Kailash Chauhan
Director(AVP)
Santacruz, Mumbai
Summary
Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Owner
Morgan Stanley:CAT Regulatory Reporting
04.2021 - Current
- Review the regulatory risk of open issues raised by FINRA and accordingly prioritizing fixes for each issue
- Managed and owned back reporting-tooling solution for CAT reporting
- Develop solutions for remediation issues by understanding the regulatory requirement and reviewing the reporting system and the current business processes to ensure they are in line with the requirements
- Managing new Tech Spec/FAQ Finra requirements
- Liaising with front office business unit to assess business enablement requirements and incorporating the change in CAT reporting system
- Raise requirements for controls in upstream and downstream applications to ensure completeness and accuracy in regulatory reporting for CAT
- Training the BA squad about the regulation and the current reporting system build to help them independently work on open issues.
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
Business Analyst
Morgan Stanley:CAT Regulatory Reporting
08.2019 - 04.2021
- Analysis of requirements for the regulation, reviewing regulatory language with Compliance, documenting details in user stories and grooming stories with the business and tech teams
- Controls for CAT Phase 2a/2b, this involved understanding the requirements from FINRA for CAT phase 2a and 2b and applying controls in the reporting process to reduce the risk of underreporting and misreporting
- Front to Back testing and Industry testing of the reporting system along with timely raising of issues with the system to ensure the reports submitted to the regulator are accurate
- Remediation of open issues by analysing issues raised by the operations team.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Utilized data visualization techniques to present and explain complex data sets.
- Implemented business intelligence solutions to increase operational efficiency.
- Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.
- Updated and developed scripts and queries to extract and analyze data from multiple sources.
Associate
Morgan Stanley:Trading Ops DPTO - OTC Equity Confirmations
05.2015 - 07.2019
- Drafting of Vanilla and Structured OTC equity derivative confirmations and managing electronic confirmation submission
- Managed project for developing web based electronic confirmation platform (Coast) to enhance STP percentage
- Liaising with key stakeholders like Middle Office, Front Office, Legal and Vendor team to ensure accurate and timely dispatch of confirmations.
- Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through the development of innovative solutions.
- Acted as a team leader in group projects, delegating tasks and providing feedback.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
Education
MBA -
Liverpool John Moores University
01.2010 - 04.2012
B.Com -
Mumbai University
01.2005 - 04.2008
Skills
Technical Skills: SQL, Ms Office, Atlassian JIRA,Alteryx
BA Skills:Requirements gathering, Agile Methodologies – Scrum & Kanban
Product knowledge:OTC equity and Listed electronic trading
Accomplishments
- CAT regulation reporting: Delivered the core build,industry testing,cat exception of CAT phase 2a/2b and delivered the same before the industry prod go live with 99.91% compliance ack rate.
- OTC Confirmation:Delivered end to end project for STP electronic confirmation on markitwire leading to efficiency and cost save.
Timeline
Product Owner
Morgan Stanley:CAT Regulatory Reporting
04.2021 - Current
Business Analyst
Morgan Stanley:CAT Regulatory Reporting
08.2019 - 04.2021
Associate
Morgan Stanley:Trading Ops DPTO - OTC Equity Confirmations
05.2015 - 07.2019
MBA -
Liverpool John Moores University
01.2010 - 04.2012
B.Com -
Mumbai University
01.2005 - 04.2008