Valuable and confident at clearing up messes (hence Sotozeo.com) and supporting start-ups/major expansions.Hands-on where commercially justified E.g. to understand issues, and then uses computer tools or delegates to other people to provide solution at lowest cost to client.Enjoys and effective at training all levels of staff who want to learn, and creating Living Documentation, to maintain gains after end of assignment.Functional expert on FX exposures: identifying, reporting efficiently, and hedging, but also defining strategy from first principles, considering how FX interacts with accounting and tax (all sectors).Considers the big picture and the details at the same time.Published chapter in textbook on accounting for multiple-currency activity.Wide experience of derivatives and financial instruments from NDFs and oil futures to CDSs to Cocoa Futures Arbitrage, with deep experience of most middle and back office functions, and an understanding of how they fit together:Daily, Monthly and Annual Accounting, Reporting Risks, Contractual Structures, Trade Confirmation, Company Secretarial, and parts of Tax.Recognises the importance of getting basics done well, such as reconciliations, static data management, and bookkeeping entries, and can make them happen.Then ensuring data is appropriately labelled for all the different downstream requirements in order to create straight-through processes avoiding duplication.Qualified Fellow of Risk Management (GARP), as well as Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.So understands accounting rules from first principles, without regarding the current text as sacred, and sees common accountants' misunderstandings.Has also managed IT (Cambridge degree is in Computer Science), Projects, HR and Facilities, with particular experience on handling matters which cover multiple functions, or tend to fall between functions.Came in top 50 of the Modeloff World Excel championship 2019: but discourages Excel being used when more appropriate tools are available.Has written useful systems using SQL, HTML, PHP, VBA, Perl, and Julia.Applies sharp analysis (comprehensive, objective, quick) to problems in any field to enable relevant group/individual to choose lasting solutions, especially when no solution is cost-free.Highlights weaknesses of soggy compromises.Has published articles on technical accounting and risk matters.Has lived in Central Europe, Middle East and Asia, as well as London, with significant work in Switzerland, Netherlands and Americas.