A skilled and motivated individual with overall working experience of more than 7 years in investment banking and asset management firms like Bank of America, UBS, Invesco and Swiss Re.
- Core knowledge and experience in working in Reference Data Management back (Client Data Management and Product Security Data Management) and Settlements, reconciliation and Investment teams across Capital Market and Money Market securities and knowledge of end to end trade life cycle.


- Project management; completed projects with IT which has systems enhancements/improvement projects resulting in time and manual efforts reduction like Client Onboarder and various applications migration. Carried out successful work Transition from Swiss re to Genpact for Data Management.
- MBA in Finance with proficiency in using applications & systems like Charles River (CRD), Aladdin, Markit EDM, Bloomberg, Reuters, Euclid, Clearstream Online, ICE, Murex, AGT, Windows and MS Word, PowerPoint & Excel.

India

- Migrated Product Data Management Process from Kansas Location from Swiss re successfully supporting American region. Leading a team of five team members, provided Knowledge transfer, cross trainings and feedback as FLM.
- Closely work with various Investment teams and colleagues on a global basis, especially Portfolio Managers, Steering Team, Global Strategy, Financial Risk Management, Operations. Work on Ad-hoc requests of unique kinds from static team perspective.
- Performing JIRA/UAT testing and providing sign off to IT Teams, working on BBG release notes to understand any downstream changes that may affect the existing data flow and ensuring data is accurate in Golden copy in line with the Market data vendors such BBG, Reuters, S&P, ICE, Fitch, DBRS and Aladdin Blackrock.
- Acted as the first of point of contact for Client taking regular calls and being Subject Matter Expert resolving the process related issues and client escalations ensuring smooth functioning of the process reviewing the tasks performed by team members.
- Used on systems like, Bloomberg, Murex, Apex, AGT, Aladdin and HiPort.

Key Accomplishments:
* Rewarded by client Bronze Award for performance and execution.
* Proposed ACL (Asset Classification logic) to display system enhancements Ideas which was successfully implemented in Markit application.

Assistant Manager

India

- Part of Asia Pacific Data Management Team under Global Portfolio Services Departments.
- Participating in new instruments setups like  using ISIN, CUSIP, Sedol, CINS (Identifiers), Fixed income equities, repos and derivatives. Servicing internal clients (such as: portfolio managers, traders, compliance, Portfolio Reconciliations) within Invesco globally by executing tasks outlined in the Security Master Global Support Service.
- Performing and resolving exceptions, corps actions from security master point of view meeting the SLAs.
- Liaising with onshore through weekly calls and resolving any security master static related queries and issues, ensuring smooth functioning of the process. Testing systems enhancements in UAT with IT teams and proving sign off.
Key Accomplishments:
* Being the point of contact and Supported and handled queries and escalations for APAC region from my team ensuring smooth functioning without any issues.
* Created SOPs and cross trained team members with the latest updates.

Data Management Analyst

India

- Assigned as fixed income settlements analyst, liaise with internal and external parties for various operational activities like creating asset identifiers, resolving bond settlement issues, data management, static data set ups, reconciliations and resolving discrepancies and other ad-hoc queries with over 60% interactions over calls and emails to clients and rest with internal teams over internal chats, emails and calls.
- Liaising with S&P and other rating agencies to get ratings for the new deals and request set-up of new issuances on Bloomberg.
- Investigate breaks and hindrances in STP settlement processing and fix by implementing control points and process improvement tools.
- Handle escalations from counterparties, identify and mitigate risk on daily basis by following up on escalations as SME of the process, issues which are ongoing till resolved and ensure controls are in place to avoid same in future.

Key Accomplishments:
* Gave process improvement Idea which included working with Static team to fix the alert clients data base which resulted in less static breaks

Analyst Investment Banking

India

- Part of Client Data Services Team (CDS) under RDS, Global Market Operations Department supporting EMEA region.
- Onboarding new clients accounts which are traded on Bloomberg by bank and the trades are booked as per the clients requests for different products (Fixed Income, Equities, Collateral, Repos, Convertibles and Stock Loans).
- Setting up both Alert Clients and Non Alert client's, setting up Confirmations like Thomson OGD, Manual, Omgeo CTM, setting up all SSIs Domestic/ Cross Border, Euroclear, cleartream DTC (Standard settlement
- Being primary point of contact for onshore and LOBs attending weekly calls and handling complex requests and escalations, maintaining sound relationships and ensuring smooth functioning.

Key Accomplishments:
* Received the exceed rating under yearly performance review for consecutive 3 times, received Bronze, Silver and Gold Award for the performance within team over my tenure.
* Represented my department in client onboarder project in capacity of an SME and contributed towards success of project by participating in testing and requirement gathering phases.

SYED ABDUL RAHMAN RAEES: in Toronto, ON

SYED ABDUL RAHMAN RAEES

Dr. Babasaheb Marathwada University in India