KEVINA KALAYVARNI CHENGANNA

• Oversee the smooth running of operations by assisting the back-office team, coordinating team schedules to optimize workflow, and resource allocation.
• Supervise daily operations, including scheduling personnel, assigning tasks, and monitoring progress, while also maintaining relationships with clients, brokers, counterparties, and custodians.
• Review agreements, current operational procedures, and ensure that new business initiatives are compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Ensure effective implementation of the internal operational and risk assessment procedures.
• Coordinate with the compliance team to act as the first line of verification for KYC documents.
• Together with compliance, conduct risk assessments on client's portfolios to identify potential exposures.
• Work closely with internal and external auditors, and implement standard operating procedures to ensure efficient workflow.
• Developed strong relationships with customers through excellent customer service practices.
• Verify the process of deposit, transfer, pledge, unpledged, and other CDS tasks.
• Trained new staff on procedures, safety protocols, and company standards.

Achievements: Work with management, the trading team, and in-house compliance, as well as the BNYM/SBSA team, and deliver timely reports; gain clients’ confidence by assisting them from opening a brokerage account to following up on their ongoing queries; and directly involved in the development, integration, and implementation of the stockbroking settlement system.

• Analyzed market trends to inform trading strategies and decision-making.

Achievements: Supported the manager and team in setting up a foreign trading platform, including the settlement part with the product vendor, and was directly involved in the development of this system.

• Worked with a variety of investment instruments, including equities, ETFs, and bonds, mostly on the American and European markets, corporate bonds, T-bills, and GoM Bonds.
• Traded shares and securities by utilizing short-term trading automated models (Iceberg, stop-loss orders, all-or-nothing orders).
• Evaluated local and international companies’ performance reports, conducted basic value analysis (ROE, EPS, and dividend payout ratios), and monitored news flow and economic fundamentals.
• Assisted investors in following the market trends and evaluating their portfolios' net worth.
• Attended to clients investing in both local and foreign IPOs, and any other corporate actions.

Officer - Back Office

• Worked on the timely settlement of financial instruments through our custodians, Deutsche Bank and Euroclear Bank, performed reconciliation of SBM Securities Ltd GL accounts, monthly reporting of figures, and debtors follow-up.

Achievements: Gained the client’s confidence by closely monitoring their open positions and assisting them in building up their portfolios.

Actively participated in the development, testing, and running of Miles Software, and the implementation of the Euroclear platform.

• Performed reconciliations of the bank’s Nostro and suspense accounts daily.
• Followed up on outstanding items, highlighted, and investigated irregular postings with the respective department.
• Prepared daily and weekly reconciliation reports: Audit Trail Reports, Nostro, and daily cash flow.
• Typed, ultimately verified, and releasing inward/outward remittance (MT103, MT200, and MT202), and attending to queries (MT199, 599, 999, and 195) through the system SWIFT Alliance.

Achievements: Directly involved in the development, integration, and implementation of ITAPS (International Trade and Payment Solutions) and EE (Eximbill Enterprise) systems.

Awarded for having 99% wire transfers STPs (Straight Through Processings).

• Trading stocks and bonds on the local Stock Market

• Processed cheques sent on collection basis.
• Reported the movement of figures, studied daily journal entries, and prepared monthly returns for the purpose of the Bank of Mauritius.