Anju Joseph

Anju Joseph Contact:-. E-mail:- FINANCE INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL Seeking a challenging career in an organization where I can effectively apply my skills and which provides a challenging work environment and allows growing both professionally and as an individual. PROFILE ▪ Successful finance professional with international experience ▪ 4 years of extensive exposure in the field of investment banking, Commodities back-office operation & 3+ years of experience in accounting and book keeping ▪ Excellent Academic Credentials: Bachelor's of Business Management from Bangalore University. ▪ Employs analysis & creativity to form productive systems & strategic business partnerships. Dedicated individual with a reputation for consistently going beyond what is required & using personal high standards to achieve results, adapt in team handling thus ensuring smooth functioning & resulting in realization of both individual & organizational objectives ▪ Ensured and monitor task completeness with quality, accuracy and investigation on the availability for all investment data. ▪ Excellent communication skills and fluent in English ▪ Has Developed a good working knowledge of reports and ensure the completeness and accuracy of reports produced. ▪ Consummate professional with excellent planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills, attention to detail as well as the ability to build and lead effective teams. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DEUTSCHE BANK INTERNATIONAL GROUP-INDIA ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Worked on OTC commodities as a back-office analyst with Agricultural product, Gas, Oil, precious Metals, Base metals, Index and hybrid products. Hands on experience in Reporting, Analysis and Problem solving. Provide client with information about the trades and confirmation. Also, help them to resolve the legal as well as product related issues. Reported to the senior management about the Daily/Monthly status representing the entire OTC commodities Team. Responsible for handling the client escalations if any. Handled the documentation tracking, Verballing the trade and matching for all the commodities products against the system in OTC commodities. Responsible for verballing the trades on T+1 basis, also informing/escalating the unaffirmed trades on process hierarchy basis. Representing the team on weekly controls call with the top-level management including directors and head of commodities teams to discuss about the work status as well as improvement areas. . ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Frequent interaction with client, brokers and internal DB (Traders, sales and higher managements) for quick problem resolutions related to the payment as well as confirmation legal terms and conditions especially on Index and Hybrid trades. Training new Joiners on the process, planning tasks and assigning tasks for the junior analysts. Reconcile the generated document against the system before sending the confirmation to client and ensure to maintain the client confidentiality throughout the process. Systematic follow up on client for the signed confirmation or client confirmation and ensure that all the confirmation received and matched in the system with in T +10 days Investigating/ assessing client needs and advising them objectively keeping in mind their risk appetite. Work closely with Settlement teams to improve current workflows and support implementing next phases. Active participation in all the process improvement projects -Clean Up Project: Cleaned up all the unmatched, unwound and expired trades which were appearing in our daily report as old unwanted trades. Investigated on the trade and find the history of each trade with the help of all the old reports, emails and taken the support from IT team. And segregate the trades accordingly and get the approval from the top management and get all the trades cleared in the system. -Swift Auto match (TRAM): Bring up with a new solution to resolve the mismatching. Introduced a new system with the help of IT team called as TRAM. Tram automatically pick up all the confirmations from the swift and match against the system bookings. And all the unmatched trades will show in the tram report. Maintaining portfolios to meet individual team & organizational objectives. Previously worked GMLD Euro Clearing team and Reconciliation team Controlling recs (involves investigating and resolving the aged breaks). Root cause analysis in case of any discrepancy found between books and fix it. Reporting the trade breaks to the Trading Desk, Middle Office and Back Office Overall matching Trades with Positions and if there is discrepancy investigate and resolve them. Manually clearing the trades in the system ( Ransys) Passing the vouchers basis on the request from the teams. Preparing and submitted the EOD trade report (Total trades and status) to the top-level management. Trinity Texas Reality Texas-USA ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Recording and maintaining the financial transaction of the company on regular basis Analyzed balance sheet accounts and posted monthly journal entries in accordance with US GAAP Performed monthly bank reconciliation and general ledger account analysis Owned the maintenance and tracking of intercompany loan schedules and ensure all deadlines were met. Issued W9 to all the clients at the end of the tax year and maintain the record and track of the same. Issuing the check to the client after collecting the required tax / non tax documents and filed it in the proper manner and keep it safe without any compromise on the confidentiality on the documents. Generating monthly Comparison report from P&L and Balance Sheet which will help the company to Analize the performance and understand the improvement areas. Financial Software and Tools • Good exposure towards the usage of Openlink, Opal and Ransys • Openlink is one of the core applications used in deutsche bank. Have a good knowledge on the usage of openlink. Explored on the various aspects of openlink such as • • • • • • • Trading manager for trade details and report generation. Back office desktop (BOD desktop) in openlink where trades are processed. Reference manager used for the retrieving client information such as address and contact details. Market manager used for product & market details information. Quick book Appfolio Rentec Rewards and Recognitions • • • • Identified as star performer for various months for Outstanding Performance in Commodities Department. Received ‘Spot award’ for quick problem solving and resolution. Received many appreciation mails and good recognition in commodities department (Onsite and Offshore). Received appreciation for taking initiative to reduce the number of escalations and handling the process accurately and efficiently. Educational Credentials • • Bachelors of Business Management from Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore University -). 3 Credits in Federal Income Tax from Austin Community College USA Computer proficiency • MS Office, Tally 9, Windows XP, Windows 7, 8,IOS DECLARATION: I hereby declare that the above stated details are true to the best of my knowledge. Date : Place: Austin,TX (Anju Joseph)