Key Responsibilities / Skills Provide OTC Derivatives and Middle Office technical and functional support, sharing subject matter expertise and partnership with product, operations and technology counterparts  Ensure client service levels are maintained with existing clients and attend meeting with prospective clients Identify challenges and opportunities within the existing business, propose remedial strategy, execute to maximise net margin and improve straight through processing for all Middle Office supported asset classes Maintain a clear view of the products financials per client and per component service Perform analysis and generate management information to facilitate decision making Develop the Global Middle Office product strategy and roadmap to successful delivery Monitor the Middle Office regulatory environment to ensure the service is both compliant and market leading. Commercialise enhancements to the service to increase net incomeAdditional Accomplishments In depth analysis and identification of significant potential additional revenue from a global client Provided financial analysis support to a significant contract negotiation in relation to a vendor application Led client workshops with a large Edinburgh based Asset Manager which were key to the implementation of a large programme of work

Key Responsibilities / Skills Gather and collate business requirements Working with technology partners to translate business requirements into functional requirements for development Share product expertise and respond to detailed instrument related queries Perform internal quality assurance testing of completed development and raise defects against technology builds Track and assist to solution defects Support joint testing with clients and lead testing review meetingsAdditional Accomplishments Key member of the team that designed, built, tested and implemented the OTC Middle Office Services platform for a large Edinburgh based Asset Manager Assisted with several other client implementations

Key Responsibilities / Skills Understanding vanilla, complex and exotic OTC derivative bookings from upstream risk capture systems Drafting OTC derivative confirmations conforming with ISDA standards Validating the teams confirmation drafting and signing documentation on behalf of Barclays Dealing with queries from clients and internal stakeholders including sales and traders Generating Management Information and allocating daily work to the team members Constant analysis of processes to find efficiencies and improvements to systems Subject Matter Expert for the team offering Knowledge Share Sessions to develop the team’s product, ISDA standards and legal knowledge Legal Champion for the team fielding legal queries from the team and channelling to them to the legal team where necessaryAdditional Accomplishments Altitude Award won for improving processes Presented a process improvement proposal to a board of Managing Directors and Directors in a Dragons Den style event gaining the support of the board to fund the project  Sent to India for a two week period to provide training as part of managing a BPO migration project Performed oversight functions over an external vendor post BPO