Raju Arakala Senior Business Analyst

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Naga Raju.

Arakala
+91 8522097293
[email protected]

CAREER SUMMARY:

Skilled Business Analyst offering 6.06 years of experience into managing the Fund Accounting, Capital
Market Operations, Functional Testing, Gap Analysis, OTC Markets, Derivatives Market Reconciliations in
Cash, Equity, Swap, Option and FX reconciliation Excellent relationship building, problem solving and
communication skills with analytical and adaptable nature.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior business Analyst at Broadridge Financial services Hyderabad (Nov 2021 – Jan 2024)

Key Responsibilities:

● Analyst with excellence in gathering and understanding requirements of clients & other multiple
stakeholders (at strategic & tactical levels), followed by translating them into functional
specifications and providing suitable solutions.
● Extensively used JIRA for work/ resource allocation and managed service handovers.

● Proficient in working on Agile and Waterfall Methodology

● Onboarding of Various Client/broker by interacting with corresponding onshore teams or Stake


holders.
● Knowledge in Capital markets under multiple business areas like “Equities, Options, Swaps,
Money markets, Mutual Funds, and Bonds”
● Provided Fund-Administrative service to different clients and handle Portfolio Reconciliation of
cash and position statements between Client v/s Counterparty and Client v/s Custody for equity,
Swap, FX, and other OTC derivative instruments.
● Perform payment research, reconciliations, communications with cross-functional departments
and resolution of escalate issues outside of main system.

Project name: GLO Settlement system


Role: Senior business Analyst
Company: One Start
Project Type: Implementation Project
● Gloss is a cutting-edge project aimed at providing a one-stop solution for the management,
settlement, and recordkeeping of real-time transactions in global, multi-asset processing
environments.
● The project's core features include a wide range of options for capturing transactions, advanced
capabilities for transaction enrichment and exception handling, and a user-friendly browser-
based interface.
● Additionally, clients will have complete control over all reference and business data, both static
and dynamic, giving them the ability to manage their transactions with ease and efficiency.

Project name: UI Path Automation


Role: Senior business Analyst
Company: Virtus
Project Type: Implementation Project

● The Robotic Process Automation Engagement is a transformative project designed to modernize


manual trade reporting processes and invoice loading.
● The implementation of this cutting-edge technology will improve efficiency and productivity by
reducing manual labor, increasing accuracy, and speeding up the process, all while minimizing
the risk of human error.
● Done the multiple regression tests before and after automations on the data impact.

Specialist at State Street HCL Services – Chennai/Vijayawada (June 2018 – Oct 2021)

Key Responsibilities:

● Compile Investment manger's statements backup documentation to comply with client invoice
specifications and State Street's internal records.
● External Reconciliation (Fund Accounting) Special Software: MCH and Bloomberg responsibilities

● Analyzed and implemented complex FX, IRD, CRD rate cards using custom rules.

● Rendered training and presentations to the business users on the product.

● Dealing with equity & bonds.

● Helping the BU in automating the Process, to minimize manual intervention, thereby reducing
the chances of manual error.
● Actively involved in Migration of new fund and documentation of team's Standard operating
procedure.
● Resolving client queries/ complaints and escalate issue to Higher Management based on
Priority and scope.

Process Associate at Cognizant Technology Solutions - Hyderabad (July 2017- May 2018)

Key Responsibilities:

● Fund-Administrative service to different clients and handle Portfolio Reconciliation of cash and
position statements between client and Agent bank.
● Compile Investment manger's statements backup documentation to comply with client invoice
specifications and State Street's internal records.
● Accountable for matching of trades for both the cash and position in client and Broker side and
checking all Corporate Actions. Identify duplicate trades and informing to the Client to remove
the Security.
● External Reconciliation (Fund Accounting) Special Software: MCH and Bloomberg responsibilities

● Dealing with equity & bonds.

● Perform Quality Control checks to ensure portfolios are reconciled properly between Custodian
and broker, client at end of day.

ACADEMICS:

Course Institution % of Marks Secured Year of passing

M.B.A
( Finance) JNTUH HYD 2016
75%

B.Com
(General) Kakatiya University 2014
68%

Skills:

● Waterfall & Agile

● Jira, Kanban Board

● MS SQL Server

● Advanced Financial Analysis


● Business operations analysis
● Excellent attention to details

● Bloomberg

● Accounting and reconciliation SLA

● MS office (Word, Power point, Excel)

● Equities and Fixed income

● Client relationship

● Flexible team player

● Swift codes

● Process Automation

Achievements:

● Promoted as a Specialist in short span of time and taken appreciation from clients for multiple
times.
● Provided various PEX ideas (Process improvement) which benefited organization in reduction of
manual efforts and improved quality.
● Received multiple awards as best Extra miler, Best performer, and Ace of rookies (Cognizant).

● Picked up the process quickly in short span of time and handled it without hiccups and
escalations in the absence of trainer.

Personal profile
D.O.B : 04-05-1990
Father’s Name : Rajaiah
Languages known : English (Fluent), Telugu (Native), Hindi.
Address : H.No 1-9-35/45/50/F, Venkateshwara Nagar, Khammam, 507003

Declaration:
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I
bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.

Date: Raju.Arakala

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