Leen Singh

Senior Manager @Scotiabank

Overseeing the Securities Lending, Repo & OTC margin units, with focus on leadership, process re-engineering, global partnership, implementation of strategic controls and cultivation of key stakeholder relationships.• Driving global collaboration by leading cross-training, system onboarding and automation initiatives between Toronto, New York, London and Singapore.• Pitched, secured funding for and implemented an Optical Character Recognition (OCR, form of AI) engine, that reads inbound margin emails and converts free-form text into digital events, automatically communicating with the Collateral Management System and in turn, auto generating responses, increased the STP rate to 90%.• Point person in numerous Audits, QAs & First Line Testing, closed high risk audit issues, participated in multiple major regulatory reviews, engaging in face-to-face Q&A rounds with Canadian and US regulators.• Designed workflows to implement key controls and increase efficiency. E.g. Collateral Rehyp Rights, Prime Services Swap Margin controls, SFT Triparty Collateral Allocation Automation, leading the design of upstream and downstream reconciliations for various ops units.• Lead teams during an environment of extremely high attrition, successfully attracting skilled and experienced talent, and retaining SMEs through the creation of an inclusive, rewarding culture and one-on-one coaching.• Directing large forums and working groups on efforts around liquidity, high risk events and the re-engineering of booking models.• Lead the first team to build meaningful metrics through Power BI and Tableau. E.g. Global Sec Lending Dashboards, STP Rates, Collateral P&L/Interest Profiling.• Built strong relationships with stakeholders including but not limited to Collateral Management & Funding (CMF) and Prime Services Desks, Risk Management, Capital Analytics, Onboarding, Audit, Compliance, Legal, Technology, Counterparties, Triparty Agents and Fintech Vendors.