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I am a senior executive, strategist, and SME with expertise in technical leadership, building and developing high-performing teams, designing and implementing solutions for financial firms that range from smaller broker dealers to large global financial institutions. I bring technical vision, combined with subject matter expertise to all projects I have worked on. I have built global high-performing teams, and established efficient development and support models to maximize productivity. As a forward thinking leader, I have not only developed strategies, but also executed implementation and integration of scalable platforms, worked with businesses to build liquidity reporting data models and overseen regulatory reporting solutions for energy products.As an entrepreneur, I co-founded Finmax Tech, where I led the buildout of a shrink-wrapped platform for processing several financial products and more recently led the technical design and implementation of a B2C platform.With a passion for technology, what gets my adrenaline flowing is solving complex problems for my business partners. I have advised my business partners on using technology to boost process efficiencies which in turn helps them respond to their clients better. Simply put, I get stuff done.Here are some areas of expertise that I am open to discussing:➨ Leadership and team building - I have consistently achieved recognition for positively impacting the businesses I have worked with, by creating and leading high performing teams.➨ Strategic thinking and vision - I have steered the architecture, development, and launch of innovative market-leading solutions that are not only efficient but also cost effective, positively impacting the bottom line for businesses➨ Expertise in financial products and flows – My experience spans numerous financial products and markets such as repos, government and corporate bonds, securitized products, TBAs, options, energy and emissions, combined with processing flows from/to electronic venues.➨ Budgeting and expense management – I have managed budgeting and expense tracking for large corporate global teams and also as an entrepreneur, focusing on maximizing returns on investments.➨ Turnkey Solutions - I have led the build out and deployment of applications/systems from scratchOne of the keys to success throughout my career has been building strong, mutually beneficial relationships. I welcome the opportunity to share advice and guidance with others. Please reach out to connect directly via LinkedIn or at anakru@gmail.com.
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Chief Technology OfficerFinmaxtech LlcNew York, Ny, Us
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Chief Technology OfficerFinmaxtech Llc 2010 - PresentParsippany, New Jersey, UsFor over a decade, I have worked with several clients and have consistently exceeded expectations by leveraging subject matter expertise across several areas: ◆ Crafting the design and launch of a scalable B2C platform and marketplace with a web portal, IOS and Android mobile applications.◆ Conceptualizing, architecting, and building out enterprise grade solutions for calculating sales and trade commissions using a rule engine, options and equity order and execution straight through processing (STP), energy trade STP from multiple venues, and real-time confirm matching.◆ Customizing and deploying solution to clients (BGC Partners, Raymond James) in locations across the globe.◆ Implementing real-time regulatory reporting links to ACER (Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators) and (EBS) Electronic Blue Sheet.◆ Facilitating starting up of energy trading desks with technology needs in the UK, Sydney, Auckland, and Singapore, customizing Finmax Tech developed middle office trade processing suite.◆ Serving as a senior management consultant at Oppenheimer for KYC and AML, conducted process reviews resulting in a series of recommendations for functional and technical changes to existing workflows and toolsets to raise competitiveness of financial advisors, branch managers, and sales assistants. -
Management Consultant, Liquidity Reporting Initiative For Jp MorganFinmaxtech Llc 2013 - 2014Parsippany, New Jersey, UsHand selected as a subject matter expert to provide consultative expertise on liquidity reporting for the Corporate Treasury Liquidity Reporting Initiative team in addition to senior members of the Corporate Treasury team. Notable achievements: ◆ Developed requirements for implementation of the US LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio), and regional LCR requirements such as Australian LCR and Hong KONG LCR. ◆ Created LCR Template based calculations that not only drove the implementation requirements but also ended up being a crucial tool for verifying the calculations during implementation and testing.◆ Educated team members at different levels to understand various financial products and their impact on liquidity reporting including QA teams.
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Management Consultant, Initial Analysis For Jp Morgan Liquidity Reporting InitiativeFinmaxtech Llc 2011 - 2012Parsippany, New Jersey, UsSelected as a senior management consultant in the early stages of the Corporate Treasury Liquidity Reporting Initiative. Conducted analysis for liquidity reporting requirements across investment, corporate, and commercial banking, along with securities services. Met with multiple teams across different lines of businesses of the firm to define data requirements.Key achievements:◆ Developed a common data model, for data ingestion from all major lines of business to facilitate consolidated liquidity reporting. ◆ Deep-dive analysis of Basel III LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) and NSFR (Net Stable Funding Ratio) specifications, the FSA EMR (Enhanced Mismatched Report) specifications as well as the Fed 4G specifications and definition of mapping to the common data model◆ Translated into detailed business requirements for the implementation of these liquidity monitoring reports.
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Global Head Of Fixed Income Finance Desk Technology & Senior Vice PresidentCitigroup 2005 - 2010New York, New York, UsLeading the Global Fixed Income Finance Desk technology team of multiple project managers and developers, with responsibility for technology solutions and platforms for a global business unit with regional trading desks in New York, London, Tokyo, Australia, Hong Kong which together traded in several 100 billion US $ in funding transactions each day. Managed a globally dispersed but efficient team located in New York, London, China and Tokyo.◆ Increased productivity and captured significant annual cost savings by sourcing, hiring, and leading an offshore team in China while increasing productivity.◆ Steered risk and position management technology strategy, designing a risk and position reporting solution leveraged across businesses globally.◆ Cultivated strong vendor relationships to further goals and complete large technology version upgrades.◆ Championed for and established a technology roadmap, led the transformation and replacement of the legacy trade capture and processing application suite by directing the implementation of a cutting-edge, consolidated desktop toolset that combined Windows application on the desktop and JEE services in the backend.◆ Partnered with the Fixed Income Finance Desk to initiate a Liquidity Management Strategy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. -
Senior Vice President & Project Manager For Fixed Income Prime Broker Trade CaptureCitigroup 2005 - 2010New York, New York, UsI had the privilege of managing a team of highly knowledgeable project managers, developers, and a QA staff charged with building, enhancing, and maintaining platforms and applications supporting prime broker trade capture and processing functions.◆ Oversaw the seamless consolidation and integration of cash trade capture and processing functionality into the FI prime broker trade capture and processing platform, eliminating the need for trade entry into multiple product processing systems.◆ Delivered credit default swap capabilities by introducing derivative intermediation capabilities on the platform.◆ Led the enhancement of repo trade capture platform to handle prime broker away repo flows, and defining a roadmap to integrate the flows into a dedicated prime broker trade capture and processing platform.
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Head Of Treasury And Mortgage-Backed Securities Trade Capture & Senior Vice PresidentCitigroup 2005 - 2010New York, New York, UsIn this role, I was responsible for and managed the MBS pool allocation technology platform, supporting TBA pool allocations. Additionally, I was responsible for developing and executing technology roadmaps, and provided strong leadership to a global team of project managers, developers and QA staff in the US, Ireland, China, and India.◆ Directed the design, development, and deployment of the MBS trade capture and processing system in partnership with a globally based team with expertise in trade and position management.◆ Steered strategy to support the seamless integration for the legacy pool allocation application into the re-architected MBS trade processing platform.◆ Defined, implemented, and enforced best practices and standards, supporting data-backed defect tracking and automated regression testing.
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Vice President, Project Manager & Project LeaderCitigroup 1993 - 2005New York, New York, UsIn this role, I quickly achieved progressive growth resulting in increased responsibilities and the ownership of high impact projects for the Fixed Income Finance Desk, including Citi's joint venture in Tokyo with Nikko Securities. ◆ Led the enhancement of the Fixed Income Financing Trading Platform to handle Gensaki products, and negative interest rates, ensuring prices are calculated correctly◆ During Citi's Joint Venture (JV) with Nikko Securities, I helped the Cash desk teams with reconciling transactions and positions, running reports and queries across multiple applications and consolidating data.◆ On September 11, I helped the Fixed Income Finance Desk to be one of the first first funding desks on the street to be able to be up and running, overnight, from a secondary location when the primary trading location was evacuated, by coordinating with various tech support teams as well as my own team.◆ In the midst of the 2008 Financial crisis, my team and I worked with the desk to produce one-off reports utilizing tools like QlikView by importing the data they needed to analyze, into this tool and generating different views for them to click through to get various details. As a result, the desk was in a much better position to manage the crisis as they were able to get accurate reports on their exposure to different client industry segments and different product industry segments.
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Vidyaranya (Vidya) Anakru Education Details
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University At BuffaloElectrical And Computer Engineering -
Bangalore UniversityElectronics Engineering
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Vidyaranya (Vidya) Anakru works for Finmaxtech Llc
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Vidyaranya (Vidya) Anakru's current role is Chief Technology Officer.
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Vidyaranya (Vidya) Anakru attended University At Buffalo, Bangalore University.
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