Front Office Manager

Chaitanya Dani

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Mobile: 937-***-**** / 993******* ~ E-Mail: ****.*********@*****.***

Vice President- – Investment Banking Operations

Loan Syndication and Warehouse Financing

AN OVERVIEW

Business-driven individual with more than 15 years’ work experience in investment banking operations.

Determined and experienced in client relationship, demonstrating sound judgement, employee mentoring and coaching.

Core technical expertise in various asset classes including Credit & Cash business, Structured Business (FX Credit & Rates), Securitized Products, Syndicate Loans.

Prudent, disciplined & self-motivated with excellent interpersonal, communication & organizational skills with proven abilities in team management.

Expert in corporate processes, compliance and safety procedures. Highly capable in successfully resolving conflicts. Pursuing a role where hard work and dedication will be highly valued.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Leadership – Lead by example and an effective role model. Actions reflect a high level of independence; demonstrates the ability to initiate and effect change and continuous improvement,

Communication – Have demonstrated effective Stake Holder management and comfortable in working with Global partners and stakeholders

Working across Cultures: - Highly experienced in working across cultures through various set of stakeholders thereby contributing towards improved employee engagement.

Partnership – Contribute towards the environment of collaboration and mutual responsibility.

Effectively influence others to gain cooperation and address issues;

People Champion – Invest in people through effective Mentoring; driving people development agenda and focuses on career management and mobility of staff.

Change Champion – Demonstrated a track record of formulating innovative ideas and gaining buy-in from senior management in addition to a track record of execution/delivery/process improvement/leadership in a challenging environment

Strategic thinking: - Ability to make business decisions by analysing current and future scenarios has been a key driver for self-growth and towards the growth of the business and the firm.

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

Nomura Services India Pvt Ltd, Mumbai

Growth Path:

Operations Manager Jul ’12 – Mar’14

Assistant Vice President Apr’14 – Mar’2018

Vice President Apr’18 - Till Date

Synopsis

Maintained an active position mitigating business risks and building robust controls.

Follow the regulation through LSTA to follow the markets norms as applicable for the business.

Spearheading the transition management for the Loans business to ensure smooth functioning of both

Offshore and Onshore Process.

Leading the process improvement initiatives through Robotics process automation, Cost Efficiency

Management related projects thereby leading greater efficiency at a firm level.

Promoting the company brand and building rapport with stakeholders and strengthening the business

management.

Developed and maintained excellent relationships with employees, executives and stakeholders.

Established performance goals for the business. Setting the objectives for employees and provide

constant feedback on career management through effective leadership skills.

Vice President - Syndicated Loans & Securitized Products – Apr 18 till date

Support the execution & distribution of the syndicated loan products & Securitized Products. Team size

includes 11 members spread across various levels of hierarchy

Product exposure includes Collateralized Loan Obligation, Loan Underwriting, Recapitalization,

Dividend refinancing, Agency Business, Loan Securitization, Power and Infrastructure Financing,

Warehouse Financing.

Core system expertise on system includes Misys (LIQ), Clear par for Syndicate Loans and Pro-Merit for

Warehouse Financing

Act as point-of-contact from trade booking and the entire trade life cycle of a transaction from Deal

building, Trade Affirmation, Allocation, Confirmation and Loan Closing.

Business operations Includes origination, structuring, execution and Transaction management and Loan

Servicing.

Provide graphical analysis, key performance indicators and custom metrics for executive management

Responsible for front to back model both on product and process.

Adheres to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with any and all

Applicable regulatory standards as specified in the Loan Syndication and Trading Association

Assistant Vice President – Middle office & Product Control - Apr 2014- Apr 2018

Managed Structured Product Middle office business with prime focus on deal review of complex booking

against the confirm document.

Asset class includes Structured Global FX, Credit and Rates with a team size of 15 members with Global

Support (AEJ, EMEA, Tokyo & US)

Lead the merger of Structured Products middle office and the Product control in June 2016. Resulting in

the firm wide objective achievement of cost efficiency through synergy and employee development

Drove the risk and control assessment ensuring constant mitigation of high and medium/high rated

risk through effective control framework

Engagement with Stakeholder to validate the governance meeting through SMCR (Senior

Management control regime)

Process Manager - Mortgage Back Securities (Securitized Products) – June 2012 - Apr 2014

Distinction of developing frameworks to enhance process accuracy for MBS Team.

Product exposure includes Mortgage Back Securities, Collateralized Mortgage Obligation, CMBS,

RMBS, ABS.

Strategic relationship management initiative with the business partners in US to align the Mortgage

process in Mumbai. This was done through effective engagement of members with equal focus on

control Indicators thereby building a robust service level agreement

Conducted business area analysis, requirements definition, Logical and detailed design, testing and

Implementation on systems according to departmental policies and to maintain the cost effectiveness.

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS -

Effective White spacing across Global Loans (EMEA/ AEJ / US) with the target to produce efficiency

through Redundancy, Re-engineering and centralization of functional processes.

Automation of Confirmation review for Loan Document through OCR (BOT) from clear par, Trade

Affirmation from clear par Notice manager for Fax automation, thereby displaying efficiency

worth 1 Full time employee with no impact on day to day deliverables.

Have automated Structured Complex FX product including TARF, COPTION which not only helped

acquire effective product knowledge but also good project management experience.

Excellent track record in completing the assignments with a leading US mortgage process to

improve productivity and to deliver ~30% efficiency impact.

Project Management for ISDA 2014 Definition change. Being a part of steer committee in the firm.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENTS

CREDIT SUISSE INDIA PVT LTD

Exempt Non Officer (Manager) – Product Control July ’11 – July’12

Exempt Non Officer- Product Control (Independent Role)

Responsible for the accurate and timely production of daily T+1 P&L production, attribution and

analysis for Cash Equities Globally.

Providing daily commentary and variance investigation to Front Office traders and senior Finance

managers Ensure compliance to risk and control guidelines.

Ensure FOBO reconciliation are performed accurately and thereby producing clean P&L to the

traders.

Successfully migrated the Training Phase in Singapore for a period of 2 Months for Credit Corporate

Investment Grade trading

JPMORGAN CHASE SERVICES INDIA PVT Ltd

Analyst Sep ’05 – Mar’08

Senior Analyst Apr’08 – Mar’10

Team Leader Apr’10 - June’11

Team Leader - Credit Hybrids Middle Office – Structured Products

Understanding the depth of Credit hybrids deal review for Structured Credit.

Reviewing trades and matching the economics details of the trade mentioned on the confirmation &

the risk management system

Managing risk & controls for the process Resolving the discrepancies by liaising with respective

Middle Office / Front Office (TA's) in timely manner to ensure smooth functioning of the process.

Support operational services across the OTC trade lifecycle in trade capture process.

Worked as a production coordinator handling clients on boarding & Booking Trades across various

Derivatives products like CDS, Equity Options and Interest Rate Swaps.

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Training and support to the Australian trade capture team for a period of 8 weeks with constant

Assistance and understanding for similar production support in Australia

Successful handled the books position after the BEAR STEARNS take over within the time frame

defined by the management.

Have been a part of process improvement Team organized by JP Morgan Have been

awarded as Project leader for the year

INTELENET GLOBAL SERVICES PVT LTD.

Customer Service Representative- Sep’03 – July’05

Credit rating and consumer dispute process

Fraud Alerts & Priority Handling

Updating Bankruptcy

Acceptance and Non Acceptance of Consumer Disputes Verification Documents

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Awarded as the Employee of the Year 2004

Being nominated for “STEP” – Strive towards Excellence Program, where training is provided

on Team Dynamics, Presentation Skills, Six sigma, Customer Centricity, etc.

SCHOLASTICS

NCFM Certification in Financial Planners Beginners Module

P.G.D.B.M. (Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management) from Pune University in 2006 specializing and

Finance and Human Resource.

T.Y. B. Com (Bachelor in commerce) from Mumbai University in 2002 specializing in Account and Economics

Passed Higher Secondary School from Mumbai university in the Year 1999

Passed Secondary School from Mumbai University in the Year 1997

PERSONAL DOSSIER

Date of Birth : 23rd Jul, 1981

Marital Status : Married

Passport No : J7015999

Notice Period : 90 Days

Visa status : Valid US visa for 10 years under the B1/B2 category

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