Max Russell Dippfs Email & Phone Number

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Input of monthly TAA model weighting changes and submission of trades across a £12bn client book
• Oversight and implementation of RAM and KRI controls, responsible for the success of the department's first internal audit
• Data delivery for investment operational MI, including portfolio turnover, fund manager inflows, tolerance drift and trading volume
• Development and ownership of an automated MI dashboard in Excel, which mitigates the risk of missing client instructions and organises daily workflow through status drop-downs & second check approvals
• SME for complex aggregated portfolios, accounting for £2.4bn across just 3.5k customers which require separate operation and trading functionalities from the main client book.
• Root cause analysis on operational investment incidents and responsible in ensuring all circa 50k customers are invested in the appropriate funds according to model and risk appetite

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Lead in operational centralisation project, coordinating colleague responsibilities and cases through purpose built excel dashboard.
• Independently disputed the exclusion of transaction costs within analysis models, based on MiFID customer transparency and TFC, which was consequently implemented across the business.
• Frequent MI delivery to senior management
• Competency checks on colleague work, with frequent delivery of training seminars
• Analysis of asset allocation, OCFs, ATCs and tax liabilities associated with customer's originating investments
• Produced standardised pension reports, detailing safeguarded benefits, charges, guarantees and pension options

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Transfers of securities directly in CREST and INTESA market, working exclusively on unmatched in-specie transfers, including trade & settlement arranging.
• Lead in cash ISA transfers, introducing bulk arranging through meetings with third parties, which historically was through individual emails. Lead to an additional reduction in pending transfers by over 250 above the.
• Implementation of a new SQL report, which I distributed to colleagues to identify unmatched CREST transactions. Ultimately, this reduced the monetary penalty the business faced for unmatched trades.
• SME for trade and settlement complaints, driving complaint reduction and the first contact point on all queries trade and settlement.
• Proficient with Avaya, Altus Transfer Gateway, CREST, INTESA and Broadridge.