Balu Aryan Bachu

Role and responsibility:

Led financial analysis, risk management, and regulatory compliance initiatives at India’s leading securities depository. Spearheaded process automation, strategic forecasting, and regulatory alignment, ensuring efficiency in securities settlement and capital market operations. Delivered data-driven insights to senior leadership and regulatory bodies, enhancing financial governance and decision-making.

Contributions:

Engineered advanced financial models leveraging statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms to forecast depository inflows, risk exposure, and transaction trends.

Conducted macroeconomic impact assessments, correlating market fluctuations with depository holdings and settlement volumes to drive data-backed investment strategies.

Designed and implemented a risk-scoring system for depository participants (DPs), integrating real-time data monitoring to detect anomalies and mitigate financial risks.

Developed predictive models that improved risk assessment accuracy by 25%, enhancing financial stability and fraud mitigation.

Led the end-to-end digital transformation of trade reconciliation and settlement reporting, reducing manual intervention and eliminating processing delays by 40%.

Implemented AI-powered anomaly detection models, improving fraud detection capabilities and ensuring compliance with AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) standards.

Designed an automated KPI-driven performance tracking system, enabling real-time monitoring of transaction lifecycle efficiency and operational bottlenecks.

Increased operational efficiency by 30% through workflow automation, data validation, and process reengineering.

Directed enterprise-wide compliance audits in alignment with SEBI, RBI, and FATF (Financial Action Task Force) regulations, fortifying governance structures and mitigating non-compliance risks.

Developed standardized reporting frameworks for regulatory filings, improving transparency in financial disclosures, risk assessments, and capital market transactions.

Reduced regulatory non-compliance risks by 50%, strengthening governance, audit trails, and risk controls.

Acted as a key liaison between CDSL, SEBI, RBI, stock exchanges, and clearing corporations, ensuring seamless integration of compliance mandates with real-time financial operations.

Partnered with IT and FinTech teams to develop secure, scalable, and efficient depository services, aligning with blockchain-based securities settlement innovations.

Designed interactive financial dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, and SQL, delivering real-time visibility into securities holdings, market trends, and settlement efficiency.

Implemented data standardization frameworks, ensuring accuracy and consistency in regulatory disclosures, financial reports, and internal governance metrics.