Anvesh A

A dynamic and result oriented professional with 16 years of strong functional expertise in various Investment Banking Core operations such as Back-office Settlements, Nostro and Balance Sheet Reconciliations concentrated in Interest Rate Derivatives and Equity Derivatives products alongside experience in Client Due Diligence with solid Project/Transition, Operations Management skills with both Onshore and Off shore migration experience with continued focus on process excellence and Risk mitigation. Also, pursuing Data Science graduation from IIT Madras to upskill my competent strengths.

• Joined through campus placements, Consistent and Steady career growth from Process Associate to Associate Vice President.
• Involved in several projects’ management and implementation during the experience by working closely with Technology and Applications support.
• Expertise in managing several projects in conjunction with UAT environment so as to implement in environment.
• Several process improvements
• Proven People manager with accurate and balanced focus on deliverables with nil people dependency.
• Ensured the smooth transition of the team more than 50 FTEs in a six-month window, meeting the aggressive ramp up targets.
• Consistently delivered 10% improvement targets by identifying various Process excellence opportunities
• With the use of succession plan a robust back up has been created across all sub process to make the process independent from people.
• Travelled Singapore and successfully handled a role of supervisor part of Onshore Project Risk Control Operations, Market Risk-Singapore for 2.5 years.
• Received Barclays prestigious altitude awards for 4 consecutive quarters for excellence and innovation.
• Received 7.8 rating out of 8 in Client engagement survey for exceptional service delivery and process management.
• Expertise in Global reconciliations tools such as TLM, Intellimatch etc. and other in-house applications.
• Successfully handled transitions of reconciliation departments across various product lines such as Nostro Cash Equities, OTC Equity Derivatives from UK business counterparts.
• Successfully lead the project of GCRS release (Group Consolidation and Reporting System) consecutively five times as a part of Risk Control Operations team in Singapore.
• Successfully lead the project of migration of Equities business from one Equity related applications to FICC part of Risk Control Operations team in Singapore.
• Successfully handled the testing and relation with up-gradation of versions for dependent Risk Management Systems part of Risk Control Operations team in Singapore.
• Successfully handled migration of Rex Production and Nostro Reconciliation for OTC Equity Derivatives process from UK.
• Developed many rules in Rex to auto match the non risk breaks, exclude the expiry trades and to populate the correct position for the trades from settlement system to match those trades with booking system.
• Project on increase of auto match rate of 36 reconciliations benefited the onshore by reducing the break volume

• 09/19, present, Associate Vice President - Client Due Diligence, NatWest Group, Chennai, Managing Client Due Diligence Account involves performing KYC for New Clients, Event Driven Reviews, Ongoing Reviews for existing clients, Quality check and Controls team part of NWM.
• 06/16, 08/19, Manager II – Equities, Interest Rate Derivatives Settlements, NatWest Group, Chennai, Responsible for Back-office Settlements and Reconciliation for Equities, Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives and Inter Bank Settlements operations for a team of 45 members working alongside with Technology on project management for results driven efficiencies.
• 06/15, 05/16, Team Manager, Balance sheet Reconciliations, IRD Derivatives, Wipro Ltd, Barclays, Chennai, Responsible for the service delivery of Balance sheet Reconciliations as Team Manager team Manager for 35 members.
• 04/14, 07/15, Team Leader, Equities Stock reconciliations, Wipro Ltd, Barclays, Chennai, Responsible for delivery of manual cash and stock reconciliations concentrated on Equities, OTC Derivatives, Exchange traded options, Unit trust funds etc by managing a team of 20 members.
• 12/12, 03/14, Process Specialist, Nostro Reconciliations, Infosys Ltd, UBS Client, Bangalore, Handled a role of SME and process specialist for IRD Derivatives Settlements for a team of 15 members.
• 09/10, 12/12, Market Risk Analyst, Interest Rate Derivatives, UBS, Singapore, Handled a role of SME and Market Risk Analyst for Onsite project ‘Market Risk – Risk Control Operations’ for Derivatives products, Singapore for 2 years
• 05/07, 09/10, Senior Process Associate, Trade & Position Reconciliations - Derivatives, Infosys Ltd, UBS Client, Bangalore, Joined as an Analyst through Campus placements and handled roles of Associate, Senior process associate and SME for Various Reconciliations projects such as Trade and Position, Nostro & Depot concentrated on Equities products.