Financial Analyst eClerx Services Limited -October 2022
- Supported Goldman Sachs’ Custody Department, focusing on middle-office bookings and trade execution using Gojam, Mainframe, and proprietary financial applications to ensure accurate transaction processing.
- Investigated missing or failed bookings, identifying root causes and executing valid transactions through Gojam and Mania tools. This included managing offline transfers, seamlessly moving shares and cash between Goldman Sachs’ domestic and international entities.
- Resolved settlement discrepancies categorized as Items for Attention (IFA), ensuring compliance with Continuous Net Settlement (CNS) regulations by diagnosing mismatches and executing corrective actions.
- Analyzed NSCC trade mismatches through DTCC platform, facilitating seamless trade reconciliation and mitigating risk exposure.
- Processed a wide range of post-settlement activities, including Stex clearance, trade amendments, reversals, mergers, and splits, ensuring smooth financial operations across global markets.
- Led critical communication efforts, initiating direct correspondence with counterparties to resolve unmatched trades, ensuring accurate adjustments through DTC portal transactions.
Senior Financial Analyst eClerx Services Limited -October 2024
- Transitioned to the Balance Order team, contributing to the Security Settlement Group, which oversees and facilitates the settlement process for the majority of middle-office trades by validating, booking, and monitoring transactions.
- Spearheaded trade acceptance and validation efforts, ensuring that counterparties receive correct trade details, promptly flagging discrepancies for resolution, and coordinating closely with internal teams to mitigate booking errors.
- Trained extensively with the Goldman Sachs US team, acquiring expertise in newly developed processes, ensuring seamless execution of critical settlement activities, and sharing expertise with colleagues via structured training programs.
- Played an integral role in SOP development, documenting new procedures, optimizing workflow, and implementing process improvements to enhance operational efficiency and accuracy.
- Managed complex reconciliation efforts, investigating trade mismatches, failed settlements, and missing transaction details, ensuring seamless settlement across global financial markets.
- Developed a proactive post-settlement monitoring system, mitigating risks associated with duplicate transactions, erroneous trade deliveries, buy-in notices, and financial claims, driving operational precision in high-value transactions.