Chris Owen Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for implementing Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) Initial Margin (IM) collateral disputes process for EMEA (live from Sept 1st 2016), I lead a team of 5 new associates within EMEA Quantitative Middle Office to provide analytical support in the IM disputes workflow. The key emphasis of the role centers on co-ordinating and designing a new framework for reconciling, investigating and resolving Initial Margin disputes with the leading investment banks for the EMEA region. In particular, intricacies of the IM calculation (based on VaR model, portfolio-level risk, across derivative asset classes) present significant challenges to reconciliation process.

London, United Kingdom

 Key Middle Office co-ordinator of the Bank’s global development effort to re-model all derivative positions in order to reflect the collateralisation of their trading positions with external counterparties Project managing long-term strategic initiatives, including the phased roll-out of enhancements to the Bank’s pricing framework on a regional basis Implemented key population completeness / error checking up-stream controls to address operational risk concerns and accurately substantiate the FVA risk on the banks balance-sheet Monitoring, testing and refining existing P&L controls framework, in particular optimising processes through robust coding scripts Regular interaction with senior partners in Technology, Finance and Trading divisions to report on timeliness of project deliveries and keep them apprised of any potential roadblocks Oversee a sub-team in India responsible for daily quality control checks, p&l/risk reporting to the desk and assist in development of related initiatives Through several presentations, raised awareness of the concept of FVA and collateralised/uncollateralised risk across the other London Middle Office teams Designed a reporting process for FVA that automatically bills Trading desks for unpaid trading activity daily/monthly

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Participated in a 3-year Graduate Exotic Finance rotation scheme; exposure to Energy/Metal/Agriculture Exotic & Structured Products portfolios and traders. Duties within Product Control comprised: production of comprehensive daily trading P&L, conducting validation tasks to ensure the integrity of balance sheet accounts, FO-BO system reconciliations, execution of regular independent price verifications, developing and reporting management accounting information, further projects and ad-hoc requests relevant to the Finance function. In addition, strong relations developed with Trading/Market Risk/Operations/Financial Control/Regulators through continuous liaison as career progressed. Gained technical exposure to exotic commodity products (Baskets, Dispersions trades, TARNs, Extendibles, Barriers) and pricing models and furthered knowledge of commodity markets as a whole.

Brentwood, Essex

Ensure all reconciliations are completed in accordance with agreed service level standards, Corporate Policies, FSA rules and guidance and industry best practice. Report any breaches that are identified. Work under own initiative to resolve outstanding exceptions. Implement actions to clear items that are timed and measurable. Liaise with other departments within TA to clear exceptions. Timely escalation where items do not clear within SLAs. Participate in ongoing improvements to the India/Brentwood operating model and client experience. Ensure all management information is reported in a timely and accurate manner and that clear and precise records are maintained to ensure an adequate audit trail of IMS TA reconciliation and investigation activity. Comply with all corporate policies and procedures within the department. Identify, assess and escalate business risk, internal controls effectiveness or any other issue impacting Business as usual processes

Melbourne, Australia

Processing energy consumption data & invoices from all 500 Australia Post sites across the country. Objective was accomplished by designing a new series of inter-locking Access databases, building on redundant old databases. The aim was a semi-automated process with a user-friendly interface to update contract rates, process monthly invoices & produce reports on energy consumption by region/site. The process encountered numerous problems, resultant from the client’s unstructured, problematic invoicing system. I achieved a solution to this issue by developing a complicated ‘learning’ Access system which could effectively filter out erroneous errors in the invoice data with only minimal manual input required.

London, United Kingdom

Worked in Life Insurance department, assisting in the construction of a workbook to model the financial position of insurance brokers under different commission structures. Produced discounted cashflows as required in the model, a model which was further developed by a colleague when I left and subsequently published in a life assurance journal. As a member of the General Insurance team, assisted colleagues in performing money laundering checks on several Lloyds syndicate members. Supported reserve review of a client; used Visual Basic to input data into the CROS database and created spreadsheets to check processing for errors. Additionally, I developed strong oral and written communication skills whilst detailing weekly reports to senior managers and partners concerning worldwide updates within general insurance relevant to the department.

Basildon, Essex, Uk

Acquired experience in leading and managing team of finance personnel at Visteon. Responsible for part of the company’s budget analysis with two colleagues, which I solely ran whilst they took a week break. During this time, I became the main point of contact for all the European plant managers with queries relating to the budget process. The entire process demanded a lot of preparation and during it, a sense of initiative to deal with queries & problems whilst solely running my part of the project. Evaluated cost of every new business component to be made in 2005 in a timely fashion to be included in the company’s budget. Developed cost-cutting strategies with European colleagues for new business components to be included in the 2005 Budget. Prepared and led several presentations to the team and other finance managers on the Departments’ budget progress.

Mmath Hons, Mathematics (1St)

Activities and Societies: Sports/Social Club President, Sports/Social Club Treasurer, Investment Society Member, Ambassador for Science &.

A-Level, Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (A), Physics (A), Chemistry (B)