A competent & committed finance professional with 16 years of experience, having hands on Reference Data Management, Capital Market Operations, Investment Banking, Process Migration and Project Management. Having the ability to articulate professionally with clients, onshore and other stake holders.
11 Plus years experience in Market Data Management with Virtu Financial Inc.
2 Plus years experience in Reference Data / Counter Party Data with Thomson Reuters.
3 Plus years experience in Portfolio Ownership / Fund Research data with Thomson Financial.
Managing, cleansing and validating security reference data/Corporate Actions (Static, Dynamic) in Asset Control application & handling data exceptions.
Ensure that all 3 core security masters (ASIA, EURO and US) contain correct core instrument attribute values for Equities on time for trading and client usage.
Processing various Corporate Actions like IPO's, New Listing/De-listing, Exchange Changes, Merger/Acquisition/Takeover, Instrument/Identifiers Changes, Reverse Split, Reorganization and Name/Symbol Changes etc.
Ensure daily new security creation of IPO's/Equities/Preferred/ETFs/Debentures and make sure pricing source and hierarchy is as per client request (High Frequency Trading).
Day-to-day reviewing and maintaining trading holiday calendar on database (Source: COPP Clark).
Monitoring job schedule dashboard and ensure all data files/feeds are meeting SLA's ensuring complete and timely delivery of data (TIDAL).
Working on round lot exceptions & updating board lots/round lots for Hong Kong warrants using UNIX (bulk uploads).
Ensure accuracy and timely delivery of trade capturing, real time prices, and end-of-day pricing data (VOLUME, OPEN, HIGH, CLOSE, ASK, BID, LAST) within deadlines as agreed with clients and other stake holders.
Perform data analysis, including data mappings, data feeds and data transformation of daily corporate actions to the product using data vendors and stock exchange notifications.
Perform high quality checks to identify errors and resolve the duplicates (Running scripts on SQL and UNIX).
Comprehensive knowledge in Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC and other data vendor's applications.
Primary point of contact for business & electronic trading in all market data issues.
Managing and leading small team of Reference Data professionals who handles market data corporate actions on T-1 and current day basis for ASIA, USA and CAN markets.
Preparing & maintaining various Reports such as MOW, timesheet, production report & quality report as part of ISO & process improvement initiatives.
Market Data Analyst
Thomson Reuters, Reference Data & CPCA
Bangalore
01.2009 - 11.2011
Handled Corporate Actions for Reuters 3000Xtra, RKD and Data scope clients.
Adding IPO's to database and updating reference data for the same.
Responsible for maintaining business counterparties & company authority master data.
Regular hierarchy research on different companies to check percentage of ownership and setup relationship between parent company and its subsidiary based on SEC filings.
Handled service request of clients through SIEBEL and ensure reference data quality is maintained with greater accuracy.
Involved in UI Tool Testing Projects (functionality & user acceptance testing) & provided final outputs to development teams (Process Migration Thomson & Reuters Datasets).
Helped QC's team to reduce backlog of editing, and involved in preparing production tracker & Quality report of the team members.
Research Data Analyst
Thomson Financial, Portfolio Ownership
Bangalore
08.2005 - 12.2008
Prepared & updated North American mutual fund portfolios to the database.(Like Equity funds (ADR, GDR, Stocks), Bond Funds (Corporate, Municipal, Government), Balanced Funds etc.
Allocating assets of a fund into various categories, in order to know the sector wise investment strategies of the mutual funds.
Collecting information about shareholders in a companies, as an Insider & their designation.
Analyzing shares reported by the fund manager on the basis of security identifiers (like ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, Ticker etc).
Processed high priority SEC 13F quarterly filings disclosed by institutional investment managers.
Examined portfolios of various institutions from North America to check for Fund Name, Report Date, NAV, Shares, Market Value, Price, various assets and 100% holding in all mutual fund portfolios.(fund research).