WASIM AHMED ANSARI
www.linkedin.com/in/wasim-ahmedansari | +1 - |-| Canadian PR, USA – B1/B2
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION
• Project Management Professional (PMP)®, Project Management Institute (PMI)– USA
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), Operations and Marketing
• Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Advertising and Sales
Certified – Apr 2021
Graduated – May 2010
Graduated – May 2008
SERVICE DELIVERY, OPERATIONS, SALES, CONSULTING, PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
Citi Canada
Vice President – Reconciliation & Proofing Lead Analyst
Aug 2022 – Till Date
• Horizontal Lead to manage and deliver reconciliations across Securities Financing, Repos and Reverse Repos for The Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) helping Citi mitigate and eliminate completeness and accuracy gaps
• Corrective and Preventive Action Lead for mitigation of ~135K Manual Touch Points within Citi by implementation of Auto Match
Rules, Upstream Enhancements and Automation of Manual Recons on Citi Internal Portal and TLM for 13 business areas
• Senior PM for review of gaps in trading activity flow and mitigation by building automated controls for Citi’s UK Entities across
Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Commodities, Margin Operations, Prime Brokerage, Asset Servicing, FX, Syndicates and Cash
Management as per guidelines issued by Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)
• Single Point of Contact (POC) for project management and delivery governance of regulatory, risk and business as-usual (BAU)
Ops-Tech projects including BRD/FRD creation and reviews, workforce management, sprint artifacts review, Sponsor and business
signoffs and stakeholder management
• POC for Global Reconciliation Utility (GRU) team on reporting and Steering Committee Meeting Presentations
• Workforce planning, Business office management, financials and SOW management for vendors and Citi
• Weekly, Fortnightly and Monthly Reporting of Project Status to Executive Steering Committee, PMO and other Stakeholders
Tata Consultancy Services, Canada Inc.
Project Manager – Capital Markets, Asset Management and Financial Services
Aug 2021 – Aug 2022
• Regulatory Project: Review of Trade Life Cycle for UK Regulated entities for a leading Investment Bank to identify reconciliation
gaps across Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Commodities, Margin Operations, Prime Brokerage, Asset Servicing, FX,
Syndicates and Cash Management as per guidelines issued by Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)
• Working with market operations team on BRD creation, review of recon files and feed information and identifying recon build
schedule. Target is to deliver 4 recons by end of April 2023
Amazon
Operations Manager, II – Global Trade Services – Import Trade Compliance – Manual Classification
Jun 2020 – Jul 2021
• Led a team of 95 for the Canada, Mexico and Brazil Program Teams to ensure accurate classifications of Tarriff Codes for ~2.5
million products as per Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN/HTS). These products then become eligible for imports into
the respective Amazon Marketplaces (MPs) adhering to International Customs Rulings (USCBP), Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and
Product Classifications (PT) requirements. SLAs maintained: Accuracy-96.5%, TAT-100%
• Worldwide (WW) Throughput per Hour (TPH) – Ideation, building and launch of Multivariate Model for TPH for all sites (Jordan,
China, Romania, Poland, India, Mexico) in Trade and Product Compliance. This goal was open since Jul’2020 and needed alignment
of all sites on inflow complexity, clustering percentages, MP alignment and individual targets. Post completion WW TPH
predictions were met for the first time in April 2021. The model improved prediction scores from 55% to 92% ensuring accurate
workforce forecasting, improved reporting and metrics dashboard for Seniors
• Project Adroit: Small-scale automation which complemented implementation of a larger “Skill-based Allocation” model for Trade
Classification. It reduced time-to-deployment from 18 months (about 1 and a half years) to 4 weeks delivering improved results
in accuracy of classification by 125 bps. It also eliminated the need to implement any change in operating models and could be
scaled to any team, process or site irrespective of the product classification
• Collaborated with Site and WW owners on Project Sabre for Managers and Project DORA for Associates resulting in performance
measurement standardization, role guidance and alignment and improved near-time dashboards. Successful completion led to
scorecards for WW nodes from Nov’20
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• Managed Manual Classification University (MCU) for new hire onboarding, training and on-the-job training achieving 93% on-time
movement of 45 associates to live production by end of 2020 thereby meeting 95% of Program Level commitments for 7
marketplaces (Australia, Singapore, UAE, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and US)
Infosys BPM Limited
Service Delivery Leader and Solution Design Consultant – Capital Markets, Financial Services, BPO/BPM
May 2010 – Jun 2020
• Pre-Sales Consultant for Trust Services Line of Business. Collaborated with the Capital Market Solution Design team in creating a
1,000+ HC outsourcing plan for one of the world’s largest Retirement Funds Manager
• Established new client engagement by setting up Offshore Financial Reporting team of 18 SMEs migrating knowledge from Irvine,
California and Norfolk, Virginia. The team prepared notes to financial statements, portfolio of investments, directors’ summary,
board reports, SEC and other regulatory reports, portfolio turnover, FAS 157 and 161, roll-forward tables, statement of assets &
liabilities (SAL), share class, distributions, capital share transactions, and expense summary
• Established a team of 3 resources as a Nearshore setup for Reference Data Management (Security Master File) in London
managing creation and update of security information in master database, researching and analyzing trade and broker reports
and Bloomberg Terminal for accurate and timely publish of data within 15 mins of TAT for each request
• Led a team of 32 engaged in Post Trade Compliance ensuring all false triggers, active and passive breaches for 600+ portfolios
across 80+ clients are performed before T+2. All breaches were researched, documented and reported to Onshore/Onsite Client
Compliance Officers (CCO), Portfolio Manager and Risk Manager within 24 hours
• Process Transformation and Service Credit Reduction in Fund Accounting completed for onshore and offshore teams by improving
from Red to Green state of Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) and reduced financial service credits up to $250,000
• Responsible for a team of 70 managing cash reconciliation for fund accounting performing custody vs. cash reconciliation,
updating margin balances and month end movements for 3,500+ funds. All open/NAV impacting breaks were researched and
closed with client service group (CSG) owners. Breaks managed included bank loans variances, interest and principal variance, tax
variance, corporate actions, dividend variance, expense variance and broker claim etc.
• System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Fund Administration function. Collaborated with the client
on timely completion of SIT and UAT of a $5.5Mn global system upgrade for an E2E expense management
• Accountable for a team of 40 in Fund Administration for processing of custody, asset management fees and other non-direct
expense invoices, budgets and management fees. Team was responsible for review and approvals of approximately of 36,000
invoices, 240 TERs, 4,000 budgets and 250 Tax D ’Abonnement across 100+ clients
• Managed Accounts Payable (P2P) and Enterprise Services Controllers team of 16 in end-to-end Finance & Accounts (F&A). Invoice
and payment processing, vendor management, month-end activities, accruals and provisions of PO, Non-PO, Legal and Travel &
Entertainment (T&E), and charitable contributions using ACH, Wire, EFT and Checks of 36,000+ invoices across 6,000+ vendors in
US, Europe and Asia. Performed month-end and year-end activities like ADP payroll for contractual employees, reconciliation
between PeopleSoft and Payroll files, passing journal entries to resolve breaks, prepaid amortization, reconciliation of cash and
suspense account, 1099 and 1042 reporting
• Spearheaded the setup and transition of a team of 28 in Financial Reporting involved in preparation of detailed and condensed
Schedule of Investments (SOI) for various fund houses. Other reporting included FAS 157, FAS 161, Risk Tables (Currency, Liquidity
and Country), OTC and ETD tables across 80+ clients, 800+ funds and 4,000+ reports annually
SENIOR LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
• Anchored surveys for training, mentoring, coaching, performance improvement teams to ensure “Manager Connections Score”
are continuously meet or exceed Amazon benchmarks at each level
• Chair for “How to Lead with Empathy” for all managers and leaders across Trade and Product Compliance
• Service Delivery Leader who has actively managed two of the largest Capital Markets client engagements of $3.5 Mn and $2.3 Mn
respectively with teams based out of Gurgaon, Pune, London and Irvine
• Conducted multiple floor-walk sessions as a part of “Meet your Leader” initiative and spoke on topics like “Equitable Performance
Analysis”, goal setting and mentoring, accurate performance measurement and balancing work-life
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
• TLM, Confluence, FundSuite, STAR, Bloomberg Terminal, Aladdin, Custodian Sites, PeopleSoft, Concur, ADP Payroll, ProcureIT
• MS Office – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio (Workflow creation) and Project
• Quality Centre by HP, Jira, US Customs & Border Protection, Customs Info Global Tariff
