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DEEPAK SONI

Sr. Consultant

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Insightful and results-driven professional with 13+ years of experience across Capital Markets, Settlements, and Middle Office operations. Sr Business Analyst with 5.5+ years of experience in settlement modernization, reconciliation, business analysis, UAT, and process optimization, delivering strategic transformation initiatives for global investment banks.

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Sr Consultant

Morgan Stanley

08.2025 - Current

Successfully delivered Vietnam and Malaysia market rollouts as part of Morgan Stanley's strategic SAFE Mainframe to GSP (Global Settlement Platform) modernization programme, while supporting upcoming implementations across Indonesia and Taiwan.
Drove business analysis for Morgan Stanley's Asia Settlement Modernization Programme, driving requirement gathering, impact analysis, and functional solution design for the SAFE to GSP migration.
Performed end-to-end settlement lifecycle analysis, validating transaction processing across reconciliation, delivery instructions, outbound messaging, journal processing, and downstream settlement systems to ensure seamless business operations.
Led reconciliation, break analysis, and root cause investigation by cross-validating SAFE and GSP data, identifying settlement discrepancies, and driving defect resolution to achieve 95%+ migration accuracy prior to production go-live.
Proposed and implemented a phased reconciliation onboarding strategy, reducing implementation risk, improving validation quality, and enabling controlled market deployments across Asia markets.
Coordinated business validation across E2E, SIT, UAT, Production Parallel Run (PPR), and Production, preparing test evidence, validating complex settlement scenarios, and securing business sign-offs.
Validated critical settlement workflows including Agency, Prime Brokerage (PB), Bonds, IED, Realignments, and other market-specific transaction flows, ensuring accurate migration from SAFE to GSP with complete reconciliation coverage.
Supported multiple Asia market go-lives by monitoring production readiness, analysing settlement exceptions, recommending process improvements, and ensuring a stable transition from the legacy SAFE platform to the cloud-based GSP.
Genpact Client - Morgan Stanley

Sr. Business Analyst

LTI Mindtree

08.2022 - 07.2025

Worked on middle office transformation project within Capital Markets for a leading investment bank, focusing trade reconciliations, regulatory reporting to improve operational efficiency.
Managing Regulatory Change initiatives, ensuring compliance with reporting requirements by analyzing trade data flows, identifying gaps, and implementing process enhancements.
Eliciting and documenting business requirements for Middle Office reporting automation, exception handling, and reconciliation enhancements, preparing detailed BRDs, FSDs, and process flows.
Leading requirement gathering sessions and presenting solutions for trade reporting, reconciliation automation, and counterparty risk management Including data normalization and mapping.
Identified workflow bottlenecks and implemented process improvements, enhancing operational efficiency.
Managed Confluence updates and testing evidence for sign-off from Middle Office production teams.
Facilitated agile ceremonies and backlog refinement with the Product Owner, prioritizing tasks and ensuring clear communication across teams.
Collaborated with development, testing, and third-party teams to ensure timely project delivery, leading UAT by preparing test scripts, engaging testers, and documenting issues.

Business Process Specialist

Infosys BPM

01.2021 - 07.2022

Bridged the gap between operations and development, capturing user requirements and aligning with product owners to meet sprint goals.
Gathered and analyzed requirements, prepared User Stories, maintained product backlog, and collaborated with stakeholders to meet client and business needs.
Conducted AS-IS and TO-BE analysis, suggested business solutions, and implemented improvements by identifying workflow bottlenecks.
Mapped business processes, prepared process flows, and coordinated with development teams to ensure accurate system configurations.
Worked across the system development lifecycle, from gathering requirements to production releases, managing user reviews, and testing.
Defined testing criteria, analyzed UAT results, and presented findings to stakeholders, ensuring compliance with business functionality and objectives.

Process Analyst

Genpact

03.2018 - 01.2021

Monitored and resolved trade breaks and exceptions, ensuring timely settlement and minimizing risk while collaborating with Business Analysts on process enhancements.
Performed daily reconciliation of trade data to ensure accuracy across systems, promptly identifying and escalating discrepancies to mitigate operational risks.
Managed workflow queues to support timely resolution of breaks, liaising with stakeholders to ensure compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements.
Maintaining record of rejected transactions which can't get settled automatically.
Responsible for tax compensation of clients by settling transaction manually within given timelines.

Financial Analyst

Deutsche Bank India Pvt. Ltd.

04.2013 - 10.2017

Built a diverse background in cash management by handling SWIFT payments, static payments (General Interbank Recurring Orders), and cheque clearing processes.
Acted as a liaison between operations and development teams, facilitating effective communication and collaboration.
Designed and oversaw the Knowledge Operational Procedure (KOP) for migrating the inward cheque clearing process for DB SG in 2014, ensuring all changes were effectively implemented through regular reviews.
Defined testing criteria and conducted sanity testing for a newly deployed tool in BAU operations, analyzing UAT results and presenting findings to Business Analyst.