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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Coordinated operational due diligence reviews of fund managers to evaluate the overall control environment and provide a risk assessment. This consist of review of the following functions, policies and procedures: - Governance, Compliance and Risk Management - Trading and Operational Workflow - Information Security system and Business Continuity• Performing due diligence on brokers.• Annual attestations of fund managers, brokers and external service providers.

Australia

• Handling operational relationships and be a point of escalation for externally appointed fund managers.• Performing operational due diligence on fund managers and provide a risk assessment.• Incident management including investigating and analysis of incidents through to rectification with appropriate business unit as applicable.• Initiating and chairing operational set-up onboarding calls involving fund manager and custodian.• Assessing operational change request & additional instrument authorisation request from fund managers.• Prepared board paper to report fund managers related activities, operational changes and any ratings changes of fund managers with relevant actions for getting managers to perform as expected to improve their ratings.• Provide day-to-day oversight of junior analysts including reviewing their work and conducting training as required.• Initiate & drive continuous improvement projects as well as assisting with special projects that are undertaken by the company from time to time.

Sydney, Australia

• Building strong collaborative relationships with clients with respect to middle office services and be their initial point of escalation.• Supporting transaction management and corporate action processes to meet the required KPIs and SLAs as agreed with the clients.• Managing escalated issues from operational teams, clients and custodian, including liquidity management of domestic or foreign accounts.• Championing reconciliation process for client across all financial products and services.• Adhering to the risk and control framework, including the maintenance and updating internal procedure documents.• Review operational incidents with managers and track through to closure, including implementation of remediation and preventative measures. • Onboarding of clients to the middle office operating model including developing system linkages and process flow mappings. • Management of change and new service request from clients, including attending Triage meeting to discuss new service request.• Handling client reporting task and maintaining action log.• Oversight of outsourced functions and activities as well as conducting training as required.• Identify opportunity to automate processes, drive client focussed requirements to optimise target operating model and continuous improvement projects.

Sydney, Australia

• Participated in various system architecture and simplification projects to achieve broader cost initiative targets whilst also adhering to enhanced regulatory commitments and resolving internal audit points.• Identified opportunities and led projects to increase Straight Through Processing (STP) performance including preparing business case, performing cost benefit analysis, reviewing and approving Business Requirement Document (BRDs), utilising resources to perform UAT testing and preparing test cases.• Negotiations of ISDA Master Confirmation Agreements (MCAs) with counterparties to enable electronic matching of OTC Derivatives transactions.• Managing escalated/management issues.• Engaging people within front-end to back-end processes to manage client (both internal and external) relationship and maintain their expectations.• Leading, training & mentoring a diverse team.• Assisting front office support team for settlement, risk management, mark to market management and continuous improvement of front to back processes.• Representing Deutsche Bank AG at multiple industry forums & working groups like ISDA Working Groups.

Sydney Area, Australia

• Verification of loan documentation, release of security and disbursement of loans approved by the credit department.

Mumbai Area, India

• Managing daily cash flow activities across multiple group entities.• Preparing daily cash & fund flow statement to maintain optimal liquidity for the group and reconciliation with the bank statements.• Managing various reporting activities of the treasury department.• Involved in preparation of risk management strategy with the treasurer for different investment products / markets and executing appropriate profit and loss trigger levels.• Analysing and proposing various managed funds, equities, corporate deposits and alternative funds investment ideas based on quantitative & qualitative analysis.

Mumbai

• Responsible for enhancing managed funds research system with various risk adjusted performance tracking tools.• Handling client queries related to managed funds, research software and other financial investments & research.• Preparing research reports on managed funds and other related investment products.• Managing a team of data entry operators to ensure timely updates to the contents and database with daily NAVs and monthly portfolio composition.• Validating daily updates to NAVs database.

Port Graduate Diploma In Treasury And Forex Management (Pgdtfm), Treasury, Foreign Exchange And Risk Management

Treasury and Risk Management

Masters In Management Studies (Mms), Finance & Risk Management, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Placement Committee - Finance, Event Management Team Member and SportsMasters in Management Studies (MMS) is.

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting, Distinction

Bachelor in Commerce (Accounting Major)