Durga Prasad Kandula

Key Deliverables:

● Responsible for day to day securities settlement operations on fixed income trades.

● Ensuring all transactions are processed within cut-off times accurately, efficiently while exercising due diligence.

● Management of failed or late settled transactions and work with trading desk, sales, and other operations group to ensure trade processing.

● Assist on any issues, and provides timely escalation to desk, Sales and operations management.

● Monitoring traders books in a live environment to ensure positions and risk is accurately captured at the point of execution.

● Maintaining, developing and improving current processes & procedures and supporting current BAU.

● Maintaining and creating a number of regular and ad hoc reporting requests and holding regular calls with both internal & external clients to improve operational effectiveness.

● To add and maintain accurate SSI’s and additional client information on client records.

Significant Highlights:

● Effectively handling the central bank trades & sensitive client trades and received appreciation from traders and onshore for controlling risk.

● Increased LCH trades settlement efficiency from 79% to 96% within 8 months of time and received awards from UBS Executive directors, Directors and from the senior management.

Key Deliverables:

● Experienced in creating and maintaining data for all HSBC mutual funds.

● Responsible for monitoring fund NAV, Dividend, Holdings and static data.

● Monitor variations in AUM of all AMG managed funds and reach out to product teams if any abnormal fluctuations.

● Experienced in creating/Maintaining market data identifiers such as ISIN, FUND GIIN, LEI, BBG ticker, SEDOL.

● Skilled in data reconciliation between multiple platforms like Bloomberg, FE, Funds library, Lipper.

● Monitor and update fund static & reference data to generate legal documents like KIID, Factsheets and which should to meet regulatory standards.

● Resolve all data quality related issues and skilled in writing data quality rules in different dimensions like completeness, conformity, Validity, uniqueness and accuracy.

● Proactively work with the business to ensure that all work meets the needs.

Significant Highlights:

● Suggested cost effective ways of generating KIID and Factsheet documents through fund hive tool and Received service excellence award from Global head.

● Conceptualized and spearheaded projects that accelerated monthly reconciliation processing; significantly increased the accuracy and timeliness of monthly and quarterly reporting.