Nick Andell Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, Gb

Milton Keynes

Northampton, United Kingdom

I managed a small team with responsibilities including monthly credit exposure reporting with ongoing monitoring. The team had been without a manager for 6 months, I stabilised it and improved morale.I amended processes to make them much more efficient and consistent, saving 1.5 FTE and producing much better MI. This included mentoring one particular analyst, teaching him advanced Excel skills that allowed him to make dramatic improvements to the quality and consistency of our risk… Show more I managed a small team with responsibilities including monthly credit exposure reporting with ongoing monitoring. The team had been without a manager for 6 months, I stabilised it and improved morale.I amended processes to make them much more efficient and consistent, saving 1.5 FTE and producing much better MI. This included mentoring one particular analyst, teaching him advanced Excel skills that allowed him to make dramatic improvements to the quality and consistency of our risk reporting.I managed a redundancy process, when faced with job cuts. Show less

Managed approval of commercial property lending based on a sustainable risk appetite, with up to £50m personal discretion limit. Improved internal risk reporting. Redesigned commercial property lending credit model.

Asset backed credit analysis, residential and commercial property exposures.Signed the week before their crisis weekend, then started the week after!

Senior member of the Credit Committee for a fixed income hedge fund. Managed credit exposure for around $500m of junior debt, secured on around $6bn of property assets. Created and implemented standardised credit procedures.

6 months in South America, mainly travelling overland from Ecuador down to the southern end of Argentina, a couple of months in New Zealand, a few months in southern Africa. My blog dating from that trip can be found at www.topquarks.blogspot.com

London

SG's London Securitisation team, responsible for the financial modelling, negotiating with credit rating agencies.

Nikko Principal Investments, part of Nikko Securities, was a principal finance operation, using structured finance techniques to improve returns on investments.I was responsible for the financial modelling, risk assessment and submissions of credit papers for all the deals executed whilst I was there.

Bsc, Arcs, Physics, 1St Class

Activities and Societies: Captain of squash team (3rd V). Final year options lent towards specializing in theoretical physics.

Elementary Particle Physics

Culminated in a paper that was published internally at CERN and was then cited in the project plan for the ATLAS consortium that found.

Maths, Physics, Chemistry, All 3 At Grade A.

Activities and Societies: Captain of squash team.