Vikram Shastry

Projects Handled : Data Product and Strategy Lead Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Part of Building a centralized Data solutions AI team
• Leveraging AI to enhance products and business strategies
• Identifying AI opportunities, building cross-functional teams, and developing AI-driven products that deliver tangible value and align with customer needs
• Manage ethical, legal, and regulatory considerations, and establishes success metrics to track the impact of AI initiatives.
• Planned and executed educational sessions on AI capabilities for internal teams, contributing to a company-wide uplift in AI proficiency
• Managed cross-functional teams to integrate AI functionalities into existing platforms, enhancing user engagement
• Led the custom development of a chatbots for Data Products that improved users service response times by 50%.

Key Deliverables: Indian release lead

• Managing the data platform release as India release manager wherein the tasks include coordination within Data delivery managers, Data Analyst and release team to ensure smooth releases.
• Single escalation point for release activities

• Managed a team of 20 people for KYC periodic refresh Asia directly reporting to local site head
• Spearheaded innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning.
• Workflow development and enhancement for KYC periodic refresh.
• Worked on integration projects for KYC programs to implement a smooth client outreach.
• Monitor production metrics & ensure the tool emerges as a credible basis for Evaluation
• Consistently lead by example & effectively coach employees in a positive manner for improved results
• Discuss and escalate with Compliance complex issues surrounding client types and structures, financial products and services, and other AML risk related issues
• Engage with Quality Control (QC) to close the feedback loop on quality checked records and make corrections to KYC records. Strive for high quality in completing KYC records
• Drive Process improvements and implement process changes as necessary
• Analysis of daily/monthly metrics to track performance of individual team members over time to evaluate performance, learning and capability
• Produce Matrix for stakeholders and senior management for transparency
• Development of workflow for Wealth Management KYC for Hong Kong and Singapore region for periodic refresh
• Recruited, hired, and trained initial personnel, working to establish key internal functions and outline scope of positions for new organization.

Projects Handled:

• End-to-end Project execution and management of integration of LEI (Legal Entity Identifiers) data with the firm systems for the trades to be reported to the regulators.
• System integration of National Future association for regulatory OTC trades with the firm systems.
• Building Data Quality infrastructure as part of an audit requirement for the existing regulatory project.
• System integration of various Residential mortgages, Wealth management and other asset classes for calculation of Exposure of the Client for the Firm and also to ascertain any operational risk or regulatory risk to the firm.
• System implementation of MIFID 2

Projects Handled:

• End-to-end Project execution of Automating standard settlement instructions(SSI’s) from Omego-An external source for SSI’s to firm systems without any manual intervention saving time plus increasing efficiency of Manual error using Agile project management.
• Removing Duel key between 2 systems for Derivative, Equity Derivative for Cash and securities for reference data for Asia Pacific, Europe and US systems. Total of 8 Systems were worked on.
• Managed Business Process of End – to – End Process Migration and Decommissioning from Asia AEJ Dodge platform to UK EMEA platform.
• Implementation of various regulatory requirements for various business units in reference data systems for projects European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), Dodd Frank and FATCA.
• Worked on data implementation of French financial transaction tax and Italian transaction tax.
• End to end project execution of development of workflow with technology team for automation of account opening process for Client’s getting on boarding into the firm systems.
• To assist in building Data Quality infrastructure as part of an audit requirement for the existing regulatory project.
• To create data dictionary to help users have an aerial view of field names in various systems
• To automate the weekly KRI (Key report indicator) report
• Worked on the initial analysis of BCBS239, a requirement of JFSA regulators to have a systemic channel for consuming and distributing static data to all systems within the firm.

Key Deliverables:

• Understand retail banking products
• Delivering transformation ideas for enhancing customer experience
• Handling customer escalation. Reaching out to various functional groups(Clearing house, Regional processing unit etc for resolving any issues or concerns.

Key Deliverables:

• Taking interviews of managers and senior managers managers of the industry for a specified project.
• Sharing the findings with the project team
• Developing questioners based on the industry.
• Client’s handled were Titan Industries, HP, Avaya Global, Shoppers Stop, Westside, Ballard paper industries.