Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Migrations
Automation Initiatives
Certifications And Competencies
Timeline
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Sunil Kisan Kachare

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Summary

Business professional with 13 years of work experience in Derivatives Middle-office Operations, Custody and Accounting operations, Reconciliation, Pre-Settlements, SWIFT payments, Trade capture, Collateral processing and Payment processing. Proven track record in stakeholder management, UAT testing, automation initiatives, process improvements with 3 years of experience in managing high-performing teams. Additional 1.5 years of experience in stock broking operations.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate II / Team Lead

Bank of New York
Pune
04.2012 - Current
  • Company Overview: Custody Derivatives Service Delivery (Middle Office)
  • SWIFT payments processing/Authorization (MT202, 210, 103, 292)
  • Performing custody derivative services: Process/Authorize USD and global cash payments, Wire matching.
  • Trade capture (buy/sell, MT541/543, MT540/542)
  • Collateral and NIB processing, Securities Segregation and Release
  • Queue monitoring & Query Management
  • SOP creation and review
  • New joiners training
  • Process improvement and automation coordination - Identify the manual processing areas and analyze, coordinate with Tech teams for automations feasibility.
  • Trade/Cash Cancellation
  • EOD reviews and exception management
  • Prepare and maintain accurate records for internal and external audit inspections
  • Perform UAT testing, Business validations, Failover testing.
  • Exchange Traded Derivatives Reconciliation
  • Daily reconciliation of ETD products between investment managers and brokers
  • Identifying and resolving breaks
  • Validation of Futures Trades, Variation & Collateral Margins, Options Trades, Interest, Fees, and FX.
  • Posting adjustments to accounting systems to resolve breaks.
  • Verification of reconciliations and resolution of aged breaks.
  • Coordination with client service, new business, and security data management teams.
  • Contacting client service teams for missing instructions
  • Escalating unresolved breaks and following up with different teams
  • Team management, Daily work allocation, Leave & shift planning, BAU activities
  • Effective team management in absence of manager
  • Prepare/Update/Review the checklist
  • Prepare monthly and quarterly productivity and performance reports.
  • Ensures Day to day SLA & Quality parameters are met.
  • Preparing/Conducting process knowledge test (PKT) for the team
  • Conducting team meetings, sharing updates
  • Maintaining error logs, update trackers, Leave tracker, Downtime tracker
  • Conducting root cause analysis of errors and Suggesting/implementing controls
  • Prepare score card, Conduct one on one and provide feedback to team.
  • Custody Derivatives Service Delivery (Middle Office)

Operations & Trading

Stockbroking Firms
  • Hands-on experience in equity markets, mutual funds, IPOs, D-Mat accounts, and trade execution.

Education

Masters in Business Administration - Finance

Pune University
01.2010

Bachelor of Science -

Shivaji University Kolhapur
01.2007

Skills

  • Derivatives Middle office Operations
  • ETD Reconciliation & Break Resolution
  • SWIFT Payments Processing (MT202/210/103/292)
  • Securities Collateral Processing
  • Trade Capture (MT541/543, MT540/542)
  • Process Improvement & Automation
  • Team & Query Management
  • Stakeholder & Client Management
  • UAT, Failover, and Business Validation Testing

Accomplishments

  • Received the 'WOW' award for cross-training in Broker Support and Indemnified trades function. Extended my shift for few weeks to ensure proper processing.
  • Received the 'WOW' award for saving time of 20 minutes each day by stopping the downloading of inactive broker statements, post confirmation with key stakeholders.
  • Received 'WOW' award for managing BAU in absence of supervisor, ensuring no disruptions.
  • Received 'Bravo' award for managing a high trade volume, achieving the highest number of trade postings(5386 trades) in a month without any error.
  • Awarded by VIP recognition for identifying a gap in account setup and assisting both the New Business and Tech teams with account setup in the processing application, post CMS to GSP account conversion.
  • Received the 'WOW' award for successful automation of BNP trades, aided by the FMA tech team, resulted in 2-3 hours of daily time save.
  • Received R.I.S.E. (Raise an issue, stop the error) from controls Manager for accuracy.

Migrations

Migrated Securities Collateral Process from Manchester to Pune., Managed multiple application migrations like WebSTP1, 2 to WebSTP3, WebSTP3 to DTE, CMS to GSP, and desktop to Citrix and Web platforms.

Automation Initiatives

  • Xceptor Automation, Automated processing of futures trades for various clients, facilitated by the Tech team, resulted in 1 FTE benefit.
  • Alteryx Automation, Currently working on automation of Multiple Clients FTP Futures trade processing.
  • FMA Enhancement, Introduced bulk account selection option for non-trading accounts, saved 2 hours of manual effort daily.
  • Broker Support RPA, Automated broker statement downloading with the help RPA BOT team, Delivered 0.5 FTE benefit.

Certifications And Competencies

  • NCFM - Capital Market, Derivatives Market & Commodity Market
  • BCFM - Securities Market Certification

Timeline

Associate II / Team Lead

Bank of New York
04.2012 - Current

Operations & Trading

Stockbroking Firms

Masters in Business Administration - Finance

Pune University

Bachelor of Science -

Shivaji University Kolhapur
Sunil Kisan Kachare