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Akash Kumar

Working professional having approximately 10 +years of work experience in Investment banking and capital market industry with technical
exposure across various methodologies, which provides me an environment conducive to growth and nurture my skills which bring out best in
delivering quality and complete set of value to the organization.

KEY SKILLS
 Domain knowledge for Investment banking and capital market
 Worked on technical tool like JIRA, Power BI, HP QC link and DevOps Azure
 Work as a product owner for IT partner to cater the change requirement request

ACHIEVEMENTS AND CERTIFICATES

 Appreciation from COO global head MetLife on successful implementation of project Vermilion
 Received “Gems Award” for exceptional contribution in Portfolio Restructure project at MetLife.
 Successful completion of CFA Level 1
 IET (Industry Essential Training) graduates from BNY Mellon university.
 Completed training Program on navigate through risk, Lean awareness and six sigma.
 Certified ISTQB and Yellow belt
 Certified CBAP professional

EMPLOYMENT

July ‘2021 – Till date Puresoftware Technologies Pvt Ltd

Lead Business Analyst – Investment banking and Index Implementation

 Understanding of European regularities and compliances pertaining to banking sector

 Worked on implementation of fixed income class and structured product corporate action events
 Data mapping of master data with vendor sourced data like IDC, Refinitiv and Bloomberg
 Knowledge of EU and international regulatory framework and external environments, and the ability to apply
these to regulatory solutions throughout the product lifecycle
 Worked on FATCA-AML, BASEL, ESG norms and MiFID compliances and regulatory reporting
 Serving as a liaison between product and development
 Help team in setting in data pipeline for secured structure and data sources in one landing zone

Projects worked on are:

 FAST (Forecast Adjustment Simulation tool):

• Setting-up of on stop portal for viewing and help portfolio manager to simulate performance of
Index related to fixed income bonds
• Monitoring Corporate action feed coming from vendors are correctly mapped with master data
• Checking and reporting of all compliances and regulatory
• Worked with stakeholder to gather all requirements and their signoff
• Prioritization of backlog and sprint completion
• Delegation of product knowledge and business requirement to developers and help in building
product, Wireframing data and their movement for developers

 Onboarding of Fixed income project:

• Complete end to end movement of fixed income securities and structured product data
deployment, mapping of master data with sourced data
• Worked on (Deutsche borse index) DAX index for the German equity market, and help in building
portal based on financial products (options, futures, ETFs, structured products) and for
benchmarking purposes useful for wealth managers
• Worked with multiple data provider liked Refinitiv, IDC, Bloomberg etc.
• Checking and updating of reporting document for any events performed in exchanges related to
master data

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 Nov ‘18 – July ’21 MetLife Global Support Center

Assistant Manager –Data governance and migration

 Support data governance team in building quality checks and mapping of meta data
 Experience in writing SQL Queries.
 Working knowledge on Data quality framework and data lake
 Hands on experience on ETL tool DataBricks, talend and visualization on collibra
 Gather the client requirements, prepared analysis and design documents, conducted feasibility study and
provide technical solution to service/change requests
 Overviewed the setting up of the environment, defining detailed test data requirements
 Interacted with the Business Users and the client to test according to their requirements.

Projects worked on:

 Murex FO and MOTOR (Support):

• Movement of middle office transaction to different vendor (Cognizant)
• Multi stakeholder involvement from MetLife setting of meeting and gathering requirement
through questionnaire form
• Setting of kick off call and sprint tracking on JIRA board
• Imparting user based and business knowledge to SQA team for better understanding
• Worked on Aladdin, Murex and Bloomberg terminal to map movement of data with project
migration report

 VRS: Vermilion Reporting System is a tool which converts the investments data information into visually
appealing report.
 Digital Portal: This is a platform for third-party clients to expand MetLife Brand as a leader in
investment management through digital strategy.
 Portfolio Restructure: Expansion of Portfolio Code from 3 digits to 10 digits in 74 applications.
 DocHub: Moving the investment related documents from the Intralinks data center to a centralized place
for easy access to the documents as per the entitlements of the clients

May ‘15 – Nov ’18 IHS Markit Pvt Ltd

Associate – Fixed Income and Corporate action and Index securities

 Worked in reference data team and capture all corporate action events
 Market data research on sec filing, exchanges and other sources
 Helped in implementation of STP data like mapping, testing, and onboarding
 Maintaining Golden copy data against data vendor like EDI, Euroclear and WM
 Capturing corporate action events through MT564 file and other file
 Helped team in finding relative data sources for all bond universe
 Maintain and daily check of bonds of IBOXX and ITRAXX indexes.

Jan ‘13 – May ’15 Bank of New York Mellon

Financial associate – Fixed Income and Corporate action and Index securities

 Worked in Asset Servicing, maintaining monitoring high end settlement through SWIFT, BACs, Cheque
 Reporting of FATCA compliance in transfer agency dealing like placing a deal
 Processing of deals like Purchase, sell, transfer in & out.
 Drafting SOPs for reporting transaction norms and regulatory compliances

EDUCATION

2011 – 2013 SIMMC, Pune University

 MBA (Finance) 69 %

2008- 2011 St. Xavier’s College

 BCom (A/C Honors) 68%
2006- 2008 Oxford Public School
 12th 78%

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2006 Don Bosco Academy
 10th
66%

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