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Archana Aditya Singh

Ambarnath

Summary

Dynamic professional in Collateral and Margin Management, specializing in VM, IM, OTC Derivatives, Repo, and Securities Lending with over 10 years of proven experience. Expertise in streamlining operations to enhance efficiency, mitigate risk exposure, and foster robust relationships with clients and counterparties. Proficient in interpreting Master Agreement terms and negotiating ISDA, Repo, and Securities Lending Agreements. Adept at managing margin calls, monitoring counterparty exposure, and ensuring compliance with global financial regulations such as ISDA, EMIR, and Dodd-Frank.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Manager

BNP Baribas, India Solutions Private Limited
05.2023 - Current
  • Margining - Collateral management- CIB
  • Working on the CSA Digitisation project to manage the agreement data and support agreement data capture to reduce agreement driven disputes.
  • Oversee daily collateral operations for OTC derivatives.
  • Performing daily margin call process front to back for specified clients.
  • Margin Call issuance and chasing clients for unanswered margin calls.
  • Investigating on disputed calls and liaising with client, MO and legal on various aspects of disputed margin calls.
  • Chasing clients on failed/missed payments.
  • Investigating with settlements team on all bonds that have not settled in the market.
  • Working on Substitution requests sent by clients/traders.
  • Booking interest for all monthly clients.
  • Investigating on Interest discrepancies.
  • Perform and respond to control report to ensure effective break, fails and exception management.
  • Presenting findings to the managements during meetings.
  • Creating and maintaining KPIs and also perform quality checks.
  • Contributing Responsibilities
  • Point of escalation for client queries, trade breaks and fails resolution.
  • Working on developing and implements new controls / processes based on Business/ Risk / Industry evolution to better support the risk management needs of BNPP.

Senior Analyst

Atyeti Inc. (Payroll Entity)/ Credit Suisse (Client - Onsite)
08.2022 - 04.2023
  • Securities Lending and Collateral Management
  • Management of inventory through effective short covering and collateral management
  • Producing comprehensive analytic reports to ERM Desk for effective inventory management
  • Booking and processing of all trades related to Securities Lending and Collateral Management
  • Seek to ensure front office risk and PnL are accurate, through management of entire trading books
  • Ensuring all positions is accurately captured either through automated process or by manual bookings
  • Simultaneously work with IT/Desk to remove manual booking
  • Coordinating with the internal and external clients on adhoc queries and requests
  • Working on projects to improve the front-to-back trade flow and take complete ownership of the front office trade flow

Senior Analyst

Nomura Services India Private Limited
09.2017 - 06.2022
  • OTC Derivatives (Paralegal Operations)
  • Working in parallel with Master Agreement negotiators and lawyers to interpret and upload terms of OTC Derivative Agreements, including International Swaps and Derivatives Agreement (ISDA) and Credit Support Annexes, repurchase agreements like GMRA (Global Master Repurchase Agreements and MRA (Master Repurchase Agreement), Securities Lending agreements and cleared derivatives execution agreements for the EMEA and Americas businesses;
  • Sole point of contact for providing prime services support to Americas business for the Agreements like updating terms of PBA (Prime brokerage agreements, CLA (Custodial and Lending business), SPBMC (Synthetic Prime Brokerage Master confirmation and LFCs (Long form confirmation)
  • Interpret and update the critical terms from agreements like Eligible Collateral, NAV, Margin maintenance, Threshold and Minimum Transfer amount.
  • Handling general queries from various internal teams such as collateral management team for any dispute in margin call and provide details as per the OTC agreement, derivatives margin team and risk management team; Updating non cash and cash collaterals in the systems.
  • Providing impact report on account of the counterparties being downgraded/upgraded by the rating agencies such as S&P, Moody’s and Fitch;
  • Preparing and updating SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for team members for risk mitigation and standardisation.
  • Review the work done by fellow team members.
  • Responsible to train new joiners and bring them up to speed.
  • Actively participates in the adhoc projects for the Documentation team;
  • Working with technology team on providing suggestions to enhance the in-house tool (Data Legal) to make the tool more user friendly and satisfies the business requirement;
  • Reports/MIS
  • Preparing / Reviewing different reports which are shared to regions.
  • Engaged in generating and distributing weekly, fortnightly and monthly MIS reports to stakeholders Americas, Japan and EMEA, periodically and on an ad-hoc basis.
  • Preparing monthly MIS and management metrics for NSI ALD Principal review process
  • Preparing reports such as Unreleased Agreement Report, Jurisdiction Report, Entity Classification report and workload reports for Americas, Japan and EMEA stakeholders.
  • Work with technology team to provide suggestion for process enhancement of MIS reporting.
  • Legal due diligence and Entity review
  • Work with client onboarding team for entity review process for the new counterparties
  • Identifying the client’s Entity Classification. This means to confirm how the entity is classified for tax purposes.
  • Identify where the client is incorporated
  • Identify if the client is authorized to do securities Lending and Repurchase business.
  • Identifying Netting Opinion in the system i.e., if the trading is gross or Net.
  • Liaise with Banks which are acting as agent for queries or for required documentation.
  • Liaise with onshore team for queries, schedule meetings, prepare agenda and MoM.
  • Achievements
  • Enhanced the MIS report which is shared to regional stakeholders for the agreements released in system by compiling 3 different reports into one single report which saved approx. 30 minutes each time the report is prepared.
  • Worked as lead for various projects like - Triparty agreement project and netting scope project, Qualified financial Institution (QFC) project and was responsible for the successful completion of the project within the given deadline.
  • Received appreciation emails from regional stakeholders for the attention to detail and quick turnaround time.
  • Projects Worked on
  • Global margin project – Updating Initial margin CSA for inhouse tool. Highlighting key clauses like MTA, Regime etc. to stakeholders
  • Brexit Project – Worked on Brexit reappearing project where the OTC derivatives agreements with NIP where getting replicated to NFPE entities.
  • EuroSTR- The interest for EUR currency benchmark interest rate amendment from EONIA to EuroSTR.
  • Qualified Financial contract (QFC) Project – Updating the related fields in inhouse tool

Senior Financial Analyst

Eclerx Services LTD.
10.2014 - 09.2017
  • Documentation Team
  • Review and analyze ISDA Master documentation; Determine material clauses and identify key risks in documentation in the firm’s systems
  • Convey the ratings of Counterparty given by Global Rating agencies to Client IB
  • Tracking counterparty’s NAV
  • Collating all queries related to Master Agreements from all team members and sending it to client for resolutions and discussing it with team once we received resolutions
  • Preparing and updating rulebook for team members
  • Resolve queries and preparing query tracker
  • Discuss clauses with internal SME
  • Achievements
  • Received Best QQ (Quality & Quantity) Award for the month of June and November.
  • Lead the project to create the template in inhouse tool to capture the key information of the securities Lending agreement, Prepared rulebook for the same and discussed the queries with Client IB for the successful implementation of the project.
  • Additional activity: To train the new joiners, to help them understand the concepts of Contract.

Education

MBA - Digital Finance and Banking

O.P Jindal
Haryana, India
01-2025

Bachelor's - Financial markets

MCC
05.2014

HSC -

R.A.D.A.V
02.2011

SSC -

Guru Gobind Singh High School
03.2009

Skills

  • Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite and learning Power BI
  • Skilled in email management
  • Effective analytical skills
  • Confident and adaptable
  • Collaborative team player
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Simplifying complex concepts
  • Efficient deadline management
  • Detail-oriented analysis
  • Automation and efficiency initiatives

Timeline

Assistant Manager

BNP Baribas, India Solutions Private Limited
05.2023 - Current

Senior Analyst

Atyeti Inc. (Payroll Entity)/ Credit Suisse (Client - Onsite)
08.2022 - 04.2023

Senior Analyst

Nomura Services India Private Limited
09.2017 - 06.2022

Senior Financial Analyst

Eclerx Services LTD.
10.2014 - 09.2017

MBA - Digital Finance and Banking

O.P Jindal

Bachelor's - Financial markets

MCC

HSC -

R.A.D.A.V

SSC -

Guru Gobind Singh High School
Archana Aditya Singh