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Mahammed Saleem LN

Dubai,UAE

Summary

Professional with extensive experience in back office operations and derivatives reconciliation. Expertise in counterparty management and execution oversight, leading to significant process improvements. Proven leadership skills complemented by proficiency in SAP HANA, ENDUR, ICTS, and SQL. Strong ability to leverage MS Office tools for enhanced operational efficiency in financial services.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4021
4021
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Derivatives financial controller

Mercuria Energy Trading SA
Dubai, UAE
06.2019 - Current

Executed comprehensive daily reconciliation of exchange-traded derivatives across global markets, aligning broker reports with internal systems.

Led margin call reconciliations, validating margin requirements and coordinating accurate cash settlements with treasury.

Managed physical delivery processes for expiring futures contracts, ensuring timely delivery and reconciling obligations with exchange records.

Performed daily price break reconciliations, investigating discrepancies affecting PnL and liaising with valuation teams for data integrity.

Monitored end-of-day price files to ensure instruments reflected validated closing prices from primary sources.

Supported daily PnL reporting by ensuring alignment of pricing inputs with accounting and trading systems.

Served as point of contact for trade, margin, cash, and price-related breaks, conducting root-cause analysis within tight deadlines.

Collaborated with technology teams to automate reconciliation workflows using Excel, VBA, and SQL tools.

Professional 1

DXC Technology
Bangalore, India
11.2013 - 06.2019
  • Reconciled Trading (ICTS) and Accounting systems (SAP) daily and monthly with counterparty information.
  • Mitigated discrepancies between SAP balances and Broker monthly statements on a regular basis.
  • Performed cash reconciliation daily to ensure accurate financial records.
  • Posted transactions in SAP to align broker statements with organisational records.
  • Managed brokerage settlements for trades executed through exchanges and OTC deals.
  • Handled queries related to brokerages, providing timely responses.
  • Verified screen and voice deals for accurate brokerage reconciliation.
  • Ensured prompt payment of margin calls to brokers within stipulated timelines.

Process Associate – Accounts Payable Team

Capgemini
02.2012 - 09.2013
  • Processing invoices, and achieving TAT.
  • Handling mails and replying to the customers queries ensuring on time replies.
  • Achieve high process efficiency and accuracy.
  • Analyzing issue tracker on weekly basis with the solution.
  • Giving process improvements to the team in order to avoid errors.
  • Helping team mates in tough situations.
  • Training new team members about the process.
  • Ensure 100% accuracy in posting invoices.
  • Manual entry of wire payment and foreign currency payments and applying cash.
  • Handling monthly accrual file.
  • Achievements
  • Bagged the Star Performer award and award for outstanding performance in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
  • Bagged Employee of the year in 2014.
  • Effectively completed two projects (Kaizen Ideas) which reduced cost and man hour spent.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Finance

VTU University
India
/2010 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Mangalore University
India
/2007 - 01.2009

Skills

  • Back office operations
  • Derivatives reconciliation
  • Trade operations
  • Counterparty management
  • Execution oversight
  • Process improvement
  • Team leadership
  • Software proficiency: SAP HANA, ENDUR, ICTS, SQL
  • Tools expertise: MS Office

References

References: Available on Request

Timeline

Derivatives financial controller

Mercuria Energy Trading SA
06.2019 - Current

Professional 1

DXC Technology
11.2013 - 06.2019

Process Associate – Accounts Payable Team

Capgemini
02.2012 - 09.2013

Master of Business Administration - Finance

VTU University
/2010 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Mangalore University
/2007 - 01.2009
Mahammed Saleem LN