BABU RAJAGOPALAN

In - charge for Back Office Operations of Treasury
Supervision of daily operations of Forex/Money Market/Investment transactions
Responsible for - Settlement of deals done by Dealing Room
Maintaining Treasury Investment Portfolio
Treasury Operations checks and controls
Implementation of Audit Recommendations
Updating the internal policies and procedures and settling up of Policies
and procedures for new products
Liaison with Dealing Room, Finance Division for ensuring proper settlement
Liaison with Internal /External Auditors
Ensure smooth operations of Treasury operations in relation to IT Systems
Training and development of junior staff
Supervision of preparation of various MIS Reports
Preparation of Basel II Reports for Treasury including Credit and Market Risk Reports
Responsible for valuation of investment portfolio of the Bank under various categories as per procedure
Conversant with SWIFT procedures in respect of Treasury settlements and custodial procedures in respect of investments
Taking care Reserve requirements, WPS transactions, Bank’s FD rates supervision, Fx rates scanner.
Supervising the Remittance (Inward and Outward) functions of the Bank and managing a team.
Setting Policies and procedures for Payment Operations
Monitoring the effective recovery of charges and exchange
Nominated to represent the bank in the SWIFT forum of UAE Banks

Instruments including Indian Govt. Securities, T-Bills, Repos, Reverse Repos, CPs, CDs, Bonds, Debentures, BRS, Call/Notice/Term Money and Mutual Fund investments
Valuation and accounting of the entire investments portfolio of Treasury. Conversant with all RBI (Indian Central Bank) guidelines on treasury investment portfolio of Banks
Analysis of investment portfolio through methods like duration, modified duration etc. Monitoring of coupon, maturity and redemption dates of investments. Preparation of Basel II statements for Market Risk as per Central Bank Guidelines
Designed and implemented a in-house software for the Bank in respect of Treasury portfolio. Thereby saved expenditure to the Bank from purchase and maintenance of a software package for treasury.
Preparation of various MIS & Regulatory statements and associated with Central Bank Auditors, Statutory Auditors and Concurrent Auditors. Supervision of safe-custody of documents.
Coordinating with Information Technology Department in maintenance of NDS/CCIL/RTGS Software systems.
General Supervision and Men Management in respect of sub-ordinate staff.
Coordinated with quality consultants to obtain ISO 9002 certification for back office operations and authored the operation Manual for Fixed income securities. The same has been awarded under Asian Banking Awards 2001, by Asian Banking Digest for the Operational Efficiency Programme category.

In addition to the above: I have also involved in
- trading of Government securities in the primary and secondary markets. More familiar in screen based trading like NDS-OM and CBLO.
- Fund Management of the Bank by maintaining Reserve requirements. In the process, taking arbitrage advantage on movement of Call, Repo and CBLO rates.

in various departments like

in the Savings Banks desk of the Bank in a