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Rahul Tanver

Change Manager | Trade Operations | FXO, Rates, Reconciliation | Post Trade Services |
New Delhi

Summary


Executive Profile


  • Senior Professional with nearly 10 years of experience in Investment Banking with a proven track record of working in back-office operations in Reconciliation, FXO, OTC Derivatives domain.
  • Deep Understanding of Products such as Derivatives (Interest Rate Swaps, Swaptions, Cap/Floor, FXO – Structured Products such as Barrier Options, Knock-In Options) Credit, Financial aspects of OTC Derivatives and Trade Life Cycle
  • Basic Understanding of trade regulatory reporting on EMIR, CFTC & MIFID2
  • Successfully Transitioned FXO Exotic Process for Corporate clients from Manchester to India within 3 months of time span.
  • A multi-faceted professional with expertise in understanding operational & frontline nature of the job and prioritizing various tasks & deliverables as required by customers & management.
  • 1 Year as a Change Manager in Confirmation & Settlement process.Independently handling projects and focusing on identifying innovative initiatives to extend the product roadmap to meet Business needs
  • An effective communicator & team leader with strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities. Possess a flexible & detail oriented attitude.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Analyst II

NatWest Markets
Gurugram
08.2018 - Current

Change Management (October 2021 - September 2022)

Key responsibilities:

• Work with Business to gather/review the requirements

• Responsible for Business Requirement Document (BRD) preparation

• Test execution and publishing of test results

• Issue Resolution and Impact Analysis

• Manage Scrum and Production releases

• Preparing Knowledge transfer documents for the team

• Onshore-offshore Co-ordination

• Perform Regression testing


FXO Confirmations (August 2018 - October 2021)

Key responsibilities:

  • Ensure timely and accurate Drafting of new trades for FXO asset class for Fed & Non-Fed Clients including all product class (Vanilla and Exotic).
  • Trade Reconciliation of the Front to back office (FOBO) trades and resolving the breaks by daily interaction with Front Office, Sales, Middle Office, Technology.
  • Manage all queries received from various internal and external parties.
  • Provide daily and ad hoc reports to senior management.
  • Chase and follow up on all outstanding confirmations and escalate and resolve any lengthy delays in their execution by engaging Front Office (Sales & Trading).
  • Maintain accuracy and consistency around Term sheets, Bookings and Confirmations.
  • Review, understanding and processing of Derivative trade legal confirmation documents.
  • Responsible for affirmation and chasing of Counterparties for their confirmations.
  • Responsible for Trade reporting related queries such as MIFID and UTI/USI arising from internal sources.
  • Work with Front Office to book novation deals and chase counterparties to sign the Novation Agreement/Novation Confirmation.
  • Performing UAT for new products and system enhancements by raising JIRA with IT .
  • Worked on the enhancements to make the system Three times scalable, to increase the STP rate and reduce the manual efforts for NDF Trades
  • Act as a backup for my manager and perform the activities like ROTA creation, KRI Identifications, quarterly SOP reviews and Updation.

Senior Associate

IHS MARKIT
Gurugram
11.2017 - 08.2018
  • Direct Interactions with Markitserv clients globally to resolve technical and non- technical related queries.
  • Providing end to end solutions to CP and assist Traders to confirm the trade on Markitwire.
  • Monitor client queries, investigate and troubleshoot errors and work with internal groups to provide resolution.
  • Ensure input of accurate client static data / profile configuration.

Senior Analyst

The Royal Bank of Scotland
Gurgaon
10.2014 - 11.2017
  • Ensure timely and accurate Drafting of new trades for Rates asset class for Fed Clients including all product class (Vanilla and Exotic).
  • Check the booking with Trade Recap before drafting the confirmations.
  • Ensure zero error rates through accuracy and controls adherence.
  • Continuous process improvement and focus on STP rates.
  • Responsible for making Chasing sheet by uploading the trades from Style (Reconciliation tool) and chase Counterparties for their confirmations for T+1 trades.
  • Work closely with colleagues across Global Banking & Markets, Legal and Front Office.
  • Investigate root cause of issues, discrepancies and strive to prevent its recurrence through various initiatives.
  • Responsible for Indexing and verification of trades.
  • Responsible for affirmation and chasing of Counterparties for their confirmations.
  • Build and maintain key relationships with colleagues across Operations, Legal and Front Office.
  • Adhering to stringent operational risk management targets (Key Risk Indicators), working with manager to resolve and raised aged or high value items.
  • Cross trained in settlements for financial products like IRS, Cross Currency Swap, Swaption etc.

Team Member

BA Continuum India Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon
07.2012 - 10.2014
  • Part of Portfolio Reconciliation team for OTC Derivatives transactions.
  • Matching and approving 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 star approval for products like FX, Credit Default Swaps and Interest Rate Swaps through third party vendor application Tri-Resolve.
  • Working on Unmatched deals and getting the breaks resolved within an internal TAT of 30 days.
  • Liaising with Middle office and counterparties for Mark to Market value confirmation and escalating top dispute driving trades to the front office after getting the marks confirmed.
  • Handling disputes related to Trade Economics (Entity Mis booking, Trade date and Maturity date mismatch, Novation of trades etc.).
  • Download Unmatched, Entity mismatch, Greater than 5 million MTM differences, same direction MTM deal reports from Tri-Resolve in Excel format and circulating the reports within the team for updates and sending it to LOB post the consolidation of comments.
  • Responsible for training the new joiners in the team.

Education

MBA - Finance

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
New Delhi
07.2010 - 05.2012

B.Com Program -

Delhi University
New Delhi
07.2006 - 04.2009

Skills

    Derivatives Processing

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Projects

(A) Automation of NDF Trades


Project Overview: Working on the enhancements received from Operations teams to make the system Three times scalable, to increase the STP rate and reduce the manual efforts for NDF Trades


Responsibilities:

· Worked as a Individual Contributor and Acting as BA.

· Gathered, reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements.

· Created BRDs

· Involved in Product demonstrations, Proof of Concepts with the prospective customers.

· Consulted with functional unit management and personnel to identify, define and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements, and levels of systems access.

· Participated in user acceptance testing and testing of new system functionality.

· Designed, monitored, and analyzed Quality assurance metrics i.e. defects, defect counts, test results, and test status.

· Helped team members in providing Domain knowledge


(B) Trade Automation in Settlement System


Project Overview: Increasing the STP rate of trades in settlements which were manually created due to hard blocks in the system


Responsibilities:

· Attended Walkthrough and prepared test scenarios

· Created BRDs, Requirement gathering and analyzing

· Designed test Scripts with the expected standards

· Maintained the approved Test Cases in Quality Center for Test execution process.

· Monitors and track resolution of defects, coordinating with team to prevent, report and resolve.

· Planned Testing Approach provided advice on prioritization of testing activity and highlighted risks in project.

· Post execution; provide walkthrough of my test results to business team for sign-off the respective functionality

· Post execution; provide walkthrough of my test results to business team for sign-off the respective fun

Timeline

Senior Analyst II

NatWest Markets
08.2018 - Current

Senior Associate

IHS MARKIT
11.2017 - 08.2018

Senior Analyst

The Royal Bank of Scotland
10.2014 - 11.2017

Team Member

BA Continuum India Pvt. Ltd
07.2012 - 10.2014

MBA - Finance

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
07.2010 - 05.2012

B.Com Program -

Delhi University
07.2006 - 04.2009
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