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Newry, Gb

Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Working as a First Derivative consultant for a Major Canadian multinational banking and financial services company. Role & Responsibilities included:Working in a regulatory environment.CDIC ISDA Canadian Jurisdictional Module, 93-101, and EMIR regulation.Preparing and sending outreach for non-compliant entities.Dealing with client queries on regulations.Daily use of Excel to document compliance status and progress.Liaising with RMs to gather client contacts and to urge clients to action adherence.Liaising with Scotiabank's internal legal experts to resolve client queries.Quickly picking up new concepts.Working as a member of a large team.Prioritizing of work based on importance and deadlines.Daily leveraging of Fenergo, ISDA.org, GLEIF, and IHS Markit.Navigation of a large Outlook shared mailbox.Escalation of specific issues and client queries to Scotiabank SMEs for resolution.Review of regulatory documents.

Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Working as Middle Office support for a world leading custodian bank. The roll involved the escalation and research of repurchase agreement breaks to resolve and close ASAP. I also participated in compiling new break research, from multiple sources, into a daily file which was then used by multiple stakeholders including Senior Management. This roll involved communicating professionally with many people on a daily basis and advanced excel use. The team and I were tasked with quickly learning the bank's proprietary systems on transactions and outreach to brokers.

Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

The role involved controlling the quality of financial data and rapidly solving unexpected issues that developed in daily fund reconciliations. I worked across several funds.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Performing cash reconciliation for a client (asset management firm) of one of the world's largest custodian banks. The role required becoming familiar with the bank's proprietary recon technology so that reconciliation could be performed on a daily basis. I worked in a team where Excel was used heavily. The role involved the use of daily and MTD broker statements. I was promoted to QC within six months of starting.

Bsc, Physics, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity, Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Tensors.

Education record

A-Level Physics (A*) A-Level Further Mathematics (A*) A-Level Mathematics (A*) A-Level Chemistry (B) AS-Level Technology and Design (A)