David Da Cunha Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

•Developed strong working relationships with Front Office to ensure the accurate booking of all Fixed Income trades in the Portfolio Management system (Broadridge Portfolio Master) on a daily basis.•Work closely with trade counterparties and the funds custodians to clear any queries and reconcile trade details. •Prepare a daily cash forecast of the firm’s funds using Broadridge Analytics in order to advise FO of how much cash is available for daily and weekly trading.•Liaise with fund administrators and custodians, ensuring that all relevant parties are properly informed of fund activity.•Produce monthly, quarterly reports for both internal and external clients which are also used for marketing materials.•With the assistance of the portfolio managers, respond in a timely manner to corporate actions ensuring any actions are booked in the PMS system.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for trading listed equities on the MENA and SSA markets, including creation, negotiation, execution, and settlement of Portfolio positions.• Interacting closely with Portfolio Managers and Traders to ensure timely and accurate execution of investment strategies across client portfolios.• Rebalancing portfolios in response to events such as cash flows, benchmark changes, market price movements.• Building strong relationships with clients and, business partners, and tasked with managing their expectations.• Reconciliation of the firm’s funds on a daily weekly and monthly basis to calculate the NAV and Fund performance.• Worked with Auditors, Fund administrators and Portfolio Managers in the review and approval of the annual financial statements of the funds.• Worked with the Fund Administrator to check and agree the monthly Shadow NAV.• Highly organised, self driven and committed team player with strict attention to detail, with special emphasis on prioritisation of tasks.Key achievements*Initiated, managed and delivered a process which enabled the firm to repatriate approx. $10m USD from Nigeria which involved communicating and negotiating with Senior officials in the Nigerian Banks to broker a deal.*Key figure in liaising between vendor and the firm to implement a new OMS/PMS system which involved testing, development and teaching of new tool to rest of the back office team.*Liaised with the COO to develop, implement and produce ad hoc monthly, quarterly reports for client distribution as well as quarterly client meetings.

London, England, United Kingdom

*To determine the most economical collateral allocation and manage the delivery/receipt of collateral in the form of either non US securities or cash*Help support the Collateral/Margin Unit in monitoring daily margining for customers across various products (Rates, Commodity, Structured Credit, Equity, and Foreign Exchange)*Working in a pressurised environment due to the strict deadlines to provide Treasury Middle office with expected inflows and out flows of funds to and from clients’ accounts *Next-day posting of funds to the client’s accounts and investigating any exceptions*Extensive experience in testing and implementing of new in house systems, developing close working relationships with both PM & tech support to ensure minimal impact to project deadlines*Team representative of the Business Continuity plan, which involved travelling offsite to test all systems are working as expected during the Bi-Annual testing event.

Canary Wharf Docklands

* Managing a team of associates* Desk head for Asia client valuations, in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.* Building strong relationships with clients, business partners, and tasked with managing their expectations. * Excellent communication and negotiation skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels * Key figure in liaising between technology and front office to implement a new pricing tool used by the trading desk, which involved testing, development and teaching of new tool to front office traders * Flexibility to work both independently and as part of a team to deliver results in a pressurised environment with strict deadlines. * Responsible as the main UAT tester for the EMEA Region including writing and execution of test scripts. * Contributing towards valuation system testing, providing recommendations on workflow and functionality. * Sourcing of valuations for Fixed Income products including CLO,CDO, ABS and STN from respective trading desks, establishing excellent working relations with sales/trading. * Responsible for the creation, implementation and testing of the Business continuity plan for the EMEA region for Client Valuations section.

* Was an SME who successfully migrated back office process Off shore. * Travelled to Offshore site in India to implement process whilst also training offshore associates to be in a position to carry out duties unsupervised. * Provided business solutions to the offshore migration, including write up and implementation of training plans for offshore associates post migration. * Authorisation of FX, CLS, NDF and Money Market trades * Daily liaison with our business partners, external clients and various trading desks to investigate any discrepancies relating to FX, CLS, NDF and Money Market trades * Working closely with Settlements, Traders and clients to ensure accurate information is updated within our processing database and contact lists

Bromley, England, United Kingdom

Reconciliation and payment of brokerage invoicesDaily communication with Middle Office concerning queries over invoices, and rate agreementsExtensive liaison with clients regarding invoice queries/payments, and maintaining excellent relationships with themSetting up month-end payments to brokers, involving communication with middle office, static data and settlements departments and brokerage firms

London, United Kingdom

* Working in a visa section of a private bank * Liaising with the bank’s clients as well as operating back office duties. * Deputised for head of Section in his absence including supervision of 5 staff * Reconciling daily transaction files and production of accounting entries for posting to various ledger accounts. * Reconciling next-day posting of funds to the client’s accounts and investigating any exceptions.

Working in a team of eight people in the Cash Management, London Funding Position Monitoring team. This area involves liaising with clients / Treasury in a cut-off based environment.

Certificate In Investment Operations

Activities and Societies: Completed the internationally recognised IOC Qualification achieving passes in all three modules

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Management With Information Technology

A - Levels, English Language And Business Studies

Activities and Societies: School Newspaper, School Cricket team