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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Building both my own & other people's passive wealth by renovating run down properties to bring them back to life and provide high quality accommodation in society, helping to reduce the accommodation gap.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey

Responsibilities:• Managing all aspects of owner’s interior.• Ensuring that inventories were maintained for crew uniform, medical supplies and crew provisions.• Aiding the Captain and Chief Officer with Purser activities such as monthly accounting, arranging crew travel & visas and oversight of crew documentation. • Aiding the chef with weekly crew provisioning. Achievements:• Relaunched the boat in July 2019 and located to central Mediterranean to continue the summer period to welcome owner and guests on board. • During the sickness absence of the Chef, assumed responsibility of crew Chef for 3 mnths (9 crew).• Created and maintained a detailed interior work list which was communicated to all departments on board, relevant contractors and management ashore. • Revised the Captain’s monthly accounting process, to ensure better analysis via Excel and monitoring against budget. • Prepared the 2020 budget for the management co. for the boat, along with supporting commentary.• Provided the management co. with a compensation claim, with fully supporting invoices and documentation to provide insurance for engine failure encountered by the boat.• Implemented Sage Accounting system to the boat to allow for better invoice authorisation & payment processing.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Managing and Oversight of Client Contracting documentation for both Institutional Client Contracting (storage and metadata capture) and LatAM, EMEA & APAC Retail (execution and storage).• Responsibility for EMEA ASL (Authorised Signatory Lists) Achievements:• In 2017 brought globalisation to a team of 8, based in 3 different office locations and 3 different time zones.• Business Operations lead, partnering with Onboarding Systems to utilising AI to read and code client contracts for contractual metadata tagging. Took this to a parallel testing state from summer of 2018 through to Dec 2018. Go live was planned for summer 2019.• Partnered with Onboarding Systems to successfully migrate 80,000 contractual client documents from legacy platform DOX to newly created ADR (Aladdin Data Repository).• Following a full process review, received Steer Co approval to retire 60% of the data points being captured daily to re-focus on greater priority tasks.• Hired and Onboarded initial footprint of AML/KYC Officers in Budapest in October 2017.

Edinburgh City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Managing and oversight of the UCITS KIID Production Team to ensure delivery of KIIDs upon launches and republishes for necessary triggers.• Managing a team of 4 individuals and developing the Associate in the team to take on the day to day BAU responsibility allowing for succession planning.• Assessing key risks and managing these by introducing new controls or process change. • Escalation point for day to day UCITS queries from key stakeholders.• Organising the twice monthly KIID Committee meetings & oversight for the annual KIID refresh.• Assessing regulatory change impact on Funds Reporting.Achievements:• Foot-printed the team from London to Edinburgh in Q1 2014.• System migration completed in Aug 2016 to FRED Aladdin platform.• Business Operations lead on the PRIIPs regulation being implemented 31 Dec 2016.• Completed 2 KIID annual refresh cycles in 2014 & 2015 (KIID repository 29,000).• Successfully saw the team through a Compliance audit in Q.4 15.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Managing and oversight of the EMEA Billing Team Managers and Billing Teams.• Analysis of past Billing production to forecast 2014 quarterly goals.• Ensuring accountability for all Billing production levels across the whole team, by providing clear direction and KPI setting.• EMEA Billing technical advisor to the team; Billing Manager, team and Client Business.• Technical expert on the Cashflows CEOC initiative, working with Change Management to find an automated solution.• CELL management query analysis and resolution. Billing representative at the Monthly Functional reviews with ICS and Client Business.• Escalation point for Client Business on sensitive/time critical queries.Achievements:• Became a respected Billing Team Leader within the EMEA Fee Billing team, assisting with the management & oversight of the Billing Analysts and team on a day to day basis. • Team restructure in July 2013 to align 4 sub teams with the Business Channels

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Managing the accurate reporting of EMEA VAT reconciliations on a monthly basis to the London VAT team.• Managing the day to day EMEA Fees Inbox queries, as well as overseeing the delegation and completion of such emails between the Billing Team.• Undertaking the calculations for all performance fees, as well as training a fellow Associate to perform such calculations (200 calculations).• Performing quarterly performance fee estimations for over 200 clients.• Regular communications with ICB and clients to ensure that a thorough understanding of the billing cycle and invoicing is maintained.• Managing the Billing Team in the absence of the Billing Manager, as well as providing support, training and assistance to fellow team members and more junior staff.Achievements:• Become an integral team member within the EMEA Fee Billing team, assisting with the management and oversight of the Billing Analysts and team on a day to day basis. • Responsible for VAT reporting on a monthly basis.• Responsible for performance fee billing and estimates.• Developed good internal and external working relationships with fellow colleagues within Finance and other departments namely GCG, as well as external audit and third party providers.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Managed the accurate recording of share based payments within the F&C Group; accounting for and maintaining supporting schedules.• Accounting for a small subsidiary company for all monthly, regular, movements as well as ad hoc transactions.• Performed regular tracking of the F&C Group bonus accrual liaising with both HR and the Payroll Manager.• Liaised with the correct individuals to ensure timely information maintained for share schemes on a regular basis.• Ensured that robust policies and procedures exist for all areas relating to share based payments and other associated employees benefits and were kept up to date at all times.• Played an active role in the year end reporting in relation to share based payments and processing the necessary year end share based payment entries.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Senior Auditor:• Undertaking audits of small, medium and large companies and charities. Clients range from manufacturing companies to research companies, IT firms, construction, charities and societies. Portfolio includes:- Emtelle UK Ltd (turnover c£31m)- National Trust for Scotland (c£30m)- Canongate Books (c£4m) - Royal Botanic Gardens and Jewel & Esk Valley College (internal audit)• Reporting directly to senior manager and directors.• Management of junior members of staff.Responsibilities:• Planning, completion and delivery of assignments.• Supervision and development of junior staff.• Development of client relationships and promotion of firm.

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