Rajeev Muppala

Rajeev Muppal

Vice President

Jacksonville, FL
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Summary

Highly accomplished, self-motivated professional with a diverse range of experience in global operations, client onboarding, and reference data management

  • Proven leader with innovative business enterprise management approaches, exhibiting excellent judgment to drive higher satisfaction and account growth to achieve bottom-line results
  • Significant experience with implementing AML programs and regulatory reform enforcement to satisfy compliance and audit requirements
  • Skilled in forming high-performance teams with relentlessly high standards, consistently evaluating performance and implementing improvements through motivation and a passion for employee success

Experience

2015 Jun - Present
Vice President
CIT / Jacksonville

Client Onboarding and Customer Screening

Managing $3M+ budget and day-to-day client onboarding and customer screening functions with 42+ staff, inclusive of continuous improvement initiatives, risk management, with deal size averaging $10MM+

Key Accomplishments:

• Actively leading projects to integrate rule based workflow tool for client onboarding, and merger of CIT and One West Bank onboarding teams

• Developed KPI and KRI to ensure transparency in metrics reporting and gain visibility into aged requests that warrant further escalation

• Led initiatives to improve business engagement, workflow remodeling, and capacity planning that resulted in reduction of onboarding cycle-time by 20-30%

• Created process and procedures to offboard stale prospects and terminated relationships to mitigate risk and improve system efficiency

• Founded control process to ensure procedures were reviewed quarterly with change tracking to keep documents current

• Instituted quality control unit internal to team to perform checks that led to error reduction rate of 30%

• Developed an esclation framework to ensure transparency and timely resolution of negative news alerts

2005 Feb - 2015 Jun
Vice President
Goldman Sachs / Salt Lake City
  • Developed systems architecture, process flow, and new procedures for go-live and new business
  • launch in LATAM markets in collaboration with operations, technology teams, legal, and compliance

  • Supported responses to FINRA and SEC exams to ensure remediation was completed
  • Hired team members and developed innovative teams with a focus on talent development and retention
  • Coached and mentored employees to engage in roles of increasing responsibilities
  • Provided program management of SSAE 16 audit for client onboarding globally
  • Managed project to automate equity account opening that accommodated 80% of all new accounts
  • Identified, reviewed and deactivated dormant accounts to reduce cost and mitigate risk
  • Led project to develop transaction and activity profile for customer accounts
  • 2008 Jan - 2011 Dec
    Associate - Client Onboarding
    Goldman Sachs

    Education

    Bangalore University
    Bachelor of Business, Management

    Skills