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ARAVIND MANI

ARAVIND MANI

Investment Banking
Chennai,TN

Summary

Proactive and professional with 11 years of experience, possess proven knowledge of investment management and strong ability to secure challenging positions in various multi-asset classes and treasury operations for middle and back office. Committed to working to the best of potential in order to aid the company in reaching its pinnacle of success. Talented manager with honed team leadership, planning, and organizational skills throughout successful career. Excel at equipping employees to independently handle daily functions and meet customer needs. Diligent training and mentoring abilities, coupled with results-driven approach, consistently drive exceptional management outcomes.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2025
2025
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Manager – OTC Derivatives and Agency Lending

BNP Paribas
10.2022 - Current
  • Spearhead a team of 13 members including 2 Assistant Manager for OTC derivatives, FINRA regulations and Agency Lending and securities lending operations.
  • Migrated Collateral Management for FINRA regulation from US region.
  • Handling Projects, MIS reporting, Book and Bundles of the clients, UAT testing of the applications such as Calypso and Mainline.
  • Handling Escalations, client calls, KPI, KRI and risk management.
  • Perform a wide array of development functions, including interviewing, performance appraisals, development planning and corrective actions, year-end reviews and appraisal.
  • Resolve escalation internally and externally.
  • Implementing the control activities for risk avoidance and implementing new procedures.
  • Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk policies.
  • Collaborated with IT to develop systems for trade capture and risk management.
  • Collaborated with a system to develop and utilize necessary reports for monthly billing process.
  • Managed daily review of the automated reconciliations/contract compare process with broker dealers through market data vendors and escalated unresolved issues: resolved all variances and any loan rate breaks and amendments by liaising with operations, trading and financial reporting and other internal departments.
  • Handling TLC, Trade Booking, Matching, Settlements for OTC derivatives products such as Fixed Income, Equity and FX trades for various clients and Hands on Experience with applications such as ICE, Trade Serv, MTM, Markit, DTCC, TLM, Colline, Calypso.
  • Issuing Loans and returns to the Counterparties after receiving the collateral from the brokers.
  • Identifying opportunities for improving the efficiency of the process as well as identifying the training requirements for team members.

Analyst Grade 6 – Customer Service & Operations Analyst

NatWest Markets
01.2021 - 10.2022
  • Handled 9 members team for Collateral and reconciliation process.
  • On boarding CSA and ISDA agreements for the Counter parties for issue the margin calls, also updating the client contacts to issue the margin calls.
  • Handling the OTC Margin calls both Demand and anticipated demand.
  • Worked in resolving Cash breaks and security breaks for margin calls.
  • Settling interest for the respective CP within the deadline time.
  • Processed the client trades on the NatWest side by cross verifying with the CP trade file.
  • Portfolio Reconciliation, to make sure all the trades are captured downstream and help us to identify if any trade has been missed and we can investigate on the same to make front office and back-office system inline.
  • Running control reports and reporting to the management regarding the Issues, Risk incidence, volumes on weekly basis and escalating issues to the management which is top priority and finding solutions to not have a financial or operational risk.

Emerging TL – Middle Office

State Street Corporation
06.2018 - 01.2021
  • OTC Derivatives – Migrating client business from US (Boston & New York) to India.
  • Migrated FX and option (Equity, Commodity & FX) and Collateral Management process.
  • Investigating and resolving discrepancies of positions for both cash and securities.
  • Reviewing all the OTC trade documents – Products covered - interest rate swaps (Basis swap, X-currency & swaption), FX Swap, various exotic options, equity swaps& credit derivatives.
  • MUREX 3.1 version & IFS systems used for FX and Options products.
  • Trade Validation in MUREX 3.1 to ensure all the major trade economics are matching against the CP confirmation trade document and send all the structured option trades to client for a review and amending the trade economics in MUREX application after confirmation from the Front office desk.
  • Trade confirmation through GTSS, CLS and CTM platforms.
  • Reconcile and address NAV Queries by reviewing the positions and P&L with the client.

Process Executive – Collateral Management

Société Générale Global Solutions
08.2016 - 06.2018
  • Responsible for tasks pre-sign and post sign-off margin Calls.
  • Investigating and closing of trade breaks holding margin calls, updating Independent Amounts before margin calls are sent, working daily manual overrides, handling queries from various stakeholders.
  • Sending out the margin call for closure of business to clients before or on notification time.
  • Handling Initial and variable margin calls and making same day settlement in custodian portals.
  • Issuing and responding to the IM and VM calls through Acadia.
  • Updating broker SSI (Standard Settlement Instructions) in our records to make sure of timely payments and call back for the clients to make payments.
  • Sending swift instructions manually – MT103, MT202, MT210, MT292 & MT299.
  • On boarding CSA agreements for the Counter parties for issue the margin calls, also updating the client contacts to issue the margin calls.

Associate Analyst – Valuations and Margins

WIPRO Private Limited
01.2015 - 08.2016
  • On boarding clients to access valuations website.
  • Reconciling on trade economic breaks, unmatched trades and trades unwinds for OTC Derivatives, FX, Equities and Commodities and providing valuation statements for APAC, EMEA and NAM regions – OTC Derivatives & Global Fixed Income.
  • Liaising with Middle office for trade economic breaks, MTM discrepancy and unmatched trades raised by clients.
  • Preparing and providing Valuations to Clients, Traders and Audit team on a Daily, Weekly, Fortnightly and Monthly basis.
  • Captioning on client query related to price, making a wise decision and addressing the query at the right time.
  • Running stale price report, weekly report, Price variance report, custom calculation report which is going to expire and getting the dates confirmation from risk to roll the price for further dates.
  • Monitoring daily, weekly and monthly activity / checklist and handling counter party queries.

Sales Development Manager

HDFC LIFE
06.2014 - 01.2015
  • Collaborated with sales, marketing and other internal teams to meet shared goals.
  • Developed deep understanding of customer needs, priorities and pain points to deliver customized service.
  • Assessed customer needs and developed customized solutions to drive sales.

Education

MBA - Finance and Marketing

Velammal Engineering College
Chennai, India

Bachelor of Science - E.E.E

Adhiparasakthi Engineering College
04.2001 - 01.2012

HSC - undefined

Jawahar Higher Secondary School

Skills

Bloomberg

Accomplishments

  • Achieved appreciation by introducing BI Tool for reconciliations tasks.
  • Collaborated with team of 4 in the development of FINRA Regulations Collateral Management process
  • Achieved best employee award for 2 consecutive quarters.

Timeline

Manager – OTC Derivatives and Agency Lending

BNP Paribas
10.2022 - Current

Analyst Grade 6 – Customer Service & Operations Analyst

NatWest Markets
01.2021 - 10.2022

Emerging TL – Middle Office

State Street Corporation
06.2018 - 01.2021

Process Executive – Collateral Management

Société Générale Global Solutions
08.2016 - 06.2018

Associate Analyst – Valuations and Margins

WIPRO Private Limited
01.2015 - 08.2016

Sales Development Manager

HDFC LIFE
06.2014 - 01.2015

Bachelor of Science - E.E.E

Adhiparasakthi Engineering College
04.2001 - 01.2012

HSC - undefined

Jawahar Higher Secondary School

MBA - Finance and Marketing

Velammal Engineering College

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