Balasubramanian P.S.

Senior Software Engineer

CRISIL GR&A, Chennai

Summary

Quantitative and Analytical Skills: At CRISIL, built models to recommend long/short positions, back-testing of index performance, set up batch automation tools using VBA and batch file coding to auto deliver time sensitive reports to clients. Member of a core team at CRISIL for a web data collection and analysis framework. Led a team of 4 VBA developers and successfully delivered many automation tools.

Knowledge of Finance: Due to working closely with MBAs, CFAs and Chartered Accountants possess basic knowledge and understanding of financial concepts, with a combined experience of over 5 years at building models and various financial tools.

Communication Skills: Worked in a multinational and culturally-diversified environment. At CRISIL, interacted with onshore and offshore clients for project delivery, bug fixes, feedback etc.

Other Skills: Proficient in MS Office, particularly in MS Excel. Good knowledge of VBA programming underpinned by several projects executed at CRISIL GR&A. Proficient in .NET and SQL. Basic knowledge of Bloomberg terminal.

Professional Experience

CRISIL Global Research & Analytics, India (May’10 – Present)

As a Senior Software Engineer (Associate – SMART Team)

Built Financial Models using Excel VBA to recommend long and short positions in stocks across various markets, for different time horizons

Build an Excel Application using Advanced VBA, for building highly customized financial models for both initiation and migration and release advisory within an hour of company’s earnings report. This tool is one of its kind in the market, which has been highly appreciated and advertised for, by the clients themselves

Developed a back-testing model in VBA to rebalance returns and turnover of stocks within sectors for various time frames and indices

Built a Newsflow Collator application using Advanced VBA, which helps analysts of various domains to capture crisp notes from various sources like Reuters, Bloomberg, NY Times, Guardian, etc.

Taken complete ownership of identifying fallacy and rectifying five years of massive data of stocks downloaded from Bloomberg for accurate further analysis to create models

Set up batch automation tools using Excel VBA and batch file coding to auto-deliver time sensitive reports

Developed multiple tools using .NET and SQL

Regularly conduct Training sessions on Excel, Advanced VBA for analysts.

Lead a team of 4 Advanced VBA developers with experience of 3-5 years. Successfully executed many projects with this team

Awarded multiple times for my efforts and contribution to the team

Wesgrow Software (Nov’05 – May’10)

As a System Exécutive

Developed multiple tools using .NET and SQL

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering – Magna College of Engineering - 64% (2001 -2004)

Contact Details

Phone number: +91-735*******

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