Azad Hussain Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

CCLA is fund manager and manages investments on behalf of charities, religious organisations and the public sector.

London, United Kingdom

Cambridge Associates is a Wealth Management and Outsourced Chief Investment Office (OCIO) provider with expertise in the alternative investment space. Worked with multiple Institutional Defined Benefit Pension clients on an Advisory and Discretionary basis. Client vehicles ranging from Fund of Funds to Separately Managed Accounts, these duties include but not limited to:• Operational Oversight and Task Management over multiple departments including Legal & Tax, Compliance, Trade Processing, Treasury, Investment etc. and external teams (Fund Managers, Custodians, Administrators) relating to completion of client deliverables, trade lifecycle of fund share classes, and deadlines.• High Client Service Standards from telephone and email manner through client enquiries. Also ensuring appropriate amount of time devoted to multiple tasks, and its quality assurance i.e. reconciliation regarding fees, cash, assets etc, and resolving issues promptly.• Preparation of Performance and Client Reporting, undertaking quality assurance processes i.e. estimated fund navs, portfolio valuation, NAV calculation for Private Market Funds, capital calls, and distributions.• Multiple Asset Class exposure including Equities, Hedge Funds, Fixed Income, Private Markets/Investments, Liability Driven Investment, and Derivatives (Equity Index Futures i.e. FTSE 100, HANG SENG, TOPIX, ASX 200) through portfolio management.• Process Improvement and Standardisation in such as creating new office wide processes, updating excel files, and standardising reporting templates, QA checks.• Assisting, Advising, and Influencing internal and external teams in rebalancing portfolios on topics such as liquidity terms, oversight through client mandates (IPS’s), T+2 Spot FX trades through currency managers, collateral management.• Advanced Level Excel and Beginner Level VBA. Includes application of SUM(SUMIFS), INDEX.MATCH.MATCH, OFFSET.COUNT, PIVOT TABLES, VLOOKUPS, and many more.

London, United Kingdom

Confluence International produces reporting automation for asset management companies. Utilised holdings data and financial accounts figures to automate back-office reporting for Custodians and Asset Management firms. These duties include but not limited to:• Creating and delivering client-specific fund reports for Wealth Management and Fund Administration companies including Portfolio Statements, Balance Sheet, Statement of Change, Credit Risk etc, with deliverables on a weekly/daily basis. • Financial data validation, verification and cross-checking with fund accounting data. Trouble-shooting support and general ad-hoc duties.• Application and implementation of UNITY-tailored VBScript on client data for the purposes of high-quality and consistent fund reports.• High level analysis, attention-to-detail, and proof-checking of various data points and client data files i.e. accounting files, holdings extract, and fund reports.• Proposing alternative reporting solutions when required, B2B meetings, and workshops.• Project Management responsibilities within areas of Financial Reporting, reporting to senior managers and clients.• International and local travel to client sites. Attained high levels of client service and satisfaction through deliverables.• Working as part of a local/international implementation team, communicating with different departments i.e. Client Support, Sales, Product on a daily/weekly basis.• Managing and training new staff, and clients in one-on-one sessions and classrooms, creating how-to guides and best practises, presentations in front of staff and clients.• Resolving issues within Internal and Client User Accepted Testing (UAT) cycles. Exposed to production and live cycles of implementation and testing.