Jayanth Kumar T

• Investment Banking Expertise: Proficient in end-to-end settlements for equities, fixed income, derivatives, and funds, ensuring compliance with CSDR regulations.
• Business Analysis: Skilled in facilitating workshops, leading UAT, and delivering enhancements that align with organizational goals.
• Oversee daily team operations and supervise interactions

with shared service teams, custody services and claims management functions.

• Handle client and sub-custodian escalations, responding

to high-priority income and entitlement queries while

maintaining service-level commitments.

• Perform detailed investigations into cash and securities

mismatches between fund accounting records and

Custodian statements.

• Maintain intensive contact with onshore middle office teams, as well as Front Office personnel for break investigation and break resolution.
• Monitoring for any open trades during market hours, investigating and resolving to accept or decline trades based on market executions by checking various Order Management Systems.
• Managing day-to-day processing involving: T+1 Reconciliation of various Exchanges, Exceptions Management, Controls Management, manual trade bookings on Internal Transfers.
• Liaise with various front offices trading/sales teams & MO/FO IT departments on new business/regulatory changes whenever there is an addition to existing control/reconciliation process, implement the change and same time notify all key stakeholders.
• Daily stock position exposure checks for accounts owned by Single Stock, Program Trading, Electronic, Syndicate, ETF, Prime Services and the QPS desk and clearance of position exceptions before value date for timely settlement.
• Establish and maintain the risk and control framework for the team, developing and improving this in conjunction with the key stakeholders.
• Review current workflows to minimize risks associated with the process & improve overall control environment by performing logic review for all controls in place.
• Act as a point of contact for daily/weekly/monthly risk calls, review Metrics / KPIs to highlight all issues for team and maintain transparency with global stakeholders.
• RCSA, Rec Logic & Completeness Review, Internal & External Audit
• Barclays Global Service Centre, Chennai
• Coordinating with the team and collecting all the evidence to mitigate the risk involved in the controls (Placing Four eye checks & EOD checklist).
• Risk & Control Self-Assessment in the firm wide approach for management to identify and regularly assess material Risks and their associated controls in order to mitigate risk.
• To manage RCSA refresh for the team and submit the details to CCO group. Ensure timely completion of SOX testing for team on time and maintain satisfactory audit profile for the group.
• The RCSA for GMO is uploaded on TARC annually and approved globally by Risk & Operations.
• Successfully completed Rec Logic & Completeness Review to identify gaps if any in the Cash Equities Controls which happens 18 months once in the firm.
• Perform Quarterly SOP review for all Cash Equities Controls in place.
• SPOC for all yearly Internal and External Audits in Cash Equities.

• Assisting and closely working with my line manager in trade order processing, training colleagues/new joiners, project management and process automation. Resolving the Cash/stock breaks. Liaising with Custodian/ supporting teams for various discrepancies. Investigating failed payments.
• Monitoring and determining trade repair queues, Trade instructions and client inquiry system throughout the day.
• Ensuring Trades cusip’s (Through Bloomberg Tickers) are updated in system for newly traded derivatives products. Confirming Broker’s data feeds and trade files are accurately uploaded in our system for reconciliation.
• Significant Achievements:
• Enhanced trade matching logic resulting in 7% increase from existing 89% auto-match rate thereby reducing manual matching by the end user.
• Acknowledged with Barclays Recognition Award for effective handling of external broker confirmation.
• Successfully closed duplicate GCMI ID by getting confirmation from regional director.
• Received highest number of recognition emails in 2023 within the team.
• Break reduction - Successfully reduced 50% of breaks volume in FOBO control, by identifying issue from root and closely working with respective Front Office, Sales & Technology.