Lokesh Garg
Mumbai
Summary
Over 14 years experience as a Functional Consultant/ Business Analyst in Capital Market domain for multiple global financial services clients across geographies. Methodical and result-oriented Product Owner with proven skills in project management, team building & stakeholder management. Delivered high quality projects related to designing business framework, transformation, change management, regulatory compliance, data governance and data management using strong analytical skills, eye for detail & problem solving approach.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Owner | Business Analyst
Morgan Stanley
Mumbai
02.2021 - Current
- Established the CTB team and delivered solution for 90% of the open issues within 2 years in the OTC Trade and Transaction reporting for APAC regimes
- Planning and implementation of new Trade Reporting rules 2024 for ASIC & MAS that involved defining roadmap, milestones, interpretation of rules & DTCC specifications
- Streamlined the project management process & designed jira dashboards for improved efficiency, effective tracking and timely delivery of requirement
- Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders like Senior Management, Technology, Compliance, Risk systems owners etc by maintaining open lines of communication, providing MIS updates in SteerCo meetings and addressing any concerns promptly
- Represented the firm in Industry Working Group calls with DTCC & ISDA to present our view point on new changes in Regulatory Reporting.
- Initiated and designed a successful training program for new Business Analysts joining the Regulatory reporting team that helped them build better understanding on systems, products, regulations & IT processes
Functional Consultant | Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Multi-city
04.2014 - 01.2021
- As a Functional Consultant for Indonesian Clearing House, defined the business framework to set up OTC Derivative Clearing. Conducted industry research for CCP OTC Clearing trends & global best practices
- As a Consultant for a US Financial Services firm, created a baseline inventory of 1600 applications data and used data analytics to generate insights on functional redundancies and opportunities for application consolidation
- As a Test Lead for a multinational Investment Bank, designed the strategy for F2B testing for MiFID II. Liased with functional SMEs and multiple teams across the F2B flow to ensure smooth execution of test scenarios.
- As a Domain Consultant for a multinational Bank, implemented the Data Governance & Quality Management framework for Wealth Management operations. Defined end-to-end traceability, transformation logic and controls for critical data elements
- As a Business Analyst for an Australian Wealth Management firm, spearheaded the enhancements/ defect fixes on advisory platform. Well versed with requirement elicitation, gap/ impact analysis, functional documentation and functional testing
- As a Functional Consultant in Capital Market Consulting group, responsible for activities like tracking trends in Capital Market, impact analysis of new regulations, providing functional inputs to Sales team for RFI/ RFP response, publishing monthly newsletter etc
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai
02.2010 - 03.2013
- Worked in a techno-functional role managing clearing & settlement operations of equity and derivative assets for multiple retail brokerage firms in Indian market
- Handled various Change Management projects like application version migration, product enhancements and front office interface migration
- As a SPOC for one of the clients, responsible for defect tracking, efforts & delivery date estimation and timely delivery to the client
Education
MBA - Finance & Analytics
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Chennai03-2014
B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
YMCA Institute of Engineering
Faridabad, Haryana06-2009
Skills
- Industry: Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Clearing & Settlement
- Products knowledge: Equity, Listed Derivatives, OTC
- SDLC Methodologies: Agile/ Waterfall
- Soft skills:
- Software: MS Office, Jira, Visio, Power BI
- Language: SQL, C
Accomplishments
- Spot Award - Morgan Stanley - Dec 2022
- Star of the Month - TCS - Feb 2011
Timeline
Product Owner | Business Analyst
Morgan Stanley
02.2021 - Current
Functional Consultant | Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2014 - 01.2021
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2010 - 03.2013
MBA - Finance & Analytics
Great Lakes Institute of Management
B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
YMCA Institute of Engineering
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