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Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Luxembourg

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Trade Life Cycle - manage daily risk factors and queries across global markets for Hedge Fund clients, covering Cash Equities/Fixed Income & Listed Derivatives.• Build and maintain relationships with key infrastructure groups to enable premium client service.• Produce and deliver analysis for Client Relationship Management presentations.• Work closely with clients to deliver enhanced Straight Through Processing.• Manage and coordinate regulatory/tax requirements received by the team on behalf of clients.• Secondment Jan 2009 – Jun 2011; Montague Place Custody Services – Prime Brokerage insolvency remote entity (post Lehman Brothers insolvency)o Worked closely with Operations/Technology/Legal/Front Office to build out the offering o Successfully functionalised all flows and processes across divisions.o Co-ordinate post insolvency testing and process improvements.Achievements:• Successfully co-ordinating the integration of functions across Cash Equities/Fixed Income & Listed Derivatives to enable a single point of contact for clients.• Successfully implemented the new Custody offering, insolvency remote entity.• Built firm wide technical reports for Prime Brokerage clients.• Developed FSA reporting/reconciliation requirements to a tight timeline.• Implemented Buy-In process flow to control and reduce risk.• Process improvements; global introduction of Asia pre-matching report, to reduce financial/ reputational risks.

London, United Kingdom

• Prime Brokerage settlements, stock loan settlements and collateral management.• Training and mentoring junior members of the team.• Develop good working relationships with internal and external clients.• Collated, analysed and presented weekly departmental statistics.

Sydney, Australia

• Succesfully transitioned in new buiness from competitors, example Goldman Sachs• Provide daily settlement functions for equity and fixed income trading in the Australia market.• Senior team member responsible for co-ordination of cross training and managing relationships with key clients.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Member of a team which successfully transitioned the trade management function from New York to Glasgow.• Monitored and resolved failing global equity and fixed income trades, working with stock loan and other internal clients until resolution.• Liaised with the New York client base regarding failed trades.• Implemented process improvements. Russia bulking of instructions, implemented Euroclear pre-matching (reduced fail rate/costs).• Co-ordinating risk meetings with the business unit and operation teams.• Successfully reduced risk and exposure to the firm through the reduction in fail rates.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Assisted with daily team management, as senior team member.• Communicated trade volumes and issues to internal management.• Reconciliation of equities and derivatives trades.• Resolved problem trades by liaising directly with Fund Managers and Clients.• Worked with internal teams and Fund Managers to co-ordinate Fund Manager transitions.

Iaq – Investment Administration Qualification

Activities and Societies: Global Settlements (2003) FSA Regulatory Environment (2002) Introduction to Securities and Investment (2002)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Business Studies, 2.1