Arul Manikandan Thangamuthu
Charles River Product Specialist
Summary
A Techno Functional Consultant, with extensive IT experience in Asset Management and Capital Markets. Charles River Investment Management System - Business and Tech support, Product upgrades, Experience in modules such as Trader, Manager Workbench, Compliance, Sys Admin, Web Admin, Workflow Monitor, System Admin and on versions 8, 9,18R2 till 22R1.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Asia Pte Ltd
02.2021 - Current
- Handling all the EOD and BOD process in the morning like loading all the securities, Price, Benchmark, FX, positions CRIMS 22R1 and follow up with Vendor and resolved the issue on time to make sure that all systems ready for all the regions before the business start.
- Supported mission critical production environment by providing day to day diagnostics of issues reported during pre trade activities,trading and post trade activities,risk management groups,front office and Fund managers through monitoring a ticketing system and logged messages.
- Assisting traders and Portfolio Managers in their daily day today task in Charles River
- Improved client satisfaction by providing thorough and timely project updates and addressing concerns promptly.
- Good problem solving mindset and solution enables to identify problems, make decisions and drive solutions.
- Delivered high-quality presentations showcasing project progress and results, enhancing client confidence in our services.
- Set new user, Group, roles, privileges in Charles River using System Admin
- Coordinated with PMs, EQ and FI Traders, OPS, Support, Compliance teams etc., for the production support queries and new requirement.
- Spearheaded the implementation of new workflow rules,enhancing automation and alert systems for critical trade processes.
- Played pivot role in compliance monitoring, developing and enforcing compliance rules to meet industry standards.
- Worked with major brokers in implementing fix connections across UK,US and APAC regions.
- Expertise in using FIX protocol. Worked closely with traders to resolve issues with admin. and FIX messages like heartbeat, logon, logout,resend request,reject,sequence,pre-trade,trade and post trade messages.
- Worked closely with traders and clients to resolve day to day issues like session establishment, synchronization of MsgSeqNum,execution reports and other application messages.
- Investigated and resolved production issues promptly,minimizing downtime and ensuring continuous service excellence
- Successfully crafted and managed manager workbenches within Charles River system, optimizing functionality for fund managers.
- Served as a business analyst, facilitating seamless communication between the clients and the L3 team
- Facilitated the Disaster Recovery(DR) process,fortifying the system against potential disruptions.
- Performed Technical Lead role in Hiring and Training new joiners and onboarding them to live production and involving them in critical tasks
- Implemented various service improvements,resulting in a team wide increase in overall productivity from 5% to 10%.
- Monitor and maintain ticketing system to ensure all new and repetitive bugs and issues are addressed,researched,fixed and closed.
Senior Associate-Projects
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
07.2019 - 02.2021
- To proactively monitor the batch processing via IBM DataStage and Control M
- Working on manual SOD activities such as Intraday exception verification and clearance, order matching, tax lot issues, etc
- Handle various business requests related to application, user portfolio, account related, trade/order cancel, etc
- Work on weekly and monthly management reports
- Preparing documents based on the business request for various BAU activities
- Responsible for Incident management, Change management, Problem management and Service Request management
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2018 - 07.2019
- To perform pro-active and reactive monitoring on a regular interval to ensure the application is available for the business users and also perform Adhoc requests by acknowledging clients within specified SLA
- Worked as Front Office and Middle Office Analyst for Charles River and Back Office Analyst for Simcorp Dimension
- Worked on creating workflow rules, user defined fields, customized blotter profiles by creating new layouts, export routing rules, etc
- Have worked on system maintenance activities like lower region database refresh setup using SQL Server Management Studio
- Creating requirement documents for various Change request, FIX implementation, application upgrade and other activities based on client request
System Analyst
UST Global
08.2017 - 06.2018
- Handling all the EOD and BOD process in the morning like loading all the securities, Price, Benchmark, FX, positions to SCD and CRTS and follow up with Vendor and resolved the issue on time to make sure that all systems ready for all the regions before the business start
- Handling issues related to Compliance, Trade, Cash, Manager Workflow Monitor, Blotter, System Admin, Import/Export etc
- Carrying out configurations, Implementations, Upgrade and providing day to day application support for the business
- Implement, test, Configure and maintain FIX connectivity
- Creation of the new workflow monitor based on user requirement
- Creating, Updating, and deleting of workbench Manager based on business request
Associate-Projects
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
08.2011 - 08.2017
- Charles River IMS (CRTS) Front office support and maintenance, including infrastructure support for Dev, Test, QA and Production regions
- Worked on Charles River upgrade from version 8 to version 91455
- Implemented Charles River for new LOBs in co-ordination with Charles River Team
- Import feed configuration and design inflows in Charles River
- Charles River Compliance Rule Setup and Testing and Workflow rules setup and testing
- Performed Solaris to Linux middle tier server upgrade, coordinated several database upgrades, migrations and CRIMS upgrades and patching
- Worked with CRD US and Europe, CRD Fix Support, OMGEO, GTSS, Liquidnet, Bloomberg, State Street
- Onshore Experience: From 03/15 to 03/16, Location: London
Education
Master of Engineering - Communication Systems
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Tamilnadu, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Microsoft SQL Server
Awards
- Star of the Quarter Award for Q2 2021
- Best Team award in Dec 21 & Star Team award in Jan 2023
- Start of the Month Award for June 2021
- Received CFA institute investment foundation certification in 09/21
- Received On the spot award in 05/22 and 01/23
Certification
CFA Foundation issued by CFA Institute
Timeline
Capital Markets and Financial services issued by TCSL
12-2024
Foreign Exchange Fundamentals issued by Corporate Finance Institute
08-2023
CFA Foundation issued by CFA Institute
09-2021
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Asia Pte Ltd
02.2021 - Current
Senior Associate-Projects
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
07.2019 - 02.2021
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2018 - 07.2019
System Analyst
UST Global
08.2017 - 06.2018
Associate-Projects
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
08.2011 - 08.2017
Master of Engineering - Communication Systems
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
04.2001 -
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