Atul Charatkar
Pune
Summary
Experienced professional with 14+ years in investment banking operations, transitions, change management, and business implementation projects. Seeking a challenging opportunity within the industry to leverage extensive experience and skills for the benefit of the firm and career growth. Confident in expertise and ability to make a significant contribution to organizational success in this field.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Vice President (Middle Office)
Apex Fund Services
03.2021 - Current
- Understanding and analyzing the clients business needs, Document requirement for uploading data into Fundrecs and Calypso.
- Planning and prioritizing of backlog items with stakeholders
- Proficient in dealing with clients, business stakeholders for interpretation of specific requirements
- Reporting and discussing daily activities with PO
- Analyzing issues and raised by client and after that triage further to DEV team and get them fixed
- Validating JIRA’s with different stake holders and take signoff after got fixed by DEV and checked in QA environment.
- Working with different teams like Development team, QA team Prod team
- Working with On boarding team on new client setups and process migrations
- Develop and manage the attainment of compliant, timely and accurate service delivery, including processing functions, service call handling, procedures and escalations to deliver a high-quality level of service
- Interviews, hires and establishes colleague performance development plans; conducts colleague performance reviews
- Fostered strong relationships with key clients, leading to repeat business and a significant increase in customer satisfaction ratings.
Team Leader (Middle Office)
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2013 - 02.2021
- Managing asset data for equities and equity derivatives, benchmarks, user account maintenance, loading the cleansed data into other databases & managing static data
- Coordinated resources effectively to meet project deadlines and achieve desired results.
- Data cleansing & data support to the front & mid-office users, follow-up with data providers, cleansing of data & ensuring the quality of data.
- Ensuring accurate & quality data is available to users and meeting SLAs
- New security addition – resulted out of Corporate Action processing
- Liaising with third-party vendors and data providers like (Bloomberg, Reuters, FTSE) and other service providers like CITI, FTSE, Bloomberg, IBT and JP Morgan responsible for day-to-day work – data cleansing & management checks
- Reconciliation of cash and position breaks between clearing broker and internal systems
- Reporting of daily trading activities to the clients and fund accounting teams
- Handling the queries from various stake holders like Clients, Custodian, Traders, Portfolio Manager, Asset Servicing, Security Lending team and from Brokers/ Counterparties
- Liaising with Counterparty & Custodian to match and settle the trades with in market Cut offs
- Liaising with the IT vendors for up-gradation and improvements in the existing applications
- Automated futures matching process to go electronic via FIX with clearing brokers
- Vendor migration for EMIR Reporting
Operations Executive (Client Service Delivery)
BNY Mellon India Pvt. Ltd
09.2010 - 07.2013
- Setting up new debt securities in the internal systems
- Calculation and verification of interest amount of the first IPD
- Reconciling loans in system with physical documents
- Archiving of Physical loan documents as per SEC guidelines
- Follow-up with the onshore team for the pending and other issues
- Processing redemption request of bond securities in US market
- Reviewing legal documents for bond redemption requests received from brokers
- Taking appropriate action on redemption requests based on issuer requirements
- Verification & preparation of reports for various issuers
- Follow-up with the onshore team for the pending and other issues
- Acknowledge the concerned parties about the submitted or rejected presentations
- Generate reports for the different issuers daily
- Thereby, submit the generated reports on a monthly basis
- Providing process training to new joiners
- Timely reporting of MIS Dashboard, daily EOD report
- Documentation of the process SOP's, Query tracker, Error Feedbacks
- Successfully migrated the Survivor Options process from the Dallas (US) to Pune over WebEx
- Initiated & implemented a Kaizen-Wave idea for the process improvement
- Testing of new workflow tool developed by BNY Mellon for Survivor Options process
Dealer (Equity Advisor)
Sharekhan Stock Broking Ltd.
03.2009 - 06.2010
- Executing transactions taken at office counter and over phone
- Executing trading calls and transactions in NSE & BSE exchange for equity & F&O
- Advising & Servicing HNI & Retail Clients on trading decisions
- Developing and maintaining client relation
- Sending all daily shortage and Auto square reports to client
- Sending all market related information to customers at pre and post trading hours
- Got promoted as a Team Leader within 24 months
- Traveled Oslo, Norway for Custody migration Support
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Finance specialization
Pune University
MCom - Business Administration
Pune University
BCom - Accounting Specialization
Shivaji University
Skills
- Consulting
- Process management oversight
- Customer Service
- Issue Resolution Skills
- Business Planning
Accomplishments
- Worked at client location (Oslo Norway) for the Custody migration project.
- CASI II - Aladdin to SimCorp Dimension (System Migration Project)
- Robotics Process Automation POC (Proof Of Concept) for settlement on UI-Path tool
Awards
- Innovator of the Month, 01/01/13
- Opel award, 09/01/13
- Unicorn award, 10/01/15
- Unicorn award, 05/01/17
- Unicorn award, 03/01/18
- Client Partnership Award, 01/01/19
Certification
- Investment Foundations Certificate by CFA institute
- NCFM Certification in Capital Markets Dealers Module
- NCFM Certification in Derivatives Market (Dealer) Module
- NCFM Certification in Depository Operations Module
Languages
English
Hindi
Marathi
Mobilenumbers
- 9975029516
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 11/27/85
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Assistant Vice President (Middle Office)
Apex Fund Services
03.2021 - Current
Team Leader (Middle Office)
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2013 - 02.2021
Operations Executive (Client Service Delivery)
BNY Mellon India Pvt. Ltd
09.2010 - 07.2013
Dealer (Equity Advisor)
Sharekhan Stock Broking Ltd.
03.2009 - 06.2010
MCom - Business Administration
Pune University
BCom - Accounting Specialization
Shivaji University
Post Graduate Diploma - Finance specialization
Pune University
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