Workflow Analysis/Operations Review
Trading Workflow Analysis and Re-engineering Study
Re-engineered trade processes and investment operations for a leading investment management firm with the goal to streamline, simplify and further automate operations within the scope of industry best practices. Re-designed investment information flow and trade processes developed to ease capacity constraints, reduce operational risk issues, improve cost factors and facilitate greater business controls.
Derivatives Operations Workflow Analysis and Engineering
Conducted an extensive review of how the existing global technology solutions of a leading global financial services firm support the range of new complex derivative instruments required to be supported by the firm’s global network.
Investment Operations Re-engineering Study
Effected a front- to back-office business process review including a best practice critique for a $40 billion private asset management firm, expediting a strategic architecture analysis focusing largely on data management within the company.
Investment Operations Organization Recommendations
Conducted an Investment Operations and Re-engineering Review for an established institutional pension asset management firm to study front-, mid-, and back- office systems for internal users and interfaces to external parties, including brokers, and custodians.
Conducted an extensive OTC Review inclusive of:
- Trade entry
- Trade confirmation/matching
- Payment streams & settlement
- P/L of capital & income components
- P/L of strategies
- Collateral management
- Pricing
- Real time risk reporting and analytics
- Real-time consolidated reporting of physical and OTC derivative positions – including look through of underlying exposure.