P.V.

Krishnam Raju
1A- 405, Ezdan Apartments, 29 Al Mariff Street, Doha -1000, Qatar. (+974 33861622) pvkrishnamraju@yahoo.co.in

8+ years of Performance-driven role of Business Analyst with a proven ability to achieve and exceed all business development and revenue-generation goals in Functional and Operational areas. Academics

2013 2003

Delegate, Certificate in Quantitative Finance, Bachelor of Commerce (Banking and Economics) from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Skills Modules: Trade Settlements, Fund Administration, Order Management System, Corporate Actions, Securities lending and Borrowing, NAV reporting. Microsoft Applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & PowerPoint, Share point, MS Visio. Bloomberg, Charles River trading system, IDC, Pricing Direct, Reuters, SWIFT MT5XX.

Experience Summary Qatar National Bank Asset Management, Global Custody Securities Services Jan12 Till Date

Orchestrated $8.75 Million USD business change management, working along with existing 'BAU delivery agenda' for Global Custody, Fund Administration &Trade Order Management System and Securities Lending and Borrowing projects. Project Plan Identifying, collating and analyzing data to establish and quantify problem statements. Establishing relationships and working with system and process owners to determine and document requirements. Designing and agreeing solutions to problems with the relevant stakeholders. Tracking requirements, change requests and defects through the project lifecycle. Managing business sign-off.

Design and implementation of process improvement Managing analysis and design processes required to build As Is and target To Be states, including the development of new product features and solutions. Identified improvement opportunities through review of all operating model components, while exploring alternative solutions, features and scenarios for global custody and settlement systems including internal system pre-matching engine/s, market pre-matching and settlement systems, billings, reference data, SWIFT notification management requirements of pre-matching and settlement status .

Development of testing strategies, approaches and test packs. Developing overall strategy and approach for functional, regression, performance and User Acceptance Testing by Generated quality project documentation, such as RFPs, BRDs and UAT scripts and scenarios, solution analysis, Product configuration, Parameterization, SIT. Managing the definition of user acceptance criteria and sign-off Definition of test scripts, planning and scheduling testing activity, and execution of acceptance testing

Scope includes Bancs Global Custody Securities services, Corporate Action, Securities Lending and Borrowing, Misys Sophis Fund Administration, Order Management System and NAV reporting. Handling daily activities Fund Setup, Subscription and Redemptions, day-to-day settlement, and position reconciliation functions for equity and fixed income trades.

Standard Chartered Bank- Channels Product Development Securities Services, Global Custody

Nov10- Dec 11

Retooled the $11 Million STORM project to define the operating model for providing an effective Global Custody Securities Services, Settlement Service system, Corporate Actions processing platform. Primarily tasked with managing settlement procedures for Singapore listed securities continuously reviewed and improved on system and business processes and procedures. Launched a new SGX settlement matching service system and handled subsequent industry level settlement issues by implementing quick win system solutions which enabled prompt and accurate identification of failing trades and thus improved operation processing cycle time. Successfully applied comprehensive understanding of the new SGX pre-settlement matching system and its corresponding impact on custody banks and stock -broking firms operations. Proactively communicated and collaborated with business and stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements to deliver business requirement documents, Conducted user acceptance testing and verifying performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues Scope - Securities processing, SWIFT MT 5XX generation, securities lending and borrowing, corporate action processing. Projects: Global Custody Securities Services Bancs, Corporate actions, NAV Reporting, Trade Settlements, Position and Movements.

Deutsche Bank, Bangalore - DBOI Global Asset Management, Pricing and Corporate Action

Nov09 Aug10

Processed capital markets equities and derivatives for US, EMEA, APAC markets-75000 Securities universe events which include pricing, reconciliation and clean-up of the corporate action events. Efficiently controlled high attrition in the team (production of 10 FTEs), took various training initiative of project ALLEGRO in the team during the migration of the process to State Street Bank. Holds the merit of being invited by the Treasurers Office to the Pricing Committee monthly meetings as an observer in very short time. Verified and reconciled the event post-pay date and ensuring that all client, institutional and depot positions are in correct books and records with inclusion in the calculation of the daily Net Asset Value. Reconciled positions and subsequently the entitlements due from corporate actions. Monitored clients/ RMs reply and communicated to custodian within stipulated deadline. Performed daily review on reconciliation break for vostro and nostro accounts.

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Credit Suisse Fund Administration

Mar 2008 Apr 2009

Calculated daily/monthly Net Asset Valuations for 650 funds of funds the purpose of reporting to investors and processing of investor subscription and withdrawal activity Performing review of NAV report in respect of Cash/Stock Reconciliation; Unit Position Information; Price Variance Reports; Outstanding reports; monitor NAV Calculation and Price Errors. Log and Process instructions from clients and internal stakeholders with regards to setting up of fund accounts with Custodians or Fund Manager/Transfer Agent with accurate and timely linking of assets to correct custody account on our platform to ensure no delayed trading. Responsible for the reconciliation, investigation and resolution of all Cash and Position entries across the company's funds. Liaise with various departments (both internal and external) to ensure all breaks are resolved in a timely manner. Responsible for reporting all high risk breaks to the management team. Working with a broad section of Operations and Infrastructure processes in order to identify and assist in reconciliation issues across areas.

Goldman Sachs Services Pvt. Ltd. - GSAM, Fixed Income & Trade Settlements

Jul 2006 Jul 2007

Supervised daily trade flow, administered front and back office queries and confirmed block trades. Managed Corporate Actions, assisted in transitions with coordination with Portfolio Managers and Trade Assistants. Handled settlement issues and investigations of medium-level complexity with minimal supervision independently. Generated and reconciled daily cash and positions and supported ad-hoc reporting requests. Performed quality control checks to ensure trades are reconciled between trading platform and accounting system. Ensure that any cross border trades are signed off by senior management before being released to the market. Responsible for set up and maintenance of static data relating to all settlements, Continuous drive to improve STP rates and operational costs. Initiated $90K Debit Interest Claims cost reduction globally as part of claims team. Liaison with custodians and Executing Brokers to facilitate trade and pricing. Streamlined work flow across New York, London teams in Overdraft and pricing Investigation.

Bank of America Continuum Solutions Trade settlements

Nov 2004 Jul 2006

Responsible for escalating all failing & unmatched trades on a daily basis to the various business lines, trading desks & to management. Pre-matching and fails management across all active markets covering all product types - Equities, Fixed Income, Repo, Derivatives. Engaging with internal and external counterparts in regards to pre-matching and settlement. Responsible for ensuring all pre-matching and failing trades are narrated in internal systems on a daily basis. Responsible for collating pre-matching and fails reports to management, business lines and trading desks on a daily basis. Responsible for cash and stock break resolution within the strict deadlines of the department on a daily basis allocated to the settlements department by operations reconciliation department. Responsible for monitoring and clearance of all trade related (Swift release) queues within internal systems to ensure settlement in a timely manner. Honored as: o The Best Employee of the Process performance for consecutive 3 quarters. o The Best Employee of the Firm 2005.