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Chetna Thareja

Chetna Thareja

Lead business analyst
Mumbai,

Summary

Result-driven finance professional and lead business analyst with extensive experience in product control and the regulatory space. Skilled in translating complex business requirements into actionable project plans and delivering robust data-driven solutions. Proven expertise in identifying areas for improvement, implementing solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive operational efficiency. Demonstrates strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills, with an ability to quickly adapt to new environments.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

AVP (Lead Business Analyst)

Bank of America
11.2021 - Current
  • Focused on achieving operational efficiencies by leading user adjustment migrations in the Axiom Data Enrichment retirement project.
  • Streamlined Counterparty Classifications for EMEA regulatory reporting suite, including COREP, FINREP, AnaCredit, and Statistical.
  • Fostered cross-functional collaboration to determine project scope, objectives, and deliverables using Agile principles and methodologies.
  • Developed and maintained clear and concise documentation, including Business Requirements Document, user stories, process flows, and system diagrams.
  • Decomposed epics into user stories, define acceptance criteria, and refine backlog items based on feedback, changes, and emerging insights, to support phased delivery.
  • Mentored junior analysts, providing guidance and support to foster professional development.

Senior Business Manager

HCL Technologies
10.2020 - 11.2021

Business Analyst at Nomura

  • Managed and executed several projects in the Product Control area as a lead business analyst.
  • Designed and implemented improvements to P&L reporting and reconciliation systems, Pearl (in-house application for fixed income business), COBRA (third-party application by 4Front), and FLIT-MET (to post manual adjustments into PeopleSoft Ledger).
  • Conducted comprehensive analysis for FX products and P&L reconciliation setup, reporting tools, and other back office programs.
  • Built robust control report upon users' request for reconciling book-level P&L numbers from Ledger versus P&L reconciliation system.
  • Built Fair value hierarchy calculation model for Collateral positions reported to US regulator FDIC.

Business Manager

HCL Technologies
07.2016 - 10.2020

Associate Business Manager

HCL Technologies
11.2013 - 06.2016

Team Lead

Cognizant
10.2011 - 10.2013

Business Analyst at UBS

  • Acted as PMO on regulatory change projects (Basel III requirement of reporting risk exposure on the positions held) with the UBS London team, understanding the change requirement, collaborating with the core BAs of various businesses, discussing these with Risk Analytics, IT, and Finance team to analyse and design the change.
  • Worked on Global Consolidation and Reporting system legacy change projects to populate missing attributes, like option exercise type, call notice period, etc. in financial detail database.
  • Analysed data in SAP, categorising the postings in manual/feed postings, and following up with relevant groups to populate valid values. Participated in UAT finance testing in non-prod environments.

Senior Associate

Morgan Stanley
12.2007 - 09.2011
  • Mentored team members to enhance professional and personal skills.
  • Delivered accounting solutions to hedge funds ensuring independent valuation.
  • Performed P&L analysis, calculation of daily, weekly, and monthly NAV for hedge funds and ensuring accuracy in client contribution and redemption reports.
  • Conducted reconciliation of Morgan Stanley Portfolio Accounting with custodian/broker accounting and detected inconsistencies, analysed root causes, implemented solutions.
  • Verified accuracy of results by examining large P&L variations.
  • Accrued daily and monthly non-trading accruals, including management fees.
  • Generate status updates of unresolved breaks including their aging for senior management.
  • Involved in the allocation system improvement project to ensure correct calculation of the management fee and incentive fee.

Education

PGDM - Finance

Indian Institute of Modern Management
Pune, India

Bachelor of Commerce -

Christ Church College
Kanpur, India

Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Skills

Global markets and finance

Timeline

AVP (Lead Business Analyst)

Bank of America
11.2021 - Current

Senior Business Manager

HCL Technologies
10.2020 - 11.2021

Business Manager

HCL Technologies
07.2016 - 10.2020

Associate Business Manager

HCL Technologies
11.2013 - 06.2016

Team Lead

Cognizant
10.2011 - 10.2013

Senior Associate

Morgan Stanley
12.2007 - 09.2011

PGDM - Finance

Indian Institute of Modern Management

Bachelor of Commerce -

Christ Church College

Institute of Company Secretaries of India
Chetna TharejaLead business analyst