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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Trouble shooting issues posing risks to the business, managing change, identifying cost savings and process efficiencies.
• Managing relationship between operations and technology. Chairing weekly meeting between departments following an agenda focussed on resolving system performance and defects, initiatives and scheduled technology.
• Directly supporting the operational head with the management of the technology workbook. Coordinating with operations to ensure all technology requests were current and centrally logged. Prepared documentation to.
• Analysing system capabilities versus operational requirements. Identifying opportunities to realise risk and costs benefits and implementing business strategies. Documenting requirements and successfully championing.
• Collaborated with post trade vendors to identify potential counterparts to connect with post trade services and maintain relationships.
• Acting as focal point in operations to assist with the design and implementation of liquidity reporting requirements.

London, United Kingdom

• Leading team of 3 responsible for managing collateral margin risk of lender books consisting of global OTC equities, repos, tri party repos, cash, non cash and fixed income.
• Developing and nurturing talent of colleagues through training, setting stretch targets, performance appraisals, team meetings and one to ones.
• Evaluating and overseeing departmental risks and controls to ensure compliance, including counterparty credit limits, internal and external reconciliations, data feeds and settlements.
• Engaging clients and vendors to identify opportunities to deliver premium service and risk mitigation. Pivotal in company achieving high technology ranking amongst peers in industry survey.
• Challenged processes, identified gaps and implemented solutions to deliver cost savings, enhanced service and tighter controls.
• Coordinating with client onboarding, business, static data and clients to establish new relationships on securities lending platform. Influenced stakeholders to implement robust procedure for on boarding delivering.

London, United Kingdom

• Managing collateral margin risk for securities lending adhering to strict deadlines and credit limits in a fluid environment. Liaised with counterparty’s to agree requirements and to ensure resolution of disputes.
• Managing inter-company relationships with colleagues globally to ensure efficient movement of securities across entities to satisfy counterparty requirements.
• Trade support functions including trade booking, recalls, calculating prime broking and intra company requirements.
• Actualised 75% time saving and created additional scale by developing a process that removed manual calculation of prime broking requirements.
• Implementing and maintaining client, instrument and price static data on securities lending platform and coordinating with static data team to establish in connected applications.
• Exception management of operational risk published on internal and vendor platforms. Conducting root cause analysis to identify opportunities to prevent reoccurrences.