EKTA RAJPUT
Senior Associate (Trade Support)
Pune
Summary
Dynamic and results-oriented finance professional with over 10 years of expertise in trade support within the financial markets. Proven experience in both buy-side and sell-side environments, specializing in the full trade life cycle, risk mitigation, and operational support. Skilled in managing processes across diverse asset classes, including equities, fixed income, and FX, while ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance at every stage. Committed to driving operational excellence and delivering value through strategic insights and meticulous attention to detail.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Associate (Trade Support)
Alliance Bernstein
05.2023 - Current
- Maintaining Broker SSIs in database and get the charges setup in FO system by IT.
- Alert access control for brokers and maintaining custodian SSIs.
- Monitoring APAC trades mainly Equity, Fixed Income, FX and Mutual Funds for confirmations and Exception handling.
- Coordinating with Desk and Supervising settlements to know status of pending trades and resolve ongoing issues.
- Checking Depot and Nostro positions and ensuring that funding is in place.
- Coordinate with Settlements and Custodian on pending Swifts to ensure amendments (if any) are fed correctly.
- Evaluate TAX applied for Bonds and validate against custodian report for IDR and KRW trades.
- Preparation & management of SOPs, Training Manuals & Checklist as per business requirement.
Assistant Manager
Barclays Global Services
10.2022 - 03.2023
- Being part of IBMO (Bond Trade support) for UK clients has given me the utmost exposure to the actual Scenarios and understands the requirements of the client.
- Perform FOMO & MOBO Reconciliation to ensure all trade entries are correct in the system.
- Interact with traders and Operation teams to make positions in the books in line.
- Investigate on position and trade level (booking) breaks & validate trades against broker Confirmations.
Officer
CLSA Technology and Services LLP
11.2017 - 10.2022
- Complete Static setup of a new client while onboarding, or new entity of existing client/broker is introduced.
- The role includes critical focus on daily trading and risk issues, P&L on trading books, clearing positions on trading books and handling external Broker/Client queries.
- Being part of MIFID project, responsible for segregation of commission rules in system
- Maintaining SAP FICO Data for Vendors, General Ledgers for proper postings in accounts.
- Work with developers and static team for any setting up existing and new client for algo trading in terms of any static for Trading.
- Maintain regular awareness of market conditions and new regulations that impact trading/settlement.
- Monitor trade exception queue, CTM and emails and resolve exceptions.
- Raise FX request & Booking FX trades once it is executed & inform funding team to ensure prior funding.
- Work on FOMO & MOBO reconciliations to ensure all executed trades are booked correctly.
- Testing client set-up in UAT environment for low touch trading flows and providing necessary sign-off before implementing into production.
Position Analyst (Global Equity Trading)
Deutsche Bank
07.2016 - 11.2017
- Reconcile cash balances with clients for Audit and verifying documents quarterly.
- Booking broker side trades executed with exchange for Emerging clients.
- Booking trades which are not feeding due to IT issues to rectify the position between FO & MO.
- Worked on allocation and trade confirmation (CTM and manual confirmation).
- Bridging communication between Client and Internal teams (Traders, Settlement, Contract Risk, Regional Desk, Etc.)
- Worked on client set up for new clients and raising account set up request to serve existing client.
Position Analyst (Audit Confirmation team)
Deutsche Bank (Contractual role with PAMAC pvt ltd.)
09.2015 - 05.2016
- Provide outstanding balances of our customer for the audit key Date.
- Preparing documents after receiving their email related with bank statement.
- Doing four eye check and prepare tracker for both processing and controlling.
- Charging client and maintaining data for providing balance confirmation/statement.
Education
PGDBM - Finance
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Commerce -
01-2015
HSC -
01-2012
SSC -
01-2010
Skills
Trade Life Cycle
Client Management
Static Setup & Ref Data
Project Management
Performance Improvement
Operation Management
Jira
Bloomberg
CDB (Client Data Base)
Alert
CTM
SWIFT
TRIANA
GTSS
FIX
Timeline
Senior Associate (Trade Support) - Alliance Bernstein
05.2023 - Current
Assistant Manager - Barclays Global Services
10.2022 - 03.2023
Officer - CLSA Technology and Services LLP
11.2017 - 10.2022
Position Analyst (Global Equity Trading) - Deutsche Bank
07.2016 - 11.2017
Position Analyst (Audit Confirmation team) - Deutsche Bank (Contractual role with PAMAC pvt ltd.)
09.2015 - 05.2016
MIT - PGDBM, Finance
04.2001 -
University of Pune - Bachelor of Commerce,
KV No.1 - HSC,
KV No.1 - SSC,