Karthikeyan Madhavan
Bangalore
Summary
A highly detail-oriented, self-motivated finance professional with 7.5 years of experience with 1 Migration and 2 Projects. Seeking a challenging role as Senior Specialist/Team Leader in a renowned organization to utilize my skills and experiences. Experienced Fixed Income- Trade Capture, Trade Allocations, MO, Settlement, Reconciliations with a broad range of skills for evaluating financial data investment trends and the best ways to strategize asset selection. Bringing expertise in Fixed income, Reconciliations.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Lead Fixed Income Settlements and Trade Support Middle Office
Commonwealth Bank
09.2022 - Current
- Managing Associates Ensuring delivery of operational activities within agreed SLA targets.
- Delivering superior internal and external customer service by responding to and managing customer and stakeholder enquiries, complaints and escalations.
- Validation and settlement of Fixed income products such as DTC, FEDWIRE, CLEARSTREAM, as well as Treasury and FED Reserve Funding.
- Use of external systems including Bloomberg and OMGEO CTM for trade allocation and matching.
- Proficient in managing the Middle Office Trade Support Functions and Settlement of domestic and international cash equity, fixed income, Treasury Funding.
- Liaise closely with Sales and Trading teams to resolve any operational issues that might arise and provide support when required.
- Perform manual SWIFT entries and process manual fee calculation and journals on occasion, and actively follow up unsettled transactions.
- Understand and perform daily reconciliations ensuring all exceptions are followed up/resolved promptly with adequate audit trails.
- Trained and supported new team members, maintaining culture of collaboration.
- Analyzed customer data to identify trends and anticipate customer needs.
- Volunteered to help with special projects of varying degrees of complexity.
Specialist Fixed Income Settlements
STATE STREET HCL SERVICES
03.2021 - 08.2022
- Products Handled: Treasury products, Equity bond.
- Managing Associates Ensuring delivery of operational activities within agreed SLA targets.
- Delivering superior internal and external customer service by responding to and managing customer and stakeholder enquiries, complaints and escalations.
- Ensuring accurate and timely monitoring settlement of Fixed Income and Equity transactions in DTC/FED/ Euroclear and Domestic Market space. Products include Government Bonds, Cash Equity, Treasury Bills/Bonds, Municipal Bonds.
- Identifying trade discrepancies and unmatched trades as well as mitigating the risk related to the trade life cycle (TMPG/Fail charges).
- Settlement of money market trades, responsibility for receipt, delivery and custody physical assets.
- Developed highly empathetic client relationships and earned reputation for exceeding client goals.
- Proficient in managing the Middle Office Function trade life cycle and Settlement of domestic and international cash equity, fixed income, Treasury.
- Prompt actions on Buy-In notices on failing/unmatched trades for sensitive products/markets.
- Investigated of all Treasury & Equity fails and claims, managed and reduced risk associated with the settlement failures.
- Identify and escalate any large Treasury fails. Respond and Review Corporate Action Report with comments including action taken, Ex-Date and Type of event and resolve break in most suitable manner.
- Ensuring to maintain SLA TAT for all BAU activities.
- Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
- Gathered, organized and input information into digital database.
Operations Associate Level 1
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES SERVICES
08.2019 - 03.2021
- Middle office Reconciliation.
- Stock, Cash reconciliation, Over draft reporting & Stock availability.
- Performing Intellimatch cash matching and trade allocation on daily basis.
- Developed highly empathetic client relationships and earned reputation for exceeding client goals.
- Cross trained and provided back-up for other process teams when needed.
- Experienced in account preparations like out of proof and account rejects investigation and resolution.
- Performed account static setups and experience in new client on boarding.
- Preparation of Reconciliations Daily Report, Corporate Action Report, Aged fails and KPI Report.
- Ensuring to maintain SLA TAT for all BAU activities.
Education
MCA - Computer Applications
Anna University
01.2017
Skills
- Fixed income
- Process migration
- Execution of Regulatory Fixed income trades
- Trade operation Supervision
- Quality Management of Trades
- Alliance messaging hub-Swift
- Bloomberg
- CTM
- Markitwire
- DTCC
- FED
- EUROCLEAR
- CREST
- MUREX
- Workflow designing
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
Associate Lead Fixed Income Settlements and Trade Support Middle Office
Commonwealth Bank
09.2022 - Current
Specialist Fixed Income Settlements
STATE STREET HCL SERVICES
03.2021 - 08.2022
Operations Associate Level 1
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES SERVICES
08.2019 - 03.2021
MCA - Computer Applications
Anna University
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