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Hong Kong Sar

Leading the effort, across the Morgan Stanley listed derivatives business, to set up a fund manager and alternative investment fund, in GIFT City, located in Gujarat, India. GIFT City is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) regulated by the IFSCA. Managing the Morgan Stanley program to set up an office in GIFT City involves managing teams and subject matters related to setting up a financial entity. This includes strategic planning, regulatory approvals, office build out, booking model planning, bank account opening, hiring and onboarding staff, adhering to regulatory and compliance reporting, tax filing, legal counsel reviews, corporate services planning and technology implementation. The fund registered with the IFSCA as a Restricted Scheme, which is a Category- III Alternative Investment Fund (Non-Retail Scheme). The entity then applied for and received a Category I FPI License from SEBI.Registering the fund includes the creation and development of key documents including an investment management agreement, a private placement memorandum, a contribution agreement, trust deed, custody agreement, a business plan, and other formation documents. Entity set up included identifying and appointing a trustee, an independent valuer, an auditor, a tax consultant, a fund administrator, a Compliance Officer and a Principal Officer. Ongoing engagement with the regulator is crucial to ensuring a smooth set up, along with managing active relationships with retail banks, GST office, customs agent, contractors, consultants and more.

Hong Kong Sar

Partnered with a vegan who developed a unique, ONE OF A KIND plant based burger that is praised more consistently than any manufactured 'meat' on the market. This burger is tasty, surprisingly delicious and always leaves the stomach lite! In addition to the burger, we offer a full menu of main and side dishes all plant based and delightfully tasty!For this business: - I designed and implemented operational procedures to enable straight through processing of supplier orders - Setup a customer offering that immediately resulted in customer satisfaction and a loyal following - Enhanced new customer acquisition through the creation of targeted promotions - Developed SEO through a broad range of social media content building - Tracked and detailed accounting of revenue and expenses; created financial statements for investments and tax reporting - Hired and managed a staff of 15+ as the business continues to grow across Hong Kong - Ongoing risk management of overall business investment health with careful attention to customer and sales dataFrom concept to reality, created a business in the area of plant based comfort food that has no competitor. And enjoyed the whole experience while building a new network of followers!

Hong Kong

The APAC Transformation team is an internal projects team focusing on implementation, process improvement and efficiency studies. Client, Content and People are the three pillars that define the team and provide structure when delivering projects. As Transformation Lead for an Asia Pacific regional project, the focus for this project is on client complaints. The main objectives cover the design of a regional policy, with guidance of regulatory policies, implement a workflow tool to handle complaints, factoring in local requirements, and providing change management to all key roles in the process, including the business, operations, compliance and conduct. Presented objectives and deliverables to APAC COO and heads of business on a regular basis. Successful roll out and completion in a timely manner.

Hong Kong

Security Services Global Bank – Remediation programPerformed a comprehensive analysis of the Service Delivery Fee Billing processes to design a bottom-up solution for remediating multiple tasks and procedures.Designed and implemented a strategic plan of six workstreams to resolve issues and remediate risks raised by Internal Audit across fee billing. Workstreams include: verifying custody fee rates; fee letter checklist, centralizing invoice generation, centralize fee setup, financial securities pricing and others.Led senior management status update monthly meetings on remediation program and raised risks, issues and challenges for senior stakeholder to action.Developed the remediation program with support from four FTE’s and two STA’s, who are allocated full time to the programSCRUM Master for the largest Cost To Achieve (CTA) initiative which targeted a save of 22 FTE’s. Includes leading daily SCRUMs, Sprint planning, Sprint review/retrospectivesCommercial Bank – Change & Implementation LeadImplementation Lead for eleven workstreams which includes: development of the Change & Implementation Business Readiness Checklist, Implementation Approach documentation, and Commercialization TrackerDesigned the Business Banking project Support Model for the production environment by structuring lines of defense for responding to customer inquires. Global Bank – Project ManagerEnhanced visibility into the remediation or curtailment of high risk customers across APAC affiliates for senior management.Streamlined the remediation process by providing accurate monitoring, analysis and reporting for global leads. Developed a target operating model that defines the responsibilities of each APAC affiliate CEO and implemented a RACI matrix across all affiliate risk functional roles

Greater New York City Area

Brokerage Securities / InsuranceDesigned a strategy for implementing federal regulations surrounding brokerage accounts. A federal regulations named 'Best of Interest Contract' was enacted to keep the interest of the retirement investor when the broker offers retirement investment plans.Implemented workstreams across the brokerage/insurance company to remediate marketing and investment strategies. Global Banking - IHCDeveloped a contingency plan for all deliverables related to the creation of an Intermediate Holding Company in order to submit an operating process flow to the Feds IHC deliverables include Risk, Asset & Liquidity, Finance & Regulations and Capital Planning (CCAR).Global Banking & Markets - Global BillingLed a team of Business Analysts to ensure a successful transformation of US Payments from the legacy platform to the strategic. This involved the creation of Roles Based Profile across the release and developing an end to end solution for entitlements. Partnered with the offshore team, senior managers, release managers, software delivery and other stakeholders to ensure tasks are delivered on time.

Greater New York City Area

Third Party OversightThe objective of JPMorgan's initiative is to provide a strategic solution to on-board and report on all of its third party providers across all lines of businesses. Leading the Reporting Working Group as part of the strategic initiative to deliver a comprehensive vendor/supplier system. Providing analysis for the On-boarding solution that is running in parallel with the Reporting solution. Designing use cases for the vendor engagement and vendor profile work streams that include the verification of vendor artifacts, supplier financial viability assessment and vendor engagement risk. This involves the creation of future state process flows for vendor on-boarding.Collaborating with our business partners from multiple lines of businesses including Asset Management, the Investment Bank, the Commercial Bank, Mortgages and Legal to understand their current state issues and future state requirementsProviding high level documentation of the strategic requirements for the third party oversight initiative. This includes providing business requirements and functional requirements.

Weehawken, Nj

Loan Servicing PlatformDesigning and developing the requirements for the reengineering of the UBS loan servicing platform. Managing the business phases of the product development lifecycle and driving the project to meet key deliverables and milestones.Leading multiple Wealth Management initiatives including the implementation of a re-pricing tool for the broader UBS field, the enhancement to the internal website for client account information.Designed the interface for client sensitive information by creating new functionality for field agents. This involved researching product specific features and scoping the most relevant information for field agents.Proven ability to translate complex processes into clear and concise requirements.

Brooklyn, Ny

Client Service ProjectProject Lead for the implementation of a vendor application. Managed relationship with the vendor, designed test plans for monthly releases, prioritized enhancements to deliver to the business on time. Utilized the agile project management methodology to adjust to the client's needs and implement highest impact deliverables.Led the operational effort in the firm wide conversion of the Morgan Stanley foreign exchange platform. Designed complex reconciliation reports. Analyzed the scope of relevant products and documented procedures on the flow of a weekend conversion.Scoped the design of a multi-dimensional graphic user interface for all operational groups within Morgan Stanley. Created a project plan with key milestones to guide stakeholders through the project lifecycle. Executed quality assurance test regression and the project rolloutLed the operational project to allow business users to move from one currency to another currency. Designated rules to comply with the internal accounting system. Created test cases and performed regression testing on newly created functionality.

Jersey City, Nj

Analyzed operational risks across multiple businesses associated with the joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney. Provided gap analysis to determine the best way to achieve economies of scale between operational areas. Created efficiency within the Morgan Stanley notification and response process by eliminating manual intensive procedures. Increased productivity for the operational line and communicated these changes with management.Performed a root cause analysis on the Foreign Tax Process by researching existing procedures, evaluating the current state and developing more robust daily procedures

Greater New York City Area

Developed the new strategic platform for credit reporting and scoped out the critical elements needed in the reporting tool. Tested report functionality and trained Bangalore team on report utilization.Managed the monthly credit report of top client movers for loans and unused committed facilities. Communicated report to the Finance who utilized the report to notify Senior management of high risk clients.Strengthened control by increasing the timely issuance of derivative confirmations. Led the on-boarding of clients onto the Morgan Markets Portal, a web based application to view documentation for interest rate swaps.

Sitka, Alaska

Developed social recreation program for residential treatment facility by involving clients in healthy outdoor activities such as hiking, kayaking, boating and fishingOrganized fundraising events with the clients to grow the recreation program and provide a positive outlet. Fundraising events included operating a booth at the local fair and leading a community car wash.Managed finances for the program by maintaining a constant surplus of fundsConducted weekly meetings with clients to communicate all local events and increase participation