Shefali Totala

Investment Banking - Strategic Equity Transactions Group, APAC

Investment Banking - Real Estate, Gaming, Lodging and Leisure, APAC - Extended a pre-placement offer to join full time post graduation on the basis of performance - Identified REIT opportunities in India with detailed analysis of macroeconomic value drivers and returns of comparable companies in India and Southeast Asia - Recommended REIT issuance for a leading real estate developer, including preparation of marketing material, investment highlights, portfolio analysis, and indicative valuation - Worked from Singapore front office with exposure to client due diligence and on-boarding process - Gained hands-on experience of performing company research, industry research, financial analysis and building valuation models

Developer, Post-Trade Equities - Transformed the Reference Data service used by Post-Trade Equities and made it efficient to deploy and use - Reduced complexities of legacy trade reporting systems for Equities by re-architecting with new technologies - Contributed application development expertise for equity trade bookkeeping between client and exchange (post-execution and pre-settlement operations) Subject Matter Expert, Identity and Access Management - Awarded the Global Recognition in Excellence for assisting in time critical sell-down of Barclays Africa - Managed user lifecycle in the firm by maintaining joiner-mover-leaver process and their authorized accesses - Analyzed and improved request workflow used by all the people, processes and products across Barclays

Intern, Investment Banking Operations and Technology Services - Extended a pre-placement offer to join full time post graduation on the basis of performance - Achieved a reduction of 40.30% in IT alerts occurring due to confirmations mismatch of foreign exchange, and derivative securities - Reengineered existing model for reconciliation of trades during trading window by identifying and fixing critical technical issues - Increased efficiency of the team by implementing technology to differentiate between alerts and noise to cater to the more urgent and important tasks on priority

Academic: - Certificate of Academic Excellence for ranking in top 5% of the batch of 2019 - Batch rank 1 in PEVC, Financial Aspects of M&A, Fixed Income Securities, Sales & Distribution Management, and Big Data Analytics - Batch rank 2 in Finance I, Equity Financing, Investment Banking, Luxury Retail Management, Options Futures & Other Derivatives, and Organisation Power & Politics Co Curricular: - National finalist in Crisil Young Thought Leaders for dissertation on ‘Future of sell-side research in a post MiFID II world’ - Campus finalist in The Deal, an investment banking case study competition organised by J.P. Morgan - Campus finalist for the CFA Research Challenge Extra Curricular: - Junior Member at Beat the Market Competitions: - National top 6 in Aestimatus 4.0, an M&A valuation competition - National finalist in Moolyankan and Stock 20-20, equity research competitions

Academic: - Rank 14 in a batch of 91 students of Computer Engineering Co Curricular: - Academic research paper on 'Automated Question Generation on Structured Data' at ICACCI 2015, organised by IEEE Extra Curricular: - Public Relations at DecodingTech - Business Head for Google Student Club - Finance and Outreach Coordinator at MindSpark 2011 and MindSpark 2012