Senior Financial Analyst

PUSHPAK SINGH

Contact: +1-646-***-**** Email:

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SUMMARY

A Senior Analyst at D. E. Shaw & Co., with 4 years of work experience in Middle Office operations. I

have an H-1B Visa, valid until September 2015. My skills include Modeling of complex derivative

investment instruments, Corporate actions, understanding of Trade life cycle, P&L Analysis and

management.

WORK EXPERIENCE

D.E. Shaw & Co. Senior

Analyst, Middle Office

Leading global Hedge Fund

(Feb’ 11 – till date)

Key responsibilities

• Ensure correct modeling of investment

instruments including fixed income, repos, mortgage pools, currency forwards products and other exotic

derivatives in internal systems and manage creation and settlements of products

• Manage and analyze firm-wide transactions

including modeling new asset classes, instructing brokers for position transfers, facilitating settlement

process

• Central point of contact for setting up a new fund/product traded by business including pre-trading testing and

sign off

• Understand real-time reporting requirements per Dodd-Frank for cleared IRS, CDS and swaps and

implement workflow changes to meet the desired SLAs

• Ensure correct representation of Loans in Wall Street Office (WSO), a third party tool and ensure P&L is

represented in our internal system.

• Knowledge of Swift messages

MT564/568/565/566

• Responsible for maintaining the Reference data

of the firm.

• Responsible for end to end corporate action

booking across all asset classes.

• H1B visa valid till Sep’15

Projects

• Implemented Process migration of handling corporate action events (mandatory and voluntary) from front

office to middle office. This included complete automation of the events and their correct modeling in the firm

showing desired results on position, price and PnL.

• Initiated and lead the re-structuring of asset-backed securities and credit default swaps to ensure correct

risk reporting, P&L representation and achieve complete straight through processing of all related transactions, like

paydowns and coupons, leading to 80% time savings for the team.

• Visualized and spearheaded the re-modeling of currency forwards to ensure correct risk reporting, P&L

representation and straight through processing of all related transactions leading to 30% time savings for the team

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Programmer Analyst

Technology firm

(Sep ’07 – Apr ’09)

Testing Online payment processing for RBS

• Interacting with clients and understanding their needs.

• Manual testing of the process flow of the application and reporting the bugs, if any.

• Automation testing via QTP of the application which involved writing codes for the same.

• As an initiative developed the tools for bulk uploading of the files.

Indian Bank

Trainee

Public Sector Bank

(Feb ’10 – May’ 10)

Credit Appraisal for SMEs

Conducted financial and business Due Diligence of a potential credit appraisal for an SME through

• Balance Sheet and Ratio Analysis.

• Determination of demand growth rate through End Market Analysis

• Competition Landscaping (qualitative & quantitative)

SKILL SET

• Comprehensive understanding of Middle Office Operations.

• Proven ability in process migration and improving operational efficiency by deploying automated solutions .

• Strong communication skills in terms of documentation, preparation of project plans and roadmaps.

• Versed in working with UNIX, SQL and VBA.

• Versed with using the P&L tool ‘Geneva’.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

FRM Level 2

Pass (2012)

CFA Level 1 CFA Institute, USA

Pass (2011)

MBA (Finance) ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad Deemed University

8.23 CGPA (2011)

B.E. (Electronics) Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune

66.7% (2007)

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

• Merit Scholarships for academic excellence in B.E., Class 10+2 and Class 10 Board Examinations

• Awarded Cognizant Certified Professional in Banking and Financial services and Wholesale

Banking.

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY & EXTRA CURRICULARS

• Head Boy of the school

• Was lead coordinator for the feast TRISHNA organized by ICAFAI.

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