Gerard O'Connor Email & Phone Number

County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Head Architect for Global Risk & Trading overseeing design for global product distribution, risk management and steering sports models platforms evolution.The platforms we build power product for majority of Flutter brands.We predominately build our systems with event driven architecture and event sourcing, tech we use include Kafka, Akka, Flink, Kubernetes and host solutions across AWS and on-prem.Involved with many global strategy initiatives across trading and sportsbooks to leverage Flutters economies of scale and continue to deliver industry leading product innovation.

Dublin, Ireland

Building and designing software solutions

London, United Kingdom

• Led front office and back office development and implementation of in-house/cloud tech solutions using C#/F# .net stacks in azure/aws infrastructure.• Portfolio optimisation and trade automation to manage exposures, risk and volatility• Modernised all trading operations and migrated analytics and rebalancing to elastic cloud compute • Provided fundamental analysis, equity screening, and exposure/factor analysis for portfolio construction.• Continuously improved operations and risk management through technological iteration and optimization.• Utilised rich factor modelling with ML parameter optimisation with monte carlo simulation engine

London Area, United Kingdom

- Lead built of new automated trading systems and migration off legacy unsupported software- Set up cloud environments and migrated DR and fund accounting components to cloud- Started to leverage cloud compute to trial quantitative models to reduce volatility of portfolio composition, via rebalancing, related asset hedging, and further factor analysis

• GCP is a Long/Short Equity Hedge-fund where I have Trading, Operations and Analyst responsibilitiesTrading• Responsible for all fund’s trade execution (DMA & ALGO) on Bloomberg EMSX / MS Passport• Execute & calculate bulk basket trades for Fund rebalancing/reweighting • Work closely with Portfolio Manager and Dealing Desks to get best executionOperations• Responsible for back/middle office operations and developed reconciliation automation• Monitor cash positions, corporate actions and FX hedging and exposures• Monitor inflows & outflows and rebalance the portfolioAnalyst• Regularly attend conferences & company meetings on current and prospective investments • Contributed to successful material positions in the portfolio• Build valuation models to find intrinsic value based on DCFs and Multiple Comparables

London, United Kingdom

An institutional members' exchange for the trading of longevity-based assets, in partnership with Aon.Exchange utilised auction technolgy system built on ASP.NET & SQL Server

Dublin ( Charlamont )

• Reconciling and recalculating loan and deposit book through automated scripting tests• Manager of UAT for operations, assisting users in their testing and technical requirement specs• Statistical, trend and risk analysis reporting for management on all banking operations• Process enhancement and monitoring of loans, deposits and payments/settlements

Dublin

• Reconciliation of Foreign Exch & Nostro accounts as well as managing outsourced clearing logistics • System and GL Balancing, Database Report Building of OFSS Flexcube banking system• Running end-of-day for bank, resolving any system/GL balancing differences and other complications

Bachelor'S Degree, Honours (Bfs), Financial Services

Relevant coursework: Finance, MIS, Investment, Insurance & Reinsurance Markets, Treasury & Risk Management, Management of Financial.

Professional Member (Mbcs), Information Technology

Csis Level 3 Certificate In Investments (Securities) :, Investments

Jfsd – Joint Financial Services And Business Studies Diploma, Financial Services And Business Studies

Relevant coursework: Quantitative Methods & Financial Maths, Custody & Registration, Fund Accounting & Valuation, Information.

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