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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Work on all trade support activities such as settlements of equities, bonds, FX trades and options. • Book corporate actions and FX trades daily along with monthly trading as well as non-trading expenses in the system.• Have a solid understanding of the various investment products and manage PB collateral including margin calls. • Run the daily cash balance forecasts, positions and cash reconciliations against five different Prime Brokers as well as investigate all discrepancies until resolved. Also, book corporate actions and manage dividends.• Create daily as well as weekly reports for the company, administrators and audit packages.• As the senior most person in the team, I am currently training / supervising a junior on all operational tasks.• Successfully onboarded a new trading / operational system to Waratah Capital that affected all departments. It was a very long and tedious project, but I worked with IT to ensure that the system worked well for the company before going live.• Meet with vendors and Prime Brokers to plan how to improve the workflow and business in general for Waratah Capital.• Solid communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills demonstrated by building and maintaining positive working relationships with industry stakeholders such as traders, brokers, custodians, Prime Brokers and internal teams.• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and a high degree of professionalism combined with the ability to readily adapt to rapidly changing investment business and technology environments.• Comfortable and flexible with constantly evolving and changing priorities as well as open to new challenges.• Always strive to work with the utmost professionalism and integrity.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Worked on monthly and quarterly reports for debt and equities within PCI to ensure that the reporting was accurate and completed on time. Reports were based on financial analysis and the data was included in the financial statements.• Led the completion of ad hoc requests such as UAT testing, IRR calculations along with resolving any calculation discrepancies that the Deal team would encounter.• Booked daily interest or principal paydowns transactions for investments in bonds, loans, and royalties.• Tested technical issues and escalated them to the appropriate technical resources.• Contributed to improving the functionality of the existing applications by providing feedback regarding issues or enhancement requests. Developed and enhanced internal relationships across multiple business units.• Worked with various departments to investigate and resolve any differences between our bank balances and what we had in the SCD (SimCorp Dimension) accounting system. • Held training sessions for junior members to share my knowledge of processes and relevant systems.• Just completed successful testing for the SCD upgrade project and worked with IT to update internal systems for better information flow in PCI. Organized and performed testing, preparation and implementation of new technical functionalities.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Good variety of knowledge in Settlements as I was a SME (Subject Matter Expert) on all equity desks (CAD/USD, Prime Brokers, Foreign Equities, Derivatives) as well as the Fixed Income, Repurchase Options, Money Markets and Foreign Exchange desks over the past 5.5 years.• I was part of the Passive OMNI Consolidation project to reduce our several accounts into one custody only Passive account to decrease costs, confusions and improve efficiency for settling trades. • Helped initiate a Prime Broker desk by testing various trade types and ensuring that core processes / reports will be addressed.• Coordinated the PB project schedule with IT & Business functions and set guidelines for development, testing & release.• Trained junior members and share my knowledge of Settlements and systems at CPPIB.• Main SME in the team for all systems such as SCD, Omgeo, Bloomberg, CPPIB internal systems: Hybrid and Hammer, as well as having a good understanding of the links between the systems.• Strong analytical skills and the ability to think through problems, assess a variety of factors, research and recommend solutions.• Prepared documentation and process design techniques for new PB desk, process improvement methodologies for existing Repo desk as well as Treasury Recon, and project management methodologies.• Team player and always willing to step in to cover anyone as well as assisting with daily operations including trouble shooting in a timely and efficient manner.• Solid communication and interpersonal skills demonstrated through good working relationships with several parties internally and externally.• Worked to improve daily processes.• Supported and ensured appropriate controls are in place including process documentations.• Strong organizational skills and a high degree of professionalism combined with the ability to readily adapt to rapidly changing business and technology environments.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Received a Super Service Award for outstanding work during hard times and keeping the quality of work high while taking on extra funds.• Subject matter expert for Multicurrency Horizon (MCH) system as well as Bloomberg.• Worked on fixed income and equity mutual funds in a risky economic environment.• Responsible to give the client the daily and monthly accounting information requested.• Reconcile the client’s cash and share positions against the prime broker who has custody of the cash.• Analyze variances between client and prime broker and solve any discrepancies.• Developing leadership skills and elevating my communication skills through constant contact with clients, prime brokers and other departments within State Street.• Make daily postings of expenses, cash receipts and create daily financial reports, balance sheets, performances and income calculations as well as extract cash and share data for monthly report cards to give clients.• Comply with all audit procedures.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Interned in the Investment department within Settlement Annuities.• Responsible for creating a mortality study on the number of annuitants who died in the past two decades.• Analyzed data, developed spreadsheets, communicated and worked with several managers and directors, presented the final report that one of my managers used in a meeting with the CFO.

Honours Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Activities and Societies: • Volunteered at the York University Income Tax Clinic and received a certificate for completing more income tax.

Financial Math Studies With Concentration On Actuarial Science

Activities and Societies: • Member of the Infinity Math Club, York University, 2006 – 2008 • Executive of the Actuarial Students.