PRAKASH KRISHNAMURTHI
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT FINANCE MANAGER
818-***-**** ************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-krishnamurthi
PROFILE
Recognized finance professional with 14+ years progressive experience in portfolio / risk /
operations management. Proven expertise executing high visibility, complex projects
Portfolio Management Improved liquidity by reducing USD 1.5 Billion distressed assets
Operational Risk Reduced operational risk by overhauling 3 critical business process
Data Mining / Analysis / Insights Leveraged large data sets to identify drivers of trends
Business Intelligence Designed 6 insightful dashboards for various business / portfolio
SKILLS
Finance ALM, VaR, Portfolio Optimization, Monte Carlo, Interest Rate models and derivatives
Tools & Applications CAS, TOAD, Tableau, Bloomberg, QRRMB, Yieldbook
Languages & Database VBA, SQL, Python, Matlab, C++, R
Others - Excel, Powerpoint, Data Mining, Machine Learning
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004 2018
BANK OF AMERICA, California,
07/2018 10/2018
Chief Investment Office, Director
Run analysis and reporting for USD 250 Billion fixed income portfolio of government / agency bonds
Partnered with portfolio managers to design and win executive approval to implement key change
to portfolio allocation leveraging unique funding structure optimizing capital and returns
Developed new procedures to enhance controls for all the critical models to corporate standards
04/2014 06/2018
Loan Portfolio Management, Director
Run analysis and reporting to manage USD 250 Billion residential mortgage portfolio for ALM strategy
and Balance sheet management subject to NII, ROE, Capital, LCR and other constraints
Identified / executed strategies to reduce impaired assets by USD 300 Million with 5 Million gains
Optimizing available insurance, expected losses executed 170 Million sale booking 7 Million gains
Developed financial analysis / presentations to facilitate sale of 1 Billion loans with 63 M gains
Built innovative process to identify 8 Billion for sale resulting in significant operations cost savings
Developed comprehensive reporting for KPI monitoring used proactively by portfolio managers
Resolved fee disputes totaling 264 K through successful negotiation with government third party
Cleared external / internal audit test implementing improvements to key reconciliation process
W orking with cross functional teams to improve key capital and liquidity ratios, provided loan and
securities analytics to facilitate conversion of 15 Billion illiquid loans to liquid securities
Lead liaison to IT developers to identify, implement, test changes to reporting architecture
04/2012 03/2014
Corporate Investments Group, Vice President
Provided quantitative and qualitative expertise for GNMA redelivery loan analytics process, reporting
Enhanced and guided process improvements and provided analytics resulting in increased
monthly sales from USD 75 Million to 400 Million with 7 Million gain per 100 Million of sales
Overhauled key reporting system supporting critical regulatory reports to dramatically reduce
operational risk meeting SOX requirements ensuring audit certification
Lead efforts to successfully plan, implement & test migration from oracle system to MS SQL
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03/2007 03/2012
Secondary Marketing
10/2010 03/2012
Vice President
01/2008 09/2010
Assistant Vice President
03/2007 12/2007
Senior Analyst
Oversaw monthly loan repurchases, improving trading analytics, execution, providing business analytics
Executed 20 USD Billion non-performing government loan repurchases plan resulting in lowered
operational overhead, interest expenses by 66 USD Million meeting regulatory compliance
Business / Systems Analysis to build application features and facilitated user acceptance
Rallying key stakeholders influenced closing of product line to protect against significant losses
Reduced roll cost and improved position reporting by accurately analyzing mortgage pull through
Reduced pricing time 80% percent by developing automated tools to calculate add -ons
Improved execution price accuracy by identifying and fixing anomalies in proprietary engine
Under challenging timeline, built KPI report for auditor performance leading to quicker resolution
Successful lead business analyst to migrate 300+ legacy data elements to new sources
Administered a data hub extraction module with 100+ elements for modelling and pre-sales team
06/2004 02/2007
Pipeline Risk Management
03/2006 03/2007
Senior Analyst
06/2004 03/2006
Analyst
Produced and prepared daily hedging recommendations managing the risk process end -to-end
Prepared daily hedge recommendations to manage interest rate risk of 100 Billion portfolio
Reduced validation time 30% by developing an attribution to explain sensitivity change
Developed valuation engine using option / fixed income mathematics to validate prices
EDUCATION
Master of Science (MS) in Financial Engineering Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Master of Science (MS) in Computer Networking North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics Engineering University of Madras, Chennai, India
CERTIFICATIONS
Data Visualization with Pyhton