Office Systems Front

Lohima Madem

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- Meritorious academic (MBA – Master of Business administration in Finance and Marketing) with a history of association with established conglomerates:

Deutsche Bank: UBS Cognizant; Barclays Shared Services and Punjab National Bank

13+ years of Experience in Investment Banking & Finance domain including on-site experience in London.

- Equipped with practical experience in managing teams and leveraging resources to meet a company's long and short-term Business goals. Outstanding success in nurturing relationships with a network of clients, banking and financial organizations, advisory firms, a variety of audience and business units and peers

Finance Domain: Data Analysis Trade settlements Financial Reconciliations Periodical Management Interactions Equity Product control & Assurance Client Relationship Management Trade control Reporting & Documentation SLA Management P&L Balance Sheet control

Project Management: Applications - Support & Development, Up-gradation & Implementation Operational Support – Internal & External End-users Communication Team Management & Trainings

People Management Skills: Strong Communication People Management Performance assessment and monitoring Recruitment Tailoring Trainings Team Events Problem Solving & Decision-Making Capable of handling Multiple Priorities Simultaneously

Credibility backed with a long list of awards and achievements for Exceptional performance.

Certification: 4 weeks of course (May 2023)

Foundation to Project Management from Google

JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

●As a Finance Analyst, experienced in thoroughly researching market conditions & developments, providing an insight on trends & investment potential to traders and reporting to higher management.

●Enhanced customers/firm’s trading risk control capabilities through validation of trade capture, P&L and risk production at the trade book level.

●End to End to knowledge on Trade Processing (i.e., Trade Booking, Settlement, Confirmations and Reconciliation in the Back-office systems.

●Highly successful in handling various types of reconciliation like Trade Reconciliation, FOBO Reconciliation, Nostros Reconciliation, Risk Management system Reconciliation.

●Skilled at monitoring activities in the process and inform respective clients about issues occurred within assigned accounts and the reason for the SLA breach for the deliverables.

●Efficient in developing and implementing strategic financial plans and driving the process forward ensuring that robust and challenging financial policies and systems are in place.

●Apt in providing leadership, management and oversight to the operational team and financial analysis group focusing on translating business objectives to successful results.

●Experienced in working with Technical teams to handle multiple projects to improve internal applications and integrate new applications into the process.

●Planning and execution of User Acceptance Testing, regression testing, resolving defects and successfully implementing into Production.

●Demonstrated excellence by evaluating/enhancing performance of team against the set targets, participating in recruitment, training the new team, and providing valuable feedback for improvement.

●Handled Process Migrations from Onshore Client to Offshore Teams and stabilizing the process within the given time frame with SOPs in Place.

SCHOLASTICS PORTFOLIO

Master of Business Administration (Finance & Marketing) Andhra University, India 2005-2007

Bachelors in Accounts (B COM) Andhra University, India 2002-2005

Technical Capability: Hands-on experience in effectively employing MS Office suite, Project Management tools and Internet Applications to integrate multiple business objects and accurately document and report issues.

CAREER CHRONOLOGY & ACHIEVEMENTS

Punjab National Bank (India) Hyderabad

Asst MANAGER – Portfolio Administration (Corporate & Investment Banking)

Wealth Management – Reporting and Reconciliation June 08, 2017 to Apr 10, 2023

PA, provides investment supervisory services to separate managed accounts (high net worth individual & institutional clients) on Equities, Muni bond Portfolios, etc. Worked on ADVENT AXYS, MOXY & APL Applications and maintained client accounts right from opening new accounts to processing changes & transfers, and terminating/liquidating accounts & preparing Daily weekly and Month end Reconciliations.

●Post transactions including trades dividends cash flows fees and manual correction of trades

●preparing and reviewing daily, weekly and monthly separate account reconciliations between internal accounting system and both trading system and custodians

●Download trades reports from the Sponsor system followed by posting them in the portfolio accounting system

●Ensured reconciliation of different sponsors account, and providing required information to the onshore trading desk

●Performed the monthly balancing procedures including reconciliation of account transactions to portfolio accounting system and other client database data

●Maintain Security master file (Including set up new securities, modifying security cusip) in to the accounts

●Processing client deposit/withdrawals in a timely manner and ensure that we communicate to the appropriate departments as per the SLA

●Ensure that all unsettled trades are followed up in a timely manner with different departments and make sure that all trades are settled and posted in to the account

●Add or remove restrictions to securities and accounts as per the client requirement

●Provide the reason for cash differences in the accounts and make sure that all accounts are reconciled in a timely manner

●Monitor activity of assigned accounts and inform supervisor of issues occurring within the assigned accounts

●Processing Security setup, cusip Change and prioritizing adhoc requests from Branch office

Barclays Shared Services (India) Chennai

ASSISTANT MANAGER - Product Control (Corporate & Investment Banking)

Prime Services - Profit & Loss Reporting Jan 07, 2014, to Jan 09, 2015

Ensured smooth functioning of day-to-day PNL Production while adhering to the SLAs.

Analyzing and validating P&L attributions of trading books; ensuring strong internal control mechanisms; coordinating with stakeholders to resolve P&L related issues; ensuring smooth month end and year end reconciliation for balance sheet reporting; Managing relationships with onshore and offshore stakeholders’ Active contribution in strategic initiatives of the firm; Motivating team members and Managing attrition

●T+1 Daily P&L Production, FOBO reconciliations and timely resolution, adjustment postings, P&L validation and analysis, clean P&L, daily P&L movement commentary for Prime Services

●Presenting the P&L to the trader and explain variance and worked on EOD reporting and provide relevant commentary for various breaks above the threshold in the PnL.

●Timely reporting of daily PnL with risk-based commentary/explanation and other potential issues to Front Office and Product Control Management.

●Organized Training calendars to the team members with new procedures and on boarding PnL production and controls within the team.

●Involved in validation of trade capture, P&L and risk production at the trade book level in addition to reconciliation and signoff of the corresponding P&L for onshore controllers.

●Perform timely and accurate Monthly and quarterly external reporting, while ensuring a strong internal control environment is maintained.

●Reporting the Profit & Loss analysis and Calculation of variance for Balance Sheet.

●Interacting with different teams on aged breaks and ensured that all breaks are resolved & produced timely followed by providing accurate P&L and status on book value changes for the day.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd. Hyderabad (India) - UBS

PROCESS SPECIALIST - Prime Services Equities May 2010 to Jan 2014

Spearheaded a spectrum of activities viz. managing the production and analysis of daily profit & loss on a T+1 basis; reviewing the daily PnL amongst its various components; Reconciliations and handling communication with the product controllers; and explanation of P&L movements to management. Worked on various vendor sources like Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance

●Daily CORE P&L production deliverables to onshore clients including reconciliation between Risk Management Systems and Ledgers, Review of control accounts, Daily Adjustments etc.

●Investigation & Resolution of PNL production issues.

●Presenting the P&L to the trader and explain variance and worked on EOD reporting and provide relevant commentary for various breaks above the threshold in the PNL.

●Trained the team members with new procedures and on boarding PnL production and controls within the team

●Completed projects by supporting and working with technology team thereby improved the old applications and developed the new applications to the process

●Scrupulous role in month-end close for trading desk (posting additional cost & different management & Exchange fees) in (FDR).

●Handled the review of Reconciliation reports between traders trading system and & Ledger reporting system.

●Ensured reconciliation of different sponsors account and providing required information to the onshore trading desk.

Worth Mentioning:

o“Associate of the Quarter “in year 2012

o3 Star Performer Awards for excellent performance during 2010-2014

oSuccessfully did the process transition of PNL production and Reconciliations from UBS London (Onshore) to UBS India services (offshore). Interacted with Clients and traders at UBS Trading Desk LONDON.

DEUTSCHE BANK (deutsche bank international operations Bangalore, India)

PROCESS ANALYST - Reconciliations and Derivatives Settlement Jan 2008 to April 2010

Worked as an Analyst for Global Equities and Derivative Settlements (Operations)

Preparing Daily, weekly and Month end Reconciliations

●Security Creation (Security Master) and Security verification for trades in the booking systems and processing the trade for next level.

●Booking and amending the trades in back-office system (Db trader) by exacting reports from front office application (Db Ticket). Ledger and Sub ledger reconciliations.

●Booking trades manually for products like OTC CASH, OPTIONS manually in the Back-office systems as per report from Middle office on regular basis.

●Performing Amendments, cancellation and rebooking of the trades (DB trader).

●Performing settlements between deutsche bank and the clients for the derivative products like Equity swaps, options, Brokerage. Investigating discrepancies and preparing resolution reports.

●Performing manual reconciliation between the books of Deutsche bank and the agent banks by using front office and middle office systems.

●Performing investigation using applications like espear, global one, SSR. for Equity Investigation team for equity specific accounts by following workflow manager,

●P&L reconciliation between middle office systems and back-office systems.

●Brokerage Rate updation in middle office systems as per signoff agreement by Business.

Worth Mentioning:

Received a Star of the Month and Spot awards in my 1st job at Deutsche Bank for maintaining 100% accuracy in reconciling the accounts and ensuring that the trade settlements are done on time.

References would be provided on Request.

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