Chris Rowe, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Nyon, Vd, Ch

Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland

Launched a successful Emerging Market bond & OTC swap businesses - team of 4.Helped grow the South African bond trading business from zero to top 3 local market rank within 5 years.Analysed the trade lifecycle, related costs. Presented booking inefficiencies to key stakeholders to drive the changes that reduced booking costs and increased gross profit for the business by over 8%.Sourced and analysed electronic trading pilot data, presented findings to senior management to expand rollout to our team. Immediately improved the team’s revenues by over 9% and increased trade volumes by over 11%.Designed new internal reports, in collaboration with various functions. Tracking data such as liquidity providers vs takers, revenues vs volume by client, market share, costs and profitability to target key growth and improvement areas, helping improve gross profit and EBIT.Delivery of ad-hoc PowerPoint presentations including BI, for senior managers, providing context about business development and competitor analysis.𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: ✓ Generated over $4 million ✓ Implemented Dodd-Frank, MIFID 2/SEF regulatory changes. ✓ Project Managed the rollout and UAT of etrading platform to stakeholders and clients. ✓ Implemented Dodd-Frank and MIFID 2 regulatory changes ✓ Implemented numerous analytic capabilities for the team, continuously delivered improvements.𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀: ⭑ Experienced user of Reuters, Bloomberg, Excel VBA/macros

STRUCTURED CREDIT, RISK AND P&L and BUSINESS ANALYSTWorking directly with senior managers, during the Credit Crunch period, providing at very short notice, ad-hoc reports and analysis of business areas to reduce risks, reduce exposures, ring-fence assets, and reduce the firm’s balance sheet to satisfy fast changing regulatory requirements and meet bailout terms. Delivered daily analysis to traders, CFO and IPV functions. KPI creation/monitoring and BI visualisation, enabled stakeholders to control the daily risk and P&L of trading books, optimise VAR and reduce individual balance sheets. Automated processes and reports, continually increased the capacity of the team. Built pricing and valuation models, working with IPV teams to source proxy data to determine Fair Value.Accounting quarterly and yearly reporting disclosures (IFRS, BaFin).𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀: • Risk and P&L controlling • Business specifications drafting • Pricing and valuation, working with IPV teams to analyse and determine Fair Value. • Accounting quarterly and yearly disclosures (IFRS, BaFin) • Daily desk and management BI reporting • Managed a team in India𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: ✓ Worked onsite in India as a Business Analyst, redesigned and implement the operating standards and procedures, reducing operational risk, improving efficiency and reduced staff turnover from 30% to zero. ✓ Automated most processes and reports, reducing operational risk and increasing the capacity of the team𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀: ⭑ Expert user of Microsoft Office, Excel VBA/macros ⭑ Created SQL queries to retrieve data from various databases

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER/DATA ANALYST/BUSINESS ANALYSTEnsured correct regular accounting and reporting under IFRS of over 300,000 inter-company derivatives, dealing with large data sets. Implemented and maintained SOX controls and KPI monitoring for the Financial Control Team.Key stakeholder/SME/Product owner for the department’s system and data migration sprints, Project Managed the department’s rollout of strategic projects, UAT and QAT.Managed transformations of key databases and departmental applications, substantially reducing trade breaks and preventing issues at source, reducing workload of the department and increasing efficiency.Defined and monitored trade entry KPIs.Created business and technical requirements documentation to source funding.Extensive user of Microsoft Access and SQL, performing ETL to create analytics in Microsoft Excel.Product owner / scrum master; coached and observed team members and identified individual strengths, ensured framework and values were followed. Coached team members to achieve objectives and develop their skills.𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: ✓ Provided key analysis and budgets to the board and successfully obtained EUR 300m funding for business transformation projects. ✓ Exploratory and performance testing of databases, improvedautomated matching to substantially reducing trade breaks (unmatched trades),reducing monthly workload of the department and increasing team efficiency ✓ Reconfigured database to run faster, reducing processing time by 80% ✓ Analysed and fixed recurrent data errors at source by creating new data input standards. ✓ Used Business Analysts to implemented an ad-hoc LEAN efficiency project and increasedefficiency of the teams, reducing lead times by nearly 10% ✓ Performed business and technical requirements, BI analytics and provided IT proposals presentations to the board of directors𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀: ⭑ Extensive user and of MS Access databases and SQL to create analytics

London, England, United Kingdom

BUSINESS ANALYST/EQUITY STRATEGY TEAMAdvisor to senior management and business owners within the Global Equity Division on how to maximise product coverage, maximise market share, improve strategy and shift focus from individual product selling to a solution-based investment selling strategy.𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀: • Analysed revenues, VAR, market share and client needs • Performed Business Analysis on individual desks and offered solutions • Daily and weekly management progress reports using PowerPoint/Excel • Liaising with desk heads on revenues, VAR, market share, products, solution targeting, clients • Business Analysis • Data Analysis, BI visualisation using Access, Excel and Powerpoint • Daily and weekly management reports

BUSINESS ANALYST/MARKETING ANALYST, CLIENT METRICS𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀: • Sales and Marketing • Web site design, UAT and delivery, working closely between IT and the business • Business Analysis of the desks to improve CRM, communications and knowledge sharing • Executed the offshoring plan; worked in India, setup the equity division team, defined job roles, defined procedures, interviewing, hiring. Managed the new team.

𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀: • Creating and presenting revenue reports for senior management • Reporting and analysis using Microsoft Office; Access, Excel and PowerPoint • Revenue reporting𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀: ⭑ Data mining using SQL, MS Access, Excel VBA/Macros,

London, England, United Kingdom

IT CONSULTANT/PROJECT MANAGER/BUSINESS ANALYSTAnalysing SMEs and large corporations, advising, selling and implementing new IT solutions, from Millennium Bug mitigation to complete infrastructure change.𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀: • Building test suites, automated testing, performance testing • IT architecture business analysis, design, systems engineer, UAT and implementation • Working on client sites as a consultant performing Business Analysis to implement solutions • Project Manager and delivery of a web site • Project Manager of QAT testing of new IBM hardware using Windows NT, Novell Networks.