Sharanabasappa Wange

Projects.

SEC filing: We have successfully onboarded the SEC filing process for one of our clients. On a daily basis, we provide them with the latest Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing data, which they use for business and regulatory reporting. This information helps them make decisions about buying or selling at various price points based on the most recent filings of a company.

SI Registry / MIFID-II / Post-Trade Reporting: Centralizing and refining regulatory data sourced from the APA Community to ensure accuracy and coherence, facilitating its seamless utilization by both the client and the APA Community.

Exchange Traded Derivative: Overseeing the multiple exchanges of exchange-traded derivatives, enriching them with additional vendor data, executing corporate actions, and establishing new products, all while conducting rigorous data quality checks to guarantee clients receive flawless data.

Fixed Income: Onboarded fixed income static data processes for our client, where we process, create, and maintain coupons for fixed income securities in the Summit application.

• We follow Agile methodology to implement the changes requested by clients, or any changes implemented by the exchange side.
• Manage security reference data for listed derivatives for multiple stock exchanges, and regulatory reporting data for post-trade reporting.
• Execute corporate actions, and set up new securities for various asset types.
• Conduct proactive data quality checks and validations, ensuring error-free data is delivered to the client.
• Efficiently oversee JIRA - Service Desk, addressing client inquiries with a resolution time of less than 2 hours, providing RCA, and presenting a monthly client query matrix to management for comprehensive insights and resolution tracking.
• Assist the Business Analyst and Development team in understanding the operational requirements, facilitating the successful implementation of operational processes.
• Translated operations business requirements into user stories, with detailed acceptance criteria, in collaboration with the product owner and business analyst.
• Maintaining regular engagement with exchanges related to data issues, or feed issues on corporate actions, or new products.
• Generate test use cases and develop a flowchart diagram to visualize the process flow, improving testing efficiency.
• Provided support during UAT cycles, conducting end-to-end test runs to ensure system functionality meets requirements.
• Make sure the data is delivered on time, without any delay or SLA breach, and that the data validation and exceptions are resolved on time.
• Maintaining regular client interactions in terms of client queries, escalations, or any outages ensures the queries are answered on time, without delay.
• I serve as a Business Analyst, overseeing the onboarding of new exchanges and projects, managing communication between exchanges, TechOps, DevOps, and QA teams, and acting as the Product Owner.
• Proficiently prepare weekly Distribution and Data Validation reports, cross-referencing, and New Products Creation reports in Power IB at exchange levels.
• Conducting DSM, where we discuss the BAU issues, JIRA testing, defects, client queries, and any new exchange notifications.
• Risk and controls ensure all SOPs and Confluence pages are up to date and reviewed quarterly.
• Conducting cross-training and knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Asset servicing provides services to the counterparty around the assets they own.
• Team Manager - Managing the leaves and allocating the shifts within the team and conducting daily Team meetings.
• Training new joiners and conducting cross-training, arranging access.
• Responsible for daily BAU tasks for HBAP FI, assigning within the team, managing the projects, and monitoring the mailbox queries.
• Distribution of entitlements, mandatory corporate actions, and fixed income events.
• Regular interaction with our agents (BONY FED, BONY DTC, and Euroclear) and with our internal settlements team, static team, and claims team.
• Processing of all corporate actions, income, and redemption events.
• Representing the team performance, issues, and challenges in the daily management meeting, and representing the fixed income Nostro breaks in front of higher management in the weekly Nostro management call.
• Nostro Management in TLM (Ledger and Statement)
• Responsible for reconciliations of cash and stock breaks, and make sure all events are uploaded in Merit systems.

Projects:

Summit Titre Automation: Worked on the summit automation project, which includes end-to-end testing on various products, logic, highlighting and tracking defects to IT in order to fix the defects, and created SOPs.

RIM's Migration Project: Worked on RIM's migration projects, which include end-to-end testing on various products, logic, highlighting and tracking defects to IT in order to fix the defects, and created SOPs.

• Creating and maintaining reference data of bonds for the EMEA region (maintenance of commercial paper, commercial deposits, fixed-income bonds, floater bonds, mortgage bonds, variable bonds, inflation bonds, sovereign bonds, and convertible bonds).
• Responsible for tasks like rate fixing, daily sanction check process, and ex-dividend recon report.
• Performing daily quality checks on various systems regarding bonds' static data.
• Expert on systems such as Treats London, Treats Europe, Treats Middle East, Treats Bermuda, Martini, Summit Hub, RIMs, GRDS, Summit titre, FTC, and ERGV.
• Identifying process gaps, reviewing the current procedure documents, and looking for process efficiencies.
• Monitoring and updating the business holiday calendar for the EMEA region.
• SME on vendor systems like Bloomberg, Eikon, DataScope, Euroclear, etc.

• Escalation POC of Business
• Can make sure the Query's are answered on time without delay during RCA's and providing timely resolution
• Managing the leaves and allocating the shifts within the Team
• Training New joiners and conducting cross training arranging access
• Arranging Team meetings and preparing monthly MI reports for Business area on the volume Trend and Breaches
• Responsible on daily BAU task assignment to the Team and making sure the tasks are completed with agreed SLA's
• Managing ADHOC request queues and distributing them within the Team assuring requests are completed within PLA
• Custodian of strong governance system to mitigate operational risks and having checkpoints and necessary controls to make sure quality is intact
• Providing process overview, Samples data for any audit requirement
• MI data analysis shared on need basis to business and management
• Generating Weekly, Monthly, quarterly reports like FTE analysis, hourly analysis, and breach report etc
• Suggested various streamlining Ideas such as: Treats system limitations for maker and checker function with successful implementation; REG implementation for Tracking the daily sanction checks performed across IM teams which created strong tracking mechanisms also aided for Audit requirements
• Changes in Ex Div recon report which resulted in 40%-time efficiencies
• Ensuring accuracy in setting up the bonds or maintenance, which is done within the specified Turnaround Time (TAT).

• Handling different types of commodity derivative instruments for North American derivative exchanges like NYMEX, CME, CBT, ICE-US, Canada, One Chicago, CBOE, and OPRA, BMF.
• Historical pricing data (commodities, agricultural and livestock, interest rate, foreign exchange, metals, equity index, and energy market).
• Hands on experience on trading terminal like 3000Xtra (KOBRA) and Bridge Station, EIKON, DataScope Widely used by Investment Bankers and Brokerage Houses
• Processing of data to apply accurately to the database using technical and financial knowledge (creation of new products/contracts, pricing, reference facts, and graphs).
• Implementing exchange-driven changes, corporate actions (split, cash distribution, and mergers), and delivering various client requests.
• Exposure to the Exchange migration project (Green Exchange to NYMEX).
• Cleansing with respect to historical pricing, reference facts like strike price multipliers, expiry dates, first trading dates, and last trading dates, and underlying instruments in order to have correct values on the product.
• Resolving client queries using the CRM tool, Siebel, and new data enhancement requests.
• Performing QC on a daily basis for the entire instrument to ensure high data quality.
• Creating training documents and training new joiners in the team.
• Interacting with Derivative Exchanges - Attending weekly meetings with the US Exchange CME to resolve data-related glitches and discuss market logic associated with different data streams and feed messages.
• Interacting with the Product Development Team: Interacting with the developers to resolve the reported bugs and various technical issues.