Anup Kumar Chouhan
Summary
A high-impact Finance Professional with a holistic team approach offering 12+ year of career success in driving organizational growth in Corporate action processing, Client Service, Functional Testing, and Claims to meet performances. Presently demonstrating expertise for function as Manager Corporate-Action Processing performing ongoing monitoring & due diligence for Saxo Group India. Instrumental in understanding the problems and challenges of clients and identifying ways the business could better address those needs; contributed to generating & implementing ideas for improvement of processes across Customer Service. . Dedicated and adaptable professional with a proactive attitude and the ability to learn quickly. Strong work ethic and effective communication skills. Eager to contribute to a dynamic team and support organizational goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager
Saxo Group India PVT LTD.
05.2022 - Current
- Managing corporate action payment team.
- Processing end to end Corporate action (all event type Mandatory, Voluntary and mandatory with option)
- Responsible for coordinating daily BAU, work allocation, work completion as per SLA and EOD sign off.
- Coordinating with internal teams and externally with custodian and other stakeholders to fix the issues.
- Participating in the Postmortem call after the issues and to work in the upcoming future perspectives.
- Planning and execution of future prospect (month end and or end volume)
- Preparing training plan for new joiners and onboarding them for process BAU and taking time to time training sessions to clear doubts.
- Leading daily huddle and discuss challenges facing by team, resolving team mates query.
- Responsible for accuracy of events processing, doing quality checks, internal and external errors are to be discussed with team and working towards error reduction.
- Liaising with IT team for process automation, ongoing project implementation, bug testing and raising it with CA Support.
- Providing resolution to clients on their query related to Corporate Action.
Senior Analyst (Coupon and Redemption)
NWM Services India PVT LTD
05.2019 - 05.2022
- Preparation of client money report as per FSA requirement.
- Position and cash reconciliation with counterparty, Books and Agent.
- Claim the funds from counterparty of bank’s receivable or payable on the back of repo, lending/borrowing or cash trade.
- Processing of Coupon, redemptions, Principal and Interest.
- Inputting, validating and authorizing the payment processed through Swift Alliance.
- Liaise with traders, business managers and credit controllers to resolve the issue promptly and ensure relationships with internal and external clients are open, transparent and in good faith.
- Researching root cause of Fails, breaks and drive through new initiatives to prevent reoccurrence.
- Liaising with internal team to set up counterparties data in our system.
- Handling Ad-hoc request from desk and counterparty in regards to sensitive client and maintain market deadline to avoid potential risk.
- Preparation of daily break report, MIS and month end reporting.
- Working closely with cash funding team maintain transactions of High value.
- Handle various exceptions with regards to procedures, system and market.
Research Analyst II (Corporate Action Analyst)
IHS Markit India PVT LTD
02.2017 - 05.2019
- Researching and scrubbing the data of pre corporate action announcement across the industry of EMEA region for the clients based on their security of interest.
- Utilize company report, stock exchange announcement, and depository prospectus, custodian records to successfully complete the composite.
- Providing accurate facts and figures of different corporate action events to our clients by contacting company management (Investor relation or CFO, CEO) with timeliness and accuracy.
- Interacting with domestic and foreign paying agent or clearing agent or custodian and legal console of the industry for key data facts of the events.
- Resolving ad hoc Client Query and provide them response on time.
- Contribute in process development by raising inputs and connect with product team to implement the same in the process.
- Running different checks and procedure which helps to serve error free composite records to clients and helps the team to maintain Quality.
- Actively working with our global teams for the process enhancement.
- Verify the vendor data and raise the discrepancy with vendors.
- Capturing special scenario and preparing SOP’S.
- Review daily exception report, research and resolve exceptions.
- Communication with client in working group agenda to resolve identified issue, SLA breaches and making necessary changes as required.
Consultant
Genpact Headstrong Capital Market
09.2014 - 02.2017
- Responsible for daily and month-end Cash & Position reconciliation of portfolios with various asset class equity, fixed income, mutual funds, TIPS Trades.
- Core reconciliation between custodian and client data using Intellimatch, Eagle and Bloomberg.
- Responsible for managing Slow accounts.
- Researching on MF, MM trades, Corporate action activities and provide the facts and figures to the client.
- Performing Cost basis adjustments to ensure accuracy of G/L reporting for portfolio manager’s.
- Identify and resolve differences due to CORPORATE ACTIONS in the designated accounts & follow up with the offshore team if any discrepancies.
- Monitoring Fee charge on various accounts. (Management fee, Advisory fee)
- Performing Funding of new portfolios as well as closing procedure into accounting system.
- Actively working on Ad hoc request received from Client.
Functional Analyst
Infosys BPO Limited
05.2013 - 09.2014
- Reconciling the cash between custody and Client Accounting.
- Reconciling the cash for Mutual funds and Hedge funds.
- Administering and monitoring the Fund accounting and Asset services for top investment Bank.
- Calculation and payment of dividends and distributions.
- Research for the variance ie interest, pay down, future and options and clear them accordingly.
- Monitoring the accuracy and impact on Net Asset Value (NAV) of funds.
- Assessing and minimizing risk associated with custody services.
- Responsible for Effort estimation through Time & Motion study.
- Work on corporate action setup.
- Preparing and presenting Weekly and monthly reports to clients.
- Databases Used: Eagle star, Bloomberg, Intelli match, ADP (Automatic Data Processer), Gains keeper.
Education
Post graduate Diploma - Finance
Symbiosis Center For Distance Learning
PuneB.A. (Hons.) - History
Vinoba Bhave University
Hazaribagh12th -
Jharkhand Academic Council
10th -
Jharkhand Secondary Examination Board
Skills
- Corporate action processing
- Training and development
- Team leadership
- Process improvement
- Quality control
- Process automation
- Workload management
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 01/09/88
- Marital Status: Married
Certification
- Asset servicing ( CISI)
Timeline
Manager
Saxo Group India PVT LTD.
05.2022 - Current
Senior Analyst (Coupon and Redemption)
NWM Services India PVT LTD
05.2019 - 05.2022
Research Analyst II (Corporate Action Analyst)
IHS Markit India PVT LTD
02.2017 - 05.2019
Consultant
Genpact Headstrong Capital Market
09.2014 - 02.2017
Functional Analyst
Infosys BPO Limited
05.2013 - 09.2014
Post graduate Diploma - Finance
Symbiosis Center For Distance Learning
B.A. (Hons.) - History
Vinoba Bhave University
12th -
Jharkhand Academic Council
10th -
Jharkhand Secondary Examination Board
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