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London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

- Responsible for PL and risk management of the global precious metals forward books (since Jan 2013) - Trade spot/futures, forwards, interest rate swaps for precious metals- Develop the franchise of the bank across the London Metal Market and to Chinese Clients

Singapore

- Traded spot/futures, forwards, swaps and vanilla options for precious metals- Traded swaps, spot/futures and vanilla options for base metals- Proprietary trading using technical and macro economical information Specific skills demonstrated- Managed the global precious metal swap book under the supervision of the desk head trader- Managed and executed trades for the precious metal desk’s client order book- Performed the BAU activities of the desk such as portfolio funding, trade booking and management, portfolio riskanalysis

- Trader support using Murex- Development and validation of new products Specific skills demonstrated- Assisting in trade booking, position analysis and risk management for traders across multiple asset classes- End-to-end validation and deployment of new financial products in the Commodities and Credit asset classes

Creating an online business journal for HEC Montreal Complete creation and implementation of all the processes necessary for the creation of the project.

Joined a business development project team as an analyst- Participated in proposal preparation for clientsSpecific skills demonstrated- Worked on remodeling the budgeting forecasting processes for a multinational telecommunications company- Conducted and participated in frequent project meetings with clients- Performed financial ratio analysis of various clients

Identification and analysis of key suppliers and loyal customers, as a part of an internal team working with McKinsey & Co, for the Customer Realignment Program- Working within a multicultural team, composed of different seniority levelsSpecific skills demonstrated- Data gathering and excel modeling of results- Preparation and presentation of data extracted- General research and primary information gathering

Analysed the position of Carrefour stores prices within Japanese retailing market using Japanese market data- Participated in the creation of an action plan definition to develop Carrefour’s strengths and remedies to its weaknesses- Initiated the pricing methods and rules applied in Carrefour, as well as modeling their impact on economic results and sales performance- Integration of the qualitative notion of price image and how it should balance quantitative figures for each decision

Bachelor, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Society of business relations (SRA), Marketing Association (Association Marketing), Co-founder of SmartCast

Education record

Education record

Education record