GAURAV SIKKA
Associate, FIX Client Onboarding
Bengaluru
Summary
Specialized FIX Professional with 9 years of dedicated experience in the Financial technology sector. Expertise in FIX protocol analysis, integration and comprehensive client onboarding for diverse trading applications, like Order & Execution Management System (OEMS).
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
ASSOCIATE, FIX CLIENT ONBOARDING
CLEARWATER ANALYTICS (FORMERLY ENFUSION)
10.2021 - Current
- Critical point of contact for multiple clients for their Order and Execution management inquiries including allocation methodology, order sizing, and electronic trading workflows.
- Analyzed and troubleshot requests to provide first class real-time solutions to complex FIX related issues for live trading clients while ensuring minimal turnaround time.
- Coordinated with multiple sell-side brokers to enable the FIX connection for the live and onboarding clients.
- Worked on setting up various types of FIX sessions - Direct-To-Broker sessions (HT, Algo, DMA), Drop Copy sessions and Staging sessions.
- Served as a senior mentor for the junior resources to help them achieve their daily tasks.
FIX ANALYST ENGINEER
INDUS VALLEY PARTNERS PVT. LTD.
11.2016 - 10.2021
- Part of Front Office Operations for Graham Capital Management
- Primary POC for below responsibilities:
- Analysis and application support in a Derivatives, FX, and Equities environment
- Daily interactions with the leading Sell-Side institutions
- Interactions with clients for any escalations/updates
- Running/monitoring different critical Trading/Trading Support applications.
- Single-handedly drove and executed:
- E2E Product implementation including requirement & gap analysis, estimation, technical design, testing, and deployment & delivery;
- ETL process and report generation using Data/ETL models for various in-house products
Education
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS -
BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
Varanasi05-2016
BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS -
GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY
New Delhi01-2012
Skills
- FIX Protocol (v42 & v44)
- Client Onboarding
- Equities
- Futures & Spreads
- Options
- SQL
- XML
Timeline
ASSOCIATE, FIX CLIENT ONBOARDING
CLEARWATER ANALYTICS (FORMERLY ENFUSION)
10.2021 - Current
FIX ANALYST ENGINEER
INDUS VALLEY PARTNERS PVT. LTD.
11.2016 - 10.2021
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS -
BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS -
GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY