POOJA SOHINDA

Internal Transfer, Job Description and Responsibility same as below.

Job Description: Assigned to Internal Risk and Trading Platform's enhancements and upgrades(Asset Management Firm). Study the UI metadata fields and support queries related to PNL/Positions for Portfolio Managers, changes that'll help the active Investment managers to use the trading platform smoothly

Responsibility-

• Guided teams and refined SAFe Agile techniques throughout journey and evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support Agile methodology implementation as Scrum Master.
• Reviewed daily client queries and worked on to reduce production support issues by 30% each day, by supporting work on AWS dashboards which automate start of day checks for EMEA Region.
• Led project related to masking in Orders/Positions window in application as part of data platform upgrade, ensure security measures are implemented to protect sensitive data within platform.
• Effectively supervised projects and provided support for backlog creation that will be discussed in Sprint planning along with capacity metrics, make changes based on reports for each iterations.
• Created Project tags in JIRA/Smartsheet and Confluence pages, so that visibility is available for business users in dashboard.
• worked on to introduce AML and Risk reports to be generated from the system, as part of quarterly report requirements from stakeholders,
• Participated in implementing Russian Sanctions in trading platform, a project to build restrictions for trade bookings by PM.
• Completed initial DB testing/review once deployment is done in UAT, also draft use cases wherever required.
• Created data analysis reports using Power BI for PM's to explain most recent changes in trade platform.
• Mentored teams with deployment issues(managed 5 major transformation projects) by clarifying user questions and identifying problems, deconstructing into consumable sections and troubleshooting issues.

Job Description: Assigned to Data Governance team for Group Shareholding Regulatory(GSR) application that reports threshold and alerts for Equity trading across entities(Investment Bank). This includes, monitoring data quality, handling compliance requirements, defining Metadata and review changes in alerts/rules.

Responsibility-

• Leading team as Scrum Master with 5 developers(UI and back-end), 2 testers, in verification of tasks and milestones for sprint.
• Investigated project for duplication of legal entity positions in regulatory reportings by implementing legal entity code's in SOD reports instead of entity name, this helped in rectifying positions by 100% accuracy.
• Collaborated with cross functional teams to identify and document AutoSys job history, which helped reduce system load by 25%.
• Assisted team in Data platform project wherein, transformation was to take place from legacy system to AWS cloud multi-tenant architecture.
• Worked with stakeholders to define ARA and security checks for development team in migration related projects.
• Assessed Monthly Releases- Daily Scrum/Stand-up Call - to assess any issues/blockers for upcoming releases, E2E/UAT testing status, etc.
• Supervised UAT testing for upstream feeds and verify development changes, which involves test case creation and saving test evidence for IT and business sign-off.
• Evaluated quality checks(Quality Gate) prior to deploying any changes into live environment to mitigate risks and assess any issues/blockers for upcoming releases, testing, sign-offs, CR approvals etc.

Job Description: Onboarding new hedge fund/bank loan clients on hedge fund trading/accounting systems/applications as part of Projects and Implementation. Also, working closing with Management for project plans, resource and team allocation. Majorly been part of end-to end client on-boarding for 5 of major hedge funds clients for developing data models and process automation.

Responsibility-

• Prepared client requirement documents and discussed among IT and Fund Accounting team.
• Set team report delivery and task allocation based on client priority.
• Engaged with IT Team on open JIRA requests in relation to daily reporting based on client requirements.
• Led migration of clients from legacy systems to Geneva resulting in streamlined code base and 30% reduction in development time in new features and enhancements.
• Verified queries related to Equity, bonds, Forwards and Spot trades in Kondor/Kondor++ and Geneva as part of test run for client onboarding.
• Proactively engaged within IT team during Geneva related Upgrades and troubleshooting failures or errors while running RSL's.
• Researched, analyzed and implemented AML reports for Hedge fund managers and reviewed changes/issues till implementation cycle is complete.
• Created Visio diagrams at each stage of process implementation and migration from legacy system to internal Viteos systems.
• Worked on Geneva Upgrade for Hedge fund Clients from Version 6.2 to 15.2, 8.5 to 10.0 and 9.0 to 15.2

Job Description: Taking ownership of the hedge fund/bank loan client allocated and documenting the daily issues in trade upload, trade settlement, document maintenance, cash reconciliation. Covering client interaction for proper deliverables, coordination with agent banks for syndicated loan notices and Prime brokers for new system requirements.

Responsibility-

• Identified current operations workflow and created scope for enhancements and improvements based on user requirements/suggestions.
• Managed individually US and EMEA Clients, providing assistance in resolving pre- and post- production issues during their UAT testing and resolving their ad-hoc maintenance requests/Production issues and queries, with 25% increase in user engagement.
• Identified JIRA tasks for operations(front end and back end) and IT team and maintaining requirement documents in Confluence.
• Trained and supported new team members, maintaining culture of collaboration.

Job Description: IRS/CDS trades booking application enhancement and upgrades.

Responsibility-

• Consulting MO for trade booking and amendments application issues.
• Maintaining Client Relationship and undergoing Training with clients as per requirement of Process.
• Identifying manual adjustments made in internal systems but not updated in third party systems.
• Support application that does analysis of breaks to identify and focus on key issues (Major products- IRS, CDS and collaterals).
• Working closely with MO for payments and SSI management.
• Document reports that integrated with third party systems to facilitate faster resolution and to speed up trade confirmations, managed to reduce reconciliation issues by 25%.
• Consolidate reconciliation fields and mapping data for development team.