SARATH KUMAR RAJASEKARAN
Chennai
Summary
Seasoned Treasury Operations and Capital Markets professional with over 16 years of experience in post-trade operations, investment management, and collateral workflows. Expertise in fixed income, FX, interest-rate derivatives, and operational controls, complemented by proficiency in Murex, Summit, and Power BI. Skilled in project delivery, User Acceptance Testing, and process improvements, driving successful treasury transformations.
Overview
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Certification
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial Analyst
THE WORLD BANK GROUP
Chennai
11.2013 - Current
- Execute end-to-end post-trade operations for fixed income, money market, FX, and derivative products across funding and investment portfolios, with a strong focus on accuracy, timeliness, and control compliance.
- Manage daily rate capture and structured-issuance fixing activities, including manual rate calculations, validation of hedge economics, exception investigation, and coordination with counterparties.
- Oversee bond and swap settlement activities, working with custodians, fiscal agents, and counterparties to resolve settlement failures, cash-flow discrepancies, and operational breaks.
- Draft and review ISDA confirmations for plain-vanilla, cross-currency, and structured swaps, and coordinate MarkitWire-related trade processing and affirmation activities.
- Process lifecycle events, calls, triggers, buybacks, and portfolio-servicing activities; prepare and review documentation supporting bond and derivative transactions.
- Supported collateral management for IBRD, IDA, Trust Funds, MIGA, and IMF portfolios, enhancing exposure reporting, margin-call capture, return requests, and daily/monthly MTM reconciliations.
- Contribute to operational improvements and automation initiatives using Power Query, Power BI, and data-driven controls to improve reporting, reconciliation, and exception management.
- Partnered with global business, technology, risk, accounting, and operations teams on system changes, testing, and implementation readiness to ensure smooth post-go-live stabilization.
- Murex implementation SME with focus on post trade workflow for confirmation,fixing and settlements.
Senior Processor
RBS BUSINESS SERVICES PVT. LTD.
Chennai
05.2010 - 11.2013
- Managed post-trade processing for interest-rate and commodity derivatives, ensuring accurate confirmations, timely settlements, and effective resolution of brokerage and break issues.
- Prepared and validated MarkitWire and ISDA paper confirmations for plain-vanilla interest-rate swaps and structured derivatives.
- Coordinated pre-settlement confirmations with regional treasury desks, clients, and counterparties, streamlining communication and supporting investigations into aged Nostro and reconciliation breaks.
- Processed benchmark, FX, overnight-index, and commodity rate fixings, facilitating clearing-house trades and ensuring timely settlements and resolution of exceptions.
- Participated in Dodd-Frank and TriOptima initiatives, process-control assessments, and system and workflow improvements with business and technology teams.
Education
MBA - Finance and Marketing
Asan Memorial Institute of Management
ChennaiBachelor of Commerce -
Loyola College
ChennaiSkills
Fixed Income, Money Markets & Derivatives
Treasury & Capital Markets Operations
Collateral, Margin & MTM
Murex Implementation
Trade Confirmation
Settlements: Cash and Security
Business Analysis
Reporting
- User Acceptance Testing
Certification
- Foundations of Financial Risk - GARP
- Oct 2018
PROJECTS
Title: Financial Analyst | Treasury Operations | Capital Markets & Collateral Management
Systems
Murex MX.3.1| Summit FT | Bloomberg | Reuters | MarkitWire | SWIFT | Quantum | PEGA | Numerix One View | Power BI | Power Query
Timeline
Financial Analyst
THE WORLD BANK GROUP
11.2013 - Current
Senior Processor
RBS BUSINESS SERVICES PVT. LTD.
05.2010 - 11.2013
MBA - Finance and Marketing
Asan Memorial Institute of Management
Bachelor of Commerce -
Loyola College