Kanan S. Parikh
* ********** **** **. ********, CT 06902
C: 609-***-**** / H: 203-***-**** / ab8w4o@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE: I have been working as consultant throughout my career with two
top tier agencies over the years.
Looking for a long-term consulting opportunity
in Capital Market / CRM as Front/ Middle office
as a Operation Analyst. My experience has been
as a business Analyst non-IT. My experience is related
to Trade Support for both buy and sells side
monitor using DTCC trade application.
Dealing closely with trading desk and sales, as
well as cash management, credit, legal, accounting team to
ensure excellence in trade processing, control,
risk mitigation and customer relations.
CHARITY ORGANIZATION:
Share and Care Foundation Paramus, NJ - September 2009 to Present
Marketing Analyst / Ambassador
Share and Care Foundation is a
non-profit charitable organization established in 2007, by a few
philanthropic non- resident
Indians. The core group consists of professionals in the field of medicine,
administration, education, finance, and engineering. The main objective is
to help the poor and less fortunate children from economically and socially
backward families
EXPERIENCE:
Eliven Fabell's - working from home - January 2012 to Present
Sr. Marketing / financial Analyst - Charity Organization
. Build client relationship to establish the organization's finances.
. Daily interaction with individual clients and various industries for
donations.
. Maintain and monitor daily market update and have monthly meeting to
support the business functions.
. Create fun filled environment and establish marketing tactics.
Citi, New York, NY - August 2010 to April 2011
Business Analyst (Consultant) - Finance Department
. Managed multiple systems (Trader Work Station, Security Master and
Price Marker) within the firm that deal with daily business
investments
. Assist in the opening new accounts for post trade allocation /
monitored failed trades.
. Specialized in managing the implementation of Calypso for the Hedge
Fund Integration Services group dealt with CRM (various securities /
CDO, CDS)
. Ensuring the completeness and accuracy of business requirements
. Provide support to customers of clearing services for existing
business
. Conduct in-depth interviews to understand functions, processes and
workflows
. Determine the type of analysis and data required in order to yield the
most significant benefits
. Evaluated the Finance Workflow process and tested each UAT / QA level
towards the production process release
. Updated all counter parties' transactions using Geneva and Bloomberg
systems
Barclays Capital Management, New York, NY - February 2010 to April 2010
Business Analyst (Consultant) - Credit Risk Department
. Evaluated and assigned internal credit grades on day-to-day business
. Monitor assigned portfolio of counterparties as well as the industry
fundamentals
. Responsible for effective credit risk management (evaluated risk
exposure management) of designated industry/geographic sector(s)
including investment advisors, pension funds, mutual funds,
endowments, foundations, charitable organizations
. Managed primary business points of contact for all the
operational/trading issues affecting the support of Capital Market
locally (North America)
. Supported senior management in the Global Financial Risk Management
Americas
HSBC, New York, NY - February 2008 to January 2010
Business Analyst (Consultant) - Global Securities Department
. Monitored mid-month estimate distribution pricing, month end pricing,
and T+5 -month end final pricing
. Evaluated daily trade settlement activities and updated the trade
activities reporting, entered daily trades, confirmed trades and
captured characteristics of each trade using ADP system for pricing
and fees
. Monitor the market to adjust pricing accordingly as well as build a
good understanding of DR trading strategies for internal and external
trades.
. Ensured that discrepancies uncovered by the reconciliation process
were resolved within middle & front offices with counterparties, fund
administrators & clients
. Responsible for setting counterparty exposure limits by counterparty,
and measuring and monitoring counterparty credit risks across client
portfolios
. Analyze and recommend approval of transactions, perform annual (new or
existing) counterparty / trading partners, specifically financial
institutions, banks and brokers
. Handled many activities such as investigating, escalating and
resolving trade breaks and other projects dealing with various
securities
. Maintained daily interaction with London office dealing with overseas
trades settled in USA
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY - July 2007 to February 2008
Business Analyst (Consultant) - Credit Risk Department
. Processed daily MIS reports which provided breaks and other pending
issues from prior trades. Managed bi-weekly conference call with
overseas and domestic offices
. Analysis to include P&L exposure, integrity of company cash, ACH
discrepancies, overdraft investigations and miscellaneous items
requiring adjustments.
. Maintain the Market Wire and DTCC market / service trade matching
platform.
. Support new clearing customer on-boarding, new exchange or product
initiatives
. Researched and analyzed of business activities covering Global
Transactions (Cash management, custody, trade finance, etc.). Manage
workflow, time-lines, deliverables, and team coordination including
both on-shore and off-shore support
. Attended daily meeting with overseas branch dealing with global trades
settled in USA
. Researched daily trades using Murex system for verifying types of
trades
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY - January 2006 to July 2007
Business Analyst (Consultant) - Credit Risk Department
. Updated daily NAV using internal system based on funds and search
reports based parent funds
. Monitored daily trade activities and updated trade reports, entered
daily trades, confirmed all trades and captured characteristics of
each trade
. Worked with Credit Risk & Management Department in Hedge Fund Team to
evaluate NAV and performance percentage based on reports from clients
Moore Capital Management, New York, NY - March 2005 to January 2006
Business Analyst (Consultant) - Global Securities
. Created extensive Excel spreadsheet using various equity SWAP recs.
Interest Swaps, Muni, and reports by major counterparties
. Managed daily projects dealing with MCM SWAP rec. position for
internal and external counterparties
. Document customer facing issues and work to implement resolutions
. Monitored monthly SWAP accounts for future option and IRS swaps by
funds and reconciling them for month
end reports
. Reported to fund managers and directors for any variance transactions
in month end reports
. Evaluated all MCM counter party's transaction using Geneva and
Bloomberg systems
EDUCATION:
Investment Banking Institute, New York, NY - July 2011
Intensive 4-week financial modeling and valuation training program
. Performed company valuations utilizing comparable public
company analysis, precedent transactions analysis and
discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis
. Built fully-integrated financial statements projection model,
LBO model, accretion/dilution merger models, including
ability to run operational and capital structure
sensitivities within models and data tables for sensitivity
analysis
University of Phoenix - Bachelor of Science - Finance / Marketing - 2004
RESIDENCE STATUSE: US Citizen
SKILLS: Microsoft Office (Certificates Word doc., Excel, Access,
PowerPoint) Bloomberg,
Geneva, Morning Sun, Pivot Tables, (ADP) trade settlement
system, Dodd Frank, Security Master, Trader Work Station, Price Marker,
(TLM, APL, -Equity reports), Murex, DTCC, SQL