Kranthi Kumar

With a solid six-year track record in Investment Banking, I have carved a niche for myself as a Business Analyst, focusing on Middle Office Operations and Fixed Income Trade Confirmation. My journey in the sector has endowed me with a profound understanding of the complexities of investment banking procedures. I have refined my abilities in managing and confirming fixed income trades, ensuring precision and promptness. My forte lies in optimizing processes, pinpointing improvement opportunities, and instituting strategic solutions that boost operational effectiveness. My analytical prowess, combined with my familiarity with investment banking, positions me as a valuable contributor in any high-paced trading setting. I am enthusiastic about applying my experience and competencies to add value to a dynamic and growth-focused organization.

Company: JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Designation: Operations Analyst 

Duration: Jun’ 2021 – Present

Key Responsibilities-

• Proficiently produce and deliver periodic investment reports to clients by meticulously collecting and documenting report requirements from diverse internal departments, while actively contributing to the creation and administration of innovative report templates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to support the successful completion of due diligence and client questionnaires, effectively extracting report prerequisites from internal departments.
• Conduct data validations and adeptly resolve data discrepancies, ensuring utmost precision in client reports.
• Employ a strategic approach towards providing exceptional client experiences to intermediaries, advisors, and end-investors through the meticulous curation of reports.
• Thoroughly research processing items, enforcing appropriate controls and regulations, and completing share/account reconciliation in comprehensive DaVinci accounts.
• Demonstrate exceptional multitasking abilities by fulfilling daily requests and phone calls, encompassing tasks such as addressing privacy breaches, conducting fraud research, handling tax forms, performing bank reconciliation, and overseeing wire activity for high-priority clients.
• Actively contribute to efforts aimed at resolving ambiguity surrounding non-routine, high-risk, and high-value fund or bank activity.
• Skillfully conduct research and compile data for audits, autonomously rectifying discrepancies as they arise.
• Provide valuable support in planning corporate actions and product changes across DaVinci accounts, while diligently informing the internal processing team of pertinent updates.

Company: State Street Global Services

Designation: Associate 2-Asset Manager Service/ Client Delivery Management

Duration: Feb’ 2019 – Feb'21

Key Responsibilities-

• Played a key role in the successful migration of the Asset Management Service process from Quincy, Boston to India, specifically as part of the Pilot Batch.
• Fostered effective collaboration between Asset Managers and Internal Operations groups, ensuring State Street delivers the highest quality services to Investment Managers.
• Actively participated in the onboarding and offboarding processes of Investment Managers, organizing regular service calls on a weekly, biweekly, and monthly basis to maintain service excellence and address any outstanding issues or queries.
• Served as the primary point of contact for onboarded Investment Managers, fulfilling the role of Client Service Representative and promptly resolving day-to-day business queries and issues.
• Provided comprehensive trade settlement support to Investment Managers engaged in trading across various markets, including DTC, FED, Euroclear, Clearstream, and other global locations.
• Assisted Investment Managers, executing brokers, clearing brokers, and end clients in achieving successful trade matching and settlement of both US and international trades, leveraging the expertise of State Street-appointed Agent Banks and internal teams.
• Supported Investment Managers and their brokers in verifying accurate Cash/Wire and Security SSIs for seamless trade settlement.
• Acted as a trusted business contact for Investment Managers, offering advisory services on instructing, amending, and canceling trades using State Street authorized modes such as SWIFT, FAX, Affirms & Confirms, and other proprietary tools.
• Demonstrated meticulous attention to detail by ensuring clear and accurate communication between Investment Managers, State Street, and internal operation groups during the resolution of specific issues.

Company: McKinsey Global Services 

Designation: Assistant Payment Analyst

Duration: Apr’ 2018 – Feb’ 2019

Key Responsibilities-

• Monitoring all invoices and accounting issues, resolving any escalated issues for the same.
• Processing vendor, employee and Loan payments through the payment method wire, check, EFT Payments for the US, and LATAM Regions
• Designing the Automation process for US payment batches (EFT and Check).
• Part of UiPath project for transitioning the payment processing.
• Helping the new client / vendor / employee onboarding for the US and LATAM regions and assisting them in processing the payments.
• Working on the post payment audit operations (PPA) for the payments.
• Error management on rejected payment and working with another team to finish the payment process.
• Analyzing the processes, recommend improvements for same and manage all internal controls on documents.
• Performing vendor payment reconciliation.
• Undertaking and providing compliance guidance to business projects and working parties in relation to new products and initiatives.
• Assisting in administering the code of ethics and other compliance policies.
• Support the team in daily work and display teamwork.

Company: Deutsche Bank Operations India

Designation: Process Associate

Duration: Jun’ 2017 – Feb’ 2018

Key Responsibilities-

• Participate in the continuing strategic development of the Middle Office operating model and help validate proposed ideas/plans prior to implementation.
• Provide issue resolution for any complications/problems that may arise.
• Client/Broker Trade Servicing
• Support Financial Advisor and new client On-Boarding processes.
• Regulatory Reporting
• Domestic and International Syndicate trading support
• Liaison between trading desk and back office

Company: JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Designation: Financial Consultant

Duration: Nov’ 2015 – Sept’ 2016

Key Responsibilities-

• Worked as Review Analyst of ISDA agreements and indexing/remediated them in the legal system.
• Responsible for the Quality assurance of the ISDA agreements remediation process.
• Supporting for preparation of SOP for the process. 
• Testing the business application in UAT and providing timely feedback to development team to fix the errors in the application.
• Verifying and performing quality checks for the tasks assigned and performed by other team members.
• Assisting with the development, testing and implementation of modification and enhancements to systems and procedures in department systems.
• Accountable for managing all aspects of communication plans, strategies and assets for clients using project management tools and a marketing resource management workflow tool.

Year                             Course                                                                                                                    University/College 

2020.                             CSOE - Certified Sarbanes-Oxley Expert                                                                   SOXCPA 

2020                              CRCMP – Certified Risk and compliance Management Professional               IARCP

2015                             B.com (Honors) -                                                                                                        KL University, Vijayawada