Sajad Ahmad
Bangalore
Summary
Financial Analyst with 8 years of experience in financial industry. Expertise in managing the Instrument Reference data, Settlement delivery instructions, Corporate action event creation.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Analyst Reference data services
Societe Generale
Bangalore
10.2022 - Current
- Team is responsible for maintaining the static data. Currently analyzing, interpreting, updating & maintaining static data information of various asset classes like Funds, Warrants, Subscription warrant Rights, Term sheet base warrants, Turbo warrants, Fx warrants, Common stocks, Indices & Depository Receipts.
- Executed daily corporate action amendments, static data changes, price updates, and security setups to meet service level agreements.
- Mapped instruments with external data vendors and monitored static reference data flow to ensure timely and accurate data delivery.
- Mapping the instruments with the data vendors feed for daily sourcing and pricing of instruments.
- Addressed potential issues with funds, warrants, and stocks to maintain data integrity and compliance.
- Market data validation to know the price publication of different market segments and actual count of validated instruments.
- Reconciliation of different market segments to check for any missing prices.
- Challenged vendors such as Bloomberg, Reuters, and Telekers regarding discrepancies in market data.
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Keeping liaison with development team for process enhancements and new content developments such as working on various unity tickets and other Jira deliveries raised to enhance the process requirements.
Office Manager
Academic Institute
Nagam
12.2019 - 09.2022
- Maintaining and keeping record of all office related files such as Employee data management, Academics, Govt. related records, Board files etc.
- Looking into daily office work and other related issues.
- Keeping record of all office incomes and expenses.
Transaction Processing Analyst
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 06.2019
- Checking with all the agents, custodians and other vendor sources for event creation details in order to collate all the event information.
- Setting up the Mandatory, Mandatory with choice and Voluntary events in our system as per the agent swifts.
- Scrubbing all the required information like key dates and deadlines, outcomes (stock ratio, cash) and terms.
- Validating all the event details by various agent swifts.
- After event setup, each event and its exceptions are carefully monitored and made sure the shareholder would receive the correct instruction.
- Preparing daily reports that help in mitigating the risk for any of the event deadlines and scrubbing of activities.
- Email Management across all locations and ensures that the clients are informed with the latest communication and all the queries are responded to in a timely manner.
- Interacting extensively with the Counterparties, Middle-Office, Front-Office, and Confirmation Teams, Technology Support Teams to resolve discrepancies.
Analyst Instrument Reference data services
Deutsche Bank Global Services
07.2016 - 02.2018
- The Process involves Set up of various Investment Banking Products like Common Stock, Preference Share, indices, Funds, Warrants.
- Analyzing, interpreting, updating & maintaining various asset class i.e. Equity, Indices, Preference shares Funds & Warrants, Corporate Action events via GUI screens and interface designs and effectively communicating with internal and external clients to deliver functional requirements.
- Mapping the instruments with external data vendor and monitoring the flow static reference data to ensure timeliness and accuracy of data.
- Raising artifact & Problem tickets for Flaws in existing logics & mappings of database.
- Performed data query, extraction and reporting tasks using SQL application.
- Resolving Exceptions tactically as well as strategically.
- Analyzing and raising gap if any exists at MDM layer.
Senior process Associate Settlement Delivery Instructions
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
02.2014 - 07.2016
- Contributed to the development of Standard Delivery Instructions (SDI).
- Validating the settlement instructions like Crest Id’s, Euro clear / Clear stream a/c numbers, US DTC number & BIC’s through Swift, US DTC & Euro clear portals.
- Supported client service in maintaining accuracy and compliance of account details.
- Validated settlement instructions, including Crest IDs, Euroclear/Clearstream account numbers, US DTC numbers, and BICs through various financial portals.
- Assist Client Service with account maintenance.
- Analysing the Delivery party and Intermediary on the basis of Swift BIC Codes.
- Analysing the Counterparty SSI setup on the basis of Trade references.
- Reviewed and updated SLA and processor workflow procedures while collaborating with process managers to address performance and operational issues.
Education
MBA - Finance & Systems
Dayananda Sagar Institutions
Bangalore 04.2010 - 08.2012
BBA -
D.Y. Patil College of Commerce
05.2007 - 04.2010
Intermediate -
JKBOSE
02.2004 - 02.2006
SSC -
JKBOSE
Skills
- Reference data Services
- Static and Pricing Data management
- Corporate actions management
- User acceptance testing
- Instrument mapping
- Market data validation
Hobbies and Interests
- Cooking
- Trekking
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 04/01/89
Systems Known
Bloomberg, Reuters, Telekurs, LSE (Sedol validity), BDR, OMGEO Alerts, Galaxy, Eliot, EOLE, ALISE, Golden source
Languages
Kashmiri
Proficient
C2
English
Proficient
C2
Urdu
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Senior Analyst Reference data services
Societe Generale
10.2022 - Current
Office Manager
Academic Institute
12.2019 - 09.2022
Transaction Processing Analyst
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 06.2019
Analyst Instrument Reference data services
Deutsche Bank Global Services
07.2016 - 02.2018
Senior process Associate Settlement Delivery Instructions
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
02.2014 - 07.2016
MBA - Finance & Systems
Dayananda Sagar Institutions
04.2010 - 08.2012
BBA -
D.Y. Patil College of Commerce
05.2007 - 04.2010
Intermediate -
JKBOSE
02.2004 - 02.2006
SSC -
JKBOSE