Responsible for leading the internal liquidity parameter models and methodology development for RBC Corporate Treasury as well as Funds Transfer Pricing for the wholesale half of the balance sheet. Work in close collaboration with internal partners across RBC Capital Markets, Finance, Group Risk Management, IT, and other business lines to develop and maintain a robust, consistent, and transparent liquidity risk and funding allocation methodology to support a resilient growth strategy for RBC.

Head of the Liquidity Parameterization team, part of RBC's Corporate Treasury.Our team specializes in assessing the liquidity behavior of the various products on RBC's balance sheet with the goal of helping management cost effectively structure its funding and contingency buffers to withstand a variety of stress scenarios.Research work covers internal liquidity metrics, recovery and resolution planning, funding forecasts, new business proposals, bespoke client requests, transfer pricing, measurement implementation, and other special projects as required.

Lead the global parameter estimation of all wholesale banking products, appropriate funding allocation and potential buffer requirements for the Corporate Treasury division.Manage the liquidity and capital impact assessment for Resolution Planning Trading Book Wind Down.Liquidity specialist on corporate credit commitments, municipal banking letters of credit, derivatives collateral pledging, counterparty behavior and contractual implications on funding and liquidity risk.Work closely with senior leaders across business lines, functions, regions and legal entities to gather subject matter expertise to supplement quantitative analysis and academic literature review.

Corporate Treasury - Enterprise Liquidity ManagementAnalyze and design the liquidity management and risk treatment for wholesale banking products, with a focus on derivatives, credit commitments and other contingent cash outflows.Assess liquidity risks of new business initiatives and provide advice on appropriate funding sources.Work closely with colleagues in front and middle office positions across sales, trading, Treasury, transfer pricing, collateral, and Risk Management.

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Lead manager for all trading credit and counterparty risk limit needs of RBC Capital Market's Sovereign, Supranational and Agency clients worldwide. Working collaboratively with Fixed Income and Currency, Securities Finance, and Commercial account management desks to understand their credit needs and develop strategic business cases to support ongoing sales and trading. Assess, analyze and monitor emerging and current market and credit risks as part of client portfolio management. Work with Group Risk Management, Treasury, Legal and Compliance to ensure RBC Capital Markets is competitive, provides best execution and effectively manages risk.

- Design, develop and implement hypothetical stress testing scenarios for the Capital Markets trading business.- Manage communications between the Portfolio Analysis team and other internal and external stakeholders with a vested interest in market risk management. - Perform stress test decompositions and sensitivity analysis to assess key risk drivers across product types including swaps, options, forwards and other derivative hedging trades.

- Utilize a wide range of data analysis tools to assess various market risks including SQL, MS Access, MS Excel, MSCI Risk Metrics Risk Manager, Bloomberg and Visual Basic for Applications- Work closely with current and upcoming financial market regulations including Basel II and III with a particular focus on liquidity risk - Program and Develop proprietary risk management tools in order to conduct ad-hoc and ongoing reporting of various market risks including Stress Testing, Value at Risk, Concentration and Credit Risk- Strong understanding of a wide range of client data being generated across multiple business units

- Investigate and report daily changes to a number of market risk metrics using Value at Risk (VaR) modelling. - Work extensively with Excel macros and VBA programming to refine and develop reporting techniques.- Extensive use of the Bloomberg terminal to monitor credit, liquidity and economic risk factors.- Prepare research memos for senior staff members to explain market risk anomalies and other concerns that could adversely affect the business.

Self-employed consultant and research analyst in the financial services sector, providing database management and economic research services.• Developed a labour market information database and interview guide for the Government of Nova Scotia's department of labour.• Enhanced performance allocation reporting systems for Leeside Capital Management Ltd. using VBA programming.• Prepared an extensive international housing and mortgage insurance report for the Department of Finance Canada.

Optimized the use of commercially available economic data so that it could be accessed and updated more easily by the research department.Added insight and research expertise on current financial affairs across various industries for the Council’s quarterly Atlantic Report to patron members.Improved the organization's internal news database to provide the research staff with easier, more clear access to recent economic developments.

My financial planning advice was regularly recommended and congratulated by a growing portfolio of clients that I helped borrow and invest more effectively.Maintained a healthy balance between credit risk management and sales targets by diligently seeking out the best quality clients. Led the district in Visa sales for two straight months in 2008.Developed several sales software tools to aid personal bankers ability to sell credit card and day to day banking products.

Managed and supervised a team of four staff members during concerts, festivals and movie screenings. Responsible for cash management of the bar and ticket counter, handling client inquiries, opening and closing the facility and assigning duties to various team members.