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Bruton, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

New York

• Oversight of the regional trade support and middle office risk management teams. 15 people across three individuals teams.
• Regulatory oversight – Review, planning and implementation – CFTC, ESMA, 871m, TRACE, ACT Reporting.
• Non-Market Risk lead for operations working closely with Business Unit NMR and Compliance groups for Run The Bank and Change The Bank business Priorities.
• Operational lead for New Product Assessment and delivery for North America – working cross-region with… Show more
• Operational lead for New Product Assessment and delivery for North America – working cross-region with global partners.
• Operations lead for North America - Partnered IT and regional operations divisions for roadmap prioritisation and delivery. Identify key opportunities & efficiencies for greater cost saving to the business.

Hong Kong

• Managed team Supporting Exotic Products including Equity Linked Notes, onshore debt products, Exotic Options and Swaps, Equity Swaps and GCM Deals.
• Managed team of 6 people in the HK trade Support team.
• Supported the Monthly SEBI process required for India Onshore Reporting for two years assisting in developing the process to create a more streamlined and controlled process.
• On a day-to-day basis I worked closely with FO and BO to ensure that breaks are efficiently corrected… Show more
• On a day-to-day basis I worked closely with FO and BO to ensure that breaks are efficiently corrected and positions are reconciled in a timely manner.
• Provided event life cycle management: striking and fixings recording and checking, calculation of coupons and payoffs, management of impacts of corporate events on exotic options, issue of relevant reports for clients.

Hong Kong

• Supported Single stock, index, Warrant and Converts for both T0 and T+1 control functions.
• Manager of 3 people in Hong Kong and our support team in Mumbai
• T+1 reconciliations covering fx, listed, futures, OTC and swaps.
• Worked closely with FO and BO to ensure that breaks are efficiently corrected and positions are reconciled in a timely manner.
• Monitoring and controlling the trade flow from Front to Middle to Back, including setup, transaction and amendment of… Show more
• Monitoring and controlling the trade flow from Front to Middle to Back, including setup, transaction and amendment of deals

London

• Supporting the Delta one and structured Arbitrage desk
• Supervisor of three desk assistants in London and our support team in Mumbai
• Responsible for trade bookings from vanilla to structured products
• Maintain accuracy and clarity of the books; running EOD processes
• Monitor the delta exposure and ensure hedges are done properly on new, secondary and expiry trades
• Validate exotic product events including coupon payment, barrier monitoring and expiries

London, United Kingdom

• Supported Single stock, index and Prop Desk controlling all T+1 reconciliations
• Supervisor of 5 people in London and our support team in Mumbai
• T+1 reconciliations covering FX, listed, futures, OTC and swaps.
• Worked closely with FO and BO to ensure that breaks are efficiently corrected and positions are reconciled in a timely manner.
• Provided event life cycle management: striking and fixings recording and checking, calculation of coupons and payoffs, management of impacts… Show more
• Provided event life cycle management: striking and fixings recording and checking, calculation of coupons and payoffs, management of impacts of corporate events on exotic options, issue of relevant reports for clients.

London, United Kingdom

• Supervised the transition team leading the projects investigating Nomura processes for cash equity settlements in terms of integration
• Attend regular meetings between Finance, Audit and Front office around front to back process improvement.
• Identifying areas for improvement where utilising Lehman brothers systems could improve our efficiency and productivity before January Go-Liven for our new team.
• Launching the first stage of India off shoring. This involves migrating the… Show more
• Launching the first stage of India off shoring. This involves migrating the affirmations function to Mumbai. This will be completed by the Middle of February.
• As part of this project I will be working in Mumbai creating work streams, team training and MIS reporting for our new team. Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Supervisor of the cash equity derivatives settlements team in London. The team consists of four members in London and a team in Mumbai.
• The team owned the processing and reconciling of all OTC cash products for equities.
• Daily Risk control meetings on outstanding reconciliation issues for all F&L / OTC / Stock issues. Identify and help drive procedural efficiencies and technological requirements.
• A key role in the migration of London functions to India planned and executed the… Show more
• A key role in the migration of London functions to India planned and executed the migration of the derivatives settlements function performed in London to Mumbai where our team in India will continue to carry out this.
• Involved in a number of key systems and product related projects will increase our trade capture and settlements efficiency. An example of which was the automation to STP of feeds from the front – back office of trader.

London, United Kingdom

• The client service team at ABN AMRO acting as the main contact for client equity confirmations.
• Daily client reporting for all pre and post trade queries.
• Assisting trading desk with any client related queries
• Maintaining and evaluating controls within the group to minimize risk

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the German, Austrian and Dutch markets for stock settlement and corporate actions in the equity division.
• Role included pre and post settlement reconciliation and affirmation for all equity trades.
• Responsible for daily MIS work for the alleged and cash/stock rec reporting for the group
• Maintaining and evaluating controls within the group to minimize risk
• Undertaking an analysis of procedures for the German market highlighting daily tasks, special… Show more
• Undertaking an analysis of procedures for the German market highlighting daily tasks, special requirements of the market and all information needed for a new starter in this area. Show less

Bachelor’S Degree, International Business, Second Class Honours

High School, 3 A-Levels - English, Economics, German, C,C,A