Vignesh Prakash Kudva

This process was newly onboarded and is the first of its kind. I have been involved in Inception, system testing, and onboarding of this process with documentation and process setup.

- Involved in day-to-day Market Customer Monitoring and Investigations of clients across France, UK, UAE, and Asia.
- Monitoring customers with regards to Financial Markets to identify, if there is suspicious activity in terms of Money Laundering or Terrorist Financing which are part of their ulterior motive to launder money.
- Working with Stakeholders concerning the implementation of changes to the process.
- Documentation and training, if necessary.
- Escalation of findings directly to the respective regulators.

This is part of the regulatory compliance department in HSBC:

- Involved in day-to-day Trader surveillance and Investigations of Hong Kong, UAE, and London Traders across asset classes.
- Ensuring accurate risk management concerning Market abuse or any other illicit activity.
- Escalating necessary cases that require Level 2 attention, which in turn will be escalated to regulators if needed.
- Making certain that all required regulatory market changes are inculcated.

- Streamlining of activities related to the process, and I have created macros that simplify the custodian data for the team.

- Involved in day-to-day reconciliation of Fixed Income and Equity reconciliation for funds.
- Setting up controls and quality checks of fund accounts to ensure process accuracy.
- Liaising and escalating with custodians to ensure issues are resolved within the expected time.
- Training and guiding of new individuals to ensure easy transition and process delivery.
- Maintaining client accounts and dashboards, and timely auditing.

This role was part of a within-job promotion, with activities remaining the same as in the case of the Operations associate.

- Trade Life Cycle management.
- Settlements of Trade and Delivery of the same.
- Execution of Corporate actions and all related activities.
- Working on Bloomberg to ensure consistency with the Corporate Action event.
- Working with Custodians such as Bank of New York Mellon, JP Morgan, Northern Trust, State Street, and other custodians.
- Reconciling Client Account on discrepancy.
- Maintaining Client Account Dashboard.
- Liaising with Portfolio Admin and Portfolio Manager from Boston, London, Dublin, and Hong Kong.

- Managed Financial Data Credibility for Markets such as Singapore, Taiwan, and China predominantly.
- Managed Financial data credibility for Eastern European and Middle Eastern Markets.
- Managed customer queries and issues faced by the client on the same using Salesforce.
- Prepare reports on the tasks assigned and report to the concerned stakeholders.
- Working with teams across the globe (especially - Gdynia, Poland)

- Process and maintain data/information accurately and on time onto Thomson Reuters databases using financial and technical knowledge.
- Take responsibility for data quality, timeliness, and completeness, which includes root cause analyses of recurring issues.
- Respond to data queries from internal and external stakeholders by taking complete ownership of the queries.
- Build up knowledge of financial regulations and market practices in relevant markets, and monitor market events to anticipate the changes

- Stock Analysis, Market Analysis, Portfolio Analysis/Management, and Technical Analysis.
- Mutual Fund, SIP, and PMS Selling.
- Client calling for any leads.