ASHISH PATHADE

Team: Credit Risk PE Analytics (RDM)

Role: Risk control Specialist (SFT & CCP)

Duration: August 2024 to December 2024

Responsibilities:

• Managed and analyzed daily risk control activities, spanning credit and market risk business processes, including collateral and netting management, valuation adjustments, sensitivity and Greeks analysis, VaR monitoring, and counterparty exposure analysis and capital adequacy assessment.
• Validated Potential Exposure/DLE for Repos/Reverse Repos, Security Lending/Borrowing, and exchange-traded futures and options at various frequencies (daily, weekly, monthly) and provided support to credit risk managers on multiple counterparty queries, ensuring accurate and timely risk assessment and mitigation.
• Passing adjustments for data quality or one-off issues.
• Ensured adherence to regulatory guidelines and audit requirements while performing daily risk control activities, maintaining the highest standards of compliance and risk management.

Team: Counterparty Credit Risk - CRO Change

Role: Change BA / Product Owner

Duration: July 2020 -July 2024

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the key SME for Credit Risk Exposure Methodologies, ensuring accurate implementation of EAD models into the Strategic Counterparty Credit Risk System in alignment with BASEL III mandates.
• Managing Change Management function for Credit and Regulatory Projects and Reporting like Exposures, PE, EPE, EEPE and Risk Weighted Assets
• Ensured data completeness and accuracy in global Credit Risk systems, including trade information, positions, collateral, and potential exposure calculations.
• Designed and executed enhancements for SA-CCR and IMM models, including frameworks for Custodian and Collateral Haircuts, Strategic Collateral Eligibility and Correlated Collateral eligibility Framework.
• Collaborated with Modelling Teams, Credit Officers, and IT stakeholders to translate business requirements into detailed Functional Specification Documents (FRDs).
• Conducted impact analysis on Exposure Matrices and RWA metrics, improving internal and regulatory reporting for FINMA and PRA compliance.

Team: RFDAR-Credit Risk Data Sourcing

Role: Risk/Data Business Analyst

Duration: Jan 2018 -June 2020

Responsibilities:

• Ensure completeness and accuracy of credit risk data in the global Credit Risk system, including: trade information, positions, collateral and potential exposure calculations through variety of feeds from front/back office divisions.
• Develop feed specifications for new products scoped to be included in credit risk system
• Design solutions to feed the exposure/trades/position data into Credit Risk System from other data sources
• Document the functional specification and ensure that all feed changes are documented
• Liase with respective IT team (Dev & QA) to get the change implemented , tested and verified.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a business analyst for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID) II regulatory reporting for ESMA.
• Worked on TRSaaS Framework (Trade Reporting software for Cross Jurisdiction)
• Owned and provided functional design for Module within TRSAAS framework for Trade Reporting, Valuation Reporting, Confirmation Reporting, Collateral Reporting.
• Responsible for gathering and writing functional requirements user stories for report regulation and coordinating with cross functional teams for requirement traceability
• Also involved in UAT, Regression Testing, creating and reviewing test cases and requirements to test cases using processes based knowledge

Product: Commodity XL (Commodity/Energy trading and Risk Management)

Provided comprehensive support and business consultancy for Front, Middle, and Back-office functions, including physical and paper deal entry, trade position analysis, risk management, physical operation and settlement.

My work encompassed operations activities adhering to industry best practices for prominent EMEA clients such as Gunvor, Glencore Coal, Socar Trading, Capital One, Reliance, Cargill, and Greenergy UK etc.

Additionally, I offered intermittent support for clients in the Americas and APAC regions. I also contributed to a legacy migration project during this tenure.

Responsibilities:

• Led efforts for on-site and off-site modeling, configuration, data entry, training, testing, and support.
• Collaborated directly with the Project Manager to outline key sections of the Project Plan.
• Provided Business Analysis Services, including requirements gathering, scenario modeling, demonstration, gap analysis, and functional design specification.
• Created and compiled software, client, and industry-specific documentation.
• Managed issue/resolution tracking and acted as a liaison between clients and Triple Point departments such as Engineering, Quality Assurance, Global Support, and Account Management.
• Conducted analysis and investigation of production issues within the existing system, preparing change request documents and overseeing the change request lifecycle through to post-production deployment.
• Delivered training to clients and internal Triple Point staff on software, client-specific, and industry-specific concept.