JAINI JOHNSON KOZHIKKADAN
Vasai west
Summary
Banking Specialist with extensive experience in financial analysis, risk management, and pricing strategy. Currently leading the migration of pricing processes at Avaloq India Pvt Limited, ensuring accurate daily updates of financial instrument prices and optimising price sources for stale instruments. Previously served as Senior Support Analyst at Nomura India Pvt Limited, managing corporate actions and pricing exceptions for listed products, while enhancing operational efficiency through automation plans. Demonstrated expertise in advising clients on investment products as a Customer Associate at India Infoline Limited. Proficient in Microsoft Office and data analysis, with strong analytical and communication skills. Career goals include furthering expertise in financial systems optimisation and strategic pricing solutions.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Banking Specialist
Avaloq India Pvt Limited
Pune
02.2021 - Current
- Key responsibility: migrate pricing process from Avaloq Singapore to Avaloq India Pvt limited Pune
- Role: Pricing specialist responsible for determining prices of financial instruments including Funds, Bonds, Equities, Structured products, Dual Currency notes, equity-linked notes, OTC Accumulators and Options. My goal is to make sure that the prices are updated in Avaloq system on daily basis
- Primary goal: ensure daily updates of prices in the Avaloq system
- Task: To get best possible price source for stale price instruments
- Monitoring price variances for financial instruments like Bonds, funds, Accumulators and decumulators
- Creation of weekly reports (Thursday) and month end report consist of instruments which are not priced for more than 3 days and report it to bank
- Special handling of exceptional instruments which do not have price feed
- To ensure daily BAU (maker and checker) is processed as per SLAs and no TAT missed
- Provide training to new joiners so that they support the process efficiently
- Responsibility to create and update SOP on timely basis
- Assist in projects on static data interfaces between systems such as defining project scope, data requirements and sources
- Conduct and record weekly team meetings and raise all best practices
- Identify nonvalue & manual steps from current processes and put out an automation plan for the same
Senior Support Analyst
Nomura India Pvt Limited
08.2014 - 02.2021
- Worked on system Avaloq which caters to wealth management division of Nomura Singapore Limited
- To create listed products like Bonds & equities, not listed products like Structured product, Dual currency notes, equity linked notes, OTC Accumulators and Decumulator and Options instruments in Avaloq system
- To process corporate action request from corporate action team like desilting of securities, ticker change, name change, Identifiers changes, updating of bond coupon rate and interest payment dates
- Updating Haircut ratio as per data provided by the Risk team
- Pricing: To maintain and manually process exceptions of prices for listed products from Bloomberg
- To manually process pricing report from values received from different issuers for Structured product
- To manually derive and maintain prices through macro for OTC instruments
- To ensure daily BAU (maker and checker) is processed as per SLAs and no TAT missed
- Provide training to new joiners so that they support the process efficiently
- Responsibility to create and update SOP on timely basis
- Prioritize and manage projects (bulk creations) requests in conjunction with BAU requests
- Assist in projects on static data interfaces between systems such as defining project scope, data requirements and sources
- Conduct and record weekly team meetings and raise all best practices
- Identify non value & manual steps from current processes and put out an automation plan for the same
- Interact and communicate with the stakeholders/requestors on regular basis to help them manage their expectations
- Provide Monthly Performance Metrics
Customer Associate
India Infoline Limited
02.2013 - 07.2014
- Identifying clients' requirements and advising on investment products such as Wealth Plans, Bonds, Mutual Funds, FMP, and Systematic Investment Plans.
- Advising clients on equities.
- Trading in equities, futures, and options.
- Handling clients' queries.
- Provided personalised support to clients to enhance their overall experience.
- Updated clients on daily stock market trends, and provided comprehensive reports.
- Communicate in-house research calls to mapped clients.
Education
Master of Management Studies - Finance
Don Bosco Institute of Technology
Mumbai01.2013
B.com - Banking and Insurance
N.E.S Ratnam College
Mumbai01.2011
HSC - Commerce
St. Xavier's College
Mumbai01.2008
SSC -
St. Dominic Savio
Mumbai, MH01.2006
Skills
- Financial analysis
- Risk management
- Pricing strategy
- Microsoft Office
- Analytical
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Data analysis
Additional Qualifications
- Passed NCFM Module of Mutual funds.
- Basic computer operating, Ms Word, Ms excel, Internet
Personal Information
Passport Number: L6046462
Interests
- President of Powai youth Group. NSS Volunteer in S.Y BBI & MMS 1st year. NGO (Working for National Association for Blind for 1st and 2nd Semester of MMS).
- Attend workshop on how to be a smart investor.
- Attended course on personality development.
Hobbies and Interests
- Dance
- Throw Ball
- Cooking
- Listening to Music
- Exploring food
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all the above details are true to best of my knowledge.
Rewards & Recognition
➢Received Operations core value award for Client Focus, Creativity and Team Work on multiple occasions
➢Quality award for the quarter of Sep ‘17 and Mar ‘18 to the team for outstanding productivity with 100% TAT and Quality
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Advanced
C1
Marathi
Intermediate
B1
Malayalam
Elementary
A2
Timeline
Banking Specialist
Avaloq India Pvt Limited
02.2021 - Current
Senior Support Analyst
Nomura India Pvt Limited
08.2014 - 02.2021
Customer Associate
India Infoline Limited
02.2013 - 07.2014
Master of Management Studies - Finance
Don Bosco Institute of Technology
B.com - Banking and Insurance
N.E.S Ratnam College
HSC - Commerce
St. Xavier's College
SSC -
St. Dominic Savio