Vaibhav Mishra

Head Of Automation - Morgan Stanley Investment Management -

• Leading global team responsible for driving digitization and automation strategy for MSIM
• Built team of 20 highly skilled and dedicated technologists ground up in last 7 years
• Delivered ~25 "Business Process Management" solutions across business units and functional areas
• Focused primarily on Innovation, Re-use, Data Driven Designs and quick time to market
• Ran critical workstreams during MSIM - EV integration and helped businesses achieve their "Target Operating Models"
• Successfully ran People Engagement Initiatives during pandemic years to promote inclusion and improve retention

Key Platforms Delivered:

• T3 (2016) - Take On, Transition and Termination eco system for various Client and Product types
• MSIM Obligations Management System (2017) - Digitized Platform to capture, trigger and action on MSIM obligations towards clients
• Intermediary Lifecycle Management Platform (2018) - Workflow platform to handle lifecycle for Distributors and Intermediaries across fund families and regions
• MSIM Trade Pre Clearance Workflow (2018) - State of the art, automated personal trade pre clearance system for MSIM Compliance to ensure employees are following "Code of Ethics" while doing personal trades.
• Digital Work Environment (2019) - One stop solution to digitize various operations business processes i.e. Client Enquiry, Invoice Management, Cash Flows and Audit queries
• Strategic Reporting Architecture (2019) - State of the art client reporting platform for generation, review and delivery of reports packages externally to clients. Visualization and review workflow was developed by Automation team.
• Data Quality Exception Management (2020) - Platform that pulls and manages lifecycle of Data Quality exceptions for entire MSIM Data universe from various DQ platforms (IDQ, PanDQ etc.)
• Regulatory Reporting Workflow (2021) - Transactions review and correction workflow application. This platform is responsible for submitting high quality data in a timely manner for various regulatory regimes (SFTR, Mifid, EMIR etc.)
• FAST - Flow As Service Tool (2022) - One of a kind self service tool which allows business users to build their workflow applications without IT intervention. A crown jewel in application offerings and 10 applications have been created using this so far.

Technical Lead - MSIM Reference Data System

• Provided technical leadership and architectural inputs to modernize MSIM accounts, clients and products reference data repository
• Led big conversion project to outsource back office operations to vendor from reference data owner perspective

Technical Lead - MSIM Workflow Technology Team

• Established workflow practice in MSIM Technology
• Major re-skilling in terms of tech stack and managerial skills
• Grown team and products offerings by 100% YoY for 5 consecutive years

Grown from Senior Associate to Manager to Senior Manager in these 7 years and gained extensive technical and domain knowledge of financial industry and Asset Management in particular.

Lead Developer - MSIM India Funds Technology

• Front-to-Back technology solutions for MSIM India business team
• Built solutions for all functional areas with MSIM India Business - Sales, Investments, Legal, Compliance, Operations
• Coordinated and Managed large scale projects i.e custody migration and eventual sale of business to HDFC Mutual Funds

Solution Engineer - Global MSIM Solutions Team

• Joined as a junior developer to support STP process for global equity trading desks
• Built small process improvement components for monitoring and capacity management
• Built strong understanding of working in horizontal teams and have big picture

Joined as a Graduate Trainee as part of TCS's campus recruitment program.

Developer - National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange

• Built Cash and settlement module for NCDEX's clearing and settlement system
• Designed and built Physical delivery module in NCDEX's clearing and settlement system
• Experienced and supported high pressure, real time and highly critical production environment of one of the nascent financial exchanges in India back then
• Completed various financial market certifications offered by National Stock Exchange (NCFM)