Dynamic Team Leader with a proven track record at Northern Trust Operating Services, excelling in performance evaluation and process improvement. Expert in trade settlements and investment banking, I successfully enhanced team productivity through strategic coaching and collaboration, achieving 100% accuracy in critical migrations. Strong problem-solving skills drive my commitment to excellence.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Leader
Northern Trust Operating Services
Pune
11.2022 - Current
Maintained a positive work environment that promoted collaboration between team members.
Conducted regular performance evaluations, providing constructive feedback and personalized coaching.
Oversaw training and development programs to enhance team skills and knowledge.
Provided coaching and feedback on partner's performance, encouraging professional development.
Maintained open lines of communication with senior management, reporting team progress and challenges.
Delegated daily tasks to team members to optimize group productivity.
Established clear expectations for employees, providing guidance when needed.
Implemented strategic plans to enhance team performance and productivity.
Collaborated with other departments to streamline processes and improve interdepartmental cooperation.
Business Overview: "Customer Support Specialist."
Team Leader, Trade Settlements APAC
State Street HCL Services
06.2019 - 10.2022
Working in the static data maintenance team, maintaining static data required across the bank.
Successfully completed migration from State Street, Bangalore, to SSHCL, Pune, within the stipulated time, with 100% accuracy.
Establish a settled process in SSHCL, and take improvement initiatives for better productivity and accuracy.
Markets handled: India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Taiwan, and Japan.
Trade confirmation and matching: Assisting the client/IM in resolving queries related to confirmation and matching.
Adhering to market specifications with regard to confirmation and advising the client the same.
Ensure the client follows market deadlines.
Trade Settlement: Facilitated trade settlement.
Worked with market participants to ensure that trades settled without any issues.
Making the client aware of any penalties or fines in case of a regulatory breach, and trying to avoid any breaches in settlement.
Cash and FX: Worked on all types of FXs.
Followed all market requirements and regulations with regard to FX deals. - Direct, indirect, and third-party FX.
Resolving clients' queries related to FX deals and ensuring they are booked in the market and settled in internal books.
Off-exchange deals: Processed off-exchange deals in the Indian market.
Assist the client in completing all required documentation related to the off-exchange deal.
Work closely with market participants, regulations, and counterparties to ensure the deal is finalized and executed within time.
Ad-hoc queries: Processed IOP/QIP.
Worked with clients and market participants to ensure IPO/QIP applications are processed correctly within time.
SWIFT Messages: MT599, MT54x (trade booking, trade confirmation, and trade settlement), MT380, MT381, MT202, and MT103.
Created shift schedules and coordinated with team members to maintain sufficient staffing levels during employee absences.
Monitored team performance, tracked progress towards goals, identified areas of improvement and provided feedback to employees.
Managed remote teams effectively, using virtual communication tools to maintain engagement and productivity.
Conducted root causes analysis to develop corrective action plans.
Process Lead (Specialist)
Capgemini Tech Solution
08.2018 - 05.2019
Working in the static data maintenance team, maintaining static data required across the bank.
Creation of financial products: bonds, equities, and options for the desk as per vendors.
Creation of SEDOLs on the vendor as per requests.
Maintaining static data for bonds, equities, and options as per vendors.
Creation of bond products as per the 'Term Sheet' in some cases.
Resolving static-related queries to make sure instruments are flowing downstream correctly, along with all required identifiers.
Investigation of different vendors for fresh instrument creation.
Intersystem checks to make sure the instruments' flow is correct.
Reports: Working on different reports to reconcile instrument status, as well as data quality across systems, to check for any missing instruments or identifiers in the system, to remove or inactivate stale instruments in the database, and to check if any security is missing from downstream. In such cases, further checks need to be performed to ensure securities flow.
Senior Process Executive
Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd
01.2015 - 03.2018
(IMO Transition: 8-month period in London): Successfully coordinate the migration and transition of the Derivatives Trade Support Process to India (Pune) from London. Worked as a Trade/Sales supporter and maintained static data for the front office, dealing in credit derivatives products and bonds, performing all our controls at T+0 and T+1.
Reconciliations: Inter-system Reconciliation (Index Maintenance Systems) to make sure that indexes are maintained in line with the vendor, throughout all systems.
Broker Reconciliation – We run this reconciliation to ensure all broker trades booked in our system are perfectly in line with the broker's recap (economics and non-economics parameters).
Static Data Maintenance: Worked with desk, confirmations, and settlement teams to ensure all static data is correctly maintained in the system to avoid any impact on risk.
Reference entity, Reference entity curve, ISIN, CDS Index entities, CDS Index curves.