Ashutosh Mishra

Financial or Treasury Risk Management:

• Managing the whole spectrum of financial risks for the company – foreign exchange fluctuations, interest rates optimization, commodity price risk – using forwards, options, swaps and other derivatives
• Formulating and updating the overall hedging policy for the company and presenting the same to the Board of Directors for approval
• Reviewing the funds flow statements and the liquidity situation of the company as part of finance leadership team
• Creating the Annual Business Plan for treasury risk management and budgeting the annual hedging cost for imports, exports, loans and commodities
• Formulation and evaluation of hedging strategies like foreign exchange options, interest rates swaps, commodity swaps, exotic options for forex and interest rates optimization as well as reduction of hedging costs
• Monitoring and analyzing the global as well as local macro environment and markets to gauge the impact on the company’s financial risk
• Formulating well informed and analyzed market views on foreign exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices in order to suggest hedging ideas to the CEO and the Board.
• Overseeing the hedge accounting, hedging cost allocation and non-derivatives hedging process for the company

Internal Stakeholder Management:

• Working closely with the working capital team for exposure capture and timely execution of hedging
• Collaborating with long term debt raising team to optimize the source and the type of funding
• Collaborating with our sales and marketing team, commercial and procurements team, shipping and logistics team and plant location offices for automated data flow and efficient decision making

Banking Relationship Management:

• Maintaining cordial working relationship with corporate bankers and markets salespersons
• Dealing and negotiating with banks on pricing of treasury products
• Making sure that adequate treasury/hedging limits are in place
• Negotiation and signing of banking agreements, ISDAs, confirmations and other documentation

Human Capital Management:

• Leading and managing the treasury team comprising of senior traders, analysts, managers and accountants
• Providing thought leadership, engaging the team, motivating them to give their best
• Improving interpersonal work environment, increasing communication and team building

Digitization and Automation:

• Automation of the overall function as well as underlying processes
• Creation of automated bridges for data flow across functions and regions
• Look for opportunities to automate process to improve efficiency and productivity

• In this Consultant Contract role, I helped in developing India and ME launch and market growth strategy for Staytouch, Identify and develop new business opportunities
• Delivered on Client acquisition and growth targets
• Managed a cross-functional team to guide and nourish sustainable, long-term growth

• As a part of leadership team since the starting of India branch, played a key role in setting up and leading treasury and markets function in line with the bank’s international strategic direction
• As the head of the markets team covering corporate clients and MNCs, delivered more than budgeted revenues for more than nine years in a row
• Created a culture of consultative risk management, i.e., understanding the corporates’ foreign exchange, interest rates and commodity risk management needs and structuring solutions to meet them
• Formulated views on currency, interest rates and advised clients on timing of funding and hedging trades
• Performed extensive cross-functional work with the relationship management, transaction banking, operations, legal, trading and structuring teams
• Achieved a high standard of compliance for the complex regulatory aspects of markets sales, managing internal audits as well as regulatory Inspections and audits on behalf of markets
• Represented ANZ on regulatory fora as well as liaised with RBI on specific issues
• Recruited and led the team that structures and sells foreign exchange, fixed income derivatives and commodities products to corporate clients (portfolio of 100 local and MNC clients)
• Formulated and implemented operations improvement projects resulting in up to 20% savings in costs

• Launched the Fixed Income operations in India and executed the strategy for growth as a member of the core team responsible for setting up Goldman’s Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC)
• Played a key role in procuring two licenses - NBFC and Primary Dealership
• Worked with senior management on banking license application of Goldman Sachs
• Acquired over 50 institutional customers for NBFC, Primary Dealership and Offshore business

• Engaged with more than twenty senior clients for advisory on financial risk management
• Formed active views on foreign exchange, interest rates and commodity markets and advised clients
• Performed sales and structuring of financial derivatives including exotic structures in multiple asset classes with average annual revenue of USD 10 million
• Managed many deals in USD and JPY International Debt Capital Markets and INR bonds issuance in India

• Pricing of foreign exchange and options products
• Advising clients on markets

• Derivatives research, Asset Liability management and treasury transfer pricing