Nishant Singh
Bristol,United Kingdom
Summary
Enthusiastic and performance-driven professional with over eight years of experience in Investment Banking roles with leading organizations and an exceptional track record in delivering results towards achieving business objectives, effective leadership and driving process transformation.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Operations Specialist, Trade settlements
Hargreaves Lansdown
Bristol
10.2023 - 05.2025
- Equity Settlements: Execute daily operations by leveraging subject matter expertise in equity, funds, and best price execution process for clients and implement technical expertise for automation.
- Business Strategy and Process Optimization: Spearheaded the design and implementation of strategies to improve business operations, incidence management, CASS and regulatory compliance and problem-solving frameworks to optimise performance and streamline processes.
- Leadership Communication and Data-Driven Insights: Delivered business insights through data-driven decision-making and improved SLA reporting methodologies with VBA Macros/Power BI. Facilitated management reporting and drove operational efficiencies by translating complex data into actionable strategies.
- Client and Stakeholder Management: Represented the business in monthly review meetings with senior management. Presented key statistics, maintained strong relationships with counterparties and clients, and developed growth strategies using business decision modelling.
- Financial Impact Assessment & Integration: Conducted thorough financial impact assessments, fostering cross-functional integration to ensure alignment with strategic goals and enhance overall operational effectiveness.
Associate, Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB Vertical)
J.P. Morgan Chase
Mumbai
01.2022 - 08.2022
- Team management: Managing a team of 6 individuals and representing the equities settlement business on client and firm-level forums, presenting strategies, objectives and performance to leadership, and providing resolution as the first escalation point.
- Risk management for the front office and trading desks across EMEA, APAC and NA regions on weekly discussions and maintaining risk metrics, indicating trends in discrepancies, and client-wise exposure.
- Trade settlements: Pre-trade and post-trade settlement of equity derivative trades in global markets along with investigation and root cause analysis on discrepancies to ensure timely settlement within market deadlines.
- Reconciliation of funds in Nostro accounts and daily CASS and SOX compliance reporting.
- Client relationship management with major investment banks and financial institutions groups by organizing timely meetings to discuss strategies to improve efficiency, collaborating on discrepancy resolution and tackling systematic trends and challenges.
- Stakeholder management to mitigate operational and financial risk by collaborating with internal teams like the dealing desk, treasury, valuations, data integrity, compliance, and reconciliation to achieve business objectives.
- Data analysis and projections reporting to senior management to maintain business KRI'S / KPI'S, standard operating procedures (SOPs) for internal and external audits.
Analyst- Income & payments- Asset Management operations, GIO
Blackrock inc.
Mumbai
03.2019 - 01.2022
- Collateral Management: Served as a subject matter expert in trade settlements, interest reclaim, and collateral lending for OTC derivatives and fixed-income products.
- Project Management: Led FIX automation in the security and cash collateral business, improving settlement rates by over 90% through successful integration with Aladdin and a top custodian bank.
- Risk Mitigation: Resolved technical issues with a custodian to ensure timely market settlement and mitigated significant reputational risk, achieving 100% trade settlements via the SWIFT method instructed through Aladdin.
- Stakeholder management: Collaborated with internal stakeholders for root cause analysis and timely resolution.
- Process Optimization and Data Integrity: Developed and implemented VBA macros and SQL dashboards, cutting email chasing time by 90% and enhancing risk exposure analysis.
Associate- Operations analyst, OTC derivatives
SS&C Technologies
Mumbai
02.2017 - 03.2019
- Payment wires: Process payment wires as per client instruction/ invoice to investment banks and institutions and maintain daily cash flow reports for funds.
- Trade confirmation: Responsible for affirmation/confirmation of all OTC trade derivatives products like Interest rate swaps (IRS), Credit default swaps (CDS), Currency Options, and Equity swaps.
- Execute Trade confirmation on portals like ICE Link, DTCC, MarkitWire, MarkitServ and paper (scanned) format as per ISDA standards and EMIR Reporting.
- Trade reconciliation: Cash and position reconciliation of trades on the client vs prime broker /third party valuation statements on in-house reconciliation applications.
- Client onboarding and implementation for hedge fund clients for successful transition on in-house platforms.
Education
Master of Science - Financial Technology
University of Exeter
09.2022 - 9 2023
Master's in Business Administration - Finance
Mumbai University
07.2015 - 7 2017
Bachelor's in Business Administration - Management
Pune University
06.2012 - 6 2015
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Advanced Excel
- VBA Macros
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Financial analysis and Modelling
- Accounting
- Ratio analysis
- Reporting
- Trend Analysis
- Forecasting
- Market research
Certification
- Google Project Management Certification
- Certification in Alternative Investments Industry- CAII (SS&C Technologies)
Timeline
Operations Specialist, Trade settlements
Hargreaves Lansdown
10.2023 - 05.2025
Master of Science - Financial Technology
University of Exeter
09.2022 - 9 2023
Associate, Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB Vertical)
J.P. Morgan Chase
01.2022 - 08.2022
Analyst- Income & payments- Asset Management operations, GIO
Blackrock inc.
03.2019 - 01.2022
Associate- Operations analyst, OTC derivatives
SS&C Technologies
02.2017 - 03.2019
Master's in Business Administration - Finance
Mumbai University
07.2015 - 7 2017
Bachelor's in Business Administration - Management
Pune University
06.2012 - 6 2015
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