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.Responsible for overseeing and managing the Bank Loan Operations Team.Responsible for managing system conversions/ upgrades as well as maintaining vendor relationships..Perform metric analysis while maintaining industry standard.Works with the trading desk and clients to settle primary, secondary and third party syndicated loan trades •Review of Trade Confirmations, Assignment and Acceptance Agreements, Participation Agreements, and Funding memos prior to the submission to authorized signer.•Support the daily trade settlement functions for the Bank Loan Trade Desk both Par and Distressed, which include settlement of trades while adhering to all LSTA and LMA settlement guidelines.•Provide KYC and tax documentation to counterparts upon request.•Partner with Credit, Compliance, Trade Desk and Legal on the applicable transactions for bank loan deals.•Approves operational transactions for trade closing and deal administration teams•Implemented new efficient processes for trade closing department.•Reviewing and coordinating with internal and external counsel on proposed changes to legal documents •Coordinating with agents to obtain necessary consents •Liaising between the trading desk, operations, clients, servicing group, Syndications, and outside counsel •Calculate the economics associated with the settlement for par loan transactions •Provide bank loan information for relevant corporate actions to relevant internal or transactional counterpart. •Polling transactional counterparts for prompt responses to relevant amendments, consents, ballots or waivers. •Provide audit confirmations to auditing firms •Provide senior management, trading desk and business lines with various reporting•Assist Client Services Team with on-boarding trade counterparty’s sub allocations

•Administer a portfolio of syndicated leverage transactions where Deutsche Bank is the administrative agent, and with lender groups often in excess of 300 members. •Review draft loan documentation and provide comments on the operational aspects of the transaction.• Read and interpret credit agreements, amendments, commitment letters, fee letters • Write up deal closing and amendment summaries for the trading desk and other business groups •Establish the client and investor group records in the banks lending system.•Receive, verify and act on requests from the client for new loan advances, increase, repayments and renewals.•Liaise with the investor group to inform them of any actions under the loan agreement.•Ensure timely claiming and receipt of all incoming and outgoing payments.•Arrange funding for the Banks participation.•Ensure receipt of fee payments and the disbursement of fees to the investor group.•Calculate and claim interest or fees, which require additional manual monitoring.•Investigate and resolve any open items on the Bank Nostro and Control accounts.•Investigating and resolve queries, from clients, the investor groups and internal parties.•Process transfers between investors in the bank systems.

•Manage and supervise a team of five as well as train administrators on daily transactions, reports and systems processing.•Complete the booking of Credit Arrangements for loan syndications, secondary loan trades, conduit and warehouse loans.•Confirm High-Yield/ Leverage Loan trades settlements are captured.•Verify and approve cash movements for portfolios in excess of 1 million dollars. •Prepare monthly past due reports to be reviewed by senior management. •Check and verify daily transactions such as borrowings, principal, interest and fee payment, rollover, amendments and deal closings through ACBS.•Develop workflows and operational procedures across portfolios.•Ensure all loan fundings are processed timely.•Investigate and resolve transactional issues with our NY, London, and Singapore offices. •Support the Senior Bank Debt and Loan Origination business through the servicing of a portfolio par and distressed loans.•Manage the settlement process of loan syndications, secondary loan trades, conduit and warehouse loans including funding and documentation.•Maintained relationships with both internal and external counterparts ie: (Compliance, Treasury, and Agent Banks).•Responsible for processing all loan related asset servicing: drawdowns, repayments, rollovers, fees, and funding with Treasury. •Monitored control reports.•Upheld a firm understanding of the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Markets as well as Barclays Capital’s positions and roles in the space.•Performed all daily operations for Barclays Liquidities that are being provided to Sheffield ABCP conduit.•Administered liquidity and hedging fees to the Surrey and Sussex ABCP programs as well as providing daily reconciliation for those programs.•Monitored and administered liquidity fees, Program Enhancement associated with conduit business. •Processed conduit management fees.•Managed and processed the interest swap settlements associated with the Sheffield conduit.

•Supported the daily trade functions for the Bank Loan Group, which include settlement of trades while adhering to all LSTA settlement requirements, systematic capture of trade tickets, daily reconciliation of P&I across 7 portfolios to various systems and monitor data integrity for the three trading, accounting and compliance systems.•Proactively reviewed and monitored internal portfolio data against bank trustee and CDO warehouse agent files in order to identify and correct discrepancies.•Ensured that trading, accounting and compliance systems are in-synch.•Provided support to internal systems group by testing new product releases. •Maintained loan pricing process on daily basis (requested prices for new loan accounts, checked variances, imported prices into loan systems).•Served as primary contact to borrowers and analyst regarding loan balances, payments due, interest calculations, and Floating Rate sets.•Reconciled between sub ledger and ledger via queries and reports generating adjusting entries accordingly.•Generated accounting for trades, corporate actions, deal restructuring, and write offs/write downs.•Produced financial reports on a statutory/GAAP and tax basis.