Mandar Bandekar
Executive Director - Quantitative Analytics Group-Model Review and Audit - Morgan Stanley
- Role
- Executive Director at Morgan Stanley
- Location
- Mumbai, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mandar Bandekar
Senior Risk Leader with 20+ years of experience across Market Risk, Model Risk, Clearing & Margining, and Enterprise Risk Governance within global financial institutions.Demonstrated impact in reducing risk incidents, strengthening first-line ownership, improving regulatory outcomes, and enabling business growth through measurable risk frameworks. Deep interest and applied expertise in crypto and digital-asset risk, including exchange-style market, liquidity, margin, custody, and operational risks, aligned with evolving regulatory expectations.
Experience
Executive Director
Jan 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN
Reduced model and market-risk related incidents by ~30% over two years byimplementing continuous monitoring dashboards and risk-based prioritisation across100+ models. Improved first-line risk ownership by embedding accountability, escalation thresholds,and remediation SLAs, materially reducing time to closure for high-severity issues. Established a global KRI framework across market risk, model risk, liquidity risk, andoperational risk, enabling earlier detection of emerging risk themes. Led end-to-end incident management for material risk events, improving transparencyto senior management and regulators and shortening remediation cycles. Delivered 100% on-time completion of global regulatory audit plans while increasingdepth of coverage through analytics-led risk reviews.
Education
GARP-Global Association of Risk Professionals
FRM, Financial Risk Management
2009 — 2009
Visvesvaraya Technological University
BE, Mechanical Engg
1998 — 2002
CFA Institute USA
Level 1, Finance
2007 — 2008
CQF (Certificate in Quantitative Finance)
CQF (Certificate in Quantitative Finance), Quantitative Finance and risk methodology and financial engineering Mathematics
2019 — 2019
Skills
- Capital Markets
- Banking
- Risk Management
- Team Management
- Fixed Income
- Equities
- Analysis
- Derivatives
- Quantitative Finance
- Portfolio Management
- Fx Options
- Business Analysis
- Financial Risk
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Valuation
- Financial Modeling
- Analytics
- Financial Markets
- Trading
- Investment Banking
- Options
- Business Development
- Consulting
- Market Risk
- Management
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