Paul Lowndes Email & Phone Number

County Dublin, Ireland

Promoting Standard Life pension and investment products to brokers and clients over the phone & via email. Processing all new business applications from start to finish.Building strong relationships with clients and third party providers. Working closely across different divisions within the Standard Life organisation both in Ireland and abroad to ensure the best possible service for clients.Managing customer complaints efficiently and resolving in a timely and satisfactory manner. Providing cover for telephony team ensuring allowing the continued operation of the telephony team receiving queries from clients during busy times and to facility team meetings for the telephony team.Conduct effective KYC/AML checks for new and existing clients and ensuring that internal and external KYC/AML requirements are effectively met at all times. Report any suspicious activities of financial crime to our risk department.Executing trades on a variety of different products within the International Bond and Irish pension policies, this includes both platform and off platform products such as ETF funds, managed funds and deposits.Vetting mutual funds for suitability within Standard Life’s offshore bond and ensuring they meet the UCITS rules and regulatory framework for investment in Ireland as permitted assets.Ensuring all payments are processed in a timely manner and for deadline.Heavily involved in the training of existing and new team members within the company.

1 North Wall Dublin

Confirming New Issues with both Issuers and DealersPerforming settlement authorisation within internal system to ensure trade details were correctly released into the marketEnsuring all new deals were created, reviewed, settled and documented in all relevant internal and external system in a timely mannerLiaising with Front Office Sales/Issuers/Dealers and clearing systems with any Client issues and dealing with any client and in house queriesProvided settlement and funding instruction to the market in a timely manner and in the correct order to enable prompt settlementInputing of payment instructions to release proceeds to clients- performing security checks and call backsAllocating ISIN Codes for new Issues under Medium Term Note programmes and Commercial Papers via the relevant clearing system for the European, German, French and American marketsResolving of queries covering areas of pre-settlement matching, processing and post-settlement investigation

Dublin, Ireland

Accurate and timely production of the Net Asset Value.Liaising with clients on all relevant information regarding Net Asset Value. Completing the pricing of all positions accurately, processing of corporate actions.Performing cash and position reconciliations of listed and derivative products. Processing of various accounting transactions

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for the Business Development, Sales and Growth of the on line digital platform InternationalMeetingsReview.com (IMR).IMR is the MICE (Meetings Incentives Conferences Events) industry’s only resource comprised of leading publishers, industry events and associations who've joined together to provide meeting professionals (through the IMR Global Alert) and a number of opt-in subscribers (through the IMR Daily Alert) with the information they need to organize top notch events anywhere in the world.Responsibilities include market development, operations and multi event direction of the overall MICE portfolio within the Questex Travel and Hospitality Group.

After an invitation from the Irish Consulate to meet with Failte Ireland in Ireland House, New York I became a Corporate Conference Ambassador with the aim of promoting Ireland as a future international location for an association meetings.

New York

Promoting Ballmaloe Food products such as Gourmet Ketchup as a leading food brand throughout the United States at approved events and use of social media.

Limeick, Ireland

Transformed tour section of the business by marketing to International students, increasing frequency and introducing new events, including day tours and weekend tours designed around the Unique Ireland brand.Leading a team of five, organized national and international tours and events including all logistics and finance.Led and integrated groups of up to 150 on tours, liaising with all members ensuring all needs are catered for.Failte Ireland Certified Tour Guide

University Of Limerick, Ireland

Senior Orientation officer that implemented University orientation strategy for all international university students 800 annually.Led orientation including multiple presentations to entire international student body.Facilitated the integration of international students into Irish society, by organizing and leading social events and information sessions with both university and local community.

Limerick, Ireland

As a Hedge Fund Accountant, turned around difficult relationship with a key client’s senior staff, which led to retaining a major account and an increase in client investment.Part of a customer service project with the Business Process Automation Department to implement an on-line inquiry system, resulting in a 40% decrease in processing time for Hedge Fund related queries.Verified daily transactions, audited income reports and resolved exceptions on assigned accounts.

Luxembourg

Performed daily treasury operations associated to shareholder activity including payments processing and cash administration.Conducted extensive business and industry analyses and presented findings to senior Treasury management.Consolidated cash identification activities performed by all Franklin Templeton service offices worldwide.

Higher Diploma In Science In Fintech, Fintech

Developing critical skills in order to analyse industry trends in FinTech. Providing a platform to develop the requisite knowledge.

Diploma In Big Data For Business, Big Data

- Data Analytics - Information Systems and Databases - SQL - Python - Power BI - Rapid Miner - Digital Planning - Business and Statistics.

Education record

Course taught by -John Mc Mahon -Brian Hayden Programme Outline; -Aircraft Leasing Industry Introduction -History and Development.

Ma, International Tourism

Activities and Societies: President: Outdoor Pursuits Clubs, Trips Officer International Society.

Education record

Bachelor Of Business Studies, Accounting And Finance

Activities and Societies: Member: Outdoor Pursuits Club, St Vincent De Paul I spent the first semester of second year studying.