Prakash Bhuminathan

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the global delivery of client reporting services across multiple regions, ensuring the accuracy, quality, and timeliness of deliverables.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global team of reporting analysts, fostering collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Serve as the primary liaison for clients, understanding reporting needs, managing expectations, and maintaining strong, trust-based relationships.
• Collaborate with the Technology and Product Development teams to enhance reporting capabilities and drive client satisfaction.
• Develop, implement, and standardize delivery processes and controls to improve efficiency, meet SLAs, and ensure compliance with business requirements.
• Plan and execute complex reporting projects, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and proactively mitigating risks to ensure on-time delivery.
• Continuously identify and implement process improvements, including the optimization of release pipelines, data lineage, and performance utilities.
• Promote a culture of innovation and excellence, motivating teams to exceed performance goals, and adopt best practices.

• Lead people and delivery management for a team of Business Intelligence (BI) engineers within the Custody and Fund Services domain.
• Own reporting architecture decisions, establish and enforce development best practices, and influence data model design and optimization.
• Define and execute the BI roadmap in collaboration with Product Development, including effort estimation for investment initiatives.
• Support major issue resolutions, oversee client onboarding activities, and ensure smooth delivery of reporting solutions across regions.
• Foster cross-regional collaboration and knowledge sharing to enhance delivery efficiency, and maintain consistency in BI practices.

Notable Accomplishments:

• Established a core functional knowledge hub in India, and implemented a partnership model across global teams to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
• Managed and developed a multi-skilled team of 4 to 6 BI engineers, creating a flexible, end-to-end reporting team with diverse technical capabilities.
• Conceived and developed an automated regression testing tool that significantly improved reporting stability and release validation, reducing manual effort by over 850 person-days annually.
• Strengthened delivery quality and efficiency through proactive automation, streamlined reporting pipelines, and adherence to best practices in BI development.

Technical Skills: Business Analysis.| Business Intelligence (BI) |Data Analytics.|Data Visualization.| Oracle |Core Java.|Shell scripting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Cognos Framework Models, reports, and Oracle stored procedures to support business-critical reporting needs.
• Collaborate with business analysts and product teams to translate business requirements into scalable, efficient reporting solutions.
• Perform data modeling, and validate database performance and data quality, ensuring accuracy and reliability of delivered reports.
• Support and enhance a 24/7 global flagship reporting application, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
• Manage the APAC business work queue, optimize internal reporting processes, and oversee test case management and production releases.
• Provide Level 3 production support, resolving complex issues, and ensuring minimal downtime across reporting environments.

Notable Accomplishments:

• Key contributor to the successful onboarding of superannuation funds within the APAC region through the development of robust reporting solutions.
• Developed numerous Cognos reports and automated processes that streamlined report generation and enhanced data delivery efficiency.
• Improved operational workflows and release management practices, ensuring seamless coordination between development, testing, and production support teams.

Reporting Analyst – Prime Services

Key Responsibilities:

Develop, maintain, and support analytics and MIS reporting solutions for Prime Services, catering to the trading and operational needs of hedge funds, and pension funds.
Analyze and interpret balance sheet allocations, profit/loss metrics (RoA), margin leverage, and short-selling capabilities to optimize client strategies and trading decisions.
Provide actionable insights to Client Service Representatives (CSRs) and front office teams on the direction of positions held or short-sold by clients, enabling informed recommendations on long/short strategies.
Collaborate with middle office and back office teams to resolve queries, address operational challenges, and enhance reporting workflows.
Evaluate and validate reference data from multiple sources to assess key security parameters, including liquidity, risk factors, and market positioning, ensuring accurate and reliable reporting.
Support continuous improvement initiatives by streamlining analytics processes and enhancing MIS reporting capabilities for internal stakeholders.

Key Skills & Expertise:

Prime Services operations and client trading lifecycle, financial analytics and balance sheet optimization, MIS reporting and data analysis, risk assessment, liquidity analysis, and short-selling strategy, collaboration with front, middle, and back office teams. If you want, I can also create a concise résumé-ready version with bullet points highlighting responsibilities and achievements suitable for your experience section.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Senior Developer within the Cash Prime Brokerage (PB) Reporting Team, enhancing a comprehensive multi-asset reporting suite used by over 50 hedge funds globally.
• Contribute to PHUB (Prime HUB), a centralized data warehousing and client reporting platform for Cash PB clients, ensuring a scalable, flexible, and reliable architecture for consolidating and managing data.
• Design and maintain automated, event-driven reporting workflows that integrate multiple source systems, enabling timely refresh of daily data, and seamless generation of client reports.
• Collaborate across teams to implement cost rationalization initiatives, achieving significant operational savings (e.g., $300,000 annually).
• Develop and maintain reporting solutions across multiple domains, including: Cash Management (Custody), Stock Loan, Margin Requirements, Right of Use, Interest, and Financing, Ticket Fees, Multi-Asset Reporting, Held Away Asset Reporting, and Intraday Reporting.
• Work on additional platforms, including Synthetics PB, PPMA reporting, and EUCLID reporting, implementing client-facing reports with detailed swap data.
• Utilize Crystal Reports and Actuate for report development and visualization.

Skills & Expertise:

• Prime brokerage operations and multi-asset reporting.
• Data warehousing and ETL processes.
• Event-driven reporting and automation.
• Cost optimization and process improvement.
• Strong collaboration with global hedge fund clients and internal teams.

• Developed a reconciliation tool to compare multiple file types and identify discrepancies, providing accurate and actionable outputs.
• Leveraged the tool to support data migration projects, ensuring data integrity and streamlining validation processes.