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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Park City, Ut

Salt Lake City

•Oversaw the day-to-day operations of the firm’s Collateral Management team in Salt Lake City, a team of 12 people responsible for monitoring credit exposure and collateral requirements with the firm’s largest trading partners •Reviewed and approved the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars in collateral transfers daily•Negotiated collateral contracts with external clients, in collaboration with internal Credit, Sales, and Legal teams•Leveraged performance metrics, surveys… Show more •Oversaw the day-to-day operations of the firm’s Collateral Management team in Salt Lake City, a team of 12 people responsible for monitoring credit exposure and collateral requirements with the firm’s largest trading partners •Reviewed and approved the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars in collateral transfers daily•Negotiated collateral contracts with external clients, in collaboration with internal Credit, Sales, and Legal teams•Leveraged performance metrics, surveys, and client engagements to assess and improve customer service •Developed, coordinated, and delivered training modules for new-hire training and leadership development •Managed the careers of 5-6 direct reports through developmental feedback, formal yearly reviews, and mentoringAccomplishments•Streamlined a third-party vendor payment process that resulted in approximately 10 hours of efficiency gains per week and eliminated a recurring duplicate payment issue•Digitized the manual process of signing Letters of Authorization, resulting in approximately 10 hours of time savings per week for the analyst/associate population on the team•Named the Sub-Divisional Recruiting Lead to assess hiring needs with senior managers, organize/conduct interviews, and allocate new hires according to headcount needs Show less

Greater Salt Lake City Area

•Monitored credit exposure to a portfolio of some of the firm’s largest trading counterparts and executed asset transfers to meet daily collateral requirements •Structured complex financial transactions that balanced client demands with the firm’s liquidity and risk tolerance levels •Researched and reconciled exposure calculation differences with external trading partners, ensuring collateral optimization and correct reflection of credit risk levels •Performed root-cause… Show more •Monitored credit exposure to a portfolio of some of the firm’s largest trading counterparts and executed asset transfers to meet daily collateral requirements •Structured complex financial transactions that balanced client demands with the firm’s liquidity and risk tolerance levels •Researched and reconciled exposure calculation differences with external trading partners, ensuring collateral optimization and correct reflection of credit risk levels •Performed root-cause analysis to identify break-downs in processes and implement controls to prevent future incidents •Acted as a formal mentor to summer interns, providing guidance to help them discover the firm’s culture and make career decisionsAccomplishments•Led the collateral portion of a firm-wide funding enhancement that improved the firm’s risk profile by $1.4 billion•Enhanced the invoicing method for one of the firm’s largest clients, reducing the average payment timeframe from 60 to 30 days•Created a more robust training program for onboarding summer interns and new hires Show less

Greater New York City Area

•Worked with Fortune 500 companies, as well as internal business teams and legal counsel, to structure/execute new debt issuances for mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings•Designed complex flow-of-funds maps to facilitate large, multi-currency financial transactions•Managed a portfolio of corporate loans by invoicing borrowers for interest/principal payments, transferring funds to lenders, tracking secondary trading of the loans, and monitoring the adherence to… Show more •Worked with Fortune 500 companies, as well as internal business teams and legal counsel, to structure/execute new debt issuances for mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings•Designed complex flow-of-funds maps to facilitate large, multi-currency financial transactions•Managed a portfolio of corporate loans by invoicing borrowers for interest/principal payments, transferring funds to lenders, tracking secondary trading of the loans, and monitoring the adherence to loan covenants•Reviewed loan agreements with lawyers and clients to access operational functionality and recommended changes Accomplishments•Implemented a new checklist system that tripled the team’s daily closing capacity, reduced the occurrence of incidents, and created better audit trails of transactions •Trained colleagues in order to expand the new-issuance Operations team to Dallas in response to increased volumes•Streamlined the methods used for collecting key metrics related to new business and client activity; presented data to Controllers and business teams on a more consistent basis•Organized, wrote, and maintained large sections of the team’s first procedure document Show less

Bachelor’S Degree, French Language And Literature

French Major with Spanish and Business Minor

2006-2007 Full Year Study Abroad