Front Office Product Management/Implementation- Fintech

RYAN TORLINI

*********@*****.*** 609-***-**** Robbinsville, New Jersey 08691

Executive Summary

A senior consultant with experience in product management and implementation in investment management SaaS platforms. Demonstrated trading assistant experience across the full trade life cycle including all asset classes. A vast knowledge of OEMS/PMS platforms while having extensive large and small-scale e2e front office implementation experience within fintech. Added experience working in an Agile and SDLC structure while leading user story writing for release to help clients digitize their investment operations. Verified expertise in partnering with key business stakeholders to understand client/market needs and translating them into actionable product requirements. Skilled in fostering cross-functional collaboration, particularly with developers, to ensure seamless execution and delivery of innovative solutions. Established focus on client results and proven ability to run multiple projects, building test plans and go-live onboarding for institutional asset managers, wealth managers and hedge funds.

Experience

Cutter Associates New York, NY 12/2024 - current

Senior Consultant/Ridgeline Front Office Practice Co-Lead

Cutter Associates is a global boutique consultancy focusing on the asset and wealth management industry as well as independent research and custom benchmarking.

Serve as the Ridgeline Practice Co-Lead for Front Office. Our client, Ridgeline is a start-up cloud-based investment platform. I support, strategize and implement their investment platform by driving key initiatives, aligning client needs with product capabilities, and supporting successful go-lives across the investment management industry.

Lead Front-Office implementations of their cloud-native investment platform for institutional asset managers, family offices, and wealth managers, delivering tailored solutions across trading, portfolio construction, and the full trade-life cycle.

Partnered with portfolio managers, traders, and investment teams to design and deploy workflows that enhance decision-making, trade execution, and compliance oversight.

Configured and tested key front-office modules including order execution management systems (OEMS), pre/post-trade compliance, portfolio modeling, customized dashboards, and broker setups.

Advised clients on front-office best practices, leveraging deep industry knowledge to optimize portfolio workflows, reduce operational risk, and increase trading efficiency.

Collaborated closely with Ridgeline data migration and operations teams to ensure accurate, timely ingestion of market and reference data, trade allocations, and pricing feeds essential to front-office operations.

Provided strategic feedback to client product and engineering teams on front-office functionality, advocating for features that enhance trader experience, portfolio transparency, and investment agility.

Spearheaded the creation of tailored roadmaps and scalable front office playbook and ensuring alignment with business goals through ongoing analysis of KPIs and client performance data.

Northern Trust New York, NY 05/2022 – 09/2023 (Laid off Sep.1, 2023)

Vice President, Product Solutions

Responsible for helping lead our Product Solutions team in defining client scopes and project roadmaps, creating user stories, translating business requirements, and effectively delivering new product features across the Omnium investment platform.

Collaborated with developers to provide our partners with acceptance criteria, calculation models, UI/UX mockups and participate in refinement sessions based on the needs of the business and clients.

Managed our off shore partners’ team to create test plans that would decrease lag time in our Omnium Platform and create system enhancements to help increase partner/client efficiency.

Spearheaded our Next Gen Apps stream helping integrate our internal/external partners leverage new technology to help create efficiencies for their daily/month end processes.

Delivered customized and innovative solutions for our hedge fund clients and their vast product classes through front, middle, and back-office development through a structured SDLC and Agile process.

Devised and developed new web module of NT Contact Management, which allows NT partners/clients to manage their shared service team contacts in an automated environment

Directed the NT Contact Management roll out to our EMEA and APAC counterparties and led the implementation of this platform for all their asset management clients.

Enhanced our Tracker module by creating easy user input for deliverable domains for SMA reporting which cut down on time needed for our developers to enact from the back end.

Team with our Agile PMs to deliver product and technology roadmaps to meet rollouts of new enhancements and go-lives.

Performed Functional and Regression testing on all development in INT/PROD environments to minimize all downstream impacts and bugs

Enfusion New York, NY 05/2021 - 02/2022 (Team Reorganization to Chicago)

Product Manager, Implementations

Managed OEMS implementations and SOWs of the for all hedge fund clients of different sizes/product scopes.

Led the KYC effort with the client helping identify mission critical items and onboarding requirements.

Responsible for building allocation schemes/ratios, pre/post trade compliance, FIX connectivity, and managed roles for clients.

Provided OEMS demos for all users including Portfolio Managers and senior traders, and operations to help them create workflows.

Collaborated with our technology team on customized product enhancements and worked closely to build workflows and customizations.

Fostered relationships with multiple clients by providing them with upmost go-live support and transparent channels of communication.

Broadridge Financial Solutions Newark, NJ 12/2019 - 09/2020

Product Manager, Implementations

Managed the implementation and onboarding of Broadridge OEMS/PMS and Reporting for hedge fund clients of all sizes and strategies.

Kildonan Castle Asset Management, L.P New York, NY 04/2014 - 10/2019 (Fund Closed)

Senior Trading Assistant

Responsible for all middle office daily/monthly tasks while providing detailed and accurate trade support for all PMs and Analysts.

Caxton Associates L.P Princeton, NJ 02/2013 - 02/2014

Trading Assistant

Provided trading assistance and middle/back-office tasks to assigned macro portfolio managers and HAWK CTA platform.

Bank of New York Mellon New York, NY 02/2011 - 02/2013

Associate

Executed all fund administration tasks daily including: trade bookings, reconciliations, pricing, and daily/monthly NAVs for GSAM funds.

Skills

Ridgeline OMS/PMS

NT Omnium

EZE OEMS

Enfusion OEMS

Broadridge OEMS

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Snowflake

Bloomberg

ICE Link

DTCC

Swagger

Zendesk

Education & Certifications

Temple University Philadelphia, PA

MBA – Concentration: Financial Management and Analysis

Graduation expected in 06/2026

Rider University Lawrenceville, NJ

Bachelor of Science in Finance

Graduation 05/2010

Presidential Achievement Award Recipient, Graduated Cum Laude

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Harvard Business School Excel Course Certification

Snowflake Introduction LinkedIn Certification

Interests

Traveling

Golf

Wine/Limoncello Making

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