ALADDIN - Blackrock
Overall, 9 years of experience in Investment Banking and capital market domain in areas of Index and Portfolio management and Performance analysis.
Currently working as Senior Analyst, Portfolio Performance and Attribution Analysis in Tech Mahindra for IDS GmbH. Worked as Index and Portfolio Analyst in Oracle Financial services software with good exposure in ALADDIN (Blackrock), Index and Benchmarks, Index Re-balancing.
BBM graduate and post graduate MBA in Finance with fair working knowledge PLSQL, Interactive Excel Dashboards.
· Perform quality checks in transaction data for IBOR portfolios in the area of investment transactions, cash flows, corporate actions, and other activities impacting the investment portfolio.
· Recognizes quality problems affecting market data by Security level and Portfolio level and ensures the plausibility and consistency of the data.
· Responsible for production, quality check and analyzing the fund reports and ensure the check points are within the threshold and identify the reason if any breaches.
· Performance Attribution analysis reporting - Brinson Fachler attribution model - Asset allocation, selection, timing decisions are evaluated driving outperformance compared to the relevant benchmark and Factor model for fixed income portfolios (Currency, Curve and Spreads)
· Responsible for timely delivery of Performance Reports, Factsheet report, Contribution reports to various clients
· Responsible to identify and communicate risk issues, concepts, and mitigations/solutions effectively.
· Establishes, provides input, and tracks operational metrics and service level requirements to achieve business goals.
· Work on ad hoc projects within the team. Understanding the project requirements and proactively completing the tasks prior to target date.
· Identified and resolved problems through root cause analysis and research.
· Recommended process improvements to continually identify, analyze and fix constraints and challenges.
· Attend daily/weekly calls with client to discuss any pending issues.
· Mentoring and monitoring junior colleagues.
· Directly involved in the production of GREEN PACKAGE- a Comprehensive suite of portfolio risk management and compliance report that allows institutional investors to analyze and manage risk across asset classes.
· Dealing with portfolio risk analytics and return attributes for various fixed income, Equity and Derivative Products through customized application tools.
· Carry out research & investigation of Risk reports using Risk model- security setup, changes under Fund duration, Convexity, VAR, Tracking Error.
· Performing QC on financial instruments and evaluating trades and prices on the client portfolio on a daily basis.
· Performing Risk Analysis/ Quality check of risk/Duration/VAR and Tracking error numbers for Fixed Income Securities (MBS, ABS, Corporate bonds, Government bonds, Financial Futures, Options etc.) and justifying their risk based on market movements, Factors, Coupons, Call/Put Optionality and Ratings etc
· Reconciliation of corporate actions globally and analysis of their impact on the portfolios
· Ensuring smooth dataflow from one job to another job, escalating job failures to concerned team by thorough investigation.
· Reconciliation of positions and NAV in the portfolios.
· Ensuring data from the vendors is authentic by comparing with internal calculated prices with the multiple vendors.
· Setting up automated jobs to retrieve, load, push the files from one source to another using time frames.
· Analysis of exposure at the fund level using various internal applications to maximize the client value and reduce the uncertainty.
· Rebalancing of equity indices on daily basis and fixed income securities on monthly basis
· Providing QCed Reports to the clients in a fast-paced deadline-based environment.
· Construct benchmark for portfolios – Construction of customized benchmarks (Fixed, fixed to float, and Floating) that are often used as a tool to assess the performance, risk and return of a portfolio. These benchmarks are usually constructed using unmanaged indices, exchange-traded Funds (ETF) or mutual fund categories to represent each asset class.
· Met and collaborated with existing and prospective clients to ascertain financial goals and provide recommendations on investment solutions.
· Contacted potential clients to pursue sales and gather funds.
· Researched companies and prepared presentations for management and prospective buyers.
· Contacted and lined up fellow investors to enable successful IPOs.
· Manage and reduce risk associated with Trade
· Ensuring brokerage targets, client acquisition target are met
· Improved existing reporting by researching data sources, compiling data and designing output.
· Produced quality reports formatted in compliance with data quality standards.
· Prepared monthly ad hoc reporting in alignment with client needs.
· Resolved variances in performance reports through root cause analysis and review of internal performance reports.
· Supporting team by rectification of errors by internal auditing
· Act as linking pin between Expense- Accounts payable department and finance department.
· Arranging meeting with the client Cardinal Health U.S regarding the performance assessment of the team
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