Ashok Kumar-G
Finance Expert
Bengaluru
Summary
Personal Summary An incisive professional with overall 12 years of experience in Investment Banking operations and aspiring for a growth oriented career providing scope for continuous learning and work in a progressive work culture with the freedom of creativity and innovation and where there is ample scope for proving my Strong facilitator adept at working cross-departmentally with co-management and top-level leadership. Excellent trainer and mentor.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead
Societe Generale
Bangalore
06.2019 - Current
- Middle Office Services
- Operations and Team Management Managed team of 14 employees, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees
- Perform real time trade booking and settlements for Asset Management clients onboarded by SG
- Lead projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement
- Perform and monitor day to day processing of trade operations, functions including booking, Confirmation and Settlements and some Valuation activities of OTC products for the Assert Management Clients Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork
- Perform timely and regular reporting to senior management and relationship manageress and Project charter on migration and automation projects.
Senior Markets Officer
Australia and New Zealand Bank India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
06.2015 - 06.2019
- Derivatives & Commodities Settlements team
- Operations and Team Management Ensuring seamless functioning of the process with adherence to set SLA’s
- Constantly seek for System Enhancement opportunities to eliminate manual intervention
- Understanding the client’s and the organization’s goals / objectives and creating a framework for the team to help achieve them
- Identify any Processing Synergies between teams to create additional capacity within them by re- engineering the existing structure
- Work with the managers in preparation of the Cross-Skill Matrix for the team
- Handling customer, internal stakeholders and other queries.
Process Executive
Deutsche Bank Operations India
08.2010 - 06.2015
- Derivatives and Brokerage
- PRE and POST SETTLEMENT / INVESTIGATION PROCESS:
- Migrated top Teir1 clients from Birmingham to Bangalore.
- Handled Brokerage process from generating invoices till payments to all broker
- Worked in Investigating on Cash breaks, Nostro breaks, aged breaks through Reconciliation
- Investigated basic issues and escalated more complicated concerns.
- Initiating to reject the unapplied funds from client, charges, Interest claims on late payments.
- Allocating the breaks to correct department, analyzing the each assigned breaks, giving an explicit comment, a root cause for breaks
- Projects & Awards
- In two years, span of time Migrated 2 Middle office process from Paris to Bangalore in Socgen (1 with travelling and other virtually)
- Migrated Certificate of deposits (CDs) & Call account process from ANZ London to Bangalore Ops in 2018
- Successful Migrating the Tier one top priority clients (Platinum clients) from Europe to Bangalore in 2014
- Implementation of Murex 3.1 for NDF in 2017
- Participated in multiple testing to improve the process and improved the STP’s rate
- Part of UAT testing and migration from Legacy applications MIDANZ (IBM) to MPE (Murex 3.1)
- Automated collateral payments from system and reduced the manual power and manual errors.
- Identifying the issue missing Zero in CLP CCY and worked as project to fix the issue and clear 13000 breaks.
Education
MBA - Finance
Indian Academy School of Management Studies
Bangalore, Karnataka 06.2008 - 07.2010
Skills
OTC Derivatives-Expert in Swift Payments, Trade booking, Settlements and some of Collateral Activities
Investment banking OperationsProcess management with End to end Trade life cycle
Client Service Delivery (Middle Office)Business analysisRequirement gathering (Problem solving sessions)Document preparationRisk ManagementRTGS Payments and SWIFT messagesExpertise in Reconciliation & BrokerageProcess AutomationMigrated 3 processLean Six Sigma (Orange Belt with one project)Applications usedMurex 211, Murex 31, Merva, Midanz, Pay Plus, Omega Alert, Summit, 3D Cash and cash flowsConfirmations platforms like Mysis, Smartstream TLM, GTSS, DB Autoban DTCC, SITILanguages KnownEnglish, Hindi, Kannada, TeluguAddress : A312, Arna Meadows apartments 115/3, Tejaswini Nagar, Dodda Kammanahalli, BannerghattaMain Rd, Hulimavu, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560076Motivational attitude
Badminton, Music and browsing on social Media
I like to play Badminton a lot. This play will gives good energy. Music will keeps you mind refreshed and active.
Work Availability
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Timeline
Lead
Societe Generale
06.2019 - Current
Senior Markets Officer
Australia and New Zealand Bank India Pvt. Ltd
06.2015 - 06.2019
Process Executive
Deutsche Bank Operations India
08.2010 - 06.2015
MBA - Finance
Indian Academy School of Management Studies
06.2008 - 07.2010