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Baltimore, Maryland, Us

CO, WY, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, TX, MN, MO, AR, LA, MS

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

IL, MN, WI, IA

Worldwide, Oo

At Allianz Global Investors, we believe that it is critical to build trust with clients. As an Internal Investment Consultant with Allianz Global Investors, I work closely with an external partner to identify opportunities, drive business growth, and build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with key clientele.Understand. Act. This two-word philosophy is at the core of what we do. We listen to our clients to understand their needs, then act decisively to deliver solutions. We are a global diversified active investment manager with a culture of risk management.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Accepted an offer from Bank of Nova Scotia as a Manager to help roll out their product control function for their fixed income trading desk. Worked extensively with the trading desk building out a relationship between the two functions. Assisted senior manager in defining roles and responsibilities as well as implemented processes and procedures to increase control and value added service to internal clients. - Work closely with front office trading personnel in producing daily, weekly and monthly P&L results and analysis- Perform independent price verification, verify accuracy of internal valuations of trading positions- Used risk based data in combination with market data to provide P&L commentary - Provide reporting on various regulatory requirement: capital adequacy, SOX, Basel- Contribute to migration of products onto new risk management trading platform, support process and system improvements through participating in project initiatives- Continue developing and improving the internal control environment through critical evaluation of current controls and utilization of best practice.

Zurich, Ch

Transitioned to trade support to draft business case for creating a trade support team for basis funding, structured repo, and rates total return swap (TRS) business. Migrated daily tasks from the trading desk to the middle office, created desktop procedures, a capacity model for fixed and variable tasks, along with a map and gap of control risks with resource requirements. Responsibilities included the following:- Trade date P&L generation and reconciliation. - Built daily curve for trade pricing and price testing of TRS trade population. Implemented automated daily global portfolio run saving 1 hour a day for the trading desk and closed control gap on P&L slide generation resulting in capacity uptick for Business Unit Control (BUC) and IT.- Created an intersystem reconciliation for TRS business reducing approximately 10 hours monthly resource requirement for BUC and reduced control risk. Reviewed additional Intersystem reconciliations and responsible for issue resolution.- Trade booking, point of contact for operations, and BUC for all trade and P&L queries.- Created and maintained desktop procedures for daily control processes and functions

Zurich, Ch

Aggressively recruited by middle office management to create and manage a team of 3 sales support staff for the North American interest rates sales team. Built relationships with the sales desk, sales business management, middle office change the bank teams, as well as credit and emerging market sales support teams. Set Performance Management Measurement (PMM) objectives with continuous review.- Migrated process ownership from sales desk and trade support teams to sales support team. Created a capacity model to identify areas where we could maximize change budget to close control gaps and reduce resource allocation. - Managed multiple projects for process improvements realizing a goal of 95% right first time trade capture for sales up from 90%, an 80% reduction fails costs, a 25% capacity uptick. - Implemented control around trade checking process, reduced TMPG fails from 1.1m (2010) to .25m (2011).

Zurich, Ch

Transitioned from back office operations to business unit control with responsibilities for daily profit and loss reporting, month end close, P&L attribution, market commentary, and ran point for offshoring regional responsibilities across the Macro Interest Rate product control team. - Responsible for reporting of $18 Billion - $25 Billion in balance sheet of Government & Agency securities.- Daily P&L submission and estimate variance analysis.- Month end close ledger to sub-ledger P&L reconciliation & Global Balance Sheet Ownership Verification (GBSOV) sign-off.- Provided daily, weekly, and monthly P&L commentary as well as monthly balance sheet commentary.- Supervised one direct report, set PMM objectives with monthly review.- Interacted with the trading desk, conducted daily and quarterly reviews with product heads.- Partnered and liaised with the business front to back from trading desk to operations across various management levels

Zurich, Ch

Promoted to Team Manager, rebuilt interest rate settlements team in 2007 due to turnover, by recruiting / training new hires. Set PMM objectives. Began off shoring process in late 2007, consolidating onshore team while creating an offshore team and maintaining responsibility for risk and key strategic client relationships. Promoted to Associate Director in 2008 while managing the settlements team. Worked with management to create a derivative cash payments utility responsible for settlements of OTC credit, equity and interest rate products. - Managed OTC Interest Rate Derivative Settlements Team of 18 employees (consisting of 9 onshore and 9 offshore).- Primary point of contact for regional settlement risk with business management, risk management, and Ops management.- Actively participated in off shoring initiatives, change the bank initiatives, facilitated system testing, assisted in implementation of change. Worked collaboratively with other run and change the bank teams in Asia, Europe, and North America to deliver cost and risk reduction through implementation of the settlements utility. Able to produce 50% resource cost reduction through synergies between teams.- First signatory for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) control risk standard governing OTC interest rate settlements.

Zurich, Ch

Earned additional responsibilities within the OTC derivative settlements teams: supervising corporate client settlement staff of four, setting annual performance objectives, and conducting continuous reviews. Participated and owned settlement accounting risk reporting for entire Interest Rate OTC Derivative Settlements Team: presenting to front office and operations business management, along with operation risk control. - Supervised Corporate Client Interest Rate Derivative Settlements Team of 4 employees. - Participated with Future State Architecture idea creation, requirement prioritization, system enhancement testing. - Prepared and presented outstanding settlement risk analysis for the business and senior management. Attended bi-weekly Settlement Accounting Report (SAR) meeting, providing analysis of outstanding control and nostro accounts.- Certified and reported on 48 SOX points as outlined in UBS Mosaic.

Zurich, Ch

Built relationships with trading desk, business unit control, change the bank teams and operations management, and external clients’ back offices. Responsible for the settlement of fixed income derivatives for UBS corporate clients, ranging from interest rates, credit derivatives, and foreign exchange. - Built and maintained relationships with UBS Investment Bank corporate clients’ middle and back offices, assisted with client queries to ensure timely and cost effective settlement.- Settled interest rate derivative, credit derivative, Asset Backed Securities ABS, Asset Backed Index Swaps ABX, Foreign Exchange FX spot and FX forward transactions.- Worked independently as well as part of a team, liaised with front office, middle office and back office across various management levels.- Proactively participate in business process reengineering, future state architecture, system testing and implementation.

Us

Responsible for intra month project and cost accounting, month end close, and supervision of 3 accounts payable and receivable personnel. Maintained relationships between account staff and finance department. - Prepared financial reports, performed budget to actual variance analysis and presented findings to senior management. - Financial forecasting and analysis: full year budget including quarterly resubmissions as required.- Managed monthly staff meetings to review financial status of all (300+) projects.- Performed project estimate versus actual analysis and initiated estimate revisions with account staff. - Analyzed quarterly client profitability.