TOYOSI OLAITAN

Responsible for reviewing firm's new business or new instrument the firm is undertaking to ensure global regulatory compliance.

• Front line of defense for regulatory operations team, by identifying key risks and ensuring prompt escalations to senior stakeholders
• Analyzing front to back system infrastructure to understand data flows, booking models, and logic required to capture data
• Cross functional collaboration with the global stakeholders across Operations, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and the Business to support new business initiatives as well as business requirement
• Identified opportunities to drive forward complex initiatives by leveraging previous knowledge and relationships while ensuring all initiatives remain complaint to impacted regulatory obligation and ensuring all reporting risks are well mitigated
• Ensuring regulatory compliance at all times by implementing robust procedures coupled with proactive monitoring mechanisms and Identifying opportunities to improve teams process while
• Demonstrating proficient leadership skills by coaching colleagues to understand and navigate complex workflows, processes and new business requests as well as improving their presentation skills
• Responsible for reviewing non-financial regulatory updates and accessing the impact to global teams

• Providing trade support to the securities division trading and sales teams, which primarily involves ensuring all transactions with brokers and clients are correctly booked and managed as well as setting up trades in new markets and new business flows
• Consistently maintained strong relationships with clients and vendors ensuring clear communication and managing client expectation
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams such as Settlements, Collateral, Liquidity management, Corporate Treasury, Legal, Controllers and Technology and other business areas to drive successful completion of complex projects within deadlines
• Serving as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on key team functions, processes and projects such as: industry-based projects such as SFTR as well as global team projects such as repo confirm drafting, Secdb onboarding project in addition to being the point of contact in the team for day to day queries
• Streamlined operational efficiency by identifying areas for improvement and proposing actionable solutions
• Identifying and mitigating potential risks and operational barriers to trading which includes quarterly tests of processes to ensure team was in accordance with quarterly Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) rules
• Enforcing the firm’s transaction booking policy and ensuring that traders record all economic details specified within the trade fully within the internal risk systems
• Approached each problem with fresh mind and analytical strategies to quickly resolve concerns.
• Identified and resolved complex issues by applying advanced analytical and troubleshooting strategies.
• Trained and supported new team members, maintaining culture of collaboration.
• Effectively managed multiple competing priorities while maintaining focus on delivering exceptional results for clients and the organization.