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SREEJITH UNNIKRISHNAN

Bengaluru

Summary

Seasoned finance and banking professional with 19 years of diverse experience, currently serving as Assistant Vice President for Regulatory Reporting Operations at Deutsche Bank India Pvt Ltd. Dedicated,committed to accepting and addressing challenges by embracing change and implementing improvements. Proven history of developing strategic initiatives, providing project management and offering results-focused interactions to foster growth. Adept at monitoring actions plans and initiatives to ensure alignment with corporate objectives. Offering several years of expertise in the field settings to fulfill a professional role.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Vice President

DEUTSCHE BANK OPERATIONS
BANGALORE
10.2022 - Current
  • Directed Regulatory Reporting Operations in adherence to MiFID and FinFrag requirements, ensuring precise and timely trade submissions across jurisdictions.
  • Led communication and resolution efforts for BAFIN and FCA regulatory inquiries, driving improvements in data quality and driving timely updates and closure of open issues
  • Cross-functional partnerships with Technology to identify root causes and resolve complex static data issues involving clients and instruments data.
  • Standardized and optimized the handling of regulatory rejections, improving accuracy and timeliness in the back reporting of errored trades.
  • Served as a senior liaison with European branches, effectively managing regulatory inquiries from authorities such as CNMV and ensuring compliant resolutions.
  • Spearheaded the MiFID 2.5 implementation roadmap, documenting regulatory changes and aligning senior stakeholders on strategy and execution.
  • Collaborated with SIX Exchange and Technology teams to deliver FinFrag-related regulatory updates and facilitate audit readiness.
  • Achieved a 42% reduction in operational exception backlog, decreasing unresolved issues from 960,000 to 560,000 within a year through strategic process enhancements.
  • Led the assessment and remediation of audit findings in partnership with Technology, developing risk-based build profiles and strengthening governance.
  • Partnered with Internal and External Audit teams to enhance controls, improve process walkthroughs, and embed sustainable risk mitigation practices.
  • Established a robust control framework with clearly defined ownership and comprehensive risk coverage across high-impact operational processes.
  • Analyzed FCA Market Watch guidance to ensure internal policies and controls were aligned with evolving regulatory expectations.
  • Oversaw external engagement with ICE and LME exchanges, resolving Commodity Position Reporting issues and coordinating remediation efforts with Technology.
  • Developed and implemented a MiFID reporting data quality framework using UnaVista alerts, significantly improving issue detection and resolution.
  • Championed Business Continuity Management initiatives, ensuring team preparedness through targeted training and scenario-based simulations.
  • Designed and launched training programs to enhance team competencies, regulatory expertise, and overall operational performance.

Assistant Vice President

BARCLAYS GLOBAL SERVICE CENTER
Chennai
08.2020 - 10.2022

FX CONFIRMATION – ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT

  • Managing Confirmations teams for the FX cash and Money Market products.
  • Ensure all trade confirmation are matched before Value Date and ensure deviation to be highlighted to the stakeholders and escalated at client level.
  • Weekly and Monthly KPI calls with Key stakeholders.
  • Driving Risk Control, efficiency and service improvement topics and projects
  • Monitor process delivery and ensure adherence to key SLAs, conduct regular operational performance discussion with Global Stakeholders.
  • Internal/External Audit Requests - Co-ordinate any Audit requests globally from either the control team or from external auditors.

Senior Manager

STATE STREET CORPORATION
BANGALORE
03.2019 - 08.2020

REGULATORY REPORTING EMIR (SENIOR MANAGER)

  • Managing a team of 14 FTE’s to ensure all trades for OTC derivatives are reported on T+1 to the trade repository.
  • Ensure the setup of funds for the auto reporting of trades.
  • Manage the KPI and Billing for the trades reporting for clients and report the same to the clients on a monthly basis.
  • Manage the queries from regulators on behalf of the client on the trades reported for the clients.
  • Liaise with the clients and internal stake holders on the onboarding offboarding of the clients.
  • Managing Training, Leave Management work with the team on process improvement, managing team meeting with staff and conducting performance review.
  • Weekly overview about process to Senior Management and other Stakeholders in Ireland.

Manager

SOCIETE GENERALE GLOBAL SOLUTION CENTER
BANGALORE
03.2012 - 03.2019

Trade Support Unit (Operational Manager)

  • Booking and Amendment of Commodity trades Position reporting and Managing Life cycle events ((Expiry, Interest fixing), Position management of physical future contracts
  • Managing Training, Leave Management Harmonization of activities and to help in developing Follow the Sun Model between Asia and EMEA Teams
  • Weekly overview about process to Senior Management and other Stakeholders in Paris
  • Managing team meeting with staff, conducting performance review.Monthly Review of KPI’s KRI’s and Quarterly review SOP documents for the team.

PROCESS SUPERVISOR

DEUTSCHE BANK OPERATIONS
BANGALORE
07.2006 - 03.2012

Derivative Documentation

Role: Corporate Chasing- Process Supervisor

  • Handled High net worth Clients and Corporates across Rates, Credit and Equity Asset class, managing a team of 6 members and also acted as a first level of escalation for the team.
  • Ensure the Daily, Weekly and Monthly SLA's are met while informing and supporting the Direct Line (team manager)
  • Weekly reporting of Fed outstanding numbers to Global Management for all asset classes
  • Establish, Maintain and Strengthen good and amiable working relationship with all Counterparty contacts
  • Conduct various training sessions on product and the process flow.
  • Owning the Responsibility of reviewing the Process KOPs, QA procedures, and MIS for Individual Productivity

Education

BBM - BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

BHARATHIYAR UNIVERSITY
ERODE
03-2006

Diploma in International Business Practice -

Mountbatten Internship Programme
New York

Timeline

Assistant Vice President

DEUTSCHE BANK OPERATIONS
10.2022 - Current

Assistant Vice President

BARCLAYS GLOBAL SERVICE CENTER
08.2020 - 10.2022

Senior Manager

STATE STREET CORPORATION
03.2019 - 08.2020

Manager

SOCIETE GENERALE GLOBAL SOLUTION CENTER
03.2012 - 03.2019

PROCESS SUPERVISOR

DEUTSCHE BANK OPERATIONS
07.2006 - 03.2012

BBM - BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

BHARATHIYAR UNIVERSITY

Diploma in International Business Practice -

Mountbatten Internship Programme
SREEJITH UNNIKRISHNAN