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Lakshmi Choudhary

Investment Banking Operations Professional
B-504 Purple Symphonia, Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur

Summary

Seeking a challenging role in the Investment bank/financial services sector to leverage 14 years of expertise in investment banking operations including process migration, automation, driving operational excellence, risk mitigation, and strategic efficiencies in a high-growth organization.

Seasoned Investment Banking Operations Professional having expertise in Collateral management, Portfolio Reconciliation, OTC confirmations, Client Services, Trade operations, Settlements with a strong focus on people management, process migration, and automation. Strategic Process Migration & Transformation – Successfully led high-impact migrations, including collateral management margins from Singapore to India in year 2020 in FIS and trade operations from Client to eClerx in year 2015. Automation & Operational Efficiency – Spearheaded automation initiatives, optimizing manual payments, broker on-boarding and CNH funding , resulting in significant time savings across APAC, EMEA, and NY regions while enhancing process efficiency and accuracy using Power query. Consistent Top Performer with skills in building high performing teams that excels in delivering business value with high morale, leading, training and monitoring performance of the team members for maintaining excellence in the service operations.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AVP

Deutsche Bank
02.2025 - Current

⦁ To manage Dispute, Portfolio Reconciliations and Margins team in Jaipur and Bangalore location.
⦁ Cross training with colleagues to get a comprehensive understanding of the processes executed by the team, being able to switch tasks when required.
⦁ Manage operational risk by checking strength of existing controls and recommend/implement new or improved controls.
⦁ Strong risk and control knowledge and an ability to identify and handle operational risk and control issues.
⦁ Re-engineering the current process to meet the changing needs of the business.
⦁ Leading/contributing to various projects which are kicked off in the department to increase efficiency in the process.
⦁ Tracking and settlement of the client margin management process including bookings, approvals.
⦁ Reconciliation of post settlement system breaks / security fails / NOSTRO breaks.
⦁ Identifying and resolving breaks so that client accounts are realizing the proper credits and debits.

Manager

FIS
10.2020 - 01.2025
  • Responsible to check and post correct cash and collateral movements to ensure accounts are accurately funded.
  • To partner with internal stakeholders to identify and control process gaps.
  • Perform resource planning and work allocation to maximize the work efficiency.
  • To groom team members with challenging assignments and opportunities.
  • To take care of allocating quarterly bonus and annual appraisal.
  • Supervision of daily business processes.

Assistant Manager

Barclays
10.2017 - 10.2020
  • To ensure timely pre-settlement of cash flows.
  • Ensuring all high priority issues are escalated to the management immediately.
  • Adhere to the procedures and highlight gaps and control to management.

Associate Process Manager

eClerx
12.2015 - 11.2016
  • Lead process migration from client to eClerx.
  • Perform trade reconciliation and exception management.
  • To manage team of 4 members, ensuring smooth operations by managing escalations, follow up on open issues and building network.

Process Specialist

Cognizant
01.2014 - 12.2015
  • To ensure each Derivative transaction is affirmed, confirmed and the document executed accurately on paper as per ISDA guidelines.
  • To prepare MIS reports and provide the heads up to higher management on aged deals.

Analyst

Deutsche Bank
04.2011 - 12.2013
  • To ensure each Derivative transaction is affirmed, confirmed and the document executed accurately on paper as per ISDA guidelines.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce

Rajasthan University
Jaipur, India
04.2001 -

Skills

  • ISDA/CSA, GIMRA, GIMSLA agreement
  • Capital Market
  • Derivatives
  • Collateral Management
  • Dodd Frank, EMIR and CFTC regulations
  • Trade Operations
  • Reconciliation
  • Migration
  • Business Re-engineering
  • Client Services
  • Rates
  • Fixed Income
  • People Management

Software

Power BI

Acadia Soft

Tri-Optima

Certification

Enterprise Risk Management

Timeline

Enterprise Risk Management

11-2025

AVP

Deutsche Bank
02.2025 - Current

Manager

FIS
10.2020 - 01.2025

Assistant Manager

Barclays
10.2017 - 10.2020

Associate Process Manager

eClerx
12.2015 - 11.2016

Process Specialist

Cognizant
01.2014 - 12.2015

Analyst

Deutsche Bank
04.2011 - 12.2013

Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce

Rajasthan University
04.2001 -
Lakshmi ChoudharyInvestment Banking Operations Professional