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Akshay Anand

London

Summary

Experienced professional focused on product management with track record of driving product development from concept to launch. Capable of aligning cross-functional teams to achieve strategic goals, leveraging strengths in market analysis and stakeholder management. Skilled in utilising agile methodologies to enhance product lifecycle and deliver consumer-centric solutions.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Vice President

Goldman Sachs
London
01.2020 - 01.2025
  • Process Optimization & Operating Model Development: Led firm-wide transformation for CSDR regulation, driving workflow redesign, data modelling, and governance strategies, achieving $20M+ annual cost savings
  • Strategic Stakeholder Management: Led BREXIT implementation across Frankfurt, Luxembourg, and Paris, developing front-to-back infrastructure for Global Markets & Banking, enabling wallet share growth by 9% YoY
  • Client-Centric Solutions: Spearheaded new business enablement for equities and fixed income, resulting in $300M+ yearly revenue growth by designing intuitive workflows and tools to enhance user experience and operational efficiency
  • Regulatory Compliance & Reporting: Managed Securities Settlements regulatory reporting (AWV, Buba, FINRA, Reg W/K), enhancing reporting accuracy and reducing time-to-market by 50%
  • Industry-Wide Collaboration & Automation: Led an Auto Partial campaign across 125 top-tier clients, securing 82% adoption and delivering $2.4M in post-trade cost reductions
  • Change Management & Efficiency Gains: Orchestrated Follow the Sun migration (Bengaluru to London), achieving 90% early logouts in BGL and 180% improvement in KRIs
  • Leadership & People Management: Managed a team of 7, fostering a high-performance culture. Member of VP Advisory Council, driving career mentoring and professional development programs

Associate

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
01.2017 - 12.2019
  • Process Optimization & Cost Reduction: Led an auto-borrow pool reduction project at Euroclear, saving $30M+ in operational costs
  • Inventory Management & Risk Mitigation: Designed fail-prevention and funding optimisation strategies, enhancing liquidity management
  • Global Process Integration: Established a Settlements Team in Warsaw, Poland, balancing risk allocation through global process standardisation

Analyst

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
01.2015 - 12.2017
  • Market Settlement Efficiency: Played a key role in Target2Securities migration across five CSDs, streamlining European market settlements
  • Process Improvement: Assisted with continuous improvement initiatives, applying data findings to address under-performing areas and optimized Italian Exchange settlement rates from 70% to 95%, significantly above the industry average

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance

St Joseph's College of Commerce
Bengaluru

Skills

  • Data-Driven Decision Making & KPI Measurement
  • Client Centric Transformation
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Operational Excellence
  • Agile, Lean & Waterfall Project Management
  • Jira, Confluence & Signavio
  • User experience design insight
  • Stakeholder prioritisation

Websites

Certification

  • Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations - Project Management Institute
  • Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap - IIBA

Accomplishments

  • Runner-up for the GS Innovation Awards for designing and implementing a cost-saving project worth $8M.
  • Orchestrated the launch of a day-to-day workflow tool, resulting in 6+ hours of daily efficiency gains.
  • Led multiple initiatives resulting in Year-to-date yield of over $60M in cost savings.

Timeline

Vice President

Goldman Sachs
01.2020 - 01.2025

Associate

Goldman Sachs
01.2017 - 12.2019

Analyst

Goldman Sachs
01.2015 - 12.2017

Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance

St Joseph's College of Commerce

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