Prasoon possesses a wealth of experience in the intersection of IT consulting and capital market operations, accumulating over 24 years of expertise. His multifaceted background encompasses diverse roles as a domain specialist in several facets of banking and financial services. This includes portfolio accounting, securities services, fund analytics, securities lending and borrowing, custody operations, corporate actions processing, and other vital areas within the capital markets landscape.
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Currently holding the position of head of Securities Services at a French Multinational Bank, Prasoon is entrusted with the crucial responsibilities of overseeing IT and Operations in custody and fund services division. Prasoon's extensive tenure in the industry spans a period characterized by continuous disruptive changes in the financial sector, particularly in the electronic segment. Throughout this time, he has navigated challenges and successfully led engagements that address the introduction of complex trading instruments, the shortening of settlement cycles, and a myriad of regulatory changes. Additionally, Prasoon has played a pivotal role in integrating these changes with multi-channel online applications, showcasing his adaptability and leadership in dynamic environments.
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One notable aspect of Prasoon's career is his international exposure. He has executed, delivered, and managed strategic projects across large banks and financial institutions in North America, Europe, and APAC. This global perspective enhances his ability to navigate the complexities of the financial industry on an international scale, understanding and addressing diverse market dynamics and regulatory environments.
Career Graph
London
Bangalore
Singapore
Toronto
Paris
New York
Boston
In reverse chronology
Societe Generale Bank | 2016 To Present
DIRECTOR | Head of Securities Services | IT & Operations
Prasoon has been heading the Custody and Fund Services verticals within Securities Services division of the bank, and he is combinedly responsible for Operations and IT delivery. As part of this role, he is executing planning and execution of combined objectives that spans across IT & Operations for Fund Accounting, Market Data, Referential, Reconciliation & Client Experience value chains with added responsibilities to lead transformation across custody and fund services processes and IT functions. Key delivery and transformational responsibilities are inclusive of the following.
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Lead cross-functional teams from IT and Operations to evaluate and execute transformation programs across Custody and Fund Services business lines, using digital levers and with an intend to optimization total cost of ownership of processes and applications, improve end user experience and reduce manual efforts.
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Define future state design and roadmap - Enable teams to design coherent, self-resilient and highly optimized version of operational flows, supported by implementation road map, and change management strategies.
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Secure sponsorship from business and other stakeholders in launching implementation programs, which may either lead to process simplification or IT modernization.
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Drive Re-Use - Powered by automation, reuse of existing frameworks from the banks repository, using diverse technology platforms, engaging all relevant levels of the organization to create ownership, and drive validation of MVP using lean agile principles.
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Develop Human Capital - Technology & role-based cross functional upskilling of people to propel client centric transformations to the next level.
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Progressively ensure that Societe Generale Global Solutions Centre plays a strategic role in the banks journey towards transformation with the engagement of right talent and risk resiliency.
Publicis Sapient (Global Markets) | 2014 To 2016
Senior Manager | Program Management
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Client Account Management - Responsible for nurturing client relationship across multiple captives in the banking and capital markets space, with dual objective to grow the accounts and as well partner with key client stakeholders in their transformation journeys towards building capabilities with Sapient as delivery partner.
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Adapting to scaled agile delivery frameworks cross programs.
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P&L Responsibilities ranging from lead to cash.
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Building and managing sustainable & reusable technology frameworks within Sapient, focused on creating client value on both - buy and sell side of capital markets business.
Certifications & Membership
Certified Blockchain Expert ™ (Blockchain Council)
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Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist (SAFe)
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Member Business Agility Institute
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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (Harvard University)​
Testimonials
Ritesh Shah
Director Program Management - UBS
(TORONTO)
I have had the pleasure to work with Prasoon when he was working as Oracle Program Manager at UBS - Toronto, Canada and I found Prasoon a very dynamic professional, very client focused professional with excellent domain knowledge of financial industry and deep understanding of client requirements.
Prasoon clearly understands fast changing client requirements and many challenges common to offshoring and onsite staff augmentation/managed services contracts and would be an asset for any IT consulting company to hire for these specific skill set. I would have no hesitation to collaborate with him as my consulting partner at the next available opportunity.
Subrata Chakraborty
Retd. General Manager Indian Oil Corporation
(KOLKATA)
Prasoon is closely related to me. I'm yet to come across a person having wider depth of knowledge and vision in the fields he works in. I share his passion to reach the edge of supremacy in most subjects he picks up while I firmly believe in his determination to contribute his "best" in all fields. he is associated with
ORACLE (Financial Services Global Business Unit) | 2004 To 2014
Consulting Practice Director
In his 11 years stint with the Financial Services GBU of Oracle, Prasoon has successfully executed projects in the capacity of a domain specialist and Project Manager in multiple streams - including (but not limited to) Portfolio Accounting, Mutual Fund Analytics, Securities Lending & Borrowing, Custodial Operations and Corporate Actions Processing. He was also involved as a subject matter expert driving practice line initiatives in Fund Accounting and Corporate Actions space. As his last assignment with Oracle, Prasoon was executing the role of Onshore Unit Head for UBS – Global Asset Management (from Toronto) with responsibilities for nurturing and building on the Relationship along with delivery KRAs in programs related to Securities Services surrounding Hedge Funds and Fund of Funds space
ORGANIZATIONS AND ENGAGEMENTS
State Street Corporation (Boston)
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Responsible as a Subject Matter Expert in Custody Operations, implementing an enterprise platform on Global Corporate Actions Processing for State Street Bank being executed out of Boston and Bangalore.
Standard & Poor's (London)
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Financial System Domain Expert in Funds Analytic, responsible for re-architecture, design and implementation of a advisory solution in mutual funds advisory space.​
Deutsche Bank (New York)
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Responsible as a Domain Expert to implement a multi-currency and multi-geography enterprise platform in Portfolio and Investment Banking Accounting for Deutsche Bank being executed out of New York and London.
UBS Wealth Management & IB (Singapore)
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Responsible for capability development & delivery management across Wealth Management and Investment Banking Portfolio at UBS Singapore
UBS Alternate Funds (Acquired by MFUG) (Toronto)
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Relationship Manager with P&L, and Delivery Responsibilities in the Alternate Funds Services domain (Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency space) at UBS, Toronto.
Chetan Wagle
Program Manager - i-flex Solutions Ltd (New York)
I met Prasoon when he was positioned as the Senior BA for a major project for a large multinational Bank for which I was the Project Manager. Despite this being this first project in the organization and facing the daunting challenge of being fairly new to the specific technology that was in use in the project, within no time, Prasoon had proved his mettle, not only as as an Analyst but also as an all rounder. He was indispensable in every phase of the project right from the Requirements phase to Testing. He was also the go-to person for the team and in some situations, even the client for any Business or Project-related queries and questions. Prasoon is very knowledgeable in the BFSI space and brings with him a wealth of domain experience into any project he joins. He has also proved on multiple occasions that he is also an excellent team-player and a good leader for the team
Swagata Mukherjee
Senior Program Manager - Infosys
(BENGALURU)
Temenos | 2002 To 2004
Senior Functional Consultant - Fund Accounting Domain
At TEMENOS (Multifonds), Prasoon was part of the product development and implementation team from their Bangalore Office. Scope of Multifonds Fund Accounting includes processing end to end NAVs lifecycles of various financial funds, such as unitized mutual funds, UCITS, pension funds, collective investment trusts of insurance firms and other investment funds.
As a domain specialist with Multifonds Fund Administration & Accounting products team, Prasoon successfully implemented some of the complex accounting modules for ING (Holland) and Union Investments (Germany) meeting their requirement to set up Segment Funds as per International Accounting Standards (IAS). Also lead implementation of wash sales report for US markets and other key GAAP related enhancements within Multifonds to meet Citibank (USA) need to go-live on US domiciled funds. His overall responsibilities included:
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Business Requirement Analysis.
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GAP Analysis on the Legacy Systems
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Functional Specification Documentation.
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Functional Training for Development.
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System Testing & Client Support.
I worked with Prasoon very closely during his tenure with Sapient Global Markts. We both were managing an account of close to 70 headcounts and it was so amazing experience to experience Prasoon connect with most key individuals so well irrespective of their career levels. May be because of this focused skill, attrition was brought under control within no time and people's motivation level was very high as they knew they have somebody senior to go and talk to at any moment. He just stayed in the organization for less than couple of years but the impact he created was much bigger than that. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him and wish him all the best in all future endeavors
Runa Choudhary
Principal Applications Engineer - Oarcle
Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd | 2000 To 2002
Depository and Custody Operations
Stock Holding Corporation of India is a name synonymous with Depository & Custodial services in India and as part of SHIL, Prasoon was part of the core operations teams involved in offering Securities Services to 7 of the largest Indian Financial Institutions and Insurance majors, viz, IDBI, ICICI, IFCI, IIBI, UTI, LIC, GIC & its subsidiaries.
By virtue of having been a part of SHCIL when institutional and retail trade plus settlement was transiting from physical to electronic segment, Prasoon got an early exposure of disruptive changes in the electronic segment with the introduction of complex trading instruments, shortening of settlement cycles, host of regulatory changes and how they hook up with multi-channel online applications, that has shaped a large of his later career at the convergence of IT and capital markets operations. His overall responsibilities included:
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Custody Operations - Settlement Services | Company Objections | Securities Lending and Borrowing Operations | Corporate Action Processing | Interest and Dividend Processing | Cash, Positions and Settlement Reconciliation | Liaisoning with Financial Institutions, Stock Exchanges, Companies, Registrars, Clearing Members and Auditors.
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Depository Operations - Handling of Electronic Settlement Processing in coordination with NSDL and CDSL | Liaisoning with other Depository Participants in handling Securities Transfers | Handling NSDL Audit and Internal Audit | Handling Securities Lending & Borrowing Operations
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Functional responsibility of exploring the scope of Development of new and advanced user-friendly Back Office modules through feedback from Users, Clients & Clearing Members, and suggesting by way of Business Requirement Documentation on ways to improve upon SHCIL's Back Office operations
It was a privilege to work with Prasoon in many of releases during my tenure at OFSS. Prasoon has an exceptionally good functional acumen.He is a gem of a person who is focused ,dedicated and result oriented.However critical may be the situation you will always find Prasoon calm and composed .He is rational in his thoughts and takes care of his team very well.He is very well organized and leaves no stones unturned for making project a success. I wish Prasoon all the best for his future
Samiksha Sharma
Vice President - Corporate and Investment banking (Wells Fargo)
Prasoon is an amazing personality indeed. He is a man of few words but his business acumen, depth of knowledge and the ease with which he puts things in the right context is extra-ordinary. He is a self motivated person, extremely enthusiastic and energetic and 'Perfection' personified when it comes to deliverables. It was indeed wonderful working with him
