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Benny James

Bangalore

Summary

With over two years of experience in Investment Banking Operations, I specialize in managing client onboarding, data reconciliation, trade support, and process improvements as an Analyst. Additionally, I am open to exploring diverse operations roles within a company.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Operation Analyst

Smartstream Technologies
Bangalore
05.2022 - Current

● Capturing settled trade invoices of the vendor from various sources to the Excalibur system & ensure client Service Level Agreements (SLA) and timelines are met.

● Reconciling / Reconciliation / Cash Reconciliation Trade data with System Accruals, Rate, quantity, amount, FX rate and sending it further for payment processing via SWIFT.

● Creating static data setups for newly onboarded vendors.

● Identify and escalate issues and exceptions related to transaction and trade.

● NOSTRO reconciliation by matching statement and ledger breaks in the Intellimatch & CTC system for payments processed on day-to-day basis.

● Analyze the recurring accruals based on past month data.

● Setting up parameters in the system to capture accruals automatically instead of loading them manually.

● Creating rules in the system to allocate the charges as per the cost center and departments.

● Keeping the client fully informed of the progress and liaising with the brokers and banks to close any issue.

● Looking into escalations from vendors, clients and from internal teams if any and provide them with the corrective replies/solution to their concerns/queries.

● Adhere to SOP and controls for the respective process.

● Always trying to contribute towards process automation & enhancement.

● UAT Testing lead for the new change request / new automation process.

● MT103 and MT202 are used for Swift Payments.

● To provide the Justification to the auditor of the reconciliation variance

● To provide the justification to the client and third party on the month end difference in the accruals

Internship Student

Smartstream Technologies
Bangalore
12.2021 - 05.2023

● On-Boarding and setting up the calculation rules, rate card provided by the client or the counter party.

● Clearing of exceptions in the Qlik sense report and volume trend analysis on monthly basis

● Weekly call with the client to understand the requirements and the deliverables.

● To analyze and approve the rule calculation created by the users.

● To check the discrepancy in the Client report to Qlik sense report

Education

MBA - Finance And Analytics

IFIM Business School
Bangalore
2021

B.com Professional - Commerce

St. Joseph's Degree And PG College,
Hyderabad
2019

Intermediate - Math, Physics And Chemistry

Narayana Junior College
Hyderabad
2016

Skills

  • Process Planning
  • Experience in Leadership
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Microsoft Excel
  • System Development
  • Quantitative Skills

Accomplishments

  • Recognized as a nominee for the "Best Employee" within the organization.
  • Received appreciation from a client for effectively onboarding a new process.
  • Acted as the UAT lead, ensuring the successful testing of all newly implemented processes in production.
  • Awarded for identifying and resolving duplications within the process.
  • Reconciled over 10 million CHF, demonstrating precision in financial management and resolving issues efficiently through SWIFT MT 202 transactions.
  • Led the seamless onboarding of 100+ vendors, optimizing processes through collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Implemented process automation, resulting in a 20% reduction in data exceptions and enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Languages

English
First Language
Telugu
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Malayalam
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Operation Analyst

Smartstream Technologies
05.2022 - Current

Internship Student

Smartstream Technologies
12.2021 - 05.2023

MBA - Finance And Analytics

IFIM Business School

B.com Professional - Commerce

St. Joseph's Degree And PG College,

Intermediate - Math, Physics And Chemistry

Narayana Junior College
Benny James