David Pilgrim Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Advisor focusing on Risk and Controls in the TCS Cyber Security Practise

India

Relocated to Mumbai in March 2020 to lead the department through transformation and growth.• Remit to complete the in-sourcing program where 120 resources were hired over a 3-year period to build a 650 strong team in India across Mumbai and Bengaluru.• Responsible for all regional HR matters, including hiring and retention, grievance, promotion, and personnel matters. Managed the recruitment of employees and consultants, increasing the gender diversity by 5% to 33%. Doubled the number of Executive Directors through internal promotion in 3 years.• Transformed the operating model to improve system stability through aligning to reliability engineering principles.• Represented Reliability and Production Engineering department in regional and global senior stakeholder forums.• Initiated working groups for team engagement, diversity and inclusion, recruitment and return to the workplace to build strong working culture aligned to Firms Values. Active participant in these forums.• Maintained functional responsibilities as Global Head of Cross Business Support ServicesRegional responsibilities across Reliability & Production Engineering in India

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for 300+ person Production Management organization providing support services across the entire Institutional Securities business. • Horizontal Services: Working to provide a set of services across to achieve vendor consolidation and cost efficiencies. Creation of a consolidated Level-1 Off-Shore Support team across all business lines and technical domains. • Standardization : Drive the use of standard tool sets for monitoring, incident and problem management and automation. • Consolidated Production Processing: Responsible for expanding the process and procedures achieved for Equity Swaps, across other Equity and Fixed Income domains, through an off-shore vendor team.

London, United Kingdom

Development manager for critical business within Equity Division where the principal products were the Equity Swaps and Custom Baskets• Stabilised the end of day processing and delivery of client reporting to meet the 3am EST Client SLA.• Decommissioned the reliance on 3rd Party system that was out of support with in-house built product. Enabled the business to scale and expand the offering.• Deployed new Swap creation trading application with integration into main Equity trade capture and booking systems to ensure hedge trades were matched and the swaps correctly allocated.• Re-engineered the processing of corporate actions to improve the accuracy of processing and reflect client preferences. Complex integration project with Firms Securities Lending processing.

London, United Kingdom

Development manager for the renovation of Corporate Action processing.

London, United Kingdom

Development manager for the renovation of Delivery Instructions.

London & New York

Team lead for this 12 person team, spending a 3 year assignment in New York to build out system functionality during a rapid business growth period for Convertible Bond Trading and Research

Ringwood, Hampshire, Uk

Operations Director for small start-up company manufacturing Well-Control simulators for the oil industry and associated training

London & New York

Developer for International Pricing feeds and analytical decision support tools for Equity analysts.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Graduate Drilling Engineer working on offshore exploration and production platforms