Vikas M

Resourceful Manager with 8+ years of experience offering history of success coordinating and monitoring operations across various departments. Effective leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Highly committed with hardworking mentality to maintain quality of services and products with expertise in Regulatory reporting, Collateral margin operations and collateral dispute management.

• Checking Data integrity of trade feeds and collating daily PV from feed providers.
• Liaising with Investment managers & Clients MO for investigating data anomalies.
• Issue / Answer margin calls in a timely manner and booking in Collateral management system.
• Assist business development team in on-boarding new clients (Draft CSA / Documentation)
• Investigate settlement fails with BO – Arranging timely substitution of collateral.
• Regular Portfolio / Trade reconciliations –Colline, Tri-Optima and Fund Master.
• Reconcile Securities & Cash balances, Interest accruals between CMS, Custody and Client records.
• Investigate with IMs’ & Counterparties on Trade confirmations, PVs with Marketer.
• Support clients with cross-border settlements Euroclear
• Maintain general ledger accounting (Fund Master) and Financial reporting for Collateral Balances.
• Monitor sensitive treasury sale queue – liaise with internal/external clients for timely settlement.
• Experienced in migrating multiple process from overseas teams as part of process re-alignment process from the management
• Direct Interaction with the counterparts like HSBC, Goldman sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, CITI Group, JPMC..Etc
• Familiar production applications - Swaps wire, Acadiasoft margin manager and TriResolve (Reconciliation Tool used by across all the counterparts mainly by Fed 14 clients)
• Proactive portfolio reconciliation and resolving the breaks queried by clients through Email
• Mapping the portfolio feeds in Triresolve

• Appreciations from clients and managers for quality and proactive services.
• Awarded Best employee of the month thrice in 2 years
• Awarded cash price ‘Annual recognition’
• Identified and enhanced on the process gaps in the daily operations and driven a project to increase the matching rate and reduce the breaks in the third-party reconciliation tool, which helped to save around 0.5 FTE count
• Proposed and enhanced an automation of internal feeds which eliminates manual interventions and dependency of individuals, which helped to save around 0.5 FTE count
• Providing training sessions to new joiners in the team
• Actively involved in getting cross trained in various verticals within the departments
• Proactively worked with the technology team to create a work flow tool for margin call dispute management

• Deutsche bank India, 12/01/15 to 03/01/2017, Analyst – Portfolio reconciliation and Regulatory reporting, Part of monthly/quarterly client relationship calls to discuss the requirements and to see the current standing of the process for building / maintaining good client relationship, Oversee portfolio reconciliation and to meet the regulatory obligation as part of risk assessment for the trades/counterparties breaching the regulatory requirement, Perform reconciliation on daily, monthly, quarterly & yearly basis as per the EMIR regulatory requirement, depending on the client classification i.e. NFC (+), NFC (-), FC, Portfolio reconciliation- (OTC derivatives and equities), Regulatory reporting (Trade level and portfolio level reporting to CFTC and EMIR), Client Email queries portfolio reconciliation breaks, Assessing the swing or unusual movement in Mark to market comparison between the parties the counter parties, Liaising with our on-shore counterparts to make sure the efficient workflow of the process, Worked in a project to ensure smooth transition of trades from London branch to Frankfurt branch as part of Brexit
• Deutsche bank India, 04/01/17 to 10/01/20 , Senior Analyst – Dispute management, Managed counterparty margin call dispute management process, Was part of development and integration of the dispute management tool which is a workflow tool developed to avoid the data been updated manually to a global workflow tool, Responsible for the creating the intuitive workflow on Alteryx which helped in decommissioning of manual EUDA/macros which saves 0.5 FTE worth of work, Was part of process restructuring of margin and dispute management to realign the process smoothly, Key member in the migration of the dispute process from manila to Bangalore, Analyse data feeds and work with Tech/Business to integrate the same through post trade processing platforms., Integration with static team to setup new accounts for clients as per CSA signed as per ISDA, Key role played in segregating IM and VM margin agreements for client as per ISDA regulation which triggered in 2016
• Deutsche bank India, 10/01/20 to 09/06/2022 , Associate – Margin operations, Responsible for migrating 90% of the client base to Bangalore from Birmingham, Key member in transitioning the client static data and standard settlement instructions to DB Frankfurt branch as part of Brexit, Maintain & update daily collateral inventory reports for the top-level management to reconcile risk and control., Supervising the margin operation and managing client queries and escalation, Responsible for creating client silos who manages particular set of sensitive and priority clients, Responsible for thorough checks for the payment and creating the static and standard settlement setups for new clients
• Statestreet global advisors, 22/06/2022 to 31/03/2024, Assistant manager - responsible for overseeing Transaction reporting for EMIR, ASIC and MIFID regulations, also was a project manager to automate the trade reporting for the ASIC reporting succesfully

• Collaborated with team of 2 in the development and onboarding Regulatory reporting via STP.
• Resolved data issue through consumer testing.
• Documented and resolved mapping which led to streamline the reporting process.