Dushyant Kumar Chauhan
Summary
Head of Operations at Worldquant, adept in strategic planning and operations management. Significantly enhanced organizational performance and project delivery through creative solutions, structured program governance, and effective people management. Expert in public markets and data analysis. Successfully executed organizational initiatives to expand business operations and optimize portfolio costs.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Director, Portfolio Finance & Operations
Worldquant
08.2012 - Current
- Developed leaders, and high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Recruited, hired, and trained personnel, working to restructure Operations and outline scope trading operations.
- Enhanced internal & cross team collaboration through regular communication, & shared objectives.
- Managed resource allocation effectively to ensure timely project deliveries, and smooth business operations.
- Evaluated employee performance objectives, to foster professional growth and feedback to align them with firm strategic objective.
- Reduced cost by innovative quantitative solutions to optimize cash & margin deployment, and counterparty risk & exposure.
- Drove business expansion into new markets & opportunities. Assess market & operational risk.
- Established connections with brokers/vendors to negotiate & support business.
- Experience executing Equities & futures using combination of Algo & DMA. Ran successful TCA analysis to reduce transaction costs.
Assistant Manager
UBS Investment Bank
10.2007 - 05.2012
- Ran successful Middle Office operations. Drove reviews to analyze & implement solutions to avoid recurring issues.
- Ran successful automation projects to reduce manual efforts on repeated tasks, and increase teams bandwidth for strategic or tactical initiatives.
- Collaborated with senior management to deliver strategic initiatives to support listed equities, & custom Delta1 products,
- Publish insights from clients/regulatory & management reports.
- Successfully managed Japan equities data platform to support research & portfolio teams.
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2001 - 10.2007
- Managed up to 7 projects simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail, and adherence to deadlines.
- Enhanced client satisfaction by preparing requirements/gap specification to tailor solutions for their needs.
- Streamlined project management & communications with offshore teams by setting up regular & meetings following agile & scrum methods.
- Coded & developed software products to process swift messages, and performing middle/custody operations.
- Enhanced software by evaluating code, and developing enhancements that decreased runtime.
Education
No Degree - Emerging Leaders
McChrystal Group
Washington 06.2018
Master of Science - Financial Engineering
National University Singapore
Singapore, Null, Singapore06.2013
No Degree - CMFAS
Institute of Banking & Finance
Singapore05.2012
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
College of Technology, GB Pant University
India06.2000
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Public markets
- People Management
- Operations Management
- Portfolio cost optimization
- Project Portfolio governance
- Issues Resolution
- Broker Management
- Process Improvements
- Performance Evaluation and Monitoring
- Department Oversight
- Creativity and Innovation
- Data Analysis
Timeline
Director, Portfolio Finance & Operations
Worldquant
08.2012 - Current
Assistant Manager
UBS Investment Bank
10.2007 - 05.2012
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2001 - 10.2007
No Degree - Emerging Leaders
McChrystal Group
Master of Science - Financial Engineering
National University Singapore
No Degree - CMFAS
Institute of Banking & Finance
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
College of Technology, GB Pant University
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