Gopinath Ramkumar, Lead Quantitative Manager

Gopinath Ramkumar

Lead Quantitative Manager

Hsbc Securities Services

Location
Ireland
Education
Doctorate, Economics
Experience
15 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months

Lead Quantitative Manager at Hsbc Securities Services
  • Ireland
  • My current job since October 2019

- Model owner with responsibility for processes around selection, configuration, validation of pricing models on strategic middle office platform.
- Responsible for managing model risk management framework for the models used by HSS team.
-Projects include USD OIS Curve, Non USD OIS Curves, LIBOR transition, Exotics Valuation.

Model Validaton Manager at HSBC UK
  • Poland
  • February 2017 to October 2019

- Independent model review for Traded risk models(VaR, SVaR, IRC, ICVaR, RNIV).
- Independent model review for Algorithmic trading models (BFIX, VWAP, TWAP, Participation, Unwind strategy, Dynamic participation, PWP, Implementation shortfall, News wizard).
- Independent Model Review for Stress testing models (CCAR 2017, CCAR 2018).
- Derivative pricing (Monte carlo techniques, Finite difference methods).

Financial Engineer & Risk Manager at Future Business Development
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2014 to February 2016

•• Tracked and performed fundamental analysis on all the stocks in Saudi Arabia.
• Designed and developed a research toolbox with more than 300 proprietary variables for trading team.
• Developed portfolio and back testing models for pre-trade and post trade analysis.
• Performed balance sheet analysis, quarterly earnings revision, ratios and their sensitivity analysis.
• Performed statistical and technical analysis on all the stocks in Saudi Arabia.
• Written research reports, event updates, results preview and daily news wraps.
• Developed end to end quantitative models for trading in GCC markets, Singapore and Australian markets.
• Developed risk based models to assess credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk and operation risk.

Manager (Financial Analyst) at Motilal Oswal Financial Services
  • India - Mumbai
  • December 2012 to April 2014

• Developed quant models for trading team with Institutional Equities division.
• End to End analysis on automobile, cement, technology, banking and media sector stocks in NSE.
• Developed models for post trade analysis using VBA, Excel, R and Bloomberg.
• Developed Credit models for assessing credit risk and Market risk.
• End to End testing of the trading application.

System Engineer (Team Lead) at Tata Consultancy Services
  • United States
  • June 2006 to May 2011

• Designed test strategies and completed end to end testing for clients like NYK (shipping), CIBC (Banking), CVS (Pharma) and REI (e-commerce) using QTP (Version 9.2) and QC.
• Designed Corporate Action modules like Event management and Entitle management for the client Raymond James (Financial Services).
• Performed Gap and Business Analysis for new clients in Banking & Financial services sector.

Education

Doctorate, Economics
  • at Wroclaw university of Economics
  • September 2023

Part time pursuing a PhD in Economics with specialisations in portfolio optimization, crytocurrency and trading strategies

Master's degree, Financial Engineering
  • at The University of Manchester
  • December 2012

Key Projects: • Estimating the counterparty risk with commodity swaps using BASEL-III framework. • Hull white two factors Model ling. • Time variation of default intensities implied by CDS spreads for DELL Inc. • Euro Sovereign debt negotiations. • Revenue Management in carpark model. • Vasicek model valuation, Black Scholes valuation of bull spread and Structural debt valuation • Real Option valuation and Maclaurin approximation against numerical solution. • Recurrence relation with different errors, integrating an ODE and Bubble sort.

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Anna University
  • June 2006

Key Projects: • Six sigma implementation for spring division in South Indian Railways, India. • Developed a model “Bicycle Operated Lawn Mower” for the university. • CATIA V5 R10 certified

Bayt Tests

Financial Analysis Test
Score 70%
Financial Forecasting Test
Score 95%
Software Testing Test
Score 72%

Specialties & Skills

Risk Modeling
Treasury Services
Investments
Equities
Matlab Programming
Derviatives/Equities Valuation
Risk Modelling credit/Market/Operational
Financial & Investment Analysis
Market Risk

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

PRMIA
  • Associate Member
  • September 2015

Training and Certifications

Bank Treasury Risk Manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2019
Professional Risk Manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2019
Certificate for Financial Markets (Interest Rate Module) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
Valid Until:
May 2024
Securities operation and risk management of national Institute of Security markets (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Valid Until:
August 2032
Certificate for Financial Markets (Equity derivatives Module) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2013
Valid Until:
August 2028
Certificate in Algorithmic Trading (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2012
Valid Until:
March 2032

Hobbies

  • Playing/Watching Basketball
  • Reading Books
  • yoga