ASHVATH JOSEPH ALEX
Chennai
Summary
Working as an Associate – Lead Specialist at BNY since May 2023, I support the Middle Office Trade Listed function, focusing on trade confirmation and settlement across listed products. Alongside core operations, I’ve led multiple automation and process improvement initiatives, leveraging tools like Alteryx and Advanced Excel (with Macros) to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention. Known for a detail-oriented and solution-driven approach, I actively collaborate across teams to streamline workflows and ensure timely, accurate trade processing.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate – Lead Specialist, Middle Office
Bank of New York
Chennai
07.2024 - Current
- Led the end-to-end transition of Middle Office operations for a new client in 2024, integrating trade support workflows into existing architecture with minimal operational disruption.
- Played a key role in the industry-wide shift to T+1 settlement cycle, driving internal readiness and reinforcing straight-through processing (STP) efficiency across trade capture, enrichment, and settlement.
- Managed a team of 3–4 analysts, leading automation strategy and solution design focused on reducing trade exceptions and manual breaks.
- Directed the development of automation pipelines using Alteryx and Excel VBA Macros to enhance efficiency, reduce error rates, and boost trade flow accuracy.
- Oversaw trade lifecycle activities from trade matching, affirmation, and confirmation to settlement finality, ensuring timely reconciliations and exception management through collaboration with custodians, prime brokers, and clearing houses.
- Designed and implemented control frameworks to monitor key risk indicators (KRIs) and ensure compliance with global regulatory mandates including Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and MiFID II.
- Delivered data-driven presentations and operational dashboards to senior leadership, supporting strategic decisions and operational scaling through trend analysis and root cause diagnostics.
Analyst – Middle Office Trade Support
BNY
Chennai
05.2023 - 06.2024
- Acted as a key point of contact for trade breaks and settlement issues across equities and listed derivatives, ensuring timely resolution within market deadlines and mitigating fails.
- Maintained strong relationships with external counterparties and internal teams (front office, compliance, settlements) to ensure trade flow integrity and facilitate accurate transaction processing.
- Executed daily trade support functions including trade capture, economic validation, exception resolution, blotter reconciliation, and fails management within internal and vendor platforms (e.g., GTSS, Omgeo, DTCC).
- Participation in UAT cycles for system enhancements and contributed to SOP documentation to support business continuity planning (BCP) and knowledge retention.
- Proactively identified process gaps and proposed tactical improvements to enhance throughput and control effectiveness within the trade lifecycle.
- Supported team training efforts and contributed to knowledge transfer sessions, reinforcing best practices across settlement disciplines and regulatory adherence.
Education
MBA - Finance And Marketing
Amrita School of Business
04-2023
Bachelor of Commerce -
Mahatma Gandhi University
05-2021
Skills
- Due diligence
- Portfolio Management
- Time Management
- Analyzing performance
- Microsoft Excel
- Corporate finance
- Analytical Skills
- CTM
- Tradeflow
- CRD
- Aladdin
- Bloomberg
- Trade lifecycle management
- Data analysis
Industry Experience
- Fixed Income Products
- Equity Products
- Foreign Exchange
- Capital Markets
- Reconciliation
- SWIFT Messages
- Confirmation & Affirmations
- Settlements
Project
Conceptualized and deployed an Exception Pattern Recognition and Auto-Triage framework using Alteryx, enabling real-time classification and intelligent routing of trade breaks across confirmation and settlement flows. Reduced manual exception handling by 40%, enhanced operational control, and improved SLA adherence in high-volume trade environments.
Certification
- Advanced Excel - By eLearn Markets
- Digital Marketing and eCommerce- Coursera
- Financial Analysis- Udemy
Timeline
Associate – Lead Specialist, Middle Office
Bank of New York
07.2024 - Current
Analyst – Middle Office Trade Support
BNY
05.2023 - 06.2024
MBA - Finance And Marketing
Amrita School of Business
Bachelor of Commerce -
Mahatma Gandhi University
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