Chandrakantha K K

• Managed end-to-end trade life cycle of FOP securities, ensuring accurate trade capture, validation, and settlement across APAC, EMEA, and Americas.
• Perform trade verification to ensure accuracy and on time of booking requests.
• Oversaw processing of 700-1000 daily FOP trades, ensuring timely execution across the trade life cycle with T+0/T+1/2 settlement via MT548.
• Achieved 90% STP rate and reduced FOP settlement failure YoY by implementing enhanced controls. daily aging analysis, and root-cause review at each stage of the trades.
• Drove process automation initiatives using macros and workflow tools, reducing manual touchpoints by 25% and improving team capacity for value-added task.
• Partner with onshore team, Client and CoE across APAC, EMEA and Americas to ensure STP across the trade life cycle and manage peak volume days of 6000+ trades.

Investment Banking (Deutsche Bank)

• Executed Account Activity Reviews (AAR) under EU 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive, analyzing client portfolios monthly, ensuring behavior aligned with KYC profile and escalating anomalies per regulatory requirements.
• Managed Global Network Management as the main POC for Depot & Nastro account with 25+ agent banks globally, handling account opening, closures and amendments.
• Drafted & released SWIFT MT599, MT199, MT299 for agent bank account opening, closer and maintained PCS lite database for monthly static data update with 100% accuracy.
• Led breaks investigation for unknown statement/Ledger breaks, collaborating with stakeholders to reduce open breaks.

Accounts Payable (CITI Bank)

• Processed 100+ loan applications and supporting documents monthly for US CITI mortgages Inc., ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and internal QC guidelines to mitigate risk.
• Managed end-to-end invoice processing submitted by an attorney's firm working on behalf of CITI mortgage Inc., including 3-way match, approval and payment posting.
• Collaborated with attorneys, Trustees, and US clients through daily conference calls and email to resolve account queries and payment discrepancies, enhancing communication and documentation accuracy.
• Processing Manual Utilities.