MANASI P. DESAI

Email ID : adoda0@r.postjobfree.com Cell : 647-***-****

Experienced in Capital Markets for 10 years as Business Analyst and Trading of Equities, Commodities

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Business Analysis

• Risk management and Policy formulation

• Trading - Equity & Commodity Markets

• Financial Modelling

• Requirement’s elicitation

• Data mining and lineage

WORK EXPERIENCE

Vice President Capital Markets Technology Mississauga Canada.

– Citi Bank July 2019 – Current

Liaising with Trading businesses to deliver large scale projects, defining business and functional requirements to development leads. Data analysis of large volume of data to address multiple queries from data warehousing teams.

Managing relationships with various stakeholders (Business, Compliance, Surveillance and Regulatory teams). JIRA Agile, Scrum

Drive adoption of various data quality rules to comply with industry standards. Knowledge of FIX protocol, UNIX and SQL

Address Client order related queries for 1st LoD and 2nd LoD from Surveillance and Compliance.

SME for the team and represented the team at multiple forums for architectural and implementation discussions.

Sapient Global Markets Toronto Canada.

– Senior Associate Business Analyst Nov 2014 – Sept 2018

IHC CCAR regulatory reporting implementation at TD Bank (over 1 year):

Lead the BA team for implementation and development of automated tool for FED mandated CCAR regulation at TD Securities.

Requirements gathering was accomplished through interview process of the SME’s on client side. Successfully executed financial modelling for CCAR and developed projection models using accounting, risk and business data to report nine quarterly balance sheet and income statement to ensure compliance as per reporting guidelines.

Liaised with Finance, Risk, RWA, PPNR and Aggregation teams to develop financial and risk models to project the bank’s capital needs at a consolidated level for the Bank’s US Intermediate Holding company also to source and aggregate correctly as per documented functional requirements.

Testing of UAT and functioning of automated tool according to documented requirements used JIRA tool for QA purposes. Developed test cases and reconciliation of reports generated.

An effective EUC was successfully built by the team.

Developed process flow diagrams using Visio, BRD, FRD as a set of deliverables.

Murex platform gap analysis for trading of forwards contracts at Scotiabank (12 weeks):

Drove the gap analysis and detailed used cases building for testing implementation of Murex Platform for forward contracts.

These tested cases were extensively implemented in the dry run of the MO.

Implementation of Citadel trading platform at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (1 year):

Led the process of trade platform migration as a lead BA conducted requirements gathering from team of front office traders for CPPIB. Elicitation of functional requirements for OTC derivatives, forwards contracts and FX for a team of 8 developers.

Accomplished desired end state by testing and troubleshooting of implemented solutions by defining Target Operating Model.

Performed gap analysis and built use case stories for testing the desired end state. Retained successful client-vendor relations at every stage of the process.

Associated with the Internal L & D team to build an extensive training deck and job aids for Sapient on Volcker regulatory project

Ariston Capital Services Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai India.

– Senior Trader Jan 2009 - March 2011

Led a team of 9 experienced traders in spread arbitrage trading in Capital Markets products Global Commodity and FX markets and consistently exceeded monthly and yearly targets for the company.

Launched a companywide automated trading platform to efficiently manage trade accuracy and speed thereby increasing the turnover by 150% within six months.

Identified and developed strategies for seasonally traded agricultural products thereby increasing profits by $50,000 in one year.

Risk management strategy articulation and implementation of a companywide policy to ensure daily tracking of stop losses and risk exposure.

Created statistical trading models to identify arbitrage trade and long-term investment opportunities that spanned across multiple businesses for the company.

Performed daily trade reconciliation and surveillance activities to track the adherence of trades as per formulated risk policies and procedures.

– Junior Trader April 2008 – Jan 2009

Elaborate experience in Capital Markets for ‘spread arbitrage trading’ in Global Commodities, Equities and FX Markets on NYMEX, LME, MCX, NCDEX, and MCX-SX bourses.

In depth technical analysis of market trends and macro-economic conditions in Capital markets to determine the trades that yielded net positive returns with minimum risk on the Bloomberg and Reuters platform.

Supported the research and development team by back testing of the newly developed strategies and prepared reports on the risk- reward ratio and cost and volume feasibility.

Larsen and Tubro Ltd. Mumbai India – Summer Internship May 2007 – June 2007

Simulated project risks by analysing Letter of Credits, EMDs, C forms, LDs.

Identified and analysed potential risks involved in the project and developed an effective financial risk management system that contributed significantly to the company.

PART TIME WORK EXPERIENCE

Art of Investing Mumbai, India – Faculty Member April 2007 – Feb 2008

Trained 600+ aspirant traders who either wished to begin their career in financial markets in India or learn the fundamentals of capital markets with a focus on financial statement analysis.

Acquired 400+ client accounts for a broking company affiliated with the Art of Investing program.

Mobilink Pvt Ltd. Pune, India – Team Leader Dec 2003 – Jul 2004

Led outbound sales calls team (45 associates) to increase the sales by 20% YoY.

Managing the work schedule for the shift to ensure continued 24*7 support for the customers.

Data analysis for MIS reporting.

EDUCATION

Master of Management Studies – Finance in 2006 – 2008, from Fr.C. Rodrigues Institute of Management studies – University of Mumbai, India.

Bachelors of Engineering – Instrumentation and Control in 2006 from Cummins College of Engineering – University of Pune, India.

CERTIFICATION AND EXTRA CURRICULARS

Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Level 4 & level 3).

JETRO – Certified Japanese language Business level proficiency

Certification in Currency Derivatives of National Institute of Securities Market, India.

Certified commodity professional – MCX Indian commodity market.

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