Alim Ladak Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Delivery of automation, BI, AI/ML and data analytics across the company using a series of industry-leading tools
• Programme/project management of concurrent business transformation initiatives
• Completion of process re-engineering, architecture diagrams and technical solution designs
• Creation of a delivery lifecycle. Ongoing enhancements to lifecycle to incorporate CI/CD practices
• Management of software upgrades, IaaS onboarding of new vendor products, cloud migration strategy and significant changes to the infrastructure estate to improve efficiency and reduce costs
• Delivery of predictive and prescriptive data analytics and what-if scenario modelling to support key commercial decisions

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for SMEs and BAs in USA, UK and APAC (Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia)
• Development of global operating model while respecting local regulations for certain jurisdictions
• Responsible for delivery of Aladdin enhancements to support the future state operating model and automated placement of fund orders via Calastone
• Determining end-to-end operating models for vanilla and complex asset classes (reinsurance, OTC derivatives, hedge fund flows, T+0 value orders, NDOs and catastrophe-linked products)
• Collaboration with migration workstream to create runbooks for conversion, parallel and go-live periods split across two go-live periods
• Go-live solution created to monitor and validate outgoing trade flow notifications from Aladdin in order to ensure success of migration

New York, New York, United States

• Launch of new office to support growing Americas business (North America AUM 2015 £40BN, AUM 80BN 2020)
• Implementation of Singapore to New York follow-the-sun model
• Development of global operating model (Charles River, SimCorp Dimension)

London, England, United Kingdom

• Process re-engineering across the department to automate trade flow, increase STP, improve efficiency, automate controls, reduce operational risk and ultimately reduce costs
• Statistical analysis of vendor and Schroders data to suggest more efficient and lower-cost outcomes for clients (e.g. best execution, execution timing reports for reduced spreads, FX netting)
• Proposal and delivery of project to expand the number of emerging/frontier currencies traded at Schroders to improve fund performance through the reduction of FX fees
• Creation of operating model for complex assets and clients (including frontier/emerging IPOs and portfolios for smaller pension funds)
• Trade flow management, CLS/gross matching and settlement of circa 30,000 FX trades per month
• Oversight of cash payment queues with approximately $3 billion settling per month

London, England, United Kingdom

• Oversight of trading and cash positions across portfolios for trade execution (FXs, time deposits, tri-party repos)
• CLS implementation project for eligible clients and custodians
• FX CLS/gross matching, trade instruction and settlement
• Analysis of KPIs to improve team processes, increase STP and mitigate operational risk