Shrijith Menon
Senior Business Analyst
Mumbai
Summary
To work in an esteemed firm, that helps me grow in knowledge and experience by making the best use of my ability to analyze & interpret situations, giving the best possible solution for the benefit of the firm & it’s stakeholders.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages
Work History
Assistant Manager
BNP PARIBAS
08.2018 - Current
- Managing a team of 5 members-reporting to AVP
- Preparing presentations to senior management in Paris, Lisbon & Mumbai
- Working with RPA team to automate the projects on yearly basis
- Suggest enhancement or improvements in the current process & give feedback to the senior management
- Organizing & Leading the monthly & daily calls with stakeholders & finance users
- Provide timely feedback to all the team members on their performances & conduct yearly appraisals
- Daily monitoring of financial applications (OFS, Citrix, BO, etc) and analysing internal workflow in a timely manner with high-level accuracy, for improving process efficiency
- Gathering reports through business objects (Citrix) for monthly reporting / reconciliation
- Extracting, analysing, and updating monthly FX rates across the FOMO applications
- Executing a variety of request related to incident management, financial application, and access issues through various ticketing tool (JIRA, RTS, ASAP)
- Troubleshooting problems with financial systems and coordinating with functional and technical team for uncovered issues
- User Entitlement review and quarterly reconciliation
- Ensuring comprehensive database of queries resolutions and maintaining monthly KPI
- Participating in daily, weekly, and bi-yearly status monitoring
- Daily control over Cash-flow monitoring in Mainframe throughout several environments
- Analysing Rejects of Cash-flow that impacts accounting data on a day-to-day basis using Natalys Application
- Modifying several RDJ rules in Composer which impacts the various incoming accounting and extra accounting files
- Manager-SoFresh (June 2022-Till date)
- Senior Associate-Data Operations(Aug 2018-June 2022)
Senior Analyst
NOMURA
03.2011 - 08.2018
- Part of US Rates Middle Office providing support to trading and sales desk managing the day-to-day transactions.
- Financial & operational Risk management for OTC Derivative Instruments/products like Swaptions, IRS, FRA traded in US markets.
- Reconciliations between front end systems and MO / back end applications to ensure smooth trade life cycle / bookings, trade capture before settlement date thereby ensuring risk is in line in regards to internal systems, Markitwire.
- Liquidity reporting of JGB collateral held, rating upgrade/downgrade as per credit rating agencies S&P and Moody's, shortfall and additional coverage of collateral required by liaising, co-ordinating efficiently with the collateral management team.
- Collateral exposure and collateral postings owed to various counterparties as calculated by various capital models for the various Nomura entities/portfolios in order to be sufficiently covered in the event of termination.
- Regulatory breach reporting in regards to swaps, option bookings in Markitwire in regards to mandatory clearance for category I and II clients as deemed by EMIR / CFTC as well as affirmation and release from clients within the prescribed deadline.
- Trade recap checks to ensure our bookings in our internal system Totoro and Markitwire in line with client and confirms/term sheets agreed with counterparties.
- Funding / Reconciliation of position movements / bookings / cash between various internal books by liaising with the various sales teams and region.
- Resets / Rates fixing for LATAM / Mexican / Algo trades as per the daily fluctuations in Bloomberg / Reuters.
- Adding, Rolling of newly issued bonds on announcement date and auction respectively in our internal system to be in line with Bloomberg.
- RCSA checks to ensure risk controls in place, no operational risk, threat or risk events posed due to manual touchpoints, misses or negligence.
- Weekly audit reporting as requested by the auditor approved by the firm.
- Rates Middle Office/Trade Support/Financial Reporting/Reconciliations(July 2016-Aug 2018)
- Asset Servicing-Corporate Actions(Mar 2011-July-2016)
Senior Associate
State Street Syntel Services
04.2008 - 03.2011
- Include all aspects of processing, collecting and posting corporate actions entitlements, identify entitled clients, reconciling positions, identify and resolve exposure, and past due entitlements.
- Identify the Action - Through various sources (Bloomberg, DTC, Euro clear, Captain Etc...)
- Identify the Holders - Browses custody and accounting systems to identify which funds own the security.
- Research on Actions - Monitors, research and process corporate action activity in a timely and accurate manner. Research and resolve exceptions related to corporate action activity.
- Country wise processing Action — After verifying the entitlements trades are processed in accordance to the rules and regulation applicable to the resultant country.
- Complete the Action — By observing the change in the market price of security and does it match with Accounting and resolve any query from Investment Manager.
- Auditing of the Actions- Auditing the actions processed by the team. & rectifying the same if any variances.
- Also handles other additional responsibilities like preparing & sending of Client MIS Reports & updation of processing fund list (which consists of list of clients which are handled by the team.& this activity involves addition & removal of clients from the list as per intimation.
- Corporate Actions –Corporate Actions Analyst
Education
PGDBM -
NMIMS
11-2016
M.COM - undefined
Mumbai University
07-2012
B.COM - undefined
Mumbai University
06-2008
H.S.C. - undefined
Maharashtra Board
06-2005
S.S.C. - undefined
Maharashtra Board
06-2003
Skills
- Mainframe, Composer, Sentinel, JIRA, RTS, MS Office, Business objects/ Citrix, SharePoint Designing
Team leadership
Problem-solving
Task delegation
Team motivation
Decision-making
Time management
Recruiting and interviewing
Team building
Team collaboration
Goal setting
Accomplishments
- Have received Appreciation Certificate from Boston counterpart (State Street Bank) for completing task well on time with accuracy at times of high volumes.
- Have Received PERFORMANCE CONVERGE CERTIFICATE (Best Quarterly Performance award) in the last quarter of year 2009 from HR & SYNTEL’s Management.
- Have received Trophy from Corporate Actions Management for best quarterly performance in the Second quarter of year 2010.
- Have received Syntel Value (Synergy) award for the last quarter of 2010.
Interests
Listening to music & internet Browsing
Timeline
Assistant Manager
BNP PARIBAS
08.2018 - Current
Senior Analyst
NOMURA
03.2011 - 08.2018
Senior Associate
State Street Syntel Services
04.2008 - 03.2011
M.COM - undefined
Mumbai University
B.COM - undefined
Mumbai University
H.S.C. - undefined
Maharashtra Board
S.S.C. - undefined
Maharashtra Board
PGDBM -
NMIMS
Disclaimer
The above mentioned is true to the best of my knowledge. Shrijith Menon