David Collins Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Front Office Risk and PnL Migration Test Team• Responsible for providing third level support for core Risk and PnL Engine• Responsible for investigating critical issues, documenting issues and providing fixes where possible and also communicating details to the Development team• Close interaction with Development team to prioritise issues/bugs and suggesting new functionality based on feedback from and interaction with users• Responsible for UAT testing of all bug fixes and… Show more Front Office Risk and PnL Migration Test Team• Responsible for providing third level support for core Risk and PnL Engine• Responsible for investigating critical issues, documenting issues and providing fixes where possible and also communicating details to the Development team• Close interaction with Development team to prioritise issues/bugs and suggesting new functionality based on feedback from and interaction with users• Responsible for UAT testing of all bug fixes and updates, and also coordinating roll out of changes to Production. • Responsible for the regression testing of the Risk Engine, ensuring risk results are as expected and coordinating sign off from Front Office, Finance and Market Risk for each release.• Daily interaction with Front Office, Finance and Market Risk including carrying out adhoc risk requests and advising on available functionality.• During migrations from legacy risk systems to the core risk system, responsible for setting up new risk batches, testing the new batches to ensure no impact on existing batches, ensuring results are correct, and investigating any pricing differences and raising to the relevant people where appropriate.• Other tasks involve working closely with the Quantitative Analysts/Developers including managing the Analytics Releases, testing of new Analytics and coordinating signoffs across multiple business areas whilst making sure all changes are fully explained to users.• Managing and prioritising work of the Migration and Regression team including people management Show less

Dublin/London

January to July 2010, Business Analyst• Responsible for designing and analysing the specifications of risk control features and dealer intervention facilities enabling manual price adjustment, spread/skew manipulation and other advanced features.• Testing and analysis of advanced liquidity management and netting options in relation to the main system ensuring they satisfied the clients specifications• Overseeing testing of all other areas of the systemAugust 2010 to… Show more January to July 2010, Business Analyst• Responsible for designing and analysing the specifications of risk control features and dealer intervention facilities enabling manual price adjustment, spread/skew manipulation and other advanced features.• Testing and analysis of advanced liquidity management and netting options in relation to the main system ensuring they satisfied the clients specifications• Overseeing testing of all other areas of the systemAugust 2010 to September 2013, Consulting in RBS Show less

Dublin, Ireland

• Worked in the Pricing Department on the Home and Motor Insurance Lines.• Completed and analysed monthly reports on profitability.• Led project on re-writing of premium calculation software in SAS for testing of potential model changes.