Harsha Kiran Bhupalam

· Conduct business process analysis and identify critical issues for OTC and Futures derivatives products focused on clearing workflows

· Being an SME; define business architecture requirements such as scope, processes, alternatives and risks for CCP on boarding for derivatives processes

· Manage projects and develop a roadmap for short and long term work through prioritization and monitor the work to meet objectives for multiple projects spread across New business offering, Industry changes , regulatory changes, Risk reduction and Efficiency themes

· Conduct functional testing, regression, user acceptance, integration and performance before the workflow is transitioned to operations line team

· Work with stakeholders to design the roadmap and measure production values

· Represents multiple Industry forum i.e. SDWG (LCH SwapAgent Design working group), Libor cessation for LCH, CME and ICE CCP’s

· Transforming the collateral workflows with external partnerships and internal cross divisional programs

Key achievements:

1. Led a commercial project to onboard a new workflow resulting in capital requirements savings of $ 280MM

2. Successfully on boarded FX clearing workflows across multiple CCPs

3. Partnered with CCP industry forum and implemented an idea to reduce collateral funding cost by $ 250k annualized

Working for a Large Buy side firm. Ensuring generation, Review and dissemination of periodic portfolio analysis reports of Multi-Asset investment class on regular and Adhoc basis. Working with SQL, VBA and Advanced Excel functionalities to enhance reporting process. Worked on VBA tool to produce Risk Decomposition analysis reports of Multi-Asset investment class, and some other VBA tools to enhance productivity with minimising errors in the process.

Derivatives – OTC team under capital markets for EMEA and APAC region. Work involved trade capturing and processing, reviewing over-the-counter (OTC) master agreements and confirmations, monitoring transaction interface queues to ensure all trades are fully processed, and resolving cash flow breaks. Setting-up new accounts with transition team. Collating daily, weekly, and monthly reports, and resolving client and counterparty queries, and also involved with providing product training for the team. As a part of the Exception Resolution team (Settlements team), was involved in cash settlements, accounting income-related entries, agreeing on netted figures per roll and preparing payment instructions accordingly, and resolving counterparty discrepancies and all their pre- and post-settlement queries.