Aruna Kalkura

About Aruna Kalkura

Welcome to my LinkedIn profile! With a robust background in engineering and a deep expertise in regulatory reporting, I am dedicated to transforming complex data challenges into streamlined processes and actionable insights. My experience encompasses the nuances of regulatory frameworks such as ASIC, MAS, HKMA, ESMA, and FCA, ensuring compliant and accurate reporting that meets ever-evolving industry standards.In my career, I\'ve honed my skills in Controls and QA testing, enabling me to identify potential risks while implementing effective solutions. I thrive in business analysis roles where I leverage data quality analysis to assess accuracy and completeness of trade data, driving improved operational efficiency and insight.I am passionate about building bridges between engineering and regulatory compliance, believing that strong collaboration and innovative thinking can enhance organizational performance. Whether it’s through meticulous reconciliation or insightful data quality assessments, I strive to add value at every stage of the process.Let’s connect and explore how we can work together to navigate the evolving regulatory landscape and drive excellence in engineering and reporting!

Experience

1. Subject Matter Expert

   HSBC

   Sep 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   The Regulatory Middle Office is a risk and control function within the Markets Middle Office, and are primarily responsible for ensuring HSBC’s OTC Derivative Trade Reporting to Global Regulators is complete, accurate and timely in all cases. It is a Global, cross-asset-class function that works closely with front-to-back stakeholders to ensure key controls are in place and adequate in mitigating or identifying regulatory issues/breaches, to reduce HSBC’s overall regulatory risk.The team are considered the ‘Control Owners’ for OTCD Trade Reporting, and are responsible for evaluating daily reporting submissions, monitoring trade reporting exceptions and reconciliations, managing Linking and Matching activities, performing manual uploads to the Trade Repositories (where needed), identifying trade reporting defects, implementing mitigating /identification controls (where possible), ensuring timely escalation of all identified issues and reinforcing a culture of regulatory awareness across front-to-back functions in line with the Global Regulatory Control Framework.Roles and Responsibilities:• Working with the Regulatory Middle Office function globally to identify, escalate and potentially remediate issues and reporting defects.• Assist in the generation of periodic and ad-hoc Regulatory Reporting management information metrics.• Delivering Global Control Framework activities for HSBC’s Global OTCD Trade Reporting Obligations.• Producing regional Trade Reporting Governance packs for presentation to front-to-back stakeholders.• Understand HSBC’s Global Regulatory Obligations, System Infrastructure & Reporting Mechanisms as well as OTC Derivative Products and the OTCD Market, and utilize this knowledge to identify reporting or operational inefficiencies and drive improvement.• Process all stakeholder (internal and external) requests/queries in timely and accurate manner.

Education

• Bangalore Institute of Technology, BANGALORE-560 004

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

  2013 — 2017

Skills

• English
• C
• Microsoft Office
• C++
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Autocad
• Solidworks
• Matlab
• Teamwork