Paras Sarda

Trade Accounting Operations- Client Service

• Monitored daily financial transactions to ensure accuracy and compliance with internal controls.
• Managed the month-end close process by preparing journal entries, reconciling account balances, and analyzing financial results.
• Managed end-to-end trade lifecycle processes including trade booking, settlement, and reconciliation, ensuring accurate and timely operations for high-value client accounts
• Monitored and resolved client account discrepancies by conducting detailed investigations, and improving accuracy of client financial statements and reports.
• Led initiatives for operational risk reduction, ensuring controls were in place for key processes and facilitating regular internal audits.

• Execute and reconcile equities trades to ensure the accuracy and completeness of trade data
• Monitor and manage trade lifecycle events, including trade matching, confirmation, and settlement
• Collaborate with front office, back office, and other relevant teams to resolve trade-related discrepancies and issues
• Understanding of exotic derivative products like Structured Notes, Autocallables, CFD, etc
• Trade Support functions like amendments and rebooking are being performed
• Learning complex Monte Carlo Scripts and working closely with the Quants team to understand how structured trades are booked

• Lead the financial control and reporting for a portfolio of Collateralized FX Options and IR Options
• Assess and monitor financial risks associated with the products, such as market risk, credit risk, and operational risk
• Adjusting sub-ledger based on holding trades, expiry of contracts, post-cut trades, etc
• Assisted in the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial reports, including variance analysis
• Analysis of trader's risk position, ownership of trading books, cost Centre and business units
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including traders and risk managers, to analyze and optimize the financial performance of assigned products

• Created a model portfolio of 50 stocks out of BSE500 with MSCI Emerging Market as the benchmark index