Abhishek Saxena has over 10 years of experience in finance, operations, research, and trade operations roles. He is currently a Consultant at Karma Capital Management LLC where he assists senior analysts in research, valuation, and model verification. Previously, he was a Manager of Trade Operations at Kristal.AI where he was responsible for trade execution, automation of trading infrastructure, and portfolio reporting. He has also held associate roles focused on operations, research, and finance at Karma Capital Management LLC. Saxena has an MBA in Finance and a B.Sc. in Mathematics.
Abhishek Saxena has over 10 years of experience in finance, operations, research, and trade operations roles. He is currently a Consultant at Karma Capital Management LLC where he assists senior analysts in research, valuation, and model verification. Previously, he was a Manager of Trade Operations at Kristal.AI where he was responsible for trade execution, automation of trading infrastructure, and portfolio reporting. He has also held associate roles focused on operations, research, and finance at Karma Capital Management LLC. Saxena has an MBA in Finance and a B.Sc. in Mathematics.
Abhishek Saxena has over 10 years of experience in finance, operations, research, and trade operations roles. He is currently a Consultant at Karma Capital Management LLC where he assists senior analysts in research, valuation, and model verification. Previously, he was a Manager of Trade Operations at Kristal.AI where he was responsible for trade execution, automation of trading infrastructure, and portfolio reporting. He has also held associate roles focused on operations, research, and finance at Karma Capital Management LLC. Saxena has an MBA in Finance and a B.Sc. in Mathematics.
WORK EXPERIENCE Consultant Karma Capital Management LLC, New Delhi Nov’21 - Present Sectors • Finance, Operations, Research • Assisting Senior Analysts in researching and gathering data from various databases, preparing Comps, Valuation and assisting in Verifying and updating models. • EA to MD Responsibilities • Giving trades to the broker; Due-diligence, Portfolio Reporting and Managing whole Trade cycle, managing the whole Back-Middle Office Finance Operations. Manager TradeOps Kristal.AI, Bangalore June’21- Sep’21 Sectors • Finance, Trade Operations, Analytics, Data Science • Responsible for the execution of trades in mainly US listed instruments as per instruction of clients, portfolio Responsibilities managers or as part of structured products, but also with exposure to European and Asian markets. • Collaboration with technology team to drive development of trading infrastructure towards automation across multiple broker platforms. • Portfolio matching and updating for corporate actions and ELONs exercise/assign for Pooled. • Handling of corporate actions by automated creation of subscription/unsubscriptions to rectify the bulk reconciliation for specific clients impacted by the corporate action. • Building of tools to enhance order management and trade execution as well as reporting. • Responsible for multiple aspects of trade input, execution and reporting for the global trading desk. • Monitoring of automated order placement & high value transactions through the platform and making sure all of them get executed in our Broker/custodians. • Troubleshooting of Trade issues and liaising with Advisory & RM team to resolve these. • Liasioning with Broker/custodians or data vendors for any issue resolution. • Reconciliation of accounts and place orders for any gaps. Review order failures and recommend improvements to increase efficiency or reduce risk. Associate-Operations& Research Karma Capital Management LLC, New Delhi June’19-June’21 Sectors • Finance, Operations, Research • Assisting Senior Analysts in researching and gathering data from various databases, preparing Comps, Valuation and assisting in Verifying and updating models. • Run screeners on Bloomberg and Ace database to identify high growth and high ROCE companies. Dashboards Responsibilities for analyzing data using Data Analytical tools. • Monitor market news and stock price action and relay relevant information to the portfolio manager in a timely manner. Participate in industry conferences and develop a professional network across various sectors. • Giving trades to the broker; managing the whole trade cycle. Tools • Bloomberg, Ace Equity, Capitaline Associate Karma Capital Management LLC, New Delhi July’14-May’19 • Liaison with firm’s clients & trustee to manage client onboarding process. Liaison with brokers, bankers, custodians, trustees & administrators. • Overseeing the data gathering process, analyze the data and report MIS utilizing the various data source. • Coordination between India and Offshore teams. Finance • Manage the Operational requirements for an AIF firm. Marketing assistance with website, social media & CRM Operations database; Creating/editing presentations and setting up of conference calls/meetings. Obtain/ research periodic data & create reports/ presentations for portfolio manager. • Trade Flow processing, preparation of portfolio reports, including trade flows, investment holdings, cash statements & risk reports, Trading Errors, Confirmation and Reconciliation, FX Trading. • Smooth operation for securities trade settlement by confirming trades with external brokers and custodian banks and resolving trade discrepancies and fails management. Administrator NSE.iT Ltd, Lucknow Oct’11-Jul’13 • Conduct Online Examination of IRDA, NCFM, ITB, CCIL. To manage multiple Centers in other location as per requirement. Vendor Management, CAPEX, Procurement of all service & products, AMC, Payments & Follow Operations Ups. Math’s Faculty Falcon Infosys, Lucknow May’03-Jul’08 Responsibilities • Teaching Students of MBA, BBA, BCA, BSc (IT) various streams of Mathematics. EDUCATION Year Degree Institute 2011 MBA Finance Galgotias College, UPTU, Greater Noida 2002 B.Sc. Mathematics University of Lucknow, Lucknow 1999 Class XII, CBSE Kendriya Vidyalaya, Lucknow 1997 Class X, CBSE Kendriya Vidyalaya, Lucknow SKILLS Skills • Advanced Excel, SQL, R, Tableau, Valuation, Equity Research, Forecasting, MS-Office, Quants, Making Pitch- books, Newsletters, EA to CEO, Assisting in Financial Modeling, Financial Statement Analysis Interests • Chess, Equity Research, Following Financial Markets, Making New Friends, Table tennis, Travelling