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HUSSAIN MOHAMMED SAYEED

Hyderabad

Summary

Pioneer thinker with over 10 years of rich experience in business excellence, operations management, investment banking operations, trade settlements, and OTC derivatives; proven ability to drive process automation, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimize resource utilization

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager – Trade Accounting & Operations

Arcesium (D. E. Shaw Group)
09.2024 - Current
  • Led and mentored a team of 8 professionals, fostering a collaborative environment and consistently achieving quarterly OKRs
  • Conducted daily Cash and Position reconciliations with Prime Brokers for top-tier Hedge Funds, ensuring 100% accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards
  • Performed comprehensive admin reconciliations with hedge fund administrators, covering NAV, Cash, and Position Reconciliations, ensuring alignment with fund performance and reporting
  • Managed a diverse portfolio of financial products, including Fixed Income (ABS, MBS, Repo), FX, TRS, Options, and Equities, ensuring accurate accounting and reporting
  • Delivered limited Treasury and Middle Office services, including fund expense management, wire postings, and reconciliation activities, ensuring seamless operations
  • Acted as the primary point of contact for investment managers, prime brokers, and administrators, resolving issues and ensuring smooth operations
  • Collaborated with internal teams to identify and implement process enhancements, leveraging automation tools to reduce manual effort by 20 hours per month

Service Delivery Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions - UBS
07.2019 - 09.2024
  • Strive after Operations Management Automation, Process Re-engineering, Risk Management
  • Managing OTC Equity Derivatives Confirmations teams- Paper Trade Drafting, Affirmation/Matching, Electronic Matching and Credits
  • Strong knowledge of OTC derivatives products & Lifecycle events.
  • Building long standing trust relationships with operation stakeholders at the client end to ensure the agreed service levels are met and explored opportunities to grow the function
  • Partnered with automations team to identify the opportunities & assisted in developing BOTs in the process.
  • Coordinating and aligning with team to achieve daily, weekly & monthly targets to meet SLAs
  • Second point of escalation for both client & internal queries. Handling escalations and providing resolutions to clients
  • Responsible to ensure that all critical activities being taken care with utmost severity & ensuring risk is mitigated
  • Daily, Weekly, Monthly reporting of breaks / analysis, escalating to relevant stakeholders
  • Successfully managed a high-performing team of 27 members, ensuring effective task delegation, performance monitoring, and continuous development to meet operational goals and service standards.
  • Initiate new procedures/solutions to improve productivity, system enhancements, process automations & increase STP
  • Channeled information gathering and brainstorming session to identify risk in the process & suggested solutions to alleviate the same
  • Partnered with another project team for requirement gathering for transition of existing to new workflow.
  • Suggested ideas for efficient risk and queue management
  • Trade transaction reporting (Regulatory Coverage: CFTC, EMIR, MIFID). Responsible for reconciliation of risk, identification and resolution of breaks

Portfolio Administrator II

INVESCO
06.2016 - 06.2019
  • Responsible daily cash and position reconciliation of client portfolio’s to the custodian for Retail
  • Involved in reconciliation for Institutional, Retail & Money Market funds for APAC, EMEA & North America regions
  • Performed cash & positions recon for (GTR) Global Target Return balance funds
  • Hands on experience on applications like Blackrock’s Aladdin, Charles River Development (CRD) &TLM for reconciliation purpose
  • Partnered with automation team to implement “Hot Keys” tool.
  • Active participation in “Hackathon” and suggested potential areas of automation which helped in saving 72 Hours per week
  • Exposure of (BI) tool SAP Business Object & data vendor like Bloomberg
  • Monitored the cash balances & ensured any fund overdrawn are investigated & reported on priority
  • Accurate and timely posting of contributions and withdrawals into the client portfolio’s along with Income & other expenses. And reporting the same to the portfolio managers and business
  • Worked on exceptions pertaining to trade amount variances, coupon mismatch, spot & forward FXs variation margin, collateral, dividends, pay downs, money market instruments & various corporate action issues
  • Involved in testing of new application Eagle Star, UAT testing & successfully migrated portfolio funds from old accounting system Portia to new system

Financial Analyst

Wipro – UBS
01.2014 - 04.2016
  • Worked as an Account Manager under Middle Office Ops wherein provided trade booking & settlement services to Top Tier clients of UBS for EMEA & Emerging markets
  • Ensured all the open unmatched trades are pre-matched and swift instructions are in place before the market cut-off time
  • Management of potential buy-in’s and ensured they’re timely escalated to business
  • Provided oversight to all transactions and deep dive analysis of all non-STP SWIFT messages to ensure the highest level of settlement rate is achieved
  • Monitored failed trades based on internal and external reports. Take necessary action to resolve all failing trades and minimize settlement risk
  • Knowledge of International Settlement (Equity & Fixed Income) with continual process re-engineering efforts
  • Assisted clients with cross border settlements via Euroclear and Clearstream
  • Prioritized high value & risky trades, mostly (emerging market) & to ensure critical issues get escalated to the stakeholders on priority
  • Experience of working in tight deadline's under fast-paced environment
  • To attend daily & weekly calls with Trading Desk pertaining to fails management.

Education

MBA - Finance

Osmania University
01.2013

B.Com - Commerce

Osmania University
01.2011

Skills

  • Power BI: Proficient in creating and designing visually appealing dashboards and reports
  • Foundation AI Training: Completed a comprehensive artificial intelligence program
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong financial modelling/valuation and analytical skills (Financial statement analysis, relative valuation, DCF &equity valuation)
  • Strong knowledge of Bloomberg, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Attention to details, Adaptability and Emotional Intelligence

Certification

  • Financial Modelling Certification – National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) Completed a structured program on financial modeling including valuation techniques, DCF modeling, and sensitivity analysis. Certified by the National Stock Exchange of India, a leading financial institution.
  • ISO 20022 – SWIFT (MT to MX) Transition Training Completed training on ISO 20022 financial messaging standards, with a focus on the MT to MX transition. Backed by SWIFT, the global provider of secure financial messaging services.

Awards

Joined as Team Lead in 2019 and promoted to Team Manager in 2021 and Service Delivery Manager in 2023, Awarded as “Best Lead” of the quarter 2020, Received client appreciations on multiple occasions, Received Certificate of Recognition 2017, Received Best Performer award for the year 2015, Joined as Associate in 2014 and promoted to Analyst in 2015

Timeline

Manager – Trade Accounting & Operations

Arcesium (D. E. Shaw Group)
09.2024 - Current

Service Delivery Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions - UBS
07.2019 - 09.2024

Portfolio Administrator II

INVESCO
06.2016 - 06.2019

Financial Analyst

Wipro – UBS
01.2014 - 04.2016

MBA - Finance

Osmania University

B.Com - Commerce

Osmania University

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