1. PRATIK CHOHAN
Flat No. 1103, Dheeraj Savera Towers CHS Ltd, Khatau Mill Compound,
Borivali (East), Mumbai – 400 066
Contact # 9819660615 Email: pchohan@gmail.com
An Investment Bank Professional with more than 10 & half years of experience. Demonstrated
commendable skills in Process Transitions, Project Management, capable of providing business
recommendations, team player, quickly adapting to change and setting up and managing teams with
excellent communication skills.
Current Work Experience:
Barclays Mar 2012 till date
Assistant Vice President – Equities FinComp (Mar 2016 till date)
Transitioned the entire process and setup a team here in Mumbai to manage the flow of commissions
for various desks. The entire responsibility of the system (Sales comp) lies with Mumbai. The key
deliverables include:
Maintenance of the POT balances, various integrity checks to ensure that the trades are
booked to correct ledgers and also correct IR numbers and also ensuring that data has flown
from upstream systems to Sales comp, setting up IR Requests, approving STAT uploads for
trade adjustments
Month end sanity checks to ensure correct data flows from Sales comp to various
downstream systems. Posting of appropriate journal entries to maintain the general ledgers in
SAP and then providing a sign off in Inform.
Adhering to any queries arising in Sales comp including queries from PWC (auditor for Sales
comp process)
Manage team expectations, look into escalations, setting up career path for the team members
AVP - Business Analytics and Operational Risk & Control (Oct 2013 till Mar 2016)
Set up and handled a team wherein the primary purpose is to track the progress around the
performance of the firm across Equity desks which includes Cash Equities, Program Trading,
Electronic Trading
Created additional capacity of approx 0.5 FTE due to automation
Review and provide input for an effective and robust control monitoring process, ensuring all
key operational and business risks are identified and assessed, then remediated and addressed
as required
Maintain and build strong working relationships across Front Office as well as other major
stakeholder groups like Internal Audit, COOs, senior MDs, Business Management to ensure
the appropriate delivery and service environment is in place
Developed and enhanced new automated MI reports by introducing an internal tool
Worked on various onshore projects (Operational Risk Framework) revolving around Risk
and Control in US for 3 months in 2015 while simultaneously managing the offshore team as
well as the onshore/offshore management
AVP – Client Servicing, Prime Services(Mar 2012 till Sep 2013)
Transitioned and set up a team for EMEA Client Services wherein we cater to clients (hedge
funds) dealing in cash equities, repos and derivatives (credit default swaps)
Handling client queries and stock loan trade bookings, fund movements, monthly billings
Working on projects to improve service for the top 20 clients and portfolio analysis
Taking care of regulatory reporting (FCA mandate) and customized reports for the clients
2. Past Work Experience:
Credit Suisse Business Analytics India Pvt. Ltd. Aug 2010 till Mar 2012
Exempt Non – Officer - Client Servicing, Prime Brokerage
Trade capture & booking of novations, terminations for OTC products like CDS.
Analysis of various dealers’ credit exposure
Daily reconciliation between Front office system & ICE Link & investigating the breaks
Setting up accounts for interest accrual & ticket fees calculation for new clients
Assist clients in wire transfers, trade bookings, corporate actions notification & resolving any
unusual activity around clients books
Various Daily and monthly reports revolving around the balances, margins, trade fails,
interest calculation & fees charged to the clients
Nomura Services India Pvt. Ltd. (Lehman Brothers Inc.) May 2006 till Aug 2010
Analyst – Capital Markets Prime Services (May 2006 to June 2008)
Trade bookings, handling exceptions, wire transfers & daily position reporting for fixed
income products (repos & reverse repos)
Pre matching & settlement of products including calculations and client queries for credit
default swaps, cross currency swaps, interest rate swaps, total return swaps
Senior Analyst – Equity Derivatives Middle Office (June 2008 till Aug 2009)
To ensure that there is minimum risk to Lehman (now Nomura) on account of taking
positions for clients in the markets for Equity Swaps
To support the traders as well as infrastructure groups involved in asset servicing
Equity Prime(Aug 2009 till Aug 2010)
Was nominated and moved to UK for a period of four months to initiate and set up the Cash Prime
Brokerage business in Nomura. The key responsibilities are mentioned as below:-
To Collect data from stakeholders and business heads to determine the feasibility and revenue
aspects of the Cash Prime Brokerage business right from trade capture to settlements.
Was involved in the testing phase of trade capture and trade execution & settlement (in UK)
Making the cash wires (for FOP only) on behalf for the client & investigating the breaks
Reconciliation between inter & intra systems & investigating the breaks.
Achievements:
Won the “Innovators Award” for creativity and innovation for the year 2006 in Lehman
Brothers
Successful migrated "Prime Transition Manager (PTM) process from UK and trained the
team in India & went live successfully meeting all the deadlines. The process is used by
various hedge funds to trade in various markets for fixed income products.
Won an award in April 2007 for consistency in the work and good performance and June
2008 for catering to client in an efficient manner and reducing their queries and issues
Educational Qualification:
Secured First class in Master of Management Studies (MMS) specialization Finance in the
academic year 2004 – 06 from MET Institute of Management at Bandra
Secured Distinction in (BMS) in the academic year 2002-03 from Mithibai College
Personal Details:
Date of Birth : 18th
September 1982
Marital Status : Married
