Ridha Narula
Summary
Risk and compliance professional with over five years of experience in global financial services, specializing in investment compliance, conflicts of interest analysis, and regulatory oversight. Currently supporting a high-risk function within BlackRock's Portfolio Compliance Group, performing pre-trade and post-trade compliance monitoring, and issue resolution across daily trading activities. Demonstrates strong analytical judgment, risk assessment capability, and precision in executing critical tasks in a time-sensitive environment.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Analyst: March 2022 to Dec 2022; Associate: Jan 20
Blackrock, Inc.
03.2022 - Current
- Supports a high-risk function by independently performing pre-trade and post-trade investment guideline monitoring, ensuring that trading activities remain compliant with client mandates and regulatory guidelines.
- Investigate, analyze, and resolve guideline breaches, applying sound assessment to assess root causes, escalate material issues, and support correct actions.
- Contributed to strengthening compliance controls and monitoring processes by identifying gaps and supporting enhancements.
- Built strong functional expertise across multiple BlackRock Aladdin applications, enabling accurate monitoring, issue analysis, and system-driven compliance oversight.
- Supported automation initiatives for core compliance processes, focusing on meaningful time savings, reduced manual effort, lower operational risk, and improved data accuracy.
- Actively participated in cross-functional working groups focused on improving global consistency across compliance workflows, analyzing recurring issues, performing root cause analysis across end-to-end processes, and proposing long-term solutions to reduce repeated issues.
- Played a key role in onboarding, training, and mentoring new interns and recruits, ensuring a smooth transition into roles by providing comprehensive guidance on workflows and end-to-end operational processes.
Supervising Analyst
EY GDS
07.2019 - 01.2022
- Performed research analysis to identify and mitigate potential conflicts of interest for engagements taken up by EY at the global level.
- Performed extensive research from both EY's internal databases, as well as external databases such as Dun & Bradstreet, Bloomberg, Factiva, OneSource, etc. on clients and counterparties involved in the new proposal.
- Prepared monthly KPI reports indicating TAT, quality, and volumes of work received as a regional area SPOC.
- Scrutinized financial statements of listed companies to gather information related to the companies' operations and other details, such as subsidiaries, directors, and shareholders, to determine whether the engagement can proceed in light of any issues identified.
- Led various process improvement initiatives, contributing to workflow enhancements, reduction of operational gaps, and improved turnaround time while minimizing compliance and operational risk.
- Performed a cost-benefit analysis on the total cost incurred for performing conflict checks, based on which key strategic recommendations were delivered to the conflicts executives
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Management - Finance and Marketing
IMS Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad 07.2017 - 04.2019
Bachelors in Commerce - B.com Accounts Honors
St. Xavier's College
Ranchi 07.2016 - 04.2019
Skills
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Financial modeling
- Data analysis
- Analytical thinking
- Secondary research
- Problem-solving abilities
Accomplishments
- Sport Award for overachieving KPIs and recognized for being part of the highest-performing team and delivering exceptional client service at EY.
- Achieved a Bronze badge in Data Visualization and completed a certification course in Financial Modeling.
Interests
- Volunteer Work
- Travelling
- Reading Books
- Photography
- Playing Ukulele
Timeline
Analyst: March 2022 to Dec 2022; Associate: Jan 20
Blackrock, Inc.
03.2022 - Current
Supervising Analyst
EY GDS
07.2019 - 01.2022
Post Graduate Diploma in Management - Finance and Marketing
IMS Ghaziabad
07.2017 - 04.2019
Bachelors in Commerce - B.com Accounts Honors
St. Xavier's College
07.2016 - 04.2019