Kate Evans Email & Phone Number

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Supervisor of broker dealer and bank Fixed Income settlements for North America and responsible for the oversight of 6 depositories, 17 direct reports and clearance of $400 billion daily. • Managing the oversight and timely resolutions of breaks and fails to mitigate risk, and comply with regulatory guidelines and accurately reporting to the Federal Reserve.• Daily interaction with clients, technology and business stakeholders in order to provide timely solutions and remediate issues.• Develop and implemented multiple project plans that created efficiency and mitigated risk.• Lead and coordinate global cross-functional tactical and strategic initiatives across Cash Securities.• Enforce risk and control mechanisms to ensure overall compliance to policies and regulatory requirements.• Implement and act as Operations subject matter expert for regulatory and industry initiatives including Contingency Planning.• Globally align and implement effective controls across functional areas while eliminating 20% of the overall time spent on obsolete policy and testing methodologies while ensuring compliance with regulations to reduce risk and to deter errors.

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Supervision of Fed Fixed Income Settlements for North America, and is responsible for the oversight and clearance for multiple depositories • Managing the oversight and timely resolutions of breaks and fails to mitigate risk, and comply with regulatory guidelines and accurately reporting to the Federal Reserve.• Daily interaction with clients, technology and business stakeholders in order to provide timely solutions and remediate issues.• Develop and implemented multiple project plans that created efficiency and mitigated risk.• Led the successful migration of $200 billion for Citi Treasury Investment business onto the domestic strategic settlement platform, known as Broadridge.• Lead and coordinate global cross-functional tactical and strategic initiatives across Cash Securities.• Proposed a change to the Global Sanctions Policy that was accepted, in which had direct global impact on Cash Securities including future reiterations of the Sanctions policy.• Acted as a liaison to coordinate the application and integration of robotics across Cash Securities, with a successful implementation with Warehouse operations.

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Responsible for the management and oversight of 24 hour global cash processing teams, 20 direct reports, 35 vendor staff (India/Singapore/Dalian) and clearing $1.2 trillion daily. • Point person in Buffalo for US Command Center in response to the European crisis.• Decreased repair error rate by 10%, and implemented processing standards globally.• Developed and implemented multiple project plans that created efficiency and mitigated risk.• Coordinated the reduction of legacy cash flows and collaborated with technology to implement vendor based solution, CitiFT, for transaction services globally. • Enforced risk and control mechanisms to ensure we met all compliance and regulatory requirements.• Strengthened and re-built the Canadian processing team to improve VOE and business partner relationships.• Improved the Canadian dollar straight through processing rate by 45%.• Led operations work stream initiatives to create efficiency and align functions. • Supported multiple internal and external customer relationship teams by providing payment tracking and payment re-engineering to increase straight through processing.• Led all aspects of people management including score cards, recruitment, development, training and performance.

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Departmental lead supporting Lean Initiative for Global Payment Processing.• Created a team that was highly motivated and self sufficient by developing core competencies.• Conducted staff certification across our global partners for regulatory processes.• Supported and trained customer service teams on all aspects of payments processing which included: system navigation, payment re-engineering, payment tracking and core funds transfer investigations.

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Daily review of transactions with insufficient funds on various platforms (Consumer, Worldlink, Canadian, and Corporate customers (FIRM and GIRM)). Ensured all approvals adhered to the ICG Risk Policy prior to releasing funds.• Assisted and produced an operational cash grid that aligned with the 2009 ICG Risk Policy, to ensure accuracy when obtaining credit risk approval. • Apart of the core risk team that existed during the financial crisis, to coordinate/review the multiple bankruptcies to mitigate liquidity risk to bank.• Provided demonstrations during onsite client walk-through of the global cash processing system, to generate new client work streams.