Sayesha Kandhari

• Architected ABS Performance Data API, Feed and Snowflake solution for European banks' regulatory reporting, ensuring compliance with European Central Bank securitization disclosure requirements, enabling automated extraction of collateral performance, delinquency, cashflow calculations to streamline quarterly reporting process.
• Designed multi-agency credit ratings API supporting BCBS 239 compliance featuring audit trails for rating change attribution.
• Led the client migration campaign post S&P-IHS merger, strategically transitioning clients to a new data source, retaining key accounts, and achieving $100K in cost savings by terminating the CMA-ICE CDS spread pricing contract.
• Collaborated closely with Ratings, CLO managers, and institutional investors to develop APIs and FTP that enhance credit risk monitoring and back-testing models.
• Designed Fitch Ratings History Feed package supporting back testing of rating transition matrices resulting in a landmark 4-year, $2.2M contract.
• Led LEI integration across 550K+ entities to improve scalable data discovery and enhance issuer-level risk mapping, enabling accurate linkage.

Digital Enablement Platform: Tabular Views
The Project aims to digitize approx. 2K PLREP hard-coded e-reports by extracting, standardizing, and modelling into rules with version control thereby leading to approx. $200K of cost optimization.

• Conducted brainstorm workshops with business owners and market participants to identify requirements.
• Spearheaded feasibility study to identify scope,
  deliverables & project stakeholders, therefore, developing business case for Project Review Board (PRB) approval.
• Crafted Roadmap for entire product lifecycle, identified any potential risks & created mitigation plans.

Digital Enablement Platform: Automated Roll &

Holiday Calendar
The project is now live with 1K + rolling calendars for both editorial & risk segments with 13 standardized rolling rules that are scalable for changes in methodology and new forward curves via API. This led to approx. $24M revenue enablement.

Usage Analyst - Alerting & Mobile Application

• Gathered insights of product usage patterns from Google Analytics & Usage cube to suggest enhancements.
• Conducted user acceptance testing (UAT) for financial datasets impacting structured credit and fixed income products on Capital IQ Pro.

The European Union Market Transition Project: LEI

• Ideated and executed process improvement project using ‘Lean' Methodology, which reduced manual integration effort of up to 2 FTEs.
• Improved the usability, relevance & user experience of the new internal application as a ‘UAT.'

Reference Data Management

• Building Quality Reports, to meet ‘Client Expectations' and ‘Issue Resolution' for LEI, S&P Ratings ID, Moody's issuer ID, DUNs ID, CUSIP Global Services, Bloomberg, SNL, Thomson, Factiva, Crunchbase, etc.

Fillings & Sourcing

• Integrating financial, industry-specific, market, and business information acquired through primary and secondary research.