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Anand Natarajan

Anand Natarajan

Executive Director | Data Strategy | Banking & Financial Services | AI & AnalyticsTransformation
Chennai

Summary

Senior Professional with 2 decades of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data platform management, Executive Reporting and Insights, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Location Strategy, Team Management and Training.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
2004
2004
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Head of Global Operations Analytic Solutions

Wells Fargo
Chennai
04.2022 - Current
  • Accountable to drive the usage of metrics and analytical insights for the business groups and enterprise functions in India and Philippines with 40K+ employees while supporting the global delivery of analytic solutions.
  • Managing the governance framework encompassing 3000+ KPIs and KRIs.
  • Product owner of Operations data platform hosting Big Data to facilitate the build of analytics solutions.
  • Delivered end to end data and analytics solutions through PowerApps, SQL, SAS, Python, Power BI and Tableau.
  • Driving analytics agenda through projects in the areas of Predictive Analytics, Early Warning, Generative AI, Natural Language Processing and Computer vision.
  • Successfully filed patent for automated insights generation through trend analytics.
  • Architect of IP360 product suite, a one stop utility for management insights covering growth, hiring, finance, people and engagement.
  • Led multiple data programs for senior leadership to drive the closure of business-related audit issues and corrective actions.
  • Launched the '100 Data Analysts' program for fresh college graduates in partnership with Anudip foundation.

Principal

Bank of New York and Mellon
Pune
04.2020 - 03.2022
  • Handled COO for Operations Utilities division covering 4 functions with 500 FTE.
  • Responsible for Planning, Budgeting, Expense Management, Execution, Monitoring, Employee Engagement and Risk management and control.
  • Accountable for Agile program management of Utilities global book of work – Includes Tech-funded and projects executed through the federated framework with self-service tools like Xceptor, Pentaho, Tableau, RPA and Baseline.
  • Managed program to build data lakes for Tax, KYC and Account Activation teams.
  • Designed, Built and produced management insights covering Capacity, Productivity, Diversity, Attrition, Overtime, Hiring, KRI. KPI, Service Issues and Transaction Costs.

Program Manager

eClerx Services Pvt Ltd.
02.2015 - 03.2020
  • Led a team of 120 consultants to drive and deliver front to back projects for multiple clients across Operations Change, Process Transformation, Data and Analytics.
  • Positioned eClerx to execute large scale managed service change projects.
  • Led a team of dedicated consultants to drive front to back delivery of the Risk and finance reconciliation automation over Intellimatch to comply with the BCBS 239 regulation. Successfully managed the Agile product delivery teams for data analysis, normalization, reporting and risk-measure substantiation activities for multiple financial products in scope of reconciliation viz. OTC, ETD, Loans, Secured Financing, Trading Inventory, Issued Debt and Nostros.
  • Led and executed the Machine Learning project to deploy analytics solution for OTC Margin disputes workflow of a US Investment bank involving creation of risk model, leveraging Python for analytics and Power BI for visualization.
  • Handled $3 Million in revenues and exceeded the gross margin target set for the program by 6%.

Vice President (Advanced Specialist)

Goldman Sachs
06.2009 - 06.2014
  • Managed the Regulatory Reporting Operations for OTC Derivatives with 2 yrs of project work experience in London and New York.
  • Involved in the elimination of high-risk user developed applications while partnering with technology to create milestone databases.
  • Developed workflow prioritization models and led several global regulatory MI projects ahead of schedule and on or below budget resulting in 10 FTE savings and 100% improvement in productivity.
  • Developed global Dodd Frank and EMIR confirmation timeliness risk framework aimed at providing transparency on about to turn non-compliant derivative transactions.

Associate (Specialist)

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
11.2006 - 06.2009

Senior Analyst

Deutsche Bank Network Services
Bengaluru
09.2005 - 09.2006

Analyst

Scope eKnowledge Centre
Chennai
06.2004 - 08.2005

Education

MBA - Financial Engineering

BITS-Pilani
06-2004

MSc (H) - Economics

BITS-Pilani

Executive Program - Business Analytics

IIM Calcutta

Skills

  • SQL

  • Tableau

  • Power BI

  • Python

  • Microsoft Office Suite

  • SharePoint

  • Excel-VBA Macros

  • Word

  • PowerPoint

Certification

Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM)

International Assignments

  • US
  • UK
  • Singapore
  • Hungary

Timeline

Head of Global Operations Analytic Solutions

Wells Fargo
04.2022 - Current

Principal

Bank of New York and Mellon
04.2020 - 03.2022

Program Manager

eClerx Services Pvt Ltd.
02.2015 - 03.2020

Vice President (Advanced Specialist)

Goldman Sachs
06.2009 - 06.2014

Associate (Specialist)

Goldman Sachs
11.2006 - 06.2009

Senior Analyst

Deutsche Bank Network Services
09.2005 - 09.2006

Analyst

Scope eKnowledge Centre
06.2004 - 08.2005

MSc (H) - Economics

BITS-Pilani

Executive Program - Business Analytics

IIM Calcutta

MBA - Financial Engineering

BITS-Pilani
Anand NatarajanExecutive Director | Data Strategy | Banking & Financial Services | AI & AnalyticsTransformation