KARAN CHAUDHRI

Jersey City, *****, New Jersey

Ph. +1-201-***-****

Email Id- addgl3@r.postjobfree.com

Certifications

CFA Level 3 Candidate (June-20) from CFA Institute, USA

Passed CFA Level 1 and Level 2 in first attempt from CFA Institute, USA

Certified Project Management Professional, PMP (April-20) from University of California, Irvine

Educational Details

MBA in Finance and Banking (Mar-13) from ICFAI Business School (IBS), Hyderabad.

Bachelor’s degree from Ramjas College, Delhi University (Feb-10) in B.A (Economics, Mathematics).

Summary

To gather business requirements, identifying functional and technical gaps, creating documents like Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Test cases, User guides.

Finding solutions that meet all business requirements to decrease existing system deficiencies.

Working for various products like Foreign Exchange (FX), Money Market (MM), Fixed Income Securities (Bills and Bond), Derivative (Options, Swap, Futures, FRA), Repos, Commodity and Equity.

Responsible for implementation of new FX, IR, Commodity and Non-Deliverable FX curves after complete research from various financial sources like Reuters, Bloomberg and CapitalIQ which is used to do valuation (NPV) of capital market products like futures, forwards, swap and options.

Give Demos to the client in collaboration with sales and professional services teams and respond to RFI / RFP / client queries in a timely and professional manner.

Responsible for client implementation and provide training to all the stakeholders including higher managements and fellow Consultant.

Experience in configuring the system, doing data analysis and data integration to meet client requirements.

Act as liaison between stakeholder groups such as Developers, QA and other IT teams to accomplish projects and delivery of IT solutions.

Perform functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for enhancements and regression testing.

Experience of working with various other applications like Wall Street suite, Murex, Kyriba, Reval, Calypso, Intellect, Temenos T24 application.

Experience in Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodology. Writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria for Epic item as well as for each story and creating product/sprint roadmap.

Work Experience

Reval Pvt. Ltd (ION Group) (May 16 - Jan 20)

Worked with ION Group (Reval Pvt. Ltd.), as a Consultant and associated with Capital Market, Treasury and Risk Management Team (TRM).

Microsoft in USA (June 19 - Jan 20)

Part of core implementation team responsible for implementing Leasing product (Operating and Finance lease).

Responsible for implementation of Reval Treasury and risk management (TRM) product.

Part of client implementation team and responsible for implementation of any new requirement related to FX, MM, FIS for the client.

Responsible for regulatory reporting like EMIR (Europe) and Dodd-Frank (US).

Responsible for smooth transition of IBOR curves to Alternative Reference Rates (ARR).

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in USA (Aug 17 - June 19)

Implemented Cash and Payment module for the client which was responsible of creating CTA in case of Nostro reconciliation delay. Working knowledge of SWIFT message like MT101, MT103, MT202, MT210 and MT940/941/942 used for receiving, payment and Nostro reconciliation.

Responsible for successful transition from Murex to Wall Street Suite (WSS) for FX, FIS module.

Responsible for running Cash Flow at Risk (CFaR) analysis and help in analyzing the cash flow risk across all traded products: FX, IR, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Commodities.

Responsible for successful implementation of IFRS 9 hedge accounting with effect from 1 January 2018 replacing IAS 39.

Bank of America in USA (May 16 - Aug 17)

Integral part of Hedge Accounting team dealing with Cashflow and Fair value hedge. Responsible for generating retrospective/prospective effectiveness report and verifying the hedge effectiveness.

Responsible for successful transition from Kyriba to Reval TRM for FX, MM and FIS front and Middle office.

Part of Cash and Payments module with good understanding of SWIFT messages including MT101, MT210, MT300/305/320 and MT940/941/942.

Responsible for Value at risk (VAR) analysis and running stress testing scenarios to analyze client portfolio.

Polaris Financial Technology Limited (Feb 2014 to April 2016)

Worked with Polaris Financial Technology Ltd (Intellect Design Arena Limited), as a Consultant and associated with Capital Market, Treasury and Risk Management Team (TRM).

Seylan bank in Sri Lanka (Sep 15 - April 16)

Went onsite to Colombo (Sri Lanka) for requirement gathering and implementing FX, MM, Fixed income security (Bills and Bond), Repos and Equity Module as per the Sri Lankan market.

Done requirement gathering of CRR, SLR and RTGS module for Central bank requirements.

Responsible for successful transition from Kyriba to Polaris TRM platform for FX, MM and FIS front and Middle office.

Designed and Implemented Historical VaR, Analytical VaR and Variance Covariance VaR for the treasury department containing Equity, Fixed income and FX data.

CitiBank in USA (March 15 - Sep 15)

Implement Money Market (Borrowing and Lending), and Foreign Exchange (Spot, Futures, Swaps etc) application and making them understand the functionality.

Responsible for successful transition from Misys to Polaris TRM platform for FX, MM and FIS front and Middle office.

Support the functional and regression testing activities before UAT to confirm the basic expectation is met.

Set up Scrum Calls between business and technology to iron out queries and document the minutes for circulation.

Was part of Nostro Reconciliation module and good understanding of MT101, MT210, MT300/320 and MT940/941/942.

Sonali Bank in Bangladesh (May 14 - March 15)

Went onsite to Dhaka (Bangladesh) for the Requirement Gathering, Product Demo and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Sonali Bank.

Worked on Calypso TRM platform for FX, MM and FIS front and Middle office as a Consultant.

Done requirement gathering for Foreign Exchange, Money and Securities Market, Fixed income security (FIS) and Equity modules as per the Bangladesh market.

Done requirement gathering for Nostro Reconciliation Module and SWIFT Module in integration with SWIFT Alliance and knowledge of regularly used swift message like MT202, MT210, MT300, MT940/941/942 etc.

Reserve Bank of India (Feb 14 - May 14)

Part of the core team which was into the designing and requirement gathering of Foreign Exchange, Derivatives, Money Market, Fixed Income Security (FIS).

Responsible for successful transition from Temenos T24 to Polaris TRM platform for FX, MM and FIS front and Middle office.

Done requirement gathering and system design for Gold Module of RBI.

Achievements & Activities

Got the fastest GEM award in only 7th month after the joining.

Got Rising Star award for third quarter in 2016 in Reval.

Working as a volunteer for Dare2B in New York City helping children in developing their motor skill.

Worked as a volunteer in commonwealth games 2010 held in Delhi.

Represented Delhi National Cricket Team UNDER- 16 category in cricket.

Technical Skills

Programming: SQL

Tools: JIRA, Balasamiq, MS Exceland MS Power Point.

Strong problem solving skills and independent thinker

Strong communication and presentation skills.

Strong project management skills

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