Raghu Modi
Toronto,Canada
Summary
A seasoned leader with proficiency in providing various banking and financial product system solutions with a proven ability to achieve tactical and strategic business objectives. Experienced with large organization programs in Information management, application integration, data integration, business intelligence, data analytics, and data patterns that enable a well-integrated, transactional, collaborative, and agile suite of systems. Experience including but not limited to Trade Life Cycle, Liquidity risks, and Management reporting with in-depth knowledge of systems – LoanIQ, Global, Calypso, Sophis, Murex, SunGard, Broadridge, Bloomberg, Encompass, Darwin, FIS, WSS, Lombard Colline, PeopleSoft, FRS, etc.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director - Chief Data Office
TD Securities
05.2021 - Current
- Product owner of the Trade and Market data Authoritative Data Source with an objective to increase adoption across the dealer and reduce redundancies, duplication of data source, and enable data assets to be fit for use
- Act as the Subject Matter Expert on Capital markets data, Metadata Standards & Metadata Management processes & Data Quality & Be knowledgeable about Issue Management & Resolution
- Manage execution of data stewardship initiatives related to Data Governance & Data Management
- Activities include project planning, prioritizing requirements & tasks, seeking diverse points of view for optimal solutions, understanding, resolving, or escalating issues & concerns & influencing team members to deliver on time & within budget
- Implement & adopt the data quality strategy for the functional business unit and data owners, in line with the Enterprise Data Governance office, to advance practices related to the identification of business needs, reactive data quality
- Support efforts to create or enhance metadata repositories, data dictionaries, data lineage, Business Process Maps, training materials, change management documentation & related data governance procedures
- Adopt data quality frameworks & standards as defined by Enterprise; implement policies & procedures to ensure data quality practices are syndicated within their business unit (e.g., data prioritization, data requirements & rules, data contracts)
- Oversee the data quality issue/defect management process within the line of business & maintain a repository of issues for monitoring
- Monitor & report on data quality within Business/Function/Region (e.g., define/ gather metrics, develop dashboards, deploy tools) as per the standards defined by the LOB and the enterprise.
- Worked closely with organizational leadership and business operating circle to guide operational strategy.
- Oversaw operations and provided corrective feedback to achieve daily and long-term goals.
Director - Risk Management and Reporting
TD Securities
01.2017 - 04.2021
- Project Oversight - Lead streams of work packages via the waterfall and agile delivery methodology run the bank and change the bank delivery channel
- Projects delivered - FRB-LCR, FRB-2052a, OSFI-LCR, OSFI-NSFR, FRB-NSFR, RDARR, MBS/TBA, Callable CD’s, Deposits, Secured Borrow and Lend-Equity, and Management Reporting
- Revenue increased by 50 to 100 million USD over 3 years
- Application Management - Developed and delivered an In-house application for liquidity risk management and regulatory reporting recommended by the Group CIO as the data lineage tool for the bank
- Responsible for planning, forecasting, and financial management for the technology powering the liquidity ecosystem
- Savings - 10 million USD over 2 years Operations Management - Oversee and manage issue escalation and resolution, as well as ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and assessment to manage risks and changes to be compliant with changes required by audit and regulators
- Process Management - Maintain the performance measurement and maintenance of service level agreements (SLAs), key performance indicators (KPI), and key risk indicators (KRI) - 95% SLA and KPI adherence
- People Management - Champion team awareness of processes, methodologies, and tools to empower others via delegation and guide them to encourage creativity and inclusiveness
- Led a team of BAs, BSAs, Developers, and Solution Architects with experience in Big Data technologies
- Product Management - Continuously explore and brainstorm ideas to improve and manage the product backlog, anticipate client needs, and evaluate product progress at each iteration as a Product Manager/Owner
Sr. Consultant - Data Analysis and System Integration
TD Securities
09.2015 - 12.2016
- Led the data acquisition exercise and managed BA's and BSA's for the FRB LCR for more than 12 upstream systems to aid in a Proof of concept and vendor solution implementation assessment and successfully delivered the US LCR implementation
- Conducted data analysis in support of applications and projects, including identifying and documenting business rules, data needs, and data specifications
- Collaborated across application development (both upstream and downstream) and technology teams within IT for JAD sessions when eliciting business and system requirements
- Spearheaded the discussions for test strategy along with the regression framework.
Sr. Business Analyst/Lead
BMO Financial Group
03.2010 - 08.2015
- Facilitated workshops with SMEs at all levels of management to capture BCBS 239 gaps and high-level requirements for Trading Credit Risk (TCR) Evaluated from a BCBS 239 perspective, close to 15 TCR systems used for risk data aggregation and reporting, intra-day trading credit risk monitoring, liquidity risk, limit/facility management, pre-settlement risk
- Analyzed the Liquidity Adequacy Requirement drafted by OSFI and created High-Level Data Requirement and LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) Consolidated Requirement documents
- Mapped Front, Middle, and Back office Trade Life Cycle user’s requirements identified improvement areas, and ensured trade data flow
- Collaborated with Information Service Layer (ISL)/Technology Application Group (TAG) to support a successful implementation of the Liquidity requirements.
Business Systems Analyst
Various Organizations
05.2005 - 02.2010
- Documentation of business process, scope definition along with a position statement
- Facilitated the stakeholder's identification developed and analyzed business requirements, and systems requirements specifications, and designed the data feeds in the data warehouse
- Prepared ETL data warehouse mapping specifications describing the process and controls at entity levels
- Interviewed users, primarily Advisors and Planners (group and one-on-one) and other stakeholders to understand the domain, gathered customer requirements through surveys, along with JAD sessions
- Spearheaded requirements elicitation, business use cases, functional specifications(FRS), and SRS
- Proactively managed systems development, implementation, and risk via the use of SDLC and trained field application support teams on various application rollouts
- Involved in creating Test Cases from Use Cases, requirements, and executed test plans for functional testing
- Maintained the Requirements tractability Matrix (RTM) across the life cycle of the project.
Education
Financial Risk Manager - Risk Management
Global Association of Risk Professionals
Jersey City, New Jersey12.2024
Bachelor of Commerce -
Delhi University (Honors)
Delhi, India04.2005
Skills
- Data Analytics, Data Mining
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Strategy Planning, Executive Management
- Project Management, Business Analysis
- Risk Management, ALM, HQLA, Fund Transfer Pricing
- Data Lineage, Data Tracing, Metadata Harvesting, Data Governance
- Secured & Unsecured Financing, Fixed Income
- Prime Brokerage, Derivatives
- Market Data, Security and Issuer Data, Counterparty Data
- Vendor Management, Application Management
- Frequent Interaction with Regulators
- ETL and Mapping
- UML, FpML, JSON, Excel, Flat files, API's
- Python, Database, Oracle, Microsoft, Apache Cassandra
- Data Analysis and Analytics
- Jupyter Notebooks, SQL, Apache Spark, Tableau, Power BI, UI Path
Websites
Certification
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist, Scaled Agile, Inc., 08/2021, 08/2022
- Professional Certification in Data Science, Harvard University, 04/2021, Present
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library(v4), EXIN, 01/2013, Present
- Investment Funds in Canada, Canadian Securities Institute, 01/2011, Present
- Certified Scrum Master, International Scrum Institute, 08/2013, Present
- Migrating to the AWS Cloud, AWS Cloud Migration, 01/2021, Present
Honors Awards
- Pinnacle Award, TD Securities, 01/2017, 12/2017
- Principles in Action, TD Securities, 01/2017, 12/2017
- Data Steward Excellence Award, TD Bank, 10/2021, 03/2022
- Star Performer, BMO Financial Group, 01/2014, 12/2014
Volunteer Experience
- Mentor, TRIEC, 02/2012, 01/2013, Toronto, Canada
- Mentor, Entrepreneurial Adventure Program, 01/2014, 12/2015, Toronto, Canada
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Director - Chief Data Office
TD Securities
05.2021 - Current
Director - Risk Management and Reporting
TD Securities
01.2017 - 04.2021
Sr. Consultant - Data Analysis and System Integration
TD Securities
09.2015 - 12.2016
Sr. Business Analyst/Lead
BMO Financial Group
03.2010 - 08.2015
Business Systems Analyst
Various Organizations
05.2005 - 02.2010
Financial Risk Manager - Risk Management
Global Association of Risk Professionals
Bachelor of Commerce -
Delhi University (Honors)
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