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Vidhya S

Assistant Manager - Risk and Control
Chennai

Summary

Dedicated and accomplished Banking professional, Specialized in Risk and Governance, utilizes exceptional investigating skills to identify discrepancies and resolve them. Has excellent analytical and accounting abilities. Has a master’s degree in business administration in Finance and nearly 6.5 years of reconciliation, Risk and control, Investment banking and Reporting specialization.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
15
15
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Assistant Manager

Citi Bank
9 2021 - Current
  • Manage core risk and control activities of Cash and stock reconciliation across Unit
  • Responsible for monitoring the wellness and BAU of team and escalating any issues and risks to the senior management on daily basis
  • Monitoring smooth flow of feeds in recon tool and investigating the root cause for any feed issue of accounts
  • Working closely with change management to highlight risks in functionality of the recon tool
  • Supervise the updating of data in control sheets, ensuring accuracy and completeness in alignment with established controls
  • Conduct independent sample testing, monitoring, and investigation on the core processes with control measures to provide feedback to the Business head/Unit Head
  • Perform root cause analysis for the BAU breaks/feed issues by liaising with tech team, agent, and settlement teams to update senior management
  • Handling CMAR / NBSER & BSER reports and providing commentary to senior management about outstanding transactions on a weekly basis
  • Handling the external audit on a quarterly and half yearly basis
  • Performing UAT testing for new recon migration
  • Review BRD documents to see if there are any control gaps and pass them on to change management for Automation
  • Re-engineering the old broken recons from absolute state to prod
  • Working with Automation / Robotics team to automate the reconciliation process
  • Investigating the transactions and balance discrepancies and risk areas across various regions and reporting the same to senior management
  • Monitoring KPR/KRI controls and reporting the status and deviations to management.

Accounting and Operational Analyst

Wells Fargo
06.2020 - 03.2021
  • Prepare US Regulatory reports on a Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly basis
  • Preparing regulatory reports like FFIEC031, FR Y15 and FR2900 etc
  • Preparation of the Treasury International Reports (TIC)
  • Preparing and Reconciling the Inter Company Balance sheet and P&L reports
  • Investigate any GL account amendment on Asset and Liabilities
  • Support the onshore Financial Reporting Team by performing data collection, aggregation, consolidation, reconciliation, and first-level analysis
  • Investigate and provide comments on variance analysis to Regulators
  • Handle regulators and onshore queries on reports
  • Prepare Ad-hoc reports for senior Management and Regulators.

Senior Analyst

BNP Paribas
01.2018 - 06.2018
  • Management of the orders of subscription & redemption orders transmitted by our Clients / Portfolio managers
  • To make sure of the reception/transmission of orders received from clients toward the TA with respect to cut-offs
  • Orders Capture (electronic and manual capture) Transmission of orders by swift or FAX to the different TAs
  • Processing of the rejections of orders coming from the TAs
  • Chasing the TA to receive the MT509, MT515 To transmit the status and detail of settlement of operations with the clients and position keeping
  • Instruct payment to custodian
  • To create non-referenced securities in OMS and updating the details with the help of OMS Static Data Team.

Senior Analyst

Citi Bank
09.2014 - 12.2017
  • Performing Matching and Allocation of transactions in recon application
  • Uploading the balances/transactions from swift files to system
  • Escalating the feed issues to tech team, agent, and settlement teams to ensure the transaction balances are matching
  • Performing De-match function for the transactions which got wrongly matched by system
  • Investigating feed messages which are stuck in reconciliation system due to duplicate statements, non-sequence, wrong date, and invalid currency identifier etc
  • Investigating on Inactive or Unknown accounts which does not feed into reconciliation tool
  • Maintain team's performance metrics to track defects, productivity.

Education

MBA FINANCE -

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY - LOYOLA COLLEGE
Chennai
04.2001 - 05.2016

B.COM - undefined

MEENAKSHI COLLEGE FO WOMEN

ICWAI COST ACCOUNTING LEVEL 1 - undefined

Areas Of Interest

  • Risk and Control
  • Risk Management
  • Reconciliation
  • Compliance and Governance
  • Change Management
  • Automation
  • Banking Operations
  • Financial Analysis


Projects & Accomplishments

  • Created Core Control Dashboard in excel for senior management insights. This dashboard captures the daily stats of proof breaks, inactive accounts, blowouts, missing balances, feed issues and all others metrics.
  • Recognized with Gems Award for automating the manual upload process by working with robotics team.
  • Recognized as best performer for successful completion of process improvements on stopping the duplicates swift messages from agent bank and internal source system which was feeding in recon system and reduction of unknown accounts in recon system.
  • Automated Dubai Sunday file upload process and eliminated weekend login.

Timeline

Accounting and Operational Analyst

Wells Fargo
06.2020 - 03.2021

Senior Analyst

BNP Paribas
01.2018 - 06.2018

Senior Analyst

Citi Bank
09.2014 - 12.2017

MBA FINANCE -

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY - LOYOLA COLLEGE
04.2001 - 05.2016

Assistant Manager

Citi Bank
9 2021 - Current

B.COM - undefined

MEENAKSHI COLLEGE FO WOMEN

ICWAI COST ACCOUNTING LEVEL 1 - undefined

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