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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Canberra, Australia

County Dublin, Ireland

During my time with Harmonic I worked in a back office position within a specialised client reporting team. Our team tailored high-level hedge fund performance analysis reports, specifically modelled to meet particular client needs for a large portfolio of fund of funds.Some of my responsibilities included;• Preparing and reviewing individual monthly and mid-monthly performance reports modelled to the specific clients needs from a database of over 90 fund of funds.• Preparing and reviewing position and cash reconciliations between FM3 and client provided data. Investigating and resolving any reconciliations breaks.• Processing pricing, trading and corporate actions data entry. Identifying and resolving any issues.• Reviewing and finalising other team members input data on a daily basis.• Retrieval and system entry of index benchmarks from Bloomberg for use in reporting. • Creating and maintaining detailed procedure documents for existing and new processes.• Collaborating internally and externally to resolve breaks and ensure data integrity.• Providing training to new members of staff and enhancing team efficiencies through upskilling. • Assisting management and colleagues with adhoc projects, with the aim of improving efficiency and meeting client deliverables. • Monitoring the team inboxes, ensuring all emails are actioned and any adhoc queries from clients are answered within agreed SLA.

Sydney, Australia

The OTC Derivatives Team is a team within Investment Operations. Our team was responsible for ensuring that all OTC Derivative trades received from the boutique fund managers, Life and Aligned businesses were confirmed, instructed to the custodians and issues resolved within a timely manner. During my time with Challenger I was predominantly responsible for all collateral management across the department. I successfully lead a project that aimed to increase the efficiency of the Collateral management process by introducing and testing an automated collateral management process. Hereafter, educating my fellow colleagues on the system and onboarding CP’s.Some of my responsibilities included;• Ensuring the timely matching, confirmation and settlement of OTC Equity Options.• Confirmation and settlement of future cash flows associated with the products.• Investigation and resolution of failed trades and cash breaks.• Collateral Management including instructing cash, responding to calls and monitoring collateral balances on a daily basis.• Acting as a key liaison for custodians, dealers, brokers and front office in relation to booking and settlement issues.• Instructing the setup of new trading counterparties in the operations system (Dimension).• Relationship management; building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to the highest standards; building working relationships with custodial teams, brokers and counterparties.• Responsible for reporting OTC Derivative trades to the trade repository accurately.• Assessing the collateral process with a view to making changes to increase efficiency, reduce risk and improve delivery to stakeholders.• Actively participating in intra team cross training and up skilling.• Group inbox management – ensuring all adhoc queries from internal and external clients are answered within required timeframe.

Dublin, Ireland

During my time with Northern Trust I completed a large client conversion through testing phase, parallel and go-live. This involved daily client calls, participation in client service reviews and completing client KPI’s. This particular client was very cash sensitivity which led to me building out a pre-settlements process and training the NT offshore team on the process. I also successfully hosted a knowledge share session on the process. My daily responsibilities also included the below;-Ensuring the daily trade capture of OTC trades for various clients-Identifying and resolving transaction discrepancies between clients and counterparties-Verifying OTC positions to both paper and electronic sources, e.g. Term Sheets, ICE, DTCC and MarkitWire.-Managing the pre-settlement and settlement processes for swap cash flows on various OTC products, including unwinds, quarterly fees, resets, upfront fees, coupons and premiums-Reviewing corporate action bookings and dividends/coupons and verifying to external sources, e.g. Bloomberg-Processing all aspects of periodic resets for vanilla and exotic IRS, CDS and TRS products-Communicating effectively with both internal partners and external clients, tailoring information to audiences as requiredDuring my time with NT I was also awarded two recognitions of achievements. I received a spot award from my immediate manager for excellence in execution and I also received a gold award from the head of the HFS EMEA for the successful conversion of a large client.

Dublin

The fund accounting department is responsible for ensuring the timely and accurate preparation of daily NAVs for a number of funds investing in a wide variety of instrument types including equities, fixed and variable bonds, derivatives and emerging markets.I currently work as part of the OTC AIS derivatives team, dealing mainly with TRS’s, CDS’s, IRS’s, Variance swaps and Repos. Some of my responsibilities include: -Ensuring valuations are prepared to meet daily deadlines.-Ensuring daily prices are issued to all relevant parties in accordance with daily requirements.-Ensuring all cash and holdings reconciliations are completed in accordance with agreed timetables. -Liaising with custodians to resolve any reconciliation issues.-Preparing fee schedules on a timely basis.-Liaising with investment managers to ensure efficient flow of information as required.-Liaising with clients on operational issues.-Reviewing corporate action bookings and dividends to ensure correctly affecting position.

Newbridge

Some of my roles and responsibilities in Kilkenny are;-Pro-actively greeting and assisting customers with product selection.-Utilising specialist product knowledge to maximise sales.-Acting as a liaison between suppliers and the store in order to ensure that all jewellery repairs are carried out in a timely and efficient manner.-Ensuring that all products are attractively displayed, through merchandising, in order to maximize sales.-Stocking and replenishing shelves.-Ensuring a consistent level of customer service at all times. -Assisting and motivating staff. -Accepting deliveries.-Performing Cashier Duties.

Ifsc, Dublin.

The subjects I covered in my degree are as follows:Financial Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Introduction to Income Taxation, Essentials of Employment Law, Health and Safety, Income and Capital Taxation, International Business, Business Management, Quantitative Methods, Business Communications, Economics, Marketing, Business Law, Human Resource Management, Project Management, Strategic Management, Economic and Social Policy, Operations design and Planning, Ethics and E-Business.3rd year result: First class honours2nd year result: First class honours1st year result: First class honoursAwarded by NCI in 2011 for being the highest achieving second year student in the school of business.

Newbridge

Some of my roles and responsibilities in Claire's were;-Assisting and motivating staff. -Dealing with returns and exchanges. -Opening and closing store, delegating work, setting targets, carrying out banking and cashing up at the end/start of day.-Utilising specialist product knowledge to maximise sales.-Stocking and replenishing shelves.-Ensuring a consistent level of customer service at all times. -Offering advice to customers and assisting with product selection. Key Contributions-I was awarded numerous vouchers for achieving highest average sale and highest units sold per transaction. This was due to my excellent customer service.

Some of my roles and responsibilities in Jane Normans were as follows;-Ensuring clothing and fashion accessories were attractively displayed, through merchandising, in order to maximize sales.-Ironing, hanging and folding clothes.-Pro-actively greeting and assisting customers.-Cashing up at the end/start of day and carrying out Banking.-Opening and closing store, delegating work and setting targets.Key Contributions-After only two months of working as a sales assistant I was promoted to Supervisor. Jane Norman saw that I was a hardworking and ambitious individual who loved a challenge.

Naas/Newbridge

Some of my roles and responsibilities in Boots were as follows;-Pro-actively greeting and assisting customers.-Ensuring a consistent level of customer service at all times. -Offering advice to customers and assisting with product selection.-Stocking and replenishing shelves.-Accepting deliveries.-Performing Cashier Duties.Key Contributions-Awarded a voucher in my first week for signing up the largest amount of customers to the Boots advantage card system.

Honors Degree In Business, Business, 1St Class Honors

Activities and Societies: Awarded a Special Achievement Award by the National College of Ireland for achieving the highest mark.

Leaving Certificate, 380

Activities and Societies: • Presented with bronze ‘Gaisce’ medal 2007. • Successfully set up and managed a mini company in fourth year.