Anand Karnawat
Pune
Summary
I am a seasoned professional with 9+ years of experience as a Production Support Analyst in the Capital Markets front office and risk management division. When necessary, I can operate at both technical and business levels. Provide extensive experience of more than three years working closely with the front office trading desk.
Currently co-leading a global team that supports an elite investment bank's equities and derivatives operations. I’ve been exposed to various asset classes and have an understanding of vanilla, exotic derivative products, Structured products, trade lifecycle, key FO risk management, and PL analysis processes.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Analyst
CRISIL Ltd
Pune
08.2021 - Current
- Investigation of issues with production, take action in accordance with SLAs for production defect severity, and make sure events are handled within KPI. The capacity to function in a high-pressure setting as an application support specialist.
- Ensure daily start of day (SOD) and end of day (EOD) execution of supported applications complete successfully.
- Collaborate closely on various trading application queries with the Quants team, COOs, and Trading Desk.
- Proficient in overseeing the trade lifecycle, which includes , receiving orders, trade execution, portfolio valuation, risk valuation, and supporting front-office applications.
- Proficiency with third-party monitoring technologies such as Tableau dashboards, Grafana, Control-M, Geneos, Splunk, SQL, and Mongo DB.
- Good Exposure with Python scripting, Unix/Windows platforms, and FIX messaging.
- In charge of capturing trade executions in risk management systems and responding to a range of trading inquiries about position breaks, product setup, problems with different risk systems, trade valuation methodologies/configuration changes, corporate action support, trade migrations, different product valuation challenges, and/or manual or algorithmic executions.
- Provide second and third level support, handle incident calls during outages, and collaborate with multiple stakeholders upstream and downstream to promptly fix problems. Collaborate closely with the business and COO to capture the required impacts.
- Exposure to pricing of various asset classes viz exchange or OTC traded equities, Equity Derivatives and Structured products.
- Helped traders with a variety of simulation views, such as real-time front office application assistance, where problems with PL arose from a variety of market and static data issues, post-release checksouts, corporate actions, etc.
- Participating in the quarterly maintenance (QMW) and disaster recovery (DR) activities.
- Provide L2 support to Overnight risk batch monitoring
including capacity analysis for Azure and AWS platforms - Additionally validating the risk solution for each and every IT errors and fixing it within the predetermined SLAs
- Assist Product Controllers, Value End of Month P&L of traders' portfolios, price testing, and daily reconciliation of the risk system. The risks considered include those resulting from bumping Greeks, scenarios based on various market situations, and PnL attribution based on T0 and T1 positions. Help and coordinate the resolution of FO-BO breakdowns.
- Work with Developers, Quants team, and Business users to test/onboard new products.
- Additionally, doubled up as Business Analyst to prioritize different code releases, create JIRA tickets to track requirements, and comprehend and document requirements of various stakeholders. I also developed a proof of concept for various new initiatives. Utilized ServiceNow and JIRA and adhere to the ITIL framework for effective incident, problem, and change management procedures.
- Understanding of BASEL framework , VaR methodologies (Historical simulation including full revaluation approach and risk sensitivities methodology and computation, Stress VAR and Back testing, ES, understanding of FRTB (Fundamental Review of Trading Book), Boot strapping.
- Developed and maintained key performance indicators to track progress against goals.
- Analyzed customer data to identify trends and develop insights for strategic decision-making.
- Created reports on project status, resource utilization, and other metrics to drive organizational efficiency.
- Provided guidance and mentorship to junior analysts in order to build a high-performing team.
Advisory Technical Support Specialist
IBM
Pune
12.2020 - 08.2021
- Primary responsibility is to ensure all the applications used for trade settlements are up and running.
- Ensuring all the trades settlements messages are flown to Broadridge for settlement and acknowledgments are captured.
- Monitoring of batch processing, system performance parameters and other critical documented processes and also liaison with upstream/3rd party entities for data.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Pune
11.2014 - 09.2020
- Primary responsibility is providing client focused solutions and successfully analyzing and delivering high priority enhancements in complex multi-tier application architecture
- Creating and establishing file feeds across various systems while automating the file flow using Tidal Scheduler/Control M by setting up jobs
- Resolution of incidents, assisting Client Support Managers with handling service requests, and supporting 25 apps, including those for risk generation, trading, and pricing, with major production concerns
- Daily production, maintenance, and improvement issues, as well as high severity events reported (or proactively notified) by traders and salespeople within SLA for all the applications, must be managed and maintained to prevent any production disruptions.
- Batch and systems monitoring includes keeping tabs on system performance metrics, other crucial defined procedures, and data exchanges with upstream or outside parties
- Taking Part in the High intensity event, Disaster Recovery activity, maintenance operations, and checkouts
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer
Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering
Pune07-2014
Diploma - Computer Engineering
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
Pune07-2011
Skills
- Processes : Front-Office Application Support-RMS, Trade Life Cycle, FIX, ITIL, Batch Scheduling, Real-time Monitoring, Release Management, Outage & Problem Management, Incident Management, Disaster Recovery, Unix/Linux
- Databases : MSSQL Server, Mongo, Sybase, Oracle
- Project Management : Sharepoint, Confluence, JIRA,
Geneos, Nagios, Service Now, ITIL
- Analytics : Splunk, Tableau, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics
- Tools : Tectia, Putty, DBeaver, RapidSQL, Ringmaster, VSC, Teamcity, Robo 3T, Mongo Compass, GIT
Work Authorization
US H1-B Visa holder with start date as 05/04/23
Current Role
Lead Analyst
Timeline
Lead Analyst
CRISIL Ltd
08.2021 - Current
Advisory Technical Support Specialist
IBM
12.2020 - 08.2021
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
11.2014 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer
Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering
Diploma - Computer Engineering
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
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