Gouri Avadhani
Senior Operation Specialist
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced Operations Specialist with 4.5 years in capital markets, portfolio risk, and index management. Expert in managing equity baskets, corporate actions, and delivering automated, scalable solutions for indices and ETFs. Skilled in process automation, data quality governance, and cross-functional collaboration to support financial services clients globally.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Operations Specialist
S&P Global (Markit Intelligence)
03.2023 - Current
- Expert in managing custom equity baskets with strong operational skills including creation, rebalancing, weight adjustments, corporate actions implementation, return types, market capitalization, and divisor calculations.
- Proficient in working with APIs, Salesforce, Jira, and Azure user stories to support end-to-end process automation and client service functions.
- Delivered analytical support to enrich and ensure high-caliber data for performance calculation engines by implementing standardized tools and processes across the department.
- Championed improvements in data quality within the Data Management Platform by collaborating with data stewards, consultants, and technology partners to enforce data governance and quality structures.
- Assisted with post-implementation testing, ensuring deliverables meet timelines and quality standards.
- Provided agile feedback and process improvements by engaging with index vendors, providers, internal SMEs, business teams, and clients to align expectations and requirements.
- Possess in-depth knowledge of market indices data, index construction methodologies, vendor restrictions, data publishing, ingestion, and delivery processes.
- Led complex index migrations within enterprise market index data repositories, ensuring smooth transitions and data integrity.
- Coordinated with internal business units, external vendors, and consultants to identify and implement automation solutions for operational efficiency.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to maintain data governance frameworks balancing business needs, risk management, quality assurance, and cost control.
- Delivered fully managed, scalable automated solutions for designing, valuing, and maintaining custom equity baskets utilizing the world’s largest ETF and index data repositories.
- Provided real-time consolidated basket views through APIs and user-friendly web interfaces for client transparency.
- Expertly managed and validated complex corporate actions such as dividends, stock splits, M&A, rights issues, spin-offs, and other events to ensure accurate and compliant basket updates.
- Automated corporate action processes to maintain basket integrity and reflect valuation changes seamlessly.
- Skilled in SQL for data extraction, transformation, and validation supporting accurate basket calculations and comprehensive reporting.
- Experienced in database management and scripting to automate routine tasks, enhancing accuracy within large financial datasets.
- Delivered services to diverse financial clients including investment banks, asset managers, proprietary traders, exchanges, and derivative issuers using flexible user-defined templates and bottom-up calculation methodologies.
- Integrated post-trade processes and distributed validated reference data securely via FTP/SFTP and market data platforms such as Bloomberg and Refinitiv.
- Ensured transparency and reliability with fully scalable solutions backed by 24/5 global support from experienced index and reference data teams.
- Acted as an independent outsourced calculation agent, calculating index levels, continuously monitoring basket constituents, and supporting clients' regulatory compliance.
Operations Specialist
S&P Global (Markit Intelligence)
01.2022 - 03.2023
- - Supported client service and internal automation with tools like Salesforce and Jira.
- - Delivered analytical insights to enhance performance calculation engines and maintain high data quality.
- - Coordinated across teams to align automated workflows with regulatory requirements and client expectations.
Senior Operations Analyst
IHS Markit
01.2021 - 01.2022
- - Calculated and managed branded indices, ensuring timely real-time and end-of-day data accuracy for clients.
- - Applied complex corporate actions and validated index calculations per methodology.
- - Presented analytical research and non-routine reports to index committees to support decision-making.
- - Led cross-team initiatives to enhance proprietary system workflows and data production quality.
- - Wrote SQL queries and used Excel for data analysis and validation tasks.
Operations Analyst
IHS Markit
10.2020 - 01.2021
- - Validated data accuracy and executed quality checks for financial product datasets.
- - Responded to client data queries and ensured timely production of financial information.
- - Conducted root cause analyses and maintained procedural documentation (MOWs).
Associate – Green Package Reports
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
04.2019 - 09.2020
- - Monitored market risk at security and portfolio levels covering derivatives, fixed income, and equity products.
- - Verified risk analytics including Duration, Convexity, VAR, and other parameters across diverse securities.
- - Prepared detailed reports on NAV changes and risk metric variations for client portfolios.
Analyst – Corporate Actions
TAS Information Intelligence
09.2017 - 04.2019
- - Managed corporate actions for multiple international markets (London, HK, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia).
- - Automated data processes and coordinated User Acceptance Testing with development teams.
- - Served as client contact for corporate action queries and maintained performance KPIs.
Education
MBA -
Dayanada sagar academy of technology and management
Bengaluru01.2017
Skills
- Portfolio Risk Reporting: Fund Reports, NAV Analysis
Certification
- Certified Tally ERP 9.0
Disclaimer
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Timeline
Senior Operations Specialist
S&P Global (Markit Intelligence)
03.2023 - Current
Operations Specialist
S&P Global (Markit Intelligence)
01.2022 - 03.2023
Senior Operations Analyst
IHS Markit
01.2021 - 01.2022
Operations Analyst
IHS Markit
10.2020 - 01.2021
Associate – Green Package Reports
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
04.2019 - 09.2020
Analyst – Corporate Actions
TAS Information Intelligence
09.2017 - 04.2019
MBA -
Dayanada sagar academy of technology and management