Shilpa Vijaywargi
Assistant Vice President, Global Head, Trading Analytics Group
Bengaluru
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Vice President (Global Head)
State Street Global Advisor
Bengaluru, Karnataka
12.2021 - Current
- Fostered strong relationships with key clients, Major stakeholders sitting around the globe, leading to better analytics which in turn resulted in increased business for the organization.
- Established better collaboration with the IT team and the business team, to fetch faster and better results with enhanced infrastructure
- Oversaw change management initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions during periods of organizational restructuring or process improvements.
- Established a high-performance culture within the team by setting clear expectations and providing regular feedback on individual performance contributions.
- Presented regularly in board and committee meetings as an active member of the committee.
- Raised reporting accuracy and Timelines by creating new automated methods (Tableau dashboards, Alteryx, Python).
- Optimized resource allocation by analyzing operational needs, reallocating resources as needed to maximize efficiency across all functions
- Lead the cross-functional teams projects to deliver successful results and analytics on time and within budget, enhancing company reputation in the industry.
- Increased efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing new software tools for the team.
Sr. Manager (Sr. Officer)
State Street Global Advisor
Bangalore
04.2021 - 12.2021
- Lead the transition efforts from US to India, building a team from scratch, which now supports global stake holders completely out of Bangalore, India.
- Hired professionals with varied skills, which in turn lead to automation, and enhanced infrastructure for the BAU and projects
- Introduced the use of Python, R and Alteryx in the team, working on multiple data analytics projects with the team members. Also enhanced the usage of tableau dashboard.
- Worked on projects likes ETF Analysis, APAC market open spread analysis, Liquidity and risk analysis, which helped trading and PM teams with decision making.
- Participated in the MFID II audit, which resulted in the green status for best execution capabilities of the organisation.
- Established strong relationships with clients, vendors and stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships and analytical projects for decision making.
- Setup the TCA or best execution process for leverage loans, and other illiquid instruments in a short span of time.
- Partnered with the senior leaders in the organisation, and led the transition efforts of creating one golden source of all trading data in one place.
- Conducted performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.
- Enhanced legacy processes by driving successful initiatives that addressed client pain points effectively.
- Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
- Evaluated vendor offerings critically to select the most appropriate partners for delivering desired results at optimal costs.
- Consistently met or exceeded annual performance targets set by senior leadership.
- Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
- Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Mentored junior staff members for skill development and career progression within the organization.
Manager (Officer)
State Street Global Advisor
Bangalore
5 2019 - 3 2021
- Led the Trading Analytics team at Bangalore, India
- The team handles transaction cost analysis and best execution efforts for company wide trading across asset classes-Equity, FX, Futures and Fixed Income
- Collaborate closely with multiple vendors and the internal research and IT team
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
- Monitored and analyzed business performance to identify areas of improvement and make necessary adjustments.
- Drove operational efficiency through data-driven decision-making processes, leveraging analytics tools for informed strategy development.
- Cultivated partnerships with external stakeholders to maximize business opportunities and extend network reach within the industry sector.
Assistant Manager
HSBC
Hyderabad
02.2019 - 05.2019
- Worked with the commercial banking finance division of the bank and successfully completed a short project and created a Tableau dashboard on the same.
Supervisor
Franklin Templeton Investments
Hyderabad
12.2015 - 1 2019
- Led and managed the team to support the APAC equity trading department with various trading/market analyses, performance or transaction cost analysis, Liquidity analysis, among other important projects.
- Led the FX TCA project end-end, which included measuring the TCA for the custodian executed FX trades
- Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
- Improved Stakeholder satisfaction by addressing and resolving complaints or pain points promptly.
- Collaborated with the management team to develop strategic plans for business growth and improvement.
- Completed the Algo analysis project, which involved measuring the various Algo's performance, and highlighting the best and worst performing broker Algos using the statistical methodology.
- Collaborated with the APAC traders during the ‘Asian Trading offsite’ at Bangkok
- Successfully completed the 'Trading Mentorship Program' held at Chennai trading desk that helped understand the practical knowledge and day-to-day operations of trading world.
- Maintained project work plans, defined strategy roadmap with deliverables and expected milestones which drove the business decisions
- Lead and Successfully automated 35% of the daily tasks with the tech team
- Coordinated with vendors (ITG ot Investment Technology Group) to ensure timely delivery of products and resolve any supply chain issues.
- Worked with the Leadership team to get the pay revision for all the employees in the team by revisiting the job roles of each of the employees
Senior GTA Analyst
Franklin Templeton Investments
Hyderabad
12.2014 - 11.2015
- Worked on the “Trend data: Vitesse” project for the head of Global Trading that helped them understand the trend and movement of the stocks and helped them in the decision making
- Leveraged MS office skills to design few macros that helped the team to generate accurate and quicker results/reports for the clients
- Received the Excellence Certificate from the functional head in US for the useful findings and timely submission on couple of projects
- Established an efficient training model to impart the process related training to the new hires, resulting in shortened transition time to work. Have designed the complete one year of training plan for the new hires
- Ideated and implemented the daily market summary for the global regions.
- Recommended process improvements to continually identify, analyze and fix constraints and challenges.
- Assisted in decision-making processes by presenting accurate, data-driven recommendations to stakeholders.
- Increased efficiency by streamlining data analysis processes and implementing automation tools.
GTA Analyst
Franklin Templeton Investments
Hyderabad
03.2012 - 11.2014
- Worked on various reports supporting the global trading departments and played a key role in stabilizing the Bloomberg cost reduction project, wherein we got away with API downloads
- Successfully completed the project “Data Analysis on Programs” which involved analysing big data set and coming up with high level hypothesis on program trading.
- Received the “Valued professional: Debutant of the Quarter” award in September 2012 for showcasing the skills through the data analysis project
- Recommended process improvements to continually identify, analyze and fix constraints and challenges.
- Optimized core processes to improve business performance and Accuracy.
Education
PGDM, Finance & Marketing - undefined
Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management
Hyderabad, TelanganaBachelor of Science, Computers & Statistics - undefined
St. Francis College for Women
Hyderabad, TelanganaSkills
Management: Team Leadership, Process Improvements, Decision-Making, Problem-solving abilities, Teamwork and Collaboration, Client and vendor Relationship Building
Business: Data analytics, Capital Markets, Trading analytics, Risk Management, Transaction Cost analysis
Technical: MS office, SQL, Tableau, Python (basic level)
Databases: Sybase, Oracle
Interests: Travelling, Reading, listening to music
Timeline
Assistant Vice President (Global Head)
State Street Global Advisor
12.2021 - Current
Sr. Manager (Sr. Officer)
State Street Global Advisor
04.2021 - 12.2021
Assistant Manager
HSBC
02.2019 - 05.2019
Supervisor
Franklin Templeton Investments
12.2015 - 1 2019
Senior GTA Analyst
Franklin Templeton Investments
12.2014 - 11.2015
GTA Analyst
Franklin Templeton Investments
03.2012 - 11.2014
Manager (Officer)
State Street Global Advisor
5 2019 - 3 2021
PGDM, Finance & Marketing - undefined
Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management
Bachelor of Science, Computers & Statistics - undefined
St. Francis College for Women