Manya Kaur Batra
Gurgaon
Summary
Accomplished Operations & Settlements Specialist with 7.5 years in Investment Banking and Financial Services. Specializes in OTC derivatives matching, fixed income settlements, and regulatory compliance. Enhanced Straight-Through Processing rates and minimized trade failures through automation tools like Alteryx and VBA macros. Experienced in managing client services, custodian relationships, and implementing risk controls.
Overview
1
1
Language
5
5
years of post-secondary education
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Leader
Bank of America
11.2022 - Current
- Team Leadership & Trade Execution: Direct a team of 4 managing end-to-end pre-matching and settlement operations for Fixed Income and OTC Derivative products (TRS, CDS, IRS, Swaptions, Cross Currency, Variance Swaps).
- Process Automation & STP Optimization: Led initiative transitioning manual pre-matching processes to STP via Alteryx, automating depot transfer postings and SSI amendments.
- GenAI Implementation: Deployed Microsoft Co-Pilot automation to streamline client communications, reducing email dependency and minimizing value-date settlement failures.
- Reconciliation & Risk Mitigation: Oversaw intercompany reconciliations for MLI and BOFA entities, managing journal entry postings and resolving aging breaks during weekly control reviews.
- CSDR Compliance: Administered penalty journal postings for failing trades and generated monthly MIS dashboards for tracking desk-level penalty allocations.
- Macro Development: Programmed VBA macros to analyze pre-matching bottlenecks, resulting in faster exception resolution.
Senior Analyst
NatWest
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Portfolio Compression: Executed compression cycles for OTC derivative portfolios, reducing notional exposure and facilitating efficient replacement trades.
- Trader Coordination: Collaborated with Front Office traders to evaluate P&L impact, achieving PV and delta neutrality across compressed positions.
- Trade Booking & Lifecycle: Analyzed economic details on an ISIN basis to consolidate high-volume trade portfolios, updating holiday calendars and ensuring timely booking of replacement trades.
Derivative Operations
AXA Business Services
Pune
02.2019 - 11.2021
- Verified and confirmed economic details for OTC derivatives and structured products, ensuring accuracy through DTCC, DS Match, MarkitWire, and paper confirms.
- Managed onboarding of clearing platforms and sleeve setups across ICE, LCH, CME, DTCC, and Markit; created trade attribute forms and registered IDs in ACE application to streamline processes.
- Authored Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and trained new team members, enhancing onboarding experience and ensuring consistent process adherence.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
Gyan Ganga College of Technology
Jabalpur 01.2016 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Commerce -
St. Aloysius College
Jabalpur 01.2013 - 01.2016
Skills
- Trade Matching & Settlement
- Derivatives Operations
- Clearing & Reconciliations
- Portfolio Compression
- Risk and Exception Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Process Automation
- STP
- VBA
- Alteryx
- Tableau
- Calypso
- DTCC
- Markit Wire
- DS Match
- SWIFT
- Team management
Awards
- Silver Awards, Won Silver Awards for best performance (2025-Q2 and Q4), (2024-Q3).
- Bronze Award, Won Bronze award (2025-Q3).
- Superstar Award, Won Superstar Award (2021).
Projects
- Silver Awards, Won Silver Awards for best performance (2025-Q2 and Q4), (2024-Q3).
- Bronze Award, Won Bronze award (2025-Q3).
- Superstar Award, Won Superstar Award (2021).
Languages
English
First Language
Timeline
Team Leader
Bank of America
11.2022 - Current
Senior Analyst
NatWest
11.2021 - 11.2022
Derivative Operations
AXA Business Services
02.2019 - 11.2021
Master of Business Administration -
Gyan Ganga College of Technology
01.2016 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Commerce -
St. Aloysius College
01.2013 - 01.2016