Shreya Ashok Kumar Email & Phone Number

Leeds, Gb

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Becoming the primary liaison point on our bank administration activities, supporting the global finance teams with access to banking platforms and including day to day contact with some of our banking institutions.• Maintaining robust and regular controls across key finance processes through regular reporting, ensuring our data integrity and resolving any issues arising.• Managing the approvals processes for finance systems user access, including supporting the annual external IT Controls audit with regard to user access and segregation of duties.• Performing regular audits of operational and systems access and addressing any issues.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Maternity cover contract.• Owning the access and administration processes for all bank accounts centrally. • Managing the user access and approvals processes for core finance systems.• Key point of support to the global finance teams in their use of banking platforms and finance systems.• Ensuring alignment of banking policy and regulatory requirements relating to high risk transactions.• Ensuring integrity of data and the resolution of any issues arising.

Harrogate

• Data analysis and review for the implementation of IFRS 16 which specifies how an IFRS reporter will recognise, measure, present and disclose leases. • The standard provides a single lessee accounting model, requiring lessees to recognise assets and liabilities for all leases unless the lease term is 12 months or less or the underlying asset has a low value.• Compilation of lease related information for the different entities under VP PLC to project accurate present value of cashflows to be represented in the balance sheet post go live.

London, United Kingdom

• Established myself as one of the key SMEs responsible for building out the team's oversight & control functions from scratch. Helped establish processes that provided transparency to senior management into the regulatory data that is reported to trade repositories by third parties (vendors & counterparties). • Creation and maintenance of Reporting Oversight requirements per ESMA & ASIC regulations through internal and external data analysis and mapping, primarily on OTC and Listed Derivatives space. • Extensive experience in external Stakeholder Relationship management from having helped establish a query management system and ongoing data quality assurance control functions. • Centrally coordinated a regulator’s requirement of an annual regulatory filing. A highly critical requirement, which was duly met well before the deadline provided by the regulator. • Worked extensively with Compliance and Legal departments in ensuring reporting requirements were being met effectively and in documentation of changes on a periodic basis.

Bangalore

• The Data Control & Pricing team’s functions comprise of reference and economic data control and management when it comes to product and pricing related. Data quality management was highly critical to the functions of key stakeholders such as the Portfolio Reconciliations team, Valuations Oversight Group, Trading Desks, Client Reporting team, etc. to name a few. Was instrumental in driving several automation projects that improved task efficiency and reduced risk of manual error. Also buddied new joiners and interns over the course of the years with supervisory roles in the first year of being an Associate (early 2016).• Was involved in the day on day ad hoc resolution of reference data quality issues that impacted the position level information. Most exposure in the Fixed Income space, dealing with the coupon and paydown related information on Corporate Bonds, Mortgages and Municipal Bonds.• Was also involved in the Pricing functions of the team, having to work closely with the Valuations Oversight Group (VOG) to ensure that FI, Equities and Futures products are being priced accurately with exception management process capturing discrepancies that were also resolved through manual investigation.

Bangalore

Reference, pricing and economic data quality control role. Worked on several projects to improve the data processed for reconciliation and in client reports for GS Asset Management (GSAM).

London

• Was selected for a six-month STA to London under the New Markets Mobility Exchange (NMME) programme. I was then a part of the Product Middle Office under CMO, given the opportunity to be Portfolio Admin of several Equity Accounts. This experience enabled cross regional learning to be shared between the Bengaluru and London Ops teams and stakeholders and identify synergies between two teams within the same department.• Oversight and ownership of Equity accounts and Funds – being responsible for account related issues / queries / overdrafts, etc. This involved working closely with GSAM’s Fundamental Equity (FE) desk on a daily basis in relaying the daily cash balances on their trading accounts.

Bangalore

• Static Data Management (SDM) Review: Ensuring that the various product types that were being stored within RADAR (Data Repository for Account Relationships) is accurate and up to date with obsolete information being removed on a periodic basis. This involved liaising with different teams to understand the trade flow and map out frequently used data points that were being maintained by the team.• Account Data Setups and Changes: Involved in the then manual BAU process of making changes to account related information on the back of account events, i.e. onboarding or terminations. This provided exposure into gaining functional knowledge around how GSAM accounts were setup and maintained.

Bbm, Finance, General

Bachelor Of Business Management, Commerce