Arunprasath R
Operational Expert in Trade Settlements
Madurai
Summary
Forward-thinking Operations Specialist bringing 8+ years of expertise in Trade Settlements investment banking sector. Cultivates rapport with individuals to optimize project goals and output, resolve complex problems and deliver innovative improvement strategies.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Analyst
Societe Generale Global Solution Center
08.2023 - Current
- Prioritizing high value & tier 1 clients to avoid the delay in matching & settlement of each deals.
- Using the MAMMOUT Report to track all the deals to avoid missing trades.
- To ensure all the deals were processed in respective markets (Example markets DE, NL, IT, FR, ES & XS).
- Monitoring & Clearing all the cash and repo deals on time to reduce the fail rate on a daily basis.
- Prematch trades on SD-1 with counterparties, amend trades for any discrepancies for unmatched trades to ensure that trades were settle on settlement dates to fail fees or possible buy-in.
- Funds depot to ensure sufficient funds for buy trades and to avoid fails due to insufficient fund.
- Settle trades on settlement date and on timely basis. Processing all the possible full pair off and partial pair off to reduce the trade count.
- To ensure having all the related/required documents to avoid the penalty (CSDR) for all the late matching settlement of deals.
- Reconcile accounting entries to ensure that correct journal entries were processed and to avoid cash and stock breaks.
- Escalating counter parties & FO for long fail Trade related queries.
- Maintaining good relationship with counter parties and traders in respective manners to ensure the proper settlement of all the bookings.
- Mentored junior analysts, fostering professional development while enhancing overall team performance.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify areas of improvement, leading to increased operational effectiveness.
- Nurtured strong working relationships with clients, ensuring their needs were met while exceeding expectations on deliverables.
Capital Market Operations Analyst
Accenture
9 2022 - 08.2023
- Working to clear the DOM and ECLR allegements for government bond deals on a daily basis
- Daily reconciliation for Bond securities to complete position transfers accordingly
- Generating settlement reports for sensitive clients on a daily basis
- Working on trade amendment, stock transfer and unsettled transfer cancellation on a daily basis
- Settling pair off deals and handling emails like Client, counterparts and custodian
Associate Level -1
BNP Paribas
01.2018 - 08.2022
- Working as SA for the trade processing team that includes trade capture, matching & settlement of Equities, fixed income securities and money market instruments.
- Instructions handled are MT540, MT541, MT542, MT543, MT599, MT103, MT 202, MT 210, and MT299.
- Including CSDR applied trades in stock.
- Working on the payments and receipts once the Foreign Exchange was booked, Sometimes we co-ordinate with
- The FX team to get the required details.
- Trade support, booking, and amending, unwinding, clearing NOSTRO breaks.
- Daily reconciliation of portfolio cash accounts with prime broker, custodian bank and third-party administrator
- Monitoring of transactions to confirm instructions from the client are processed in a timely & accurate manner thus ensuring timely settlement and accounting
- Experience on email management and responding to client queries in a SWIFT manner
- Ensuring settlement of the trades which got stuck in TF (Trade flow) queue with the support of onshore and Static Data Teams.
- Maintaining 4 eye check on the trades until its settlement and reporting to custodian team
- Resolving failed trade queries pro-actively
- Escalating exceptions and failed transaction to appropriate stake holders for early resolution
- Ensure that all trades are matched within market/client deadlines
- Preparing EOD & SOD reports for both internal and onshore reporting purpose
- Report & highlight all risk factors identified
- Monitoring and processing of Penalty ques in Trade flow
- Interaction & regular communication with onsite partners and maintain a strong business relationship
- Completion of all mandatory trainings before the deadline
- Ensure that all processes are documented in the relevant SOP and that they are kept up to date
- Support the department in business development projects where requested
- Providing guidance and on the job training for junior colleagues and conduct knowledge sharing to facilitate achievement of team objectives and completion of task in an efficient manner which is consistent with operating procedures and policy.
Operations Executive
Bank of New York, Mellon Operations India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 12.2017
- Managed currency trading for hedging and equity settlement in both freely traded and restricted currencies.
- Ensure the accurate and timely input of trades onto the system
- Maintaining the clients’ portfolios during the transition
- Processing all terminations into trade capture system
- Operations to review and oversee risk management policies and procedures
- Optimized electronic self-directed trading solutions including usage of GSP and WebSTP platforms.
- Redesigned trading workflow and implemented 24 hour trading coverage to ensure desk aligned with changing market structure
- Handled all cash trade and stock option transactions.
- Monitored client accounts and completed financial transaction.
- Assisted customers over the phone regarding overdrafts, erroneous cash entries, unsettled trades.
- Handled STP N trades, Domestic and global market trades.
- Domestic trades.-DTC, FRB, NYV trades.
- Handling FX trades and cross border trades.
- Processed SWIFT platform trades and FAX oriented instructions.
- Working TCE and DTE platform for global market trades.
- Having enough knowledge with global trade procedures.
- Handling error free bulk uploads for global market trades Handled all cash trade and stock option transactions.
Education
MBA - HR & Finance
GRT Institute of Engineering & Technology/Anna Uni
Chennai 06.2012 - 05.2014
BBA - Business Administration
St,John’s College,Manonmaniam Sundaranar Universit
Thirunelveli 06.2009 - 05.2012
Skills
MS Office
Nexon Trade research and analysis application
, INTELLIMATCH, CHECKLIST, Bloomberg, G290, WebSTP ,GSP, GLOSS, EASYWAY
Additional Information
- Quick learner and problem-solving skills
- Ability to produce timely, high quality, accurate work
- Ability to self-organize, multi-tasking, work to tight deadlines
- Self-motivated, committed and enthusiastic
Languages
Tamil
Advanced
English
Advanced
Hindi
Intermediate
Accomplishments
- Successfully migrated US trade support processing role from Mumbai to Chennai successfully for BNY Mellon
- Successfully migrated SOD & EOD project from Glasgow to India successfully for BNP PARIBAS
- Received R&R for couple of times
- Stood top in Accuracy in whole period of mine
- Acted as SPOC for Knowledge sharing sessions and became as ROCKER of its kind
Personnel Information
Date of Birth : 6th March 1992
Gender : Male
Religion : Hindu
Marital Status : Single
Nationality/Religion : Indian
Passport No : Z3249440, 29.07.2025
Timeline
Senior Analyst
Societe Generale Global Solution Center
08.2023 - Current
Associate Level -1
BNP Paribas
01.2018 - 08.2022
Operations Executive
Bank of New York, Mellon Operations India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 12.2017
MBA - HR & Finance
GRT Institute of Engineering & Technology/Anna Uni
06.2012 - 05.2014
BBA - Business Administration
St,John’s College,Manonmaniam Sundaranar Universit
06.2009 - 05.2012
Capital Market Operations Analyst
Accenture
9 2022 - 08.2023
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