Accounting Analyst

SONALI KAUSHAL

******.*******@*****.*** +1-609-***-**** 2204 Scenic Drive, Ewing, NJ 08628

EDUCATION

CFA Institute, USA Level III CFA Candidate June 2021 BIWS Training Program Certification in Financial Modeling Fundamentals Pursuing CFA Institute, USA Level II CFA June 2016

CFA Institute, USA Level I CFA June 2014

University of Pune MBA (Finance) April 2009

University of Pune Bachelor of Commerce, Major- Business Administration June 2006 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BNY Mellon August 2018 to till date

Lead Product Analyst/ Business Analyst – Derivatives Instrument Engineering

Act as technical and functional resource and subject matter expert for team members, peers & clients for Eagle accounting software Eagle STAR and Eagle Enrichment.

Involved in agile product delivery, participating in agile discussion groups, attending scrum calls and bi-weekly sprint reviews and retrospectives.

Developing new functionalities with the development team by being involved in requirement gathering and creating BRD and functional specification documents, creating user stories, implementation, and support and testing new functionalities in test, UAT and PROD environments

Working on SQL queries and database tables to extract the data and adding the new data in the tables.

Create SQL scripts to generate reports for trading team, compliance team and data management team through validation

Build and maintain SQL scripts and complex queries for data analysis and extraction for various projects.

Valuing and modeling of listed, cleared and bilateral OTC derivative instruments like futures, forwards, swaps including interest rate swaps, overnight index swaps, variety of inflation linked swaps, variance swaps, volatility swaps, currency swaps, options, swaptions, futures, equities, inter-portfolio transfers, bonds, CDS, CDX, bank loans & other exotic fixed income securities and alternative investments using Eagle product suite and Bloomberg.

Working on notional exposure calculation and analysis of derivative instruments and performance measurement for daily returns at the security level as and at the portfolio level in Eagle Enrichment software and creating a customized investment performance report as per the requirement of the client

Providing global support for Eagle accounting software by resolving complex client issues on equity, fixed income and derivatives accounting platform for eagle investment systems.

Reconciling derivative valuation, mark-to-market variation margin reports with the broker statements, accounting entries with trial balance, accounting journal & running corporate actions, running daily accrual income for fixed income securities, scheduling swap resets.

Worked on IFRS/ US GAAP/ GIPS Compliance/ IPT for AFS/HTM/FV and treatment of expected credit loss

Created bugs in Test-track and Jira, also administered and handled bugs through workflow until they are fixed and testing of bug fixes.

Providing functionality support for clients, for fund accounting, data management on Eagle STAR and for performance measurement on Eagle Enrichment.

Providing support to global clients for setting up a trade position by extracting data from trade tickets to model the trades in the software and running the complete trade lifecycle from trade booking to maturity/expiration and related corporate actions.

Worked on setting up trades for negative price futures and negative interest rates in the software functionality

Worked on the LIBOR Transition to Alternative Reference Rates (ARR) functionality project

Supporting sales team by responding to RFPs related to derivatives functionality in the eagle product suite and presenting it to the clients

Working on trade automation functionality.

Training undertaken: Performance Measurement & Attribution for Equity & Fixed income by Carl Bacon Karvy Stock Broking Ltd September 2011 to July 2013 Business Analyst- Derivatives Trading & Portfolio Management

Responsible for wealth management that includes portfolio construction, stock selection, asset allocation, and trade execution for equity portfolios.

Generated dashboard reports for trade reconciliation and trading breaches using SQL

Generated report for different asset classes such as Equity, derivatives, bonds, options, currency futures, forwards, swaps for listed and OTC instruments through SQL

Running SQL queries to retrieve trade data from the database for client reporting purpose and generating reports for daily variation margin calls and reconciling the margin collection reports

Traded & hedged a variety of investments including equities, futures & options derivatives products.

Responsible for in-depth fundamental research & analysis of mid-cap and large-cap stocks of various sectors.

Worked on company-specific financial models including DCF, Du Pont analysis and ratio analysis

Design, build and maintain stock-screener templates and industry databases.

Incorporated Monte Carlo simulation to aid in evaluation of portfolio risk & probability of achieving imposed goals.

Executed Employee Stock Option Plans & fund remittance for foreign nationals from USA & UK

Followed up on client relationship, submitted quarterly P&L statement on portfolio performance

Risk Management for margin requirement of open trade positions and exposures, and, monitored settlement cycles.

Successfully trained the team of management trainees. Kotak Securities Ltd April 2010 to September 2011

Business Analyst - Derivatives Trading & Portfolio Management

Responsible for equity research, strategic, tactical asset allocations and rebalancing of equity portfolios for the wealth management process.

Generate profitable investment ideas and identify catalysts based on fundamental analysis.

Generated investment recommendations through equity research & valuations through financial models like DCF.

Hedged market positions with derivatives strategies & managed risk through sensitivity analysis, probability risk assessment, variance & trend analysis.

Contributed to pitch book presentations and performance reports, including attribution, to existing clients.

Adept at utilizing both qualitative and quantitative analysis methodologies to create and track performance, remediate problems, and ensure organizational goals are achieved. Also coordinated with sales teams to establish new accounts & provide prime customer service and brokerage support.

Identifying revenue and cost drivers; writing investment recommendations reports, initiation reports and got hands-on experience in MS Excel, Bloomberg & SpiderIRIS

Analyzed equity charts for trend, support & resistance on Spider IRIS, Falcon charting software & Bloomberg. Sharekhan Ltd. July 2009 to March 2010

Equity & Derivatives Trader

Constructed portfolios and periodically rebalanced accounts

Learned reading and analyzing financial data

Analysed market trend & stocks with technical & fundamental analysis and advised clients for the stock picks.

Executed buying/selling of securities on NEAT & Trade Tiger trading software. Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd (MBA Internship) May 2008 to July 2008

Title: Study & Analysis of Correlation between Price Movement of Commodity and Commodity Specific Stocks AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Achieved recognition award for product management at BNY Mellon

Consistently awarded for ‘key revenue area’ achiever employee at Kotak Securities and Karvy Stock Broking

Won ‘Best Managerial Skills Award’ during MBA.

Ranked among ‘Best Five Research Projects’ at National level Summer Project Competitions held by University of Pune

Winner for Business Plan Competitions held at University of Pune ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

System & Technical Skills- Eagle STAR, Eagle Enrichment, Bloomberg APIs, Advanced Excel, VBA, Macros, MS Visio, SQL, SDLC, Bloomberg Query Language (BQL), Python

Linguistic Abilities- English, French (Beginners Level) US Visa Status– H4 EAD

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