Arvind Kailasam
Business Analyst , HSBC Electronic Data Processing Private Limited
Bangalore
Summary
A versatile professional with 17+ years of experience spanning across finance and accounts functions such as risk management, financial project management, process migrations, process improvement, analytics & reporting, managing OTC derivatives, reconciliations, auditing, statutory compliance, stakeholder management and people management.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Business Analyst - Global Disclosures of Interest Operations
HSBC Electronic Data Processing Private Limited
4 2021 - Current
- Optimized data access and storage to improve performance of analytics systems.
- Facilitated change management initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions during organizational transformations.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Partnered with QlikSense developers to develop and integrate dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
- Developed and implemented data governance policies and procedures.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.
- Utilized data visualization techniques to present and explain complex data sets.
- Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
- Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
- Performed gap analysis between existing systems or processes and desired state, identifying areas for improvement or enhancement.
- Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
- Assessed business requirements to forecast annual budgetary operational costs.
- Created data models to support decision-making processes.
- Ensured compliance with industry regulations by conducting thorough risk assessments and implementing necessary controls.
- Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
Project Manager, Global Disclosures of Interest Operations
Randstad India Private Limited (Client: HSBC)
06.2020 - 12.2020
- Overseeing purpose and status of projects, support project level activities to ensure project timelines are met
- Responsible for driving multiple projects/programs for one or multiple business services globally, building project pipeline and ensure project delivered on time
- Engaging and Influencing diverse group of stakeholders on value proposition of initiative
- Staying on track with schedule and plan – obtaining sign-offs in a timely manner.
- Delivered exceptional customer satisfaction by proactively addressing client concerns and meeting or exceeding expectations throughout the engagement process.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
Team Manager, Margin, Collateral and Valuations Team
Goldman Sachs Services Private Limited
05.2017 - 04.2019
- Managing day-to-day tasks of team
- Accountable for SME on collateral interest/ coupon processing
- Escalating immediate issues to senior management
- Meeting deadlines without compromising on quality & adhere to SLA, ensuring speedy resolution of queries & grievances to maximize client satisfaction levels
- Guiding, training & mentoring team members
- Elicited/ analyzed/ validated/ documented business, organizational and/or operational requirements
- Gathered & defined business requirements while managing the risks to improve business processes and translating the requirements into systems solution by preparing functional specifications
- Made significant contributions in controlling the backlog on aging interest and coupon payments / receipts
- Credited for migrating the audit confirmation function to Bangalore with a success rate of 100%
- Received positive feedback and appreciation from customers for maintaining customer delight consistently
- Judiciously identified areas of improvement in the process and suggested techniques/ methods such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for resolving the same to gain optimization
- Entrusted with the onus of conducting year interviews for contingent/ interns/ full time employees (on-site & offsite).
Team Manager, Risk and Control
Goldman Sachs Services Private Limited
08.2006 - 05.2017
- Employed robust experience in implementing comprehensive risk management process that identified various forms of risks, measured risks (specifically market and operational risks) and managed risks
- Handled key external (regulatory changes) and Internal infrastructure change projects - Preparing Business requirement documents, test scripts, go-live and post go-live issue handling
- Keenly partook across various firm-wide projects within Goldman Sachs (GSEC-GSCO Clearing Business Migration, Migration of reconciliations from Gocars to Harmony (Rec platform change) and industry wide projects such as DTC ACATS Settling assets project, ETF Re-write project, Margin Rules
- Took cognizance of all service related incidents, worked to enhance controls and improved capability by contributing to successful execution of Operations Strategy and Continuous Improvement Plan
- Managed reconciliations of cash and security balances with various books and sub-ledgers
- Strictly adhered to rules and regulations prescribed by Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial Services Authority (FSA) while performing reconciliation of cash and security balances with external parties, as member of Global Control-Operations Team
- Provided all requisite information to client’s auditors
- Proved instrumental, throughout the lifecycle of a Corporate Advisory or Financing Deal such as control framework, in managing the operational risk of the business & stock and cash movements
- Delivered expertise in preparing and consolidating year end reviews by preparing quarterly RCSA reports for sign-off
- Served effectively as BCP (Business Continuity Program) Champion for team
- Put in distinguished efforts to perform health check status of team for weekly reports by analyzing team’s performance for the week and delivering feedback to the team members (monthly)
- Orchestrated and administered all facets of daily work allocation, leave planning & management, cross training plans & their progress tracking, headcount allocation/ assessment / delivering year end employee reviews
- Collaborated with the respective ops group in resolving aged exceptions/ complex exception scenarios.
AXA Business Services
07.2004 - 08.2006
- Drove sincere efforts to support organization’s equitable which involved high monetary transactions requiring closure within the same working day
- Leveraged broad competencies in processing surrenders & loans, including providing constant guidance and support to the whole team
- Primarily tasked with ensuring proper delegation of work for continuous operations & on time delivery; managing and updating day-to-day reports for facilitating senior managerial decisions
- Achieved efficiencies in training and orienting the new entrants and members from other processes
- Escalated issues to senior management on quality concerns with due analysis along with advice and recommendation for final decisions
- Bestowed with the ‘Best Analyst Award’ and ‘Star Team Award’ in 2003 for zero breakage (no errors)
- Maintained “Breakage level” to 0 or NIL Breakage in periods of high volumes
- Having credentials of receiving positive feedback from the offshore and the onshore teams as well
- Assured observance of the process essentials and captured/ isolated bottlenecks for smooth working of the processes.
Education
B.Com. -
Sri Bhagawan Maheveer Jain College, Bangalore University
Skills
Analytical Skills
undefinedCertification
● Certified PRINCE2 (R) Project Manager
Personal Information
Address: Salarpuria Symphony Apt, Begur Hosur main road, Bangalore - 560100
Date of Birth: 08/26/1983
Hobbies: Photography
Contact # : +91-9986877526
Timeline
Project Manager, Global Disclosures of Interest Operations
Randstad India Private Limited (Client: HSBC)
06.2020 - 12.2020
Team Manager, Margin, Collateral and Valuations Team
Goldman Sachs Services Private Limited
05.2017 - 04.2019
Team Manager, Risk and Control
Goldman Sachs Services Private Limited
08.2006 - 05.2017
AXA Business Services
07.2004 - 08.2006
Business Analyst - Global Disclosures of Interest Operations
HSBC Electronic Data Processing Private Limited
4 2021 - Current
B.Com. -
Sri Bhagawan Maheveer Jain College, Bangalore University
● Certified PRINCE2 (R) Project Manager
● MIT Certified Data Analytics Professional
● Diploma in International Financial Reporting Standards from Ernst & Young
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