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London Area, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

In this role I was held accountable for meeting the yearly regulatory deadlines as set out by the regulators at the same time showing Deutsche Bank can operate in a BAU environment and complete the periodic reviews on or before their Next Review Date. I have had to build strong relationships with AFC, Policy and Sales as this is integral to the success of this role given the very nature of a client exit and the high level of scrutiny placed on them. I ensure there is a strong control environment and significant focus is placed on areas such as Name List Screening, Quarantining, SLE's and Event Driven Reviews in order to satisfy the demands of both external and internal audit. Leveraging all my experience in Investment Banking Operations allows for me to identify trades and Businesses that could exit early and therefore reduce both the Capital and Risk exposures Deutsche Bank has to it's clients which is critical for the future success of the firm. Driving change through searching for opportunities to automate and eliminate all aspects of the role is key and working in conjunction with technology on areas such as perpetual KYC is very much the future for this role.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Accountable for 300 Investment Banking Operation staff covering Client Onboarding, Periodic Review, Offboarding, Collateral Management, Regulatory Operations, Debt and Equity Operations. In parallel to this I was functionally responsible for the KYC Utilities Outreach Program enabling clients to engage in automated solutions for the sourcing of KYC and begin to think about perpetual KYC.

Globally responsible for a team of 50 staff location in London, Frankfurt, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore covering the Onboarding of clients into Deutsche Bank's Clearing and Debt Prime Brokerage platforms. In this fast paced role I was accountable for the pipeline management with the Business heads in order to decide the order of priority we onboarded and what timeline was to be expected. I had to build knowledge and relationships with AFC, Legal and Credit which has become invaluable to me.

London, England, United Kingdom

One of 6 employees identified to maintain and improve the relationships with Deutsche Bank's top tier clients covering all aspects of Operations. This role required a high standard of interpersonal skills in addition to having the ability to differentiate the service to the clients from that of our peers. This included but not limited to helping the clients identify where to automate and cut cost and which rapidly respond to any escalations in order to avoid any audit or regulatory findings

Hong Kong Sar

Requested to set up a team in Asia to cover the Cross Product Operational Relationship Management for the Bank's most important clients. Expectation was to achieve this within the two year secondment that I was in the region. During this time I hired 8 local members of Staff all with the right level of knowledge in client service and Investment Banking products

London, England, United Kingdom

Ran a desk of 5 Hedge Fund Sales people with a primary responsibility for Booking and allocating highly structured OTC Derivative ticket's

London, England, United Kingdom

Hired to join a team of Emerging Market Equity Settlement Experts to manage the daily settlement of EMEA Emerging Market through the central Securities Depositories and Agent Bank's

London, England, United Kingdom

Part of a new team being built to settle the highly complex EMEA Emerging Market Equity trades. Primary focus was to build out Russia, Turkey and Hungary.

London, England, United Kingdom

Hand Picked to join a team of 3 three A level leavers who were trained on the foundations of Investments Banking Operations. 6 months spent in Sales Support, 6 months in confirmations, 6 months in settlements, 6 months in Corporate Actions, 6 months in Collateral and Valuations & 6 months client Onboarding