Mark Bowen Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

Key Responsibilities:• Supporting the CFD side of the business with making sure CMC’s trading platform was operational and accurate. Investigating any queries raised on behalf of the clients, via the client service team. • Working with the institutional team to setup any new partners, ensuring proper documentation was in place.• Working with the teams in the UK to roll out new products, for example direct market connections to FX and Equities via Iress and Smart CC.• Ensuring system functionality providing a control function, investigating and resolving any issues that arise. When system issues were involved, making sure the relevant teams were included, to work with them, to resolve them.• The hedge desk ensures that the risk clients take ensure the business isn’t adversely affected by market movements. My role worked with the treasury team, equities and pricing to ensure both clients and the business get a fair outcome daily.• Processing corporate actions for clients and the business.• Other operational tasks including working with the finance teams to meet regulatory requirements, assisting with audits and working with other Global offices.• Regular checks with the various prime brokers to make sure the equities, FX and future positions all were in line, investigating and resolving any discrepancies, before handing over formally to the UK team at end of day.Achievements • Setup spreadsheets to enable the team to accurately assess funding requirements to trade currencies, for the Cash teams to send to Custodians, to fund CMC’s clients’ Equity day trading.• Fitted into a senior position within the team with other more experienced team members, picking up the job requirements quickly and accurately.

Sydney, Australia

Key Responsibilities: • Resolving futures discrepancies on a t+1 and running reports tailored to client SLA’s once completed.• Monitoring the Futures Exchanges, following up with various other counterparties where required, to ensure all futures were allocated in a timely fashion, and identifying issues where they existed. • Responsibility to reconcile our position with the ASX once the futures markets had closed adhering to the ASX’s strict cut-off’s. • Investigating any discrepancies, reporting suspense exceptions to senior management, as well as personally calling the brokers who had executed the trades.• Running system processes once the above was completed, which all had tailored SLA’s, releasing statements to administrators/ institutions globally.• Updating static data where required (for example new futures, new brokerage commitments).• Monitoring expiring futures reporting these to traders whilst in the notice period.• Clearing exchange traded options was also part of my responsibilities, reconciling these back to ASX postings daily.Achievements • Helped in projects to facilitate restructuring operational efficiencies globally, which included transferring some of my tasks to the London office, writing procedures and training staff to do these tasks.• Reviewing/ updating procedures on a regular basis.

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities: • External Cash and Futures reconciliation from 12 clearers/ Internal reconciliations for all product types, prime brokers and administrators.• Treasury Funding: would advise traders on their positions throughout the day, working with cut-offs for various currencies, whether being in the ASIA time zones, European, followed by US, to ensure the funds were correctly funded.• cash/ collateral management of Prime Broker accounts, and record keeping of these with regards to managed funds, which we were the administrator for, advising and responding to margin calls.• Assisting auditors and giving Investor overviews where necessary• Managing the expiry process of deliverable future contracts, including reporting positions to front office and compliance on a regular basis when in notice period.• Worked with Risk and treasury to optimise futures positions across 12 Futures clearers and 2 Funds to reduce margin exposure.• Management of the trade blotter, which was a central place for trade entry across the Global offices (US, UK, Hong Kong and Japan). Making sure the security position was flat daily, liaising with prime brokers, administrators and front office to achieve this, ensuring settlement of fixed income products.• Resolving queries brought up by trading new products or problems with the trade flow, • Ensuring the trade flow process was functional, between Capula, and subsequent risk systems, the administrators, and various prime brokers, working through any IT issues that arose.Achievements • Personally managed and signed documentation of OTC derivatives not on electronic platforms, reporting these to senior management.• Setup spreadsheets to calculate payment amounts tailored to Total return swaps which had different attributes.

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities: • Supporting Client SPV’s and Internal Conduits in a team of 4• Cash management across accounts and queries relating to these• Static data management for Assets in the SPV’s (principle and Interest),• Reporting function to managements/ clients.

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities: • Settling the assets (bonds) and liabilities (M.T.N’s and C.P), managing the cash flows associated with these (principle and interest payments- liaising with Custodians/ IPA’s to achieve this). The liabilities were often linked to structured swaps (T-Bill, Prime, Fed Funds) which had to be manually calculated and agreed with the I.P.A’s pre settlement.• reporting daily cash positions to treasury to place/ borrow funds in the market, to ensure sufficient liquidity.• T+1 reconciliation function• Payments to counterparties (derived from hedging instruments)• Ad hoc fund administration, including assisting with regular audits• Uploading / maintaining market data, • Projects, including testing new systems where necessary.• Managing documentation for derivatives and assets and investigating any queries and or discrepancies.

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities: • As a team responsible for over 750 accounts, remotely reconciling for branches in EMEA, as well as derivatives accounts based in the US and UK.• Managing documentation.• Investigating exceptions.• Reporting discrepancies to management.Achievements • Involved with a successful euro conversion period, where legacy accounts closed, and funds converted to the Euro, before the departmental function was outsourced.

London, United Kingdom

Input, investigation and clerical role, settling trades between clients and the money markets

London, United Kingdom

Worked in foreign currency clearing, alongside the then six other UK clearing banks, ensured account balances were in line on a daily basis. Post RBS’s takeover of Natwest, assisted in integration of two clearing departments, and training of staff as a direct consequence of this