Chirag Chauhan

Manager at Bank of America

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

About

Product Control professional with 10+ years of experience in Fixed Income P&L reporting and reconciliation. Proven expertise in delivering accurate daily and month-end P&L, resolving Front Office queries, and driving process automation consistently to reduce manual intervention and thereby improve efficiency. Detail-oriented and deadline-driven, with strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to perform effectively in high-pressure environments.

Experience

  • Manager at Bank of America
    Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Product Control - EMEA Credit - Managed daily P&L reporting and variance analysis for the EMEA Credit Desk across Bonds, Single Name CDS, CDS Indices, Equity Futures & Options, ensuring accurate and timely submissions to senior stakeholders, performing FOBO reconciliations, providing commentary on BvG variances and P&L threshold breaches and maintaining alignment between sub-ledger and P&L reporting systems. - Led accrual reconciliations addressing static data breaks between Bloomberg and internal systems. - Streamlined reporting processes and strengthened control frameworks, resulting in ~125+ hours of annual efficiency savings. - Executed EOD activities including dashboard preparation, adjustment dumps, and publishing P&L to the trading desk. - Managed month-end reconciliations across Sub-ledger vs Oracle vs P&L App, Arctic Recon, VBT vs Slate Recon. Key achievements: Awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze recognitions for delivering a high-impact Opex initiative, rapidly onboarding and adding value to the business, efficiently managing Arctic reconciliations, executing roll dates with zero errors, and consistently providing strong support to stakeholders

  • Senior Analyst at Deutsche Bank
    Sep 2018 - Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Product Control - EMEA Credit - Analyze and validate daily Risk and P&L numbers to ensure accurate and substantiated P&L figures are being reported correctly across attributes and validating MTD and YTD Figures. - Verifying corporate actions from external sources like Bloomberg/Euroclear - Provide daily commentaries on significant P&L movement and ensuring the drivers are in line with expectations. - Initiating, implementing and maintaining better control techniques. - Troubleshooting issues, handling and resolving trader queries, incremental risk issues. Interact with traders in case of P&L differences. - Responsible for training new joiners and helping them over trouble shooting the issues. - Perform testing and P&L Migration to new system along wit daily PnL tasks. - Perform daily cash reconciliation to ensure there are no breaks in place. - Responding on Adhoc Queries raised by Valuations Team/ Market Risk Team/Desk. - Respond timely on the Audit queries. Key achievements: - Received recognition reward in 2019 for successfully picking up business in very short span of time. - Received appreciation for creating structure process for DSAS FOBO in 2020 - Name and Fame award in 2020 for successfully migrating Books to another platform.

  • Senior Associate at SS&C GlobeOp
    May 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    - Reconciliation of Equities, Bonds, Options, Futures, Forwards, Spots, Corporate actions , Repo and Reverse Repo etc. - Performing Cash, Position , Trade, Futures Reconciliation. - Investigating on the breaks and taking appropriate action to resolve the breaks. - Assisting client for bookings of various deals and also booking cash flow on behalf of clients. - Completing Dailies, handling client queries and keeping track of emails for my CSG. - Meeting KPI of daily/weekly/monthly deliverable's. - Processing the manual work towards automation / semi automation. - Handling GoTrade Capture, G20 and GoTrade Export and various other applications. - Creating wires and Wire accounts as and when required. - Launching new clients/funds.