About Rafi

Crafted and presented a $12 million-dollar case for change of Manulife's commercial real estate division that led to the launch of the Real Estate Transformation program benefiting over 450 employees and thousands of commercial tenants. Led the PMO with four direct reports and oversight on 40+ vendors, consultants, and employees.

Crafted the initial case for change of Manulife's Global Optimization program and successfully secured funding of $250 million for this multi-year multi-location operational and technology transformation. Led multiple business transformation analyses including process reengineering, vendor selection, insourcing/outsourcing opportunities, and location strategy.

Led both agile and waterfall project lifecycles from strategy through execution. Oversaw and managed client engagement workstreams including 4-8 PwC consultants, driving day-to-day client meetings, monitoring engagement project plans, deliverables, costs, and conducting staff performance reviews.

Consulted top 100 industry-leading alternative asset managers/servicers, private equity and hedge fund clients on front, middle and back office operations including: expansion strategies, target operating/shared services models, and lean transformation.

Supported Chief Investment Officer with development of fund's private placement memorandum. Structured $4 million in mezzanine debt/equity investments. Vetted $37 million in pipeline investment opportunities. Selected by CEO to open and establish fund's presence in Indonesia.

Recruited by CIO to develop and establish fund's investor servicing department including portfolio management system, investor onboarding, pipeline tracking, IC approval process. Managed and led day-to-day activities expanding team from 1 to 3 full-time employees. Invited to sit on GIIRS emerging markets standards advisory board.

Spearheaded and developed five-year financial model that led to successfully winning a $218 million USAID contract. Discovered and corrected division-wide financial billing error that increased BearingPoint's EM division revenues by 1%. Recommended by Managing Director to lead financial audit team in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Updated quarterly financial projections of investments and drafted qualitative reports for investment teams. Designed and developed a new quarterly portfolio report circulated to IFC senior management and investors. Supported monitoring & evaluation team on financial project data collection for grassroots businesses in Southern Africa, Eastern Africa and Southeast Asia.

Selected as one of two interns from a pool of 300 applicants. Filled in for two senior foreign service officers, acting as emergency coordinator and overseeing human resource functions. Processed and reviewed applications administering English proficiency and computer skills exams to over 350 candidates.