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Booking executed tradesManaging expiries and executing delta hedgesOversee electronic executionCreating P&L and Risk reports On-going improvements to processes in order to improve efficiencies and increase controls.Facilitating swap novations and swap collapses, assisting margin optimisation.Assisting with regulatory projects (MIFID II and EMIR).

- Responsible for the booking and allocation of equity trades across 5 long/short equity funds. - Calculated and rebalanced the funds where necessary in order to ensuring they meet the investment criteria.- Responsible for fund accounting including NAV calculations and when necessary reconciling the fund against the administrators.- Analysed stocks and provided PnL attribution the hedge fund manager.- Represented the firm on due diligence visits from prospective and current clients.- Ensured the regulatory restrictions and compliance restrictions are met for the investment vehicles used at the hedge fund including; UCITS, SICAV and Cayman Funds.- Worked closely with prime brokers and custodians to ensure post trade settlements and confirmations are actioned.- Operationally set up and handled the launch of 2 Cayman Funds.

- Managed Exotic Derivative Middle office and Trade review functions for the following Exotics desks; Exotic Equity Derivatives, Hybrids, Exotic Rate Derivatives, Commodities, Custom Index Trading, Dynamic Strategies, Fixed Income and Inflation.- Ensuring correct pricing of Exotic Multi Asset products such as PRDC, FX-TARN, Equity Linked Swaps, Equity and FX Range Accruals, Basket Options and Correlation Swaps.- Testing and modelling of the new booking templates being created for derivative products, working closely with a number of different internal teams such as Quant, Finance and Market Risk in order to provide the approvals. - Booked trades and subsequent life cycle events into the risk system; monitoring the P&L and Risk whilst doing so.- Calculating the monthly index rebalances of the RBS custom indices; including deciding which assets should be invested into the indices based on factors such as market capital, liquidity and ratings.- Transitioned the Custom Index Administration responsibilities from Front office Structuring; ensuring we were compliant with IOSCO and ISMA-EBA benchmarking regulations.- Working closely with External stakeholders such as calculation agents and verification agents to resolve any issues with the indices, whilst also communicating this to senior internal front office stakeholders. - Responsible for merging a number of different Middle office teams to create an integrated team leading to efficiencies in process and further coverage for the teams.- Responsible for all risk and control assessments.- Managed the recruitment, training and development of a team of 13.

- Calculated and modelled a variety of different formula coding on complex derivative templates to ensure they are pricing correctly according to the termsheet, discussing any pnl impact with the front office.- Specialised in products such as Equity Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Options, Futures, Forwards, FX and Dynamic Strategy deals- Reviewed and approved ISDA confirmations for all Exotic OTC deals, ensuring Dodd Frank and EMIR deadlines are kept to. - Life cycle management of structured trading positions, including coupon and redemption calculations. - Built trade reports and MI to aid with the control and providing information to management and heads of the trading desks.- Implemented a number of process efficiencies and improvements to the control environment within the team.- Provided product training to Middle office and Confirmations teams.

- Implemented trade validation across Equity Derivatives products; including Equity Finance, Delta One, Volatility and Fund Equity Derivatives. This required getting in depth understanding of the products, liaising with the quants team and building relationships with front office teams.- Monitor and manage trade events such as fixing validation, corporate actions and booking interim payments/expiries of structures.- Solving trade management queries that have been raised by back/front office, financial control and sales desks. Key point of contact and escalation for trading and numerous downstream groups.- Managed and worked on tactical and strategic change program across the desks including the migration between RBS NV and RBS PLC.

- Account manager for clearing house margin requirements; main point of contact for the clearing house, cash management and front office.- Involved in the new client on boarding for collateral accounts.- Undertook the reconciliation and resolution of collateral disputes.- Initiated a project to reduce the collateral costs across the bank.

- Liaised with clients, custodians and the front office to co-ordinate and facilitate the settlement of bonds in the Italian domestic market and Euroclear.- Responsible for looking after the depot and nostro breaks.- Streamlined and enhanced client netting, tightening control over counterparty risk.