Karthik Gandhi

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ABOUT KARTHIK GANDHI

Result and detail orientated Financial Services professional with over 24 years of broad experience consisting of:Excellent Product Knowledge of Cash Equities, ETFs, Equity/Index Swaps, Dividend Swaps, Futures and Options. Good understanding of fundamentals of Interest rate Futures/swaps and FXSolid Operational experience - Trade Capture, Pricing, Risk Management (Trading/Operational) and PnL substantiation, Order Management, Trade Execution, Trade Capture, Reporting (Trade and Transaction), Reconciliation, Settlement, Client Reporting and Confirmation processes, systems and controlsBusiness Analysis experience in designing innovative solutions to complex business requirements using strong product/business knowledge and excellent analytical and problem solving skills.Proven Project Management experience in delivering several concurrent multi-million cost saving, re-engineering and efficiency improvement projects under tight budget and timelinesVery good in building Strong relationships across Business, Technology and Operations teams and leveraging it to execute day-to-day tasks and projects efficiently and deliver client (internal and external) demands on time and with high qualitySoftware Development experience with very good understanding of technologies such as ASP, HTML, VB Script and SQL. Experience in modelling using spreadsheets and using other MS Office tools such as Project and Visio. Thorough understanding of SDLC and exposure to Agile and Waterfall methodologiesTesting/Quality Assurance experience in preparing clear and detailed test cases, knowledge of using Mercury Quality centre and conducting SIT and UAT tests. Experience in proving implementation support, conducting post release checks, end user training and production of user manuals