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Vikas Kudva

Vikas Kudva

Bangalore

Summary

13 years of Hands on experience in multi asset classes across different divisions in operations. Currently Working as an asset lead under Hedge fund & Mutual funds in wealth management division. Driven with a mindset of streamlining manual processes which i have demonstrated over the years.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Associate- Wealth Management Operations

Morgan Stanley
04.2019 - Current
  • Develop and implement effective controls within Hedge fund, Mutual fund , cash equities and Derivative process in Wealth management Middle office
  • Stakeholder management with MS Trading and sales, Internal operations team, Fund admins, Brokers and custodians.
  • Work closely with Product review group to onboard new Hedge fund and Mutual fund in MS platform.
  • Ensuring timely NAV are booked to Private wealth management clients.
  • Identifying any operational, regulatory or client money related issues and appropriately manage and mitigate the risk.
  • Create business requirement document and Collaborate with Technology and Change the bank team to identify areas of process improvements to streamline manual processing.
  • Breaks review and exception management. Escalating the breaks to the line managers as per Escalation matrix.
  • Driving projects within a multi asset class process.
  • Ensuring Process documents are reviewed and updated regularly.





Associate- Institutional Securities Operation

Morgan Stanley
09.2016 - 03.2019
  • Reconciling and booking the broker executed trades in MS platforms.
  • Monitor trade life cycle , corporate action events and New issuances within securities operations.
  • Reporting correct profit and loss to financial controllers in MS books and records.
  • Dividend calculation and processing based on the eligible holdings on record date.
  • Timely settlement of trades executed in Asian , European and US markets.


Senior Analyst- Custody Operations

Northern Trust
01.2012 - 01.2016
  • Responsible for preparing training plans for new joiners and as a subject matter expert provide trainings to the new joiners to bring them up to maximum capacity.
  • Total equity reconciliation between Northern Trust books and Broker statements.
  • Having Broker feeds in place for automation of Reconciliation.
  • Setting up of new accounts in TLM and releasing exceptions from the TLM queue.
  • Migration of accounts from Broker Reconciliation to Investment Manager Reconciliation.
  • Escalating and focus on resolution of complex transactions.
  • Exception management with the help of trade capture/payments team by performing timely reconciliation on TLM.

Education

MBA - Finance

Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2012

Skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Team player
  • Communication
  • Decision making
  • Change management

Accomplishments

  • Streamlined manual process and automated the booking flow for Hedge funds by collaborating with technology and Stakeholders.
  • Actively participated and implemented market related changes like singapore GST for cash equities and Mutual Fund trades.
  • Enhancement in the manual booking platform for IPO trades.
  • To meet HKMA and MAS regulatory requirement worked on ensuring the accuracy of trade confirmation.
  • Gathering business requirements for enhancing Mutual fund process.
  • Transitioned 2 processes Asia wealth management Middle office operation and Derivative equity trade support in Morgan stanley.
  • Won spot awards for efficiency and successful project implementations.

Timeline

Senior Associate- Wealth Management Operations

Morgan Stanley
04.2019 - Current

Associate- Institutional Securities Operation

Morgan Stanley
09.2016 - 03.2019

Senior Analyst- Custody Operations

Northern Trust
01.2012 - 01.2016

MBA - Finance

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Vikas Kudva