Dharmesh Contractor

About Dharmesh Contractor

Hands-on IT Senior Manager with 18 years of financial industry experience in management and implementation of technology solutions aligned to Prime Brokerage business strategies in domains such as Securities Lending, Leveraged Finance, and Collateral Management.• Managed large projects from initiation to successful deliveries in collaboration with cross-divisional teams like Front-Office IT, Back Office IT, Operations, Product Control, Business Development Group, Front-Office traders, Client Service Representative, Strategic Change Group, Finance IT, and Risk IT.• Strength in forging solid relationships and synergy between business, development, testing and production support organizations to improve time-to-market, reduce costs, remediate operational risk and enhance the rollout of quality products.• Skilled in designing the process and automation frameworks for software development, testing, defect detection and prevention, status report, and release management within agile development environments.• Managed to deliver department-wide IT initiatives to save costs on IT infrastructure.• Excellent analytical and communication skills. Strong and proven leadership qualities. Analyzed business requirements for new and existing systems and designed training materials.• Knowledge on processing trade flow for Equities and Fixed Income.• In-depth understanding of Prime Brokerage including Securities Lending, Trade Booking, Trade Maintenance, Settlement, Margin and Risk, Accrual Calculation, Billing and P&L.• Define governance process for the project to collaborate with various IT teams, stakeholders and senior management communication. • Demonstrated excellent track record for executing IT change and transformation programs focusing on developing and supporting organizational competency across applications.• Skilled in using software development tools spanning source control, continuous integration/delivery, code review, etc.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President

   Jefferies

   Sep 2018 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• Stevens Institute of Technology

  M.S., Computer Science

  1997 — 1999