Results-driven Front Office Business & Technology Leader with 24+ years of expertise in Fixed Income Repo, Securities Lending & Cash trading products. Proven track record in leading four complex greenfield implementations using ION Anvil, Rates & FIS Apex platforms, integrating with multiple back-office systems to deliver high-value business solutions. Skilled at driving multi-million-dollar projects and fostering stakeholder collaboration to achieve strategic business objectivesAdditional leadership responsibilities include roadmap, budgeting, requirement analysis, SME, resourcing, project planning, IT execution and delivery.Roles & responsibilities:● Fixed Income Repo financing & cash trading business expansion program IT leader. ● Lead four Greenfield Securities Lending projects (both Fixed Income and Equities) businesses using combination of in-house and market leading vendor product – ION Anvil, FIS Apex.● Unique SME business and deep technical expertise.● Engage directly with business heads (trading desk, sales, back-office, regulatory, risks) for their requirements and focus on delivering solutions to help them efficiently manage their function.● Strategize and delivery of several operation efficiencies changes e.g. accurate trade bookings, returns process automation, client and internal trade recons, Triparty booking and allocation management with key Triparty agents, Front office supervision, trader controls.● Requirements, design and delivery of multi-asset products trade booking models (Cash, non-Cash, Margin, Index, Triparty, Central counterparty, etc.).● Integration with 20+ broker and external trading systems (some with full trade lifecycle support)- BBG, BrokerTec, Broadway, MTS, TPrepo, Tradeweb, DealerWeb, GLMX, Omgeo CTM, EquiLend (including their post trade suite-Reconciliation & Returns).● SFTR, Mifid II Regulatory reporting integrations with inhouse and vendor systems.● 20+ Indexes- rate based trade bookings implementation and custom lifecycle maintenance includes regular resets, Evergreen, Extendible.● Setting change management procedures, new tech adoption, internal training sessions, Cloud adoption, DevOps.● Financial services vendor relationship management.● Cross functional (settlements, risk, regulatory reporting, compliance, head-office reporting) stakeholder engagement to coordinate their respective function changes to support the new business products.● Ability to quickly adapt and learn new business domain and technologies.
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