Lead Consultant
Arcesium
Total years of experience :14 years, 3 Months
Lead a team which addresses client issues on the Arcesium platform/product, clients are hedge funds/Hedge fund administrators with queries being functional/technical.
Middle office functions- Issues pertaining to trade capture, security setup, reference/time series data setup
Reconciliation activities -Broker file parsing queries, setting up of new parsers/brokers on the platform, performing control on checks to ensure that files parse successfully when new funds/brokers are on boarded on the platform and reach out to the clients proactively if any issues
Month End NAV calculation- Queries on monthly reconciliation, Trial balance, flow through P&L, P&L and Trial Balance tagging used to calculate NAV.
Pricing- Daily queries pertaining to price snaps/Golden prices and setup of pricing hierarchy as per client requests.
Alerts- Assistance provided to clients to resolve alerts/error messages related to sync issues to ensure data integrity is maintained from upstream to downstream applications
Setting up of new users on the platform and providing them with permissions accordingly
Liaising with technical/development teams to ensure that tech/dev queries are resolved in a timely and efficient manner
Escalating high and critical requests
Working with the data migration team to assist with onboarding new clients and funds to the platform
Coordinating with product managers/technical relationship manager to ensure client specific requests for product enhancements is being tracked. And also keeping the clients updated on the feasibility and time table for their enhancements
Maintaining a repository of issues faced to enable speedier resolution of similar requests.
Providing year end feedback to the senior manager on team members performance
Managing Middle Office functions across various credit derivative desk’s
Middle office functions include security setup, trade capture, trade amendments and being the point of contact for traders, front office, back office, risk/P&L teams, Legal and other middle office’s with regards to queries/clarifications/issues they have on the trades of that particular desk
Monitoring reconciliation reports for the various teams to ensure breaks and issues are being worked on in a timely and effective manner and we meet our KPI’s
Control checks on the various teams by monitoring reconciliation reports, EOD and Checklists
Team management and delegation of tasks between locations (Pune and Bangalore)
Creating and ensuring cross training plans between the members of the teams goes through smoothly
Conducting and monitoring training to new joiners and other stakeholders
SME with knowledge on the products and systems, point of contact for team members for any process related issues that they may face
Primary escalation contact for Front Office/Back office and P&L teams
Continuous monitoring and re validation of procedures/KOP’s to ensure that new procedures and changes to existing procedures are being captured in the KOP’s and being implement effectively
Worked in the Thomson Reuters, financial and risk division focusing on the investment banking and Market data products to cater to client specific requirements.
Specialize in 3 products- Thomson one investment Banker, SDC Platinum and Thomson one Wealth Management (real time market data platform)
For Thomson one investment Banker and SDC platinum helped clients in building reports for Merger and Acquisition which included league tables and volume analysis, Equity and bond reports for IPO’s, follow on issues, Private Placements, PIPE, Private Equity reports with regards to PE investments, PE performance and PE exits.
For Thomson one wealth Management worked with clients in order to provide them with stock market information in a timely and efficient manner.
Expertise also provided in excel add-ins Thomson Reuters spreadsheet link (Investment Banking) and DDE excel add in (real time market data platform).
Clients included Investments Bankers, researchers/professors, analysts, Wealth Managers and traders from financial institutions and Universities from all over the world.
Responsible for training new employees and also introducing the product to members from other teams.
Liaise with the data and backend teams for data queries which the clients have Interacting with accounts managers and the sales team, to make sure client requirements are met
Ensured clients received accurate reports about the performance of their portfolio’s by conducting a market level audit and comparing the daily returns against the benchmark, completed this operation using an internal tool called Performance Analysis Calculating Engine (PACE)
Audited client portfolio’s and resolved discrepancies within the sub teams of the organization
Trained new recruits to ensure their contribution to the smooth functioning of the team.
Financial Econometrics, Quantitative Financial Modeling, Strategic Financial Management, International finance, Corporate Finance. Graduated with distinction, presented a final dissertation on whether Foreign Institutional investors in India carried out a momentum strategy at a stock specific level
Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Studies