Rob Mcsweeney Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London

London, England, United Kingdom

Purpose of role is to assist the European IT and Operations Department with the upgrade of Midas Plus to Fusion Midas, and the Libor discontinuation and tranisition to Risk Free Rates projects Responsibilities• Coordination role between Operations and IT for the upgrade of Midas Plus to Fusion Midas. • Logging of user issues during Familrisation, SIT and UAT, using Sunrise, issue reporting and tracking system. • Production of weekly reports to the EMEA offices and London Operations on the status of issues reported by users. • Liaising with Finanstra, (Midas vendor) on bug fixes. Weekly meeting held.• Produced and presented various PowerPoint presentations to give users a more indepth overview of the major changes between Midas Plus and Fusion Midas. • Involvement in the Libor discontinuation, and transition to Risk Free Rates project. This involves looking at existing systems and identifying where upgrades are required to allow the introduction of RFR;’s. Working closely with IT and outside Vendors. • Compliance with Mizuho values and procedures. • Adhere to the Mizuho London branch quality management system

London, United Kingdom

Purpose of role was the co-ordination and oversight of end to end trade lifecycle management. Aim is to increase efficiency and support the business and HSBC’s clients through front to back trade processing.Main Achievements• Designed and provided payment and confirmation training to new and existing team members. Purpose was to give oversight of different payment types used for interbank and corporate customers, as well as the different confirmation message types and matching criteria used. • Review and update of procedures ensuring they are relevant and reflect market and regulatory changes.• Design and implementation of department cross training matrix. This ensured knowledge gaps could be identified and addressed, therefore eliminating key person dependency. Responsibilities • Co-ordination and oversight of the end to end trade life cycle management across onshore and service centre locations.• Provide client service support to domestic and multinational corporate clients.• Design and implement proactive solutions to operational issues, whilst ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations.• Ensure oversight and accurate reporting of trades and confirmation breaches to stakeholders in line with regulatory requirements.• Production, and regular updating of department procedures to manage and mitigate operational risk• Continually analyse workflows, issue tracking and trend analysis of errors / exceptions and provide process improvement recommendations.• Completion of daily FOBO reconciliations to ensure no front to back breaks across all relevant systems. • Reviewing and validating of department’s operational losses/complaints and implement process changes where appropriate.• Effective use of MI to demonstrate and drive performance against internal and external benchmarks. .

London, United Kingdom

Purpose of role was to provide technical, operational, and BAU support, to senior management and team of eleven. Main Achievements• Design and implementation of new Money Market Rollover system. Resulted in major operational error reduction, and processing time saving of two hours per day.• Implementation of automated FX netting system.• Design and implementation of negative rate payment system to allow Front office to offer these trade types to Interbank and corporate customers.• Design and implementation of real-time on-screen trade monitoring system to eliminate the printing of FX and MM trades, resulting in a real-time cost saving benefit. Over one million sheets of paper saved since inception. Costs saving of over £20,000.00• Numerous process improvements which resulted in the reduction of operational errors by over 75% for the fiscal year 2016/17Responsibilities• Processing, confirmation and settlement of FX, FX options, NDF's CLS, FX netting, rollovers, fixed term and dual currency deposits, for London and the EMEA region. • Provided payment shared services on behalf of other business units , including Loans Agency, Derivatives / Collateral, Finance, HR, as well as our Dubai office. These included margin, salary, dividend, invoice and general expense payments. • First point of contact for internal and external client issues. Provided payment guidance and assistance to many multinational corporations.• Regularly review and update of processes and controls, ensuring they are relevant and reflect regulatory changes• Support all new initiatives and projects• New process and system UAT / implementation.• Regular meetings with outside vendors re system gaps and enhancements• All internal and external Audit and SOX requirements• Updating of established procedures to ensure a consistently high level of service to the bank's customers, whilst ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.• MI Reporting

London, United Kingdom

Purpose of role was to manage team, ensuring timely processing, confirmation and settlement of all FX and MM trades, for London and the EMEA region Main Achievements• Responsible for the centralisation of FX, options, NDF's and MM trade processing to London, from three of the European offices, Paris, Amsterdam, and Dusseldorf. Onboarding of the processes ensuring they aligned to Mizuho London Branch's internal and Head office procedures.• Introduction of SSI data workflow to streamline process and improve operational efficiency, when receiving SSI updates from the Front Offices, resulted in improved audit trail and time saving of fifteen minutes per SSI update. Review and streamlining of processes of all FX and MM trades for the EMEA region, resulting in a processing time saving of one hour per day. Responsibilities• Manage team of eleven staff• Processing, confirmation and settlement of all FX, options, NDF's and Money Market trades for London and the EMEA region. • Provided payment shared services on behalf of other business units , including Loans Agency, Derivatives / Collateral, Finance, HR, as well as our Dubai office. These included margin, salary, dividend, invoice and general expense payments. • Cash management, investigations and reconciliations • Staff appraisals, objective setting, 1-2-1’s, cross training.• Represented department at New product forums, ensuring systems and processes were in place to support any new products• Operational risk, error reduction, disaster recovery planning, audit, process improvement. • Manage vendor relationships.

London, United Kingdom

Main purpose of role was to provide support to the Head of Treasury Operations. Main Achievements• Heavily involved from a Treasury Operations perspective in the three-bank merger of IBJ, DKB and Fuji Bank to create Mizuho Bank Limited in 2002. This involved looking at processes and systems, to establish which ones to be taken forward and used in the newly created bank.Responsibilities• Cover for Head of Treasury Operations in their absence. • Processing, confirmation and settlement of all FX and Money Market trades for both interbank and corporate customers.• Processing of salary and other expense payments on behalf of corporate clients• Operational risk, error reduction, disaster recovery planning, audit, process improvement

London, United Kingdom

Purpose of role was to provide support to the Head of Treasury Operations.Main Achievements• Heavily involved from a Treasury Operations perspective in the three-bank merger of IBJ, DKB and Fuji Bank to create Mizuho Bank Limited in 2002. This involved looking at processes and systems, to establish which ones to be taken forward and used in the newly created bank.Responsibilities• Cover for Head of Treasury Operations in their absence. • Processing, confirmation and settlement of all FX and Money Market trades for both interbank and corporate customers. Issuance of certificates of deposits. • Processing of salary and other expense payments on behalf of corporate clients• Operational risk, error reduction, disaster recovery planning, audit, process improvement

London, United Kingdom

Ensured timely an accurate processing of all FX and MM deals.

Processing of all MM trades

Accounts and reconciliations

London, United Kingdom

Various roles held including Loans Admin and Accounts / Reconciliations