracy, and senior stakeholder visibility.
• Operational Efficiency & Process Leadership: Led strategic team initiatives to optimize workflows, resulting in a dramatic increase in department-wide operational efficiency.
• Mentorship and Engagement Programs: Successfully designed and launched a department-wide mentorship and employee engagement initiative, boosting leadership capabilities and team morale.
• Client Relationship Management : Managed critical client relationships, proactively addressing complex inquiries, and resolving documentation bottlenecks to enhance client satisfaction and retention.

Process I: Managed legal documentation workflow:

• ISDA & CSA Documentation: Reviewed, analyzed, and updated ISDA, CSA, and Master Agreements in client risk systems to support collateralize OTC derivative deals.
• Risk Reconciliation & Exception Management: Reconciled legal agreements against risk systems, prepared exception reports, and managed the escalation of discrepancies to minimize operational risk.
• Collaboration & Issue Resolution : Partnered with clients, legal, and credit risk teams to manage complex queries, resolve agreement breaks, and implement critical system updates.
• Process and System Improvement : Partnered with IT engineering teams on tool testing, log file analysis, and system enhancements to streamline documentation workflows.
• Knowledge Sharing and Standardization: Led regular team discussions and structured knowledge-sharing sessions to standardize processes and build technical expertise across collateral and legal documentation operations.

Process II: Trade Confirmation & OTC Operations

• Multi-Asset Confirmation Management: Managed the end-to-end OTC trade confirmation process across multiple asset classes (FX, Equity, Commodities, Interest Rate Swaps, Fixed Income), including affirmation, drafting, chasing, and final execution.
• Trade Validation & Compliance: Validated economic and non-economic trade details with counterparties, clients, and brokers to ensure timely, legally compliant execution of confirmations.
• Discrepancy Coordination & Escalation: Conducted daily catch-ups with the Middle Office to resolve trade discrepancies, promptly escalating critical or stalled issues to the Front Office and senior management.
• Resource Utilization & Management Reporting: Calculated end-to-end team resource utilization and compiled comprehensive daily, weekly, and monthly productivity reports to track performance and ensure data transparency.

Key Achievements:

• Quality & Quantity Performance Excellence : Honored with multiple Spot Rewards for consistently maintaining 100% data quality and output volume metrics.
• Stakeholder Appreciation & Efficiency : Received formal commendations from global stakeholders for executing timely risk escalations and introducing operational efficiencies to the trade lifecycle.

Professional Experience

Portfolio Reconciliation, Cash Operations & Client Management

• Reconciliation & Exception Management: Monitored the overall functioning of Custodian and Investment Manager Book reconciliation processes; manually resolved complex cash exceptions for Fixed Income, Corporate Actions, and FX transactions.
• Fail Trade & Break Resolution: Researched unclear exceptions and aggressively chased counterparties to identify, resolve, and settle aging failed trades and structural breaks.
• Client Service & Query Resolution: Provided rapid, effective resolution to high-priority client queries, proactively anticipating future structural requirements to deepen stakeholder relationships.
• Quality Audits & Operational Controls: Conducted comprehensive quality audits and implemented robust check procedures to evaluate internal control systems, highlight process shortcomings, and align workflows with statutory norms.
• Reporting & Resource Tracking: Generated critical daily Certification Reports and monitored end-to-end team resource utilization to track productivity and maintain clean audit trails.

Key Achievements:

• "Syntel Champ" Award: Honored with the "Syntel Champ" designation for consistently executing all assigned deliverables under tight market deadlines with 100% data accuracy.
• Executive & International Appreciation: Received multiple formal commendations from the Assistant Vice President (Boston) for successfully reconciling high-volume FX transactions, clearing complex aging FX breaks, and delivering elite client communication.