Talented Skilled Professional with 8 years of rich experience in Investment Banking. Extensive strong knowledge in Settlements/Reference Data/Corporate Actions.
IFBI (Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance - Delhi) Certified professional with extensive analytical skills.
Specialties : Utilizing Lean tools and techniques to derive continuous improvement across the business. Recognized for adding value, working hard being a team player with Multiple awards and recognitions.
Corporate Actions :
Managing a Team size of 30 - Primarily responsible for the planning and smooth transition of BAU assuring quality. Serve as a point of contact for the Stakeholders and Clients.
● Successfully delegating daily work to all levels of staffs.
● Help the team to meet the goals as set as per dashboard.
● Conduct performance reviews, serve as a positive leader and mentor and contribute to performance feedback/training.
● Owns the responsibility of handling escalations with all the clients.
● Participate in regular conference calls with Global Engagement Coordinator (GEC) and local country teams to discuss engagement status and to facilitate issue resolution.
Settlements - Equity & Fixed Income :
Handling the most sensitive and important clients of the bank via chat/emails/calls.
● Responsible for Settlements of Equity and Fixed Income Trades.
● Pre-matching of trades and ensuring the trade is settling on time with no issue.
● Monitoring Fails management and report on MI calendar.
● Expertise in Reconciliation for both Cash and Stock.
● Manage and reduce risk associated with settlement failure Investigate the reason as to why the trades are failing.
● Respond to all client queries within the stipulated time frame.
● Act as a link between settlements and the Middle Office.
● Application used and have Strong knowledge on: Avaloq, CREST, Aladdin, Scale, EQIP, Orchid, Clear stream, BONY, Wealth master, Trade Web.
● Strong Knowledge on Vendor systems such as BLOOMBERG and
REUTERS for Corporate actions.
Reference Data :
●Providing support globally for major corporate actions such as Listing, Delisting, Rights offering, ID Changes, Tickers changes and Stock Splits and make the necessary static/price adjustments in upstream systems.
● Setting up the Equity, Funds and Derivative products in various systems based on client query.
● Pricing the Future, Index and Equity instruments in Asset control Desktop.
● Being the point of escalation for all the issues related to prices and handling the discrepancy issues by contacting the external data providers.
● Closely monitoring market updates notifications from Bloomberg, Reuters & NSE and ensures the static changes are reflected in appropriate systems.
● Received Talent of the year award from the country head recently (2023) in EY.
● Received Excellent Client Service Award in EY.
● Received Multiple Spot awards and Recognition throughout the tenure in HCL.
● Received Barclay’s award of excellence for Stewardship in Reference data.
● Migrated Bloomberg EMEA process from Poland successfully in a short span of time in HCL.
● Successfully Migrated project BSL to SINGAPORE and was the primary source of contact for the CLIENT until the project was successful in Barclays Settlements desk.
● Certification of achievement in Asset servicing Functional.
● Increased STP rate from 60% to 95%.