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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Contributed to strategic clearing risk transformation projects catering to Credit Stress Testing and liquidity Stress Testing of Clearing Participant exposures in ASX clearing entities as part of the technology delivery team. Worked closely with business, architecture, and technology teams from project initiation till closure.Adapting to change by embedding strategic frameworks on Delivery, Solution Design, Process Engineering, Enterprise NFRs, etc., actively contributing to reviews and providing constructive feedback proactively to Center of Excellence teams.Facilitated documentation as part of the shift from project-based to platform-based documentation. Active participation in a Proof of Concept for strategic cloud deployment in Google Cloud Platform. Completed trainings on GCP fundamentals and path to Google Cloud Digital Leader

Sydney, Australia

Worked on regulatory reporting pertaining to HKMA, EMIR, MIFID-2 (Transaction reporting, Post Trade reporting) CFTC/CA DTCC ReArchitecture, and SEC as part of the technology team. Lead Tech BA for recent regulatory reporting projects like SEC and CFTC/CA DTCC ReArch.Implemented manual reporting framework for MIFID-2 Best Execution RTS 27.Sydney Lead Tech BA managing team of 5 BAs and responsible for career management, hiring, etc.,Regulatory Reporting Exceptions Management application was also enhanced to meet the day-to-day challenges of investigating, tracking and audit control over regulatory reporting related exceptions.

Sydney, Australia

Business and Product Owner responsible for putting in place a strategic product development framework as well as ensuring delivery of client critical technical/business components. Goes hand in hand with pre-sales contributions to ensure multiple revenue and growth avenues are explored and materialized. Process implementation and improvements are always kept in mind to ensure standards and discipline. Continuing to do justice to the Senior Business Analyst mindset as well, to keep in touch with the ever challenging changes in the capital markets space especially the OTC clearing and regulatory space. Business Analysis• Requirements Gathering, Analysis and functional specifications – Clearing/Consent flows and Eligibility Rules of CCPs• Gap Analysis, Solution design, UX/UI focused product enhancements• Dev/Testing supportBusiness/Product Development Management• Agile product development• Product roadmap and enhancements• Proposal building, Response to RFQs etc.,• Pre-sales collateral and demos• Market research and business/technical innovationsProcess Management• Setting up organizational processes and related documents.• Ensure robust Product development standards and process, and ensure team is mentored and guided towards compliance of organizational process standards.Project at Australian Securities Exchange (May 2015 to Nov 2015)OTC Clearing – Risk Management Integration, New Product LaunchCalypso BA and SME on projects to integrate clearing platform (Calypso) with risk platform along with launching innovative OTC products• Requirements Analysis, Functional Specifications, Impact Analysis etc.,• Liaising with project team, dev/test teams• Calypso Golden copy, Configurations, Release management• Support SIT/UATDelivery Management• Managing 3 member off-shore development team and 1 onsite• Liason with client project manager in project/resource planning, dev/testing, dry run, and go-live• Ensuring quality delivery on time

Bengaluru Area, India

Project/Product Manager and Senior Business Analyst - Financial Market Solutions – Business Platforms – DFA/EMIR Regulatory Reporting Solution - Financial Market Solutions – Business Platforms – OTC/ETD Data Dictionary• Product Development Management and Business Analysis – Regulations tracking to ensure product is ready ahead of compliance dates – Market research and regulations analysis – Adherence to roadmaps and prioritization based on evolving regulations and market needs – Pre-sales collateral maintenance and updates for target clientele – Pre-sales proposals, SOWs and agreements for potential clients – Pre-sales presentations and demos to potential clients – Maintenance and updates to agreements for clients – Requirements review and approval• Product Delivery Management – Implementation for client – Ensuring robust support model, catering to client production issues within defined SLA’s – Robust support model, catering to client prod issues within defined SLA’s –Change Request model followed for client enhancements keeping in consideration scope of product as well as specific client customizations. • Process Management – Product development and support team is mentored and guided towards compliance of organizational process standards.• Team Management – Ensuring team is mentored, appraised, recognized to ensure maximum output and satisfaction• Business Analysis – Understanding FpML, ISDA, XML data structure standards – Understanding OTC/ETD derivatives, business flows, trade lifecycle and data involved – Ensuring a robust and standardized data dictionary structure – Mapping of data flow and transformation logic from various sources in a harmonized manner

London, United Kingdom

Project Manager On-site and Business Analyst- Exchange connectivity solutions for Sungard’s Clearvision GL Trade middle office platform towards automated allocation and clearing of listed derivatives trades- Connectivity facilitating automated rec of trades, positions and margin between Sungard’s GMI and in-house tools.- Cross-asset Hedge Process Migration (Legacy to NextGen)- Cross-asset Strategic Trading Architecture (SmartTrade LiquidityFX)- FX Trading Platform (Integral) for potential API based broker clients• Manage off-shore development team to reduce gap between client expectations and solutions.• Coordinate with client for project delivery related tasks, ensuring quality, time/cost adherence• Providing solutions compatible with forecasted business/IT architecture and plans.• Transparent real-time and periodic reporting• Compliance to contractual/ SOW requirements• Participate in steering committee meetings• Ensure synchronization of information across client personnel, on-site and offsite developers.• Ensure resource allocation, task prioritization, load balancing• Ensure adequate innovations/optimizations to provide value add and significant savings• High level architecture/flow analysis for CMC Hedge trades capture and post trade processing, offering to API and DMA clients as a phase-wise strategic approach.• Scoping, detailed requirements and PoC review for 1st phase viz., FX Hedge trades capture.• Understand and review all features offered by SmartTrade’s StudioAir and LiquidityFX.• Requirements analysis capturing existing end-to-end business flows (FX hedge against CFD market making business) across front office, middle office and back office• Capture existing/potential IT infrastructure considering application/flow inter-dependencies.• Offer solutions compatible with potential business flows, IT architecture and growth plans.• Offer road map for development and implementation of business/technology flows

Bengaluru Area, India

Business Analyst & Calypso Consultant - Calypso Professional Consultancy, Equity Financing Work Station, Security Master Reference Data• Conduct sessions with client to understand/document new Security Master Reference Data and UI requirements.• Work closely with internal divisions at HeadStrong to understand the functional and technical solutions offered to the client.• Provide in-depth analysis of requirements pertaining to data feeds, database structure, input-output mapping and UI level features.• Ensuring synchoronization of information across client personnel as well as on-site and offsite developers, testers.• Providing business solutions keeping in mind forecasted business requirements and taking a long term approach to ensure compatibility in future. • Provide high level analysis of current state of Securities Lending platform along with a clear depiction of the future requested/suggested requirements covering Trading Platform, Back Office features, Analytics, Reporting and Pricing.• Conduct user sessions/demos with key client SMEs to understand/document requirements.• Actively participate in all phases of the client project for calypso implementation.• Translate business requirements that are being provided through calypso into easy to understand process documentation.• Work closely with various internal divisions at the client organization to understand the functional flow of information and the usage of calypso accommodating such flow.• Active participation during Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)• Providing business solutions keeping in mind forecasted business requirements and taking a long term approach to ensure compatibility in future transitions/extension of calypso usage.• Coordination with Business Users, Developers, Testers and other Business Analysts to ensure adherence to project timelines and efficient resource usage and allocation.

Chennai Area, India

Manager, Business Analyst & Calypso ConsultantCalypso - Hedge Fund Accounting - Managing Portfolio Accounting in Calypso, Partnership Accounting (Fund Count)• Senior Account Manager in a Hedge Fund Administration company.• Diagnosing client requirements in terms of portfolio Accounting• Liaison with Client Services and IT for on-boarding• Managing setting up of Calypso to meet client’s funds back office accounting requirements and Fund Count to capture Partnership details• Accounting for financial products viz., Equity, Equity Options/Futures/Swaps, FX Spot/Forwards/Swaps/Options, Bonds, Interest Rate Swaps, CFD’s etc.,• Managing Portfolio Accounting on daily/monthly basis. Finalization of Exposure Reports, Financials, Performance Reports etc.,• Process documentation to ensure smooth operations processing• Project management to ensure allocation of resources across funds• Conduct user sessions/demos with key client SMEs to understand/document requirements.• Actively participate in all phases of the client project for calypso implementation.• Communicate with end users in the business/functional language making sure they grasp utilization of calypso to convert their needs into effective business solutions.• Translate business requirements into easy to understand process documentation.• Work closely with various internal divisions at the client organization to understand the functional flow of information and the usage of calypso accommodating such flow.• Active participation during Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)• Providing business solutions keeping in mind forecasted business requirements and taking a long term approach to ensure compatibility in future transitions/extension of calypso usage.• Coordination with Business Users, Developers, Testers and other Business Analysts to ensure adherence to project timelines and efficient resource usage and allocation.

Chennai Area, India

Treasury Management for Non-Banking Finance Company• Re-financing of existing borrowings and profitable management of investments • Procurement of new sources of funding also ensuring ALM• Derivatives as a measure to reduce risk and increase savings• Risk Management –Statutory Reporting and Online Monitoring• Management of treasury back office• Relationships with banks, mutual funds and other fund providers.• Interaction with Banks to facilitate CMS, payment solutions etc.• Internal MIS and external reporting (QIS, CMA etc.,) to Banks• Interest/FX risk management on a transactional and portfolio level.• Adherence to Risk Management PolicyApart from above mentioned profile, gained experience in following as part of internal training:• Managing securitization portfolio (Accounting, Servicing & Compliance )• Ensure accounting of treasury transactions• Ensure recognition of cost of borrowings and reporting to the management.• Compliance with Indian & US accounting Standards as regards accounting of borrowings, derivatives and FOREX exposures.

Chartered Accountancy, Accounting And Finance

Certified Treasury Management, Treasury Management

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Business/Commerce, General, A