Neha Makkar
Summer Intern
Summer Intern, Equity & FX Trading
Bank of America Merill Lynch, Hong Kong
April 2018
to May 2018
- Built a tool to automate delta hedging of NKY Futures on the basis of price movement
- Presented trade ideas on HK equities market on the basis of prevailing market conditions; 70% of the trades profitable
- Presented currency trade ideas and detailed analysis of the Malaysian Elections to the business heads
- Prepared a tool to compare and analyse portfolio profits with or without the covered call strategy
FX Associate
Royal Bank of Scotland
March 2016
to May 2017
- Top 4/6000+ global RBS employees to get the CIO Ovation Award for ‘excellence in Customer Service
- SPOC for largest client (Revenue size: 135.99 Bn USD), responsible for more than 30% of FX trade volumes
- Improved efficiency of profit sharing process by 33% by liaising with global trading desks(USA, UK, HK)
Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland
July 2014
to February 2016
- Designed a Monte Carlo simulation-based tool to reduce counterparty risk exposure by trade novation
- Executed scenario based stress testing on RWA by varying parameters - threshold, initial margin, IA & theta
- Designed & implemented Swaption pricing & clearing strategies into new Fixed Income trade booking app
- Mitigated regulatory risk of over GBP 1 Mn by optimizing sales credit calculation logic for electronic trades
Growth Hacker (Part-time work experience)
LeapWired
September 2016
to March 2017
- Catalysed acquisition of startup (LeapWired) by a leading ed-tech firm by pitching product to 4 investors
- Nominated 20+ MBA & 80+ engineering students for the mentorship marketplace to guide exam aspirants
- Partnered with 2 institutes to acquire 300+ customers, reducing customer acquisition cost from INR 50 to 8
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Communication
Advanced
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Problem solving
Advanced
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Leadership
Advanced
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Programming - VBA, JAVA, C++, Data- Analytics
Advanced
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Microsoft Office
Advanced
- Secured CAT score of 99.80 Percentile (among more than 200,000 students)
- Secured 4th Rank in the admissions of IIM Calcutta (out of the 200K+ applicants)
- One among Top 20 shortlisted for Aditya Birla Scholarship
- Cleared 2 levels of CFA in the 1st attempt
- Awarded CFA Institute Access Scholarship
- Ranked 3rd out of 100+ applicants for CEMS
- One among 12 out of 650+ applicants to receive the Charpak Scholarship by the French government
- Among Top 3/135 students in the 2nd year
- Awarded best paper ‘Economic Reforms of 1991’ among 70+ students
- Among Top 0.8% nationally out of the total 11 lakhs+ students in the AIEEE entrance exam
- Half Marathon runner, completed in 2hr 35 min
- Trading, Poker
- Head of Initiatives CSR Club, RBS
- Identified 6 alternative livelihood sources for rural communities by surveying 50+ households across 6 villages’16
- Crowd-funded INR 1.76 lakhs to implement best practices in field of education and sanitation across NGOs