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MAHENDRA KUMAR KURUVA

MAHENDRA KUMAR KURUVA

Summary

PROJECT MANAGEMENT|| PRODUCTION SUPPORT || EXPERTISE FIX ONBOARDING ||TEAM MANAGEMENT | EX CITI || EX BARCLAYS || EX JPM || BENGALURU, 560037, INDIA 917030839988 IRIS OVERVIEW & OBJECTIVE:

Overall 18+ years of experience started as Business Analyst, FIX Client onboarding, and Client Connectivity Support in the front office division where greater involvement with Business Desk, external clients, and internal stakeholders further moved as an operations manager worked as an on-site coordinator at TCS managing the end2end deliveries, resources & budgeting, training and upskill, appraisal and year-end reviews and project management.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President, Operations

Enfusion
Bengaluru
11.2021 - Current
  • Currently managing the team of 25 people of OEMS operations that includes all functions of FIX Operations.
  • Provided organizational leadership and established business vision to achieve the Operations in terms of delivery.
  • Directed day-to-day operations by spearheading the implementation of short-term and long-term strategies to achieve business plan
  • Investigated issues impacting organizational, operations and service delivery to understand root causes, prepare detailed reports and recommend corrective actions.
  • Been recruited of 20 members and directed recruitment activities to select and hire a talented workforce.
  • Monitored regularly team BOW's and reported on ongoing projects to help achieve departmental targets.
  • Be the primary contact person for all escalations and manage Incident management
  • Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.

EMEA Head F&O FIX Onboarding

Citicorp
Pune
08.2017 - 11.2021
  • Managing EMEA FIX Onboarding Team of 6 direct associates , their BOW and appraisals.
  • Stake holders and Vendor management
  • Re-define Efficient Process for FIX Onboarding to compete with Market Standards.
  • Working closely with Business (Trading Desk/ Sales in NY, London & HK)
  • Usage of various applications (Order Management Systems, Bloomberg, Appia Fix Engine, Verifix Trades cope & Certify (testing tools.)
  • Documentation of OB process, Certification Test Scenarios on SharePoint.
  • L2 Support, Investigate and assist Trading Floor Support Team to resolve any Production Issues.
  • Helped business in migration of FIX Clients: NYFIX FIX Engine flow to In house FIX Engine

Assistant Vice President, OP & IT

Barclays Capital PLC
Pune
12.2014 - 08.2017
  • Managing the Pune FIX Onboarding Team of their BoW and appraisal of 4 members team
  • Client account management for cross asset classes covering equities and derivatives
  • Liaising with internal and external traders in understanding the requirements for onboarding and providing solutions for smooth transition of clients on to the trading platform
  • Working with sales teams in building relationships with clients and assisting them in resolving any issues that they may come across in production
  • Liaise with Business, Development, project management and testing teams to understand, plan, schedule and deliver products of varying complexities
  • FIX Certification & On boarding clients to various business streams

Onsite Coordinator -Daiwa CM HK

Tata Consultancy Services[TCS]
Hong Kong
01.2011 - 12.2014
  • Certified and Delivered Fidessa OEMS for all 13+ leading APAC markets .This project was carried for almost two years where i was leading this project both onsite and offshore part of team of 18 associates.
  • Manage the business expectations on Onboarding , Projects, BAU and handle the production Support teams on the trading floor of Daiwa APAC headquarters.
  • Helped Daiwa to migrate the 300+ client migrations for HT, Algo/DMA and Program Desks to new Uliink/Fidessa systems
  • Developed internal requirements and standards to minimize regulatory risks and liability across programs.
  • Monitored front areas so that questions could be promptly addressed.
  • Worked from offshore to build new team of 6 members from BLR to support the regular BAU for the new applications.
  • Improved customer satisfaction scores through application of superior conflict resolution and problem-solving skills.

FIX Analyst

JP Morgan
Tokyo
07.2010 - 12.2010
  • Consultant and part of Asia Client Connectivity team memberworking on full time for Tokyo FIX COB and L2 trade flow support
  • Roles & Responsibilities: (i) FIX certification testing with buy side clients and vendors
  • (ii)Involveinclientsessioncreation,FIXnormalization,translationandtagcustomization

FIX Analyst

Mizuho Securities
Tokyo
09.2009 - 06.2010
  • Onboarding&certi cationofFIXclients&vendorsintotheMizuhoCapitalelectronic
  • DMA & cash equity platform
  • FIX testing, certi cation with existing or onboarding Clients/FIX vendors using Test
  • Coordinating effort to implement and test the Clients/FIX vendors in a production
  • Environment
  • Tested and certi ed the new customers for FIX connectivity to the ULBridge system.

FIX Analyst

HCL Technologies Ltd
Bengaluru
12.2005 - 09.2009
  • I) Production Support for APAC, US and Latin American markets(ii) FIX Client on boarding(iii) Migration projects and release managements
  • (iv) Short term work experience at client's office in New York City for meeting and trainingpurposes

Senior Executive

Geojit Financial Services Limited, BNP Parbias
Bengaluru
08.2004 - 12.2005
  • Performed high net-worth portfolio clients order book in different Order Management
  • Systems NEAT ( National Stock exchange of India Ltd –OMS) BOLT ( Bombay Stock exchange online trading system)

Education

COURSESCapital Markets, Derivatives, Commodities And Depository Modules, NSE AcademyCertification Modules, NCFM Exam -

National Stock Exchage Of India ( NSE) , Online

PGDBA - ACCOUNTS,ECONOMICS and BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning (SCDL), PUNE

Bachelors Of Commerce [BCOM - Economics, Statistics, Computers

Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur

Skills

  • Client Connectivity Support
  • FIDESSA [OMS/EMS]
  • Equties And Listied Derivatives
  • P > UNIX/SQL
  • OEMS Functional Testing
  • Salesfroce,JIRA,Seriviceow
  • Algorithm Trading Functional
  • Networks: basic networks - Firewall
  • Messaging protocols: FIX 42 / 44 – Single order flow / DMA/Algorithm/Program flow
  • P > Policy and procedure development
  • P > Recruiting and Hiring
  • P > Hiring and Budgeting
  • P > Project Management

Accomplishments

  • Involvement in some major projects:2006: Automated the FUT&OPT Data for Marcopolo – Involved & created FUT & OPT for next 10 years data for NSE for Marcoplo client Lehman brothers based on the logic and uploaded in OMS for electronic trading2009: Exchange driven project TSE Arrowhead Go Live – Involved in client certification testing and internal QA at Mizuho Securities
  • 2013: Business driven project Daiwa Electronic Trading flow migration to Fidessa/Ullink vendor's platform – Worked on migration project at DAIWA from beginning to till go live to decommission their current OMS/FIX and helped them to Implement FIDESSA OMS flow(OMAR) and EMS flow (AMMA) for Asia markets, in phase2 migrate the Daiwa end clients
  • 2017: At Barclays handled the client migration project and migrate all FnO clients from their legacy system to Fidessa systems for the ASIA which involves GUI & Direct flow and as well drop copy sessions

Work Preference

Work Type

Full TimePart Time

Work Location

On-SiteRemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Company CultureWork-life balanceCareer advancementHealthcare benefits

Timeline

Vice President, Operations - Enfusion
11.2021 - Current
EMEA Head F&O FIX Onboarding - Citicorp
08.2017 - 11.2021
Assistant Vice President, OP & IT - Barclays Capital PLC
12.2014 - 08.2017
Onsite Coordinator -Daiwa CM HK - Tata Consultancy Services[TCS]
01.2011 - 12.2014
FIX Analyst - JP Morgan
07.2010 - 12.2010
FIX Analyst - Mizuho Securities
09.2009 - 06.2010
FIX Analyst - HCL Technologies Ltd
12.2005 - 09.2009
Senior Executive - Geojit Financial Services Limited, BNP Parbias
08.2004 - 12.2005
National Stock Exchage Of India ( NSE) - COURSESCapital Markets, Derivatives, Commodities And Depository Modules, NSE AcademyCertification Modules, NCFM Exam,
Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning (SCDL) - PGDBA, ACCOUNTS,ECONOMICS and BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Sri Krishnadevaraya University - Bachelors Of Commerce [BCOM, Economics, Statistics, Computers
MAHENDRA KUMAR KURUVA