Barkha Thakur
Bangalore
Summary
Gained professional skills with 15+ years of experience in Middle Office and Back Office functions with proven track record of delivering consistent business results. Maximized many great opportunities to work on challenging projects and assignments.
- Expertise in client applications, global market settlement tools.
- Experienced in Risk management and operations, people management, stakeholder management, recruitment and training and development.
- Committed to supporting core business principles and delivering best practice.
- Competent in all aspects of project planning, deployment, enhancement and implementation related to the business.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4012
4012
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Delivery Manager
Societe Generale
08.2023 - Current
- Managing the back-office securities processing for Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking - including settlement, asset servicing, reference data, reconciliation and administrative accounting
- Leading a team of 60 for ASIAN and European markets functions including treasury and settlement for Fixed Income product Cash bonds and stock lending business
- Experienced in setting up and managing risks, controls, governance and compliance functions – Continuous drive on best practices towards control framework for running key financial and operational processes
- Successful migration of legacy process into the global market tool
- Demonstrated in analyzing risk appetite and implementing measures to eliminate risk within process
- Managed the recruitment life-cycle for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources after identification of manpower requirements for various locations and also done campus recruitments
- Managed External and Internal Audit
- Demonstrated excellency in domain knowledge and operational management skills
- Successful migration of multiple processes from onshore to receiving location and from internal department to current department
- Identified ways to utilize the resources to their best potential and to improve process as a whole
- Executed numerous projects related to MT515 process, GPTM migration, cash SSI creations for payment system, custodian migrations, various change requests within the process to help improve and automate, converto migration as part of process movement from Accenture to Societe Generale
AVP
Accenture
03.2016 - 07.2023
- Back Office function for Societe Generale including settlement, reconciliation, accounting, reference data
- Achievements:
- Worked on STP project to minimize the risk and manual efforts on trade confirmation/ settlements
- Successfully migrated Cash Reconciliation process
- Created procedures for various processes thus resulting in mitigation of risk
- Spot awarded for taking initiatives for projects on STP rates and auto-validation of trades
- Developed Operational Excellence reports to showcase on productivity and the control charts to remain within SLA
- Ensured stock and cash reconciliation numbers remain in Green for SG CIB
- Successful knowledge transfer of settlement process and the reconciliation – stock and cash of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, UK and Belgium markets from onshore location
Team Leader
Northern Trust
06.2008 - 03.2016
- Middle Office trade booking, matching and settlement for Equity and Fixed Income products across ASIA and European markets, cash postings and cash reconciliations
- Successfully migrated Cash reconciliation process in Northern Trust from Home country to the Receiving Country - India in the year 2012 within the time frame and established the process
- Ensured smooth run of all the new clients moving onto WTS platform / client’s migration from manual trade booking to WTS platform
- Trade Confirmation
- Settlements and Fails Management
- Cash Postings
- Cash Reconciliation
Associate
Hewlett Packard
10.2007 - 05.2008
- Invoice Processing and Rebates management
- Prioritizing and managing multiple tasks simultaneously
- Managed all aspects of accounts payable, including invoice data entry, supplier communication, and resolving payment discrepancies
- Commitment to supporting core business principles and delivering best practice
Education
MBA - Finance
Sikkim Manipal University
04.2001 -
Bachelors of Business Management - Finance
Bangalore University
Pre-University Education -
Ryan International
10th Std. SSLC -
Faridabad Model School
Skills
- Operational risk and controls management
- Equity and Bonds settlements
- Reconciliations
- Compliance and Regulations
- Stakeholder management
- Process Governance
- Treasury function
- Risk and Control self assessment
- Business Continuity management
- Continuous process improvement
Disclaimer
I, Barkha Thakur, hereby certify the above mentioned information is true.
Timeline
Delivery Manager
Societe Generale
08.2023 - Current
AVP
Accenture
03.2016 - 07.2023
Team Leader
Northern Trust
06.2008 - 03.2016
Associate
Hewlett Packard
10.2007 - 05.2008
MBA - Finance
Sikkim Manipal University
04.2001 -
Bachelors of Business Management - Finance
Bangalore University
Pre-University Education -
Ryan International
10th Std. SSLC -
Faridabad Model School
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