About

Hello! I am Akshay Godha. Experienced Professional in Finance in Investment Banking and Derivatives Trade life cycle profiles.

Experienced Senior Associate with Reference data Services, OTC derivatives and Equity Research knowledge who driven to optimize processes and streamline operations for team efficiency. Decisive leader with an analytical and flexible approach to solving problems. Eager to learn with aptitude for applying new knowledge with skill and efficiency.
A dynamic professional experience in the field of Back Office Operations - Capital Market, Collateral Management, Operations, Reconciliation.
Good knowledge of Equities, Derivatives, Custodian & Depository Operations, OTC products - Bilateral IRD, CDS, FXO, EQS, TRS, Cleared CDS & IRD (ISDA & ISMA), Securities Settlement, Collateral Management, SWIFT Message and trade life cycle.

Basic Information
Date of Birth:
29th March 1996
Email:
akshaygodha29@gmail.com
Phone:
+91-8871482258
Address:
93, Agarasen Nagar, Airport Road, Indore, M.P., India
Language:
English, Hindi
Professional Skills
Advanced Excel
60%
Derivatives
70%
Reconciliation
90%
Collateral Management
80%
Financial Modelling
50%
Communication
70%
Work Experience

26 September 2023 - Present

Morgan Stanley
Associate

Reference Data Services
• Working as a Controller in Reference Data Services team for Account opening, Maintenance, Closure & Reactivation.
• Verifying all the details has been correctly updated as per requestor’s request in the system by the vendor team while working on Account opening, Maintenance, Closure & Reactivation.
• Working with the vendor team to ensure the processes are conduct in line.
• Performing Supervisory checks for the task completed by the Vendor team.
• Mitigating risk by performing due diligence check from operation team perspective.
• To process International prime brokerage account opening request making sure all the necessary details has been fulfilled based on requestors request and process.

24 May 2021 to 16 Aug 2022

BNP Paribas India Solutions
Senior Associate

Collateral Management - Portfolio Reconciliation
• Performing bilateral portfolio reconciliation on TriOptima platform (using Triresolve) on breaks such as mismatch in Legal entity, Agreement, MTM, Unmatched.
• Liaise with counterparty and internal teams to resolve breaks arising as per EMIR regulatory. To Check on margin call disputes with counterparty and internal teams to reconcile dispute attributes.
• Reviewing SOPs wherever required and also reviewing on yearly basis and reporting to onshore team.
• Performing controls check on daily basis to ensure that all the breaks were resolved.
• Providing status of breaks on weekly management call with Onshore team

9 July 2018 to 19 May 2021

SS&C GlobeOp Financial Services
Senior Associate

Margin call booking and Data Integrity:
• Verifying all the OTC feeds flowing from upstream to collateral system and then approving Start of the day by issuing all Bank margin calls. • To process margin calls (ISDA & ISMA) issued by brokers on the basis of mark to market movement. • Handling margin calls for OTC derivatives and securities landing products on daily basis • Four eyeing all the manual margin calls sent to clients by team. • Agreeing and booking client margin calls and client responses to Bank’s call in the system. • Four eyeing and authorizing the large margin calls responses booked by team which are above 50 million. • Ensuring collateral moves are booked by team with in the cut-off time set as per the CSA • Substitution of any ineligible collateral received or any collateral securities that is maturing. • Monitoring group email box and routing the email to the concern person. • Booking and processing of all trades related to Securities Lending and Collateral Management • Exposure to securities lending, Collateral, equities swap, prime brokerage and hedge fund clients. Basic understanding of the financial industry and products

Dispute resolution: -
• Working with client/portrecs and initial margin team on dispute resolution. • Settlements of failed collateral trades (both cash and securities) on daily basis. • Working with static team if SSIs are missing in the system while booking the trades. • Working on collateral tagging report to ensure that no ineligible collateral has been received or any concentration limit is breached. • Performing bilateral portfolio reconciliation on TriOptima platform (using Triresolve) on breaks such as mismatch in Legal entity, Agreement, MTM, Unmatched. • Liaise with counterparty and internal teams to resolve breaks arising as per EMIR regulatory. To Check on margin call disputes with counterparty and internal teams to reconcile dispute attributes.

Interest processing: -
• Agreeing with broker collateral interest figures with certain limit set by client. • Settlement of all collateral interest figures with all brokers within first 10 business days. • Interacting with broker and bank via email and phone for interest figures and interest payment fail. • Providing broker collateral statements to client for month end audit and reconciliation.

Onboarding setup and CBV: -
• Perform call back verification and ensure correct SSI are been captured. • Acadia setups are completed with liaising with counterparty and client to smooth functioning of the margin call process. • Ensure proper reporting and data is published for the pending backlog of onboarding of accounts and setups.

Education

2016 - 2018

Master's Degree
Master of Business Administration

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

Stream - Financial Services from School of Economics, D.A.V.V. with 7.2 SGPA.

2013 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor of Commerce

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

Management Studies 2013-16 from Shri Gujrati Samaj College affiliated to D.A.V.V. with First division

2011 - 2013

High School (10+2)
Commerce

The South Indian Cultural Association Senior Secondary School

• H.S.C.E in 2013 from S.I.C.A S.S. School, Indore secured 66%.
• S.S.C.E in 2011 from S.I.C.A S.S. School, Indore secured 6.4 CGPA

Contact Me
Feel free to contact me

Address

93, Agarasen Nagar, Airport Road, Indore, M.P., India

Phone

+91-8871482258

Email

akshaygodha29@gmail.com