1. RATISH .G. NAIR
Address: 42 Canberra Drive, Yishun Sapphire, Unit 03/05, Singapore: 768434
Date of Birth: 20 March 1984, Phone: +65 92747797, Email: ratznair@hotmail.com
Professional Synopsis:
• Over 10 years of experience in Investment Banking & Private Banking (Wealth
Management) Process / Project migration, and functional testing of Middle Office & Back
Office systems.
• Exceptional knowledge and experience of end to end OTC/Exchange Traded Derivatives
Process Flows – Middle and Back office (Trade Booking/Capture, Trade Support,
Settlements, Reconciliations and Confirmations).
• Excellent Domain knowledge and Processing Experience in wide array of Asset Classes
like Equities, FX, Commodities, Interest Rate Swaps including Vanilla and Structured
Products.
• Proven track record of liaison with Clients, Front Office, Operations Risk and other
internal and external stakeholders, identifying and implementing Process
Improvement/Re–engineering opportunities (self initiated savings of over 20 hours per
month),
• Client Presentation, training, managing and motivating Team members as well as end to
end delivery on Process Migration projects.
• Understanding and Experience of Compliance Monitoring & testing Function gained via.
internal Rotation with the Compliance Department.
Career Summary:
Organization: Barclays Bank [Since Jan 2008]
Department: Middle Office – Wealth and Investment Management
Team: Product Support Team – FX and Equity Trade Capture and Trade Support.
Position: Analyst
Tenure: September 2014 to date.
Wealth and Investment Management – Product Support Team
• Perform end to end Deal Capture according to records on sales recaps/
Broker Termsheets in the core banking risk management system i.e. Avaloq
within stipulated Currency cutoff timelines in adherence to Risk and
Compliance stipulations.
• Perform Deal Capture in the Client credit margining systems (PDC) and
Sparta for FX Deals and Trade Capture Form for Equity OTC Deals.
• Ensure control checks/ daily reconciliation are performed to ensure all trades
are booked correctly and in line with instruction from Bankers, RM’s or
counterparties.
• Ensure Trade Lifecycling and Corporate Action Events are performed in
accordance with the procedure.
• Ensure all trade related queries from internal clients/working partners i.e.
Private Bankers/Executives, Confirmations and Settlements teams etc. are
handled and resolved in timely manner.
• Ensuring accurate records/ operating procedures are maintained in accordance with
Barclays policy
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2. • Participate in and assist with UAT testing for ad-hoc projects/system
enhancements and provide expertise on an ad hoc basis.
• Understand the control environment in the bank and controls applicable to the
job function, to identify process control gaps and recommend possible
solutions as a part of the LEAN Movement/Process Re-Engineering Team
across Wealth and Investment Banking in Singapore.
• Collate daily/weekly/monthly/ad hoc MIS
Department: Commodities Middle Office, Settlements and Confirmations [Jan’08 – Aug‘14]
Team: Commodities Middle Office
Position: Analyst
• Trade Validation of Vanilla and Structured Commodities products
• Ensure control checks/ daily reconciliation are performed to ensure all trades
are booked correctly and in line with instruction from Front Office.
• Monitor and control the product life cycle events in accordance with the procedure.
• Ensuring all trade related queries from internal clients/working partners i.e.
Front Office, Confirmations and Settlements teams etc. are handled and
resolved in timely manner.
• Ensuring accurate records/ operating procedures are maintained in accordance with
Barclays policy
• Participate in and assist with UAT testing for ad-hoc projects/system
enhancements and provide expertise on an ad hoc basis.
Team: Commodities Pre Settlements and Settlements – Energy and Metals (Oil,
Metals, Coal, Agriculture and Forest Products)
Position: Team Lead
• Ensure all settlement approvals provided to team within the stipulated
currency cutoff timelines in the capacity of Settlement Manager.
• Mentoring/Guiding and training the junior team members in the capacity of
team lead to ensure seamless knowledge transfer.
• Conduct regular discussion/1-2-1 session with team to ensure team
involvement and free flow of ideas towards process improvements.
• Communicate with clients to agree the settlement amount for Pre-settlement function.
• Interact with the Trader/Sales and Middle Office to understand and resolve errors/
discrepancies in Settlement Details.
• Ensure Settlement for APAC and EMEA clients within stipulated time zones and
settlement cut off timelines.
• Provide Daily and Monthly APAC settlement stats to the higher management.
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3. • Ensure all settlement related UAT’s are completed as necessary and within the stipulated
timelines.
• Work with the Operations Risk Team on Risk Review process and to identify any Process
Gaps, implement process improvements to ensure operations in line with Risk
Requirements.
Team: Commodities Confirmations – Energy and Metals (Oil, Metals, Coal,
Agriculture and Forest Products)
Position: Analyst
• Drafting Confirmations for Commodity Trades(Vanilla and Structured) using
the information fed into the risk management system (BARX, Openlink, Commodonline)
by the Traders and Middle Offices in accordance with the requirements of ISDA.
• Preparation of Daily Reports and allocation of trades to the team for drafting.
• Perform Incoming functions in terms of interacting with clients to chase and
affirm trade details and executing of Barclays and Counterparty confirms in the
system to agree and complete trades with counterparties.
• Working on the daily MIS reports and providing updates to the management
on the Outstanding deals(Incoming and Outgoing).
• Look into Template requests raised by Front Office and Client Queries in a
timely and accurate manner.
• Interact with the Trader/Sales and Middle Office to sort out errors in Trade
Booking.
• Authorization and signing of vanilla confirmations drafted by other team
members in the capacity of an Authorized Signatory within the drafting team.
Other Initiatives
• Initiated and Implemented Process improvements like Macro for Outlook Reply with
Attachment, Autosuggest Contacts in Outlook, Email Categorization for T+1 EOD checks,
Document repository for Calendar Break Maintenance (Trade Capture), Removal of
duplicate Approval process from Front office for Call Back Process. Over 20 hours saved
by self initiated Process Improvement Efforts in line with Operations Risk Requirements.
• Worked with Global teams i.e. Client data to eradicate duplicate approval steps by taking
necessary approvals from FO and London Confirmations to leverage the effort towards
pre-settlement and avoid duplication of work.
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4. • Presented an Overview of Settlements Process to an External Japanese Client. This was
well received and appreciated with a Quarterly Performance Altitude Silver Award by the
management.
• End to End delivery of Process Migration to Mumbai under Project Eden as the team
lead/ SME from Singapore responsible to recruit, train and set up the team in Mumbai for
the Knowledge Transfer from Singapore and Houston.
• Assisted with the Migration of Commodities MO Process from Singapore to Mumbai.
• Understanding and Experience of Compliance Monitoring & Testing Function gained via.
internal Rotation with the Compliance Department working on Review of Client
Complaints Handling, Client Money & Assets, Guidance on PB Controls, Investment
Sales, Registration and Licensing(SGP&HK) process.
Prior Experience
Organization: JP Morgan Chase India Pvt. Ltd.
Department: Investment Banking - Derivatives(Confirmation)
Team: Interest Rates Drafting.
Position: Executive
Tenure: From April 2006 to December 2007.
Investment Banking Operations – Interest Rates Derivatives (Drafting):
• Successfully migrated the Interest Rate Derivative Drafting function from Bournemouth, UK
to Mumbai.
• Drafting Confirmations for Interest Rate Swaps using the information fed into
• the risk management system (DART, IRFE, Murex, Athena) by the Traders and Middle Office
in accordance with the requirements of ISDA and authorization of Interest Rate Swap
confirmations drafted by other team members.
• Building and sustaining, strong working relationships with Middle / Front Offices, Legal and
Affirmation groups and ensuring that all client queries are investigated and resolved in a
timely manner.
• Understand and ensure compliance with Legal, control and regulatory requirements.
Organization: Countrywide Finance Corporation, India (CFCI)
Department: Correspondent Lending Division (CLD)
Team: Loan Review
Position: Back Office Executive
Tenure: From August 2005 to April 2006
• Process Associate in the Correspondent Lending Division (CLD) process.
Academics:
 2005 – Diploma in Business Finance, ICFAI University.
 2004 – Bachelor of Commerce, Mumbai University.
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