Aidan Lyons Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

Managing all Middle Office Operations teams within NTHFS, from Trade Management / Corporate ctions /Treasury / Product Control / Risk.

County Dublin, Ireland

Took up a new role as Manager of Product Control, Risk and Controller teams based in Dublin and LimerickEstablish Valuation Policies with clients during on-boardingReport Day-to Date (DTD), Month-to-Date (MTD) and Year-to-Date(YTD) final Profit and Loss reportsResolve pricing issues / challengesProvide (Top Day or T+0) P&L estimates and End-of-Day final P&L figures for clientsProvide price verificationDaily pricing Quality control checksPortfolio Analytics and Compliance reportingCash and positon break resolution oversight – monitor all breaks across teams to ensure they are being addressed

County Dublin, Ireland

• Managing a team of partners within the Cash, Collateral and Settlements group (Treasury Services)• Oversee several asset servicing processes which support multiple clients including P&L posting, trade break resolution and reconciliations• Oversee domestic and international custodian settlements of all listed securities including repo activity on behalf of multiple NTHFS clients• Manage the daily processing of cash flow requests by 3rd party clients. Ensuring proper AML checks have been performed on the instruction, ensuring all required approvals have occurred, executing payments per authorized instruction, confirming payments have been made, posting all cash related transactions as instructed by the client and assisting in the resolution of any issues related to payments made on behalf of clients.• Assist in the development of a scalable, controlled and transparent cash processing work flow for all 3rd party cash activity including investor redemptions/subscriptions, margin/collateral movements and swap cash flows.• Effectively communicate with IT to test and implement development and enhancements of cash management offering.• Liaise directly with clients to onboard new clients and establish banking connectivity and solutions that will meet their cash management needs. Administer account implementation process and effectively communicate status to internal partner areas.• Coordinate connectivity with client’s banks, custodians and prime brokers through SWIFT. Establish protocol for connectivity to further our objective to become counterparty agnostic.• Work with clients to resolve cash breaks and issues related to wire payments.• Accurately define business requirements for IT projects and enhancements for the cash and collateral management team.• Identify process gaps, work with internal resources to create detailed BRDs• Create process flows and control tools to accommodate new business needs

• Actively managed the migration of Securities Lending and Structured trading functions from London to Dublin• Managing team of 10 associates• Support the Securities Lending and Structured trading desks across a broad range of functions from trade processing, depot and collateral management, fail and break monitoring and billing• Managing the Operations team provide risk management and client services for the stock loan trading desk by managing client’s lending portfolios on a day-to-day basis ensuring that all trading activity and economic cash flows are performed on a daily basis• Managing the Transaction support team which ensure that the flows of transactions across cash trading, security lending, Prime Brokerage and specific derivatives desks are managed through to settlement• Trade Lifecycle Management- Settlement efficiency and oversight of product activity- Front to back process efficiency- Risk management oversight – collateral management and optimisation, review trading structures- Client management – review activity, liaise on a regular basis encouraging usage of STP platforms and address any issues highlighted in a timely manner• Maintain focus on a robust control environment, mitigate operational and reputation risks faced in the execution of standard flow business and ensure the successful integration of new business opportunities• Develop and manage strong relationships with all key internal and external clients, understanding their individual requirements whilst managing expectations on a day-to-day basis• Define clear business plan to support the product in conjunction with peers to meet both strategic product objectives focussed on delivering cost efficient and effective processes at a competitive price• Ensure the team has a clear staffing plan, mentoring team members and ensuring that long-term initiatives are in place to support business growth and location strategies

• June ’10 took on the responsibility of migrating the Credit Derivatives settlements teams for both ML and BOA Credit Derivatives Trading from London to Dublin• Support settlement of Vanilla CDS, ABS / Proprietary trades, Asset Swaps, Emerging market trading• Managing team of 15 associates• Team responsible for confirmation and accurate settlement of cash coupons and fees on Credit Derivative trades• Migrated 2 teams from London to Dublin – each on separate infrastructure and process models• June ’12 commissioned with the project of migrating Credit Derivatives settlements teams from Dublin and Chicago to Chester• Co-ordinated operations and management between the 3 centres during the migration of all the settlement functions into Chester• Continued management of associates expectations and career progression during difficult migration cycles • Actively participated in the recruitment drive for the Chester team• Completed and ongoing projects – decommission of legacy ML CDS source system and novation of ML trade population to BOA end state source system / decommission of legacy BOA ledger system / Nostro ac’s for ML entities in-sourced to BOA Agent• Managing groups breaks and fails, ensuring teams hit stringent business targets weekly• Weekly / Monthly management reporting• Process efficiency and STP analysis monthly• Responsible for SOX testing and process mapping for CDS process, successful completion of all SOX requirements

• Jan ’08, I was promoted to AVP of the GFX Operations team• This involved taking over the daily management of two more teams, a payments team (2 members), and an Inter-bank team (6 members)• Managing a total group of 13 people, providing back and middle office support for FX spot / forward and sales traders in London• Monitoring Traders daily CCY positions• Managing groups breaks and fails , ensuring teams hit stringent business targets weekly• Monthly management reporting• Validation of all Inter-bank and Corporate incoming and outgoing claims• Responsible for SOX testing and process mapping for FX process, successful completion of all SOX requirements • Projects – actively involved in a number of projects which came on board as a result of the BOA merger and the required business integrations. Involving FX risk transfer between entities, systems and personnel integrationsJuly’05 to Dec 07• Acting supervisor of Corporate FX team.• Back office support for Merrill Lynch Intl Bank London Corporate spot and forward trading.• Client services for all Issuer and Investor sales clients• Managing a group of 5 people• Responsible for the timely verification / confirmation and settlement of all Institutional FX deals• Cross training and development plan for the section• Setting of CFO’s for section and completing mid-year and year end reviews• Monthly management reporting• Ensure all control and procedures are adhered to and amended where appropriate• Close interaction with trading / sales and clients• Projects – largely involved in 2 large business projects in 2006. A new settlement system brought on board and all the banks nostro’s were changed• Investigation of all Corporate incoming and outgoing claims• Investigation and reconcilement of breaksJune’04 to June’05• Timely verification / confirmation and settlement of Interbank and Intercompany FX deals• Monitoring of FX deals traded over Reuters• Monitoring and settlement of all CLS trades

Bsc In Management, Finance, General

Advanced Diploma In Business Studies, Finance, General