Palak Nandra

Palak nandra

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Consultant - Corporate Credit at Scotiabank

  • Education

    • Amity international business school

      2010 - 2012
      Master of business administration (mba) international finance
    • Shaheed bhagat singh college

      2007 - 2010
      Bachelor of commerce (b.com.) finance, general
  • Experience

    • Blackrock

      May 2013 - Nov 2015
      Trade support analyst

      Responsibilities:-• Setting up and maintaining Portfolios in the system and updating all the necessary attributes to ensure the correct risk is captured.• Handling settlements of trades booked at front end for DTC market..Check if any penalties / Buy -in charges, pending instructions exist in the market and to reduce cost per trade for the DTC market.• Handling breaks and reconciliation of trades settled. Ensure all trades match before and settle on contractual settlement date and all KPI's and benchmarks are achieved on weekly and monthly basis• Maintaining Counterparty Setups including Broker desks and Settlement Instructions. Maintaining connectivity with the global trading platforms. Creating SSI’s for delivery types like Fedwire, Euroclear, Cedel etc.• Monitoring issues related trade settlements, cash and positions reconciliation. Mappings for all inbound and outbound SWIFT messages for various portfolios on Aladdin to transmit detailed information about all entries for cash and holdings accounts, that in turn helps reconcile cash flows and balances.• Managing Data questions for external clients. Ensuring the securities have the necessary data like Accrued Interest, Coupons, Factors, redemption, sink schedules etc.• Provide cross training within and outside Blackrock on Aladdin tools (Risk Management tool used by portfolio managers, cash reconciliation tool used by operations professionals) and educating clients.• Technical Support – Using SQL queries and Unix Commands to pull vast data for creating reports from the Database.• Maintaining healthy relationship with the Client and addressing all issues related to various parameters across the lifecycle of a trade, starting from the inception of trade to its settlement and confirmation.Delivery & ImplementationsWas actively involved in implementing two of our major clients so far. I was involved in Cash and holdings reconciliations training on Aladdin and testing compliance rules for the clients. Show less

    • Hsbc

      Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
      Finance analyst / ba

      Responsibilities:- • Responsible for the team delivering daily production of risk analytics that are distributed to Market Risk and Global Markets for the management of interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB)• Having an understanding of the regulatory requirements of PRA and the Bank of England in assessing HSBC’s net interest income (NII) projections as per the stress testing programs.• Analyze stress scenarios on QRM with a focus on NII and Economic value of equity• Provide accurate and timely risk information and reporting to assist management in their decision making process to help manage IRRBB.• Creating ad-hoc SQL scripts to extract data out of Risk engine to facilitate investigations.• Support regional business analysis on banking product modeling on QRM (application which generates different types of bank risk reports ) application using standard data interface• In depth understanding of global liquidity risk and Interest rate risk framework i.e. process, regulatory requirements for data purposes and systems• Assisting regional UAT to ensure accuracy of their Interest Rate Risk (EVE & NII) reports to identify reporting gaps which need to addressed• Applying the financial products knowledge (Retail and Global Banking and Market) on how they impact finance operations and more generically the banking business Show less

    • Scotiabank

      Sept 2017 - May 2019
      Consultant - nostro recon
    • Td securities

      May 2019 - Oct 2019
      Senior analyst
    • Scotiabank

      Jan 2020 - now
      Consultant - corporate loans
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • The role of capital markets

      Coursera
      Feb 2017
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Palak Nandra
      Spot on Award HSBC May 2016 For exceptionally good performance in very short duration
    • Awarded to Palak Nandra
      Best Performer Award Blackrock Jun 2015