Director Of Operations
New York, Ny, Us
Director of Operations responsible for a global team across Client and Account On boarding, E-Commerce Products, Anti Money Laundering,Compliance, Legal Entity and Client Integration.Responsible for managing a Institutional account opening operations across multiple products globally: Repo, Fixed Income, Equity, Portfolio and Collateral.Provided strategic direction to automate manual account opening processes while leveraging vendors such as Omgeo in optimizing straight through processing.Developing Business Requirements (BRD's), User Acceptance Test (UAT) scripts across multiple systems, that included Repo-Finra, Dodd Frank, hierarchies and data integrity.Metrics and reporting, manage budgets, assign work, track and monitor global projects while effectively managing risk and reducing operating expenses.May 1987 - October 2002 Vice PresidentDevelop and supported a corporate action and dividend operation for agency lending business across mutual funds.Provided market intelligence and expertise in all facets of corporate actions and dividends to the head of Sales and Portfolio Managers.Managed a foreign securities desk responsible for the collection and distribution of Dividends and Corporate action events across custodians that included: DTC, Bloomberg, Global One, international custodians and Tax reclaims.Instrumental in managing a reconciliation project reducing $20 million in aged receivables while working in London and Hong Kong.
