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Minneapolis, MN, US

United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Manages the operational, compliance and administration of Corporate Trust deals onboarding in collaboration with customers, consultants, relationship managers and Financial Crimes officers.Engage multiple teams, including sales and relationship managers, business negotiation consultants, and financial crimes to onboarding, closing and funding of trust.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Organization: Manages the operational, compliance and administration of Corporate Trust deals onboarding in collaboration with customers, consultants, relationship managers and Financial Crimes officers
• Project Management: Lead operational transition of Corporate Trust products to India to create efficiency and achieve location strategy.
• Process Development: Develop Key Performance Indicators for tracking transition progress and setting procedures in compliance with financial regulations using excel and internal databases.
• Communication: Lead weekly meetings to update 3 domestic & international teams of outstanding task breaks & process improvement opportunities. Set role expectations between international & domestic teams.
• Teamwork: Engage multiple teams, including sales and relationship managers, business negotiation consultants, and financial crimes to onboarding, closing and funding of trust deals.
• Deal Administration: Provide oversight for 170 deals on average per month in compliance with financial regulators, rules and procedures. Review deal documents & meet contractual obligations with 99% accuracy meeting.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Risk Management: Managed 250 deals set up on average per month in compliance with internal standards, policies and Securities and Exchange Commission deadlines with 98% compliance rating.
• Problem Solving: Managed department production via analysis of various reports from multiple systems to optimize allocation of resources.
• Process Development: Prepared workflow, reviewed, and updated 60+ plus department procedures & checklists, achieved efficiency rate of 97%, an increase by 17%.
• Mentoring: Trained & coached junior team members by constructively reviewing daily work and giving feedback and boosted productivity. 1

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Operational Excellence: Completed operational aspects of mergers & acquisitions (dividend payments, corporate actions, securities registrations) with consistent accuracy rate of 98%.
• Process Improvement: Conducted cross-departmental training on foreign securities processes to enhance collaboration and better client service.
• Process Management: Standardized department procedures and increased productivity by 17% to 97%.
• Customer Engagement: Guided customers on foreign double taxation treaties benefits and saved 10-25% in tax withholding from investment proceeds.

• Operational Excellence: Registered 25 stock certificates worth of $9.5M flawlessly in partnership with Depository Trust Company, shareholders, Brokers and Transfer Agents.
• Process Development: Wrote securities registration guideline by conducting in-depth research & reduced registration error by 15% and improved client satisfaction.
• Process Improvement: Researched operational bottleneck steps for efficiency and reduced outstanding items and increased productivity by 10% to 95%.

• Managed community development projects.
• Planned, implemented, monitored, and evaluated community development projects.
• Designed community development project baseline study survey.
• Trained community agents and beneficiaries on improved techniques of land management to crease productivity and resources conservation.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science, Human Resource Management

Training & Development

50% coursework completed in Training & Development

Associate Degree, Applied Science In General Agriculture