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London, Gb

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

* Representing EDI issues to the staff meetings.* Gathering feedback from students in minoritized group notably international students, disabled students, and students from different religion, race, sex or gender, and share this feedback with fellow EDI reps and department staffs.

Mexico City, Mexico

Recruit and lead the Mexico-based Data Management team within a global cross-functional environment encompassing Reigate (UK), Chicago (US), Mexico City (Mexico), and Manila (Philippines). Oversaw the performance and development of the Mexico team, providing active management, leadership, and mentoring to achieve operational excellence. Accomplishments:* Conducted daily pricing and validation processes to ensure availability, integrity and timely delivery of client valuations and critical information to investment team operations, with 99% accuracy of client data. * Implemented data management best practices, creating documentation and sustainable systems, guaranteeing resources aligned with business needs.* Acted as custodian of data, sourced internally and from external third-party providers, utilizing tools such as R, Python, Excel, and Power BI dashboards for comprehensive management and analysis, data insights and decision-making. * Monitored activities of diverse global teams (UK, US, Canada, Australia) involved in portfolio management, middle office operations, trade management, internal controls, and reporting, offering tailored data strategic solutions.* Collaborated with external fund managers, administrators, and price providers to implement solutions, automating data transfer processes, and enhancing pricing system support, resulting in a 50% increase in operational efficiency.

Mexico City, Mexico

Collaborated with portfolio managers throughout all stages of client investments, ensuring optimal performance and alignment with individual financial objectives. Overseeing the operation of more than 50 personalized mandates and 200 standardized strategy contracts.Accomplishments:* Conducted daily rebalancing and trading, ensuring all portfolios had enough liquid assets to meet short-term obligations, and aligned with benchmarks.* Essential support in market and quantitative analysis, measuring and presenting various financial risks (liquidity, funding, and capital risks) to make informed investment decisions.* Optimizing the use of the client’s capital to achieve the best return on equity, fixed income and derivatives, while maintaining regulatory capital requirements.* Engaged with diverse stakeholders, both internal and external, to deliver comprehensive insights into portfolio performance and address client inquiries with precision.* Spearheaded the creation of a proprietary investment portfolio code leveraging historical data, time series analysis, backtesting, and technical insights, resulting in superior yields compared to industry benchmarks. * Model validation and model life-cycle management.

Mexico City, Mexico

* Assisted in teaching and developing course materials for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in probability, statistics, algebra, and calculus.* Provided academic support to students through one-on-one mentoring, tutoring sessions, and office hours.* Collaborated with faculty members on research projects and contributed to academic publications in the field of mathematics.* Conducted lectures, seminars, and workshops to enhance students' analytical and problem-solving skills.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mathematical Finance

Focus Areas: Financial Modelling, Vanilla and Exotic Derivative pricing, Greeks, Risk Management, Monte Carlo methods. Capstone Project.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Actuarial Science

Capstone Project: Valuation derivative models for interest rates using non-homogeneous Lévy processes, contributing new insights.