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Treasury & Risk Leader | FX Hedging · Investment · Liquidity | 15 Yrs · MNCs across India & UAE

About

Treasury leader with 15+ years across India and the UAE, managing $3B+ in annual FX flows across 50+ currencies and banking relationships with 20+ institutions. Deep expertise across FX hedging and trading, interest rate and commodity risk, liquidity planning, investment yield optimisation, and treasury transformation. Led corporate liability insurance for Ola Cabs and Ola Electric — one of the world's largest EV manufacturing operations. Known for driving profits through active trading strategies, slashing idle cash, and building automation frameworks that scale. Comfortable operating in complex, multi-currency, cross-border environments — and leading teams across diverse markets. Targeting senior treasury leadership roles across the Middle East and emerging markets.

Location

India

Work experience

Head of group treasury front office at Quest Global, Jul 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As treasury front office lead primary responsibility are to design, implementation and execution of forex hedging, interest rate hedging program. Responsible for yields on surplus cash lying across the globe. Reduced the idle cash globally by 30 %. Managing over USD 250 Mio of FX risk , USD 500 Mio of Interest rate risk and over USD 50 Mio of investments. Ensure proper accounting entries are passed for treasury activities. Cashflow & liquidity risk planning for all the entities spread across geographies to ensure optimum utilisation of idle funds. Coordinating with M&A team to ensure appropriate funding for strategic investments, Coordinating with local treasury teams to ensure Quests policies are adopted in acquired entities. Developing strategic relationships with banks and AMC's Globally. Coaching junior colleague in treasury front office. Commendations : ►“Innovations for the year” award for driving efficiency in treasury cash management, Interest rate and foreign exchange hedging through introductions of new products and streamlining the processes. ►Treasury team was awarded “team of the year”, for effectively managing 19 distinct currencies, reducing idle cash balance & generating superior risk adjusted returns.

Senior manager treasury & insurance at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd), Mar 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designing overall risk management policy framework for ANI and Ola electric mobility (OEM) group, be it FX & commodity risk and insurable risk. Leading the corporate liability insurance portfolio for ANI and OEM group. Cashflow and variance analysis reporting to senior management.Planning and implementing projects for efficient payments solutions. Managing FDI and ODI flows for ANI and OEM group.

Group Treasury Manager at Unimoni, Sep 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates, Equipped with my vast experience in risk management & trading skills was responsible for leading and training junior dealers in the treasury. I managed FX risk and P&L for more than 50 currencies.I drove revenues for trading portfolio by identifying and executing FX trades.Analyzing data to forecast cross-border payment volumes for efficient management of funding and liquidity risk. In addition to this, I continuously built and nurtured relationships with external/internal customers Some of my significant accomplishments were: ►Strategized and developed a model to hedge FX risk for open-ended remittance products ►Implemented concentrated value date covering and slashed the cost of cover

Treasury manager (Proprietary trader) at Reliance Industries Limited, Jul 2015 - Sep 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, At Reliance Industries, managed FX proprietary trading books. Was actively assessing both the long and short-term foreign currency loans portfolio for subsidiaries and adequately hedging them using forwards, swaps & structure products like Seagulls, Range forwards, etc. For meeting the organizational goals, I assisted the CFO and Treasurer with latest political and economic events, enabling them to make forward-looking plans and macro trades. Some of my accomplishments were: ►Executed large volume FX spot, forward, and options trades took into account the best way to implement these trades and slash transaction cost. ►Generated Alpha by trading in INR & G3 spot with various options strategies such as Straddle, Strangle, etc. ►Designed system and processes to implement a dynamic hedging strategy for Reliance Retail and its subsidiaries ►Led the Development and implementation of system-based (automation) covering of small value FX transactions.

Forex Interbank dealer at Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Jul 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr, Mumbai Area, India, As a interbank dealer primary responsibility was to generated profits by market-making in the INR spot and forward.I led proprietary trading in currencies based on technical analysis, Macro & Microeconomic economic development, and fundamental research. In addition to this, I was involved in funding and liquidity management of foreign currency accounts.

Education

PGDBM, Finance,Corporate Finance & Derivatives, N. L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research

Diploma in Business And Finance, Finance, General, ICFAI Distance Education