Vandana Tibrewala
Wellington,FL
Summary
Looking for a position that will build on skills and offer scope for innovation and career growth.
Academic Qualifications - PGDBA from Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, Pune, India. Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Madras University, Chennai, India.
Strengths: Good inter-personal skills and ability to effectively interact with people, excellent communication skills, ability to take up challenging projects and see it to completion. Commended for the ability to be assertive, crisp & concise. Keenness to acquire knowledge and ability to translate the same to improve service levels. Exposure & working knowledge of the International Financial Markets/Instruments and Reconciliation processes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2011 - 01.2012
- Scoping, requirements gathering and initiation of project
- Ensuring compliance of processes with statutory regulations, external and internal processes
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives
- Preparing project plan by defining scope, estimating effort and evaluating high -level design and architecture
- Identify and manage interdependencies between projects
- Developed and implemented strategic project plans to meet business objectives
- Identify project risks and issues, prepare mitigation strategies and create contingency plans
- Responsible for overall project delivery in line with client expectations.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance
Team Leader
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2010 - 08.2011
- Reconciliation (Cash and Stock of internal and external accounts)
- Reconciling positions and balances open in company’s books versus what is due to be settled to/by client
- Segregation of client money/shares from firm money/shares
- Reconciling Nostro accounts maintained for FID products and FX trades
- Ensuring all KPI’s and KRI’s are well maintained and met
- Ensuring daily escalation of high risk items to management
- Providing daily/weekly/monthly substantiation for breaks in accounts reconciled.
Team Leader
Royal Bank of Scotland
07.2006 - 02.2010
- Derivatives Investigations
- Investigating all the ledgers posted in London books for receipt and payments as to why they are breaking for trades like IRS, Currency Swap, FX, MM, etc
- Looking into each break by checking trade details if trade is valid, any amendment, etc
- Handling e-mail queries from various internal and external clients
- Handling SWIFT queries, various Message types-MT202, MT300,MT103,etc
- Investigations dealing with specialized high end derivative products like various swaps, options, rate agreements, bonds etc
- Co-ordinating with Front office, middle office, trade confirmations dept., etc
- To solve the discrepancy or break
- Applications used - MUREX, INFINITY, DEVON, BUSINESS OBJECTS, OSIRIS, OMR, INTELIMATCH, INTELLITRACS, SCORE, TLM cash recs
- Fixed Income Investigations
- Investigating all unsettled MM deals and dealing with collateral management, coupons, etc
- Finding out the exact cause for the trade not to settle and subsequently contacting the respective agent, traders and get them resolved
- Have resolved many complex breaks and exceptions bringing down the RAG rating to tolerance level
- Treasury Investigations
- Investigating all receipt and payment of funds to the main treasury account and finding out which part of the treasury operations these funds belongs to
- Coordinating with the client relationship managers to resolve all problems relating to receipt and payment of sensitive clients in a timely manner
- Working knowledge on SWIFT message types
- Reconciliation
- Reconciliation of Nostro accounts which involves all currencies
- Products involved are Interest rate swaps, Credit default swaps, Currency swaps, Forward Rate Agreements, Foreign Exchange and Money Market deals
- Matching of ledgers against statements and ensuring true cash breaks are handed over to investigations area
- Investigation of unapplied funds received in the account to ensure they are applied without delay to reduce any costs
- Ensure transfer of funds paid by clients to incorrect accounts
- Ensure control activities are in place
- Process Migration
- Involved in the Migration of Nostro Reconciliation Process (EUROs and Pounds) from Singapore to Chennai which involved travelling to Singapore and getting trained in the complete process and migrating it to Chennai
- Have also been involved in transition of reconciliation process from Glasgow to Chennai.
Customer Support Officer
ALLSEC Technologies Ltd
05.2004 - 06.2005
- K2 Financial
- B2C USA BASED PROJECT ON A FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN CONSOLIDATION PROGRAM(Outbound)
- Job Description
- Enquiring on the students status of education
- Counselling on the benefits of consolidation program
- Scrutinizing their loans for the eligibility criteria
- Calculating and generating the important details of their consolidation process
- Processing and forwarding application to interested customers
- Chase the Application (CAP):
- Tracking the sent application form
- Organizing a pickup for the signed application form
- Projects
Market
Hindustan Lever Ltd, Lever Ltd
- Survey on customer acceptance level of various products of Hindustan Lever by different research methods
- Compiling all data and making a PowerPoint Presentation
- Achievements
- Secured Third Place in Market Research Project at Hindustan, Create awareness of online banking facilities and Customer Care, HDFC Bank
Education
BBA - Business Administration
University of Madras
Chennai, India04.2004
Skills
- Service driven, Customer orientation
- Quality and result orientation
- Able to communicate at all levels
- Able to deal with cultural differences
- Proactive and excellent time management skills
- Analytical, logical skills
- Self motivated, high work standards
- Knowledge in MS Word, Excel (macro level), Power point
Timeline
Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2011 - 01.2012
Team Leader
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2010 - 08.2011
Team Leader
Royal Bank of Scotland
07.2006 - 02.2010
Customer Support Officer
ALLSEC Technologies Ltd
05.2004 - 06.2005
Market
Hindustan Lever Ltd, Lever Ltd
BBA - Business Administration
University of Madras
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