SUNAYANA JEEVAN
Bangalore,India
Summary
Accomplished professional with expertise in leadership and team management, directing teams of 30+ across multiple locations while mentoring talent and fostering career growth. Demonstrated success in project management, delivering high-impact initiatives such as Brexit, EMDEN, and T+1 Cycle readiness. Proven track record in operational excellence, achieving a significant increase in Payment STP rates from 15% to 92%. Skilled in regulatory compliance with deep knowledge of FATF, FTR, T+1, and other global mandates. Adept at change management, successfully overseeing transition operations roles to India. Committed to driving impactful results through strategic planning and execution.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2004
2004
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Head of Brokerage Fees reconciliation
BNP Paribas India Solutions Pvt. Ltd
2024.07 - 2026.01
- Successfully migrated Brokerage fee recon process from Portugal to India.
- Backlog clearance on priority
- Invoices associated to Top brokers on high priority
- Strengthened controls by covering all attributes
- Equipped team to handle all tasks
- Successfully delivered on tasks within tight deadlines.
- Improved efficiency and productivity by building with partnerships with all associated teams
- Supported team by demonstrating respect and willingness to help.
Vice President – Equities Payments & Prime Brokerage Operations
Deutsche Bank
2007.06 - 2021.12
- Enhanced payment operations by improving STP rates from 15% to 92%, reducing manual interventions.
- Collaborated with business and technology teams to optimize payment processing infrastructure
- Directed payment and reconciliation operations, achieving a 20% increase in efficiency.
- Joined as Assistant Vice President in October – 2016 & promoted to Vice President in March - 2021
- Lead the EMDEN program, ensuring seamless client migration and operational risk mitigation.
- Promoted diversity and inclusion that resulted in an enhanced company culture.
- Fostered a positive work environment with open communication channels.
Trade Support (Cash Equities)
Deutsche Bank
2014.10 - 2016.10
- Providing support to London Trading Desk, & acting as point of contact for all downstream teams
- Received appreciation mails from Traders, Marketers, Clients & Onshore.
- In the midst of Migration, managed to clear around 3k backlog breaks from intern-company (LDN vs NY) reconciliation
- Established a control framework to proactively detect, knowledge gaps, and back testing historic operational error to ensure the key controls work and are able to detect the exception.
- Sign off new trade flow for clients – thereby ensuring trade is STP'd without any error, client's interest is well maintained & there is no financial/reputational risk to the bank
- Managed teams across locations (Bangalore & Pune) for Contract Risk Management process
- Lead major transitions and operational enhancements, resulting in below enhancement initiatives.
- Root Cause Analysis on the manual tasks performed across the trading desks and worked in collaboration with Technology/Traders/Settlements/Static teams, lead to save of 3 FTEs
- Created macro for handling trade confirmations pertaining to Frankfurt cash equities desk and achieved 0.5 FTE worth of savings
- Self-Identified risk as part of my functional Audit review was mitigated by creating a macro to reconcile inter entity breaks between NY& LDN regions for all trading desks.
Process: Settlements and Contract Risk Management
Deutsche Bank
2007.06 - 2014.05
- Manage end to end settlements for all European market trades
- Manage risk for Trading desks through diligent and proactive monitoring of a variety of Control tools
- Responsible for managing all post trade date breaks and Operational risk across all delta-hedge & cash equity trades
- Effectively dealing with Buy- In queries
- Ability to adapt work patterns during option expiry, by recognising breaks which have the greatest capacity to impact a trader's portfolio and cause financial risk. Raise it to Trading desk if need arises.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce -
Mysore University
Skills
- Leadership & Team Management : Directed teams of 30 across locations, mentoring talent and fostering career growth
- Project Management : Delivered high-impact projects, including Brexit, EMDEN and T1 Cycle readiness
- Operational Excellence : Increased Payment STP rates from 15% to 92%
- Regulatory Compliance : Expertise in FATF, FTR, T1, and other global regulatory mandates
- Change Management : Successfully handled multiple transition operations roles to India
Languages
English
Tulu
Kannada
Hindi
Accomplishments
- Improved client experience by optimizing payment processes, achieving 92% STP rates.
- Client Certainty & Innovation (persuading them on using self-key in platform) for Cash Payments business.
- Decommission of Financial Management system (FMS) in order to be complained with Audit & introduced Smart-FMS platform to process manual payments for clean cash movements.
Transition Experience
- Cash Equity Settlements (2007) from Birmingham, UK to Bangalore, India
- Contract risk management (2009) for Global Equity Derivatives & Cash Equities from Birmingham, UK to Bangalore, India.
- Contract Risk Management business for Cash Equities from Frankfurt, Germany to Bangalore, India (2011)
- Successfully completed resiliency project for streamlining operations from Bangalore to Jaipur (2013) by training new joiners in Jaipur & also ensured BAU is running smoothly
- Migrated Trade Support function of Cash Equities business (2014) from Birmingham (UK) to Pune (India).
- Migration of Brokerage Fee & Commission business from Lisbon to India (2025)
Timeline
Head of Brokerage Fees reconciliation
BNP Paribas India Solutions Pvt. Ltd
2024.07 - 2026.01
Trade Support (Cash Equities)
Deutsche Bank
2014.10 - 2016.10
Vice President – Equities Payments & Prime Brokerage Operations
Deutsche Bank
2007.06 - 2021.12
Process: Settlements and Contract Risk Management
Deutsche Bank
2007.06 - 2014.05
Bachelor of Commerce -
Mysore University