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Ganesh S

Ganesh S

Head, WM ASEAN Retail Wealth Operations
Chennai,TAMIL NADU

Summary

Profile Summary

Dynamic and Self-motivated professional with 15 years of experience in Fund Accounting, Custody and Corporate Action, Trade Settlements, Derivative Operations, Mutual Funds & Alternative Investments and Trade confirmations. With proven record on migrations, building new team, managing project from concept to completion and coaching individuals to success. Skilled in building cross functional team and making critical decisions during challenges. Adaptable and transformational leader with ability to work in diverse environment.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head, WM ASEAN Retail Wealth Operations

Standard Chartered Bank
Chennai, TAMIL NADU
10.2022 - Current

Leading strategic initiatives aimed at postioning bank among industry leaders.

Managing team is 3 different locations(Chennai, Bengaluru, Kuala Lumpur) across different business segments.

Assistant Vice President

Citi Corp Services Private Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
06.2015 - Current


✓ Leading a team of 50 members and team consists of 9 complex functions for Citi Private Bank Asia Clients.
- Trade Order Processing, Settlements, Mutual Funds & Alternative Investments and Confirmations for Capital Market Products.
Project management – Partnering with Change the Bank and Transformation team’s for the strategic initiatives. – Operational Resilience.
✓ Proved record in projects designing, system architecture and implementation.
✓ Migrated - 6 New processes from Singapore to Chennai.
✓ Working closely with business partners and product desk and banker's.
✓ Managing hiring for APAC Investment Ops.
✓ Effectively performing stakeholder’s management by spearheading weekly and monthly calls.
✓ Efficient people manager - Conducted many offline meeting with individuals, ensures to provide right feedback at right time. Motivated team with many monetary and non monetary recognition.

Team Leader

BNP Paribas Securities Services
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2011 - 05.2015

✓ Global Custodian - Corporate action processing. Processing of Mandatory, Voluntary and Options events. Migrated a new Corporate action function from Luxembourg.
✓ Migrated a Corporate Action function from Luxembourg to Chennai.

Senior Associate

TCS e-Serve Private Limited
Chennai, 600001
08.2009 - 08.2011

Calculation of NAV for Hedge fund administrators. NAV calculation involves valuation of stocks in the portfolio, Dividend and interest reconciliation. Manual calculation of unrealised gain/loss for the hedging instruments - Options, Futures and CFD's in the portfolio.

Education

MBA - Finance And Systems

Anna University
Chennai
06.2007 - 07.2009

Additional Information

Operations Transformation

Delivered new platform asset servicing platform which is crown project for Singapore Retail Operations. With the new platform implementation reduced 30pct operations cost.

Restructured Retail and Private Bank Operations and synchronised the process across segments which improved the process efficiency and enables us to manage clients more efficiently.

Established new client segment - Platinum for Wealth Management and enabled a faster service to clients.

Global Settlement Dashboard - 9 months

Implemented dashboard for Trade Settlements. APAC Settlements team uses many applications to monitor the failed trades and day end check. Dashboard integrates all the applications in one place which enables team to manage fail trades efficiently. And helped team to save 10000+ MTP's and 2 hours time save per day. Entire project was handled from Chennai – Collaboration with US tech partners and completed the project on time.

ISDA Short form confirmation - 1 year
Worked with product desk and tech partners to implement new short form confirmation to meet ISDA standards.

Generalized Accumulators - 6 months

Strategic new product launch for Private Bank to price Accumulators/decumulators

GAMS for Alternative investments - 1 Year

New platform to support Alternative Investments

Awards

Received numerous awards from the senior management and at global level.

Award from Global Head of Private Bank Ops - Global recognition for Settlement Dashboard
Rising star – BNP Paribas
Best Team leader for the quarter – Q3 2013 – BNP Paribas

Quote

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins

Skills

Strategic planning

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Timeline

Head, WM ASEAN Retail Wealth Operations

Standard Chartered Bank
10.2022 - Current

Assistant Vice President

Citi Corp Services Private Limited
06.2015 - Current

Team Leader

BNP Paribas Securities Services
08.2011 - 05.2015

Senior Associate

TCS e-Serve Private Limited
08.2009 - 08.2011

MBA - Finance And Systems

Anna University
06.2007 - 07.2009
Ganesh SHead, WM ASEAN Retail Wealth Operations