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Edinburgh City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Tasked by management to design and execute a global report extracting KPIs showing each BAU's compliance with obtaining client affirmations and signed confirmations in line with EMIR and DTCC regulations for OTC derivatives using problem solving, communication and IT skills.• Performed client affirmations to ensure compliance with new EMIR and DTCC Regulations.• Drafted client ISDA and non-ISDA confirmations and managed a portfolio of 300 clients to ensure counterparties signed and returned executed confirmations within regulatory guidelines.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Performed daily OTC derivative control and reporting for key GTS clients across the EMEA region.• Tasked with ensuring annual IFRS7 (time bucketed cashflow reporting) for 5000 OTC derivatives positions was delivered within a 10 day timeframe covering 10 product templates consisting of IRS, CDS, Swaptions, Inflation Swaps, Variance Swaps, Equity Options, Zero Coupon Swaps, FX Forwards, FX Options and Caps & Floors, which resulted with no exceptions.• Performed quarterly testing for clients validating third party data outputs including valuation and exception testing.• Carried out and took ownership of deep dive reconciliation reports using problem solving and IT skills I increased efficiency by 50% and was a first point of contact for any queries.• Performed retrospective internal review of day to day processes ensuring all controls were followed and supporting documentation was consolidated.• Responsible for chairing client calls with third parties covering all aspects of OTC documentation, trade settlement and ageing items as well as reverting back on client queries in a timely manner.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the production and dissemination of timely and accurate client valuations for vanilla and exotic structured products on a daily, weekly, bi-monthly and monthly basis ensuring full compliance with the Client Valuation Policy.• First team member from Glasgow to travel to London and learn completely new complex product range, understand and execute processes and adhere to control and escalation points in accordance with depth chart goals.• Promoted to Associate within 6 months after helping with the successful transition of the team from London to Glasgow and participated in numerous projects to automate processes such as Dividend Swaps, Variance Swap Dispersions, Notes and mitigate risk whilst increasing efficiency and optimising the professional service delivered to clients.• Products supported included Equity Vanilla, Exotic and Structured OTC derivatives as well as Corporate Loans and Fixed Income Bonds.• Collated prices/spreads/MTMs from Trading, Bloomberg, and internal systems.• Managed to build strong relationship with business units to be a first point of contact.• Utilising my analytical and problem solving skills reviewing day on day price movements to investigate any price movements that have breached our control thresholds by looking at termsheets, liaising with other Derivative Operations teams, IT or escalating to Sales/Trading/Risk Management.• Dealing with complex ad hoc client queries and have been complemented on very high levels of client service delivered, by managing client expectations, meeting deadlines and reverting on client queries in a timely manner.• Primarily, supporting EMEA institutional clients and working in conjunction with teams in Baltimore, Singapore and Tokyo to support the needs of Institutional clients globally.

• During tough market conditions asked by management to transfer to the Static Data team to train team members on maintaining IPB SSI instructions and develop myself to be an integral part of the static data team by cross training on all other processes.• Responsible for ensuring the firm maintains accurate client security and cash delivery instructions supporting various teams to maintain low fail rates and high STP rates.• Consistently surpassed set targets of 95% Performance and 98% Accuracy.• Performed and documented Call Back Verifications with various clients to ensure accuracy of SSI instructions to ensure smooth settlement.• Responsible for updating procedures and aided with the migration projects for the off-shoring of the Static Data work.

• Responsible for monitoring, prioritising and delegating Payment and Receipt processing sent via email to IPB mailboxes from IPB Client Service Representatives.• Processing client cash payments and receipts to tight deadlines into Morgan Stanley systems.• Maintaining accurate client static data.• Responsible for trade booking and amendment across a range of products and markets.• Updated process procedures and consistently surpassed Performance/Productivity and Accuracy targets.